上海市长宁、嘉定区2017届高三“一模”考试英语试题及答案

上海市嘉定区2016学年度第一学期质量监控试卷

高三英语

(满分140分，考试时间120分钟）2016.12.27

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. Fascinating. B. Useful. C. Difficult. D. Boring.

2. A. In a restaurant. B. In a factory.

C. In a department store.

D. In an office.

3.A. A librarian. B. A psychologist. C. A Publisher. D. A teacher.

4. A. He prefers to join the woman later. B. He intends to eat out tonight.

C. He wants to watch the basketball game.

D. He hates to lose the championship.

5. A. It was quite delightful. B. It was not well organized.

C. Careful preparations had been done.

D. People made a mess on the ground.

6. A. He is quite unhappy with the woman. B. He is eager to know the woman's reply.

C. The woman should make full use of her time.

D. The woman doesn't have to be in a hurry.

7. A. Go on smoking B. Cry out his heart.

C. Talk with the doctor.

D. Carry on with exercise.

8. A. Boss and shop assistant. B. House agent and client,

C. Interviewer and job hunter.

D. Manager and customer.

9. A. She had better stay up late tonight. B. She has to get more sleep at night.

C. She should avoid distractions in class.

D. She must improve her grades gradually.

10. A.The man only filled his tank half full. B. The man can't read the instrument.

C. The car is breaking down on the way

D. The car has run out of gasoline.

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. purchasing less expensive objects available.

B. Buying only essentials and a treat on occasion.

C. Learning to cook for yourself at home.

D. Living on less money than you earn.

12. A. To have a better health B. To keep their promises.

C. To avoid being hurt easily.

D. To gain a desired friendship.

13. A. Life skills needed to be learnt at an early age.

B. Great ways of saving money in the early years.

C. Practical skills to cook nutritious food at home.

D. Methods of gathering wisdom instead of bitterness.

Questions 14 through 17 are based on the following passage.

14. A. To work on the rented land peacefully. B.To get used to the terribly cold weather.

C. To tell his kids stories every night.

D. To break the poverty cycle of his family.

15. A.He worked in the dairy with his mother. B.He learned to mend his own clothes.

C. He had a strong passion for words.

D.He got well educated at school.

16. A. 25. B. 27. C. 28. D. 37.

17. A. He was considerably influenced by his mother.

B. Farm work turned out to be quite easy for him.

C. He had already become famous before his father passed away.

D. people in Scotland regarded him as a successful farmer singer.

Questions 18 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

18. A. Harbin is her favorite city. B. She doesn't like places in the south.

C. Russia is a beautiful country.

D. She can't stand the heat in summer.

19. A. Driving a car by themselves in the local country.

B. Getting a group of ten people traveling together.

C. Flying at the weekend with special fare tickets.

D. Inviting more friends to share the happiness.

20. A. Not knowing any local people. B. Unable to find a fellow traveller.

C. unable to speak Russian.

D. Not having any interpreter ·

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.

Is sport always fun ?

One afternoon in the last week of term, I saw three children form my son’s school in tears being comforted by teachers. That morning, my 11-year -old had stomach pains and (21) ______(throw ) up several times when I noticed his sickness. Talking to other mothers, I heard about other children with stomachache or difficulty sleeping the night before.

What caused so much suffering ? Sports day ---- not sports day at a highly competitive independent school, but at a large village primary. (22) ______ it causes no problem to the children who can fly (23) _____ the wind, for those who are poorly coordinated (动作协调), overweight or just not good at sport, it is terrible. Even for those who enjoy (24) ______(run ) but who fall halfway down the track in front of the entire school and their parents, it can prove a disaster.

As for the reason (25) ______ we put our children through this annual suffering, some May say that competition is character-buliding or it is a tradition of school life; some may assume (26) ______ really

matters is taking part not winning. I just felt pity for those children in tears or in pain.

Team games at the end of the “sport” were fun (27) ______ (watch) because they produced some close races, enormous enthusiasm and lots of shouting. More importantly , (28) ______(hide ) a little form everyone’s gaze, the children who were not so fast or so quick at passing the ball had the excitement of being on the winning side.

I wish that sports day could (29)________(abandon) and replaced with some other summer event. perhaps an afternoon of team games, with a few races for those who want them, would be (30) ________(stressful )for the children and a lot more fun for the spectators.

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

This invention, commonly used in offices and households throughout the world, came about as a result of a series of accidents. In 1968 Spencer Silver, who was working for a company called 3M at the time, was trying to produce super-strong adhesive, a substance making things sticky together, to be used in the building of planes. This, however, wasn’t successful and instead he succeeded in creating an extremely weak adhesive that was 31 to pressure. This new adhesive had two advantages: it could be removed from surfaces quite easily and it could be reused. In spite of these two 32 features, nobody could see any practical use for it. In the end, the invention was 33 .

