松江区高三年级英语学科5月考试卷

 

                     （考试时间120分钟，满分150分）                2012.5

第I卷

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. At home.                                                B. At the riverside.

C. At his office.                                            D. At the health center.

2. A. Filling out a form.                                    B. Having an interview.

C. Talking with his friend.                  D. Asking for information.

3. A. The main idea of the composition is not convincing.

B. The composition is not complete.

C. The handwriting of the composition is not good.

D. Some part of the composition is not well written.

4. A. The game has been going on for a long time.                                 

B. Now it is a good time to start the game.

C. She is sure who is going to win.                              

D. The same team always wins.

5. A. Looking for a young lady.                 B. Looking for a young gentleman.

C. Looking for her wallet.                       D. Looking for a man carrying a wallet.

6. A. Quite unhappy.                                         B. Very relaxed.

C. Worried and frightened.                                   D. Angry with the traffic policeman.

7. A. Look for a more expensive hotel.               B. Take a walk around the city.

C. Go to another hotel by bus.                       D. Try to find a quiet place.

8. A. Tuesday.               B. Friday.                            C. Thursday.                 D. Wednesday.      

9. A.       Colleagues.            B. Roommates.             C. Relatives                  D. Neighbors.

10. A. To a friend’s house.                                B. To the post office.

   C. To the kindergarten.                                D. Home.

 

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. By reading and speaking.                               B. By hearing and speaking.

   C. By hearing and writing.                                  D. By speaking and writing.

12. A. Through talking and writing.           

B. Through self studies.

   C. Letting somebody show him and then try himself.                 

D. Having someone teach him.

13. A. Different ways of expressing things.                B. Different ways of doing things.

   C. Different ways of showing things.                   D. Different ways of learning things.

 

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.      

14. A. Because he was too old to dress himself.

   B. Because he was ill for a long time.

   C. Because he was thinking of his birthday and was going to hold a big family party.  

D. Because it was too hot for him to sleep well.

15. A. He was getting older and had a lot of money to give away. 

 B. He told the housekeeper he wasn’t feeling well and needed more help.

   C. Everyone believed he was going to live to be one hundred.

   D. He wanted to make his companions believe he was rich.

16. A. The old man enjoyed himself at the party.

   B. Willard’s family didn’t like him and wanted his large old house in the city.

   C. The policeman searched for nothing in the house.

   D. His housekeeper was a real murderer.

 

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.

patient’s name	Albert _______17_________
appointed item	_______18_________ check
appointed day	_______19_________
appointed time	_______20_________ p.m.

Complete the form. Write ONE WORD OR NUMBER for each answer.

 

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Name	Roger
Occupation	a ______21______
Hobby	go to ______22______
Appointment	______23______ on Saturday night, and then ______24______

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

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.   Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

25. Foreign officials, custom services and transportation companies are careful in regards ____ the transported contents across international borders.

   A. with                   B. at                                   C. for                           D. to

26. The editor asked our English teacher to write another article for the newspaper, ____ about how to do the revision one month before the entrance exam.

A. that              B. the one                  C. one                      D. it

27. We provide complete range of services ____ the preparation of Invitation Letter to visit the USA.

A. relate to                     B. relating to                C. being related to         D. related to

28. Many Shanghai citizens considered ____ to see the 14th Fina World Championships in Pudong, making it hard for them to get a ticket.

A. going            B. to go                  C. to have gone         D. having gone

29. Tu Youyou, a pharmacologist aged 81 at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences has become the first scientist on the Chinese mainland ____ a Lasker Award, the medical prize of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.

A. having won       B. winning                C. to win                   D. to have won

30. Disney reissued its classics to theaters so that a new generation could experience them the way ____ they were meant to be seen, which makes this Lion King part of a tradition, 3D or not.

