金山区2016学年第一学期期末质量调研
高三英语试卷
（满分：140分 考试时间：120分钟）
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. At the airport. B. At the hotel.
C. At the restaurant. D. At the railway station.
2. A. On TV. B. On the Internet.
C. From the newspaper. D. From a friend.
3. A. Husband and wife. B. Policeman and driver.
C. Passenger and bus conductor. D. Boss and secretary.
4. A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 1:30 pm. C. At 2:00 pm. D. At 2:30 pm.
5. A. She found it very interesting. B. She found it very boring.
C. She found it enjoyable during the first 30 minutes. D. She found it enjoyable after the first 30 minutes.
6. A. Make a recovery plan. B. Find a full-time job. C. Drop out of school. D. Resign from her present job.
7. A. Shopping with his son. B. Promoting a new product. C. Buying a gift for a kid. D. Bargaining with a salesgirl.
8. A. He is always late for work.
B. He is having some financial problems.
C. He is not careful enough with his work. D. He loses his temper easily. 9. A. It is too hot in the room. B. She wants to avoid meeting people. C. She wants to smoke a cigarette outside. D. She doesn’t like the smell of smoke inside.
10. A. Everyone in the company likes Mr. Dale. B. Mr. Dale has become director of the department. C. Mr. Dale gets on very well with his colleague. D. Mr. Dale is the focus of people’s attention.
Section B
Directions: In section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation 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 ever heard.
Questions 11 through13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Art history class is taught in the lecture hall. B. Mentally disabled children are taught outside the classroom. C. Professors teach through real world experiences. D. Students appreciate classroom learning.
12. A. To praise the professor. B. To support his point of view. C. To praise his friend. D. To advise us to study psychology.
13. A. Learning through firsthand experience is important.
B. Students learn a lot from textbooks.
C. Students develop their creativity through textbooks.
D. Students get firsthand information from textbooks.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Consumers find TV advertisements too dull.
B. Consumers travel more now than ever before. C. Out-of-home ads are more beautifully made. D. Out-of-home ads are easier to understand.
15. A. Quick to update. B. Pleasant to look at.
C. Easy to remember. D. Convenient to obtain.
16. A. Comparison of different kinds of advertising.
B. New forms of effective advertising.
C. The disadvantages of traditional advertising.
D. Effective ways to do effective advertisements.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Her story of completing a task. B. Her experience of being lost. C. Her trip abroad. D. Her success in career.
18. A. Met his friends. B. Attended a lecture.
C. Gave a performance. D. Had a trip.
19. A. By following a man. B. By looking at a map. C. By asking an old woman. D. By asking the policeman for help.
20. A. He cannot stand the noise in the bar. B. He has a poor memory.
C. He doesn’t speak German. D. He doesn’t like to wear T-shirts.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
Rail-life adventures of two generations
When I was 17, I decided to go InterRailing with my friend Bella for a week in summer. Both of us had chosen to study German at university and we decided that train travel in Germany would be the ideal way (21) ______ (practice) the language.
(22) ______ ______ ______ I told my mum, she began to give me tips (23) ______ (base) on her own InterRail experience in the 1970s.
I would, she insisted, need (24) ______ extra-thick sleeping bag “for when you sleep outside”.
I would need to pack oatmeal, raisins and nuts and dried soup. She even suggested a camping stove.
As she told tales of sleeping on train floors, on platforms, and even once in a barn, I began to get a little worried. (25) _______ had I let myself in for?
In fact, my InterRail experience was quite different. Bella and I googled youth hostels. They were pretty basic—six people to a room, stale cereal for breakfast, no curtains—but fine. We never slept on a train once.
My InterRail trip was certainly not as economical as my mother’s. My ticket (26) ______ (cost) ￡187(1,954 yuan), and I spent ￡30 a day on cheap food and extra ticket supplements.
But I met some (27) ______ (amaze) people on the trains, and practiced my German with everyone (28) ______ businessmen to artists.
In my mother’s eyes I (29) ______ not have had a “real” InterRail experience—but I still had an adventure. I learned about other countries, other people and about myself.
Bella and I argued over lost luggage, complained about each other --- and ended up even (30) ______ (good) friends than we had before.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. brake G. multiple B. victims C. issued D. confirmed E. pace F. typically H. critically I. slippery J. canceled K. visibility NINE people died and 43 were injured in two rear-end crashes on Shanghai’s S32 Expressway that occurred during heavy fog yesterday morning.
Two were 31 dead at the scene in one of the accidents, and five were found dead in the other. Two more people died in hospital, police said.
Police first received a report at 5:54 am that 32 vehicles had crashed on the S32, near a ramp of S2. The S32 links Shanghai with Zhejinag Province’s Jiaxing and Huzhou.
Two people were killed after getting out of their vehicle to see what was causing congestion ahead. They were hit by an out of control tanker, police said.
When police arrived at that scene, they found a further five people had been killed when a construction vehicle was crushed by two large vehicles from both front and back. The crash was about three kilometers away from the accident that killed the two people on the expressway. The injured were sent to local hospitals.
Some drivers reported that the road was very 33 and braking had led to vehicles losing control.
“The fog was very heavy,” an unidentified driver told Shanghai Television Station. “When I saw the accident ahead, I wanted to slow down and 34 . But once I hit the brake, the vehicle went out of control.”
Zhoupu Hospital treated 12 people. “One of the 35 died on the road to the hospital,” Ding Fuhao, a doctor with the hospital, told the television station. “Three were 36 injured.”
The city’s meteorological authority 37 an orange alert on heavy fog at 6:06 am, meaning 38 would be lower than 200 meters in some areas.
The dense fog hit coastal areas in particular, including Chongming Island, Pudong New Area, Baoshan and Fengxian districts. The alert was 39 at 9:44am. This was Shanghai’s first orange alert of heavy fog since the arrival of autumn.
Several expressways in the city were closed or subject to speed limits yesterday morning. Pudong International Airport was also affected by the bad weather. The airport’s traffic was about 60 percent less than normal in the morning but picked up the 40 after the orange alert was canceled, the city’s television station said.
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.
A new idea called ‘business at the speed of thought’ is quite popular in business world. It makes quick marketing progress, but it also presents a 41 way to run a company. Here’re the main 42 : The businesses today that will succeed are those able to jump around in high spirits. Chances must be seized immediately and decisions made quickly. Everyone needs more immediate answers, and the window of expected 43 to any questions has dropped from weeks to days even to hours.
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