A few years later, Art Fry, a product development engineer working for 3M, decided to use this adhesive for 34 use. He stuck strips of paper in a book as page marker and a whole new concept was born. However, the idea still wasn’t without35 . The challenge was to make the glue stay on the sticky note itself, rather than peeling off and staying on the surface it was 36 to. Two more 3M employees were brought in and set the task of producing a coating for the adhesive so that it woul dn’t come off and they 37 just that. Unfortunately, 3M bosses still believed that this invention wasn’t going to be 38 successful and people would continue to use crap paper(小纸条) for their notes rather than sticky notes. This is why sticky notes were only tested within the company, where they became extremely popular. It wasn’t until many years later that 3M bosses finally decided to give out a vast amount of free 39 to other companies to see if anyone would be interested in buying them. To their surprise, 90 per cent of the companies approached went on to order more sticky notes. This went beyond anybody’s 40 . Nowadays, sticky notes come in a variety of shapes and colours and are sold in more than 100 countries.

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.

About five years ago, when the first generation of wearable fitness trackers became popular, they were announced as the dawn of a revolution. Health experts and busniesspeople alike said that giving people access to real-time calorie (卡路里)- burning and step-count data would inspire them to lose weight, eat better and -most important- ____41____ more. But even as the U.S. market for ___42____ devices hits $7 billion this year, there’s evidence that their promise isn’t quite paying off.

The U.S. has an exercise problem, with 28% of Americans ages 50 and over considered wholly ___43____. That means 31 million adults move no more than is necessary to perform the most basic functions of daily life. Wearables, experts ___44___, were going to change that.

But limited academic research has been done to figure out whether wearables ____45____ people’s behavior in the long term. The little research that does exist isn’t ____46____. For a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers wanted to see whether activity trackers would help overweight people lose more weight over two years than if they just did a weight-loss intervention(干预) alone. They didn’t. “We found that just giving people a device doesn’t mean it’s going to ____47____ something you think it’s going to lead to,” says John Jak icic, the author of the study, from the University of Pittsburgh. “These activity trackers don’t engage people in strategies that make a ___48___ in terms of long-term change”

Another new study highlighted a different challenge: user ____49___. By the end of a yearlong study of 800 people, just 10% of participants were still wearing the trackers, according to, Eric Finkelstein, a professor at the Duke- NUS Medical School in Singap ore. “We didn’t find that Fitbits really have much of an effect,” he says. This may well be because people expect trackers to do something they’re not designed to do-- ____50____, force them to change their behavior. “There’s ____51____ among people about their function, a measurement tool and an intervention,” Finkelstein says. A scale counts pounds, ____52____, but won’t teach you how to eat less. “When people put these devices on, they might interact with the app(应用程序) for the first few weeks, maybe the first few months, but there comes a point where that starts to fall off,” says Finkelstein.

To be ____53___, some of the costlier add higher-tech wearables have features baked into them that encourage users to move more, says Shelten Y uen, Fitbit’s vice president of research. Among them: shaking sensors, movement reminders and social- media combination, all designed to ____54____ users to make better health choices every day. But more research will be needed to determine whether or not these ____55____ -- or others like them--measurably improve people’s health and fitn ess levels.

41. A. learn B. purchase C. exercise D. perform

42. A. wearable B. electronic C. hi-tech D. built-in

43. A. misunderstood B. inactive C. discourage D. unchangeable

44. A. announced B. determined C. hoped D. noticed

45. A. limit B. understand C. interpret D. change

46. A. encouraging B. interesting C. pioneering D. challenging

47. A. benefit from B. result in C. add to D. look for

48. A. design B. movement C. profit D. difference

49. A. reduction B. participation C. creation D. expectation

50. A. namely B. therefore C. however D. shortly

51. A. argument B. popularity C. confusion D. interaction

52. A. by the way B. in other words C. of course D. for example

53. A. fair B. cute C. accessible D. technical

54. A. persuade B. motivate C. follow D. teach

55. A. concepts B. sensors C. scales D. features

Section B

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.

(A)

In Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse, the horse is not only the principal character,he is the teller of his own story.

Set in England and France 100 years ago War Horse tells the story of Joey, a handsome young horse who strikes up a close relationship with Albert, the teenage son of Joey’s owner.But war breaks out and they are separated and plunged into the horrors of the war in France.Both survive and are finally reunited after a remarkable series of events seen through the eyes of the splendid war horse, Joey.

The following cutting comes from near the beginning of the book after Albert, much to his father’s surprise, has succeeded in training Joey to pull the plough.

56. What amazed Albert’s father was that Joey could_______.