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2016-2017学年第一学期高三英语教学质量检测试卷
英语试卷
I. Listening Comprehension 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. A postman. B. A policeman. C. A delivery man. D. A taxi driver. 2. A. $50. B. $75. C. $150. D. $200.
3. A. It’s delayed. B. It’s overcrowded. C. It’s empty. D. It’s cancelled. 4. A. She has never talked in public. B. She probably is poor at giving speeches. C. She enjoys serious moments. D. She wants to give up the public speech. 5. A. Finishing the lunch. B. Having a meeting. C. Arranging the room. D. Making some coffee. 6. A. By going on a diet. B. By doing physical exercise. C. By having fewer meals. D. By eating fruit and vegetables. 7. A. The man doesn’t have a good memory. B. The man shouldn’t have bought the chocolate. C. The man lost the chocolate in the kitchen. D. The man’s son has taken the chocolate. 8. A. The man shouldn’t go for the interview. B. The man’s resume is not well-prepared. C. The man can send the resume out. D. The man should get ready for the interview. 9. A. Finish the paper before meeting his professor. B. Shorten his paper into a 3000-word article.
C. Get a new and more specific topic for his paper. D. Ask his professor’s help on his choice of topics. 10. A. He will remain in his current job. B. He is quite satisfied with his job. C. He will ask for a higher salary. D. He can never find a better job.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and 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. Public education against smoking is lacking. B. There is no campaign against smoking. C. There are no rules regarding smoking. D. That smokers ignore the rules about smoking.
12. A. It made her respect smokers in the United States. B. It made her think that smoking rules need to be changed. C. It made her want to be more polite towards nonsmokers. D. It made her more tolerant to smoker behavior.
13. A. It’s no easy job to stop people smoking in Europe.
B. There should be severer rules against smoking in Europe. C. We should take non-smokers’ rights into consideration. D. The speaker changed the attitude towards different smokers Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news. 14. A. The weight of the boxes moving across the stage. B. The number of times of repeating the process. C. The size of the objects shown on the stage. D. The shape of the cubes used in the show.
15. A. Girls seem to be able to reason earlier than boys. B. Boys enjoy playing with cubes more than girls. C. Girls tend to get excited more easily than boys. D. Boys pay more attention to moving objects than girls. 16. A. They are easy to be nervous. B. They talk at an earlier age. C. They are better at physical activities. D. They have a different brain pattern.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following passage. 17. A. A detective story. B. A professor’s lecture. C. A class assignment. D. A jewelry store robbery. 18. A. She was involved in a jewelry store robbery. B. She had trouble finishing her assignment.
C. She did not like the topic she had chosen for her paper. D. She was taking too many courses.
19. A. Take some extra time. B. Put down whatever ideas she has first. C. Do some work for another course. D. Write the story ending first. 20. A. To do research for her story. B. To go shopping.
C. To meet her professor. D. To take a break from her work.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
Directions: 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; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, (21)__________(force) to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better (22)__________ we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased (23)__________ 12% between 1999 and 2005. A large number of companies believe that they can attract customers’ attention and stimulate their purchasing desire by over-packaging their goods, thus (24)__________(gain) more profits. Too much packaging is doing damage to the environment. If such packaging (25)__________(burn), it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, (26)__________ the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a
serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea (27)__________ this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example. But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that (28)__________ without packaging is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, (29)__________ often have far more packaging than necessary. There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collecting. However, despite the ongoing campaigns (30)__________(promote) consumers’ green awareness, we still have a long way to go.
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 need. A. equal G. access B. demanding H. convey C. benefits I .conditions D. employ J. superior E. reach K. approached F. increase
There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. Thus we can ____31____ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.
The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. We can get ____32____ to the content of those materials easily. Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was ____33____ to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.
The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can ____34____ the reader’s understanding. Such communication between unequals must be possible. Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding more, not remembering more information.
What are the ____35____ in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding. The writer must be “____36____” to the reader in understanding. Besides, his book must ____37____ something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to ____38____ the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is ____39____, success of communication is achieved.
Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading - entertainment. It is the least ____40____ and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.
III. Reading Comprehension Section A
Directions: For each blank in the 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.
Celebrities, in other word, famous people, have become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to a specific ____41____. Besides, fashion magazines have almost ____42____ the practice of putting models on the cover because they don't sell nearly as well as famous faces. ____43____, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren't a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ____44____ consumers, while today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top ____45____. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale ____46____, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who ____47____ his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it ____48____ to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, ____49____ returning to labels which have proved to be reliable.
Today, celebrities face even more severe ____50____. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover(逆转) has ____51____ as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him ____52____ has no problem severely criticizing him and taking everything from him when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s(自我的) potential for ____53____ is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see ____54____ as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time and as a matter of fact, fashion - like celebrity - has always been ____55____. So the next time celebrities introduce their lines of fashion, let’s just wait and see how long they will stay.
41. A. film B. character C. product D. magazine 42. A. abandoned B. promoted C. enhanced D. developed 43. A. All in all B. As a result C. Above all D. On the contrary 44. A. wealthy B. famous C. special D. ordinary 45. A. technologies B. brands C. studios D. producers 46. A. rapidly B. moderately C. reluctantly D. carefully 47. A. ignored B. disapproved C. overvalued D. estimated 48. A. intends B. fails C. manages D. strengthens 49. A. loyalty B. promotion C. regret D. disappointment 50. A. depression B. failure C. punishment D. embarrassment 51. A. slowed down B. called off C. speeded up D. faded away 52. A. fame B. fortune C. trouble D. risk 53. A. information B. knowledge C. reputation D. expansion 54. A. audience B. fashion C. charm D. performance 55. A. admirable B. productive C. temporary D. respectable
Section B