届上海市金山区高三上学期期末考试英语试题.docx

1、届上海市金山区高三上学期期末考试英语试题2016届上海市金山区高三上学期期末考试英语试题（满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟） 第卷 (共103分)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 a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In the classroom. D. In a department store.2. A

3、. Its price. B. Its location. C. Its comfort. D. Its facilities.3. A. He is just a passer-by like the woman. B. He is unwilling to tell the woman anything. C. He doesnt know where the closest bookstore is. D. He cant understand the womans question thoroughly.4. A. He would rather have American food.

4、 B. He has always liked American food. C. He is accustomed to eating American food. D. He ate American food more in the past.5. A. Five minutes. B. Fifty minutes. C. Forty-five minutes. D. Fifteen minutes.6. A. The man has left a good impression on her family. B. The man can dress casually for the o

5、ccasion. C. The man should buy himself a new suit. D. The mans jeans and T-shirts are stylish.7. A. Grey pants made from pure cotton. B. Fashionable pants in bright colors. C. 100% cotton pants in dark blue. D. Something to match her brown pants.8. A. Theyd better not go riding. B. Its not good ridi

6、ng in the rain. C. They can go riding half an hour later. D. Riding a bike is a great idea.9. A. Peter hasnt found Mr. Johnsons hat yet. B. Peter didnt go to Mr. Johnsons class. C. Peter lost a hat in Mr. Johnsons class. D. Peter found a hat in Mr. Johnsons class.10. A. By car. B. By bus. C. By trai

7、n. D. On foot.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 question, read the four possible answers on your paper and de

8、cide 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. Near the entrance of a park. B. In his buildings parking lot. C. At a parking meter. D. At a street corner.12. A. It had been taken by the police. B. It had been m

9、oved to the next block. C. It had been stolen by someone. D. It had been parked at a wrong place.13. A. At the Greenville center. B. At a public parking lot. C. In a neighboring town. D. In the city garage.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. You will buy his meal. B. Yo

10、u are expected to pay for your own meal. C. Youll treat someone. D. Youll be paid for the meal by someone.15. A. You will be in Holland. B. You will hear Dutch for a second time. C. You will be in trouble. D. You will find it hard to communicate.16. A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch. B

11、. People made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning. C. People made a joke about the German. D. The German immigrants insisted that they were Dutch.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation,

12、 you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.A Break-inName:Mrs. JenkinsTime:Between 12:00 and 17 Lost belongings: 18 (Value: 240 dollars) 19 (Value

13、: 800 dollars )Other information:The husband is on a trip to 20 Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.What is the survey mainly about?Its on 21 Which two sports are most favored? 22 What does the woman decide to

14、 do?To expand their line of 23 and come up with a better slogan.What does the result say about older customers?They are more 24 about staying fit.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correc

15、t. 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 )Playing a violin with three stringsOn Nov.18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. The audience sat quietl

16、y while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) _ everyones expectation, he waited a moment, closed h

17、is eyes and then signaled (26) _ conductor to begin again.The orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity (27) _ they had never heard before.Of course, anyone knows that no one (28) _ play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, (

18、29) _ that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. He smiled, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he said in a quiet, sacred tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artists task to find out how much musi

19、c you can still make with (30) _ you have left.”This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life not just for artists but for all of us. He has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, i

20、n the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings (31) _ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) _ (make) before.( B )Emoji a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emo

21、tion, etc. in electronic communications, are everywhere. The little illustrated characters that are on Smartphone keyboards (33) _ (take) over the world now. There are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending.

22、As emoji spreads into our culture, Ive actually heard the following question：Is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?To find out, I communicated by iMessage using only emoji for five days. That meant (34) _ _ someone sent me a text or I wanted to send a text, I could only use th

23、e popular tiny picture characters (35) _ (respond) to or start a conversation.I wasnt allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to Facebook or Twitter, etc., but I could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; I could not encourage the phone ca

24、ll myself. I wanted to see if it was (36) _ (easy) than I expected it to be, yes, but I also wanted to see if I could influence (37) _ I was communicating with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) _ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than I exp

25、ected. There were people who were annoyed with me. There were people who gave up after a few back-and forths. There were missed messages, (39) _ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. There were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) _ (move) faster. And there was my

26、mother who doesnt have an iPhone and texts me often. Section 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. moderately B. chances C. accommodate D. volume E. conflicting F. flow G. constant

27、H. tapped I. instinct J. seemingly K. slowingTheres nothing that will ruin your day faster than being stuck in a traffic jam all morning, and its even worse when theres (41) _ no reason for it. Theres a lot of interesting science behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitt

28、ing in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. The way we merge (合并) causes problemsWhether youre merging from the left or the right, (42) _ are good that youre doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. When most people see that they

29、need to merge, their first (43) _ is to do it right away. They brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. According to the Minnesota department of Transportation, thats completely wrong. Sudden (44) _ causes traffic to back up, a problem thats made worse by sudden lane

30、 changes and other cars braking to (45) _ the merging traffic.So what should you do? Exactly what you probably blame drivers for doing: waiting until the last minute. If you do that, traffic will fall into a more natural pattern called a “zipper merge”, meaning there are no surprises, no sudden brak

31、ing, and a smoother transition from one lane to another, which cuts down on backups. This does, of course, rely on other drivers to let you in at the last minute and be polite enough not to cut you off, which causes all sorts of other problems.2. You are causing the traffic Jams you hateTraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46) _ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavy traffic can (47) _ smoothly if people maintain a (48) _ speed. The problem is