A.     which         B. of which                C. in which                D. in that

31. In the age of information, modern science and technology has ____ communication between people far apart.

A. made it convenient to                              B. made it convenient

C. made it convenient for                            D. made convenient

32. They _____ worry about their weekend -- They always have their plans ready before it comes.

       A. can’t                 B. mustn’t                    C. needn’t                    D. daren’t      

33. He believes by the time he comes back in five years’ time all these old houses ____ down.

A. will have been pulled                             B. will be pulling

C. will have pulled                                    D. will be pulled

34. China’s economy cools are making investors nervous, ____ some Western chief executives predict a return to rapid growth in China

A. as                       B. though                            C. because                    D. when

35. The figures are further evidence ____ children are more likely to become near-sighted.

A. what                 B. that                       C. why                       D. which

36. It was for her rare charm and inner beauty ____ British movie star Audrey Hepburn was named the most naturally beautiful woman of all time.

A. when                    B. therefore              C. that                    D. why

37. Thailand’s worst flooding in nearly 60 years ____ more than 600 lives and affected about 10 million people since mid July.

A. claimed                     B. has claimed                     C. had claimed              D. is claimed        

38. As far as we know, half of Canadian teenagers do not get enough sleep on school nights, ____?

A. do they              B. don’t they                C. don’t you                 D. isn’t it

39. Some children with bad grades can always think of brilliant ways to escape ____.

A. punishing                                               B. being punished

C. to be punished                                        D. having punished

40. Gone are the days ____ surgery meant cutting a patient open. Modern medicine offers doctors less invasive tools to operate on disease-stricken bodies.

A. that                    B. which                      C. when                       D. whose

 

Section B

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. applied       B. carrying      C. multitaskers      D. effectively    E. structured F. competing     G. regions       H. unsure        I. deliberately    J. motor

 

Can You Really Multitask?

Many people like to believe they are good at managing several jobs at once. Yet research suggests that real __41__ who can carry out multiple tasks equally well make up just two percent of the population. More startlingly yet, so-called supertasters actually have differently __42__ brains than the other 98 percent.

Neurons in their frontal lobes (额叶), the front part of the brain also known as a cortex (脑皮层), respond differently to stimulus.

David Strayer, director of the __43__ cognition lab at the University of Utah, said, “These brain __44__ that differentiate supertasters from the rest of the population are the same regions that are most different between humans and nonhuman primates (灵长目动物). Certain parts of the frontal cortex are recruited in an interesting way.” When scanned, the same areas showed less activity among multitaskers when __45__ out several assignments than that in monotaskers (一次处理一件事的人) doing just one.

Scientists are __46__ of the reason why some brains are different. It is thought to be a quirk (怪事) of evolution. However, according to Dr Strayer, the downside of such ability means each task carried out is done less well than a monotasker’s one. This might explain why more of us haven’t evolved to have differently structured brains.

In fact, we could all benefit from doing just one task at once. In most of us, scientists have located a “bottleneck in the brain” that may explain why we find it hard to do two things at once.

This means that with e-mails, phone calls, text messages and online social media all __47__ for our attention, often against at a background of television, radio or music, our brains can reach information overload.

Scientists made the discovery after scanning the brains of volunteers attempting to multitask on a computer. The task was deliberately designed to enlist the use of different senses and __48__ responses.

Dr Rene Marois, a neuroscientist, said, “Our research offers neurological evidence that the brain cannot __49__ do two things at once.

 

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

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.

 

One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued credit card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even __50__, and they make many banking services available as well. More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or __51__ money in scattered locations, whether or not the local branch bank is open. For many of us the “cashless society” is not on __52__ - it’s already here.

While computers offer these __53__ to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do __54__ than simply ring up sales. They can __55__ a wide rang of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep __56__ their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or __57__ goods to suppliers can then be made.

At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, __58__ personnel and staffing assignments to be made __59__. And they also identify __60__ customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied on by manufactures for similar reasons. Computer __61__ marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials __62__ hand, and even of the production process itself.

__63__ other commercial enterprises, from theatres to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more __64__ services to consumers through the use of computers.

