2015届奉贤 二模卷 高中英语附答案.doc

2014学年第二学期高三英语调研测试 （201504） (满分150分，考试时间120分钟) 第I卷 （共103分）I. Listening Comprehension Section ADirections: 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. an engineer. B. A repairman. C. A teacher. D. A shop assistant.2. A. In a hospital. B. At a restaurant. C. In a supermarket. D. In an ice cream shop.3. A. House agent and client. B. Brother and sister.C. Teacher and student. D. Master and apprentice.4. A. Discouraged. B. Sad. C. Happy. D. Satisfied.5. A. He wonders which scarf the woman chose. B. He wonders what color the jacket is. C. He thinks he selected a nice scarf. D. He thinks any color goes well with the jacket. 6. A. Taking a driving course. B. Receiving a medical treatment.C. Attending an Art lesson. D. Doing a make-up training.7. A. Help the man find the building. B. Follow the man to the exhibit.C. Assist the man to read the map.D. Show the man where to get a new map.8. A. The actress was given a big chair to sit on. B. The actress was warmly welcomed by the audience. C. The audience was very happy when they saw the actor. D. The actress gave her performance on the chair.9. A. He doesnt expect to enjoy the theatre. B. Hes sorry he cant go with the woman. C. He thinks the theatre will be too crowded. D. He doesnt like going to plays. 10. A. The blue light in the store is really very effective.B. The woman is mistaken about the lights color. C. Everything looks different once it is out of the store. D. The woman has no trouble distinguishing colors. Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear 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 have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Art history class is taught only in the lecture hall. B. Mentally disabled children are taught outside the classroom. C. Professors teach children through real world experiences. D. Students quite appreciate the value of classroom learning.12. A. To support his point of view. B. To praise the professor. C. To advise us to study psychology. D. To praise his friend.13. A. Students learn a lot more through experiences. B. Students find great fun in slides and textbooks. C. Students develop their creativity through textbooks. D. Students get firsthand information by observation.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. To inform visitors of the parks history. B. To provide an overview of the parks main attractions. C. To show visitors remote places in the park. D. To teach visitors how best to photograph wildlife. 15. A. It is easy to get lost. B. It requires enormous strength. C. It is a good group activity. D. people shouldnt do it in winter. 16. A. There are fewer tourists. B. The entrance fees are lower. C. The animals are more active. D. There are fewer insects. 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 information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Dream JobFuture jobTo be a physicians (17) _.Specific tasksCheck-ups, taking out stitches, or other things, but not (18) _.Ways to qualify for the jobSix years of (19) _ at college,(20) _ years at a hospital as an intern.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Interview question from the personnel managerWhy does Ms. Johnson want to (21) _.Reason 1No chance for (22) _ in the old company.Reason 2A (23) _ in California.Reason 3A rise (24) _.Complete the form. Write no more than THREE WORDS for each answer.II. Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: 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 blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.AIt was a cold, wet day on June 6, 2010, when 14-year-old Wasana arrived at school. Waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to arrive, Wasana stared at the rain. Then his eyes fell upon the 18-metre-high hill that stood at the back of the classroom. He noticed large amounts of rainwater flowing down the hill, and water was also bubbling at the base of a rock on the hill. For a few minutes, Wasana stared at the water, wondering _25_ it looked so familiar. Then it hit him-the scene was similar to the video _26_ he was shown during Disaster Management classes. _27_ (fear) a coming disaster, he shouted wildly at the students waiting outside their classrooms. “Run, run, dont stay here! The rock on the hill is going to fall on us!”Chaos broke out as the students ran to the open area that _28_ (appoint) as an emergency gathering point. When some teachers approached Wasana, he showed them the water gushing from the hill, and they started leading the students to _29_ (safe) ground. Just then Principal Gurusinghe drove into the school. Wasana ran over to tell him what was happening. After _30_ (examine) the site, Gurusinghe knew the school was in danger. The enormous rock at the top of the hill could come crashing down at any moment.Leading a group of teachers and older students, Gurusinghe climbed the hill and tried to make the water