上海市2015-2016学年度第一学期期末十一校联考

          高三英语试卷    (150分)

第I卷(103分)

I. Listening Comprehension(30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 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. Two hours.                                              B. Half an hour.

  C. An hour.                                                  D. An hour and a half.

2. A. She doesn’t like either one.                       B. It’s a difficult decision.

  C. She doesn’t agree with the man.                 D. It’s unimportant which one to choose.

3. A. A teacher.             B. A shop assistant.        C. A dentist.                  D. A bank clerk.

4. A. She had a new computer.                           B. She watched the volleyball match online.

  C. She was busy in her office.                        D. She was uninterested in the match.

5. A. She doesn’t need any break while typing.    B. She will have coffee later.

  C. She doesn’t like to have the discussion.              D. She often has coffee before the discussion.

6. A. She will go out for running.                     

  B. She needs £1 at the moment.

  C. She will go to the supermarket with the man.

  D. She needs some sugar.

7. A. She changed the reservation.                      B. She was late for the flight.

  C. She had an hour to go to the airport.           D. She misunderstood the man.

8. A. Stay in the garden.                                          B. Join the man.

  C. Watch TV.                                                D. Do some housework.

9. A. He writes for the school.                           B. He learns painting.

  C. He teaches art.                                          D. He paints for the school.

10. A. She hasn’t handed in her photo yet.          B. She wonders where to pick up her card.

   C. The photo studio was closed.                    D. The library is out of service today.

Section B

Directions:  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 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. The topics are too broad.                         B. The topic papers are too long.

   C. The topics aren’t original.                        D. The topic papers aren’t in the textbook style.

12. A. To give students suggestions on what topic to choose.                          

B. To help students to make proper revisions in their outlines.

   C. To set a final date when students must hand in the research papers.

D. To remind students of what they must include in the papers.

13. A. The outlines can be written in students’ favourite style.

   B. The outline papers must cover at least six pages.

   C. Students must make clear their points at the beginning of their outlines.

   D. Students must hand in their final outlines before the conference.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. At age one.         B. At age two.               C. At age five.                     D. At age seven.

15. A. She is the first in her family to act in movies.

   B. She used to appear in many romantic tragedies.

   C. She once gave up acting for a long time.

   D. She is now an actress, a director and a producer.

16. A. Her films.           B. Her career.               C. Her company.           D. Her childhood.

Section C

Directions:  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 information 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.

Reservation Form
Name:	Hamilton    17   Company
How many rooms:	Three (one double and two    18   )
How many nights:	Four, from    19    30th till November 5th
Way of payment:	By bank    20

 

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the form.  Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

What did the woman watch last night?	A program that was on    21    Channel last night.
What did the woman say about insects?	They are the    22    on earth.
Why are mosquitoes mentioned?	To illustrate that insects are    23   .
How do mosquitoes respond to insecticide?	They change    24

 

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A(16分)

Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.

(A)

Strange things happen when you travel …

         The Johnson family expected to see some whales when they rented a boat to sail around the Australian coast. But they didn’t expect a 30-foot humpback whale to leap out of the ocean onto their boat. Amazingly, no one was seriously hurt, not even (25)      whale.

         If you think that’s unbelievable, how about the story of Roger Lausier? Aged four, he had wandered away from his mother on Salem beach, Massachusetts and (26)      (save) from drowning by a woman called Alice Blaise. After nine years, Roger was on the same beach when he saw a man fall overboard. Roger saved his life. The man turned out to be Alice Blaise’s husband.

         Some of the most unbelievable travel stories, it seems, are about a pet. Charlie, a cat who decided to take a nap inside the engine of his neighbour’s car and was found after (27)      (drive) 160 miles away. Luckily for him, he was completely unhurt.

         What about the things people lose and find when they are travelling? Rings top the list. In Hawaii, Ken Da Vico, who is a professional diver, claims (28)      (find) about fifteen wedding rings a year in the sea. He returns many of them to their owners. (29)            a fish eats the ring, there is still hope. There are many reports (30)      rings are found years later inside the stomachs of sharks, and other kinds of fish.

(B)

The World’s Best Restaurant

         One day, my colleague and I went to visit a factory in Marinjab. As we drove back along the long road, (31)      of us were hungry and tired. Our only hope was of finding a small roadside café to have some weak tea and a little sugar.

