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【一】:2015届闸北区高三英语二模试卷及答案(官方版)
闸北区2015年第二次高考模拟考试试卷
高三英语
I. Listening Comprehension（30分）
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 question 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. She should watch on her weight.
C. She is already overweight.
2. A. At the Emergency Room.
C. At the dentist’s.
3. A. 20.
4. A. On the phone.
C. Insurance agent. B. 30. B. By text. B. She can sometimes eat at will. D. She should avoid sweet food. B. At the grocery store. D. At a decade-old toast shop. C. 35. C. Online. B. House agent. D. Carpenter. D. 45. D. Face to face. 5. A. Furniture shop assistant.
6. A. Tickets bought online are cheaper.
B. It’s hard to buy the tickets at the box office.
C. Free pamphlets provide discounts for the Ballet.
D. The Ballet show could be watched online.
7. A. There are all together three sections for the exam.
B. She failed to finish the exam within time.
C. She was poor at multiple choices.
D. She performed well in the physics exam.
8. A. It is too expensive a trip.
B. It’s a pity he can’t take his family with him on the trip.
C. The trip takes too much time.
D. He doesn’t enjoy going to New Zealand for a trip.
9. A. Stay up late for exams.
B. Don’t pay too much attention to exams.
C. Study hard throughout the term.
D. Give up on the math test.
10. A. Relaxed
B. Calm. C. Excited. D. Nervous.
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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. Relationship problems.
C. Poor income.
12. A. 6%.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Because they were in need of clothes and food.
B. Because they wanted to find honey.
C. Because they wanted to take revenge.
D. Because they intended to occupy the village.
15. A. Because they migrated from Africa.
B. Because they are a rare group surviving on the Andamans.
C. Because they store precious honey.
D. Because their DNA is valuable for scientific study.
16. A. They want to learn local language.
C. They are chasing away outsiders.
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 hear.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation:
B. They come to see the outside world. D. They need drinks and cigarettes. B. 10%. B. Low working productivity. D. Depression. C. 15%. D. 26%. 13. A. The poor treatment received from National Health Service. B. Patients’ inability to go to bed with a teddy bear. C. The bad quality of the mattress patients use. D. The tension they suffer from in lives.
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II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
(A)
Being skinny is not beautiful but being healthy is. Most young people, unfortunately,
(25)______(convince) that being thin, and therefore being stylish is a major way of maintaining self-worth. To make the matter worse, they might take this so far that they are likely to end up
(26)______ eating disorders.
Eating disorders are psychological illnesses defined by abnormal eating habits, (27)______ may involve either insufficient or too much food intake to the damage of an individual's physical and mental health. Bulimia nervosa(暴食症) and anorexia nervosa（食欲匮乏） are the
(28)______(common) forms of eating disorders.
(29)______ diagnosed with anorexia nervosa are well under a healthy bodyweight. But patients with bulimia nervosa may have a body weight that falls within the range from normal to overweight. (30)_____ primarily thought of as affecting females, eating disorders influence males as well.
The precise cause of eating disorders is not entirely understood, but (31)______ is agreed that the disease is linked to other medical conditions and situations. Besides, cultural idealization of thinness and youthfulness also contributes to (32)______(reduce) weight forcefully. The problem has affected a large population worldwide.
(B)
A new report said middle class workers could still be working (33)______ ______ they are at the age of 70, to help out their grown up children.
Middle class workers (34)______(age) 50 and above are being forced to delay their ______________________________________________________________
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retirement, with many blaming their children, a report revealed yesterday.
To many middle class workers, (35)______ bothered them from work couldn't compare with the possibility that they might postpone their retirement date by around five years.
It is not just the rising cost of living that is causing the delay. Many pointed to the fact that they are constantly having to provide for their grown-up children at an age (36)______ they assumed they should be financially independent.
