上海市长宁区2014届高三上学期期末教学质量检测（一模）英语试题

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. In a bookstore.

B. In a grocery.





C. In a stationery shop.

D. In a shopping mall.





2.

A. Diner and waitress.

B. Librarian and reader.





C. Ticket seller and customer.

D. Teacher and student.





3.

A. She is not hungry.

B. She wants to dine out.





C. She doesn’t like cooking.

D. She feels awful today.





4.

A. The postcard has been lost.

B. The man will go to the post office.





C. The local post office is closed.

D. The woman is expecting a postcard.





5.

A. To a bank.

B. To Macao.





C. To a travel agency.

D. To a gymnasium.





6.

A. There will be too many people at the party.





B. He feels sorry that the woman is not coming.





C. It makes people happier to have more parties.





D. The woman can bring her brother to the party.





7.

A. The man is extremely fond of traveling.





B. The woman has taken many pictures at the contest.





C. The man admires the woman’s talent in writing.





D. The woman is an experienced photographer.





8.

A. The new dress is for warm weather.

B. The new dress makes her look cool.





C. She doesn’t like cold weather at all.

D. She bought the dress when it was warm.





9.

A. A nice hair-style.

B. An old photo.





C. A wonderful wedding.

D. An unforgettable friend.





10.

A. She could hardly find the truth.

B. She doesn’t agree with the man.





C. She is good at finding a place to stay.

D. She had no travel experience in Russia.





Section B

Directions In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passage. 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. International Nurses’ Day.

B. World No Tobacco Day.





C. International Workers’ Day.

D. National Chocolate Chip Day.





12.

A. May’s brilliant green jewel stands for constant love.





B. Workers started to fight for 8 hours labor back in the 1800s.





C. Chocolate chip cookies are usually made for the people you love.





D. May’s flower, the Lily of the Valley represents happiness and pure love.





13.

A. The Merry Month of May.

B. Month Flower and Jewel of May.





C. Food Celebrations in May.

D. No Cigarettes in May.





Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14.

A. He invented the way of blood transfusion (输血).





B. He solved the problem of dangerous blood transfusion.





C. He found a couple of new blood types of human beings.





D. He discovered the relation between blood types and personalities.





15.

A. Loyal but anxious.

B. Logical but changeable.





C. Creative but selfish.

D. Ambitious but inflexible.





16.

A. Modest.

B. Neutral.

C. Disapproval.

D. Supportive.



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.

Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

Laurence’s Social Arrangement



Original plan

To invite Roger and Millie for a meal this ___17___ night.



Problem

They have to go to Scotland for a wedding ___18___.



Suggestions

To gather the ___19___ weekend.

Roger should give her a ___20___ in a week or so to set the time.





Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

How much is the tuition for each semester?

$___21___.



How does Lisa get the rest of money?

By doing ___22___.



How does Lisa spend the money she earns herself?

Mainly on her ___23___.



What does Lisa think of the clothes in discount stores?

They are ___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)

One day I heard two girls talking about making net friends in a café. One said that she (25) ______ (meet) one of her net friends and the other told her not to because most people found their net friends (26) ______ (disappoint) in real life.

We all know it is quite common now that many teenagers, especially (27) ______ from one-child families, like to make net friends and spend lots of time chatting with them because they need someone to talk with and share their sorrow and happiness. However, is it wise for them to do so?

In my opinion, it is possible for you to find some real good friends with the help of new technology but you (28) ______ ______ take care. When you talk with someone unknown on the Internet, you have no idea at all what kind of person he is and (29) ______ he is telling you the truth. Besides we can’t deny that some bad guys mask themselves very well so that they can get many nice people (30) ______ (trap). So, you’re taking the risk of meeting your net friends (31) ______ you get any idea about him. In a word, you can never be too careful when meeting your net friends.

(B)

Perhaps one aspect of modern life which is most often considered ‘annoying’ is noise. According to some estimates, the amount of urban noise (32) ______ (double) in the past ten years, and with the increase in road and air traffic, noise is likely to increase too.

Noise quite clearly affects the health of modern man. It is a health threat. Loud noise (33) ______ (say) to be a leading cause of deafness among many people over 65. It is also a major (34) ______ (contribute) factor in causing stress, (35) ______ itself causes a variety of illnesses.

Noise is sometimes associated with lack of communication in the modern world. In many busy shops, factories and nightclubs, (36) ______ level and constancy of noise make conversation at a natural level difficult or impossible.

Certain people in society, such as motorcyclists, seem to believe they have a right (37) ______ (make) as much noise as they like without being fined. Do they?

We are so trained to noise in this modern world (38) ______ people growing up with little (39) ______ no experience of genuine peace and quiet have begun to associate silence with boredom. Isn’t it time for us to start teaching young people that silence is golden and that you can do a lot of interesting things (40) ______ the accompaniment of noise?

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. accurate

B. alteration

C. average

D. calculates

E. conceal



F. enormously

G. initial

H. intervals

I. merely

J. multiply



K. prediction













Beyond two or three days, the world’s best weather forecasts are based on guesswork, and beyond six or seven they are worthless.

The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather — and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and snowstorms — any ___41___ fails rapidly. Errors and uncertainties ___42___, gathering upward through a chain of unstable features, from dust devils (尘旋风) and windstorms up to continent-size eddies (旋风) ___43___ satellites can see.

The modern weather models work with a network of points of the order of sixty miles apart, and even so, some ___44___ data has to be guessed, since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot ___45___ all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly ___46___ readings of temperature, pressure, dampness, and any other quantity a meteorologist (气象工作者) would want. Exactly at noon a(n) ___47___ powerful computer takes all the data and ___48___ what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03 …

The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will ___49___ alterations that the computer will not know about, tiny variations from the ___50___. By 12.01, those alterations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.

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.

Ecotourism is a combination of ecology (the study of systems of living things) and tourism. It is ___51___ “responsible travel to natural areas that preserves the environment and improves the welfare of the local people” by the International Ecotourism Society. Actually, ecotourism can mean travel to far-off places of great natural beauty, but not always in a(n) ___52___ way. It’s a big business, and the attraction of money can cause people to think about ___53___ first. While ecotourism offers benefits to people and ecosystems, it leaves ecosystems open to negative effects, too.

Costa Rica, once a Spanish colony, and independent since 1821, has an ecotourism industry worth over one billion dollars yearly, and thousands of jobs have been ___54___. Nearly 21 percent of the land