普陀区2012学年第二学期高三英语质量调研卷

普陀区2012学年第二学期高三英语质量调研卷 英语试卷（本卷满分150分；完卷时间120分钟）第I卷（共105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.A. 12.B. 24.C. 36.D. 48.A. A shop assistant.B. A telephone operator.C. A waitress.D. A clerk.A. At a bike shop.B. In a new car showroom.C. In a parking lot.D. At a car repair shop.A. The man wants to go to Los Angeles.B. The man wants to go to San Francisco.C. There are no flights to Los Angeles for the rest of the day.D. There are two direct flights to Los Angeles within the next two hours.A. He enjoys writing home every week.B. He never fails to write a weekly letter home.C. He doesnt write home once a week now.D. He has been asked to write home every week.A. The teacher postponed the meeting.B. There wont be a test this afternoon.C. The students will be attending the meeting.D. The students will take a test this afternoon.A. Get some change from Jane.B. Use the womans phone.C. Go to look for a pay phone.D. Pay for the phone call.A. He finds the presentation hard to follow.B. He considers the presentation very dull.C. He thinks Professor White has chosen an interesting topic.D. He speaks highly of the presentation.A. She is too busy to go.B. She doesnt want to wait long.C. Shes willing to go swimming.D. She enjoys the wonderful weather.A. People killed in traffic accidents are heavy drinkers.B. She doesnt agree with the man.C. Drunk drivers are not guilty.D. People should pay more attention to the danger of drunk driving.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.A. Many foreign tourists visit the United States every year.B. Americans enjoy eating out with their friends.C. The United States is a country of immigrants.D. Americans prefer foreign foods to their own food.A. They can make friends with people from other countries.B. They can get to know people of other cultures and their lifestyles.C. They can practise speaking foreign languages there.D. They can meet with businessmen from all over the world.A. The couple cook the dishes and the children help them.B. The husband does the cooking and the wife serves as the waitress.C. The mother does the cooking while the father and children serve the guests.D. A hired cook prepares the dishes and the family members serve the guests.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.A. In spring.B. In summer.C. In fall.D. In winter.A. Confusing.B. Innovative.C. Amusing.D. Wasteful.A. To standardize the daylight savings time.B. To establish year-round daylight savings time.C. To end daylight savings time.D. To shorten daylight savings time.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.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.Why does the woman feel unhappy?She has just had 21 with Mr. Phillips.Why was the boss angry with the woman?Because she didnt remember to give him 22 .Why couldnt the woman sleep well?Because she was 23 every morning these days.Who disturbed the woman?The 24 .II.Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.The lift in that tall building went wrong and got trapped _ floors. People in it had no way to get out.A. inB. betweenC. amongD. on Have you finished reading Jane Eyre? No, I _ my homework all day yesterday.A. was doingB. would doC. has doneD. do_ the project as planned, well have to work two more hours a day.A. CompletingB. CompleteC. CompletedD. To complete_ you continue in your efforts and achieve new and greater successes.A. WouldB. WillC. MayD. ShouldThe president lost himself in his work, and not a sound _.A. did the secretary dare to makeB. dared the secretary to makeC. the secretary dared makeD. the secretary did dare to makeRainforests _ and burned at such a speed that they will disappear from the earth in the near future.A. cutB. are cutC. are being cutD. had been cutMiss Green contributed fifty dollars, but she wished she could contribute _.A. one other fifty dollarsB. the same amount alsoC. more fifty dollarsD. another fiftyShe was so absorbed in the book that she had read it for three hours _ she realized it.A. whenB. untilC. afterD. beforeMany children have formed the habit of reading but _ efficient notes meanwhile.A. not takeB. not to takeC. not to takingD. not takingThe nurses are trying their best to reduce the patients fear _ he would die of the disease.A. thatB. whyC. whatD. whichThe hours _ the children spend in their one-way relationship with television people undoubtedly affect their relationships with real-life people.A. on whichB. whenC. in whichD. thatMichael put up a picture of Jeremy Lin beside the bed to keep himself _ of his own dreams.A. remindingB. to remindC. remindedD. remindIts not what we do once in a while _ shapes our lives but what we do consistently.A. whichB. whenC. howD. thatKids in the new century no longer take _ their parents impose on him for granted.A. thatB. whichC. whatD. whetherThe reason why we set up “a green responsibility card” is to give a feeling of accomplishment to people _.A. involvesB. involvingC. involvedD. having involvedYou are saying that everyone should take equal responsibility, and that is _ I disagree.A. whyB. whereC. whatD. howSection 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. adaptabilityB. gainedC. longstandingD. deviceE. eventuallyF. capacityG. reassignedH. distinguishI. lostJ. remarkablyPeople blind from birth can be taught to “see” images that are conveyed as sounds, says a new study that calls into question a 41 belief about the limits of the human brain.Devices that scan visual images and re-interpret regularities as sounds were used to re-train the brains of born-blind people in a study published this week in the journal Neuron. The authors at the Safra Center for Brain Science at Hebrew University in Israel put people who had been blind since birth through 70 hours of training with a visual-to-auditory sensory (感官的) substitution 42 .Initially, the subjects were able to 43 among faces, houses, everyday objects, and body shapes. They were able to read letters and words, identify facial expressions and locate peoples positions 44 . In one video, a blind person is shown a picture of a woman with a ponytail and identified the hairstyle.Blind people have long used the capability to use another sensory ability to make up for blindness: Braille and blind walking canes allow people without sight to read and navigate. But when the authors of the current study put subjects in a brain scanner, they 45 insight into the process by which training with a sensory substitution device allowed the minds eye to “see”.The human brain is a 46 efficient and adaptable organ: when a sensory perception such as sight is lost, the specialized regions of the brain in which input from the eyes is processed are 47 to other duties.But scientists have long believed that the brains 48 is limited by early conditions: when a person is born blind, the capacity of the brains visual cortex (大脑皮层) to process sight never develops, scientists have believed. With that 49 opportunity, a window is closed, and even if eyesight were to be restored, the visual cortex, they believed, would forever remain “blind” to images.III.Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. takeB. reduceC. increaseD. faceA. profitsB. advicesC. benefitsD. promotionsA. milkB. waterC. cokeD. coffeeA. based onB. fond ofC. different fromD. qualified forA. causeB. endureC. easeD. relieveA. warnB. compareC. cureD. treatA. unpleasantB. modestC. significantD. positiveA. tendencyB. intentionC. intensityD. extensionA. on the contraryB. as a resultC. for instanceD. in one wordA. turned upB. took upC. put upD. gave upA. satisfactionB. uncertaintiesC. consequencesD. qualificationsA. MoreoverB. HoweverC. OtherwiseD. NeverthelessA. contemporaryB. similarC. differentD. initialA. realizeB. attachC. demonstrateD. weakenA. unlikelyB. sensibleC. jealousD. miserableSection 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)I believe that memory is never lost, even when it seems to be, because it has more to do with the heart than the mind.At the same time my 44-year-old husband, Ed, was losing his life, my mother was losing her ability to remember. She forgot how to start the car, whether or not she had eaten and which family members had died including my father.I became afraid that one day I, too, would be unable to recall my husband, not because of Alzheimers (早老性痴呆), but simply because my memory of him might disappear. So from the day of Eds diagnosis (诊断) until his death a year later, I set out to memorize him. Id always be able to recite his qualities kind, gentle, smart, funny but I wanted to be able to think about the physical man in my mind as fully as possible when he was gone.Later I learnt that memory has a will of its own. You cant control it any more than you can influence the weather. When it springs up, a person loved and lost is found, even just for a few seconds.Recently, when I was driving, I had a deep and sudden sense of Ed, and the way it felt to have him next to me in the car. My body softened as it used to when we were together seven years ago, living a shared life. I wasnt remembering his face or the way he walked; the careful details I had stored had nothing to do with this moment in the car. And my moms brain couldnt label my father correctly, but that was not important. It was clear to me that her husband was vivid in her heart, a memory even Alzheimers could not destroy.I believe there is a difference between memory and remembering. Remembering has something to do with turning the oven off before leaving the house, but memory is nurtured by emotion. It springs from a deeper well, safe from the passage of time.Ed is _.A. the authors motherB. the authors fatherC. the authors husbandD. a physical manMemory has its own will so _.A. the weather cant control our memoryB. it may happen anytime and anywhereC. it can spring up for a few secondsD. it is safe from a passage of timeWhich of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. Alzeimers is not very harmful to human beings.B. A physical man must be kind, gentle, smart, funny.C. Memory has much to do with the deep emotion in ones heart.D. Good memory begins with turning the oven off before leaving.What is the best title of the passage?A. Memory the deeper well from our heartB. Differences between memory and rememberingC. Alzheimers can never destroy our memoryD. Memory the passage of timeThe letter is probably from _.A. Supervisor Management UnitB. Thames Valley PoliceC. Criminal Justice SystemD. Crime Reduction CommitteeMs. Adamczak is _.A. a victim in a crimeB. a famous crime-news reporterC. a professional policemanD. a detective in clearing up crimesWhat does the word “leads” most probably mean?A. Clue.B. Darkness.C. Investigation.D. Contact.(C)The infant who begins to smile or laugh early will _.A. have more advantages of development in growth and healthB. suffer from schizophrenic psychosis and even die in later lifeC. become a more subtle laughter when he or she grows upD. be more likely to take a whole life to perfect smiling and laughingThe expression “the first” in Paragraph 2 refers to _.A. a leading factorB. recalling evening activitiesC. mastery over anxietiesD. learning to laughWhich of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?A. The more you laugh and smile, the more likely you will be to succeed.B. Smile and laugh show your ability to overpower weakness and anxieties.C. Mastering social relationships means having a sense of humor.D. Scientists are more likely to go into laughing with no apparent reason.What is the best title of the passage?A. Beyond Laughter A new book with fruitful findingsB. Smiling A new mastery over anxietiesC. An important sign of confidence and successD. The function and meanings of smilingSection CDirections: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.Is it ever too late to make changes?Whats one change youd most like to see in your patients?What do you think your patients know about heart health surgery?Can you talk about some surprising risk factors for heart disease?Can you list the ill effects of smoking among common people?What are the biggest mistakes that people make about their heart health? 77.We have a whole list of what we describe as “emerging” risk factors. Scientific evidence links them to the development of heart disease, although the strength of the evidence is not as solid as the evidence for the links between heart disease and high blood pressure or smoking.78.Not all doctors and hospitals are the same. Your health is too important not to do some research. Most people spend more time researching a new car than they do a heart surgeon. Ask questions. Get second opinions. Make sure that you get the best for your health. And dont be worried about offending a doctor by going elsewhere for a second opinion. All of these are what you should b