【英语】上海交通大学附属中学2018届高三下学期开学考试英语试题

上海交通大学附属中学2017-2018学年第二学期

高三英语摸底考

(满分140分，考试时间120分钟，答案一律写在网上阅卷答题纸上)

第I卷

I. Listening Comprehension Part A Short Conversations

Directions: In Part 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. In the kitchen. 2. A. 500 yen.

B. At home. B. 1500 yen.

C. In a fashion shop. D. In a net bar. C. 2500 yen.

D. 5000 yen.

3. A. He will pay for the lunch. B. Sue likes Spanish food very much.

D. Both of them should treat Sue well at dinner. B. Doctor and patient. D. Interviewer and interviewee.

C. He doesn’t like Spanish food at all. 4. A. Boss and employee.

C. Teacher and student.

5. A. She doesn’t have time to find a new flat.

B. She has paid three months, rent in advance. C. She is unlikely to find such a satisfactory flat. D. She doesn’t like the idea of decorating an empty flat. 6. A. Mike.

B. Sandy.

C. An unexpected friend. B. Find a full-time job. D. Resign from her present job.

D. A handyman.

7. A. Make a recovery plan.

C. Drop out of school.

8. A. The woman was fully absorbed in the music.

B. The woman couldn’t understand the music very well. C. The woman lost her way to the conceit that evening.

D. The concert was no better than what the woman imagined. 9. A. Extreme sports.

B. Travel insurance. D. Courage and safety. C. She is active.

D. She is sociable.

C. Travel arrangements. 10. A. She is talkative.

Part B Passages

B. She is quiet.

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passage and the conversations 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 passage. 11. A. 28 billion copies.

B. 567 million copies. D. 2015 million copies.

C. 1953 million copies.

12. A. Interviewed the vice-president of the Commercial Press in China.

B. Completed data investigation, collection and examination for the records. C. Compared the sales volumes of the Secret Garden and Harry Potter series. D. Delivered enough copies of Xinhua Dictionary to the presentation ceremony. 13. A. It contains colorful cultures of many countries.

B. It is the world’s most popular dictionary.

C. It is a useful tool for learners of the Chinese language. D. It has influenced several generations of Chinese people.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Over a billion people do not have enough safe drinking water.

B. Diseases and 6acteria in the water kill millions of people every day. C. People in developed countries take their clean drinking water for granted. D. Clean, bottled water is expensive to transport to poor rural villages. 15. A. It is a plastic straw.

B. It uses batteries or electricity.

C. It can be used for one year. D. It’s portable and cheap.

16. A. Appeal to the government to supply clean water for everyone.

B. Provide easy access to clean water to destroy the bacteria. C. Offer the WaterTube free to people in. developing countries. D. Sell the WaterTube to every person who needs one.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. A little restaurant.

B. A private organization. D. A snack bar.

C. An ice cream shop.

18. A. More flexible working time.

B. Less conflicts with consumers. C. Closer relationship with customers. D. More freedom to make financial decisions. 19. A. A program of the Small Business Administration.

B. A grant from a private organization. C. Savings in his own bank account. D. Loans from the bank.

20. A. He found owing his own business is rewarding.

B. He didn’t recommend others to have their own business. C. He chose the location to compete with bigger businesses. D. He found managing a small business is high risky.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A

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.

Talking with—Not Just to—Kids Powers How They Learn Language

Children from the poorer families begin life not only with material disadvantages but cognitive ones. Decades of research (21)____________(confirm) this, including a famous 1995 finding by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley: By age four children raised in poverty have heard 30 million fewer words, on average, than their peers from wealthier families. That gap has been linked to shakier language skills at the start of school, (22)____________, in turn, predicts weaker academic performance.

But just the quantity of words a toddler hears is not the most significant influence on language acquisition. Growing evidence has led researchers to conclude quality matters more than quantity, and (23)____________(valuable) quality seems to be back-and-forth communication—what researchers call conversational turns.

