2017-2018-上海实验-高三上11月月考

SES 2018届上海实验高三第一学期英语十一月月考试卷

（考试时间：120 分钟）

第I 卷

I. Listening Comprehension (25%) 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 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. Excited. B. Dissatisfied. C. Bored. D. Exhausted. 2. A. 7:00. B. 7:10. C. 9:00. D. 9:10. 3. A. A cook. B. A shop assistant. C. A saleswoman. D. A waitress. 4. A. At a gas station. B. In a work shop.

C. At an art gallery. D. In a department store. 5. A. He hasn’t had a chance to meet Kathy yet. B. Kathy had already told him the news. C. He didn’t know that Kathy was being moved. D. His new office will be located in New York. 6. A. The woman wants to go to Toronto. B. The man wants to go to Vancouver. C. There are no flights to Toronto. D. There are two direct flights to Toronto. 7. A. She should do more careful work.

B. She is not concerned about George’s remarks. C. George does not care about her. D. George shouldn’t have said much about her. 8. A. She can’t afford that much for a trip. B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money. C. She doesn’t think 15,000 dollars is enough for the trip. D. She considers 15,000 dollars only a small sum of money. 9. A. Playing tennis. B. Writing a term paper. C. Gathering materials. D. Holding a meeting. 10. A. The man was seriously injured in the car accident. B. The man had poor imagination because of the car accident. C. The man wasn’t wearing the seat belt when the accident happened. D. The man’s daughter advised him to wear the seat belt before he left home.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one conversation. You will be asked three questions on each of the passages and four questions for the conversation. The passages and 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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Future researchers. B. College students.

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C. Company employees. D. Successful artists. 12. A. To teach the listeners how to work hard. B. To enable the listeners to get better salaries. C. To prepare the listeners to get better jobs. D. To encourage the listeners to seize opportunities. 13. A. Kindness. B. Diligence. C. Willingness. D. Interest.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. The benefits of walking. B. The importance of keeping fit. C. The way of forming a habit. D. The possibility of excising regularly. 15. A. Because it needs much thinking. B. Because people can improve their memory. C. Because it is suitable for everyone. D. Because people needn’t concentrate on it. 16. A. It is the easiest way to lose weight. B. It can be made part of people’s life. C. It can make people’s hearts stronger. D. It prevents people suffering from cancers.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. He has just been back from South America. B. He has been burnt for a few hours. C. He has been surfing the Internet for long. D. He has been doing school work all night.

18. A. To look for something interesting for pleasure. B. To meet new friends in the net chatroom. C. To release pressure from heavy work. D. To look for information for his project.

19. A. Quite a few sites are just old event calendars.

B. It’s a waste of time to surf the Internet. C. A lot of information can be found. D. A lot of friends can be made on the Internet.

20. A. People spend much time talking about other interests. B. It takes long to find things because of many useless sites. C. It is hard to start chatting with others in the chatroom. D. It’s hardly the best source of information available.

II. Grammar and vocabulary (20%) Section A (10%)

Directions: After reading the passage 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.

Kazuo Ishiguro, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar. The 62-year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early

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dream was to be a great singer and songwriter, like last year’s winner, Bob Dylan.

His friend and former publisher Robert McCrum recalls the young Ishiguro 21) __________(turn) up at the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories in one hand and a guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories 22) __________ earned him the great honor he received two weeks ago.

23) __________ his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a British citizen who writes in English. He 24) __________(educate) at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers.

Ishiguro’s writing is highly restrained. His characters are often reluctant to express 25) __________, except in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to 26) __________ he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, which later became a successful film.

The central character of the book is a butler called Stevens. He is an extremely loyal servant to an English lord, and is a character who some might call repressed. He misses out on affection and love 27) __________ he will not confess his feelings to anyone.

The story is told by Stevens, and his style is as polite and unrevealing as his behavior. Of course, we 28) __________ __________ read between the lines to uncover the “real” story, which isn’t quite the one the butler is telling. Stevens finds it a challenge 29) _________(communicate), and communication is often a theme in Ishiguro’s novels.

In this author’s sense of the world, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate them. The Nobel Committee emphasized this theme 30) __________ it talked about Ishiguro’s work. The writer has, the committee claimed, “in novels of great emotional force ... uncovered the abyss(深渊) beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

Section B (10%)

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. dominate B. echoed C. appeal D. dedicated E. highlights F. criticism G. vision H. interpreter I. featured J. transform K. dominant There are few symbols of pure American culture more powerful than the Disney theme parks. To walk down Main Streets, U.S.A., is to walk through a particular 31) ________ of America’s collective memory. It’s small-town values. It’s optimism. It’s energy. It’s innovation. It’s a certain kind of innocence. It is by design, the story of the “American Way”—and one that has played a(n) 32) ________ role in shaping the collective memory of American history

Though Disney Parks today are well-established cultural icons, the Walt Disney Company’s start as a(n) 33) ________ of American history and ideals began long before it opened the gates of Disneyland. It is a sophisticated process. From its creation in 1923 as “The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio,” the Disney operation was producing films that 34) ________ Americans’ ideal version of themselves.

Often set in a glorified 19th century rural American heartland, these animations 35) ________ a hero (usually the indomitable(不屈不挠的) Mickey Mouse) whose strong work ethic and bravery in the face of risk always found the “little guy” and “common man” triumphant over his foe(敌人). Such optimistic sentiment held great 36) ________ in the country’s Depression

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