静安区2013学年第一学期高三年级模拟检测

英语试卷 2014. 1.

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 conversation 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 sports center. B. At a birthday party.

C. At a gift shop. D. In a department store.

2. A. Turn the alarm off. B. Live near his work place.

C. Go to bed earlier. D. Move his alarm clock far away.

3. A. The man could watch the ballet with her.

B. She happened to have bought two tickets.

C. She can get a ticket for the man.

D. Her sister can go to watch the ballet herself.

4. A. She doesn’t know anything about it.

B. A good name hasn’t been found for it.

C. They decided to postpone building it.

D. It hasn’t been designed yet.

5. A. At 5:35. B. At 5:25. C. At 4:40. D. At 5:50.

6. A. Chicken is tasty. B. Roast beef is tasty.

C. Not very satisfactory. D. Very satisfactory.

7. A. He will continue his work on vacation.

B. Papers piled while he was on vacation.

C. He has too much work to do.

D. He has made his vacation plans.

8. A. Dr Smith usually sees patients at once.

B. Dr Smith is very busy on Mondays.

C. Dr Smith didn’t put the man on his schedule.

D. Dr Smith is hard to see.

9. A. Colleagues. B. Husband and wife.

C. Employer and employee. D. Mother and son.

10. A. The man should change his plan.

B. The man can go camping tomorrow.

C. Weather forecasts are not available.

D. The man won’t have to go camping.

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 poor places are getting richer. B. The rich places are getting richer.

C. The poor places are getting poorer. D. Both B and C.

12. A. The poor are unemployed. B. All the poor have no land.

C. The poor have no houses in big cities. D. There is no hope for the poor in the village.

13. A. Rural unemployment. B. Urban unemployment.

C. No housing in the villages. D. No foreign aid in the villages.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14.A. She could never overcome difficulties.

B. She had problems with other children.

C. She had trouble communicating with others.

D. She suffered from severe learning disability.

A. A person whose experience can inspire others,

B. A person with a remarkable memory,

C. A person who has a better understanding,

D. A person with special education,

A. Always listen to doctor’s advice. B. Never give up in face of difficulties.

C. Always get encouragement from others. D. Never compare yourself with others.

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 information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the message. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

The man’s problem

 Doesn’t know how to__17__ the numbers on.



The woman’s suggestion

 First, press Shift F- __18__.

Second, press __19__.

Thirdly, print.



Explanation

 Numbers don’t show up on the screen but they will be on the printed __20__.





Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

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

What does the man complain about?

The quality of ____21____.



What is the problem?

The screen always ___22___.



Where is the repair center?

On the 7th Floor, ____23____.



What will the company do if there is any

problem concerning the quality?

To let the customer ____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 )

Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often (25)_______(write) to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.

When she left school, she first went to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began(26)_______(train)to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta, (27)_______she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress.

However, (28)_______she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she was trained to become a nurse in Patna, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, (29)_______ came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India.

Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos (30)______ _ (take) of her, (31)_______ she travels around the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.

( B )

On any collecting trip, obtaining the animals is, as a rule, the simplest part of the job. As soon as the local people discover that you are willing to buy live wild creatures, the stuff comes (32)_______ (pour) in; ninety percent is, of course, the more common types, but they do bring (33)_______occasional rarity. If you want the really rare stuff, you generally have to go out and find it yourself.

The chief difficulty you have when you have got a newly (34)______ (catch) animal is not so much the shock it might be suffering, but the fact (35)_______being caught forces it to exist close to a creature it regards as an enemy of the (36)_______ (bad) possible sort: yourself. On many occasions an animal may take beautifully to being in a cage but (37)_______ (get) used to the idea of living with people is another matter. This is the difficulty you (38)_______only deal with by patience and kindness. For month after month an animal may try to bite you every time you approach its cage, (39)_______you despair of ever making a favorable impression on it. Then, one day, sometimes without any preliminary warning, it will trot forward and take food from your hand, or allow you to tickle it behind the ears. (40)_______ such moments you feel that all the waiting in the world was worthwhile.

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. change B. repeatedly C. dependent D. limited E. flexible F. proper

G. respect H. concepts I. explained J. freely K. figure



In giving advice, you must learn to understand the person’s level of judgment. There will be some people who come to you with unconnected knowledge, talking about, say, Vitamin B12 and other modern__41__. When they ask advice, begin at that level. Unless you start at their own level, they will not be able to understand. You must explain to them in scientific terms the effects of the food they eat, and how they need to __42__it.

You have to train yourself to be very__43__. Staying at one level is not being a free man. If we stay at a very high level all the time, that is not practical. A limitless person goes __44__from one level of thinking to another, according to his circumstances. To do this we must get rid of our unwillingness to change our way of thinking or behavior, become friends with everyone, and have the same loving feelings for everyone. Then we can give advice to all kinds of people. If there is someone or something you dislike, you are still__45__, and your ability to give advice is reduced. For anyone, the same. A free person acts like that.

You cannot stay with a sick person all the time. You must __46__ a person’s freedom as much as you can. If people really want to die, let them—it is their freedom. The point is never to become an authority__47__; remain a friend or advisor. People should not come back __48__for consultation; if they do, your advice has been incomplete—you did not know how to give the __49__advice about freedom. If they do not understand that, sick people become slaves; they are still afraid inside, and are__50__. That is no way to build a healthy world and help people become happy and free.

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.

You’ve now heard it so many time, you can probably repeat it in your sleep. President Obama will no doubt __51__the point publicly when he gets to Beijing: the Chinese need to __52__more; they need—believe it or not—to become more like Americans, for the sake of the global economy.

And it’s all true. __53__the other side of that equation is that the U.S. needs to save more. For the moment, American households actually are doing so. After the personal-savings rate __54__to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic __55__last year prompted people to snap __56__their wallets. In China, the household-savings rate exceeds 20%. It is partly for policy__57__. As we’ve seen, wage earners are expected to