2017-2018上海市格致中学高三上学期期中考试英语试题

第 1 页 共 15 页 格致中学格致中学二二 一七学年度第一学期期中考试一七学年度第一学期期中考试 高三年级 英语试卷 共 10 页 测试 120 分钟内完成 总分 150 分 试后交答题卷 I Listening Comprehension 30 Section A Short Conversations Directions 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 7 A Give his ankle a good rest B Treat his injury immediately C Continue his regular exercises D Be careful when climbing steps 8 A Go on a diving tour in Europe B Add 300 dollars to his budget C Travel overseas on his own D Join a package tour to Mexico 9 A In case some problems should occur B In case they should be late C To avoid more work later on D To make better preparations 1 A Sorry B Annoyed C Excited D Puzzled 2 A An accountant B A surgeon C An artist D A scientist 3 A 2000 yuan B 3200 yuan C 1200 yuan D 3600 yuan 4 A On a plane B In a physical medical room C In a boat D In a school rest room 5 A A job B An article C A book D An author 6 A Twins B Classmates C Friends D Cousins 第 2 页 共 15 页 10 A The rock band needs more hours of practice B The rock band is going to play here for a month C Their hard work has resulted in a big success D He appreciates the woman s help with the band Section B Directions In Section B you will hear several longer conversation s and short passage s and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation s and the passage s The conversation s and the passage s 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage 11 A Its strong education system B Its population C Its growing tourism industry D Its bilingual signs 12 A All citizens receive quality English teaching B More money should be spent on teacher training C An English speaking environment should be built D Tourism industry should be promoted 13 A The foreign investment will increase B It will bring the economic and social benefits C The education system will be strengthened D It will improve Singapore s ranking in English level Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage 14 A He shopped for groceries B He took care of his sick parent C He cared for his younger brother D He made important family decisions 15 A It may help children grow up quickly B It may force children to sacrifice their childhoods C It will turn children s responsibility into a delight 第 3 页 共 15 页 D It will make children more isolated and confused 16 A Children getting satisfaction from helping others B Children taking on adult responsibility C Frustration and stress caused to children by parents D The environment for children s better growth Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation 17 A Tour guide B Journalist C Editor D Typist 18 A Some newly discovered scenic spots B Big changes in the Amazon Valley C A new railway under construction D The beautiful Amazon rain forest 19 A In news weeklies B In newspapers Sunday editions C In a local evening paper D In overseas editions of U S magazines 20 A To become a professional writer B To get her life story published soon C To be employed by a newspaper D To sell her articles to a news service II Grammar and Vocabulary 共共 20 分分每题每题 1 分分 Section A Directions 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 How should a Nobel laureate dress asked Kazuo Ishiguro who 40 minutes earlier had found out he 21 award the Nobel Prize for Literature To say the news was unexpected is an understatement He literally couldn t believe it 22 that was his phone began to ring constantly an orderly queue of TV crews started to form outside 第 4 页 共 15 页 A assessmentB withdrawC actualD issuesE concrete F migrationsG fully committedH irregularI implemented J irreversibleK initiatives his front door how do they all know where I live and his publishers dispatched a top team to his house as back up This was not fake news This was delightful surprising news Maybe there were others who 23 win instead he wondered But that is the nature of prizes They are a lottery 24 chaos reigned around him he was calm assured and thoughtful 25 talk after nipping upstairs to fetch a smart jacket for our interview about his belief in the power of stories and 26 those that he wrote would often explore wasted lives and opportunities I ve always had 27 faith that it should be possible if you tell stories in a certain way to transcend barriers of race class and ethnicity For me he is one of the great living writers working in any language All writers can tell stories Ishiguro tells stories on 28 level He places the reader in some sort of alternative reality which might be the future it might be the present it might be the past They feel like places that are whole and real 29 you don t know them They re weird and not necessarily happy places But they re places that you can inhabit and relate to and you become deeply involved with the characters That s the writer s job he just does it 30 good than most 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 Now let me say a few words to our American friends Climate change is one of the major 31 of our time It is already changing our daily lives but it is global Everyone is impacted And if we do nothing our children will know a world of 32 of wars of shortage A dangerous world It is not the future we want