上海市普陀区2014届高三英语一模试卷（含答案及听力文字）

2013学年第一学期普陀区高三英语质量调研试卷

（考试时间 120分钟 满分 150分）

第I卷 （共103分）

I. Listening Comprehension

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 questions you have heard.

1. A. 2:02. B. 2:20. C. 2:50. D. 2:32. 2. A. The woman. B. The man. C. The woman’s mother. D. The baker. 3. A. He gets nervous very easily. B. He is an inexperienced speaker. C. He is an awful speaker. D. He hasn’t prepared his speech well. 4. A. She didn’t like the books the man bought.

B. There wasn’t 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 isn’t a skillful typist.

B. The woman should work as hard as Mary. C. The woman should do the typing for Mary.

D. The woman would 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 hasn't appeared yet. D. Judy doesn't 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 doesn't have enough money to buy insurance. D. The cost of insurance is becoming more reasonable. 10. A. He is shameless.

B. He is dead.

D. He has no sense of time.

C. He is sensitive to the shame.

Section B

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 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. C. A tourist guide.

B. A hotel manager. 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.

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 traveling. 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.

B. Hiking.

C. Swimming.

D. Sunbathing.

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 Desk Location of the hotel: Things in the luggage: Duration of stay: Purpose of her visit: 17. ________. 18. Just ________belongings. 19. For an ________week. 20. To attend a teaching ________.

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. How long did the principal talk? Who leads to the Students’ Union? Was Jack interested in classroom learning? What’s the relationship between the two speakers? 21. For ____________. 22. ____________. 23. ____________. 24. ____________.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary 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.

(A)

Last 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)_____ cleaned up the river as part of a weeklong environmental camp. Like one in three American rivers, this river is so polluted that it’s 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.

(B)

Dave 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 homes in 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 weren’t 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 than $ 3million—they 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 the 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 F. lightning

Modern inventions have speeded up people’s 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

K. consequence B. farmed G. envy C. constant H. precious D. machinery I. uncomfortable E. plunged J. aircrafts