2017年黄浦区高考模拟考
英 语 试 卷
（完卷时间：120分钟  满分：140分）
2017年4月 
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. 2 litres. B. 13 litres. C. 26 litres. D. 52 litres.
2. A. In an English class. B. In a swimming pool. C. On a bus. D. In a sporting goods store.
3. A. By bus. B. By underground. C. By taxi. D. By car.
4. A. Doctor and patient. B. Teacher and student.
C. Employer and Employee. D. Salesman and customer.
5. A. Have a lesson. B. Take a test. C. See a film. D. Go to bed.
6. A. Difficult. B. Memorable. C. Uninteresting. D. Worthwhile.
7. A. She wants a bottle of juice. B. She’d like some alcohol.
C. The red wine in this bar is perfect. D. The location of the bar is unknown.
8. A. An excellent résumé. B. An entry form.
C. A job offer. D. The position of system engineer.
9. A. It’s famous. B. It’s professional. C. It’s expensive. D. It’s cheating.
10. A. The 26-month-old baby is always busy watching videos.
B. TV and videos may hurt a child’s language development.
C. Nothing can replace parents in kids’ language development.
D. Children usually watch TV too passively to learn something.

Section B
Directions:  In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages, and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation and the passages. The conversation and 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 following dialogue.
11. A. Encouraging. B. Dishonest. C. Interesting. D. Nervous.
12. A. How to start his own business. B. How to develop a real interest.
C. How to speak to a woman bravely. D. How to balance his study and work.
13. A. He has too loose a schedule. B. He loves the feeling with students.
C. He is dissatisfied with his current job. D. He wants to determine his future development.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Kids threw litter everywhere. B. The camp director gave rude orders.
C. Some mysterious plastic litter was found. D. Kids’ joint efforts led to a clean camp.
15. A. By taking pictures of litter he picked up.
B. By sharing photos of the terribly dirty planet.
C. By keeping a record of crowdsourced cleaning-up.
D. By inspiring kids to pick up five pieces of litter every day.
16. A. There is strength in numbers. B. Birds can help to pick up litter.
C. Litter is artistic and approachable. D. More straws should be used in the café.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following passage.
17. A. To enable students to reject violence. B. To help students face struggles more properly.
C. To improve students health. D. To eliminate poverty more effectively.
18. A. How to calm down by talking to experts. B. How to clear their mind throughout the day.
C. How to make their teachers happy. D. How to respond to situations better.
19. A. More students dropped out last year. B. There is less bad behavior on campus.
C. Students are less responsible for their study. D. More students are willing to be sent to the office.
20. A. Its effect remains to be seen. B. Everyone can benefit from it.
C. It helps to get rid of poverty to some extent. D. There is enough evidence to show its significance.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage 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.
Should Children Ban Their Parents from Social Media?
It might be taken for granted - but no previous generation of children will have had the experience of having their entire childhoods intensively and publicly documented in this way. But the very first people to have had some of their childhood pictures __21__ (post) online are not always happy about their formative years being preserved in digital world.
Parents may not realize it, but by posting photos and videos of their children online, they are creating an identity for their children __22__ might not be welcomed. Lucy is a good example. She said she had asked her dad to de-tag her from “stuff that doesn’t necessarily represent __23__ I am now. That’s not something I’d want to remember every time I log on to Facebook It isn’t the best memories, which is the way you’d like to reveal __24__ on social media.”
Stories about online privacy are often about children and teenagers being warned of the dangers of publishing too much personal information online. But in this case it’s their parents who are in the spotlight. For some parents, __25__ (safe) option is avoiding social media altogether.
Kasia Kurowska from Newcastle is expecting her first child in June and has agreed with her partner Lee to impose a blanket ban __26__ her children are old enough to make their own decisions about social media. But she has two big concerns about her plan. Firstly, it will be difficult __27__ (impose). “When their auntie comes round and takes a picture, we’re going to have to be like paparazzi police, saying, please don’t put these on Facebook. And secondly, the child might dislike __28__ (not own) an online presence, especially if all of their friends do. But I __29__ (keep) a digital record of them. It just won’t have been shared on a platform __30__ the masses.”