         Just then we came to a village made of small huts with flat roofs. Outside one of the many huts (32)      (be) a sign, “ghahvehkhaneh” (café) so we went in. It was cool inside, and the owner came in from the back and greeted us. “Good afternoon,” he said, (33)      perfect English. “My name is Hosseini. We do not usually get any foreigners here. It will be a pleasure and an honour to prepare a meal for you.”

         A pale-faced lady appeared with a tablecloth, and some knives and forks, shortly followed by Mr Hosseini himself, (34)      (carry) a couple of bowls of soup. (35)      (make) with spinach and yoghurt, it was the most delicious soup I have ever eaten. Soon, the next courses arrived. We ate in silence, and finished with Turkish coffee. We asked Mr Hosseini how much it (36)      (cost), and I can tell you it was astonishingly cheap.

         I told a lot of friends about the meal I had, but no one believed me. “How (37)      you get such a meal in such a remote place?” an English engineer friend asked me.

         A few months (38)      (late), I returned on exactly the same route with this engineer friend. We reached the village but there was no sign of the café. It seemed (39)            the building had never existed. We drove away disappointed. Naturally, my companion laughed at me. “You have a wonderful imagination,” he said. I don’t have any explanation. I only know that I definitely had a meal in this village, in a café (40)     , ever since, I have called “the world’s best restaurant”.

 

Section B(10分)

Directions: 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. allowed	B. broadcast	C. checked	D. complaints	E. degrade	F. entertain
G. fictional	H. figures	I. remote	J. series	K. unpleasant

       Reality TV began in the early 1980s, when a Japanese television company made a programme, Endurance. Starting with thousands of contestants in the first show, the programme presenters made them do really difficult and   41   things in every episode (集). The presenters made fun of the contestants, too. Viewing   42   in Japan were enormous.

       In another reality TV programme, Survivor, sixteen people are taken to a(n)   43   island and made to stay there for more than a month. They have to find their own food or go hungry. The producers let the contestants take one luxury item each. Every three days, one contestant must leave the island and the last person wins £1 million.

       It’s not just adults who take part in these shows. A television   44   in Britain in 2003, That’ll teach ‘em, took 30 teenagers and put them in a(n)   45   King’s school, where they lived for one month and received 1950s-style tuition. The pupils were made to wear thick 1950s school uniforms (including a school hat) during the hot summer and they had to do a long run every day. “They made us have cold showers and we had to have our hands   46   every day to see if they were clean,” says one pupil. “We couldn’t take anything from our modern lives into the school.” Although there was no prize money in this programme, the teenagers learned a lot from the experience.

       In 2004, there was a programme in Britain where contestants were not   47   to sleep for seven days to try to win £97,000 prize money. The winner was 19-year-old Clare Southern. However, this programme had many   48   from viewers.

       But where will it stop? Programmes like this are   49   all over the world. But there are people who think that these programmes   50   both the contestants and the viewers, and feel that contestants are often made to do dangerous things to make good television.

 

III. Reading Comprehension

Section 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 context.

 

         Think of three historical figures. What do you know about them? Where did you get your information from? The chances are that you either read it somewhere or someone who read it somewhere told you about it. Did you ever   51   who wrote down these facts? How can you be sure that they are   52  ? The thing is, many historical “facts” are not like what you know about them.

         Let’s think about the   53   of America. What’s the first name that comes to mind? More than likely it’s Christopher Columbus. But is it the case? He had   54   to reach Asia and that’s where he thought he was when he came to America. But there were many people there before him. The first ones were   55   the Native Americans, thousands of years before 1492. Even the Vikings had made a number of expeditions, with Leif Eriksson landing there in around 1000 A.D. Perhaps Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, was the discoverer of America.   56  , unlike Columbus before him, he was the first fifteen-century explorer to realize where he was, or rather, where he definitely wasn’t. So, maybe the word “re-discover” is more   57   when it comes to Columbus, if history is to give him any credit at all.

         Everyone believes such historical “facts” because, like you, they got them from what they thought was a   58   source. But how can such things be written down in the first place? One of the reasons must be that history is seldom “cut and dried”. The events are often complicated and   59  . Another reason is that such “facts” always   60   a grain of truth. Columbus was not the first person to travel to America, but he was the first fifteen-century explorer to go there. His “re-discovery” was, from a historical point of view, extremely   61   for Europe since his voyages opened up large-scale commerce between Europe and America.

         History has   62   been written by the winners. If the conquered peoples had written the history of the discovery of the New World, it would most probably have been very different, but not necessarily objective: the point of view of the conquered can be just as   63   as the point of view of the conqueror. But that is not the   64   story. The writing of history depends not only on the “side” the writer is on, but also on the culture and attitudes of the era it is written in.

