黄浦区2016-2017第二学期高三英语期中调研卷

黄浦区2016-2017第二学期高三英语期中调研卷

（完卷时间：120分钟 满分：140分）

2017年4月

I. Listening Comprehension Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. 2 litres. 3. A. By bus.

B. 13 litres.

C. 26 litres. C. By taxi.

D. 52 litres.

D. In a sporting goods store. D. By car.

2. A. In an English class. 4. A. Doctor and patient. 5. A. Have a lesson. 6. A. Difficult.

B. In a swimming pool. B. By underground.

C. On a bus.

B. Teacher and student. D. Salesman and customer. C. See a film.

D. Go to bed. D. Worthwhile.

C. Uninteresting.

C. Employer and Employee.

B. Take a test. B. Memorable.

7. A. She wants a bottle of juice. 8. A. An excellent résumé. C. A job offer.

9. A. It?s famous.

B. She?d like some alcohol.

D. The location of the bar is unknown. B. An entry form.

D. The position of system engineer. C. It?s expensive.

D. It?s cheating.

C. The red wine in this bar is perfect.

B. It?s professional.

10. A. The 26-month-old baby is always busy watching videos. B. TV and videos may hurt a child?s language development. C. Nothing can replace parents in kids? language development. D. Children usually watch TV too passively to learn something. Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages, and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation and the passages. The conversation and 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 have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following dialogue. 11. A. Encouraging.

B. Dishonest.

C. Interesting.

D. Nervous.

12. A. How to start his own business. C. How to speak to a woman bravely. 13. A. He has too loose a schedule.

B. How to develop a real interest. D. How to balance his study and work. B. He loves the feeling with students.

D. He wants to determine his future development.

C. He is dissatisfied with his current job.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Kids threw litter everywhere. B. The camp director gave rude orders. D. Kids? joint efforts led to a clean camp.

C. Some mysterious plastic litter was found. 15. A. By taking pictures of litter he picked up. B. By sharing photos of the terribly dirty planet.

C. By keeping a record of crowdsourced cleaning-up. D. By inspiring kids to pick up five pieces of litter every day. 16. A. There is strength in numbers.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following passage. 17. A. To enable students to reject violence. C. To improve students? health.

B. To help students face struggles more properly. D. To eliminate poverty more effectively. B. How to clear their mind throughout the day. D. How to respond to situations better. B. There is less bad behavior on campus.

D. More students are willing to be sent to the office. B. Everyone can benefit from it.

D. There is enough evidence to show its significance.

B. Birds can help to pick up litter. D. More straws should be used in the café.

C. Litter is artistic and approachable.

18. A. How to calm down by talking to experts. C. How to make their teachers happy. 19. A. More students dropped out last year. 20. A. Its effect remains to be seen.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A

C. Students are less responsible for their study. C. It helps to get rid of poverty to some extent.

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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 blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Should Children Ban Their Parents from Social Media?

It might be taken for granted - but no previous generation of children will have had the experience of having their entire childhoods intensively and publicly documented in this way. But the very first people to have had some of their childhood pictures __21__ (post) online are not always happy about their formative years being preserved in digital world.

Parents may not realize it, but by posting photos and videos of their children online, they are creating an identity for their children __22__ might not be welcomed. Lucy is a good example. She said she had asked her dad to de-tag her from “stuff that doesn?t necessarily represent __23__ I am now. That?s not something I?d want to remember every time I log on to Facebook… It isn?t the best memories, which is the way you?d like to reveal __24__ on social media.”

Stories about online privacy are often about children and teenagers being warned of the dangers of publishing too much personal information online. But in this case it?s their parents who are in the spotlight. For some parents, __25__ (safe) option is avoiding social media altogether.

Kasia Kurowska from Newcastle is expecting her first child in June and has agreed with her partner Lee to impose a blanket ban __26__ her children are old enough to make their own decisions about social media. But she has two big concerns about her plan. Firstly, it will be difficult __27__ (impose). “When their auntie

comes round and takes a picture, we?re going to have to be like paparazzi police, saying, please don?t put these on Facebook. And secondly, the child might dislike __28__ (not own) an online presence, especially if all of their friends do. But I __29__ (keep) a digital record of them. It just won?t have been shared on a platform __30__ the masses.”

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. criticize B. desperately C. establish G. heartfelt H. humanity D. feature E. focus F. gratitude I. influence J. present K. touch Letters Brought Back to Life Letters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages. But a TV show, Letters Alive, is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back into the __31__. Letters Alive took its idea from a UK program with a similar name, Letters Live. Both shows __32__ famous actors and actresses, but there is no gossip, no eye-catching visual e?ects. Instead, it?s just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter. But these are not just any letters. They vary greatly in time and subjects. There is, for example, a passionate letter that famous painter Huang Yongyu wrote to playwright Cao Yu 30 years ago to __33__ his lack of creativity. There is also a(n) __34__ note from Spring and Autumn Period written by two ordinary young soldiers to their elder brother to report their lives in the war zone. Compared to published texts, letters also come with a personal __35__. One example from Letters Live was a note of __36__ from the mother of a dying child to JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. It read: “Mrs Rowling, cancer threatened to take everything from my daughter, and your books turned out to be the castle we so __37__ needed to hide in.” According to Guan Zhengwen, the director of Letters Alive, it is this kind of __38__ behind every letter that strikes a harmony with the audience. “It?s a thing of the past that entertainment shows __39__ themselves only with pretty faces,” Guan told Sohu News. “Entertainment industry is starting to switch to a(n) __40__ on wisdom and intelligence.”

