1、上海市崇明县届高三上学期期末考试一模英语试题及答案上海市崇明县2015届高三上学期期末考试（一模）英语试题（考试时间120分钟，满分150分。请将答案填写在答题纸上）第卷 (共103分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections 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 conv
2、ersations 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. Wednesday. B. Friday. C. Sunday. D. Tuesday.2. A. By subway. B. By
3、 taxi. C. In Richards car. D. On Jerrys train. 3. A. Boss and secretary. B. Guest and hotel staff. C. Tourist and tour guide. D. Customer and shop assistant. 4. A. In a clinic. B. In a supermarket. C. In a restaurant. D. In a ice-cream shop.5. A. She doesnt like going outside. B. The man should stud
4、y now. C. She doesnt want to study now. D. The man should take some exercise.6.A. A journalist. B. An artist. C. A teacher. D. An economist.7. A. He may dislike travelling. B. He may like to travel in other seasons. C. He may be unable to afford the trip. D. He may prefer to travel to other places.8
5、. A. The way of spending time wisely. B. The trouble of keeping clocks going. C. The number of clocks the man has. D. The reason for the mans having many clocks.9. A. The Edwards are quite well-off. B. Itll be unwise for the Edwards to buy another house. C. The Edwards should cut down on their livin
6、g expenses. D. Its too expensive for the Edwards to live in their present house.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 wasnt wearing the seat belt when the accident happened. D. The mans daughter advised him t
7、o wear the seat belt before he left home.Section BDirections 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 an
8、swers 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. The benefits of walking. B. The importance of keeping fit. C. The way of forming a habit. D. The possibility of excising regularly.12. A.
9、 Walking needs much thinking. B. Walking improves peoples memory. C. Walking is suitable for almost everyone. D. Walking helps people concentrate on other things.13. A. It is the easiest way to lose weight. B. It should be made part of peoples life. C. It can make peoples heart stronger. D. It preve
10、nts people suffering from cancer.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. A way to get special rewards from project owners. B. A formal project that can get funded on Kickstarter. C. A special website helping creative projects find support. D. A story about Mozarts seeking s
11、upporters for his concerts.15. A. 5,000,000. B. 60,000. C. 10,000. D. 200.16. A. The projects should be finished by the creators. B. Only well-known people can share their projects. C. Supporters can contribute anything to the projects. D. Creators must promise financial rewards for supporters.Secti
12、on CDirections 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
13、the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.DANIELS MEMO Jan. 9,2015THING TO DO to pick up Lilys brother at the airportTIME 2 p.m. tomorrowHIS APPEARANCE shortish with dark brown hair and a thick 17 HIS AGE in his 18 HIS CHARACTER easy-going, 19 but a little shyPLACE
14、 TO GO the cinema 20 Lilys office buildingBlanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.What will Ellen do first?She will 21 first.Why cant John go with Ellen?Because he has to 22 they read in class.What does Ellen offe
15、r to do for John?She offers to help John 23 .Where will they meet later?They will meet 24 .II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections 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
16、with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank.(A)A woman was waiting at an airport one night. She hunted for a book, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to sit.She was absorbed in her book but happened (25) _(see) that the man sitting besid
17、e her grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between them. She tried to ignore it. As the greedy cookie thief kept (26) _ (eat) ,she munched(大声咀嚼) some cookies and watched the clock.She was getting angrier as time went by, thinking, “If I werent so nice, I would blacken his eyes.” With each cookie
18、she took, he took one, too; when only one was left, she wondered what he (27) _ (do).With a smile on his face, and nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it (28) _half. He offered her a half, and ate (29) _ _She grabbed it from him and thought, “Ooh, this guy is so rude! Why didnt he even
19、show any gratitude?”When her flight was called, she gathered her belongings and headed for the gate, (30) _(refuse) to look back at the rude thief. She boarded the plane, sank in her seat, and looked for her book.As she reached in her baggage, she found her bag of cookie with surprise. “(31) _ mine
20、is here, the others were his, and he tried to share! How rude I was! It was I who (32) _ have showed gratitude.”(B)Studying for an exam while listening to music is not smart, (33) _ background music can reduce your ability to perform memory tasks, new research has found. Study participants were aske
21、d to recall a list of eight letters in the order they(34) _ (present). They did this while in five different sound environments quiet surroundings; musicthey liked; music they disliked; changing state (an order of random digits); and steady state (an order of steady digits such as “3,3,3,3”). The pa
22、rticipants recall ability was the poorest when listening to music, regardless of (35) _ they liked or disliked it, and in changing-state conditions. (36) _(accurate) recall occurred when participants performed the task in steady-state environments, according to the study(37) _(publish) online in the
23、 journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.“It is the sound variation in the music and changing state (38) _ reduces the ability to recall the order of items within the presented list,” explained the leading researcher Nick Perham, (39) _ is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Wal
24、es Institute in Cardiff, in a news release from the journals publisher.When performing (40) _ challenging mental task, do it in silence, Perham recommended.Section BDirections Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word m
25、ore than you need.A. embarrassingB. claimsC. equippedD. launchedE. accusedF. previouslyG. properlyH. featuresI. completelyJ. unreliableK. concernsA row of cars appears to be stranded on a remote road, while a confused man on the left of the photo looks to be checking a roadside map while he calls fo
26、r help.The street view cars, each 41 with nine 2.5 meter-high multi-directional cameras, silently travel around the streets, taking pictures of city centers, side streets and even residential areas.They have 42 captured sunbathing girls, children fighting and even a man dressed as Paddington Bear wa
27、ving at the camera, raising 43 about invasion of privacy. But these potentially 44 shots, taken near Amsterdam, are the first time that the lens(镜头) has been turned on the Google company and its black cars.Google street View, 45 in 2007, allows “armchair explorers” to travel the world with a click o
28、f a mouse button. It 46 locations on all seven continents, and its makers claim that 95 percent of the UK has been mapped out on the companys servers.Some users of the service, who 47 the companys Google Maps of being 48 , said that the picture showed that you couldnt always rely on technology. One
29、said “This is why I still have a map in my car. I often use Google Streetview, but I never rely on it 49 or use it to plan routes.” Another added “It told me to drive straight through a petrol station on one occasion.”A Google spokesperson denied the 50 . She said “It doesnt look to me like theyre l
30、ost. The drivers undergo training so they know how to use the equipment and it looks like this might more likely be what theyre doing.” III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with
31、the word or phrase that best fits the context.Surprising new research suggests it can actually be good to feel bad at work, and that feeling good in the workplace can lead to negative outcomes. The study of emotions in the workplace, edited by University of Liverpool researchers Drs. Dirk Lindebaum
32、and Peter Jordan, is the 51 of a Special Issue of the journal Human Relations.They found that the 52 held assumption that positivity in the workplace produces positive outcomes, while negative emotions lead to negative outcomes, may be in need for 53 . This is partly due to this assumption 54 to take int