Actually, one in five middle class workers (37)______ keep working in order to support their children. Many workers struggled all along to the retirement date, only (38)______(realize) that they had to switch to a part-time working pattern, also called semi-retirement. Rarely (39)______ people hear of the concept of semi-retirement in the past but now semi-retirement has become the routine among wealthier people in their 50s and 60s, regarded as (40)______ sign of the country’s on-going worsening economy.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A drop in the sun's radiation can cause cold winters in parts of North America and Europe, scientists say, a finding that could improve long-range forecasts and help countries ___41___ for storms.
Scientists have known for a long time that the sun has an 11-year cycle during which radiation from the sun reaches a(n) ___42___ then falls. But detecting a clear link of the cycle to the weather has proved much ___43___ .
"Our research notices a link between solar activities and regional winter climate," lead author Sarah Ineson of the UK Met Office told the reporters in an email.
Her team focused on the data from the recent minimum solar radiation period during 2008-10, which was a(n) ___44___ calm period for the sun but at the same time, ___45___ winters in the U.S and Europe were recorded which brought troubles to many businesses and made people’s lives difficult.
The researchers found that a reduction in radiation from the sun can affect wind patterns , ___46___ cold winters.
"While radiation levels won't tell us what the day-to-day weather will be, they provide the exciting ___47___ of improved prediction for winter conditions for months and even years ahead. These predictions play an important role in long-term weather planning," Ineson said.
Ineson's team used the data in a complex computer to ___48___ long-term weather patterns. It successfully reproduced what scientists had observed happening in the upper atmosphere during changes in solar radiation. More study was needed, though. The key ___49___ in the experiment lay in the satellite data used, because it spans(跨度) only a few years. "So there are still questions concerning whether the current research results are accurate and whether they can be ___50___ to ______________________________________________________________ 4 跃龙学堂 您身边的中小学生辅导专家
other solar cycles," she said.
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.
Recently, Pew Research Center announced that over a quarter of Americans have shared a selfie online. Unsurprisingly, the practice of photographing oneself and sharing that image via social media has ___51___ among all age groups. Evidence of its mainstream nature is seen in other aspects of our culture too. Last year, "selfie" was not only added to the Oxford English Dictionary, but also named Word of the Year.
Yet, despite the huge number of people practicing it, ___52___ is also surrounding selfie. An assumption that sharing selfies is embarrassing runs throughout the journalistic and scholarly coverage on the topic. Negative words like "self-centered" and "___53___" have inevitably become a part of any conversation about selfies among scholars.
But, over a quarter of all Americans are relying on it. Why? The usual reasons given by scholars—self-center and fame-seeking—seem too ___54___ to explain such a crowd acting. There is always more to a social cultural practice than what ___55___.
Simply put, physical and digital technology make it possible. The idea that technology ___56___ the social world and our lives has been recognized by people. To some extent, world is shaped by technological revolutions. The selfie is not a(n) ___57___ form of expression. Artists have created self-portraits for centuries, from cave to oil paintings, to early photography and modern art. People are ___58___ their feelings and thoughts through certain media. What's original about today's selfie is its public popularity. Technological advancement ___59___ the self-portrait used to be restricted to the art world and gave it to the masses. Those digital front-facing cameras, social media platforms, and wireless communications conveniently available make selfie a job ___60___ any time anywhere.
Besides, We are not ___61___ beings living by ourselves. We are social beings who live in social communities, and as such, our lives are fundamentally formed by social relations with other people. As photos meant to be ___62___, selfies are not individual acts; they are social gestures. Selfies, as well as our presence on social media generally, are a part of “identity work"--the work that we do on a daily basis to ___63___ that we are seen by others as we wish to be seen. In fact, the crafting and display of identity has long been understood as a social process. The selfies we take and show are to present a ___64___ image of us so as to become a part of our identity formation and ___65___.
51. A. flowered
52. A. negotiation
53. A. self-contained
54. A. necessary
55. A. meets the eye B. returned B. criticism B. self-evident B. smart B. takes the lead C. imposed C. regret C. self-absorbed C. certain C. raises the alarm D. functioned D. punishment D. self-financed D. shallow D. makes the point ______________________________________________________________www.fz173.com_2016闸北区高三英语二模。
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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)
About dancing bears
Young bears are captured in the wild, separated from their mothers, and taught by a trainer to become dancing bears in conditions of unimaginable cruelty.
