1、上海交通大学附属中学 2014-2015 学年度第二学期高三英语摸底考试试卷II.Grammar and VocabularySection ADirection:After reading the passages below,fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blank
2、s,used one word that best fits each blank.(A)My dad was a fisherman,and he loved the sea.He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, for his Mom and Dad and the other kids that
3、 were still at home.He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled the ocean.He would wear his old canvas,foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls.His rain hat would be pulled down over his brow. hard mu mother wa
4、shed them,they would still smell of the sea and of the fish.When the weather was bad, he drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business.That truck was older than he was.As he would drive toward the school.I would shrink down into the seat (hope)to disappear.Half the t
5、ime,he would salm to a stop and the old truck would belch a cloud of smoke.He would pull right up in front of the school,and it seemed like everyone would be standing around and watching.Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on cheek and tell me to be a good boy.It was so embarrassing for m
6、e. I remember the day I decided I was too old for a good-bye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, No, Dad. It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this (surprise)look o
7、n his face.I said, Dad, Im too old for a good-bye kiss. Im too old for any kind of kiss. My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. I had never seen him cry. He turned and looked our the windshield. Youre right, he said. You are a big boy. I wont kiss you anymore.” It
8、 wasnt long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back.It was a day when most of the fleet stayed in ,but not Dad.He had a big family to feed.They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half out.He must have gotten into a gale and was trying to save the nets and the floats,but.Y
9、ou dont know I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek to feel his rough old face to smell the ocean on him to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a good-bye kiss.” (B)Google is to
10、start building its own self-driving cars,rather than modifying vehicles built by other manufactures.The car will have a stop-go button no controls, steering wheel or pedals.Pictures of the Google vehicle show it looks like a city car with a “friendly“ face, designed to make it seem non-threatening a
11、nd help people accept self-driving technology. Co-founder Sergey Brin revealed the plans at a conference in California.“Were really excited about this vehicle - its that will allow us to really push the capabilities of self driving technology, and understand the limitations,“ said Chris Urmson, dire
12、ctor of the companys self-driving project.He added that the cars had the ability to “improve peoples lives by transforming mobility“. But some researchers working in this field (investigate) potential downsides to driverless car technology. They believe they could make traffic and urban sprawl (bad)
13、, as people accept longer commutes as they do not have to drive themselves.It looks almost cartoon-like, it has no traditional bonnet at the front, and the wheels are pushed to the corners.It will seat two people, propulsion will be electric, and at the start it will be limited to 25mph (40km/h) to
14、help ensure safety. The most significant thing about the design is that it does not have any controls, apart from a stop/go button. For early testing, extra controls (fit) so one of Googles test drivers can take over if there is a problem. The controls will simply plug in, and Mr Urmson believes tha
15、t over time, as confidence in the technology grows, they will be removed entirely. The front end of the vehicle is designed to be safer for pedestrians, with a soft foam-like material a traditional bumper would be, and a more flexible windscreen, which may help reduce injuries.The vehicle will use a
16、 combination of laser and radar sensors camera data to drive autonomously. It will depend on Googles road maps, built specifically for the programme, and tested on the companys current fleet of vehicles.Section BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word can on
17、ly be used once.Note that there is one world more than you need.A.adaptable B.advocates C.applications D.commercially E.commonF.fighting G.mostly H.know I.push J.recognizeK.tailorsPictures this:You stop in front of a digital advertising display at a mall and suddenly an ad of makeup pops up,followed
18、 by one for shoes and then one for canilla ice cream.It seems to that youre a woman in your late 20s and, in fact, it does. When you looked at the display, it scanned your facial features and its messages to you.Once the stuff of science fiction and high-tech crime , facial recognition technology ha
19、s become one of the newest tools in marketing, even though privacy concerns abound.Kraft Foods Inc. and Adidas say they are planning to experiment with it as early as this year to their products.The commercial of facial recognition are in contrast to those being used by law enforcement to identify s