for ourselves It is not the future we want for our children It is not the future we want for our world Today the President of the United States Donald Trump announced his decision to 33 the United States from the Paris Agreement I do respect his decision but I do think it is an 34 mistake both for the US and for our planet 第 5 页 共 15 页 I just said it to President Trump in a few words a few minutes ago this35 Tonight I wish to tell the United States France believes in you The world believes in you I know that you are a great nation I know your history our common history To all the scientists engineers entrepreneurs and responsible citizens who were disappointed by the decision of the president of the United States I want to say they will find in France a second homeland I call on them come and work here with us to work together on 36 solutions for our climate our environment I can assure you France will not give up the fight I reaffirm clearly that Paris agreement will remain 37 and will be 38 not just by France but by all the other nations Over the coming hours I will have the opportunity to speak with our main partners to define a common strategy and to launch new 39 I already know that I can count on them I call on you to remain confidence We will succeed because we are 40 because wherever we live whoever we are we all share the same responsibility to make our planet great again III Reading Comprehension 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 A recent survey in the United States showed that the average family spent more money on its pets than on its children Although this is a rather shocking statistics it should not 41 anyone who has seen the beautiful doggy bedroom or the quiet shady groves where loved pets rest It is possible that Americans are unique in treating their little friends in this way but the information we have suggests that the English too are 42 to their pets This can clearly be seen when we look at pet foods which often contain more vitamins than human food or at least are 43 less nutritious They certainly cost much Last year the British public spent two hundred million pounds on pet food alone 44 veterinary 兽医的 bills or animal furniture It is difficult not to feel 45 with this when one considers what the same amount could do for victims of starvation and poverty so it is 46 for me to get hot under the collar when I read an old man left all his money to his dog home 第 6 页 共 15 页 There are a variety of reasons why I find the popularity of British pets 47 They cause physical problems An example of this is New York where they have great difficulty getting rid of the mess that dogs leave on the streets Many people find this funny but in a number of large cities it is a major problem Animals can cause disease too It is the threat of rabies a disease with no known cure that has made the English government impose strict 48 on animals coming into the United Kingdom When the Spanish government recently 49 a number of homeless dogs as protection against the same threat English tourist immediately wrote letters to the newspapers 50 about mass murder Another problem is the 51 of pet owners Most little children want a dog or a cat and they continually pester their mothers and fathers until they get one It is only when the sweet little thing has been brought home that the parents realize how much time and money must be spent on Rover or Bonzo Then they just 52 it This brings me to my last point Pets which run free are often not 53 at all English farmers lose hundreds of sheep a year killed by someone s pet and you must have read of children being hurt by some pets of their own 54 I would only suggest that we have got our 55 wrong and that something should be done about it 41 A alertB surpriseC disappointD interest 42 A hostileB politeC subjectD available 43 A seldomB farC frequentlyD totally 44 A in spite ofB regardless ofC not to mentionD rather than 45 A delightedB patientC concernedD unsatisfied 46 A usualB naturalC ridiculousD essential 47 A inevitableB understandableC unacceptableD common 48 A ordersB punishmentsC treatmentsD restrictions 49 A curedB destroyedC enclosedD drove 50 A inquiringB caringC worryingD complaining 51 A thoughtlessnessB hesitationC expectationD kindness 52 A isolateB scoldC desertD bind 53 A funnyB sweetC preciousD loving 第 7 页 共 15 页 54 A NeverthelessB MoreoverC ThereforeD Meanwhile 第 8 页 共 15 页 55 A mindB behaviorC loveD priority Section B Directions 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 Daniel Anderson a famous psychologist believes it s important to distinguish television s influences on children from those of the family We tend to blame TV he says for problems it doesn t really cause overlooking our own roles in shaping children s minds One traditional belief about television is that it reduces a child s ability to think and to understand the world While watching TV children do not merely absorb words and images Instead they learn both explicit and hidden meanings from what they see Actually children learn early the psychology of characters in TV shows Furthermore as many teachers agree children understand far more when