 

50. A. on earth                     B. in America               C. in the world                     D. abroad

51. A. depose                B. deposit                     C. opposite                   D. apposite

52. A. earth                  B. the horizon               C. the whole                 D. and off

53. A. conveyances        B. conveniences            C. conventions                     D. convictions

54. A. much more         B. any much                 C. many more               D. any more

55. A. put                            B. take                         C. keep                        D. get

56. A. track of                     B. out of                      C. on                           D. up with

57. A. repay                  B. restore                            C. revert                       D. return

58. A. allow                 B. to allow                   C. being allowed           D. allowing

59. A. relatively            B. accordingly                     C. deliberately                     D. extensively

60. A. preferred            B. inferred                    C. referred                    D. deferred

61. A. analyzed             B. analyzing                 C. analyze                    D. analysis

62. A. by                      B. out of                      C. beside                      D. on

63. A. Numerate            B. Numerical                C. Numerous                D. Numinous

64. A. efficient                     B. effective                   C. sufficient                  D. deficient

 

SectionB

Directions: Read the following four 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) 

A very important world problem is the increasing number of people who actually inhabit this planet. The limited amount of land and land resources will soon be unable to support the huge population if it continues to grow at its present rate.

So why is this huge increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and practice of what is becoming known as “Death Control”. You have no doubt heard of the term” Birth Control”. ”Death Control” is something rather difficult. It recognizes the work of the doctors and scientists who now keep alive people who, not very long ago, would have died of a variety of then incurable diseases. Through a wide variety of technological innovations that include farming methods and the control of deadly diseases, we have found ways to reduce the rate at which we die. However, this success is the very cause of the greatest threat to mankind.

If we examine the amount of land available for this ever-increasing population, we begin to see the problem. If everyone on the planet had an equal share of land, we would each have about 50,000 square meters. This figure seems to be quite encouraging until we examine the amount of usable land we actually have. More than three-fifths of the world’s land cannot produce food.

Obviously, with so little land to support us, we should be taking great care not to reduce it further. But we are not! Instead, we are consuming its “capital”- its nonrenewable fossil fuels and other mineral deposits that took millions of years to form but which are now being destroyed in decades. We are also doing the same with other vital resources not usually thought of as being nonrenewable such as fertile soils, groundwater and the millions of other species that share the earth with us.

It is a very common belief that the problems of the population explosion are caused mainly by poor people living in poor countries who do not know enough to limit their reproduction. This is not true. The actual number of people in an area is not as important as the effect they have on nature. Developing countries do have an effect on their environment, but it is the populations of richer countries that have a far greater impact on the earth as a whole.

 

65. According to the passage, what contributes to the population increase?
A. Human beings’ ignorance.                            B. The failure of “Birth Control”.
C. Technological innovation.                             D. The success of “Death Control”.

66. Land to support human beings is insufficient because ________.

A. populations in poor countries take up greater land

B. farm land becomes desert due to climate change

C. most of the world’s land is unusable  

D. the world’s land is not distributed equally

67. According to the passage, many people tend to believe that ________.

A. lowering the birth rate doesn’t make any sense  

B. it is wealth countries that should practice birth control

C. poor countries are to blame for the harm to nature

D. it is wrong to artificially prolong people’s life

68. What is the author really concerned about in the passage?

A. Unnecessary prolonged life spans.                   B. Overuse of resources.

C. Population explosion.                                    D. Gap between the rich and poor.

 

（B）

Sabina Caste Franco Rome October 16, 2011—The U.N. World Food program says there are growing concerns over food insecurity in the developing world. Some of those concerns are discussed in a report to agree with the anniversary Sunday of World Food Day.

The theme for World Food Day 2011 is “Food Prices — From Crisis to Stability”. A ceremony to mark World Food Day will be held Monday at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. Rising food prices, weather emergencies and political instability are deepening the struggle of families trying to provide for their households in many developing nations. This year’s “State of Food Insecurity in the World” report, published last week, focuses on the impact of food price volatility, confirming that high, unpredictable prices are likely to continue. The report highlighted how poor consumers, small farmers and countries dependent on imports, especially in Africa, have been deeply affected by the food and economic crises.