flow away from the rock. They were too late: ten minutes later, they heard screams as the huge rock rushed down the hill. There was little Gurusinghe and his group could do _31_ they watched the earth swallow their classrooms. _32_ _32_ Wasanas quick action and careful observation, no one was hurt in the incident. BMany drivers dream of the day when they can sit back while their car drives itself. While several companies are working hard to make _33_ a reality, self-driving cars still face many problems.Google was one of the first _34_ (get) into this industry. It _35_ (develop) self-driving cars since 2009, and its new driverless car is called Firely.But the driverless car is only a “fair weather friend”, the Daily Mail commented.According to the MIT Technology Review, the current driverless cars cant react like a human driver. They cant drive in heavy rain or snow.Chris Urmson, director of the Google car team, said that this is because the detection technology is not yet good enough to separate certain objects from weather conditions. In the cars eyes, raindrops and snowflakes are the same as rocks, and cars stop for them. But if the manhole（下水道入口）ahead is left _36_ (uncover), they drive over it without hesitation._37_ all these problems, Urmson said driverless cars will happen more quickly than people think.But even at that time, driverless cars wont be truly “driverless.”In the US, only when someone sits in the drivers seat _38_ driverless cars allowed on roads in certain statesEuropean countries, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Russian follow the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic. The convention used to say: “Every driver _39_ at all times be able to control his vehicle or to guide his animals.” A change was agreed in May, allowing a car to drive itself _40_ _40_ _40_ a driver is in the car and able to take the wheel at any timeSection BDirections: 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. analyze B. relevant C. indicating D. restricted E. transform F. primarily G. disciplining H. reputations I. pioneered J. establishment K. necessarilyBefore the 1850s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students. Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. The German university was concerned _41_ with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study. Some of them return to become presidents of colleges of high _42_ -Harvard, Yale, Columbia-and _43_ them into modern universities. The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty. Professors were hired for their knowledge of a subject, not because they were of the proper faith and had a strong arm for _44_ students. The new principle was that a university was to create knowledge as well as pass it on, and this called for a faculty composed of teacher-scholars. Drilling and learning by rote were replaced by the German method of lecturing, in which the professors own research was presented in class. Graduate training leading to the Ph.D., an ancient German degree _45_ the highest level of advanced scholarly achievement, was introduced. With the _46_of the seminar system, graduate student learned to question, _47_, and conduct their own research. At the same time, the new university greatly expanded in size and course offerings, breaking completely out of the old, _48_ curriculum(课程) of mathematics, classics, rhetoric, and music. The president of Harvard _49_ the elective system, by which students were able to choose their own course of study. The notion of major fields of study emerged. The new goal was to make the university _50_ to the real pursuits of the world. Paying close attention to the practical needs of society, the new universities trained men and women to work at its tasks. Students were also trained as economists, architects, agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teachers.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.Most American magazines and newspapers reserve 60 percent of their pages for ads. The New York Times Sunday edition _51_ may contain 350 pages of advertisements. Some radio stations devote 40 minutes of every hour to _52_.Then there is television. The vast majority of television ads today consist of brief advertising spots, _53_ in length from a few seconds to several minutes. According to one estimate, American youngsters sit through three hours of television commercials each week. