上海市浦东新区区2017-2018学年度高三第一学期期末质量监控英语试卷
上海市浦东新区区2017-2018学年度高三第一学期期末
质量监控英语试卷
第Ⅰ卷
Ⅰ. Listening Comprehension（25 分）
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 question you have heard.
1. A. In a gym. B. In a shoe-repair shop.
C. In a department store.
D. At a track.
2. A. $200. B. $400.
C. $250.
D. $500.
3. A. Take classes. B. Find a job.
C. Learn more.
D. Get ready for the next term.
4. A. To leave her a message with her roommate. B. To solve a problem in his homework.
C. To talk with her roommate.
D. To ask about his homework.
5. A. He likes physics. B. His physics is the best in the class.
C. He is working hard at physics.
D. His physics is very poor in the class.
6. A. A sportsman. B. A doctor.
C. A news reporter.
D. A game designer.
7. A. Unforgettable. B. Impressive.
C. Pleasant.
D. Disappointing.
8. A. Coins and banknotes. B. Weights and measures.
C. Shapes and areas.
D. Volumes and sizes.
9. A. It‘s too crowded and he can‘t breathe very well. B. The next stop is the terminal station.
C. The next stop is their stop.
D. A lot of people get off at the next stop.
10. A. The Parking places are very far away. B. He had no problem finding the park.
C. There is enough parking space.
D. He isn‘t very good at parking the car.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.
Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. The driver took the wrong route. B. He missed his flight.
C. He failed to get to the airport.
D. His taxi got stuck in a traffic jam.
12. A. One of the wings caught fire. B. The plane encountered a strong storm.
C. There was something wrong with the engine.
D. The hijacker forced the captain to do so.
13. A. He had forgotten to lock his front door. B. He had lost his keys to the front door.
C. He had left his luggage in the taxi.
D. He had picked up the wrong suitcase.
Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Women now want to be car repairwomen instead of teachers.
B. Women tend to do jobs that are traditionally intended for men.
C. More girls are choosing fixed jobs in Scotland.
D. British women choose non-traditional jobs more than women in other countries.
15. A. Because women see many job opportunities on TV.
B. Because women feel car repairing is cool on TV.
C. Because women are influenced by their stars on TV.
D. Because women are told about job choices by career officers on TV.
16. A. Britain needs more women to do non-traditional jobs.
B. The media should call for women to do non-traditional jobs.
C. British women have taken up too many traditional jobs for men.
D. The change in men‘s attitudes is not important for women job choices.
Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. For ten years. B. For nine years. C. For eight years. D. For one year.
18. A. She is more concentrated on her career. B. She is not sure about the marriage.
C. She‘s holding hatred against Frank.
D. She‘s not comfortable with children around.
19. A. Keeping persuading Claire. B. Give up and compromise.
C. Fight harder with Claire.
D. Give Claire some time.
20. A. They have just been to Hawaii for a holiday.
B. They cannot reach an agreement on having a baby.
C. They are planning to get a divorce.
D. They are trying to overcome career crisis.
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary（20 分）
Section A
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.
As a young child, Ann Makosinski would spend hours experimenting with her toys and other everyday objects around her to create her own inventions.
Now a first-year Arts student, Makosinski is a well-known inventor and entrepreneu（r创业者）. She won the2015Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award of Excellence,21recognizes innovative business solutions to social problems—the same recognition given to Barack Obama in 2014. Her own inventions, the Hollow Flashlight and the e-Drink, have been causing excitement
internationally 22 their creation.
At the age of 15, Makosinski created a prototype（原型）for a flashlight 23 （power） by the heat of one‘s hand. This invention was the result of a ninth grade science project, but Makosinski‘s goal was 24 （o ffer）a practical solution to people with unlimited access to power and electricity.
―I‘m half-Filipino and half-Polish, and one of my friends from the Philippines told me that she failed school 25 she couldn‘t afford electricity. She had no light to study with at night, so that was kind of the inspiration,‖Makosinski explained.―I‘ve always been interested in doing science projects, so I thought, why don‘t I find a way to provide her and a lot of other people with light?‖The Hollow Flashlight is made from Peltier tiles（珀耳贴贴片）that produce energy when one side 26 （heat）and the other side remains cool. The flashlight can produce a steady beam of LED light
for 20 minutes, 27 （use）only the warmth of the human hand.
