上海市闵行区2014届高三第一学期期末质量调研考试

英语试题

考生注意：

1. 答卷前，考生务必在答题纸上将学校、姓名及准考证号填写清楚。答题时客观题用2B铅笔按要求填涂，主观题用黑色水笔书写。

2. 本试卷分为第I卷和第II卷，共12页。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第I卷 (共103分)

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. He’s a mechanic. B. He’s a taxi driver.

C. He’s a salesman. D. He’s an engineer.

2. A. Her son’s health. B. Her son’s studies.

C. Her son’s poor grades. D. Her son’s ability for the job.

3. A. The man also needs new tennis shoes.

B. The man is out of shape.

C. The man doesn’t need some new balls.

D. The man spent too much on his tennis shoes.

4. A. He is learning about advertising. B. He is the new advertising manager.

C. He is interviewing the woman. D. He is waiting for an interview.

5. A. The man is late for the trip because he is busy.

B. The woman is glad to meet Mr. Brown in person.

C. The man is meeting the woman in stead of Mr. Brown.

D. The woman feels sorry that Mr. Brown is unable to come.

6. A. Alice didn’t seem to be nervous during her speech.

B. Alice needs more training in making public speeches.

C. The man can hardly understand Alice’s presentation.

D. The man didn’t think highly of Alice’s presentation.

7. A. It is typical December weather for this region.

B. It won’t snow until December.

C. There has never been much snow down South.

D. Such a large amount of snow is unusual for this month.

8. A. He has too many dreams. B. He likes to sleep.

C. He doesn’t have many ideas. D. He doesn’t put his idea into practice.

9. A. She prefers chemistry. B. She hasn’t got a partner yet.

C. She is too tired of chemistry. D. She is too busy to work on her chemistry.

10. A. If the game is held there the team will lose.

B. If the game is held there the team will win.

C. It makes no difference since the team will lose.

D. It makes no difference since the team will win.

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. The common characteristic of Hollywood films.

B. The main character in action films.

C. The conflict between two men in the film.

D. The most interesting story of Hollywood films.

12. A. The main character is worth believing.

B. The main character is interested in fight.

C. The main character used to be humble.

D. The main character undergoes a change.

13. A. We can learn how bad persons can improve themselves.

B. We can learn how to deal with people.

C. We can understand life a little better.

D. We can find better ways to cope with conflicts.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. The increasing cost of living. B. A shortage of certain goods.

C. A not-large-enough income. D. Nothing is left over to put away.

15. A. The workers are getting lower and lower wages.

B. The government makes no effort.

C. People demand more and better goods.

D. There are always shortages of goods.

16. A. It helps merchants to produce more goods.

B. It helps the workers to earn more money.

C. It helps people to make his income meet the cost of living.

D. It helps the government to battle the increasing cost of living.

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.

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

STOLEN PROPERTY RECORD FORM



Name:

Janet Wilson



Address:

(17) Greenlake Road, Florence, Italy



Stolen Property:

A (18) card



Details of the Stolen Property:

Place: on the (19) in the shopping mall

Card number: not (20)



Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

What must people do to live in a university house for the next year?

They must make (21)________ before May 1st.



Where does the woman plan to live next year?

She has been thinking of living (22)_________.



What’s the woman’s ideal living condition?

A (23)_________ place of her own.



What does the man seem to be more concerned about?

He seems to be concerned about (24)________.



Complete the form. Write no more than THREE WORDS for each answer.

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)

Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all begin to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero?

(25)______ immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people.

A hero does something worth (26) ______ (talk) about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and a community who will listen. But a hero goes beyond mere fame.

Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage (高电压) transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down (27) ______ ______ it can be used by ordinary people.

The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who imitate a genuine hero (28) ______ (experience) life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they willing to live and die for? (29) ______ the answer or evidence suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes.

Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, (30) ______ who would claim that their fans find life more abundant?

Heroes are catalysts (催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charm to move the masses. They create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India (31) ______ still be part of the British Empire. (32) ______ may be possible for large-scale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow, the vision uncertain, and the committee meetings endless.

(B)

When young people get their real jobs, they may face a lot of new, confusing situation. They may find that everything is different from the way things (33) ______ (be) at school. It is also possible that they will feel uncomfortable in both professional and social situations. Eventually, they realize that university classes can’t be the only preparation for all of the different situations (34) ______ appear in the working world.

Perhaps the best way (35) ______ (learn) how to behave in the working world is to identify a worker you admire and observe his behavior. In doing so, you’ll be able to see what it is (36) ______ you admire in this person. For example, you will observe how he acts when he is in trouble. Perhaps even (37) ______ (important), you will be able to see what his approach to everyday situations (38) ______ (be). While you are observing your colleague, you should be asking yourself whether his behavior is like (39) ______ and how you can learn from his response to different situations. By (40) ______ (learn) from a model, you will probably begin to identify and learn good working habits.

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. revealed

B. counts

C. responsible

D. release



E. virtually

F. extent

G. annually

H. extinct



I. extends

J. monitor

K. realized





In the time that records have been kept of bird populations, 20 percent of all species have gone 41 . More are likely to follow. In March the 42 of a large-scale, 24-year survey gave one of the clearest pictures yet of the decline of Australian and Asian shorebirds, including the long-distance migrants (候鸟) that are most difficult to 43 . The results of the survey are awful.

Every October for more than two decades, teams from the University of New South Wales in Australia counted birds from an airplane flown low over 130,000 square miles of wetlands in the eastern third of the continent. Their 44 showed a steady decline, beginning in the mid-1980s. By 2006 the number of migratory shorebirds had dropped by 73 percent and the number of Australia’s resident of shorebirds had fallen by 81 percent. “The 45 of the decline took us by surprise,” says evolutionary ecologist Silke Nebel of the University of Western Ontario in London, the lead author of the report.

The survey 46 that inland wetlands were more important to both resident and migratory birds than had been 47 , and that wetland loss from damming (筑坝) and the diversion (分散) of river water for irrigation was at least in part 48 for the shorebird decline in Australia. But wetlands are becoming smaller in countries all along the major flyway that 49 from eastern Siberia to New Zealand, the study’s authors note, so protecting the 8 million birds that use the corridor 50 will require an international solution.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four