上海市徐汇区届高三上学期学习能力诊断一模英语试题WORD版.docx

1、上海市徐汇区届高三上学期学习能力诊断一模英语试题WORD版2016-2017学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷高三英语试题 2016.12第I卷（共103分）I. Listening Comprehension Section 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

2、 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.6:00 B.6:30 C.7:00 D.7:302. A.They are likely to have great viesB.They will stay

3、 there for a longer timeC.They are to enjoy ice cream in an easy wayD. The ice cream store is too big to imagine3. A.He was involved in a traffic accidentB.He was not able to get to work on timeC.He is seriously sick of his carD.He hadhis car stolen4. A.The woman planned to travel by high-speed rail

4、B.One of the mans cars is absolutely deafC.The teaffic app may help them to avoid a heavy trafficD.They are driving at a high speed as they planned5. A.At the bus stop Shanghai Disney landB.At the platform of a subwayC.At Shanghai railway stationD.At a bus stop somewhere in Shanghai6. A.Policewoman

5、and driver B.Nurse and patientB.Libratian and reader D.Hotel manager and guest7. A.They have adopted at least two kidsB.They will have more adopted kidsC.The couple are from a fricaD.They are an extended family8.A. Ms Zeng is planning to raise the raw material cost due to the raised labour costB.The

6、 man is hesitating about whether he will buy certain products or notC.The quality of the products is really far from the mans expectationD.The man has made up his mind to give the negotiation a stopSection BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three quest

7、ions 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 decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the foll

8、owing passage.11. A.15,000 B.5,000,000 C.15,000,000 D.50,000,000Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following report.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A.At home B.In a studio C.In office D.At schoolII.Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: After reading the p

9、assage 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.Please mind the silence Despite being used by 1.34 billio

10、n people each year, traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely. An unwritten rule encouraging silence, mixed with classic British reserve,means that (21) youre packed into an enclosed space with hundreds of other people,the morning commute (上下班）can leave you feeling somewhat isolat

11、ed.One London resident, however, is trying to change this.“You get on the Tube here and ifs completely silent and ifs weird, says Jonathan Dunne, 42,an American living in London, who has, ironically, started (22) worldwide dialogue aftergiving out badges (黴章）with the slogan “Tube chat?” last month,

12、encouraging commuters in London to get talking to one another. “I handed out 500 badges during rush hour in a city of 8million, expecting many refusals and most of them (23) (throw) away, but after about 24hours it completely snowballed,” he says.Dunne and his “Tube chat” campaign (24) (feature) in

13、media across the world eversince, seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the UK, as well as countless website, newspaper and magazine appearances.Although Dunne says hes received mostly positive feedback, not everyone agrees with hissentiment. Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of (

14、25) own, handing out500 badges with the words “Dont even think about it” on them.“I (26) hardly stand the idea of having to talk to strangers on the Tube on my way towork,” he told the BBC. Michael Robinson, 24, a student from London, agrees. “Being on the Tubeis the only peace and quiet some people

15、 get on their journeys to and (27) work. It doesntneed to be spoiled by people coming up and chatting to you,” he says. While London has its seemingly antisocial set of regulations to follow, not everywhere lacks a sense of community.Does Dunne hope that some of this community spirit (28) (mirror) i

16、n the UKfollowing his campaign? “People assume that I just walk up and talk to strangers, (29) Idont, but its been a great way to meet people you would never have normally spoken to,” he says. “On Monday, Oct 10, the curator (馆长）of the London Transport Museum had me over for tea.”So if you ever end

17、up (30) (use) public transport in the West, why not say hello to theperson next to you? Just make sure to check for a badge first. Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only A. overtookB. promisingC. likelihoodD. ridiculousE. shared F.

18、controlledG beliefsH. reasonableI. trendJ. trackedK. demonstratedonce. Note that there is one word more than you need.The rise in stories describing events that never happened, often involving fake people in fakeplaces, has led to Facebook and Googles (31) to deal with them. But are we really so eas

19、y tofool? According to several studies, the answer is yes: even the most obvious fake news starts to become believable if its (32) enough times.In the months running up to the US election there was a swrge(大浪）in fake news. According to an analysis by Craig Silverman, a journalist, during this time t

20、he top 20 fake stories in circulation (33) the top 20 stories from 19 mainstream publishers.Paul Horner, a creative publisher of fake news, has said he believes Donald Trump was elected because of him. “My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the timeHis followers dont fact-check anything -

21、theyll post everything, believe anything,” he told the Washington Post.Silverman previously (34) rumours circulating online in 2014 and found that sharesand social interactions around fake news articles dwarfed (使.相形见绌）those of the articles thatexposed them. According to Silverman, fake news stories

22、 are engineered to appeal to peopleshopes and fears, and arent (35) by reality, which gives them the edge in creating shareablecontent.You might think youre immune to falling for these lies, but a wealth of research disagrees.Back in the 1940s, researchers found that “the more a rumour is told, the

23、more (36) itsounds”. They suggested this means that a rumour born out of mild suspicion can, by gaining currency, shift public thinking and opinion.This false impression of truth was (37) practically in 1977 when researchers in the USquizzed college students on the actuality of statements that they

24、were told may be true or false. The researchers found that simply repeating the statements at a later date was enough to increase the (38) of the students believing them.Last year, Lisa Fazio at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and her team found that students become more likely to believe a state

25、ment that they know must be false if it is repeated.“Our research suggests that false news can and likely does affect peoples (39) . Even ifpeople are conscious that a headline is false, reading it multiple times will make it seem more trustworthy,” Fazio says.Reassuringly, the team found that a per

26、sons knowledge still has a large influence over theirbeliefs, but its still a worrying (40) given that falsehoods appear repeatedly in ournewsfeeds every day.II. Reading Comprehension Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there arc four words or phrases marked A, B,C and D. Fi

27、ll in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Two key climate change indicators global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of

28、 the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest (41) month globally in the modern temperature record, which (42) 1880,according to scientists at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planets warmest half-year on

29、 record, with a(n)(43) temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the latenineteenth century.Five of the first six months of 2016 also (44) the smallest respective monthly Arcticsea ice (45) since regular satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developedby sc

30、ientists at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The one (46)_,March, recorded the second smallest for that month.(47) these two key climate indicators have broken records in 2016, NASA scientistssaid it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continu

31、ing theirdecades-long trends of change. Both trends are ultimately driven by rising (48) ofheat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically (49) 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970

32、s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent inSeptember, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been (50) at a rate of 13.4percent per decade.While the El Nino event in the tropical Pacific this winter (51) the gaining globaltemperatures from October, it is the basic trend which is producing these record numbers, GISS Director Gavin Schmidt said.(52) El Nino events have driven tempe