Her advice to other student innovators?―S tart now. There 28 be nothing holding you back. Some students at colleges or even in high school think?Oh, I‘m a student. I just need to study.‘ 29 may think it important to make friends and be social. The truth is, you can do a lot of other things. You can do 30 you want. Just go ahead.‖
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. potentially
B. filmed
C. dropped
D. commonly
E. treats
F. sympathy
G. sensitive H. eyebrow I. domesticated J. selection K. confident
Puppy Dog Eyes Are for the Benefits of Humans
Dogs make puppy dog eyes for the benefit of humans and rarely use the pleasing facial expression when on their own, a new study has shown.
It has long been assumed that animal facial expressions are involuntary and dependent on emotional state rather than a way to communicate.
But scientists at the University‘s Dog Cognition Centre at Portsmouth University have found that dogs mostly use facial expressions when humans are present, as a direct response to attention. Puppy dog eyes, in which the 31 is raised to make the eyes appear wider and sadder, was found
to be the most 32 used expression in the study. Researchers do not know whether the dogs are aware they look sadder, or have just learned that widening their eyes invites 33 a nd affection in humans.
Dog cognition expert Dr Juliane Kaminski: ―We can now be 34 that the production of facial expressions made by dogs are dependent on the attention state of their audience and are not
just a result of dogs being excited.‖
―In our study they produced far more expressions when someone was watching, but seeing food 35 did not have the same effect.‖
―The findings appear to support evidence dogs are 36 to humans‘ attention and that expressions are 37 active attempts to communicate, not simple emotional displays.‖ The researchers studied 24 dogs of various breeds, aged one to 12. All were family pets. Each dog was tied by a lead a metre away from a person, and the dogs‘ faces were 38 throughout a range
of exchanges, from the person being oriented towards the dog, to being distracted and with her body turned away from the dog.
facial They found that when a human was not watching the animal,they39 expressions.
Dr Kaminski said it is possible that dogs‘ expressions have evolved as they were 40 .
―Domestic dogs have a unique history –they have lived alongside humans for 30,000 years and during that time selection pressures seem to have acted on dogs‘ability to communicate with us, ‖she said.
Ⅲ. Reading comprehension（45 分）
Section A
Directions：For each blank in the following passages 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.
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers.
I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children. Being 41 with the sound of a whistle that I had seen by the way, in the hands of another boy, I handed over all my money for one.
I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but 42 all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, when I told of the
43 I had made, said I had given four times as much as the whistle was worth. They put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation( 烦恼). Thinking about the matter gave me more
44 than the whistle gave me pleasure.
45 , this was afterwards of use to me, for the impression continued on my mind, so that often, when I was 46 to buy something I did not need, I said to myself, ―Don‘t give too much
for the whistle, ‖ and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and 47 the actions
of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who ―gave too much for the whistle.‖If I knew a miser（守财奴）who 48 every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow citizens and the joys of friendship,
___49__gathering and keeping wealth--- ―Poor man,‖ said I, ― you pay too dear for your whistle.‖When I met a man of pleasure, who did not try to improve his mind or his fortune but_____devoted himself to having a good time, perhaps neglecting his health, ― Mistaken man, you are providing
51 for yourself, instead of pleasure; you are paying too dear for your whistle.‖ If I saw someone fond of 52 who has fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine earrings, all above his 53 , and for which he had run into debt, and ends his career in a prison. ―Alas,‖ said I, ―he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.‖ 54 , the miseries of mankind are largely due to their puffing a(n) 55 value on things --- to giving ―too much for their whistle.‖
41. A. faced B. charmed C. sympathized D. provided
42. A. disturbing B. attracting C. entertaining D. confusing
43. A. trouble B. attempt C. choice D. bargain
44. A. satisfaction B. relief C. annoyance D. stress
45. A. Moreover B. Therefore C. However D. Indeed
46. A. tempted B. determined C. forced D. persuaded
47. A. took B. observed C. admired D. followed
48. A. turned against B. gave up C. cared about D. relied on
49. A. in case of B. instead of C. for the sake of D. in terms of
50. A. merely B. similarly C. strangely D. positively
51. A. inconvenience B. burden C. frustration D. pain
52. A. appearance B. wealth C. comforts D. necessities
53. A. demand B. fortune C. standard D. value
54. A. As a result B. By contrast C. On average D. In short
55. A. unexpected B. great C. false D. extra
Section B
Directions: 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 to the information given in the passage you have just read.
（A）
When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to mind, but that is exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks and tastes like coffee.
