崇明县2015年第二次高考模拟考试试卷

高 三 英 语

（考试时间120分钟，满分150分。请将答案填写在答题纸上）

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. Doctor and patient. B. Bank clerk and customer.

C. Waiter and customer. D. Shop assistant and customer.

2. A. In a café. B. In a stationary shop. C. In a kitchen. D. In a food market.

3. A. The weather won’t be fine. B. The man has called to cancel their plan.

C. They have got no permission. D. The woman has to look after her nephew.

4. A. She wanted to see what the man bought. B. The man bought a lot of books.

C. She didn’t like the books the man bought. D. The man shouldn’t have bought books.

5. A. At 2:50. B. At 3:25. C. At 3:50. D. At 4:50.

6. A. Bob’s mouth is getting bad. B. Bob spoke ill of the man.

C. Bob doesn’t like the woman. D. Bob’s proud of the man’s success.

7. A. The wool sweaters. B. The cool weather. C. Their plan in August. D. The summer vacation.

8. A. His annual checkup should be at 4:15 today.

B. He has no time to take the annual checkup tomorrow.

C. He made a mistake about the date of his annual checkup.

D. His annual checkup needs to be postponed until tomorrow.

9. A. We should care more about the danger of drunk driving.

B. People killed in traffic accidents are mostly drunk drivers.

C. Drunk drivers shouldn’t be responsible for traffic accidents.

D. We have paid enough attention to the danger of drunk driving.

10. A.?Buy?a?new?car.?　 B.?Look?for?a?less?expensive?car.

　 C.?Buy?a?car?from?the?woman.?　 D.?Help?the?woman?paint?her?car.?

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 news.

11. A. 74 centimeters. B. 110 centimeters. C. 220 centimeters. D. 276 centimeters.

12. A. It has legs. B. It flies at night. C. It is solar-powered. D. It is the longest.

13. A. Michelle Obama’s helping educate girls in Japan.

B. Japan’s feedback on the White House’s initiative.

C. The reason for proposing Let Girls Learn initiative.

D. Michelle Obama’s promoting an initiative in Japan.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Voice our opinion where we have experience.

B. Be brave enough to ask questions in LinkedIn.

C. Give our sincere suggestions to the employers.

D. Invite experts to write recommendations for us.

15. A. To share interesting articles. B. To better sell ourselves.

C. To learn about new job openings. D. To chat with people in our field.

16. A. In the digital age, finding a job is only a piece of cake.

B. Social media plays an important role in the job search.

C. Digital equipment is becoming more and more popular.

D. Online conversations can improve a job hunter’s abilities.

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.

PLAZA HOTEL



Single room:

Double room:

18 bed:

weekdays: $188

weekends: $208

weekdays: $268

weekends: $ 17

$45



*Including 19 ; excluding 20 and service charge.



Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

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

What are the two speakers going to do tonight?

They are going to 21 of the?exhibit?of the reprints by Julia Cameron.



Why didn’t Jane invite Steve earlier?

Because she was 22 the tickets and wasn’t sure of getting them.



What was special about Julia Cameron?

She invented a lot of photographic techniques and was good at capturing 23 .



Who did Julia Cameron photograph?

 24 of her day.



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)

After 30 years (25)_____ a pilot, Captain Peter Elliott got to fly holiday-makers on a Thomas Cook flight from Birmingham, UK, to Tenerife, Spain with his daughter.

Senior First Officer Laura Elliott (26)_____(fly) for six years but has never before got to work with her father.??“It’s my dream to be able to fly with my Dad,” she said.

It had seemed unlikely that the pair would ever co-pilot (27)_____ same aircraft because Miss Elliott learned to fly on Airbus planes when she joined the company in 2009, and her father flew Boeings.?However, after Peter Elliott, 59, retrained to fly Airbuses, their dream of flying together came true.

Miss Elliott, 30, became interested in flying when (28)_____(inspire) by her father with a trial flight as her birthday present. Miss Elliott said: “Becoming a pilot was never something I had considered. It was only when my Dad bought me a trial flight for my 18th birthday (29)_____ I considered following in my Dad’s footsteps.”

The pair finally sat in the cockpit (驾驶员座舱) together and Mr Elliott made an announcement to passengers (30)_____ the flight made it a special day for him as he was flying with his daughter.

Miss Elliott recalled the flight, (31)_____(say), “I was initially nervous and he kept asking (32)_____ I was nervous or not. It was like going for a driving lesson with him. Thankfully, everything went smoothly and the passengers loved it. If it ever happens again, I will definitely be a lot (33)_____(relaxed).”

(B)

Has the world just witnessed its first ever robot suicide? Boring housework was seemingly too much for one cleaning robot to take, when it apparently rebelled and decided to end it all.

The robot was given the tiresome task of cleaning up some spilt grain before it climbed on to a kitchen hotplate (34)_____ it destroyed itself, according to reports in Austria. It had reportedly grown tired of (35)_____(force) to clean the house every day and decided to become a martyr(殉道者) to the robot cause.

“Somehow it seems (36)_____(restart) itself again before it made its way along the work surface. Then it pushed a cooking pot out of the way and basically that was the end of it,” explained fireman Helmut Kniewasser, who (37)_____(call) to deal with the fire at Hinterstoder in Kirchdorf. “It pretty quickly started to melt underneath and then stuck to the kitchen hotplate. It then caught fire. (38)_____ _____ _____ we arrived, it had become just a pile of ash.” He added: “The entire building (39)_____ _____be evacuated (疏散) and there was severe smoke damage particularly in the flat in which the robot had been in use. “It’s a mystery how it came to be started and ended up making its way to the hotplate.” (40)_____ took an hour to clean and make the building safe. The homeowner plans to charge the robot’s manufacturer.

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. marketed

B. experience

C. increased

D. deliberately

E. indicate





F. controlled

G. potentially

H. currently

I. convenience

J. backed

K. access



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