上海市上海中学2016届高三上学期摸底考试英语试题 - 图文

2016学年上海中学高三第一学期摸底考试

II.Grammar and Vocabulary Section A

Direction: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the other answer that best completes the sentence.

25. While I was waiting to enter ________ university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in

________ suburb of London. A. /, a

B. an, a

C. a, the

D. the ,the

26. In most cases, ________ a passenger has his ticket and managers to catch his train, he can reach his destination more

comfortably than ________ he had to drive himself. A. once, if

B. that ,if

C. when, while

D. where, when

27. The invention of the modern computer is one of the great contributions ________ to man’s efficiency.

A. having ever been made C. ever made

B. ever been made D. having ever made

28. I was not able to work out the problem ________ my teacher explained it.

A. as

B. unless

C. until

D. when

29. For him to be re-elected, what is essential is not that his policy works, but ________ the public believe that it does.

A. /

B. whether

C. that

D. if

30. What struck the audience most was ________ the blind girl could accomplish with her own hands.

A. that

B. what

C. who

D. so

31. The pressure ________ causes Americans to be energetic, but it also puts them under a constant emotional strain.

A. to complete

B. completing

C. to be completed

D. to have completed

32. Though ________ money, his parents managed to send him to university.

A. lacked

B. lacking of

C. lacking

D. being lack of

33. ________ Japanese is certainly complex, it is by no means impossible to learn.

A. Whereas

B. While

C. Since

D. As

34. To the students________, the new teacher felt very nervous to say anything, with hands slightly________. A. concerned with, shaken C. concerned with, shaking

B. concerned, shaking D. concerned, shaken

35. –I can’t find Ms. Miller. Where did you meet her this morning? –It was in the hotel ________ he was staying.

A. that B. which C. the one D. where

36. ________ your opinion was worth considering, they won’t place too much importance on it.

A. As

B. Since

C. Unless

D. If only

37. We shall meet at the same place ________ we met for the first place.

A. that

B. where

C. as

D. which

38. The monitor suggested ________ to the Sea World in the summer vocation.

A. to me visiting

B. their visiting

C. to me their visit

D. they visit

39. He often wrote to the writer ________ the thought would help him to become a writer, too.

A. whom

B. who

C. because

D. when

40. In the past decade, geologists have come closer than ever to ________ the age of the earth.

A. calculate

Section B

Direction: 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. resembles F. press

Traffic science is one of those ____41____ seems permanently poised on the verge of a breakthrough. Professional journals regularly publish promising research, and the ____42____ trumpets their importance. However, it turns out that traffic is a deceptively complicated problem. It ____43____ molecular physics, in fact, because it's a system of individual particles ____44____ in complex ways. Except, with traffic, the particles have minds of their own.

There are two kinds of traffic flow. In uncongested stable flows, cars can move at or near the speed limit, and the \外行) call a stop-and-go traffic. What scientists have figured out over the past decade or so is when and why traffic ____45____ between the two.

“We see in our models that traffic becomes unstable when the number of cars (passing a specific spot) per lane per hour reaches between 2,000 and 2,500. At that nominal capacity level, traffic is very likely to become unstable,” says Hani Mahmassani, a traffic scientist at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Consider a ____46____ case. A slow-moving car shifts into the left lane to pass an even slower-moving car. The car ____47____ behind the lane-changer has to decelerate ____48____ - not just to the speed of the car in front of him, but slow enough to create a safe driving distance between them. The next car back has to slow down even more, again to give itself a ____49____. This slowdown ripples back through the lane and eventually spreads into the other lanes as nearby drivers notice the sea of brake lights and reflexively slow down. Traffic researchers ____50____ to this as a shock wave, and it can travel back for miles.

III. Reading Comprehension Section A

B. immediately G. refer C. peculiar H. shifts D. cushion I . interacting E. disciplines J. dramatically K. classic B. calculating

C. be calculating

D. have calculated

Direction: 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.

(A)

There are many things parents can do to help children with autism (

自

闭

症

)

overcome their challenges.

Learning all you can about autism and getting (51)________ in treatment will go a long way toward helping your child. Additionally, the following tips will make daily home life easier for both you and your autistic child:

? Be consistent (一致的). Children with autism have a hard time (52)________ what they've learned if there is a

change of setting. For example, your child may use sign language at school to communicate, but never think to do so at home. Creating (53)________ in your child's environment is the best way to reinforce learning. Find out what your child's therapists are doing and continue their techniques at home. Explore the (54)________ of having therapy take place in more than one place in order to encourage your child to (55)________ what he or she has learned from one environment to another. It's also important to be consistent in the way you (56)________ with your child and deal with challenging behaviors.

