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1、2013学年第一学期普陀区高三英语质量调研试卷（考试时间 120分钟 满分 150分）第I卷 （共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection A Short ConversationsDirections: 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
2、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 questions you have heard.1. A. 2:02. B. 2:20.C. 2:50. D. 2:32.2. A. The woman. B. The man. C. The womans mother. D
3、. The baker.3. A. He gets nervous very easily. B. He is an inexperienced speaker. C. He is an awful speaker. D. He hasnt prepared his speech well. 4. A. She didnt like the books the man bought. B. There wasnt a large selection at the bookstore. C. The man bought a lot of books instead of a few. D. S
4、he wanted to see what the man bought. 5. A. The woman isnt a skillful typist. B. The woman should work as hard as Mary. C. The woman should do the typing for Mary. D. The woman would understand if she did Marys job. 6. A. Drive on through the night.B. Check out of the motel.C. Have their vehicle exa
5、mined.D. Stop driving for the rest of the day.7. A. Judy came to the party.B. Judy planned the party.C. Judy hasnt appeared yet.D. Judy doesnt have any imagination.8. A. To tell him they are busy.B. To cancel an appointment.C. To invite him to go to a film.D. To ask him a question about a movie.9. A
6、. He needs the insurance no matter how much it costs.B. There are other types of insurance he should buy.C. The man doesnt have enough money to buy insurance.D. The cost of insurance is becoming more reasonable.10. A. He is shameless.B. He is dead.C. He is sensitive to the shame.D. He has no sense o
7、f time.Section BDirections: 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 wh
8、ich one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. A union leader.B. A hotel manager.C. A tourist guide.D. A restaurant manager.12. A. They are booked into a luxurious hotel.B. The weather is changeable.C. They are far aw
9、ay from any towns and cities.D. Local food is both cheaper and delicious.13. A. Skiing.B. Hiking. C. Swimming.D. Sunbathing. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Because they want to have dinner with their friends.B. Because they want to watch football matches.C. Becaus
10、e they want to enjoy themselves.D. Because they want to find a new job.15. A. Job-hopping has become a custom in the U.S.A.B. Job-hopping has helped businessmen to get better pay.C. Job-hopping has helped students to enter business.D. Job-hopping has helped workers in traveling.16. A. Job-hopping ma
11、y cause trouble in the country.B. Job-hopping may cause some people to lose their jobs.C. Job-hopping is widely accepted in the United States. D. Job-hopping does no good to firms or companies.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read t
12、wice. 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 NO MORE THAN ONE WORD for each answer.At the Cust
13、oms DeskLocation of the hotel:Things in the luggage:Duration of stay:Purpose of her visit:17. _.18. Just _belongings.19. For an _week.20. To attend a teaching _. Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.How long di
14、d the principal talk?Who leads to the Students Union?Was Jack interested in classroom learning?Whats the relationship between the two speakers?21. For _.22. _.23. _. 24. _.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coheren
15、t 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)Last August Susan and forty-two other students got wet and dirty while removing six tons of garbage (25)_ the riv
16、er running across their city. (26)_ cleaned up the river as part of a weeklong environmental camp. Like one in three American rivers, this river is so polluted that its unsafe for swimming or fishing. Still, Susan, (27)_ has just completed her third summer camp on the river cleanup, sees a change in
17、 this river. “Since we started three years ago, the river is getting a lot (28)_(clean),” she says. Environmental scientists praise the teenagers for removing garbage (29)_ can harm wild life. Water birds, for example, can die of plastic bottle rings and get cut by tiny metals. Three years ago, when
18、 the cleanup started, garbage was everywhere. But this year the teenagers can row their boats fast. By the end of the six-hour cleanup, they (30)_(remove) enough garbage to fill more than two large trucks. “(31)_(see) all that garbage in the river makes people begin to care about environmental issue
19、s,” Susan says. She hopes that when others read that, she and her peers care enough (32)_(clean) it up, maybe they would think twice before they throw garbage into the river.(B)Dave Fuss lost his job (33)_(drive) a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in th
20、e local school cafeteria, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift-$7,000，a legacy（遗产） from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in (34)_ accid
21、ent. “It really made a difference (35)_ we were going under financially.” says Dave. But the Fusses werent the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families (36)_(touch) by the Hatches generosity. In some cases, it was a
22、 few thousand dollars; in others, it was more than $100,000. It surprised nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $ 3millionthey were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on (37)_ was left of the family farm. (38)_ _ the financial crisis, Ish and Arlene developed the hab
23、it of saving. They were fond of comparison shopping and would routinely go from store to store, (39)_(check) prices before making a new purchase. Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camp when their parents (40)_ not afford it. “Ish and Arlene never asked whether y
24、ou needed anything,” says their friend Sand Van Weelden, “They could see the things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”Section BDirections: 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
25、 need. A. cultivationB. farmedC. constantD. machineryE. plungedF. lightningG. envyH. preciousI. uncomfortableJ. aircraftsK. consequenceModern inventions have speeded up peoples loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, _41_ cross the world inside a day, while com
26、puters operate at _42_ speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts of saving _43_ seconds in handling tasks.All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world
27、 in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the _44_ feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; to
28、o much use may send harmful radiation into our brains, a _45_ we do not like to think about.However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to _46_ activities that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a tim
29、e. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.There was a time when some peoples lives were devoted simply to the _47_ of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gen
30、tler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might _48_ a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they _49_ with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern _50_ has freed people
31、from that primitive (原古的) existence.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. Its believed that intelligent people are better at l
32、earning languages. Most language learning skills, _51_, are habits, which can be formed through a bit of discipline and self-awareness. But, some of them are not good enough. Here are the three most common _52_ language learners make and how to correct them.Not listening enough Theres a school of la
33、nguage-teaching experts that believe language learning _53_ a “silent period”. Just as babies learn to produce language by hearing and parroting sounds, language learners need to practise listening in order to learn. This can develop learned vocabulary and structures, and help learners see patterns
34、in language. Listening is the communicative skill we use most in daily life, but it can be _54_ to practise unless you live in a foreign country or attend language classes. The solution? Find music, podcasts, TV shows and movies in the _55_ language, and listen, listen, listen, as often as possible.