74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that his unique ―garlic coffee‖ is the result of a cooking blunder he made over 30 years ago, when he burned a steak and garlic while waiting tables at the same time. Intrigued by the scorched garlic‘s aroma, he mashed it up with a spoon and mixed it with hot water. The resulting drink looked and tasted a lot like coffee. Making a mental note of his discovery, Yokimoto carried on with his job, and only started researching garlic coffee again after he retired.
Committed to turning his weird drink into a commercial product, Yokitomo Shimotai spent years optimizing the formula, and about five years ago, he finally achieved a result he was satisfied with. To make his dissolvable garlic grounds, he roasts the cloves in an electric oven, and, after they‘ve cooled off, smashes them into fine particles and packs them in dripbags.
―My drink is probably the world‘s first of its kind,‖ the garlic coffee inventor told Kyodo News. ―It contains no caffeine so it‘s good for those who would like to drink coffee at night or pregnant women.‖
―The bitterness of burned garlic apparently helps create the coffee-like flavor,‖ Shimotai adds. He claims that, although his garlic coffee does give off an aroma of roasted garlic, it doesn‘t cause bad breath, because the garlic is thoroughly cooked. And if you can get past the smell, the drink apparently does taste a lot like actual coffee.
If decaf isn‘t good enough for you, and you‘re in the mood for something new, you can try Yokitomo Shimotai‘s garlic coffee at his shop, in the city of Ninohc, Iwate Prefecture, or buy your own dripbags for just 324 yen（$2.8）.
56. Which word is the closest in meaning to the underlined word ―blunder ‖in the second paragraph?
A. mistake
B. show
C. mixture
D. brand
57. Who is not suitable to drink garlic coffee?
A. A woman bearing a baby.
B. A student having trouble with sleep.
C. A cleaner working on a day shift.
D. A young lady sick of garlic.
58. Which of the following is not characteristic of garlic coffee?
A. It is caffeine-free.
B. Garlic powder dissolves in water.
C.
The burnt garlic creates bitterness.
D. It is an improvement on a garlic dish.
59. Which of the following can be used to describe Yokitomo Shimotai?
A. venturous and greedy
B. innovative and perseverant
C. hardworking and cautious
D. observant and helpful
（B）
How an advertisement is put together
When you read an advertisement there are many factors you should consider, including:
target audience
brand names
slogans
pictures and colour
special offers/coupons
emotive/persuasive vocabulary
Target audience
Advertisers aim particular products at different groups of people according to age, sex, social class and interests. They will often make assumptions about people and label or stereotype them.
Who do you think these products would be aimed at: nappies, diamonds, mint chocolates, sports cars?
What kind of products would be aimed at these people: teenagers, 25-year-old single men, 40-year-old working mums?
Brand names
Brand names are chosen carefully. They can suggest particular lifestyles, values or interests and are intended to appeal to the target audience.
Nissan Primera: this suggests quality. Primera is similar to premium and premier.
Ford Ka: the spelling of Ka suggests novelty and simplicity. It is modern and futuristic. It is also bound to stick in your mind when you are looking for a new car!
Slogans
A slogan has to be catchy and memorable. Slogans use a range of devices: alliteration, repetition, puns, questions, personal pronouns and humour.
Have a break. Have a Kit Kat. Repetition
The totally tropical taste. Alliteration
Picture and colour
All pictures try to make you feel something and most are biased, even photographs. They create a
view of what the world is like using different tricks such as lighting and colour.
Different colours have different associations that can be linked to particular products.
Yellow: freshness, sunlight, lemons. This colour would be good for advertising washing up liquid. Green: countryside, natural, healthy. What would you use this colour for ?
What do you associate these colours with: red, black, orange, gold, blue?
Special offers/coupons
Advertisers often appear to offer something for nothing‘: if you buy one product you will receive another one free or half price. These offers are incentive to try a new product or to encourage loyalty to an existing one.
Emotive/persuasive vocabulary
In advertising you will find lots of words and phrases that are intended to persuade you or appeal to your emotions.
mouthwatering silky free chocolate
romantic creamy luxurious like mum used to make
60. What color is suitable for dishwashing liquid?
A. Green.
B. Red.
C. Orange.
D. Yellow.
61. Which of the following slogans applies the device alliteration?
A. Mosquito Bye Bye Bye.（RADAR）
B. We do, we said.（HENNESSY）
C. M&Ms melt in your mouth（M&Ms）
D. Start ahead.（RLJOICE）
62. According to the passage, to reta.n the regular customers, advertising companies tend to
.
