2015年长宁区高考英语二模.docx

长宁区2015年高三英语教学质量抽测试卷第I卷（103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection 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. At the bus station.B. At the airport.C. At the post office.D. At the bank.2.A. Librarian and reader.B. Teacher and student.C. Boss and secretary.D. Shop-assistant and customer.3.A. It is quite interesting.B. Its time-consuming.C. It isnt worth seeing.D. It is very expensive.4. A. To complain about her heater.B. To go over for the heater.C. To get some electric power.D. To have her heater repaired.5. A. To postpone his schedule.B. To book in another hotel.C. To stay in the spare room.D. To reserve a room in advance.6. A. Accident victims.B. Rescue work.C. Plane crashes.D. Crash survivors.7. A. He has some trouble with his computer.B. He isnt getting along well with the staff.C. He hasnt registered for a proper course.D. He cant apply the theory to his program.8. A. She went out of the way to meet the man.B. She was pleased to talk with the man.C. She took the man where he wanted to go.D. She missed the chance to help the man.9. A. Smith will keep the surprise party a secret. B. Lucy hasnt got any promise from Smith.C. They shouldnt have told Lucy about the party.D. Theres no secret between Smith and Lucy.10. A. Volunteers have to connect the community.B. The man has no time to do voluntary work.C. Voluntary work requires devotion of time.D. Many people have signed up for voluntary work.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three question 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. Nick lost the book Ivan borrowed from the library.B. The book Ivan borrowed from Nick was missing.C. Nick and Ivan had conflicts in Ms. Salmons class.D. Ivan was asked to return the book before finishing it.12. A. She asked Nick and Ivan to solve the problem by themselves. B. She gave Nick and Ivan the solution to their problem immediately. C. She asked students in social studies class to help solve the problem. D. She persuaded Ivan to pay for the book that Nick lent to him.13. A. A good way to resolve conflicts is to turn to your best friends. B. Nick and Ivan were unsatisfied with the solution to their problem. C. Signing an agreement helped to solve Nick and Ivans problem. D. Social studies class can equip students with skills to resolve conflicts.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.14. A. She wanted to have a garden similar to their neighbors. B. Her husband would like to have a beautiful backyard. C. She was going to make the rented house her own home. D. The community required them to keep the backyard lovely.15. A. By getting involved in doing voluntary work. B. By picking up mails for their neighbors. C. By keeping an eye on their neighbors children. D. By planting trees along the street with others.16. A. Her husband volunteered to work in the neighborhood. B. They took on new responsibilities for their neighbors. C. She was planning to plant a new garden in the backyard. D. She enjoyed the relationship they built with the community.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.Memo about Students Essay WritingName: MaryEssay topic: the _17 industryStrengths: _18 well with statistics; interested in computer modelingProblems: lack of _19 information; poor at _20 .Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Why couldnt the tourists go out into theocean as planned?Because of _2l in the area.What are the tourists likely to find in thewater near the mouth of the bay?_22 When can the tourists take a comfortablebath in the bubbling hot water?Before _23_How long will the trip last?_24_Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.(A) We had to climb right up the hill , which is very steep, and ,when close under it , it seemed to be high, but we soon reached the top . When we were there, we had lost sight of the lake; and now our road was over a wild land._25_(go) a little way, we saw before us , at the distance of about half a mile, a very large stone building, with a high wall round it , neither field nor tree near. The wild land was overgrown with grey grass that cattle might feed upon. We could not tell _26_ this building was. It appeared _27_ _ it had been built strong to defend from storms; but for what purpose? William called out to us that we should observe that place well, for it was exactly like one of the shelters of the Alps(阿尔卑斯山), _28_(build) for the reception of travelers, and indeed I had thought it _29_ be so. This building, from its singular structure and appearance, made the place , which is itself in a country _30_ Scotland, remarkable. When we _31_(pass) it and looked back, three pyramidal mountains on the opposite side of Lock Lomond ended the view, _32_ in certain kind of weather might be very grand. Our highland companion had not got enough English to give us any information concerning this strange building . What we could only get from her was that it was a large house, which was plain enough.(B) All plants need water to grow. Watering plants seems like a simple task but it actually requires many considerations. For example , plants growing in areas with low rainfall or areas _33_(expose) to dry wind require more water. On the other hand, plants which have a good adaptation to dry conditions or have the ability to store water in their cells require _34_(frequent) watering . The watering of plants should not be viewed as a minor process in gardening _35_ this task plays an extremely important role in ensuring healthy plant growth. Lets first take a closer look at plants growing in gardens. Since watering is a critical gardening task, _36_ accessible water supply is vital. A garden tap with a hose of sufficient length to reach the furthest part of the garden _37_(prefer). This tends to make watering much easier and ensures adequate water is provided for the plants. Most inexperienced gardeners water little _38_very frequently. This is undesirable as it encourages shallow root growth. In addition, watering in full sun causes leaves to lose water quickly from the surface of the soil. Therefore, some experts recommend _39_(install) an automatic watering system. As for plants growing in pots or containers, they tend to lose water rapidly. One way to reduce such a risk is _40_(group) the plants close together to keep moisture. Try to move them to a shady place if you are away from home for a few days. Otherwise, you will return home to see your plants dead.