parents watch TV with them explaining new words and ideas Yet most parents use an educational program as a chance to park their kids in front of the set and do something in another room Another argument against television is that it replaces reading as a form of entertainment But according to Anderson the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability TV doesn t take the place of reading for most children it takes the place of similar sorts of recreation such as listening to the radio and playing sports Things like parent s educational background have a stronger influence on a child s reading A child s reading ability is best predicted by how much a parent reads Anderson says Traditional wisdom also has it that heavy television watching lowers IQ scores and affects school performance But here too Anderson notes that no studies have proved it In fact research suggests that it s the other way around If you re smart young you ll watch less TV when you re older Anderson says Yet people of lower IQ tend to be lifelong television viewers For years researchers have attempted to show that television is dangerous to children However by showing that television promotes none of the dangerous effects as conventionally believed Anderson suggests that television cannot be condemned without considering other influences 56 Which of the following is most related to children s reading ability A Radio listening B Television watching 第 9 页 共 15 页 C Parents reading list D Parents educational background 57 Anderson believes that A the more a child watches TV the smarter he is B the younger a child is the more he watches TV C the smarter a child is the less likely he gets addicted to TV D the less a child watches TV the better he performs at school 58 What is the main purpose of the passage A To advise on the educational use of TV B To describe TV s harmful effects on children C To explain traditional views on TV influences D To present Anderson s unconventional ideas B A hospital has been forced to ban Pokemon Go players from the site after a monster hub 妖怪枢纽站 was found in the A others write to all sorts of places all over the country and never seem to get a reply at all Still others believe that the in person door to door approach is by far the best way to get a job and then there are those who through no active decision of their own just seem to be in the right place at the right time 68 He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them His father was a farmer and being a sailor could never be anything for the boy but an idle dream One day on his usual wandering he heard the captain of the ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick Without stopping to think the lad 少年 offered to take his place 69 70 If the lad had gone home to ponder 考虑 his decision for a week he may have missed his 第 13 页 共 15 页 chance It is one thing to be offered an opportunity it is another thing to take it and use it well Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs 美差 When you go for a job interview or fill out an application you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the company s faults And within a year this person had become general manger of the company IV Summary Writing 15 分分 Directions Read the following passage Summarize the main idea and the main point s of the passage in no more than 70 words Use your own words as far as possible Getting rid of dirt in the opinion of most people is a good thing However there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt In the early 16th century people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths By 1538 the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom So did the king of England in 1546 Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way Henry IV King of France was famously dirty Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath the king ordered that to avoid the attack of disease the nobleman should not go out Though the belief in the merit of dirt was long lived dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century Scientifically speaking cleaning away dirt is good to health Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease Yet it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War II Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea clothes need to be whiter than white cloths ever softer surfaces to shine Has the hate for dirt however gone too far Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays Many first time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt which might be responsible for the spread of disease On the contrary Mary Ruebush an American immunologist encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system And the latter position is gaining some ground 302 words 第第 II 卷卷 V Translation Directions Translate the following sentences into English using the words given in the brackets 71 你是不是就在这家新开的饭店里看见疑犯实施犯罪 it 72 学外语时没有必要不懂装懂 否则你总有一天会后悔的 need n 第 14 页 共 15 页 73 人们很难想象像他这样一个体面的政府官员是如何一夜之间就沦为阶下囚的 reduce 74 这个年轻人向朋友保证在任何情况下他都不会违背做一个诚实和守信人的承诺 under no circumstances VI Guided Writing 25 Directions Write an English composition in 120 150 words according t