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1、-上海市闵行区2016年高三英语二模-第 18 页学校_ 班级_ 准考证号_ 姓名_密封线闵行区2015学年第二学期高三年级质量调研考试英语试卷考生注意：1考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分。2本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第I卷（第1-11页）和第II卷（第12页），全卷共12页。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。3答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名。第I卷 (共103分)I. Listening Comprehension Section ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten shor

2、t 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 o

3、ne is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. At a post office.B. At a garage.C. At a newspaper office.D. At a publishing house.2.A. $15. B. $30. C. $50. D. $100.3. A. Shes unwilling to do it.B. She is afraid of donating blood.C. Donating blood is none of her business.D. Shes ready to d

4、onate blood.4. A. A shop assistant. B. A dentist. C. An electrician. D. A bank clerk.5. A. Boring. B. Horrible. C. Moving. D. Sad.6. A. Lending money to a student. B. Working in the office. C. Reading a students application. D. Asking for some financial aid.7. A. The invention of the steam engine. B

5、. The application of the steam engine. C. The history textbook. D. Watts life.8.A. He has not adjusted to the new culture.B. He has been studying hard at night.C. He finds biology difficult to learn.D. He is not accustomed to the time in a different zone.9. A. She thinks that Bill Gates is a success

6、ful person not just because he is rich.B. She believes that its impossible for Bill Gates to be rich and kind as well.C. She doesnt want to be a person like Bill Gates.D. She regards wealth as the most important part in Bill Gates success.10. A. Mark made some trouble with Bobby.B. Bobby was a troub

7、le-maker at school.C. Mr. Allen was Bobbys class teacher.D. Mark was Bobbys elder brother.Section BDirections: 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. W

8、hen 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. Acceptable.B. Unsatisfactory.C. Tolerable.D. Adequate.12. A. One semester.B. 20 days.C.

9、 Three months.D. Nine weeks.13.A. Enlarging the space and extending the evening hours.B. Increasing the teaching staff and lengthening the operation hours.C. Cutting on waiting time and increasing work efficiency.D. Enlarging childrens play area and offering parents flexible pick-up time.Questions 1

10、4 through 16 are based on the following passage.14.A. To invite authors to guide readers. B. To involve people in community service. C. To encourage people to read and share.D. To promote the friendship between cities.15.A. Because they came from many different backgrounds. B. Because they were too

11、busy to read a book. C. Because they had little interest in reading.D. Because they lacked support from the local government.16.A. The careful selection of a proper book.B. The number of people who benefit from the process. C. The growing popularity of the writers. D. The number of books that each p

12、erson reads.Section CDirections: 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 throug

13、h 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.What is Harrods famous for?Its (17)_ Hall and Food Hall.When was Harrods founded?In (18)_.How does Monica think of its service?Excellent and (19)_.How is the business during the January sales?There is an i

14、ncrease in (20)_ and sales.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write no more than THREE WORDS for each answer.What do the individuals bring to the companies?Different ideas, (21)_ and learning experiences.Why do people behave so differently at work?Due to

15、the two factors: (22)_.What is the positive effect of individuals working together?Helping (23)_.What is the disadvantage of individuals differences?They are the (24)_ between staff.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passag

16、es 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)Barditch High School decided to have an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There wer

17、e tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, (25)_ (wheel) to the Park.Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans (嘟囔声) when Ms.Yates was abou

18、t to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman (26)_ had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.Then Ms. Yates started to speak:“I cant t

19、ell you (27)_ pleased I am to be here. I havent seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. (28)_ I havent appeared in person, I have atten

20、ded your college graduations, weddings and even the birth of your children, in my imagination.”Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and (29)_ would succeed to annoy me. Regardle

21、ss of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in your (30)_ (choose) path.”“There is no (31)_ (great) comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all f

22、rom the bottom of my heart.”There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar. Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame (32)_ _ the words from

23、a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.(B)Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is going to experience (33)_ unwelcome surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer (锁止器)，and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure t

