11 崇明区高三英语二模卷.docx

1、11 崇明区高三英语二模卷2019.4 崇明区高考英语质量抽查试卷(满分：140分 考试时间：120分钟)第I卷 (共100分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection A (10分) 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 que

2、stions 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 pilot. B. An airhost. C. A passenger. D. A taxi driver.2. A. In a bank. B. In a hotel

3、. C. In a clinic. D. In a university.3. A. Order for the man. B. Recalculate the bill.C. Refuse to pay the bill. D. Give the man a discount.4. A. He forgot about the football game. B. He cant endure the loud noise from the game.C. He thought the game was disappointing. D. He doesnt think football ga

4、mes make any sense.5. A. Shed like the man to touch the report for her.B. Shes already finished her report on the movie.C. Shell be unable to see the movie with the man. D. She prefers a different type of movie to a comedy.6. A. Hes got an extra train schedule. B. Hes going to Philadelphia by train.

5、C. Hes already missed his train. D. Hes familiar with the train station.7. A. Hes satisfied with his job. B. Hes got trouble finding a job. C. He likes working in hot summer. D. He gets more pay than expected.8. A. The man and the woman did the research together. B. The woman didnt work hard enough

6、on her paper. C. The professor was content with the womans paper. D. The paper wasnt as good as the woman had thought.9. A. Shell consider the mans invitation. B. She doesnt want to join a gardening club. C. She doesnt have time to work in a garden. D. Shes never been formally invited into a club.10

7、. A. He wont vote for the woman. B. He may also run for class president. C. The woman shouldnt have asked him for his vote. D. The woman should ask his roommate to vote for her.Section B (15分)Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked

8、several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. 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 he

9、ardQuestions 11 through 13 are based on the following news.11. A. Crows are particularly clever birds. B. Crows have been trained to work for a park. C. Crows are popular with theme parks. D. Crows have long been seen as symbols of evil.12. A. Collecting garbage. B. Giving gifts to visitors. C. Usin

10、g various tools. D. Remembering visitors faces.13. A. To show visitors can be more careful to keep the park clean. B. To train more crows to clear up the park in a more rapid way. C. To communicate with crows and establish a relationship with them. D. To indicate humans can learn from nature to prot

11、ect the environment.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. To save space. B. To reach for the sky. C. To attract tourists. D. To be seen miles away.15. A. They fail to inspire the culture. B. They threaten the citys development. C. They have rather odd nicknames. D. They

12、make old landmarks hard to see.16. A. Skyscrapers are usually ugly. B. The Shard is the worlds tallest building. C. Londons upward expansion is continuing. D. Londons replaced office blocks with high-rises.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. The expansion of the ca

13、feteria. B. The cost of meals in the cafeteria. C. The food served in the cafeteria. D. The job opportunities in the cafeteria.18. A. Cooking food for the students. B. Serving food for the students. C. Improving meals nutritional value. D. Listening to complaints about service.19. A. To give nutriti

14、on lessons to students. B. To collect students opinions about meals. C. To find more students to work in the cafeteria. D. To ask students to try a new dish she has made.20. A. A little curious. B. Very amazed. C. Quite confused. D. A bit doubtful.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A (10分)Directions:

15、 After reading the passage below, /ill 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.New “Star Wars” Attractions Set to Op

16、en at Disney Theme Parks in 2019The galaxy (银河系) that seems so far, far away just got a little closer.On Tuesday, Disney announced “Star Wars: Galaxys Edge”, a highly (21)_ (expect) themed land under construction, would open in summer 2019 at Californias Disneyland and in late fall 2019 at Floridas

17、Disney World. (22) _ the announcement was made, officials had only said the new land would open soon.No specific date (23) _ (announce) for the Disneyland opening. But if past summer openings are any indication, “Galaxys Edge” is expected to open in late June.The additions will be Disneys (24) _ (bi

18、g) “single-themed land expansion” ever, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger. Each will be an expansive 14 acres (英亩). A copy of the Millennium Falcon spaceship, (25) _ guests will be able to pilot, will be a key attraction.Galaxys Edge will immerse (使沉浸于) visitors in the Star Wars universe, (26) _ (tra

19、nsport) them to a never-before-seen Star Wars planeta remote trading port largely ignored by warring people and one of the last stops before wild space. This planet is (27) _ Star Wars characters and their stories will come to life. It will feature two major attractions: (28) _ allowing guests to pi

20、lot the Millennium Falcon and the other dropping riders into the middle of a battle. The most advanced video techniques are expected to power each attraction.Even as Galaxys Edge (29) _ (approach), Disneyland is making changes, both large and small, in advance. Recent projects have shifted queues fo

21、r “Dumbo the Flying Elephant” and “Its a Small World”. These are the efforts to improve traffic flows near the attractions. Similar changes have been made in Adventureland (30) _ (ease) congestion points. Work has started on a new luxury resort in Downtown Disney. Officials have closed Rainforest Ca

22、f, ESPN Zone and AMC Theaters to make room.Section B (10分) Directions: Fill in each blank with. a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. sign B. wreck C. scheduled D. inappropriate E. exact F. initiativeG. tragedy H. repeat

23、 I. categorized J. accommodated K. unclearTitanic II Could Sail as Soon as 2022If you thought the long-delayed project to launch a full-size copy of the ill-fated Royal Mail Ship Titanic was sunk in the waterthink again. Just like Celine Dion sang back in 1997, the travel project will “go on and on.

24、”Australian businessman and politician Clive Palmer, who is behind the 31 , announced in September that work on the ship had started again. The idea was first floated in 2012. It is said that the new ship will be a(n) 32 copy of the infamous ship, which sank in 1912 following a crash with an iceberg

25、 (冰山).To avoid a(n) 33 disaster, Titanic II will apparently be equipped with plenty of life boats, modern navigation (导航) and radar equipment. The first voyage, however, will take passengers from Dubai to New York, reports CruiseArabia, with the first sailing 34 to take place in 2022. Blue Star Line

26、 says the nine-decked ship will be home to 835 cabins, and 2,435 passengers will be 35 . Youll be able to buy first-, second- and third-class ticketsjust like in the original.Meanwhile tourists with plenty of money might soon have the chance to dive to the 36 of the original Titanic. American compan

27、y OceanGate has planned diving trips for 2019, costing $105,129 per person.Of course, the original Titanic voyage ended in 37 , with over 1,500 people losing their lives. For many, voyages to the original ship are in bad taste. Steve Sims, founder of The Bluefish, said earlier in 2018 that he doesnt

28、 see diving to the original one as 38 .Realistically, its 39 whether Titanic II will ever see the light of dayor whether the diving tours will happen soon. But one thing is for certain, more than 100 years after the Titanics first and only voyage, global interest in this ship shows no 40 of slowing

29、down.III. Reading ComprehensionSection A (15分)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 content.Lying in a Foreign Language Is EasierMost people dont find it more difficult t

30、o lie in a foreign language than in their native tongue. However, things are different when telling the truth: This is clearly more difficult for many people in a foreign language than in their native one.This 41 conclusion is the result of a study conducted by two psychologists from the University

31、of Wrzburg: Kristina Suchotzki and Matthias Gamer. The two scientists presented their 42 in Journal of Experimental Psychology.Their findings could be important for a lot of processes in which the trustworthiness of certain people must be 43 . In such situations, reports by non-native speakers tend to be considered as less 44 even though they may be truthful. Their discovery also explains another 45 , namely that people communicating in a foreign language are generally considered as less trustworthy.There are two research 46 to predict differences between decep