Gregory Barrow is with the World Food Program in Rome. “If you look at the places where World Food program works particularly in developing countries, you see populations of people who might be spending 60, 70, 80 percent of their salaries on purchasing food for their families”. Barrow added that if prices become changeful and generally start rising, even by a small amount, it means that many of these people are going to struggle to put nutritious food on their tables.

The report also showed that even short-term fluctuations (波动) in prices can have a long-term effect on development, and that cutting back on nutritious food in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can affect mental and physical development and finally, future earning capacity. The United Nations has programs in place aimed at reducing the number of hungry people by one-half by 2015. But most observers agree this target is unlikely to be reached.

 

69. The U.N World Food program aims to __________.

A. hold a ceremony to mark World Food Day

B. show concerns over food insecurity in the developing world

C. provide food for developing nations

D. introduce the U.N Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome

70. The underlined word “volatility” in paragraph 2 means __________.

A. supply                   B. control                         C. quality                 D. instability

71. According to the report, we can learn that __________.

A. children’s development can be affected by the taking of nutritious food

B. the short-term change in prices has nothing to do with development

C. food price changes have little effect on households

D. people in Africa have been influenced by the food and economic crises

 

 (C)

Outer Space

Traveling to space sounds like something only an astronaut could do. But scientists say tourists could soon be able to go to space as well – by train.

The “Star Tram” space train was invented by George Maise and James Powell, both from Johns Hopkins University, US, according to Gizmag magazine. It uses maglev (magnetic levitation, 磁悬浮) train technology, which Powell himself helped invent. The technology is already part of some trains in Japan and China.

The scientists plan to build a tunnel from the ground up to a low Earth orbit. The tunnel would be vacuum sealed so that the train would not be torn apart by the air if it travelled too fast. The Japanese maglev train travels at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour; Star’ Tram can accelerate to 32,000 kilometers per hour in only five minutes.

The biggest challenge is how to hold up the exit end of the tunnel. This is about 20 kilometers above ground. But scientists have thought everything through. Instead of building giant pillars to support it, they are going to suspend it in the air using a magnetic force.

According to Powell and Maise, there will be a cable on the ground carrying 200 million amperes (安培). The tunnel itself carries 20 million amperes. The magnetic force created by the electricity will raise four tons per meter of cable length to a height of 20 kilometers.

In case the force is too strong, the tunnel will also be fixed to the ground with high-strength ropes.

A trip on Star Tram would be comparatively cheap. It would cost about $5,000 (about 31,000 yuan), compared with the $20 million you would need to spend taking a rocket to the International Space Station.

Since carrying things into space would be cheaper, scientists would be able to send tons of missiles and equipment into space in advance. This would allow them to act immediately if an asteroid or comet were threatening to hit the Earth.

Star Tram should be ready in 20 years time. The project could also give scientists access to resources in space, such as solar power and rare mines on asteroids.

 

72. What is the main idea of the text?

   A. The application of maglev train technology in space research.

B. The advantages of a space trip on the Star Tram.

C. The disadvantages of “Star Tram” space train.

D. A new means of transport for space travel.

73. The tunnel for the space train would be vacuum sealed in order to ________.

   A. make the train travel more quickly

   B. protect the train against damage

   C. stop the train from travelling too fast

   D. make full use of the magnetic force

74. How do scientists plan to hold up the exit end of the tunnel?

A. With magnetic force created by electricity.

   B. By suspending it in the air from high- strength ropes.

   C. By building giant pillars to support it.

   D. By fixing a cable to the ground to support it.

75. What can we conclude from the last three paragraphs?

   A. The Star Tram could one day replace rockets to carry things into space.

   B. The Star Tram could help scientists detect more asteroids in space.

   C. The Star Tram could help handle an asteroid or comet threatening to hit the Earth.  

D. People will be able to travel into space on the Star Tram within about a decade.

 

Section C

Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

 

A. Mountaineering is different from golf and football B. Mountaineering is treated as a team sport C. The requirements are needed for climbers D. Many young people enjoy some forms of physical activity E. Mountaineering is a sport rather than a game F. The reason why people enjoy climbing mountains

76. ___________________

Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind football, golf, or tennis. It may be mountaineering.

