2011上海市普陀区高三一模英语卷

上海市普陀区2011届第一学期高三期末调研卷（英语） 上海市普陀区2011届第一学期高三期末调研卷（英语） 2011.01 Section A  Short Conversations（10分） 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 in your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. Neighbors.　　B. Boss and employee.    C. Doctor and patient. D. Teachers and students. 2. A. She can't see it now.          B. She is eager to see it. C. She wants the man to see it first.          D. She doesn’t care about it. 3. A. The woman will go to the airport by taxi.    B. The woman is asking the man for help. C. The woman's car has broken down.        D. The woman doesn’t like to take the taxi. 4. A. She likes biology very much and will continue with it. B. She will take a science course like biology. C. She doesn't want to take any more science course. D. She wants to read more science books. 5. A. 2 hours.        B. 3 hours.                    C. 4 hours.           D. 5 hours.  6. A. At the office.  B. In the waiting room.      C. At the airport.     D. In a restaurant. 7. A. It’s too big .   B. It’s very good.  C. It’s not true.       D. It’s not good. 8. A. Take care of his daughter.                     B. Be on duty. C. Be ill .                                        D. Go out sightseeing. 9. A.10.             B.20.            C.30.                D.3. 10. A. Jim and Jack.          B. Jim and Rose.                        C. John and Jack .        D. Jack and Rose. Section B  Passages（12分） Directions: 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 in 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. Rent a grave.                                  B. Burn the body. 　 C. Bury the dead near a church.                  D. Buy a piece of land for a grave. 12. A. To solve the problem of lack of land.          B. To see whether they have decayed. C. To follow the Greek religious practice.    D. To move them to a multi-storey graveyard. 13. A. They should be buried lying down.                B. They should be buried standing up. C. They should be buried after being washed.  D. They should be buried when partially decayed. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.  14.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. 15. 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. 16.A. The couple cook the dishes and the children help them. 　B. he husband does the cooking and the wife serves as the waitress. 　C. The mother does the cooking while the father and children wait on the guests. 　D. A hired cook prepares the dishes and the family members serve the guests. Section C Longer Conversations（8分） Directions: In section C, you will hear a longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you will be required to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Why can't Karen concentrate on the book?        She lacks ____17___in it. Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less?      She ____18____ Philosophy to English. Who thinks Philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities?        Karen's ____19____. What is Karen thinking of doing?        Changing her ___20_____. Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD for each answer. Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. What's the purpose of Mr. Thunder's visit? To ____21___for a job in the woman's company. What is Mr. Thunder's current job? He ___22___ of brokers in a big company. Why does the man want to change his job?        The woman's company has an__23___ . What will the woman's company offer?        Two weeks of paid vacation and dental and___24 ___. Complete the table using NO MORE THREE WORDS for each blank. Ⅱ．Grammar and vocabulary （16分） Section A Directions: Beneath each of the following, sentences there are four choices marked A,B,C or D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. 25. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true______ it comes to the classroom tests. A. before            B. as                  C. since                        D. when 26. The president promised to keep all the board members __________ of how the negotiations were going on. A. informed        B. inform C. be informed        D. informing 27. In recent years much more emphasis has been put __________ developing the students’ productive skills. A. over        B. onto C. in        D. on 28. __________ in the office had made a mistake, and the firm regretted causing the customer inconvenience. A. Some        B. Anyone C. One        D. Someone 29. Beer is the most popular drink among male drinkers, _______ overall consumption is significantly higher than that of women. A. whose           B. which        C. that                        D. what 30.      , I think, and all the problems could be settled. A. If you make more efforts                    B. Making more efforts C. A bit more effort                             D. To have made more efforts  31. _____ at in this way, the present situation about birds flu doesn’t seem so disappointing. A. Looking         B. Looked          C. Having looked    D. To look 32. Many people have been ill from a strange disease these days,      we’ve never heard of before. A. one              B. that                      C. it                              D. this 33. It was quite a serious accident,      caused by careless driving. A. which I think was                            B. I think which was C. which I think it was                          D. I think which it was 34. ---Why did you put the wood near the fire? It’s dangerous. ---Don’t worry. Wet wood won’t _______. A. burnt           B. be burnt                   C. be burning                  D. burn 35. Mother made a promise ____ I passed the college entrance examination she would buy me a mobile phone. A. that             