闵行区2013学年第一学期高一年级质量调研考试

英 语 试 卷

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，并在规定的区域 内填涂。

2. 答题时客观题用2B铅笔按要求填涂，主观题用黑色钢笔或水笔填写。

3. 本试卷满分 120分，考试时间110分钟。

第I卷

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A Short Conversations

Directions: In Section A, you will hear eight 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 store. B. In a restaurant. C. In a theatre. D. In a bank.

2. A. Adding sugar. B. Mixing the egg with water.

C. Adding an egg. D. Mixing the flour with water.

3. A. A magazine. B. An article. C. Fast food. D. Eating habit.

4. A. He took the English test. B. He prepared for the English test.

C. He went to the concert. D. He made a plan for a concert.

5. A. Tense. B. Excited. C. Confident. D. Relaxed.

6. A. He overslept. B. He took a wrong bus.

C. He missed the bus. D. He stayed up late last night.

7. A. She is on diet. B. She doesn’t like the food.

C. She is unsatisfied with the menu. D. She doesn’t want salad with her lunch.

8. A. Wait until later to decide. B. Take summer classes.

C. Finish her study first. D. Find a summer job.

Section B Passage

Directions: In Section B, you will hear one short passage, and you will be asked three questions on the passage. The passage 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 9 through 11 are based on the following passage.

9. A. At 8 a.m. B. At 8:40 a.m. C. At 9:00 a.m. D. At 9:40 a.m.

10. A. He missed his flight. B. He lost his luggage.

C. He was hungry on the train. D. He had to wait at Preston for 30 minutes.

11. A. To ask the company to give him the reason for the delay.

B. To ask the company to change the food on the train.

C. To ask the company to make up for his loss.

D. To ask the company to improve the air conditioning.

Section C Longer Conversation

Directions: In Section C, you will hear one longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Blanks 12 through 15 are based on the following conversation.

Dialogue information



How will the man go to the interview place?

In the woman’s (12) ____________.



What kind of person does the company need?

An (13) ____________.



What is the man worried about?

Not good at giving (14) ____________ .



What did the woman think of the man’s communicating skills?

They left her a great (15) ____________.



Complete the form. Write NO MOEN THAN TWO 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)

Tom was tired of living in his old house in the country and wanted to sell it and buy a (16) ______ (good) one. He attempted to sell it for a long time, (17) ______ it was not successful. So he decided to solve the problem by using a real estate agent (房产代理). The agent soon (18) ______ (advertise) his house, and a few days later, Tom saw a very attractive photograph of it, with a wonderful description of its gardens, in (19) ______ expensive magazine. After Tom had read the advertisement through, he immediately telephoned the real estate agent and said to him, “I’m sorry, Mr. Jones, but I’ve decided not to sell my house after all. After reading your advertisement in that magazine, I (20) ______ see that it’s just the kind of house I’ve wanted to live in all my life.”

(B)

Lately my wife and I have exchanged roles for a week. I stayed at home with my daughter over the school holiday and dealt with the housework, while she went out each day to complete her postgraduate (研究生) study. Unlike most men, I’d been looking forward to (21) ______ (get) a chance to be a house-husband. The first few days were great. I did lots of cleaning, washing and cooking, much more than my wife had expected. (22) ______ Thursday morning, I went to the supermarket, where I had to do the necessary shopping. However, when I arrived, I felt disappointed. First, (23) ______ my shopping list had been put in order perfectly by my wife, I didn’t know the locations of most of the things I was looking for. It had been a long time (24) ________ I’d last been there, so it became new to me. Second, the place was crowded with shoppers, and all of them seemed (25) ______ (pick) out what they wanted to buy slowly. It was a test in patience. I was not sure if anyone else noticed it, but I nearly lost my patience. Maybe I was really not suitable for the job, and this part of my new role was not my favorite.

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. warn

B. harmful

C. trend

D. profitable

E. lack



F. experiences

G. doubt

H. authoritative

I. confusion

J. avoid



K. hesitate











The Internet has been found a new usage. Increasingly, more and more Americans are having a(n) 26 to become their own doctors by going online to order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies (药店). Some people 27 doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they 28 health insurance (保险). Or they may 29 to see a doctor because they find it embarrassing (令人发窘的) to discuss their weight, their assumption of alcohol (酗酒) or couch potato habits and so on. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust doctors because of terrible 30 in the past. But to become their own doctors can be 31 .

Every day, more than six million Americans search the Internet for medical answers. Most of them almost have no 32 about what they find. In 2002, a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. Actually, most of such web sites are only interested in doing 33 business. Of the l69 websites the researchers studied, only l6 are regarded as “high quality”. Recent studies found untrue facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to 34 that a large amount of inaccurate and even dangerous information is found to happen on the Internet.

The problem is that most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get l8 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks 35 , so it’s hard to know whether what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

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.

There is a common belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. But this is not quite true. 36 , all the schools which I have taught in, spelling have been considered as a basic skill. There are, however, quite different ideas about how to teach it, or how to 37 students’ general language development and their writing ability. The problem is how to encourage a child to express himself 38 in writing without holding him back with spelling.

If spelling becomes the only point of his teacher’s 39 , clearly a bright child will be likely to “play safe”. That is to say, he will write only words which he can 40 correctly. That’s why teachers often encourage the early use of dictionaries and pay attention to the content (内容) rather than technical abilities.

I was once shocked to read a sensitive piece of 41 about a personal experience. “This composition is terrible! There are far too many spelling mistakes.” A teacher who said this might be 42 the pupil’s technical abilities in writing, but it was also a sad thing for the teacher who had not noticed the content of the composition, which 43 some beautiful expressions of the child’s deep feelings. The teacher was not wrong to pay attention to the 44 , but if the teacher mainly focuses on the child’s ideas, an expression of the above 45 with the composition will give the pupil more hope to make improvement.

36. A. Unfortunately B. Strangely C. Actually D. Surprisingly

37. A. balance B. discover C. know D. use

38. A. correctly B. carefully C. slowly D. freely

39. A. skill B. interest C. knowledge D. ability

40. A. spell B. recognize C. read D. say

41. A. sentence B. news C. composition D. language

42. A. amused at B. familiar to C. happy with D. unsatisfied with

43. A. developed B. contained C. overused D. copied

44. A. mistakes B. experience C. improvement D. expressions

45. A. encouragement B. belief C. comparison D. disappointment

Section B

Directions: Read the following 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 just read

.(A)

Dear Parents,

As we start the second half of the spring term, I thought it important to update you on some key developments.

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