77. ___________________

Those who have a passion for climbing high difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineers and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

78. ___________________

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

79. ___________________

If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “team” of climbers, but when climbers on rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

80. ___________________

    The mountain climber knows that he may have fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight against the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities. A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than young man, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

 

Section D

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

Tourist Gets Hooked in Fish Restaurant

A seafood loving tourist in Sanya, Hainan Island, found himself on the hook for a 4,000 yuan restaurant bill during the recent Spring Festival. Apparently, he was just looking over the menu and showed an interest in a particularly expensive fish that cost 1,160 yuan per kilo. He didn’t order it, but before he could say “hook, line and sinker” the fish was cooked and on his plate. Although the tourist enjoyed eating the fish, it was difficult for him to swallow it when he found the bill.

He was just one of thousands of stories of people who say they were ripped off (宰客) on their trip to China’s tropical island paradise during the holiday. Many people complained of the high prices charged by restaurants and hotels. Even a simple meal at a roadside stall was costing people 200 yuan.

It’s not unusual for prices to go up during peak holiday periods. For the most part, it’s simply a case of supply and demand. And many merchants have to charge higher prices to make up for the losses they incur during the off season when business is slow. But Sanya’s merchants seem to have gone way overboard (过分).

Ripping off tourists, though, isn’t a new thing and it isn’t confined to Sanya. In the suburban Shanghai water town of Zhujiajiao, restaurants have two menus, one in Chinese and the other in English. Unsuspecting foreigners get the English menu with prices three times higher than on the Chinese menu. The restaurant owners say they aren’t cheating anyone because all the foreigners are “rich” and they can afford the higher prices. Really!?

Tourism has become an important part of China’s economy. According to some estimates, it makes up nearly three percent of the country’s GDP and directly employs twenty-seven million people. Those numbers are expected to grow, but they are threatened by the poor quality of service and the greed shown by some people in the tourist industry.

The industry certainly won’t grow if it follows the path of Sanya and Zhujiajiao and regards tourists as fish to be hooked rather than as guests to be welcomed.

(Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 10 WORDS)

 

81. Please list two places in the passage which ripped off tourists.

82. Why do many merchants want to charge higher prices which are not accepted by customers?

83. It is ___________________________________________________________ that has affected the tourist industry.

84. Only when the merchants regard their tourists as guests to be welcomed __________________.

 

 

 

第 II 卷

I. Translation

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

1. 人们在公共场所应注意自己的言谈举止。 （manners）

2. 这篇文章告诉我们怎样在旅行期间防止生病。(avoid)

3. 真奇怪，她竟然未能看出如此明显的错误。(fail )

4. 当我们踏入社会时，要学会适应竞争激烈的社会生活。（When）

5. 如果更多的人乘坐公交车或地铁上班，我们不仅可以短期内避免交通堵塞，而且从长远来看，能有效防止交通堵塞问题。（Not only）

 

Ⅱ. Guided Writing 

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

你的同学李明今天因病未能来上课。听说这一情况后，同学和老师纷纷帮助他、关爱他。请以The Day My Classmate Fell Ill为题写一篇作文。你的文章必须包括以下内容：

1. 简述李明生病的情况；

2. 同学和老师是如何帮助他的；

3. 人与人之间的这种相互关爱给你的感受。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

松江区高三年级英语学科5月考试卷

英语试卷答题纸

（满分150分，完卷时间120分钟）                  2012.5

 

第I卷

I. Listening Comprehension

17. __________       18. ___________              19. ____________                    20. __________

21. _______________________           22. ________________________

23. _______________________           24. ________________________

II. Vocabulary

41.___  42. ___  43.___  44.___  45.___  46.___  47.___  48.___  49.___

III. Reading Comprehension     

81. __________________________________________________________________________

82. __________________________________________________________________________

83. __________________________________________________________________________

84. __________________________________________________________________________

第II卷

I. Translation

II. Guided Writing

 

 

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