浦东新区学年度第一学期期末英语测试.docx

1、浦东新区学年度第一学期期末英语测试浦东新区2012学年度第一学期期末质量测试高三英语试卷第I卷 （105分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection 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 s

2、poken 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. Manager and customer. B. Boss and secretary. C. Doctor and patient. D. Friends.2. A. In a department st

3、ore. B. In an office. C. In a stationery store. D. In a drugstore.3. A. 30 minutes. B. An hour. C. 15 minutes. D. 45 minutes.4. A. Cleaning off the dirt. B. Looking for water. C. Digging out the seed. D. Planting something.5. A. Sorry. B. Annoyed. C. Excited. D. Surprised.6. A. The book is too expen

4、sive. B. The book is of poor quality. C. The book is inexpensive. D. The book is not as good as expected.7. A. He has been offered a new job. B. He has been warned by his boss. C. He has been fired by the company. D. He has been asked to have a holiday.8. A. He did better than expected. B. He failed

5、 his test.C. He always gets excellent grades. D. He found his notes.9. A. The man and the woman live on Salisbury Villas. B. The man and the woman are unfamiliar with the area. C. The woman failed to call for directions. D. The directions the woman got were wrong.10. A. The man blamed the woman for

6、being careless. B. The man misunderstood the womans apology. C. The woman offered to pay for the mans coffee. D. The woman made the mans jacket dirty with coffee. Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The p

7、assages 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. She was a 19-

8、month-old British girl. B. The hospitals in Qatar were full at that time. C. She was the daughter of a doctor in London. D. The Qatar doctors were unsure how to cure her.12. A. A doctor in Qatar. B. A nurse in London. C. Dr. Brown. D. Agatha Christie.13. A. Substance used in making glass. B. Drug fo

9、und in a detective story. C. Medicine often used in hospital. D. A deadly poison easily got in Qatar. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. The design of the laboratory. B. The laboratory experiment. C. The workbook for the laboratory course. D. A piece of equipment in t

10、he laboratory.15. A. Homework must be handed in on time. B. A great deal of equipment is available. C. The students must follow all instructions exactly. D. The students can make choices about the lab work.16. A. The activities take less time.B. The activities are to be done in class. C. Few instruc

11、tions are given for the activities. D. Students are not required to do the activities. 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 informati

12、on you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.The Suggestions BoxThe first suggestion:Change morning tea break to _17_. The second suggestion: Reducing the _18_ of the printer

13、.The third suggestion: Adopting _19_ working hours.The attitude of the man:He _20_ with the Managing Director about the third suggestion.Questions 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.What has happened to the womans c

14、ar?Theres something wrong with the _21_.How much did the mechanic charge the woman?He said he would call her with _22_ later on.What does the man warn the woman?Not to be _23_ by mechanics.What does the man offer the woman?He offers the woman _24_.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Benea

15、th each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.25.China has made a series of technological advances _ constructing high-speed railways. A. on B. to C. in D. for26. Our principal would like to accept _ of the prac

16、tical suggestions on how to improve students lunch. A. either B. neither C. both D. any27. Look! Someone _ the laptop. Well, it wasnt me. I didnt do it. A. has repaired B. is repairing C. had repaired D. was repairing28. After the meeting, we went to the supermarket to do some shopping, only to be t

17、old that it _. A. was being decorated B. was decorating C. is being decorated D. has been decorating29. Babies given more love and affection by their mothers _ deal better with stress and anxiety when they grow up. A. need B. must C. shall D. may30. The latest research _ shows that micro blog is the

18、 most popular social networking tool among Chinese netizens.A. to undertake B. undertakenC. undertaking D. having been undertaken 31. _ our life goals will guide us to a bright future, without which we may waste our lifetime.A. Having set B. Set C. Setting D. To be set32. The government will come up

19、 with more volunteer projects just _ the volunteer industry. A. to promote B. to be promoted C. promoting D. being promoted33. _ you start with one small positive thing during your day, youll begin to move into a more positive situation.A. Even if B. In case C. As long as D. As far as34. When you ar

20、e older, you are better equipped mentally to cope with _ happens. A. however B. whenever C. whichever D. whatever35. A lot of lovers chose to get married on Dec. 12, 2012, _ the date, the month and the year match.A. that B. on which C. in which D. which36. The limits of a persons intelligence are fi

21、xed at birth, but _ he reaches these limits depends on his environment. A. if B. that C. whether D. what37. From inside the dark house _. A. some strange smell came B. came some strange smell C. had some strange smell come D. did some strange smell come38. Changing the password on your hacked accoun

22、t isnt a lasting solution if you dont remove any virus, _? A. dont you B. do you C. isnt it D. is it39. The word positive energy is becoming more than common in newspapers and magazines _ you could notice. A. before B. since C. when D. after 40. _ several important decisions based on emotion instead

23、 of reason, he felt bitterly regretted.A. Making B. Having made C. Made D. To makeSection 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 more than you need. A. inappropriate B. question C. inexperienced D. chang

24、es E. trendsF. job-related G. assess H. dissatisfaction I. profession J. occursNursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the position. As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or

25、 moral obligation to any physician. We provide health teaching, _41_ physical as well as emotional problems, coordinate patient-related services and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If, in any circumstance, we feel that the physicians order is _4

26、2_ or unsafe, we have a legal responsibility to _43_that order or refuse to carry it out. Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the _44_. The emotional and physical stress, however, which _45_ due to hard working hours is a prime rea

27、son for a lot of the career _46_. It is sometimes required that we work overtime and that we change shifts four or five times a month. That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except _47_ friends and activities. The quality of nursing

28、 care is being affected dramatically by these situations. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system. Consumers of medically-related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand _48_ in our medical system. But i

29、f _49_ continue as predicted, they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced and sometimes inadequately-trained nurses.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.

30、Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The famous American inventor Thomas Alva Edison once claimed that genius was one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration(汗水). Now, it seems, there is scientific evidence to _50_ his claim. The idea that geniuses s

31、uch as Shakespeare, Mozart, and Picasso possessed certain inborn talents is a false belief, according to a study by a British psychologist and his colleagues.After examining outstanding performance in the arts and sports, these researchers concluded that _51_ is determined by opportunity, encouragement, training, motivation