1、第 1 页 共 18 页静安区 2015 学年第一学期高三年级教学质量检测英语试卷 2016. 1考生注意：1. 考试时间 120 分钟，试卷满分 150 分。2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第 I 卷（第 1-13 页）和第 II 卷（第 13-14 页） ，全卷共 14 页。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。3. 答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名。第 I 卷 （共 103 分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten
2、short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and thequestionswillbespokenonlyonce.Afteryouhearaconversationandthequestionaboutit, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the be
3、st answer to the question you have heard.1. A. Teacher. B. Repairman. C. Shop assistant. D. Doctor.2. A. At home. B. At school. C. In the hospital. D. On the street.3. A. His new job is too difficult for him.B. He is used to his new job.C. He is still trying to get used to his new job.D. He doesnt l
4、ike his new job.4. A. 15 dollars. B. 14 dollars. C. 10 dollars. D. 12 dollars.5. A. She is surprised at her mums coming back so soon.B. She thinks that she is too slow.C. She wants the man to be quick.D. She will go out herself.6. A. She used to be in poor health. B. She was popular among boys.C. Sh
5、e was somewhat overweight. D. She didnt do well at high school.7. A. At the airport. B. In a restaurant.C. In a booking office. D. At the hotel reception.8. A. Teaching her son by herself.B. Having confidence in her son.C. Asking the teacher for extra help.第 2 页 共 18 页D. Telling her son not to worry
6、.9. A. Have a short break. B. Take two weeks off.C. Continue her work outdoors. D. Go on vacation with the man.10. A. He is taking care of his twin brother.B. He has been feeling ill all week.C. He is worried about Rod.D. He has been in perfect condition.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will h
7、ear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you
8、 have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Lawyer. B. Computer programmer.C. Blogger. D. Firefighter.12. A. 21% of all the employers. B. 1% of American teenagers.C. 79% of all the employers. D. 1% of American adults.13. A. With many bloggers, America is sure to wi
9、n her reputation in the world.B. Washington is the city which has most bloggers in America.C. There are fewer employees of newspapers than a few years ago.D. The topics of blogging cover almost every area of peoples daily life.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.14. A. In the Tow
10、n Hall. B. In a community.C. In somebodys house. D. In a stadium.15. A. The equal job, the equal pay.B. The best way of cooking and cleaning.C. The womens liberation movement.D. Womens ability to be good leaders.16. A. Womens responsibility of child raising.B. Womens ability to do anything important
11、.C. Not only concrete issues but also attitude and beliefs.D. How to take jobs and help others.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the i
12、nformation you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. 第 3 页 共 18 页Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.SHOWPlace for next show: In New York.Time for next show: This _17_.Place for the womans work: At the _18_.The
13、 womans purpose to San Francisco:On _19_.Transportation: Driving in a big _20_.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.Coastal Redwood TreesCharacteristics: a. _21_bark against fires.b. a liking for a _22_ climat
14、e.Location of the tallest trees: Along the _23_California coast.Height of the tallest trees: More than 350 feet.Age of the oldest recorded tree: _24_. II. Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically
15、correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.( A )Exploration of the PolesThe North Pole and South Pole are at the top and bottom of the Earth, (25)_you wont find an actual pole to m
16、ark the place. The poles are the northernmost and southernmost points on the planet. The poles are the most unfriendly environments on Earth.In the early 1900s, explorers competed to become the first (26)_ ( reach ) the South Pole. From 1901 to 1904, British naval officer Robert Scott made the first
17、 attempt. Scott got (27)_ ( far ) south than anyone had been before, but he failed to reach the pole. In 1909, Ernest Shackleton of Britain led an expedition across Antarctica on sleds pulled by dogs. They were only about 100 miles (about 160 kilometers) from the South Pole (28)_ a shortage of food
18、forced them to turn back. 第 4 页 共 18 页Scott finally reached the South Pole in January 1912. But (29)_ ( disappoint ) Scott found that Roald Amundsen had beaten him by one month. Amundsens expedition arrived at the pole in December 1911. Amundsen was (30)_ experienced Arctic explorer, and he had made
19、 careful preparations. Scott and his companions died of injury, cold, and hunger on their return from the pole. In 1914, Shackleton (31)_ ( plan ) another expedition to the South Pole. But his ship was crushed by ice, and he had to cross 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) of freezing sea in a tiny boat to
20、 survive. Shackleton then returned to save his strandedmen. It was one of the greatest rescue feats in history.In 1929, Arctic explorer Richard Byrd became the first person who flew over the South Pole. Byrd later pioneered the idea of(32)_ ( set )up permanent stations for scientific research in Ant
21、arctica. A station called the Amundsen-Scott Base has stood at the South Pole since 1977. ( B )Teaching in front of a cameraWageningen University is keen on developing forms of education that reach people all over the world. The basics of the course topics are covered in short films and three-minute
22、 to seven-minute presentations (33)_ ( use ) techniques such as animationand voiceover ( 画外音 ).The online Masters programmes are quite different from the large-scale MOOCs (在线课程 ), explains Busstra. In the Masters courses, the short “knowledge clips” ( 短片 ) dealing with the essential topics(34)_ ( l
23、ink ) to an assignment directly to help the students actively absorbthe knowledge themselves. Teachers can also use them to test (35)_ the material has come across well. Busstra says: “ The teacher has to think up new ways of working-getting students to make a film clip, for instance,(36)_ _ they pr
24、esent a research setup they have thought up themselves, or to respond to someone elses idea, or to work on a document in groups.” The students also get the chance to post a question while they are watching an online film-equivalent of putting your hand up during a lecture. Fellow students and teache
25、rs can then answer the question online. “ There are a lot of misunderstandings about online education, ” says Busstra, “ one of them being (37)_ there is only one way communication. (38)_people are gradually gaining confidence in it. It will stay typically Wageningen: small-scale and based on intera