Section B
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.
criticize
desperately
establish
feature
focus
gratitude

heartfelt
humanity
influence
present
touch

Letters Brought Back to Life
Letters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages. But a TV show, Letters Alive, is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back into the __31__.
Letters Alive took its idea from a UK program with a similar name, Letters Live. Both shows __32__ famous actors and actresses, but there is no gossip, no eye-catching visual effects. Instead, it’s just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.
But these are not just any letters. They vary greatly in time and subjects. There is, for example, a passionate letter that famous painter Huang Yongyu wrote to playwright Cao Yu 30 years ago to __33__ his lack of creativity. There is also a(n) __34__ note from Spring and Autumn Period written by two ordinary young soldiers to their elder brother to report their lives in the war zone.
Compared to published texts, letters also come with a personal __35__.
One example from Letters Live was a note of __36__ from the mother of a dying child to JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. It read: “Mrs Rowling, cancer threatened to take everything from my daughter, and your books turned out to be the castle we so __37__ needed to hide in.”
According to Guan Zhengwen, the director of Letters Alive, it is this kind of __38__ behind every letter that strikes a harmony with the audience. “It’s a thing of the past that entertainment shows __39__ themselves only with pretty faces,” Guan told Sohu News. “Entertainment industry is starting to switch to a(n) __40__ on wisdom and intelligence.”

III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages 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.
Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily Considered Better
The firm, which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age: that of smaller start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP’s decision to separate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations, the company had grown into a clumsy __41__. Its fortunes started to __42__ with a series of expensive and much criticized purchases. By 2012 it had lost its position as the world’s leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo. The dramatic __43__ was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing, responding to shareholder demands for more aggresive__44__.
“I would go from laser jet printing to our big enterprise services contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations. These two things are not like each other. So the ability to focus and engage with customers on a(n) __45__ set of objectives and business outcomes... I can already see the difference.” Ms Whitmann, who now heads the new spin-off, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) selling servers and services, says the change has already __46__ her performance. “One big change is it   __47__ each of the divisions to pursue the strategy that is right for them. __48__ , there is ‘no way’ printer and PC company HP Inc’s decision last year to buy Samsung’s printing business for $1bn would have happened when it was part of the larger firm. So it’s that ability to drive your own program, not __49__ by other businesses that don’t have the same characteristics.” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that she’s __50__ HPE further, spinning off both its business services division and its software business into separate companies last year.
Her assumption that bigger doesn’t always mean better seems __51__. After all, a larger company should find it easier to dominate the market it operates in. But the rapid rise of much smaller start-ups, competing and often overtaking these established powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that __52__ equals success is being challenged. __53__ in 2014, eBay carved PayPal, the electronic payments arm it bought in 2001, off from the main online sale business.
Box, a cloud storage company, is another case in point. Founder Aaron Levie says “Whether Uber, Airbnb, those same lessons __54__, which is if you can build something that’s cheaper, faster and more scalable and delivers a far better customer experience than what the traditional sellers were able to do, then you can be extremely __55__.”

41. A. appearance B. construction C. giant D. possession
42. A. decline B. increase C. stay D. vary
43. A. adventure B. combination C. development D. split
44. A. behavior B. growth C. markets D. policies
45. A. ambitious B. complex C. narrow D. overall
46. A. delivered B. improved C. measured D. standardized
47. A. allows B. employs C. reminds D. threatens
48. A. All in all B. For example C. On the contrary D. What’s more
49. A. held back B. kept on C. looked over D. taken down
50. A. dissolved B. expanded C. operated D. shrunk
51. A. fundamental B. reasonable C. surprising D. widespread
52. A. diligence B. discipline C. profit D. size
53. A. Comparatively B. Generally C. Similarly D. Unexpectedly
54. A. apply B. fail C. hide D. increase
55. A. friendly B. miserable C. motivated D. troublesome

Section B
Directions:  Read the following three passages.  Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.  For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.  Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)
Born in 1823 in Wales, Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of modest means, but he had a passion for nature and he chose to follow it. He started out collecting insects as a hobby, but eventually his longing for adventure led him to explore the world.
Luckily for Wallace, Victorian Britain was discovering an interest in weird and wonderful insects, so the demand from museums and private collections for these beasts was growing. Wallace was able to make a living doing what he loved: collecting beetles and other insects.
But his first trip of exploring the world ended in disaster. Wallace proceeded to the Amazon in South America. Its giant forests promised a wealth of new species, sure to put him on the scientific map. The trip took 6 weeks and involved every mode of transport in existence at the time. After four years Wallace set off for home, but his boat caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic. Everyone survived, but Wallace had to watch in despair as his samples went up in flames  including live animals he was bringing home that were trying to jump free of the flames. But he did not let it stop him.
In 1854, Wallace set off on another adventure, this time to the Malay Archipelago. Wallace found himself humbled by the new and exciting things he saw. He later recalled: “As I lie listening to these interesting sounds, I think how many besides myself have longed to see with their own eyes the many wonderful and beautiful things which I am daily encountering.”
In 1858, Wallace wrote what became known as the “Ternate essay”: a piece of writing that was to change our understanding of life forever. In his essay, Wallace argued that a species would only turn into another species if it was struggling for existence. Henry W. Bates was one of many scientists delighted by the idea of evolution by natural selection. In a letter to Wallace, he wrote: “The idea is like truth itself, so simple and obvious that those who read and understand it will be struck by its simplicity; and yet it is perfectly original.”