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Section 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. security B. represented C. deleteD. respect E. violent F. disorderlyG. wonder H. withdraw I. agreeable J. knocked K. enjoymentThe fortunate people in the world, the only really fortunate people in the world in my mind, are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often _41_ to be, and authors are perhaps one of the most important elements in its composition. They enjoy in this _42 at least a real harmony of life. To my mind, to be able to make your work your pleasure is the one class distinction in the world worth striving for; and I do not _43_ that others tend to envy those happy human beings who find their livelihood in the gay effusions (流露) of their fancy, to whom every hour of labor is an hour of _44_ and even a holiday is almost deprivation (丧失). Whether a man writes well or ill, has much to say or little, if he cares about writing at all, he will appreciate the pleasures of composition.To sit at the table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible _45 plenty of nice white paper and a pen is true happiness. With the complete absorption of the mind upon a(n) _46 occupation, what more is there than that to desire? What does it matter what happens outside? The House of Commons may do what it likes, and so may the House of Lords. The bottom may be_47 clean out of the American market. The heathen (异教徒) may show _48 anger in every part of the globe. Never mind, for four hours, at any rate, we will _49 ourselves from a common, ill-governed, and _50_ world.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.Early in the age of affluence (富裕) that followed World War II, an American economic analyst declared, Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into habits, that we seek our _51_ satisfaction, our self-satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced at an ever _52_ rate. Americans have _53_ to the call, and much of the world has followed.Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even deeply rooted in social _54_. Opinion surveys in the worlds two largest economies, Japan and the United States, show consumerist definitions of success becoming very popular.Over consumption by the fortunate in the world is an environmental problem _55_ in severity by anything but perhaps population growth. Their increasing exploitation of resources _56_ to exhaust or unalterably spoils forests, soils, water, air and climate.Ironically (有讽刺意味的), high consumption may be a _57_ blessing in human terms, too. The time-honored values of integrity of character, good work, friendship, family and community have often been _58_ in the rush to riches.Thus, many people in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow. With the _59_ of a consumerist culture, they also think that they have been _60_ attempting to satisfy what are essentially social, psychological and spiritual needs with material things._61_, the opposite of overconsumptionpovertyis no _62_ to either environmental or human problems. It is much worse for people and bad for the natural world too. Peasants who have nothing left cut-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, and hungry nomads (游牧民) turn their animals out onto African grassland, reducing it to _63_.If environmental _64_ results when people have either too little or too much, we are left to wonder how much is enough. What level of consumption can the earth support? When does having more _65_ to add noticeably to human satisfaction?51. A. natural B. spiritual C. cultural D. actual52. A. promising B. promoting C. falling D. increasing53. A. proved B. returned C. responded D. persevered54. A. values B. moralities C. identities D. problems55. A. qualified B. unmatched C. compared D. unprocessed56. A. happens B. manages C. starts D. threatens57. A. mixed B. detected C. counted D. terrified58. A. promoted B. sacrificed C. satisfied D. relieved59. A. improving B. neglecting C. sponsoring D. misleading60. A. fruitlessly B. successfully C. occasionally D. eagerly61. A. As a result B. For instance C. Of course D. From then on62. A. solution B. pollution C. consideration D. contribution63. A. attraction B. rubbish C. homeland D. desert64. A. construction B. destruction C. development D. improvement65. A. remain B. occur C. cease D. happenSection 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 read.(A) Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed peoples natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to relatives and neighbors, and substituted in their place loosel relationships with passing acquaintances(相识之人). However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the “obvious” is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than are big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation, a feeling of not belonging, than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and this leads them to a distrust of strangers.These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference. If neighbors are strangers to one another, they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers. Moreover, as Wirth suggested, there may be a link between a communitys population size and its social heterogeneity(多样性). For instance, sociologists have found much evidence that the size of a community is associated with bad behavior including gambling, drugs, etc. Large-city urbanites are also more likely than their small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan(见多识广的) outlook, to display less responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist political candidates, and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups, unpopular political groups, and so-called undesirables. Everything considered, heterogeneity and unusual behavior seem to be outcomes of large population size.66. According to the paragraph 1, it was once a common belief that people in modern society _ . A) tended to acquaint themselves with people passing byB) could not develop very close relationships with othersC) bore great responsibilities to neighbors and relativesD) usually had more friends than small-town residents67. One of the consequences of urbanism is that the city residents _ .A. suffer from the lack of friendshipB. lower the quality of relationshipsC. show little concern for other peopleD. become suspicious of each other68.We can learn from the passage that the bigger a community is,_A) the more open-minded people areB. the more similar its interests isC) the more likely it it to display stress D) the better its quality of life is69. What is the passage mainly about?A. Advantages and disadvantages of living in big cities or small townsB. Minor differences in the interpersonal relations between cities and townsC The positive role that urbanism has been playing in our modern society.D The strong feeling of alienation that city inhabitants are suffering.(B) TRAIN TRAVEL INFORMATIONWe offer several distinct options for you to choose the ticket that suits you best.TICKET TYPEDISCOUNTNOTESta