2013学年上海第一学期普陀区高三调研考英语试卷及答案.doc

2013学年第一学期普陀区高三英语质量调研试卷第一卷 （共103分）（2013.12.）I. Listening ComprehensionSection A. Short ConversationsDirections: 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 questions you have heard. 1. A. 2:.02 B. 2:20 C. 2:50 D. 2:322. A. The woman B. The man C. The womans mother D. The baker3. A. He gets nervous very easily B. He is an inexperienced speaker.C. He is an awful speaker. D. He hasnt prepared his speech well.4. A. She didnt like the books the woman bought. B. There wasnt a large selection at the bookstore. C. The man bought a lot of books instead of a few. D. She wanted to see what the man bought.5. A. The woman isnt a skillful typist. B. The woman should work as hard as Mary. C. The woman should do the typing for Mary. D. The woman should understand if she did Mary s job.6. A. Drive on through the night. B. Check out of the motel. C. Have their vehicle examined. D. Stop driving for the rest of the day.7. A. Judy came to the party. B. Judy planned the party. C. Judy hasnt appeared yet. D. Judy doesnt have any imagination. 8. A. To tell him they are busy. B. To cancel an appointment. C. To invite him to go to a film. D.To ask him a question about a movie.9. A. He needs the insurance no matter how much it costs. B. There are other types of insurance he should buy. C. The man doesnt have enough money to buy insurance. D. The cost of insurance is becoming more reasonable. 10.A. He is shameless. B. He is dead. C. He is sensitive to the shame. D. He has no sense of timeSection B. Directions： In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passage 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. A union leader. B. A hotel manager. C. A tourist guide. D. A restaurant manager.12. A. They are booked into a luxurious hotel. B. The weather is changeable. C. They are far away from any towns and cities. D. Local food is both cheaper and delicious.13. A. Skiing B. Hiking C. Swimming D. Sunbathing.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Because they want to have dinner with their friends. B. Because they want to watch football matches. C. Because they want to enjoy themselves. D. Because they want to find a new job. 15. A. Job-hopping has become a custom in the U.S.A. B. Job-hopping has helped businessmen to get better pay. C. Job-hopping has helped students to enter business. D. Job-hopping has helped workers in travelling.16. A .Job-hopping may cause trouble in the country. B. Job-hopping may cause some people to lose their jobs. C. Job-hopping is widely accepted in the United States. D. Job-hopping does no good to firms or companies.Section C. Directions : 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. Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD for each answer. At the Customs DeskLocation of the hotel:17._.Things in the Students Union18. Just _ belongings.Duration of stay19.For an _ week.Purpose of her visit20. To attend a teaching _.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORD for each answer. How long did the principle talk?21. For _.Who leads top the Students Union?22. _.Was Jack interested in classroom learning?23. _. Whats the relationship between the two speakers?24. _.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A. Directions: After reading the following passage, 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. ALast August Susan and forty-two other students got wet and dirty while removing six tons of garbage(25)_ the river running across their city. (26) _ cleaning up the river as part of a weeklong environmental camp. Like one in three American rivers, this river is so polluted that its unsafe for swimming or fishing. Still, Susan, (27) _ has just completed her third summer camp on the river cleanup, sees a change in this river. “Since we started three years ago, the river is getting a lot (28)_ (clean), ”she says. Environmental scientists praise the teenagers for removing garbage (29)_ can harm wild life. Water birds, for example, can die of plastic bottle rings and get cut by tiny metals. Three years ago, when the cleanup started, garbage was everywhere. But this year the teenagers can row their boats fast. By the end of the six-hour cleanup, they (30)_ (remove) enough garbage to fill more than two large trucks. “(31)_ (see) all that garbage in the river makes people begin to care about environmental issues, ” Susan says. She hopes that when others read that, she and her peers care enough (32) _ (clean) it up, maybe they would think twice before they throw garbage into the river. BDave Fuss lost his job (33)_ (drive) a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their home in the recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift-7, 000, a legacy ( 遗产)from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in (34)_ accident. “It really made a difference (35)_ we were going under financially.” Says Dave.But the Fusses were not the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families (36)_(touch) by the Hatches generosity. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in others, it was more than 100,000. It surprised nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than3millionthey were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on (37)_ was left of the family farm. (38)_ _ the financial crisis, Ish and Arlene developed the habit of saving. They were fond of comparison shopping and would routinely go from store to store, (39)_ (check) prices before making a new purchase. Through ten years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camp when their parents (40)_ not afford it. “Ish and Arlene never asked whether you needed anything. ”says their friend Sand Van Weelden, “They could see the things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”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. cultivation B. farmed C. constant D. machinery E. plunged F. lightning G. envy H. precious I. uncomfortable J. aircrafts K. consequenceModern inventions have speeded up peoples loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, _41_ cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at _42_ speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts of saving _43_ seconds in handling tasks.All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the _44_ feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may send harmful radiation into our brains, a _45_ we do not like to think about. However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to _46_ activities that we fins it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world. There was a time when some peoples lives were devoted simply to the _47_ of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might _48_ a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they_49_ with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern _50_ has freed people from that primitive(远古的)existence.