56. __________ finally caused Wallace to explore the world.
A. His strong affection for nature B. His life-long devotion to beasts
C. His deep love for adventure D. Increasing demand for insects
57. Which of the following is TRUE about Wallace’s first trip?
A. It took him six weeks to explore the Amazon with all kinds of transportation.
B. He made a scientific study of a fairly limited number of insects.
C. The fire cost him his four years’ collection of animals.
D. His passion cooled after the disaster.
58. Wallace felt _____ on the Malay Archipelago.
A. fearless B. lucky C. challenged D. risky
59. Wallace’s idea on evolution of natural selection __________.
A. made no sense at that time B. built up a new concept of life
C. was too simple to be true D. revealed the origin of nature
(B)
Virtual reality
Probably the most exciting tech development of recent times, virtual reality (VR) has arrived, with sufficient options available to the consumer who’s searching for an extra amount of high-tech fun. The cheapest way to get a high-end VR experience comes courtesy of Sony. Its PlayStation VR doesn’t require a tricked-out PC or expensive phone  it works with the Playstation 4 control board and comes with a few great games in its library. There is some equipment you can purchase to enhance the experience, but if you’ve already got a PS4 you can enter the world of VR for just $400. Other high-end offerings like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, as well as mobile options like Samsung’s Gear VR, will get your head in the game.
Wireless headphones
Combining ease of use with the ability to move wild around your home, gym or workplace, wireless headphones just make sense. And there are plenty of practical options to suit any budget. The Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones are definitely worth a test drive, though. The full-size, around-ear Bluetooth headphones highlight active noise cancellation and double as a headset for making phone calls. They’ve even earned the Editor’s Choice award at Cnet.com and can be purchased for less than $400 online.
Digital cameras
While your phone is a worthy assistant, there’s no substitute for a real camera when it comes to taking the perfect picture. And these days you can get quality specifications in a package that’s almost as small as your smartphone. The shiny design of the Fujifilm X70, $699, makes it the perfect companion, or you could go retro with the Olympus PEN-F ($1,200) that offers old school looks alongside cutting edge technology. Domestically, it’s worth checking out Xiaomi’s mirrorless Yi M1 for a more affordable option. With a high-end 20-megapixel（兆像素）sensor and the ability to host multiple lenses, it’s available from just 2,199 yuan.

60. Sony can provide high-tech fun at the lowest cost because __________.
A. players can play free games online B. PS4 owners don’t need any other device
C. it gives players adequate experience D. players have purchased expensive PCs
61. What is Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones’ selling point promoted in the passage?
A. They have various types to meet users needs. B. Users can reduce noise manually.
C. They work better in the wild. D. Users can make phone calls with the headphones.
62. If your friend, who favors everything in the styles of the past, plans to make perfect pictures with a new
   device, you will most probably recommend __________.
A. A smart phone. B. Fujifilm X70. C. Olympus PEN-F. D. Yi M1.

(C)
Naquela Wright’s life took an unexpected turn when she lost her eyesight as a teenager, but even when her world became dark, the New Jersey resident didn’t want to quit social media.
Using Facebook was a challenge at first. Diagnosed in 2010 with pseudotumor cerebri, a rare health condition in which pressure increases around the brain and can result in the loss of vision, Wright learned how to use a screen reader to read the site through the touch of the keyboard and sound of a robotic voice. Still, when a friend sends her a photo, Wright often has no clue what the image shows.
Now Facebook is trying to solve this problem by exploiting the power of artificial intelligence to create new tools that not only describe items in a photo but allows users to ask what’s in an image.
“I can have a basic picture in my mind of what’s going on in the picture and now I can comment on my own,” said Wright, who got to try out the new tools that are still being tested. “Of course, it’s different, but it’s something more than I had.”
An estimated 285 million people are visually disabled globally, according to the World Health Organization, and research conducted by Facebook showed that blind users have trouble figuring out what’s in a photo because the description isn’t clear or doesn’t exist.
Facebook has made it easier to skim through the content on its website with a screen reader by improving HTML headings, adding alternative text for images, launching keyboard shortcuts, and more. Using artificial intelligence to describe photos is only a part of these ongoing efforts.
With 1.5 billion users, Facebook isn’t the only social media company that wants to improve its website for the visually disabled. Along with Facebook and other major tech firms, Twitter and LinkedIn have their own accessibility teams and belong to an initiative called “Teaching Accessibility”.
Jeff Wieland, Facebook’s head of accessibility engineering, said the group wants to educate more engineers, especially early in college, about designing products that are compatible with the disabled and others. “We really don’t want accessibility to be the luxury of a handful of companies,” Wieland said. “We want everything around the world to be built with accessibility in mind.”