         History is always   65  . So, remember: when you read history, take it with a pinch of salt.

 

51. A. go over                      B. make up                          C. see to                               D. think about

52. A. complete                   B. funny                               C. strange                             D. true

53. A. conquer                     B. development                  C. discovery                        D. foundation

54. A. gone on                     B. set out                              C. turned out                       D. taken on

55. A. certainly                    B. historically                      C. necessarily                      D. unbelievably

56. A. In addition               B. After all                           C. To sum up                       D. For example

57. A. accurate                    B. common                         C. harmonious                    D. familiar

58. A. political                     B. secret                               C. reliable                             D. thorough

59. A. messy                        B. clear                                 C. proper                              D. evil

60. A. exhibit                       B. overlook                          C. abandon                         D. contain

61. A. pointless                    B. significant                       C. troublesome                   D. purposeful

62. A. traditionally             B. exceptionally                 C. marvelously                   D. unconsciously

63. A. impersonal               B. changeable                     C. prejudiced                       D. thoughtful

64. A. real                   B. whole                               C. famous                                     D. false

65. A. inevitable                  B. important                        C. unexpected                     D. subjective

 

Section B(24分)

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)

         Home to 8.2 million people, 36 percent of whom were born outside the United States, New York, known as the Big Apple, is the biggest city in America. Nearly twenty times bigger than the capital, Washington DC, you might expect New York to be twenty times more dangerous. Actually, it’s safer. Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100,000 people than 193 other US cities. It’s also healthier than it used to be. For example, the smoking rate has gone down from 21.5 percent a few years ago, to 16.9 percent today.

         New Yorkers should be delighted, shouldn’t they? In fact, many feel that New York is losing its identity. It used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty (at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.

         If you decided to have a picnic in Central Park, you’d need to be careful—if you decided to feed the birds with your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s banned. In many countries a mobile phone going off in the cinema is annoying. In New York it’s illegal. So is putting your bag on an empty seat in the subway. If you went to a bar for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er … no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City. In fact, you can’t smoke outdoors on the street or in parks either. The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, says, “Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray.” He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.

         But not all of New York’s inhabitants are complaining. Marcia Dugarry, seventy-two, said, “The city has changed for the better. If more cities had these laws, America would be a better place to live.”

         The new laws have helped turn the city into one of the healthiest—and most pleasant places to live in America—very different from its old image of a dirty and dangerous city. Its pavements are almost litter-free, its bars clean and its streets among America’s safest. Not putting your bag on subway seats might be a small price to pay.

66. The author writes Paragraph 1 in order to tell the reader that New York is _____.

   A. bigger than Washington D.C.                                        B. the city with most immigrants

C. safer and healthier                                                         D. the most populated city in the U.S.

67. Which of the following is forbidden by law in New York?

   A. Eating sandwich in the Central Park.                          B. Putting a bag on an empty subway seat.

   C. Turning on the sound of the mobile phone.               D. Smoking at home.

68. What does Graydon Carter imply?

   A. Some of New York’s new laws are not reasonable.

   B. A gun is much easier to get than an ashtray.

   C. The police had no right to take away his ashtray.

   D. There should be a law to keep guns away from people.

69. What is the author’s attitude towards New York’s new laws?

   A. Supportive.                        B. Negative.                         C. Neutral.                           D. Uninterested

(B)

With the price of DNA sequencing falling, and the increasing smartness of handheld electronics and point-of-care diagnostics, the prospect of personalised medicine fine-tuned to a patient’s genetic make-up no longer seems a far-off dream. Health apps are already giving the public unprecedented opportunities to monitor and manage their own fitness; in the future, we’re promised, technology and genomics (基因组学) will combine to change the patient’s experience.   As major projects like UK government’s 100,000 Genomes Project gear up to provide the fundamental medical science this future will need, what differences will this new era of personalised healthcare deliver—a medicine for our ills, or a Pandora’s Box?   And are we—and our health services—ready for it?

