普陀区2014学年第一学期高三英语质量调研

（考试时间 120分钟 试卷满分 150分）

第I卷（共103分）

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A Short Conversations

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 questionyou have heard.

1. A. Twins. B. Classmates. C. Friends. D. Colleagues.

2. A. At a gas station. B. In a workshop.

C. At an art gallery. D. In a department store.

3. A. She’s written some books about classics.

B. She’s learned a lot from the literature class.

C. She’s met some of the world’s best writers.

D. She’s just returnedfrom a trip round the world.

4. A. Ten years. B. Twenty years.

C. Forty years. D. A hundred years.

5. A. The woman followed the man’s advice.

B. The woman wasgoing to have a haircut.

C. The man didn’t care if the woman had her hair cut.

D. The man didn’t want the woman to have her hair cut.

6. A. She just read only part of the book.

B. She was interested in reading novels.

C. She seldom read books from cover to cover.

D. She wasanxious to know what the book was about.

7. A. Young people lose their jobs easily.

B. Young people are too eager to succeed.

C. Young people seldom stay long on the same job.

D. Young people are too quick in making decisions.

8. A. Worried. B. Relieved. C. Doubtful. D. Thankful.

9. A. Quit delivering flowers. B. Work at a restaurant.

C. Bring her flowers every day. D. Leave his job to work for her.

10. A. Tony could not continue the experiment.

B. Tony finished the experiment last night.

C. Tony thought the experiment was well done.

D. Tony had expected the experiment to be easier.

Section BPassages

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. She missed her grandfather greatly.

B. She seldom talked with her mother.

C. Her mother didn’t love her as much as her grandfather did.

D. Her mother was the subject of talks with her grandfather.

12.A. Co-workers cannot be your close friends.

B. People will be pleased if you call them at 2:00 AM.

C. You can't discuss your problems with a distant family.

D. The one you can call at 2:00 AM is someone close to you in spirit.

13.A. Parents should understand their kids.

B. There are many ways to make friends.

C. The earth is an inhabited garden if you have close friends.

D. There is a difference between a lonely desert and an inhabited garden.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. The prison gates are always open. B. Its prisoners can work outside.

C. The prison has no armed guards. D. The prison is open to the public.

15. A. It has no security measures.

B. It is run on the principle of trusting prisoners.

C. The prisoners are provided with jobs on release.

D. Its prisoners are seldom made to work overtime.

16. A. Doubtful. B. Positive. C. Critical. D.Neutral.

Section CLonger Conversations

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 WORDfor each answer.

East Asia Car Rental Centre



Recommended vehicle

IVECO



Pick-up Time after

at 4:30 on __17__



Return by

___18___on Monday



Cost

RMB 300 for the first 200km, __19__yuan per kilometer after that





VAT(value added tax) __20__%of the price



Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

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

Who does the woman have some trouble with?

Her __21__.



What did she do until 2 o’clock a few days ago?

She went out to __22__.



How does she get on with her father?

The daughter is ___23___with her father.



What kind of person is her father?

The father is always calm and __24__ with his daughter.





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)

Left Handedness

What do Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein have in common? They were all left-handed, along with other famous people including Barack Obama. In fact, an estimated 13 percent of the world’s population (25)______ be left-handed.

Most people are right-handed. This fact also seems to have held true (26)______ history. In 1977, scientists studied works of art made at various times starting with cave drawings from 15,000 B.C. and ending with paintings from the 1950s. Most of the people (27)______ (show) in these works of art are right-handed.

Many researchers claim (28)______ (find)relationships between left-handedness and various physical and mental characteristics. However, (29)______ of these connections are very weak, and others have not been proven.What makes a person become right-handed rather than left-handed? As yet, no one really knows for sure. (30)______ ______ ______ reasons may be behind it, people’s attitudes toward left-handedness have changed a lot over the years. There are even a number of shops (31)______ (specialize) in selling products for left-handed people, such as left-handed scissors, can openers, guitars, and even a left-handed camera.In 1976, Left-Handers International, a group of left-handed people in Topeka, Kansas, in the United States, decided to start (32)______ annual event in order to clear up misunderstandings about left-handedness.

(B)

Motivating Students

(33)______ ______ a young child might be nervous about starting school, he or she is often excited on the first day of school. Perhaps that excitement lasts through the first few years of school. But over time, many children are much (34) ______ (excited) about going to school because school becomes a place of “all work and no play.” As the years go by, students

(35)______(pressure) to do more work and to do it better, make better test scores, and have a higher class rank. It is therefore not surprising that by middle school many students lose interest in school and learning.

Teachers face a big challenge in such a situation. When they enter a classroom

(36)______ ______ most of the students do not want to be there and do not want to study, how can they teach? Some teachers may be tempted to focus their energy on the handful of students in the classroom who show an interest in (37)______(learn). Other teachers have to reward “good” students and punishing “bad” students in the hope (38)______ this may somehow motivate all students to try harder.

Through his own teaching experience, Dr. Richard Lavoie became interested in the problem of motivating students. He (39)______(wonder) what motivates some students to want to learn. In studying this question, Dr. Lavoie discovered that other people have done a lot of research into this question already. However, those people do not work in schools. The people who seemed to know the most about (40)______ motivates kids were researchers who work for companies that were advertising products such as toys and music for children.

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. adequately B. advances C. neighbour D. colonize E. concerns

F. create G. intensively H. settlers I. smart J. journey

K. survive

“Once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe,”Stephen Hawking says.Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most important scientists, believes that to __41__, humans must move into space.

Today, the United States, India, China, and Japan are all planning to send astronauts back to Earth’s closest __42__: the moon. Each country wants to create space stations there between 2020 and 2030. These stations will __43__prepare humans to visit and later live on Mars or other Earth-like planets.

Robert Zubrin, a rocket scientist, thinks humans should __44__ space. He wants to start with Mars. Why? There are several advantages: for one, sending people to the moon and Mars will allow us to learn a lot—for example, whether living on other planets is possible. Then, we can eventually__45__ new human societies on other planets. In addition, the __46__ we make for space travel in the fields of science, technology, medicine, and health can also benefit us here on Earth.

But not everyone thinks sending humans into space is a(n)__47__ idea. Many say it’s too expensive to send people, even on a short __48__. And most space trips are not short. A one-way trip to Mars, for example, would take about six months. People travelling this kind of distance face a number of health problems. Also, for many early space __49__, life would be extremely difficult. On the moon’s surface, for example, the air and the sun’s rays are very dangerous. People would have to stay indoors most of the time.

Despite these __50__, sending people into space seems certain. In the future, we might see lunar(月球上的) cities and maybe even new human cultures on other planets.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are