黄浦区2016学年第二学期期中 高三年级英语学科教学质量监测试卷
I. Listening Comprehension
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.
Should Children Ban Their Parents from Social Media ?
It might be taken for granted –but no previous generation of children will have had the expenence of having their entire childhoods intensively and publicly documented in this way . But the very first people to have had some of their childhood picture s _____21____(post) online are not always happy about their formative years being preserved in digital world .
Parents may not realize it , but by posting photos and videos of their online , they are creating an identity for their children ____22_____might not be welcomed . Lucy is a good example . She said she had asked her dad to de-tag her from “stuff that doesn’t necessary represent ___23_____I am now . That’s not something I’d want to remember every time I log on to Facebook -------- It isn’t the best memories , which is the way you ‘d like to reveal ___24_____on social media .”
Stones about online privacy are often about children and teenagers being warmed of the dangers of publishing too much personal information online. But in this case it’s their parents who are in the spotlight . For some parents , ____25_____(safe) option is avoiding social media altogether .
Kasia Kurowaska from Newcastle is expecting her first child in June and has agreed with her partner Lee to impose a blanket ban _____26____her children are old enough to make their own decision about social media . But she has two big concerns about her plan . Firstly , it will be difficult ____27_____(impose) .”When their auntie comes round and takes a picture , we’re going to have to be like paparazzi police , saying , please don’t put these on Facebook . And secondly , the child might dislike _____28_____(not own ) an oline presence , especially if all of their friends do . But I _____29_____(keep ) a digital record of them . It just won’t have been shared on a platform ____30____the masses.
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. criticize B. desperately C. establish D. feature E. focus F. gratitude G. hearfelt H. humanity I . influence J. present K. touch
letters Brought Back to Life
Letters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages . But a TV shows , Letters Alive , is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back into the ___31___.
Letters Alive took it idea from a UK program with a similar name , Letters Live . Both shows _____32__-famous actors and actresses , but there is no gossip , no eye-catching visual effects. Instead , it’s just
one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter .
But these are not just any letters . They vary greatly in time and subjects . There is , for example , a
passionate letter that famous painter Huang Youngyu wrote to playwright Cao Yu 30 years ago to ____33____ his lack of creativity . There is also a(n) ____34_____note from Spring and Autumn Period written by two ordinary young soldiers to their elder brother to report their lives in the war zone.
Compared to published texts , letters also come with a personal ____35____.
One example from Letters live was a note of ____36_____from the mother of a dying child to JK Rowling , author of the Harry Potter books . It reads :’ Mrs Rowling ,cancer threatened to take everything from my daughter , and your books turned out to be the castle we so ___37_____needed to hide in .”
According to Guan Zhengwen , the director of Letter Alive , it is this kind of ____38_____behind every letter that strikes a harmony with the audience .’ It’s a thing of the past that entertainment shows _____39____themselves only with pretty face. “ Guan told Sohu News ,” Entertainment industry is starting to switch to a(n) __40_____on wisdom and intelligence .”
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.
Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily Considered Better
The film , which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age , that of smaller start-up . By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP’s decision to separate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations , the company had grown into a clumsy ____41____Its fortunes started to ____42_____with a series of expensive and much criticized purchase. By 2012 it had lost its position as the World ‘s leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo . The dramatic ____43____was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing , responding to shareholder demands for more aggressive ______44_____.
“ I would go from laser jet printing to our big enterprise services contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations . These two things are not like each other . So the ability to focus and engage with customers on a(n)_____45_____set of objectives and business outcomes . I can already see the differences.” Ms Whitmannn ,who now heads the new spin-off . Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( HPE) selling servers and services, says the change has already ___46______her performance . “ One big change is it _____47_____each of the divisions to pursue the strategy that is right for them. ____48_____, there is ‘no way ‘ printer and PC company HP Inc’s decision last year to by Samsung’s printing business for $1 bn would have happened when it was part of the larger firm . So it’s that ability to drive your own program , not ____49___by other businesses that don’t have the same characteristics .” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that she’s ____50_____HPE futher , spinning off both its business services division and its software business into separate companies last year.
Her assumption that bigger doesn’t always mean better seems ____51____. After all , a larger company should find it easier to dominate the market it operates in . But the rapid rise of much small start-up s , competing and often overtaking these established powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that ____52_____equals success is being challenged .____53______in 2014, eBay carved PayPal , the electronic payments arm it bought in 2001, off from the main online sale business .
Box , a cloud storage company , is another case in point. Founder Aaron Levie says ,” Whether Uber , Airbnb ,those same lessons _____54____, which is if you can build something that’s cheaper , faster and more
scalable and delivers a far better customer experience than what the traditional sellers were able to do , then you can be extremely ___55_____.
41. A. appearance B. construction C. giant D. possession 42. A. decline B. increase C. stay D. vary
43. A. adventure B. combination C. development D. split 44. A. behavior B. growth C. markets D. policies 45. A. ambitious B. complex C. narrow D. overall
46. A. delivered B. improved C. measured D. standardized 47. A. allows B. employs C. reminds D.threatens
48. A. All in all B. For example C. On the contrary D. What’s more 49. A. held back B. kept on C. looked over D. taken down 50. A. dissolved B. expanded C. operated C. shrunk
51. A. fundamental B. reasonable C. surprising D. widespread 52. A. diligence B. discipline C. profit D. size
53. A. Comparatively B. Generally C. Similarly D. Unexpectedly 54. A. apply B. fail C. hide D. increase
55. A. friendly B. miserable C. motivated D. troublesome
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)
Born in 1823 in Wales , Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of modest means , but he had a passion for nature and he chose to follow it . He started out collecting insects as a hobby , but eventually his longing for adventure led him to explore the world .
Luckily for Wallace , Victorian Britain was discovering an interest in weird and wonderful insets ,so the demand from museums and private collections for these bests was growing . Wallace was able to make a living doing what he loved : collecting beetles and other insects .
But his first trip of exploring the world ended in disaster . Wallace proceeded to the Amazon in South America . Its giant forests promised a wealth of new species , sure to put him on the scientific map . The trip took 6 weeks and involved every mode of transport in existence at the time . After four years Wallace had to watch in despair as his samples went up in flames ----including live animals he was bringing home that were trying to jump free of the flames . But he did not let it stop him .
In 1854, Wallace set off on another adventure , this time to the Malay Archipelago . Wallace found himself humbled by the new and exciting things he saw. He later recalled : “ As I lie listening to these interesting sounds , I think how many besides myself have longed to see with their own eyes the many wonderful and beautiful things which I am daily encountering .”
In 1858, Wallace wrote what became as the ‘Temate essay “: a piece of writing that was to change our understanding of life forever . In his essay , Wallace argued that a species would only turn into another species if it
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