26、ction and group work.”The investment (39)_ online learning is paying off in the regular education programme too, according to Busstra. Students in Wageningen can pick up the basics at home through the knowledge clips. During lectures, teachers(40)_ then provide more in-depth analysis, talk about the
27、ir own work and supervise students more personally. “Increasingly, on-campus and online education will no longer be two separate worlds,” expects Busstra.第 5 页 共 18 页Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is
28、 one word more than you need.We are familiar with pop culture, but what is peep culture? In pop culture, we turn on the TV and watch our favouritecelebrities _41_ us with their performances. In peep culture, we turn on the computer, we move through peoples lives on reality TV, blogs, Face book and Y
29、ou Tube. Instead of getting our entertainment from scripted performances, we get our entertainment from peeping into other peoples lives. It can be friends and family. But its just likely to be people we have never met from around the world.Suddenly, we spend all of our time _42_ other people. And w
30、e also invite them to watch us! People _43_ themselves to get attention and to feel like they are part of a community. In peep culture, ordinary people are turned into celebrities. This has never happened before, turning the spotlight on _44_regular people. There arent secrets anymore. The notion of
31、 private life has changed.As society has become _45_ fast-paced, most of us are really unaware of these changes in our lives. We are moving into a time when our _46_ personality is going to be more important than our actual physical _47_. What we have online is going to be more important than what w
32、e do offline. We are now socially judged by our virtual profiles.In the age of “ peep culture, ” a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon is _48_ changing notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity. Susan Boyle became a(n) _49_ celebrity because of peep culture. The enti
33、re world was staring at her after her _50_ from a resident of a small Scottish town to a global celebrity. We like the story because shes like a movie,but shes real.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C a
34、nd D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.New research offers fresh insight on when to launch a product or service, and shows that being first to market isnt always a competitive advantage.In 2004, David Cohen had an idea for a social network for mobile phones that
35、would connect users in the real world. His company, called iContact, launched a beta version ( 测试版 ), and seemed ready to tap the muchpublicized mobile software market. Cohen, then 36, had already founded a successful software company. _51_, after 18 months, he was unable to get phone carriersto dis
36、tribute his software, and he closed the company. Bets on mobile applications didnt begin to _52_ until Apples iPhone app 第 6 页 共 18 页storeopened the market in 2008.Conventional _53_ says being first to market creates a competitive advantage. Reality is more complicated. Market opportunities are _54_
37、 opening and closing, and a hit idea at one point could be a failure a year earlier or a yawning “ me too ” business a year later. Its tough-likely _55_ -to identify the best moment to enter a market, but common sense dictates new entrepreneurs ( 创业人 ) can improve their odds ( 机会 ) if they _56_ how
38、much they bearto gain or lose by waiting.New academic research suggests one way entrepreneurs can _57_whether they should enter a market first or wait on the sidelines. The decision depends on how hostile ( 不利的 ) the learning environment is; _58_, how much entrepreneurs can learn by observing other
39、players before they _59_, compared to what they learn from participating after they enter, according to Moren Levesque, an entrepreneurship researcher at the University of Waterloo. Levesque, along with professors Maria Minniti of Southern Methodist University and Dean Shepherd of Indiana University
40、, used a mathematical _60_ to weigh the risks and benefits of entering the market early. Their research is among the first to explore “ how different learning environments may influence the entry behavior of entrepreneurs.”The key tothe academics findings on timing is this: In a hostile learning env
41、ironment, entrepreneurs gain relatively _61_ benefit by watching others. For example, if the relevant knowledge is _62_intellectual property, studying the market before entering wouldnt yield much advantage. In these situations, the trade-off ( 权衡利弊 ) _63_ entering early. But in less hostile learnin
42、g environments, where entrepreneurs gain valuable information _64_to increase their success just by watching other companies, companies benefit from waiting and learning lessons from earlier players. IContacts successors, for example, may have learned from watching the companys trouble in getting mo
43、bile networks to distribute their software, a barrier that was _65_ by the iPhones app store. 51. A. Otherwise B. Moreover C.However D. Therefore52. A. pay in B. pay back C. pay for D. pay off53. A. custom B. wisdom C. habit D. experience54. A. completely B. confusingly C. constantly D. increasingly
44、55. A. impossible B. possible C. potential D. manageable56. A. imagine B. interpret C. weigh D. measure57. A. value B. evaluate C. ensure D. convince58. A. after all B. as a result C.in other words D.in addition59. A. launch B. campaign C. strike D. function60. A. version B. pattern C. example D. mo
45、del61. A. few B. many C. little D. much62. A. provided B. protected C. shared D. improved63. A. favors B. dislikes C. opposes D. concerns64. A. unlikely B. likely C. unbelievable D. questionable65. A. lowered B. created C. resolved D. removed第 7 页 共 18 页Section BDirections: Read the following three
46、passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.( A )Some plants get so hungry that they eat flies, spide
47、rs, and even small frogs. Whats more amazing is that these plants occur naturally (in special environments) in every state. In fact, theyre found on every continent except Antarctica.Youve probably seen a Venus flytrap. Its often sold in museum gift stores, department stores, and even supermarkets.
48、A small plant, it grows 6 to 8 inches tall in a container. At the end of its stalks (茎) are specially modified leaves that act like traps. Inside each trap is a lining of tiny trigger (触发) hairs. When an insect lands on them, the trap suddenly shuts. Over the course of a week or so, the plant feeds on its catch.The Venus flytrap is just one of more than 500 species of meat-eating plants, says Barry Meyers-Rice, the editor of the International Carnivorous ( 食肉的 ) Plant Societys Newsletter. Note: Despite any science-fiction stories y