A. impress them with colorful pictures
B. use promotional strategies
C. change slogans frequently
D. create eye-catching brand names
（C）
Dental health: Brush with confidence
Children should be taught to brush their teeth regularly. But the suspicion remains among some people, dentists included, that even so, certain children are doomed to develop dental cavities. The hypothesis behind this fear is that some combinations of genes may give rise to the sorts of oral bacteria which are responsible for cavities. If true, that would be sad for the youngsters concerned. But a study just published in Cell Host and Microbe, by Andres Gomez and Karen Nelson of the J. Craig Venter Institute, in San Diego, suggests it isn‘t true.
The mouth is home to many species of microbes. Most are good. Some, though, are well known to secrete acidic waste products when fed sugar. This acidity weakens teeth, causing them to decay.To try to find out whether a child‘s genes play any role in encouraging such acid-secreting bugs, Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson set up an experiment with twins.
Their―volunteers‖were 280 pairs of fraternal twins and 205 pairs of identical twins, all agedbetween five and 11, who had not taken antibiotics during the previous six months. The children were asked to stop brushing their teeth the evening and the morning before the crucial moment of data collection. This was when the researchers swabbed the children‘s gingival sulci（the clefts between
teeth and gums, in which bacteria collect）to find out what was there. The children also had their teeth
scored by dentists as belonging to one of three categories: having no signs of current or previous dental cavities: having signs of current or previous cavities affecting the enamel（a tooth‘s hard, outer layer）; or having signs of cavities that penetrated the enamel and allected the underlying dentine as well.
Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson found that, though identical twins shared many groups of bacteria which were not shared by fraternal twins, none of these was a type responsible for cavities. Moreover, similarities in bacterial flora were greatest among five-to seven-year-olds, weaker among seven- to nine-year-olds and weakest among nine-to 11-year-olds. This suggests that any role genes do play in regulating the mouth‘s ecology fades with time.
Far from supporting the idea that some children are fated to suffer from cavities no matter how well they brush their teeth, these results make it clear that the power to control the growth of the relevant bacteria is very much within reach of children and their parents. Brushing, however, may not be the only approach. Avoiding sugary foods is obviously de rigueur. It seems likely, though, that which other foods a child eats may help shape his oral ecosystem, too. This is an area of ongoing research. But, as in the intestines（肠道）, so in the mouth, scientific medicine is at last coming to grips with the fact that the mixture of microbes present is both important and capable of manipulation, to the benefit of the host.
63. What doe s―hypothesis‖refer to in paragraph 1?
A. Children‘s failure to brush their teeth properly leads to tooth decay.
B. Some children are programmed to develop tooth decay.
C. Youngsters are suspicious of the effectiveness of tooth-brushing.
D. Some genes are more likely to lead to dental cavites.
64. Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson conducted an experiment to find out .
A. whether genes have anything to do with dental decay
B. which group of twins are more likely to have decayed teeth
C. what kinds of foods tend to give rise to tooth decay
D. why the ecosystem of the intestines is similar to that of the mouth
65. Which of the following statements is UNTRUE according to the passage?
A. Scientists are not yet sure how ecosystem of the mouth is formed.
B. The role genes play in controlling ecosystem of the mouth weakens with the time.
C. The children are classified into three groups according to the degrees of dental cavities.
D.
Identical twins are not as genetically close to each other as fraternal twins.
66. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The existence of multiple microbes benefits children‘s oral ecosystem.
B. What a child eats enhances the healthfulness of a child‘s oral ecosystem.
C. Cutting down on sugar intake is the most likely way to prevent tooth decay.
D. Parents are in no position to help their children maintain healthy oral ecosystem.
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable statement from A-F for each Blank. There are two extra statements, which you do not need.
A. Reality has begun to catch up with the imagination of the film‘s writer.
B. Nanotechnology is one of the most exciting fields of research in the world today.
C.
When this becomes possible, great changes will take place in numerous fields.
D. Small as they are, large quantities of them can make a difference and work wonders.
E.
Nanotechnology is also responsible for tremendous advances in many other fields.
F. They carry medicine with them as they travel though the body, seeking our cancer cells.
Nanotechnology Grows Fast
Thanks to advances in technology, the science fiction of the past has become the―science fact‖o f today, like the 1966 sci-fi Fantastic V oyag（e《神奇旅程》）. In the film, a man with very important knowledge was dying. The only way to save him was by using experimental miniaturization technology. A number of scientists were shrunk to a tiny size and injected into the man‘s body to locate the source of the problem and save him.
67Over the past several decades, the science of nanotechnology has been developing rapidly, and, just as in the film, it involves working with objects of a very small size.