20、pecific individuals. Companies, at least at this point, just want to pinpoint a demographic based on age and gender to tailor their ads.But even this facial recognition-lite alarms privacy , given that it could greatly popularize and expand use of the technology.Intel Corp., which makes such softwar
21、e, said its widely .“You can put this technology into kiosks, vending machines, digital signs,“ said Christopher OMalley, director of retail marketing for Intels embedded and communications group. “Its going to become a much more common thing in the next few years.“So far, the technology is use comm
22、ercially in Japan, where a variety of businesses use it to customize ads.III.Reading ComprehensionSection AAmbition is a necessary quality in life. It is the _51_ which drives us on to use whatever talent we have got. If we havent got some degree of ambition, these talents will not be used for our o
23、wn and others _52_. Ambition, _53_, can have several defects.First of all,it can be _54_. We may not be able to see the limits of our own abilities, so we do ambitious things that are completely beyond us. Our career masters can see our good qualities and our limitations _55_. They may tell us that
24、we havent the ability to deal with people and would make good businessmen. We refuse to take their evaluation. We keep on trying. Many years and many _56_ later we are forced to accept their _57_. But what a waste of time our ill-founded ambition has caused us! Secondly, our ambition can be too _58_
25、. Our attention is devoted to one narrow aim, such as getting distinctions in our science subjects. Everything that may draw us away from this aim is cut out of our lives. In the end we get our distinctions. But what damage we have caused ourselves in the process! We are isolated beings who only car
26、e about a particular examination. And we probably wont make good scientists. We _59_ the breadth of vision necessary for success in higher level.Thirdly, our ambition can be limited to lifeless objectives. We want to gain money, or power, or membership of some circles. Persons who feel inferior try
27、to _60_ by seeking the respect of others through possessions of these artificial signs of worth. Fourthly, our ambition may be _61_. Instead of directing some of our ambition towards community improvement we may exploit members of the community in the interests of self-advancements. In later life we
28、 may be ambitious for the success of our children but we regard this success as only a further _62_ of our own success. Ambition is necessary in the lives of individuals-necessary for their own improvement and for the improvement of the _63_ in which they live. But, like all blind forces, it must be
29、 directed if it is not to cause disaster. It must be tightly controlled by the head and the heart. Otherwise ambition may _64_ too high a price in terms of human qualities.51. A. mean B. force C. courage D. action52. A. justice B. affection C. benefit D. emotion53. A. however B. therefore C. besides
30、 D. furthermore54. A. unpredictable B. unusual C. unrealistic D. unfavorable55. A. objective B. positive C. amusingly D. negatively56. A. miracles B. recoveries C. occasions D. disappointments57. A. notice B. solution C. judgment D. measure58. A. devoted B. concentrated C. separated D. isolated59. A
31、. caused B. made C. driven D. troubled60. A. omit B. lack C. own D. value61. A. take in B. make up C. turn down D. give out62. A. self-centered B. self-disciplined C. self-satisfied D. self-controlled63. A. time B. image C. design D. mark64. A. family B. community C. section D. position65. A. posses
32、s B. satisfy C. overtake D. demandSection B(A)Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax (斧子) for the frozen sea inside us. “ I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didnt seem to require any explanation.Wed just finished John Steinbecks novel Of Mice and Men. When we
33、read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?“ one girl asked. “I am,“ I told her, “and the funny thing is Ive read it many times. “But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it wa
34、s always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, Ive taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive(辱骂的) parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more
35、 than I ever will, the novels terrible logicthe giving way of dreams to fate .For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after le
36、arning a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school-one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattans upper classesinto a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new c
37、lassmates. I thought additional “cultural capital“ could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D.s.Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups re
38、ad: Sounder, The Red Pony, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didnt always read from the expected point of view. I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeths speech read as raps (说唱) , but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbecks writing, one boy went on to