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have been _54_ 360,000 TV ads. Television advertises in airports, hospital waiting rooms, and schools.Major sporting events are now major advertising events. Racing cars serve as high speed _55_. Some athletes receive most of their money from advertisements. One top-ranking basketball player earned $3.9 million by playing ball. Advertisers paid him nine times that much to _56_ their products.There is no escape. Commercial ads are _57_ on walls, buses, and trucks. They _58_ the inside of taxis and subways -even the doors of public toilets. _59_ messages call to us in supermarkets, stores, elevators -and _60_ we are on hold on the telephone. In some countries so much advertising comes through the mail that many recipients proceed directly from the mailbox to the nearest wastebasket to _61_ the junk mail._62_ Insiders Report, published by McCann-Erickson, a global advertising agency, the estimated amount of money spent on advertising worldwide in 1990 was $275.5 billion. Since then, the figures have soared to $411.6 billion for 1997 and $434.4 billion for 1998. Big money.What is the _63_ of all of this? One analyst put it this way: “Advertising is one of the most powerful socializing forces in the culture. Ads sell _64_ than products. They sell images, values, goals, _65_ of who we are and who we should be. They shape our attitudes and our attitudes shape our behavior.”51. A. lonelyB. aloneC. singlyD. individually52. A. commerceB. consumersC. commercialsD. contracts53. A. rangingB. varyingC. changingD. adjusting54. A. taken toB. spent inC. expected ofD. exposed to55. A. flashesB. billboardsC. attractionsD. messages56. A. improveB. promoteC. urgeD. update57. A. symbolizedB. illustratedC. demonstratedD. displayed58. A. modifyB. decorateC. polishD. fix59. A. AudioB. StudioC. OralD. Video60. A. sinceB. whileC. unlessD. if61. A. throw awayB. lay downC. blow outD. break down62. A. Except forB. Apart fromC. According toD. Including in63. A. effectB. affectC. resultD. purpose64. A. lessB. sameC. similarD. more65. A. outlooksB. opinionsC. conceptsD. implicationsSection BDirections: 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.AFor four lonely years, Evelyn Jones of Rockford, Illinois, lived friendless and forgotten in one room of a cheap hotel. “I wasnt sick, but I was acting sick,” the 78-year-old widow says, “Every day was the same. I would just lie on my bed and maybe cook up some soup.” Then, six months ago, she was invited to The Brighter Side - Rockfords day care center for the elderly. Every weekday morning since then, she has left her home to meet nine other old people in a church for a rich program of charity work, trips, games, and - most important of all - friendly companionship. Just a few years ago, there were few choices for the elderly between a normal life in their own homes and being totally confined in nursing homes. Many of them were sent to rest homes long before they needed full-time care. Others like Mrs. Jones were left to take care of themselves. But in 1971, the White House Conference on Aging called for the development of alternatives to care in nursing homes for old people, and since then, government-supported day-care programs like The Brighter Side have been developed in most big American cities. “This represents a real alternative to the feared institution and makes old people believe they have not left the world of living”, says Alice Brophy, 64, director of New York Citys Office for the Aging, “They do well at the centers, and I hate it when people describe us as elderly playpens（婴儿扶栏）.” New Yorks 138 centers encourage continuing contact for the aged with the communitys life. The centers serve more than 15,000 members, and volunteer workers are always looking for new ones. If someone doesnt show up at the center for several days in a row, a worker at the center calls to make sure all is well. And although participation in the center is free, those who want to can pay for their lunches. No normal studies have been made of these centers for the elderly, but government officials are enthusiastic. In the future, the Public Health Service will do a study to decide if the programs can receive federal Medicare money. And the old people themselves are very happy with the programs. “There is no way”, says Evelyn Jones, smiling at her new companions at the Brighter Side, “that I will ever go back to spending my day with all those loses at the hotel.”66. According to the passage, many old people went to the nursing homes because _. A. They are in urgent need of full-time care. B. They were rather willing to go there.C. They were sent there.D. They were volunteers there.67. We can conclude from the statements of Alice Brophy that _. A. the centers are like elderly playpens.B. the old people do well at the day care centers.C. old people like nursing institutions.D. outside the Brighter side they dont work for the old.68. Whats authors attitude towards the program of day care centers? A. pessimistic. B. concerned. C. neutral. D. optimistic.69. What is the main idea of the article?A. Day care centers may be able to receive federal Medicare money.B. Day care centers can make life better for elderly people.C. Many old people in the United States are lonely.D. Old people have no place in their society.BBiographyNicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian. She is also known