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松江区2014-2015学年度第一学期期末质量监控试卷
高三英语
（满分150分，完卷时间120分钟） 2015.1
第Ⅰ卷 （103分）
I. Listening Comprehension Section A（10分）
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. At 10:30 B. At10:50 C. At 11:00 D. At 11:20 2. A. Husband and wife B. Doctor and patient C. Manager and clerk D. Waitress and customers 3. A. To India B. To Jane’s party C. To the museum D. To a gallery 4. A. The ring is not hers B. She doesn’t have gold rings C. She prefers gold to silvers. D. She lost her silver ring 5. A. They should give Sally some on-the-job training B. They should buy Sally a train ticket C. They shouldn’t take Sally into account D. They shouldn’t ask Sally to get more qualification 6. A. Occupation B. Hobby C. Literature D. Part-time job 7. A. Check the number B. Try harder C. Wait for a signal D. Phone later 8. A. The air is fresh B. It’s hot inside C. The window is open D. It’s noisy outside 9. A. confused. B. Sympathetic C. Embarrassed D. Uninterested 10. A. He lost his way B. He received a traffic ticket C. He worked very carefully D. He drove in heavy traffic
Section B （12分）
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. To explain the campus architecture to visitors
B. To show new staff around the campus
C. To make new students familiar with the campus D. To advise new students about which classes to take 12. A. Registration forms 仅供学习与参考
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B. A library card
C. A list of class schedules D. A campus map
13. A. Move into their dormitories B. Find their classrooms
C. Memorizes campus landmarks D. Schedule their first exams
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. To inform parents and schools B. To pick out good students C. To compare teachers D. To expose poor schools
15. A. They have no trust in doctors B. They cannot afford the medical fee C. They fear things like injections D. They doubt the medical treatment 16. A. Teachers’ difficult life
B. Harm of divorce of families C. Ways to become lovable kids
D. Kids’ attention-seeking behavior
Section C （8分）
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. What does the man say about his job? He can ___________it quite well Which train does the man take to work everyday? He takes that________train to work everyday How does the man feel about the time on the train He feels that the time on the train is now? ______________________________________ How does the man spend his time on the way He ____________with a good book or has a home? game of bridge Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. What does the man make a call to buy some Because he buys them to _________ supplies? What’s the feather of the D045 model? It has it’s own_____________________ How long will the man get what he has He will certainly get it______________ ordered? 仅供学习与参考
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What’s the man’s telephone number? It is________________extension 51 Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A（16分）
(A)
When I was eight, I saw a movie about an island that had an erupting volcano and jungles filled with wild animals. The island was ruled by a beautiful woman called Tondalaya, the Fire Goddess of the Volcano. It was a low budget movie, but to me, it represented the perfect life. But through the years, Tondalaya was forgotten.
The week I turned 50, my marriage came to a sudden end. My house, furniture and everything I___25___ (own) was sold to pay debts that I didn't even know existed. In a week I had lost my husband, my home and my parents who had refused to accept a divorce (离婚) in the family.
I'd lost ____26___ except my four teenage children. I used every penny I had to buy five plane tickets from Missouri to Hawaii. Everyone said I was crazy to think I could just run off to an island and survive. I was afraid they were right.
I worked 18 hours a day and lost 30 pounds because I lived on one meal a day. One night ___27___ I walked alone on the beach, I saw the red orange lava (火山岩) ____28___(pour) out of Kilauea Volcano in the distance. It was time to live my imagination!
The next day, I quit my job, bought some art supplies and began doing __29____I loved. I hadn't painted a picture in 15 years. I wondered if I ___30___ still paint. My hands trembled the first time I picked up a brush. But before an hour had passed, I was lost in the colors spreading across the canvas (画布) in front of me. And(31)___ ____ _____ I started believing in myself, other people started believing in me, too. The first painting sold for $1 500.
The past six years have been filled with adventures. My children and I have gone swimming with dolphins, watched whales and hiked around the crater rim (火山口边缘) of the volcano. We wake up every morning ___32___ the ocean in front of us and the volcano behind us.
(B)
Jane Austen was born in the English countryside more than 200 years ago. She lived ____33__ simple life. She seldom travelled. She never married and she died from illness when she was only 41.
However, people all over the world remember her. Why? It is because Jane Austen is the author of some of the best-loved novels in the English language. These novels include Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.
Jane completed her last novel Persuasion in 1816, but it was___34___ (not publish) until after her death. Persuasion is partly based on Jane’s naval brother.
Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, falls in love with Captain Wentworth, a person of a ___35___(low) social position. But she breaks off the engagement when_____36____(persuade) by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. Eight years later, Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain. He finds Anne’s family on the edge of financial ruin. Anne and the captain rediscover their love and get married.
Jane Austen once compared her writing to ____37___(paint) on a little bit of ivory（象牙）, two inches square. Readers of Persuasion will see that ___38____ her skill of delicate, ironic(讽刺的) observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability____39___ ( apply) a sharp focus to English manners and morals has abandoned her in her final finished work. 仅供学习与参考
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Persuasion has produced three film adaptations: a 1995 version starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, a 2007 TV miniseries with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones, and a 1971 miniseries with Ann Firbank and Bryan Marshall.
People who are interested in Jane Austen can still visit many of the places she visited and lived. These places include the village of Steventon, although her family house is now gone. Many of the places Jane visited in Bath are still there. You can visit Jane Austen’s home in Chawton, where she did her best writing, and Winchester, __40___ she died.
Section B(10分)
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.explore B. instructing C. reflect D. encountered E. independent F. motivated G. accustomed H. ordering I. techniques J. processes K. unique How can English teachers accelerate the language learning of their students? One way is to teach students how to learn more effectively and efficiently. Learning strategies are \ 41 that learners can use to facilitate a learning task. \ 42 students of English in learning strategies can help them become better learners. In addition, skill in using learning strategies assists students in becoming 43 , confident learners. Finally, students become more 44 as they begin to understand the relationship between their use of strategies and success in learning English.
Students need to develop an awareness of the learning process and strategies that lead to success. Students who 45 on their own thinking are more likely to engage in planning how to proceed with a learning task, monitoring their own performance on an ongoing basis, finding solutions to problems 46 , and evaluating themselves upon task completion. These activities may be difficult for students 47 to having a teacher who solves all their learning problems and is the 48 judge of their progress.
Teachers need to encourage students to rely more on themselves. Because learning strategies are mental 49 with few observable manifestations, teachers need to find ways to make the strategies as concrete as possible. When students are able to use the strategies their teachers have taught them, and to do so without prompting, then they need to 50 new strategies, new applications, and new opportunities for self-regulated learning.
III. Reading Comprehension Section A
Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the 51 one. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not 52 to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
Listening well also requires total 53 upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or 54 of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. 55 , since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary 56 of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to 57 up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be 58 only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
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social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening 60 . Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain 61 results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply 62 to listen to what we don’t want to hear.
It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有疗效的) In about a quarter of the patients I saw, 63 improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy, before any of the 64 of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s 65 that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
51. A. positive B. opposite C. same D. wrong 52. A. reluctant B. generous C. willing D. considerate 53. A. dependence B. influence C. decision D. concentration 54. A. setting aside B. getting over C. noting down D. sticking to 55. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. For instance 56. A. abandonment B. acceptance C. forgetfulness D. absorption 57. A. turn B. take C. make D. open 58. A. performed B. accomplished C. accompanied D. experienced 59. A. require B. produce C. lack D. motivate 60. A. hopefully B. selectively C. thoroughly D. accurately 61. A. desired B. unexpected C. required D. Approved 62. A. hesitate B. decide C. refuse D. agree 63. A. imposing B. surprising C. fortunate D. instinct 64. A. roots B. reasons C. varieties D. features 65. A. purpose B. sense C. conclusion D. responsibility Section B
Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, and C. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
The year was 1993 and the Detroit Tigers were playing the New York Yankees. When my son began dropping gentle hints that a game would take place at Tiger Stadium on Mother’s Day that year, I already knew who they were playing with! \My senior high son asked with a playful look. I just smiled.
There had been a lot of talk about a new stadium in place of the one that stood proudly on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in Detroit. As I sat in the seating section, I wondered how the old place could actually become a thing of the past. It was so alive; the stadium was full of watchers and the excitement with two good ball teams, the smell of popcorn.
The announcer recognized all Mother’s and each one received a gift which I still have today.
Don Mattingly was a favorite ball player of our sons and he was one of the many players that made up the team that beat the Tiger’s that May Day. While we drank our favorite soft drink, we watched the guy with the number 23 shirt hit a home run during the game. The fans went wild. The Yankees won 11 to 2.
Part of the excitement comes from a visit to the old ballpark . While the organ music played, everyone stood and sang Take Me Out To the Ballgame. It was part of the fun about a trip to the ballpark; and it
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