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.It s believed that intelligent people are better at learning languages. Most language learning skills, _51_, are habits, which can be formed through a bit of discipline and self-awareness. But, some of them are not good enough. Here are the three most common _52_ language learners make and how to correct them. Not listening enough There is a school of language-teaching experts that language learning _53_ a “silent period”. Just as babies learn to produce language by hearing and parroting sounds, language learners need to practise listening in order to learn. This can develop learned vocabulary and structures, and help learners see patterns in language. Listening is the communicative skill we use most in daily life, but it can be _54_ to practise unless you live in a foreign country or attend language classes. The solution? Find music, podcasts, TV shows and movies in the _55_ language, and listen, listen, listen, as often as possible.A single methodSome learners are most comfortable with the listen-and-repeat drills of a language lab. Some need a grammar textbook to _56_ a foreign tongue. Each of these approaches is fine, but its a mistake to rely on only one. Language learners who use _57 _ methods get to practise different skills and see concepts explained in different ways. Whats more, the _58_ can keep them from working in a situation that never changes. When choosing a class, learners should seek a course that _59_ the four language skills (reading , writing, listening and speaking). For self-study, try a _60_ of textbooks, audio lessons, and language learning apps._61_ It doesnt matter how well a person can write in foreign script, or finish a vocabulary test. To learn, improve, and truly use our language, we need to speak. This is the stage when language students should calm down, and feelings of _62_ or insecurity hinder(阻碍) all their hard work. In Eastern cultures where saving face is a strong value, EFL teachers often complain that students, despite years of studying English, simply will not speak it. They are too _63_ making mistakes of grammar or mispronouncing words in a way that would _64_ them.The key is that those mistakes help language learners by showing them the limits of language, and correcting errors _65_ they become deep-rooted. The more learners speak and practise, the more quickly they improve.51. A. however B. moreover C. furthermore D. therefore52. A. successes B. wonders C. mistakes D. contributions53. A. picks up B. begins with C. takes up D. meets with54. A. efficient B. difficult C. easy D. ideal55. A. national B. official C. sign D. target56. A. make sense of B. make use of C. make profit of D. make fun of 57.A. common B. educational C. permanent D. multiple58. A. variety B. change C. improvement D. alternative59. A. postpones B. lacks C. assesses D.practises60. A. selection B. preference C. combination D. replacement61. A. Complaints B. Fear C. Secure D. Diligence62. A. humor B. shyness C. achievements D. laughter63. A. confident in B. comfortable with C. keen on D. afraid of 64. A. amuse B. inform C. remind D. embarrass65. A. if B. before C. in case D. so thatSection 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. A.11Miscioscio, 60, a marketing consultant in Pearl River, N.Y.,says shes addicted to her Sony e-reader. She buys or borrows a print book only when its not available digitally. Miscioscio says most her friends and relatives have also switched to e-books for the convenience and lower price. Last winter, she notes, she vacationed in Costa Rice and says “at least 75% of those reading were reading electronically. I was shocked to see people taking their e-readers onto the loungers(躺椅) in the pool. ”Meier, 43, a marketing director in Beaver Falls, prefers her books on paper, not screens. After working on a computer all day, she says, “I want a book in my hand. Turning over its pages is my way of knowing its time to relax and slow down. ”Meier, whos sticking with physical books, doesnt consider herself any kind of digital “resister.” “Im comfortable with all forms technology,”she says. “However, when it comes to books, I suppose Im a traditionalist. My preference will always be the real thing.”To her, part of the joy of reading is the book itself: “pulling it from the self, inspecting the cover, letting it fall open to a random page.”Both have lots of company. Statistics show that e-book sales grew 43% last year, but thats a slowdown compared with the triple-digit increases in recent years. E-books remain the fastest growing part of the book market but account for only about 20% of all sales, reported by publishers. Miscioscio and Meier are at opposite ends of a book business in transition. Even though e-book sales have grown more than 4,000% since 2008, its unlikely that physical books will disappear the way records did in the music industry. 66. Miscioscio will _ when a book isnt available digitally. A. buy the book on paper B. switch to the book of lower price C. take an e-reader onto the loungers D. give up reading such kind of books67. According to Meier, her “preference” refers to _. A. an e-book B. part of joy C. a random page D. a physical book68. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Records are unlikely to disappear in the music industry. B. Miscioscio and Meier are two opponents in book business. C. Physical books will remain to be accepted to some people. D. The market share of e-books is bigger than that of paper books.69. What is the passage mainly concerned with? A. E-books will dominate the book industry eventually. B. Readers go their own way in choosing books. C. New technology brings more benefits for readers. D. Physical books will disappear gradually in the future.BWelcome you to GRAND CANYON WEST with Meal 25/ 12/2013 NON REFUNDABLE ALL SALES ARE FINALGrand Canyon West (GCW) ( 美国西部大峡谷) is owned by the Hualapai Tribe (Tribe) and operated by Hwal BAY Baj Enterprises, Inc, dba Grand Canyon Resort Corporation (GCRC). You assume all risk and danger that happens in your visit. Directors, officers and employees are not responsible for any injuries, damages and liabilities, theft, or loss of any kind. Upon entering onto the Tribes land and the Colorado River, you have agreed to obey all the laws and customs, and waived ( 放弃) all claims arising from the use of this ticket or your visit. Dated tickets are officially acceptable only on the date(s) printed above. This ticket is non-refundable. You will not use any photographs (including the Colorado River, Grand Canyon and Skywalk), directly or indirectly, for profit (including in any advertisement, news and publication), without first obtaining the necessary written approvals and permits. Management reserves all rights. Get your FREE visitationCertificate in theTerminal Gift Shop70. Where is the passage probably taken grom? A. A visiting ticket B. A promotion advertisement C. A. geography book D. A science f