24、hat (34)_ the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will t

25、ell the control centre to block the vehicles engine management system and prevent the engine (35)_ (start).In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed,” says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take

26、 him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.Modern cars are far tougher to steal, (36)_ their engine management computer wont allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed (发射) out by the igni

27、tion (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this (37)_ (help) achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owners keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of thefts of vehicles fitt

28、ed with a (38)_ (track) system.If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operation centre (39)_ it has been stolen. The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal. Staff at the centre will then cont

29、act the owner (40)_ (confirm) that the car really is missing, and keep the police informed of the vehicles movements via the cars GPS unit.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 ne

30、ed.A. sufferedB. abandoningC. conclusionD. claimE. chargingF. modelG. acknowledgedH. boastingI. closeJ. elsewhereK. balanceIt is usually a common practice that journal websites offer readers their free online editions of articles and other information. However, Americas most popular newspaper websit

31、e announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a 41 . The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to set out plans for a pay wall around its digital offering, 42 the accepted practice that Internet users will not pay for news.Struggling with a decline of advertising and

32、 a downward tendency in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” 43 at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have exceeded (超过) a set number of its online articles per month.The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the 44 side of an i

33、ncreasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not charge Internet readers.The New York Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 45 that the idea was a gamble. 46 a print circulation of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New Yor

34、k Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 47 national scopeas well as 16 bureaus (办事处) in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintain

35、s 26 bureaus 48 in the world.But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a serious financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 49 a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million loan from a

36、Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its 50 sheet.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.According to sociologists,

37、 there are several different ways in which a person may become recognized as the leader of a social group. In the family, traditional cultural patterns award 51 on one or both of the parents. In other 52 , such as friendship groups, one or more persons may gradually emerge as leaders, although there

38、 is no formal process of 53 . In larger groups, leaders are usually chosen formally through election or recruitment.Although leaders are often thought to be people with unusual personal ability, decades of research have failed to produce consistent 54 that there is any category of “natural leaders”.

39、 It seems that there is no set of personal qualities that all leaders have 55 ; rather, virtually any person may be recognized as a leader if the person has 56 that meet the needs of that particular group.Furthermore, although it is commonly supposed that social groups have a single leader, research

40、 suggests that there are typically two different leadership 57 that are held by different individuals. Instrumental leadership is leadership that emphasizes the 58 of tasks by a social group. Group members look to instrumental leaders to “get things done”. Expressive leadership, on the other hand, i

41、s leadership that emphasizes the 59 wellbeing of a social groups members. Expressive leaders are less concerned with the overall goals of the group than with providing 60 support to group members and attempting to minimize tension and conflict among them.Instrumental leaders are likely to have a rat

42、her secondary relationship to other group members. They give orders and may 61 group members who prevent accomplishment of the groups goals. Expressive leaders cultivate a more 62 or primary relationship to others in the group. They offer 63 when someone experiences difficulties. And they try to 64

43、issues that threaten to divide the group. As the difference in these two roles suggest, expressive leaders generally receive more personal 65 from group members; instrumental leaders, if they are successful in promoting group goals, may enjoy a more distant respect.51.A. burdenB. leadershipC. housew

44、orkD. right 52.A. familiesB. societiesC. casesD. researches53. A. selectionB. struggleC. recommendationD. register54. A. evidenceB. supportC. approachD. pattern55. A. in advanceB. in briefC. in generalD. in common56.A. partnersB. achievementsC. skillsD. qualities57.A. selectionsB. rolesC. challenges

45、D. structures58. A. assignmentB. introductionC. completionD. division59. A. jointB. financialC. socialD. individual60.A. politicalB. administrativeC. emotionalD. technical61.A. disciplineB. praiseC. ignoreD. identify62.A. casualB. temporaryC. personalD. stable63.A. criticismB. sympathyC. estimateD.

46、information64.A. omitB. confuseC. raiseD. resolve65.A. imitationB. affectionC. objectionD. revengeSection BDirections: Read the following 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)WE NEEDlY