B. if that            C. that if            D. that whether 36.Personally I think it is the sales manager, rather than the sales girls, ______ to blame. A. is               B. that is          C. are                D. who are 37. I can hardly imagine so pretty girl like you ________ boxing. A. like            B. to like          C. liking            D. to have liked 38. The growth of part-time and flexible working patterns, and of training and retraining schemes, _______ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities. A. have allowed  B. allow C. allowing        D. allows 39. The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, __________ all practical value by the time they were finished. A. had lost        B. would lose C. would have lost        D. should have lost 40. Government reports, examination compositions, legal documents and most business letters are the main situations __________ formal language is used. A. in which        B. on which   C. in that        D. at what Section B Directions: Complete the passage with the words given in the table. Each word can be used only once. There is an extra one that you will find no use for. A. Resources  B. developed    C. similar  D. deeply        E. quantities F. provided    G. explorations    H. deeper  I. Throughout    J. technological Man is a land animal, but he is also closely tied to the sea. ___41___ history the sea has served the needs of man. The sea has __42____man with food and a convenient way to travel to many parts of the world. Today, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population live within 80 kilometers of the sea coast.       In the modern ___43___ world, the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive . ___44____ on land are beginning to be used up. The sea, however, still can be hoped to supply many of man’s needs.      The list of riches of the sea yet to be ____45____ by man’s technology is impressive. Oil and gas ___46____ have been carried out for nearly 30 years. Valuable amounts of minerals exist on the ocean floor ready to be mined (开采).      Fish farming promises to be a good way to produce large ____47___ of food. The culture of fish and shellfish (贝类动物) is an ancient skill practised in the past mainly by Oriental people.      Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way ____48____ to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents (水流) and waves offer possible use as a source of energy.     Technology is enabling man to explore  ever more ___49___ under the sea. The development of strong, new materials has made this possible.      The technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. Experts believe that by the year 2000 the problems that prevent us from exploiting fully the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved. Ⅲ．Reading Comprehension（50分） Section A  Cloze（15分） Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B,C or D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. What’s your earliest childhood memory?  Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk?  The first time you heard thunder or watched a television programme?  Adults seldom ___50___ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four ___51____ retain(记住) any specific, personal experiences. 　　A variety of explanations have been ___52___ by psychologists for this “childhood amnesia”(儿童失忆症).  One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature ___53___ about the age of two.  But the most popular theory maintains that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot ___54___ childhood memories.  Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or ___55___ -- one event follows ___56___ as in a novel or film.  But when they search through their mental ___57___ for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the __58___.  It’s like trying to find a Chinese work in an English dictionary. 　　Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new __59___ for childhood amnesia.  She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to recall.  According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use __60___ spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term impressions of them into long-term memories.  In other ___61___, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about ___62___ -- Mother talking about the afternoon __63___ looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park.  Without this ___64___ reinforcement（强化）, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form permanent memories of their personal experiences. 50. A. recall            B. resolve            C. involve            D. interpret 51. A. merely            B. really              C. largely                D. rarely 52. A. proposed          B. witnessed          C. canceled              D. figured 53. A. after              B. since              C. until              D. once 54. A. access            B. refer                  C. reflect                D. attain 55. A. regulations        B. descriptions          C. narratives          D. forecasts 56. A. the other          B. others                C. the rest              D. another 57. A. flashes            B. files              C. outputs              D. dreams 58. A. frame            B. landscape          C. footstep              D. pattern 59. A. explanation       B. factor                C. emphasis          D. arrangement 60. A. some else        B. someone else’s      C. anyone else          D. anyone else’s 61. A. words            B. means                C. senses            D. cases 62. A. it                B. them                C. him              D. theirs 63. A. taken            B. spent                C. used              D. chosen 64. A. petty            B. mutual                C. habitual          D. verbal Section B （22分） Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B,C or D. Choose the one that suits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) People living on parts of the south coast of England face a serious problem. In 1993, the owners of a large hotel and of several houses discovered, to their horror, that their gardens had disappeared overnight. The sea had eaten into the soft limestone cliffs on which they had been built. While experts were studying the problem, the hotel and several houses disappeared altogether, sliding down the cliff and into the sea.     