? (57)________ a schedule. Children with autism tend to do best when they have a highly-structured schedule or routin

e. Again, this goes back to the consistency they both need and crave. Set up a schedule for your child, with (58)________ times for meals, therapy, school, and bedtime. Try to keep disturbance to this routine to a (59)________. If there is an unavoidable schedule change, prepare your child for it (60)________. ? (61)________ good behavior. Positive reinforcement can go a long way with children with autism, so make

an

effort to 'catch them doing something good.' Praise them when they act appropriately or learn a new

skill, being very (62)________ about what behavior they?re being praised for.

? Pay attention to your child's sensory sensitivities. Many children with autism are hypersensitive to light,

sound, touch, taste, and smell. Other children with autism are 'under-sensitive' to sensory stimuli.

(63)________ what sights, sounds, smells and movements cause your kid's 'bad' or disruptive behaviors and what brings about a(n) (64)________ response. If you understand what affects your child, you'll be better at solving problems, preventing situations that cause difficulties, and creating (65)________ experiences.

51. A. interested 52. A. applying 53. A. attraction 54. A. possibility 55. A. transplant

B. balanced B. devoting B. comfort B. goal B. transfer

C. C. C. C. C.

absorbed communicating steadiness process transport

D. involved D. appealing D. attention D. solution D. transform

56. A. meet 57. A. Draw up 58. A. regular 59. A. decrease 60. A. without doubt 61. A. Admire 62. A. curious 63. A. Figure out 64. A. automatic 65. A. frustrating 试卷二

B. interact B. Arrange for B. flexible B. mystery B. in private B. Stick B. specific B. Account for B. immediate B. successful

C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.

negotiate Work out appropriate minimum without notice Reward particular Put up positive professional

D. associate D. Stick to D. normal D. degree D. in advance D. Maintain D. anxious D. Take on D. quick D. unpleasant

(B)

Eight years ago, Facebook was a coding project in Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room. Now it's an aggressive business with $4 billion of revenue that is used by one-eighth of the world's population. Here are four main reasons why - (1)________ to almost every business. 1. Move fast.

Mark Zuckerberg built the first (2)________ of Facebook in his spare time in his Harvard dorm room. He didn't write a business plan. He didn't (3)________ ask friends and advisors what they thought of the idea. He didn't ‘reach the market', apply for patents or trademarks, assemble focus groups, or do any of the other things that entrepreneurs are (4)________ to do.Mark Zuckerberg built the first (4)________ of Facebook in his spare time in his Harvard dorm room. He didn't write a business plan. He just built a cool product quickly and (5)________ it. And Facebook was born. 2. Keep it (6)________.

Many companies get so obsessed with all the amazing (7)________ they want to build into their products that they make their products too complex for anyone to figure out how to use them. The Facebook team kept improving the design of the product, however, each time, they made sure that the service was still easy to use. 3. Make your primary focus the product, not the ‘business' or ‘shareholder value'.

Mark Zuckerberg was famously (8)________ in Facebook's business in the early days. In fact, he focused all of his energy on Facebook's product. This product obsession went so far that Zuckerberg continually (9)________ advertising clients, because he didn't want ads to mess up the service. As Facebook grew, Zuckerberg (10)________ his focus on the product. When Facebook was preparing to go public, Zuckerberg wrote a letter to shareholders in which he stated the company's intention to focus on its ‘social mission' first and its business second, wishing them to (11)________ with him

reasons that

in that regard.

4. Get really really good at hiring… and really really good at firing.

The (12)________ of a company has nothing to do with its technology or current products. It has more to do with its people. And building a great team means two things: hiring well, and firing well. It's easy to understand how to hire well. Firing well is also (13)________. A hiring mistake is unavoidable. In Facebook's early days, the company made lots of hiring mistakes, but it (14)________ them quickly. (15)________, if your company is growing rapidly, it will eventually outgrow some of your early executives - and you'll need to replace them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

A. apply A. pattern A. presently A. intended A. pushed A. delicate A. features A. fascinated A. called in

B. relate B. version B. hastily B. supposed B. provided B. sensational B. operation B. absorbed B. sent for B. lasted B. unite B. outcome B. critical B. dealt B. In addition

C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.

attach outline endlessly trained granted simple skills hesitant asked after maintained involve strength upright repaired Even though

D. persist D. model D. initially D. urged D. launched D. competent D. objects D. uninterested D. turned away D. extended D. permit D. purpose D. cruel D. mended D. As a result

10. A. switched 11. A. identify 12. A. admiration 13. A. efficient 14. A. addressed 15. A. In short

Section B

Direction: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them in passage A, B and C, 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)

The big screen is never short of films about World WarⅡ. When Nazi Germany is featured in these films, cruel Nazi officers and brutal concentration camps most often represent it. But the new Hollywood movie Valkyrie tells a different story, “a chapter of German history which is little known abroad”, according to the German Cultural Minister Bernd Neumann.

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