上海市闸北区2016届高三第一学期期末练习英语试题

in the smell of barbecued sausages and kebabs.

La Vucciria is off Piazza San Domenico. Take a local guide.

70. Compared with other world food markets, Borough Market is different because ______.

(C)

One of the common arguments of homeschooling opponents is that homeschooled kids aren’t prepared for life in the real world. The idea is that homeschoolers are sheltered with limited interaction outside of their immediate family.

However, contrary to the imagined picture of homeschooled kids crowded around the dining room table for hours on end with only their brothers and sisters for companionship, homeschooled kids tend to be communicating with a variety of people in a wide range of ages. Most homeschooled children regularly accompany their parents on outings and errands, providing them the opportunity to be exposed to a variety of settings.

They learn to graciously answer the elderly gentlemen why they aren’t in school today or the nosy cashier who wants to quiz them on their maths levels.

And it is quite common for homeschooled kids to be part of cooperation, to take classes outside the home with other homeschooled kids, or to participate in sports, providing them with plenty of occasions to interact with children and adults outside their immediate family.

Parents of children are responsible for guiding their children while homeschool parents are in a position to do so on a much more regular basis. Many people consider this sheltering, but actually it falls more under the heading of mentoring.

Because they are being mentored by adults, rather than same-aged peers, homeschooled kids often have the opportunity to learn better coping and interpersonal skills at an earlier age. But being able to guide our children doesn’t mean taking them as our appendent commanding them about. It doesn’t mean covering up for them or jumping in to fight their battles. It does mean that

A. it’s the oldest food market in the world B. it offers food unique for British people C. it serves individual buyers only on weekends D. it sells the world’s best olive oils and cheeses A. advantage

B. combination

C. sympathy

D. requirement

71. The underlined word “syncretism”in the passage is closest in meaning to ______. 72. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. St Lawrence market was founded between the 1970s and 1990s B. Union Square Greenmarket was built specially for supermarket shoppers C. Kreta Ayer Wet Market was famous for the cleanness of its food D. There are not many visitors in Kreta Ayer Market at around 6 a.m. A. Food Joy C. Economy Weekly

B. Universe Outlook D. Architecture Pioneer

73. In which of the following magazine does the passage most probably appear?

we must offer them a more mature horizon on developing skills to deal with difficult situations than their same age peers might offer.

Many traditionally-schooled teens graduate with the expectation of entering college to pursue their future career without having much time to explore their passions. While the high school years do offer many opportunities for teens in a traditional school setting, homeschooling often provides more time and opportunity to delve into areas of interest more fully. This is due to the fact that a homeschooled teen’s education can be highly tailored to their skills and interests.

In essence, coupling a well-designed education with the time management skills that homeschooling can provide often results in teens more prepared and better equipped for real world experiences than public perception may expect. 74. Homeschooled kids have enough interpersonal experience by ______.

A. learning communicating abilities from their brothers and sisters. B. maintaining close relationship with their parents at home

C. dealing with embarrassing questions raised by people of various backgrounds D. establishing close link with former classmates from different schools. A. Parents should judge for kids what people to have contact with. B. Parents should help kids to form a developed attitude toward conflicts C. Parents should participate more in various activities with kids. D. Parents should monitor how kids command their affairs. A. more work introduction they get during the age of high school B. enough work training they receive during home schooling C. well-planned education and good time management ability D. more interests and good habits they have developed A. Homeschooling: its pros and cons. B. Homeschooling: its history and future. C. Questions you may ask about homeschooling. D. Homeschooling: a well-working form of education

75. What should parents do while guiding homeschooled kids?

76. Homeschooled kids are more suitable for real world life because of ______.

77. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

Section C

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

At the most macro level, jobs within the financial services industryfall into two very broad categories, producers and support. Within a given firm, the producer universe typically has the most attractive salary package, the most prestige and the most political influence. As their names suggest, producers are viewed as the driving force within a financial services company, the people

who generate the revenue and profits. Accordingly, their performance evaluations and salary normally are closely linked to measures of the profits directly traceable to their efforts

Meanwhile, support personnel are viewed as having assisting roles, their utility, in the final analysis, being determined by how well they support and enhance the efforts of producers.

For an employee, in evaluating a potential financial services employer, whatever your specific field of work might be, investigate the acceptance within its corporate culture to career changes across the producer and support, in each direction. Prepare for the possibility that, in the future, your career goals and interests will be different. You might make possibly dramatic shifts in career direction.Moreover, making such a shift normally should be much easier within your current employer, where you have an established track record and hopefully also have cultivated the right internal contacts, than with an entirely new firm.

In some firms outside the financial services industry, producers actually are paid, on average, less than support staff. It thus takes more efforts to analyze and determine if this is indeed the case, based on the company’s financial reports available to the public. If so, one should be especially careful when accepting a producer position at a company with such a reversed set of rewards.

In general in financial industry, it is much easier for a producer to transit into a support role, than for the opposite to occur. This is seen, for example, when a financial advisor gives up his or her client accounts and moves into a managerial or supervisory position. On the other hand, a data programmer would find it particularly hard, or for some cases, impossible to become an investment banker.Investment bankers and securities analysts, typically start out young in the field, fresh from MBA programs or, right out of undergraduate studies.

(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)

78.Within financial industry, what decides a producer’s income?

79. For an employee in financial industry, a potential employer’s ______ should be particularly considered.

80. Employees can judge the position of the producers in a company with the help of ______. 81. According to the passage, what type of job is the Investment banker?

II卷（共47分）

I. Translation（22分）

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1． 吃鱼有利于提高记忆力还能提供能量。（improve）

2． 不管多累，她每天都会抽出一些时间与女儿一起阅读。（no matter）

3． Jack的父母发现了他的音乐天赋后，想尽办法将他送入一所享有盛誉的音乐学院学习。

（after）

4． 一些慈善机构往往将眼光放在如何让受助对象脱贫上，而忽略了受助者的心理需求。

（how）

5． 新郎新娘们很少意识到真正令人难忘的是新人间的浓浓的爱意，而非豪华的婚纱，或是

壮观的结婚典礼。（Rarely）

II Guided Writing（25分）

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions.

你是李华，你所在的学校拟邀请以下三位名人中的一位来校与学生见面并接受采访（一位影视明星，一位宇航员，一位环境学家environmentalist）。给陈校长写信，信中包括： 1.你建议邀请的名人。 2.你邀请该名人的理由。 3. 你想采访该名人的问题。

(文中不得出现考生姓名，学校等任何真实信息)