Erosion（侵蚀）of the white cliffs along the south coast of England has always been a problem but it has become more serious in recent years. Dozens of homes have had to be abandoned as the sea has crept farther and farther inland. Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people, forecasting the year in which their homes will be swallowed up by the hungry sea.     Angry owners have called on the Government to erect sea defenses to protect their homes. Government surveyors have pointed out that in most cases, this is impossible. New sea walls would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the waves and currents go further along the coast, shifting the problem from one area to another. The danger is likely to continue, they say, until the waves reach an inland area of hard rock which will not be eaten as limestone is. Meanwhile, if you want to buy a cheap house with an uncertain future, apply to a house agent in one of the threatened areas on the south coast of England. You can get a house for a knockdown price but it may turn out to be a knockdown home. 65.    What is the cause of the problem that people living on parts of the south coast of England face?  ______________________.     A. The disappearance of hotels, houses and gardens.     B. The experts’ lack of knowledge.     C. The rising of the sea level.     D. The washing-away of limestone cliffs. 66.    The erosion of the white cliffs in the south of England ___________________.     A. will soon become a problem for people living in central England     B. has now become a threat to the local residents     C. is quickly changing the map of England     D. can be stopped if proper measures are taken 67.    The experts’ study on the problem of erosion can _____________________.     A. lead to its eventual solution     B. provide an effective way to slow it down     C. help to prevent it from worsening     D. warn people whose homes are in danger 68.    It is not feasible(可行的) to build sea defenses to protect against erosion because _____________.     A. it is too costly and will endanger neighbouring areas     B. the government is too slow in taking action     C. they will be easily knocked down by waves and currents     D. house agents along the coast do not support the idea (B) Americans are pound of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?     Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian（百姓的）clothes. People have become conditioned to expect superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. the television repairman who wears uniform tends to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity（身份）than to step out of uniform?     Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible（可减税的）. They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.     Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.     Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes. 69.    It is surprising that Americans who worship（敬仰） variety and individuality _______.     A. still judge a man by his clothes     B. hold the uniform in such high regard     C. enjoy having a professional identity     D. will respect an elevator operator as much as a general in uniform 70.    People are accustomed to think that a man in uniform _______.     A. suggests quality work     B. discards his social identity     C. appears to be more practical     D. looks superior to a person in civilian clothes 71.    The chief function of a uniform is to _______.     A. provide practical benefits to the wearer     B. make the wearer catch the pubic eye     C. inspire the wearer’s confidence in himself     D. provide the wearer with a professional identity (C) On December 3，more than 10,000 scientists, environmental activists and government officials from 187 countries met in Bali, Indonesia, which is the largest global warming conference ever held. One of the main goals of the two-week meeting is to develop a replacement for the international treaty called the Kyoto Protocol, which has been signed by 174, countries, calling for limits on the emission of greenhouse gases. Under the Kyoto Protocol, nations were legally bound to reduce greenhouse gases, but since it was signed in 2005, they have continued to increase worldwide. Of the largest greenhouse gas emitters, only Russia and Japan have agreed to follow the rules. China and India－second and sixth on the list－are making efforts to make cuts. The U.S signed the treaty in 1997 but has not yet agreed to follow the strict rules, which require that greenhouse gas release be reduced by 10% by 2012. U.S. officials are opposed to these mandatory（强制性的），or required, cuts in emissions. "We’re worrying that it would be too costly and would hurt the U.S. economy. But we're not here to be a roadblock," said Harlan L. Watson, a top U.S. climate official. Even if greenhouse gases are reduced, scientists say it will take decades or longer to stop the global warming that is already underway. To help poor countries deal with rising temperatures and climate changes, the UN has developed the "Adaptation Fund" to help them im