1、上海市黄浦区年高三二模英语试题黄浦区2014年高考模拟考 英语试卷 2014年4月10日下午考生注意：1. 考试时间120分钟, 试卷满分150分。2. 本试卷设试卷和答题卷两部分。试卷分为第I卷和第II卷。所有答案必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题卷上，做在试卷上一律不得分。3. 答题前，务必在答题卷纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码贴在指定位置上。第I卷 I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two sp
2、eakers. 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 q
3、uestion you have heard.1. A. August 6. B. August 7. C. August 13. D. August 19.2. A. A coat store. B. A chemists. C. A dry cleaner. D. A watch shop.3. A. Policeman and driver. B. Teacher and student. C. Boss and clerk. D. Doctor and nurse.4. A. A brand of jeans. B. A new hair style. C. Popular stars
4、. D.School uniforms.5. A. The man enjoys dramas very much. B. Soap operas arent the womans favorite. C. The woman has watched a lot of soap operas. D. The man doesnt want to watch a drama with the woman.6. A. Anxious. B. Casual. C. Supportive. D. Unbelieving.7. A. The style of the watch. B. Her boyf
5、riends figure. C. The price of the watch. D. Her boyfriends preference.8. A. The damage to the environment. B. The location of the hotel. C. The demand of the job market. D. The solution to the issue.9. A. She cant afford that much for a trip.B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money.C. She do
6、esnt think 15,000 dollars is enough for the trip.D. She considers 15,000 dollars only a small sum of money.10. A. Skipping the meal to lose weight. B. Having the pizza with the woman.C. Ordering food to be eaten at home. D. Dining out instead of eating at home.Section BDirections: In Section B, you
7、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 questi
8、on you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Engine trouble. B. Poor weather. C. Tall waterfalls. D. Tight budget.12. A. Amazing as well as tough. B. Funny while incredible. C. Disappointing but rewarding. D. Fascinating and well-paid.13. A. A mechanic. B. A ph
9、otographer. C. A travel writer. D. A weather man.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Because it is totally beyond most students ability. B. Because it doesnt help people today learn from history. C. Because students should be taught from the past forward. D. Because th
10、is kind of teaching approach is out-of-fashion.15. A. By studying with the traditional approach.B. By keeping names, places and dates in mind.C. By putting forward questions about the near future.D. By looking into the past for answers to present problems.16. A. To explain the history of education.B
11、. To state the purpose of learning history.C. To criticize students habits of history study. D. To present a new method of history education.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are requ
12、ired 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. RESERVATIONNAME: _17_ TanDESTINATION: _18_Departure FlightDate: May 20thClass: _19_Return FlightDate: May _20_Class: Business
13、Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each blank.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. Being a News Announcer at KGNGood PointsBad Points _21_ _22_ interviews with important people high stress long _23_PS: Because of the tough competition, you have to be _24_.Complete the for
14、m. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank.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 with the proper form of the given word; f
15、or the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank.( A ) Since my retirement from teaching music in 2001, I have spent a good deal of time 25. _ (paint) as an artist. I actually began drawing in the summer of 1995 when my father died, so perhaps I was trying to recover 26. _ the loss of my f
16、ather, or maybe it was just paintings 27. _ brought back memories of him. In any case, I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years. For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again, but 28. _ _ _ I w
17、alked out of the school door for the last time, I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth, who quickly became my favorite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be 29. _ (close) to how I thought good watercolors should look. So I pa
18、inted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However, watercolors remained my first choice, and I think I did my best work there, 30. _ (display) my paintings at a number of art shows. It is wonderful to have some time doing 31. _ I want to do. As Con
19、fucius once said, “At seventy I can follow my hearts desire.” ( B ) In the last decade, research 32. _ (show) that resistance exercise can help numerous disease states, including depression. You can improve your overall health just by watching your weight and taking walks in the neighborhood. But 33
20、. _ you want to improve your fitness look better, maximize health, have more energy, prevent injuries you need to do more. In recent years, emphasis has shifted to a type of resistance training 34. _ builds muscles used in day-to-day tasks, helping avoid injury or re-injury. 35. _ (call) functional
21、strength training, it helps with tasks such as lifting infants in and out of car seats or lifting garage doors. Another goal is 36. _ (reduce) the risk factors in patients with long-term diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. “Part of my job is trying to convince that 85-year-old woman that sh
22、e really 37. _ start weight lifting. 38. _ who need persuading are women recently treated for breast cancer.” says Dr. Dennis Kerrigan, at Henry Ford Health Systems Center for Athletic Medicine. “Friends and family tell them, Take it easy, but chemotherapy (化疗) can reduce muscle mass, leaving body f
23、at that is linked to cancer returning,” he says. “My suggestion? Strength training. Its taken a long time for women to realize 39. _ important strength training is, but once they try it, they 40. _ (hook).” Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word
24、can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. applicationsB. devotedC. easy-goingD. efficientlyE. increasinglyF. interactG. freshH. publicizeI. respectJ. traditionalK. wildfireWhen US Duke University second-year student Christian Drappi sees someone using a Square (an elec
25、tronic payment service) credit card reader, he pulls out his phone, takes a picture and uploads it to Twitter. “It kind of spreads like _41_ through Twitter,” said Drappi, who is a campus brand representative for Square. Companies are _42_ using college campus brand representatives to spread the wor
26、d about their products. These representatives often rely on word-of-mouth tools like social media to _43_ the company and any promotional events they host.Though the brand representative is no stranger to the college marketing scene, social media are changing how these representatives _44_ with stud
27、ents of their same age and how effectively their message is communicated. Companies like Red Bull, Microsoft and Twitter all have campus representatives _45_ to spreading good news about the brand.“Campus representatives approach students groups, local merchants and other prospective users to demons
28、trate how the card reader works and its advantages over _46_ machines.” Adam Bassett, who runs the Square U program said.Cord Silverstein, executive vice president of interactive communications at the Raleigh advertising agency Capstrat, said, “Social media have made it easier than ever for college
29、students to share opinions on a product with their friends. Someones friend, someone they _47_, like a student or a professor, these people are having much greater influence on what college students think, like and dont like, because they trust their opinions.”When looking at representative _48_, Mc
30、Carthy, who heads the campus representative program for Square, said the company looks for _49_ students who are social-media understanding. “Three or four years ago, brand representatives on campus were a(n) _50_ idea. Now companies have them everywhere. Theres only so much mindshare to capture.” M
31、cCathy emphasized. III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passages 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.In India, almost all marriages are arranged. Even among the educated middle classes in modern urban India, marriage is as much a concern of the families as it is of the _51_. So customary is the practice of arranged marriage that there is a special name for a marriage which is not _52_: It is called a “love
