1、上海市闵行区高中三年级英语二模闵行区2015学年第二学期高三年级质量调研考试英语试卷考生注意：1考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分。2本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第I卷（第1-11页）和第II卷（第12页），全卷共12页。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。3答题前，务必在答题纸上填写号和。第I卷 (共103分)I. Listening Comprehension Section ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speaker
2、s. 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 questi
3、on you have heard.1. A. At a post office. B. At a garage. C. At a newspaper office. D. At a publishing house.2. A. $15. B. $30. C. $50. D. $100.3. A. Shes unwilling to do it. B. She is afraid of donating blood. C. Donating blood is none of her business. D. Shes ready to donate blood.4. A. A shop ass
4、istant. B. A dentist. C. An electrician. D. A bank clerk.5. A. Boring. B. Horrible. C. Moving. D. Sad.6. A. Lending money to a student. B. Working in the office. C. Reading a students application. D. Asking for some financial aid.7. A. The invention of the steam engine. B. The application of the ste
5、am engine. C. The history textbook. D. Watts life.8. A. He has not adjusted to the new culture. B. He has been studying hard at night. C. He finds biology difficult to learn. D. He is not accustomed to the time in a different zone.9. A. She thinks that Bill Gates is a successful person not just beca
6、use he is rich. B. She believes that its impossible for Bill Gates to be rich and kind as well. C. She doesnt want to be a person like Bill Gates. D. She regards wealth as the most important part in Bill Gates success.10. A. Mark made some trouble with Bobby. B. Bobby was a trouble-maker at school.
7、C. Mr. Allen was Bobbys class teacher. D. Mark was Bobbys elder brother.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 que
8、stion, 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. Acceptable. B. Unsatisfactory. C. Tolerable. D. Adequate.12. A. One semester. B. 20 days. C. Three months
9、. D. Nine weeks.13. A. Enlarging the space and extending the evening hours. B. Increasing the teaching staff and lengthening the operation hours. C. Cutting on waiting time and increasing work efficiency. D. Enlarging childrens play area and offering parents flexible pick-up time.Questions 14 throug
10、h 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. To invite authors to guide readers. B. To involve people in community service. C. To encourage people to read and share. D. To promote the friendship between cities.15. A. Because they came from many different backgrounds. B. Because they were too busy
11、to read a book. C. Because they had little interest in reading. D. Because they lacked support from the local government.16. A. The careful selection of a proper book. B. The number of people who benefit from the process. C. The growing popularity of the writers. D. The number of books that each per
12、son reads.Section 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
13、20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.What is Harrods famous for?Its (17)_ Hall and Food Hall.When was Harrods founded?In (18)_.How does Monica think of its service?Excellent and (19)_.How is the business during the January sales?There is an in
14、crease in (20)_ and sales.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write no more than THREE WORDS for each answer.What do the individuals bring to the companies?Different ideas, (21)_ and learning experiences.Why do people behave so differently at work?Due to t
15、he two factors: (22)_.What is the positive effect of individuals working together?Helping (23)_.What is the disadvantage of individuals differences?They are the (24)_ between staff.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passage
16、s 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.(A)Barditch High School decided to have an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There were
17、 tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, (25)_ (wheel) to the Park.Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans (嘟囔声) when Ms.Yates was about
18、 to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman (26)_ had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.Then Ms. Yates started to speak:“I cant te
19、ll you (27)_ pleased I am to be here. I havent seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. (28)_ I havent appeared in person, I have attend
20、ed your college graduations, weddings and even the birth of your children, in my imagination.”Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and (29)_ would succeed to annoy me. Regardles
21、s of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in your (30)_ (choose) path.”“There is no (31)_ (great) comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all fr
22、om the bottom of my heart.”There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar. Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame (32)_ _ the words from a
23、 long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.(B)Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is going to experience (33)_ unwelcome surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer (锁止器)，and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure th
24、at (34)_ the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will te
25、ll the control centre to block the vehicles engine management system and prevent the engine (35)_ (start).In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed,” says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take
26、him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.Modern cars are far tougher to steal, (36)_ their engine management computer wont allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed (发射) out by the ignit
27、ion (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this (37)_ (help) achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owners keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of thefts of vehicles fitte
28、d with a (38)_ (track) system.If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operation centre (39)_ it has been stolen. The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal. Staff at the centre will then conta
29、ct the owner (40)_ (confirm) that the car really is missing, and keep the police informed of the vehicles movements via the cars GPS unit.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 nee
30、d.A. sufferedB. abandoningC. conclusionD. claimE. chargingF. modelG. acknowledgedH. boastingI. closeJ. elsewhereK. balance It is usually a common practice that journal websites offer readers their free online editions of articles and other information. However, Americas most popular newspaper websit
31、e announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a 41 . The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to set out plans for a pay wall around its digital offering, 42 the accepted practice that Internet users will not pay for news.Struggling with a decline of advertising and a downward tendency in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” 43 at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be require
