静安区2016学年高三英语一模试卷

静安区2016学年第一学期教学质量检测

高三年级英语试卷

2016. 12

考生注意：

1. 考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。

2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。全卷共12页。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。 3. 答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名。

I. Listening Comprehension Section A

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.

1. A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In a hospital. D. In a laboratory.

2. A. A clerk. B. A banker. C. An operator. D. A salesperson.

3. A. 5:00. B. 5:15. C. 5:30. D. 5:45.

4. A. She lost her way. B. She lost her keys. C. She lost her car. D. She lost her handbag.

5. A. The woman would understand if she did Mary?s job. B. The woman should do the typing for Mary. C. The woman should work as hard as Mary. D. The woman isn?t a skillful typist.

6. A. He gets nervous very easily. B. He hasn?t prepared his speech well. C. He is an awful speaker. D. He is an inexperienced speaker.

7. A. This apple pie tastes very nice. B. His mother likes the apple pie very much. C. The apple pie can?t match his mother?s. D. His mother can?t make apple pies.

8. A. She is not interested in the article.

B. She has given the man much trouble. C. She would like to have a copy of the article. D. She doesn?t want to take the trouble to read the article.

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9. 10.

A. He is not very enthusiastic about his English lessons. B. He has made great progress in his English. C. He is a student of the music department. D. He is not very interested in English songs. A. The man went to a wrong check-in counter. B. The man has just missed the flight. C. The plane will leave at 9:14.

D. The plane?s departure time remains unknown.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the longer conversation. The passagesand the longer conversation 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 basket. B. An egg. C. A cup. D. An oven.

12. A. To let in the sunshine. B. To serve as its door. C. To keep the nest cool. D. For the bird to lay eggs.

13. A. Some are built underground. B. Some use pears as their nests. C. Most are sewed with grasses. D. Most are dried by the sun.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. South Africa. B. Asia. C. Europe. D. South America.

15. A. It?s a trade that is driven by customer appetites. B. The latest trick seems to be promoting business. C. You can hardly resist the temptation when seeing the pictures of food. D. People have no idea in buying things.

16. A. Young people. B. Foreigners. C. Local people. D. Old people.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. It is nice. B. It is safe and reliable.

C. It is totally silent. D. It is noisy.

18. A. They are available on the last Saturday of the month.

B. They could work at night this month.

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C. They have to be paid overtime if working this month. D. They could work at weekends at normal pay. 19. 20.

A. The engineer. C. The repairman.

B. The mechanic. D. The electrician.

A. They charge a fixed fee for this service. B. They provide free maintenance for 24 hours. C. They provide free maintenance for a year. D. They provide automatic maintenanceservice. II. Grammar and vocabulary Section A

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.

iPhone 7 being investigated after surfer claims it set his car on fire

Apple is investigating a report from an Australian man who claimed his iPhone 7 caught fire and destroyed his car, the company said on Friday.

Surfer Mat Jones told Channel 7 News that he (21)________________ ( go ) into water off a New South Wales beach and left his new iPhone 7, bought last week, (22) ________________ ( wrap) in a pair of trousers in his car on the beach.

He said that (23)________________ he returned from the water he saw smoke rising from the car. “As I looked into my car，Icould not see inside the car, likeall the windows were just black.”

A video footage(影像) taken from another phone showed the front seats, dashboardand stick melted and charred, and Jones said that he felt “pretty much like a big heat wave just came out of the car”.

Eventually the surfer was able to remove (24)________________ was left of his clothes. “Ash was just coming from inside the pants. Oncethe pants were unwrapped,the phone was just melting inside.”

Jones said that he had not dropped the phone or physically damaged it, (25)________________ happened to a Sydney man who fell off his bike and suffered burns fromaniPhone. He also said that he had not used (26)________________ non-Apple charging device.

A spokeswoman for Apple said the company was investigatingthe complaint. “We?re in touch with the customer and we?re looking into it,” she said.

Lithium-ion (锂离子) batteries (27)________________ burst into flames because of physical damage or overheating. Apple?s(28) ________________( big )smartphone competitor, Samsung, has begun an international recall of 2.5m Galaxy Note 7 devices after more than 100 devices

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started smoking, sparking or caught fire—in some cases (29)________________ ( cause ) fire damage and injury.

Several other companies, including Hewlett Packard, Tesla and the makers of so-called “hoverboards”, have also experienced problems (30)________________ their lithium-ion batteries, though the vast majority work without problems.

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.encourage B.commonC. uncivilizedD. immigrantsE.illegal In late F.proposed G. panic H.consumptionI.freedomJ.extraordinary K.fine February, a

mainland tourist

caused a disturbance on a Hong Kong subway. The reason?Eating in public. In Hong Kong it is __31__ to eat on the subway, and when the tourist was scolded by a Hong Kong local, the situation escalated (升级) into a verbal slinging match.

In New York City, eating on the subway is also controversial. No law bans the practice, but a Democratic state senator (参议员) introduced one last week. The __32__ law would ban eating on the subway system and __33__ first time violators $250 (1,579 yuan), according tothe New York Times. Proponents of the bill argue that eating on the subway attracts rats. Others say the broader target should be litterbugs, rather than those who carefully sip their coffee and eat their bread on the way to work. They also argue that “street food” is an important part of New York?s culture and history. Banning its __34__in public areas such as the subway would have negative effects.

Street food, and eating in public places is a deep-rootedcultural practice in cities as diverse as New York, Beijing and Paris. But while __35__, it has been traditionally thought of as the behaviorof the lower classes. Eating in public was (and in some places, still is) associated with __36__, poorer people. In the 19th century, eating in public was seen as a threat to morality and public health. Putnam?s (a popular magazine at the time) stated: “Eating in public may cause a certain __37__ of manner and disinterest in little ladies and gentlemen.” It was something people in the Victorian era did not want to __38__. A recent New York Times article drew a link between this moral __39__ about street food and concern over the growing populations of Irish, German, Italian and Jewish __40__ who ran food carts in the 1800s.

Whether you love eating street food, or have to eat your breakfast on the run, it?s best to be considerate when enjoying a bite in public.

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.

The two most common organizational patterns of the family are the nuclear family and the extended family. To a large extent, these patterns __41__ a society?s primary subsistence (存在) strategy.

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