63. What tool helps the visually disabled to read Facebook?
A. A screen reader. B. A special keyboard. C. A helpful robot. D. HTML headings.
64. What can be inferred from the passage about the new tool created by Facebook?
A. It adds a lot of shortcuts on the keyboard.
B. It helps users to employ their senses other than sight.
C. It meets no competitors with its advanced technology.
D. It inspires more engineers to explore artificial intelligence.
65. The underlined phrase in the last paragraph “are compatible with” most probably means __________.
A. are unaffordable to B. bring harm to C. keep company of D. well suit
66. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. Screen reader: tool to access social media
B. Ongoing efforts: strength to improve websites
C. Artificial intelligence: power to help the blind
D. Teaching accessibility: initiative to educate engineers
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
But theres no need for embarrassment.
If you want proof, turn on the sports channel.
As we grow older, we don’t abandon this system – we internalize it.
This so-called inner speech can improve our performance on various tasks.
Conducting a dialogue with ourselves might turn out to be one of the keys to human creativity.
Psychologists refer to this as private speech  language that is spoken out loud but directed at the self.

Your Own Best Friend
Talking to yourself may seem a little shameful. If you’ve ever been overheard criticizing yourself for a foolish mistake or practicing a tricky speech ahead of time, you’ll have felt the social restriction against communicating with yourself in words. According to the well-known saying, talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.
__67__ Talking to ourselves, whether out loud or silently in our heads, is a valuable tool for thought. Far from being a sign of foolishness, self-talk allows us to plan what we are going to do, manage our activities, regulate our emotions and even create a narrative of our experience.
Take a trip to any preschool and watch a small child playing with her toys. You are very likely to hear her talking to herself: offering herself directions and giving voice to her frustrations. __68__ We do a lot of it when we are young – perhaps one reason for our shyness about continuing with it as adults.
As children, according to the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, we use private speech to regulate our actions in the same way that we use public speech to control the behavior of others. __69__
Psychological experiments have shown that the distancing effect of our words can give us a valuable perspective on our actions. One recent study suggested that self-talk is most effective when we address ourselves in the second person: as “you” rather than “I”.
We internalize the private speech we use as children – but we never entirely put away the out-loud version. __70__ You’re sure to see an athlete or two getting themselves ready for a sharp phrase or scolding themselves after a bad shot.
Both kinds of self-talk seem to bring a range of benefits to our thinking. Those words to the self, spoken silently or aloud, are so much more than lazy talk.

IV．Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible. 
Moustache（胡子） for Cash
“Movember”, as the annual event is known, sees men in countries including the UK, US and Australia grow out their facial hair while collecting sponsorship money from friends, family and colleagues, with the money going to cancer charities.
The month of no shaving began unofficially in 2003, when a pair of men from Australia persuaded their family to join them in growing a moustache in order to encourage men to get themselves checked for cancer, which is seen as distasteful by some males. A year later, the group decided to set up the Movember Foundation, asking friends and colleagues to offer donations of money to support their efforts, and raised a massive A$54,000 which was shared between a number of health projects. With thanks most likely to social media, Movember soon went global and the foundation now operates worldwide, having raised over ￡440 million since 2004. The effects of the fundraising are wide-reaching, which had made a significant discovery in the treatment of cancer.
The issue of some men being too self-willed to visit their doctor for a checkup, or perhaps being raised in a culture of “tough it out”, has led some males to neglect their health, which may mean it could be too late if something potentially deadly did develop. However, Movember is helping to break down the shame of male health by making it more accessible, meaning that men are more likely to visit their doctors. They found a way to appeal to men in a way that other campaigns just don’t – with a sort of blokey① jokiness.

① blokey: behaving in a way that is supposed to be typical of men , especially men enjoying themselves in a group.

V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 永远不要对你孩子的缺点熟视无睹。(blind)
73. 任何情况下，你都不应该恶意评论他人。(Under…)
74. 申请人必须精通英语，否则他无法胜任这个岗位。(command)
75. 除了美味的咖啡和甜品，这间咖啡馆还提供各种书籍，从小说到诗歌，应有尽有，足以让你安静地度过一个下午。 (range)

VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

请简单描绘图片内容，并用你生活中的一个经历来具体说明。你的文章必须包括：
对图片的简单描述；
对个人经历的具体描写；
你当时的感受或想法。