1、英语上海市崇明区届高三第一次模拟考试英语试题崇明区2018届第一次高考模拟考试试卷英 语 （考试时间120分钟，满分140分。请将答案填写在答题纸上）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 conversations and the
2、 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. In the street. B. At home. C. On the phone. D. At an office.2. A. A journalist. B.
3、An electrician. C. A salesman. D. An operator.3. A. The flying time. B. The strange weather. C. The mans jacket. D. The changeable fashion.4. A. She had a holiday. B. She travelled with her cousin.C. Her cousin visited her. D. Her cousin was away from Belgium.5. A. The stage is not big enough. B. Th
4、eyre lucky to get two tickets. C. Its not easy at all to get tickets. D. The woman doesnt want to sit near the stage.6. A. Help the man to copy the novel. B. Return the novel to Alice immediately. C. Find a copy of the novel for the man. D. Ask Alice if the man can borrow the novel.7. A. Shes glad t
5、he man waited for her. B. Shed like to reschedule the meeting.C. She wasnt very late for the meeting. D. Shes sorry that she missed the meeting.8. A. He has got more pages to write. B. The womans report is already long enough. C. He has already finished his report. D. The woman will have time to fin
6、ish the report.9. A. She needs a different kind of job. B. She often goes back with her supervisor. C. She used to work for a newspaper. D. Shed like her supervisors opinion of her work.10. A. The man should have had his car inspected sooner. B. The man doesnt need to have his car inspected until ne
7、xt month. C. The auto inspection center will be closed at the end of the month. D. She has to wait even longer than the man did to have her car inspected.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each o
8、f them. The passages and the 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following p
9、assage.11. A. Alphabets plan on self-driving cars. B. A successful test of self-driving cars. C. Peoples responses to self-driving cars. D. The 3D map used in self-driving cars.12. A. The camera. B. The laser device. C. The built-in GPS. D. The sensors and radar.13. A. Self-driving cars are already
10、common. B. It was the first test of self-driving cars. C. There exists distrust in self-driving cars. D. Drivers are still needed in self-driving cars.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Tourism can bring a lot of disadvantages. B. Tourism is increasingly popular these
11、years. C. Tourism should benefit local communities. D. Tourism has become a problem in some places.15. A. The cost of fuel is low. B. More people are visiting China. C. Plane tickets are cheap. D. People need tourism for jobs and wealth.16. A. 1.8 million more people will travel in 2030 according to
12、 the UNWTO. B. Measures have been taken to address overtourism in some places. C. Taleb Rifai doesnt regard overtourism as a problem. D. Some cities have forbidden tourists to visit them.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Because the joke was about dinner. B. To g
13、et all the boys involved in the joke. C. Because they had no idea about the joke. D. To leave the boys no time to take revenge.18. A. It was carefully prepared. B. The boys were each asked to take a bowl. C. The food there was delicious. D. Supper should be skipped before the party.19. A. Stupid. B.
14、 Challenged. C. Confused. D. Disappointed.20. A. The girls joke turned out to be a success. B. The class teacher was not generous enough. C. The boys managed to take revenge on the girls. D. The food was delicious so the bowls were emptied. II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After readin
15、g the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Star Giraffe Finally Gives BirthApril, a giraffe wh
16、o became an Internet star after her pregnancy was broadcast online, has finally given birth, ending months of excitement for her audience.The live broadcast from Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, the State of New York, began during the winter. (21) drew nearly five million viewers a day at its
17、peak. Some viewers kept checking back, even after the period (22) _ _ April was expected to give birth had gone. Others became frustrated, questioning (23)_ she was really pregnant.Finally, (24)_ April was pacing in her pen (畜栏) on April 15, two hooves (蹄) began to appear. After a few hours, a newly
18、-born giraffe was lying on the floor, (25)_ (look) around confusedly. The calf (幼崽) tried to stand a few times but (26)_ not. An hour later, it was (27)_ its feet, walking around carefully. A spokesman for the animal park said the calf was a boy. “After months of pregnancy, both mom and calf are doi
19、ng fine,” said Jordan, the owner of Animal Adventure Park.People in Harpursville now hope the attention that April (28)_ (draw) will translate into an economic development for the area. Harpursville was once a manufacturing base, but it has struggled financially in recent years.Fortunately, there ar
20、e already signs (29)_ Aprils fame is breathing new life into the area. Dozens of families recently arrived at the animal park after hours of driving, only (30)_ (find) it closed for the winter. A nearby hotel has booked more than 100 reservations for a package that includes admission to the park whe
21、n it reopens in May.Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. modelB. competitive C. insertingD. pickupE. originalF. missionG. price H. mirroringI. branchingJ. virtual K. buyingCo
22、mpany Builds Worlds First Automobile Vending Machine (自动贩卖机)Thanks to used-car website Carvana, it is now possible to buy your own set of wheels at the touch of a button, from the worlds first and only coin-operated car vending machine in Nashville, Tennessee. Its quick, easy, and not cheap, but che
23、aper than buying a car the old way.The company has been working on the concept for the past two years. Their 31 car vending machine was installed in Atlanta in 2013. But theyve spent time improving the design, in order to take user experience to the next level. “Our new Vending Machine is a state-of
24、-the-art, multi-story structure that delivers our customers cars by merely 32 a special coin,” said Carvana CEO Ernie Garcia.The machine consists of a five-story glass tower that can hold up to 20 cars at a time. The tower basically serves as a(n) 33 point for used cars that customers purchase throu
25、gh the website, enabling 34 pricing and eliminating delivery costs.Customers can access a long list of specifications, ratings, reviews, and lots of other details about the cars theyre interested in on the Carvana website. They even get 35 tours that point out every scratch on the body of the car. O
26、nce the car is chosen and paid for, the company usually delivers the car to the customer for a seven-day trial period. This usually means the delivery costs are worked into the 36 of the vehicle.But with the Vending Machine, customers are able to go to pick up their cars straight away. Its a win-win
27、 37 that allows Carvana to cut down on staff and overhead (间接费用), and save customers about $2,000 as well. According to the company, it also makes for a great 38 experience placing an oversized coin in a slot (硬币投币口) and watching their car roll down automatically.“Carvanas 39 is to create a better w
28、ay to buy a car, and this new Vending Machine will be a one-of-a-kind experience, 40 just how simple and easy weve made it to buy a car online,” Garcia said. He added the company plans to build more car vending machines in the future.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in t
29、he 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.Stay out of the Sun to Look YoungForget drinking countless glasses of water or getting your beauty sleep. The secret of looking young is simply to stay out
30、 of the sun. A study of hundreds of women has revealed that those who avoided the suns rays looked up to 20 years younger than they actually are.However, other supposed rules for a youthful complexion (肤色), from drinking lots of water to sleeping well and exercising regularly, failed to 41 the hands
31、 of time. Only keeping out of the sun, and wearing sunscreen when this wasnt possible, made a 42 , the American Academy of Dermatologys annual conference will hear today. The interesting 43 comes from a study of 231 women of all ages who were quizzed about their lives, including whether they were su
32、n-lovers. When researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in the US commissioned by skincare firm Olay guessed how old the women were, they found those who 44 in the sun tended to have aged more slowly. A lucky four had so few wrinkles and 45 spots, and such a fresh complexion, that they appeared to be a full tw