III. Reading Comprehension Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily Considered Better

The firm, which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age: that of smaller start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP?s decision to separate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations, the company had grown into a clumsy __41__. Its fortunes started to __42__ with a series of expensive and much criticized purchases. By 2012 it had lost its position as the world?s leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo. The dramatic __43__ was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing, responding to shareholder demands for more aggresive__44__.

“I would go from laser jet printing to our big enterprise services contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations. These two things are not like each other. So the ability to focus and engage with customers on a(n) __45__ set of objectives and business outcomes... I can already see the difference.” Ms Whitmann, who now heads the new spin-off, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) selling servers and services, says the change has already __46__ her performance. “One big change is it __47__ each of the divisions to pursue the strategy that is right for them. __48__ , there is ?no way? printer and PC company HP Inc?s decision last year to buy Samsung?s printing business for $1bn would have happened when it was part of the larger firm. So it?s that ability to drive your own program, not __49__ by other businesses that don?t have the same characteristics.” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that she?s __50__ HPE further, spinning off both its business services division and its software business into separate companies last year.

Her assumption that bigger doesn?t always mean better seems __51__. After all, a larger company should find it easier to dominate the market it operates in. But the rapid rise of much smaller start-ups, competing and often overtaking these established powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that __52__ equals success is being challenged. __53__ in 2014, eBay carved PayPal, the electronic payments arm it bought in 2001, off from the main online sale business.

Box, a cloud storage company, is another case in point. Founder Aaron Levie says “Whether Uber, Airbnb, those same lessons __54__, which is if you can build something that?s cheaper, faster and more scalable and delivers a far better customer experience than what the traditional sellers were able to do, then you can be extremely __55__.”

41. A. appearance 42. A. decline

43. A. adventure 44. A. behavior 45. A. ambitious 46. A. delivered 47. A. allows

48. A. All in all 49. A. held back 50. A. dissolved 51. A. fundamental 52. A. diligence 54. A. apply Section B

B. construction B. increase B. growth B. complex

B. combination

C. giant C. stay

D. possession D. vary D. split D. policies D. overall D. standardized D. threatens D. What?s more D. taken down D. shrunk D. widespread D. size D. Unexpectedly D. increase D. troublesome

C. development C. markets C. narrow C. reminds

C. measured

B. improved B. employs B. For example B. kept on

B. expanded B. reasonable B. discipline B. Generally B. fail

B. miserable

C. On the contrary C. looked over C. operated C. profit C. hide

C. surprising C. Similarly C. motivated

53. A. Comparatively

55. A. friendly

Directions: Read the following three 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)

Born in 1823 in Wales, Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of modest means, but he had a passion for nature and he chose to follow it. He started out collecting insects as a hobby, but eventually his longing for adventure led him to explore the world.

Luckily for Wallace, Victorian Britain was discovering an interest in weird and wonderful insects, so the demand from museums and private collections for these beasts was growing. Wallace was able to make a living doing what he loved: collecting beetles and other insects.

But his first trip of exploring the world ended in disaster. Wallace proceeded to the Amazon in South America. Its giant forests promised a wealth of new species, sure to put him on the scientific map. The trip took 6 weeks and involved every mode of transport in existence at the time. After four years Wallace set off for home, but his boat caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic. Everyone survived, but Wallace had to watch in despair as his samples went up in flames – including live animals he was bringing home that were trying to jump free of the flames. But he did not let it stop him.

In 1854, Wallace set off on another adventure, this time to the Malay Archipelago. Wallace found himself humbled by the new and exciting things he saw. He later recalled: “As I lie listening to these interesting sounds, I think how many besides myself have longed to see with their own eyes the many wonderful and beautiful things which I am daily encountering.”

In 1858, Wallace wrote what became known as the “Ternate essay”: a piece of writing that was to change our understanding of life forever. In his essay, Wallace argued that a species would only turn into another species if it was struggling for existence. Henry W. Bates was one of many scientists delighted by the idea of evolution by natural selection. In a letter to Wallace, he wrote: “The idea is like truth itself, so simple and obvious that those who read and understand it will be struck by its simplicity; and yet it is perfectly original.”

56. __________ finally caused Wallace to explore the world.

A. His strong affection for nature C. His deep love for adventure

B. His life-long devotion to beasts D. Increasing demand for insects

57. Which of the following is TRUE about Wallace?s first trip?

A. It took him six weeks to explore the Amazon with all kinds of transportation. B. He made a scientific study of a fairly limited number of insects. C. The fire cost him his four years? collection of animals. D. His passion cooled after the disaster. A. fearless

B. lucky

C. challenged

D. risky

58. Wallace felt _____ on the Malay Archipelago.

59. Wallace?s idea on evolution of natural selection __________.

A. made no sense at that time C. was too simple to be true

B. built up a new concept of life D. revealed the origin of nature (B)

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