The young animals are forced on to sheets of really hot metal and, (25) ______ (escape) the pain, the bears alternate lifting up one paw (爪子) and then another while music is played. The process is repeated again and again (26) ______ the animals automatically begin to raise their paws – to “dance” – in fear of the pain, even when there are no metal sheets.
As the bears get older, the trainers keep them under control by imposing pain. They do this by putting rings through the bears‟ highly sensitive noses and jaws. The pitiful truth is (27) ______ they are not put to sleep for this painful process. Chains (28) ______ (attach) to the rings so the trainers can control the animals, (29) ______ weigh up to 350 kilograms, with only a slight pull on the chains.
The bears‟ nails are cut several times a year and their teeth broken or removed in order that they cannot get their trainers (30) ______ (injure). The bears also suffer with an inadequate diet usually
(31) ______ (consist) of white bread, sugar and cheap fruit juices. All these cause the bears
serious physical health problems (32) ______ ______ many of them display strange behavior such as swaying (摇摆) and pacing as they cannot follow natural behavioral patterns and instincts.
(B)
The Power of Good
It was Mother‟s Day morning last year and I was shopping at our local supermarket with my
five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were leaving, we realised that only minutes (33) ______ (early) an elderly woman had fallen and hurt (34) ______ badly. She was embarrassed and clearly in shock. Fortunately, her husband was with her and many people had stopped to help out. Walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very upset about (35) ______ had happened to the elderly couple. He said to me, “(36) ______ (fall) over in front of everyone isn‟t much fun.”
Near the entrance of the supermarket, a charity group had set up a stall selling flowers. Tenyson suggested that we should buy the lady a flower. “It will make her feel better,” he said. I was amazed that he would have this sweet idea, so I asked the flower seller if I (37) _____ buy a flower for the elderly lady because my son wanted to give it to her to cheer her up. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can‟t take your money for such wonderful gesture.”
By then a nurse (38) ______ (arrive), and was attending to the woman. As we walked up to her, Tenyson became frightened by all the blood and medical equipment. Instead I gave (39) ______ flower to the woman‟s husband. The old man thanked us both, then bent down and gave it to his wife, telling her who it was (40) ______. Despite being badly hurt and shaken, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little smile.
Section B
enabling teenagers to 55 the increasing pace of digital technology and giving them an advantage when it comes to multitasking.
In the USA, on average teenagers spend 8.5 hours a day using computers, mobiles, and other devices to learn, interact, and play. This increases to 11.5 hours if you include all of the
56 that goes on, such as talking on the phone while watching TV. As they stare at these screens, they‟re taking in and sorting through an incredible amount of information.
There are 57 about how social media is affecting the way the brain learns to 58 , as one of the most important skills that we learn as children is how to make friends and interact with people around us. Geidd says that a lot of what goes on inside our brains is social. Social interactions are now being 59 by technology – you could have hundreds of friends, all of whom are real people that you interact with and scientists aren‟t sure whether we‟ll be able to develop the same 60 using social media.
There is a(n) 61 of the growing digital trend: YouTube shows the teenagers all over the world are watching the same videos and laughing at the same jokes, indicating that they are more
62 than teenagers in the past. They may be keen on 63 their friends and posting updates on social media sites, but teenagers today are probably going to have access to technology and 64 social and educational opportunities that anyone with a less flexible brain may have trouble imagining. Nevertheless, there is a cut-off point, and by the age of 30, our brains in their ways, making it more
65 for us to adapt and cope with new technologies.
51. A. digital B. adolescent C. surgical D. artificial
52. A. functioning B. noticing C. adjusting D. deciding
53. A. however B. therefore C. otherwise D. instead
54. A. natural B. glorious C. limited D. extended
55. A. keep up with B. come up with C. put up with D. end up with
56. A. gossiping B. multitasking C. interacting D. playing
57. A. reports B. curiosities C. concerns D. talks
58. A. memorize B. sort C. imagine D. socialize
59. A. changed B. controlled C. troubled D. interrupted
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