   

70. All of the following are very likely to be invited to the debate advertised above EXCEPT _____.

   A. doctors                      B. biologists                         C. engineers                         D. accountants

71. What is the topic of the debate?

   A. The reason why reading our genes won’t be as expensive as it is now.

   B. The changes that personlised healthcare may bring about.

   C. How health apps will become in the future.

   D. How society responds to technology development.

72. Which of the following statements is true according the advertisement?

   A. Reading people’s genes will soon be as easy as taking a beach holiday.

   B. Handheld electronics play a very important part in the development of medicine.

   C. It’s not certain whether this new era of healthcare will do us good or not.

   D. Scientists and health services are well prepared for the changes that may happen.

 (C)

         In 1851, Auguste Comte, the French philosopher and father of sociology, coined the new word altruism as part of a drive to create a non-religious religion based on scientific principles.He defined it as “intentional action for the welfare of others that involves at least the possibility of either no benefit or a loss to the actor”. At that time, studies of animal behavior and phrenology (颅相学) led him to locate egotistical (自我本位的) instincts at the back of the brain, altruistic ones at the front.

         Today, we have a far more sophisticated knowledge of the neurological (神经学的) and biochemical factors that underpin kind behavior. And this science forms the bases of two books aimed at general readers—but also at those who, despite the research, still doubt the existence of altruism.

However, the books may end up providing more information for the naysayers. Take The Altruistic Brain by neuroscientist Donald Pfaff. On solid scientific ground, he builds a five-step theory of how altruism occurs, which depends on an idea that is unconvincing and may achieve the opposite result. Pfaff argues that to act altruistically you should first visualize the receiver of your good will, then mentally transform their image into your own, “from angle to angle and curve to curve”. Does it really work?

         At the core of evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson’s Does Altruism Exist? is another contentious (有争议的) idea: altruism has evolved as the result of group selection. But Wilson argues his corner masterfully, providing a clever reply to the belief that natural selection occurs only at the level of the selfish gene: “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups,” he says.

         In other words, we cooperate when doing so gives our team the advantage. That doesn’t sound very selfless either.

         Wilson acknowledges this, but argues that thoughts and feelings are less important than actions. According to evolutionary theory, pure altruists do exist, but it doesn’t matter why people choose to help others—their reasons may be difficult even for themselves to understand. What matters is that humans can coordinate their activities in just the right way to achieve common goals. Other animals do this too, but we are masters. “Teamwork is the signature adaptation of our species,” he says.

         Pfaff goes further, insisting that our brain biology “urges us to be kind”. He believes this knowledge alone will inspire individuals to be more altruistic. His desire to create a better world is admirable and some of his ideas are interesting, but Wilson’s analysis is clearer.

         While it is in our nature to be altruistic, Wilson says, we also have a healthy regard for self-interest and a resistance to being pushed around. Which one comes to the fore depends on the environment in which we find ourselves. Ethics, he says, cannot be taught at individual level, but are “a property of the whole system”.

73. Which of the following can be considered an altruistic behaviour according to Comte’s definition?

   A. A person offers to donate his liver to another who needs one.

   B. A clerk returns the umbrella to his colleague which he has kept for a long time .

   C. A student volunteers to work in the orphanage to collect data for his research.

   D. A police officer spots a car parking in the no-parking area, finding a child in the trunk.

74. The word “naysayers” (in paragraph 4) most probably means _____.

   A. people who take a positive attitude                   B. people who doubts something      

   C. people who have no say in an area                    D. people who are experts in an area

75. What does Donald Pfaff think people should do in order to altruistically?

   A. Draw a picture of the person they are going to help.

   B. Transform the receiver into a kind person.

   C. Visualize what they are going to do in mind first.

   D. Imagine they themselves are to be helped.

76. Which of the following statements is David Sloan most likely to agree with in his book?

   A. Being kind is not something people are born with.

   B. People in groups are less likely to be selfish.

   C. People may well act selflessly because of where they are.

   D. Most people know clearly why they are ready to help others.

77. What can be concluded from the passage?

   A. Figuring out what makes us behave selflessly is a tricky business.

   B. Unlike Donald Pfaff’s book, David Sloan’s book aims at professional readers.

   C. Comte’s definition of altruism proves to be impractical in modern times.

   D. Both Donald Pfaff and David Sloan lay emphasis on team work.

 

Section D (8分)

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. 

Ellie is a psychologist, and a good one at that. Smile in a certain way, and she knows precisely what your smile means. She listens to what you say, processes every word, works out the meaning of your pitch, your tone, your posture, everything. She is at the top of her game but, according to a new study, her greatest advantage is that she is not human.