A paper (24)____________(publish) last week in Psychological Science brings a new kind of support to this idea, offering the first evidence that these exchanges play a vital role in the development of Broca’s area, the brain region most closely associated with producing speech. Further, the amount of conversational turns a child experiences daily outweighs socioeconomic status in predicting (25)____________ activity in Broca’s area and the child’s language skills.

The researchers confirmed the classic 1995 finding that, overall, kids from wealthier families hear more words. And small (26)____ ________ their sample was, they even confirmed the 30-million-word gap between the poorest and richest children. But they found that “by far the biggest driver for brain development was not the number of words spoken (27)____________ the conversations,” Gabrieli says.

The researchers calculated that a child’s verbal ability score increased (28)____________ one point for every additional 11 conversational exchanges per hour.

The study is a “very, very important” addition (29)____________ a growing body of work, says developmental psychologist Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Infant Language Laboratory at Temple University. “We have known for quite a while that conversational turns—or (30)____________ in my work we call conversational duets—are very important for building a foundation for language and maybe for learning generally. What hadn’t been done is to link it where we knew it had to be linked—to changes in the brain.”

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. obedience B. adapted G. supervision H. harmony C. conflict I. interpreted

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys (31)__________ on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.

The novel has been critically well (32)__________. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel. Although it was not a great success at the time, it soon went on to become a best-seller. It has been (33)__________ for film twice in English, in 1963 by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook.

The book takes place in the middle of an unspecified nuclear war. A plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down over the Pacific. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the boys survive the crash and find themselves deserted on an island, where they are alone without adult (34)__________. Some of them arrive as a musical choir(合唱队) under an established leader , while others are ordinary students. With the (35)__________ of the choirboys, some children like Sam and Eric, appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their gradually becoming extremely cruel and violent. Left to themselves on a heavenly island, far from modern civilization, the well-educated children return to a primitive state.

Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint(对照) to R.M. Ballantyne's youth novel The Coral Island (1858), and included specific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officer's description of the children's (36)__________ of Ralph, one of the kid leaders on island, as \jolly(pleasant) good show, like the Coral Island\—Ralph, Piggy and Jack—have been (37)__________ as exaggerated versions of Ballantyne's Coral Island leading characters.

D. received E. will F. stranded J. exception K. pursuit

At an allegorical(比喻的) level, the central theme is the (38)__________ of human desire for civilization and social organization—living by rules, peacefully—and for the (39)__________ to power. Several themes are revealed in the book, including the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, between (40)__________ and aggression, and between morality and immorality. How these play out, and how different people feel the influences of these form a major subtext of Lord of the Flies.

III. Reading Comprehension (15’+30’) Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.

The picture of miseries and sufferings of the Black woman in America may appear, perhaps darker and more depressing than Dante’s(但丁) description of Hell because in the history of human race, the Black woman in America has suffered the most. A close and critical (41)_______ of the history of the Black woman’s life and condition since her arrival in a strange land will unfold very well the long story of her pain and sorrow (42)_______ her mutilated(被切断的) soul. Since her arrival on the foreign shore, the Black woman has been facing the worst kind of (43)_______ and oppression. As a Black she has had to endure all the horrors of slavery and has been the (44)_______ of continually inhumane treatment in all kinds of work, (45)_______ the lowest place on the wage scale and restricted to the lowest-status and the most uncreative jobs. Since times of slavery, Black womanhood has been destroyed, twisted and abused with racial and inhuman (46)_______ by black men and white men and women. In the process, they have lost their genuine \and have developed a(n) (47)_______ in themselves—though as black women, they see themselves with the eyes of white men and women and black men. This has ultimately been responsible for the destruction of their self-confidence and the feeling of being human. They (48)_______ themselves as masters’ belongings.

As a mother she has seen her children sold into slavery. She has seen them left at home without attention while she (49)_______ to the needs of the children of the ruling class. She has seen her children suffer from drug addiction, the (50)_______ of decent education and experience attacks by

a racist society, and (51)_______ the prisons of this nation. In addition, besides suffering the common fate of all oppressed people, the African-American women continue to (52)_______ the oppression of woman by men, which existed for long. In the home she becomes “the slave of a slave”. Men may be cruelly treated and subjected to all sorts of dehumanizing treatment on the part of the ruling class. (53)_______, at least they can take out their frustration on someone else, their women.