Something very similar to the medial procedure seen in Fantastic Voyage is already being used to help save lives today. Tiny crystals known as―quanturn dots（量子点）‖，whose diameters
are one thousandth of a human hair, are injected into the body of a cancer patient. 68 Upon finding a tumor, these quantum dots release their medicine, and then light themselves up tso that doctors can see exactly where the cancer cells are.
69 We may soon find our everyday lives being affected by it. Are you tired of having to charge the batteries in your mobile devices? Soon, you don‘t need to. Scientists are working on solar-cell vests that will absorb energy from the sun as you walk around and provide power for your devices.
Eric Drexler, an author and scientist, believes that nanotechnology will lead to a new kind of manufacturing, one in which products are assembled atom by atom. By rearranging atoms, you can turn one kind of molecule into another. For example, a wood molecule can be transformed into a metal molecule. If this is done many times according to a design, a large object such as an ax might eventually be created, just by rearranging atoms. 70 .
Although we have already seen its first practical applications, even more dramatic advances will be made in the future.
Ⅳ. Surmmary Writing（10 分）
Directions：R ead the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.
According to an official report on youth violence.―In our country today, the greatest threat to the lives of children and adolescents is not disease or starvation or abandonment, but the terrible reality of violence.‖Given that this is the case, why aren‘t students taught to manage conflict the way they are taught to solve math problems, drive cars, or stay physically fit?
First of all, students need to realize that conflict is unavoidable. It is reported that most violent incidents between students begin with a relatively minor insult. For example, a fight could start over the fact that one student eats a peanut butter sandwich each lunchtime. Laughter over the sandwich can lead to insults, which in turn can lead to violence.
If the conflict occurs, students can practice the golden rule of conflict resolution: stay calm. Once the student feels calmer. Once the student feels calmer. He or she should choose words that will calm the other person down as well. Rude words and accusations only add fuel to the emotional fire while soft words can put out the fire before it explodes out of control.
After that, they can use another key strategy for conflict resolution. Listening allows the two sides to understand each other. One person should describe his or her side: and the other person should listen without interrupting. Afterwards, the listener can ask non-threatening questions to clarify the speaker‘s position. Then the two people should change roles.
Finally, students need to consider what they are hearing. An argument doesn‘t mean trying to figure out the fault of the other person but means understanding what the real issue is. As the issue becomes clearer, the conflict often simply becomes smaller.（280 words）
第Ⅱ卷
Ⅴ. Translation（15 分）
Directions：Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1. 为了安全起见，小孩不应该被单独留在家里。（leave）
2. 深深吸了一口气，他面带微笑地走上了舞台。（with）
3. 一个人待人处世的方式能反映出他是怎样的人。（the way）
4. 只有当一系列奇数问题得到解决，到2025 年，新能源汽车才能占汽车销量的百分之二十。（Only）
Ⅵ. Guide Writing（25 分）
Directions: Write an English composition in about 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
近年来，随着科技的迅猛发展，身边的新事物取代旧事物的事例层出不穷，请你简要描述一个具体实例，并说明这一新事物存在的理由。
参考答案
第一部分听力
1-5 CCBDD
6-10 ADBDC
11-13 ACD
14-16 BCA
17-20 CADB
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary
21. which 22. since 23. powered 24. to offer
25. because/as 26. is heated/ 27. using
28. should/can/shall 29. Others 30. whatever
V ocabulary
31-40 HDFKE GABCI
III. Reading
Section A
41-45 BADCC
46-50 ABBCA
51-55 DABDC
Section B
56-59 ADDB
60-62 DCB
63-66 DADA
Section C
67-70 AFEC
IV. Summary Writing
Conflict can lead to violence, so students should be taught how to handle it./ Conflict is inevitable and minor insults may cause it./ Staying calm, avoiding aggressive words is the priority./ To promote mutual understanding, they should listen to each other and ask question./ Finally, thinking about what they are hearing can help minimize misunderstanding.(55 words)
Ⅴ. Translation
1. For the sake of safety/ For safety, children / a children should not be left alone at home
2. Having taken a deep breath, he went up to the stage with a smile on his face.
3. The way a person treats others can reflect what kind of person he is.
4. Only when a series of technical problems are solved can new energy cars account for 20 percent of all the car sales by 202
5.
Ⅵ. Guide Writing
Violence is officially reported to have become the greatest threat to teenagers‘lives, and students should learn to how to manage conflict.
While conflict is inevitable, which students should know, keeping calm and carefully listening to each other is advisable.
Reviewing what they hear and understanding what the real issue is will make the conflict become smaller.（58 words）