When faced with tough or potentially embarrassing questions, people often do not tell doctors what they need to hear. Yet the researchers behind Ellie, led by Jonathan Gratch at the Institute for Creative Technologies, in Los Angeles, suspected from their years of monitoring human interactions with computers that people might be more willing to talk if presented with an avatar, that is, a virtual figure. To test this idea, they put 239 people in front of Ellie to have a chat with her about their lives. Half were told (truthfully) they would be interacting with an artificially intelligent virtual human (AIVH); the others were told (falsely) that Ellie was a bit like a puppet, and was having her strings pulled remotely by a person.

Designed to search for psychological problems, Ellie worked with each participant in the study in the same manner. She started every interview with ice-breaking questions, such as, “Where are you from?” She followed these with more clinical ones, like, “How easy is it for you to get a good night’s sleep?” She finished with questions intended to lighten the participant’s mood, for instance, “What are you most proud of?”

Dr Gratch and his colleagues report that, though every participant interacted with the same avatar, their experiences differed markedly based on what they believed they were dealing with. Those who thought Ellie was under the control of a human operator reported greater fear of disclosing personal information, and said they managed more carefully what they expressed during the session, than did those who believed they were simply interacting with a computer.

This quality of encouraging openness and honesty, Dr Gratch believes, will be of particular value in assessing the psychological problems of soldiers—a view shared by America’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is helping to pay for the project.

Soldiers value being tough, and many avoid seeing psychologists at all costs. That means conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which military men and women particularly suffer, often get dangerous before they are caught. Ellie could change things for the better by secretly informing soldiers with PTSD that she feels they could be a risk to themselves and others, and advising them about how to seek treatment.  

 

(Note：Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)

78. According to the passage, Ellie is actually a(n) _____________________________.

79. The experiment with 239 people proves that _____________________________.

80. During the chat, soon after some ice-breaking questions, Ellie asked interviewees other questions in order to _____________________________.

81. Why is Dr. Gratch’s research valuable for soldiers in particular?

第Ⅱ卷

I. Translation(22分)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

1. 人们普遍认为颐和园是北京最美丽的公园之一。(recognize)

2. 每学期最初的一星期往往用来让学生熟悉学校生活。(be meant)

3. 昨天早晨Tom在客厅看到的那个人原来是他的阿姨。(prove)

4. 小组成员们需要完成不同的任务，而他们三个主要负责收集资料。(devote)

5. 医生建议我不要吃止痛片，即便这有助于缓解疼痛。(ease)

 

II. Guided Writing(25分)

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

 

假设你校要求各个高三各个班级在开学初组织一次主题班会，你是班长，用英语写一份计划告诉老师你们班级活动的主题和内容等，计划包括以下内容：

 

1. 班会召开的时间。

2. 班会的主题与为什么选择这个主题。

3. 班会的主要议程。

 

 

  2015-2016学年度第一学期11校联考高三英语试卷参考答案

1-10: 10分(每题1分)

1. C           2. B           3. D           4. A            5. B           6. D           7. D           8. C           9. C           10. A

11-16:12分(每题2分)

11. A         12. B         13. C         14. B         15. D         16. B

17-24: 8分(每题1分)

17. Electricity             18. singles                   19. October                20. transfer

21. Education                                                 22. most successful creature

23. (incredibly) adaptable                                     24. their body chemistry

 

25-40: 16分(每题1分)

25. the      26. was saved            27. being driven         28. to find                   29. Even if        30. that

31. both    32. was     33. in         34. carrying       35. Made           36. cost              37. could           38. later

39. as if    40. which

 

41-50: 10分(每题1分)

41~45 KHIJG        46~50 CADBE

51-65: 15分(每题1分)

51~55 DDCBA                   56~60 BACAD                   61~65 BACBD

66-77: 24分(每题2分)

66~69 CBAA             70~72 DBC                73~77 ABDCA

 

回答问题:8分(每题2分)

78. avatar / virtual figure / virtual psychologist / virtual human

79. people are more open and honest with an AIVH

80. find out what was wrong with them             

81. Soldiers avoid seeing psychologists.

 

翻译: 22分(4*4*4*5*5)

1. The Summer Palace is recognized as one of the most beautiful parks in Beijing.

           1             1              1                     1

2. The first week of the semester is meant to get students familiar with their school life.

               1               1         1                   1

3. The person who Tom saw in the living room yesterday morning proved to be his aunt.

         1                1                  1                  1

4. The group members need to complete different tasks, and the three of them are devoted to collecting

            1                    1                    1              1       1

materials.

5. The doctor suggests that I not take any pain-killer, even if it may ease me from the pain.

           1                  1.5               1             1.5         

 

写作:25分