Thus feminism in America means much more than what it stands for in other European countries, chiefly because it has different role and meaning (54)_______ the Black women. If a feminist is commonly defined as one who is involved in transforming and (55)_______ familiar realities, then Black women are innate(天生的) feminists. Black women writing exhibits and constructs a Black women’s literary tradition that is inherently feminist. Barbara Smith, an influential Black feminist critic, states that the ability of Black women to survive in the face of White America exhibits an innate feminist potential. 41. A. respect

B. reference

C. account

D. expression D. joined by D. explosion D. object D. striking D. practices D. gravity D. look through D. appealed D. possibility D. criticizing D. undergo D. Moreover D. in parallel with D. reinterpreting

42. A. associated with 43. A. exploration 44. A. article 45. A. including

B. completed with B. exhaustion B. item

C. involved in C. exploitation C. substance C. containing C. descriptions C. simplicity C. look over C. attended C. variety C. charging

B. occupying B. processes B. anxiety

46. A. procedures 47. A. complexity 48. A. look to 49. A. took 50. A. richness

B. look upon B. kept B. lack

51. A. populating 52. A. undertake 53. A. Therefore

B. emphasizing B. underline B. Anyway

C. undervalue C. However C. in addition to C. reconsidering

54. A. with respect to 55. A. reappointing

B. in line with B. representing

Section B

Directions: Read the following four 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)

I was at the funeral of my dearest friend--my mother. She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times. Always supportive, Mother clapped loudest at my school plays, held the box of tissues while listening to my first heartbreak, comforted me at my father's death, and prayed for me my entire life.

When mother's illness was diagnosed, my sister had a new baby and my brother had recently married his childhood sweetheart, so it fell on me, the 27-year-old middle child, to take care of her. I counted it an honor. My place had been with our mother, preparing her meals, taking her to the doctor, reading the Bible together. Now she was in heaven. My work was finished, but I was alone.

Deep in sorrow, suddenly, I heard a door open and slam shut at the back of the church. Quick footsteps hurried along the carpeted floor. A young man looked around briefly and then sat next to me. He folded his hands and placed them on his lap. His eyes started to be filled with tears.

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After several eulogies, he leaned over and commented, \name of Margaret?''

\was anyway.

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The solemness(庄重) of the occasion mixed with the realization of the man's mistake bubbled up inside me and came out as laughter. Sharp looks from other mourners(哀悼者) only made the situation seem more stupid. I peeked at the confused, misguided man seated beside me. He was laughing too, as he glanced around, deciding it was too late for an uneventful exit. I imagined Mother laughing.

At the final 'Amen,' we rushed out a door and into the parking lot. \of the town. By the way, my name is Rick.\

That afternoon began a lifelong journey for me with this man who attended the wrong funeral, but was in the right place. A year after our meeting, we were married at a country church. This time we both arrived at the same church, right on time.

In my time of sorrow, God gave me laughter. In place of loneliness, God gave me love. This past June, we celebrated our twenty-second wedding anniversary. Whenever anyone asks us how we met, Rick tells them, 'Her mother and my Aunt Mary introduced us, and it's truly a match made in heaven.'

56. Only author could take care of her mom mainly because ________. A. she was the only child in the family B. a lovely baby came into her brother’s family C. she was the only child without a new family’s burden D. her mom loved her much more than other children 57. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The author and Rick met 22 years ago for the first time. B. The author was supposed to have been in Lutheran Church. C. Margaret should be the name of Rick’s aunt. D. The mourners considered the author’s joy improper. 58. What could be the best title of the passage? A. Hope Remaining at the Funeral C. Two Funerals at One Time

(B)

B. A Heavenly Encounter D. Seeking God’s Everlasting Love

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