35、 A single method Some learners are most comfortable with the listen-and-repeat drills of a language lab. Some need a grammar textbook to _56_ a foreign tongue. Each of these approaches is fine, but its a mistake to rely on only one. Language learners who use _57_ methods get to practise different sk
36、ills and see concepts explained in different ways. Whats more, the _58_ can keep them from working in a situation that never changes. When choosing a class, learners should seek a course that _59_ the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). For self-study, try a _60_ of text
37、books, audio lessons, and language learning apps. _61_It doesnt matter how well a person can write in foreign script, or finish a vocabulary test. To learn, improve, and truly use our language, we need to speak. This is the stage when language students should calm down, and feelings of _62_ or insec
38、urity hinder (阻碍) all their hard work. In Eastern cultures where saving face is a strong social value, EFL teachers often complain that students, despite years of studying English, simply will not speak it. Theyre too _63_ making mistakes of the grammar or mispronouncing words in a way that would _6
39、4_ them. The key is that those mistakes help language learners by showing them the limits of language, and correcting errors _65_ they become deep-rooted. The more learners speak and practise, the more quickly they improve. 51. A. howeverB. moreoverC. furthermoreD. therefore52. A. successesB. wonder
40、sC. mistakesD. contributions53. A. picks upB. begins withC. takes upD. meets with54. A. efficientB. difficultC. easyD. ideal55. A. nationalB. officialC. signD. target56. A. make sense ofB. make use ofC. make profit ofD. make fun of57. A. commonB. educationalC. permanentD. multiple58. A. varietyB. ch
41、angeC. improvementD. alternative59. A. postponesB. lacksC. assessesD. practises60. A. selectionB. preferenceC. combinationD. replacement61. A. ComplaintsB. FearC. SecureD. Diligence62. A. humorB. shynessC. achievementsD. laughter63. A. confident inB. comfortable withC. keen onD. afraid of64. A. amus
42、eB. informC. remindD. embarrass65. A. ifB. beforeC. in caseD. so thatSection BDirections: Read the following three 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 t
43、o the information given in the passage you have just read. (A)Miscioscio, 60, a marketing consultant in Pearl River, N.Y., says shes addicted to her Sony e-reader. She buys or borrows a print book only when its not available digitally. Miscioscio says most of her friends and relatives have also swit
44、ched to e-books for the convenience and lower prices. Last winter, she notes, she vacationed in Costa Rica and says “at least 75% of those reading were reading electronically. I was shocked to see people taking their e-readers onto the loungers (躺椅) in the pool.”Meier, 43, a marketing director in Be
45、aver Falls, prefers her books on paper, not screens. After working on a computer all day, she says, “I want a book in my hand. Turning over its pages is my way of knowing its time to relax and slow down.” Meier, whos sticking with physical books, doesnt consider herself any kind of digital “resister
46、.” “Im comfortable with all forms of technology,” she says. “However, when it comes to books, I suppose Im a traditionalist. My preference will always be the real thing.”To her, part of the joy of reading is the book itself: “pulling it from the shelf, inspecting the cover, letting it fall open to a
47、 random page.”Both have lots of company. Statistics show that e-book sales grew 43% last year, but thats a slowdown compared with the triple-digit increases in recent years. E-books remain the fastest-growing part of the book market but account for only about 20% of all sales, reported by publishers.Miscioscio and Meier are at opposite ends of a book business in transition. Even though e-book sales have grown more than 4,00
