青浦区2018学年高三年级第二次学业质量调研测试

英语学科试卷

2019.04

考生注意:

1. 本试卷共13页。满分140分。考试时间120分钟。

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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. In a park. B. In a Zoo. C. In a museum. D. In a pet store.

2. A. Receptionist and guest. B. Salesperson and customer. C. Doctor and patient. D. Waiter and diner

3. A.15 dollars B. 45 dollars. C. 75 dollars. D. 60 dollars.

4. A. None of Ben's classmates wants to study abroad. B. Ben is not interested in the training experience. C. Others cherish Ben for his long tern efforts. D. Ben is very eager for the scholarship.

5. A. Satisfied. B. Disappointed. C. Interested. D. Frightened.

6. A. She is two hours late.

B. It is possible to cure toothache. C. She can stand two hours. D. It is too painful to be patient.

7. A. By car. B. By bus. C. By subway. D. By plane. 8. A. Betty is looking for an Italian dictionary. B. Mr. Green can't offer help to the woman. C. Italian words are hard to pronounce.

D. Jack is not available at this moment.

9. A. The woman is always in trouble. B. The man finds fault with others. C. The woman has calmed the horse. D. The man has realized his problem.

10. A. He will continue during his vacation. B. Papers pile up while he is on vacation. C. He has no time to go on holiday D. Papers are too hard to understand.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the short passages and the longer conversation. The short passages and the longer conversation 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. His family had money problems. B. His father didn't like him to be a barber. C. His relatives house was spacious.

D. His mother wasn’t able to take care of him.

12. A. In 1775. B. In 1802. C. In 1796. D. In 1819.

13. A. His childhood experience. B. His wide-range travel.

C. The Royal Academy School. D. The Napoleonic Wars.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Memory and communication. B. Comprehension and concentration. C. Memory and concentration.

D. Comprehension and communication.

15. A.3 hours. B.. An hour. C. 20 minutes. D.50 minutes.

16. A. Those who walk along city streets find themselves exhausted easily. B. A walk by a green route helps to improve city image to some extent. C. Taking a route with nature affects one's performance in a positive way. D. The volunteers mental skills remain the same after walking in nature.'

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the. following conversation 17. A. The telephone call was not clear

B. The line was always busy.

C. The telephone bill was not accurate. D. The service was not satisfactory.

18. A. He refuses to check the bill again. B. He is the manager of the company. C. He is expert at counting. D. He is patient and helpful.

19. A. Check her eyesight to avoid mistakes again. B. Apply for the International Dial Service. C. Cut down the number of overseas calls. D. Make a request for free phone calls.

20. A. Because she shouldn't have turned to the assistant. B. Because she mixed up the telephone numbers. C. Because she forgot to pay the previous bills. D. Because she made a wrong complaint.

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.

How can my son be a year old already?

My son turned one last week, The day marked the end of (21)________ has been both the longest and shortest year of my life. I haven’t slept for a year and I don't really know how time works any more.From the instant he was born, it's felt (22)________ my son has always been part of this family.

How is he one already? First he was born, and was a sleepy ball of flesh then, and now in his place is a little boy who (23)________ walk and has teeth and knows how to switch off the television at precisely the most important moment of anything I ever try to watch. It's not exactly (24)________ (extraordinary) development in all of human history child gradually gets older but it's the first time I ________ (see) it close up. It's honestly quite hard to grasp. Even photos of him (26)________ (take) last week seem like a different boy. He's leaving milestone after milestone in his tiny parts of me along with them.

He'll never again be the tiny baby who lay in my arm, (27)________ (suck) on my little finger in the middle of the night while his mum slept, (28)________ will he be the baby amazed by the taste of solid food. Soon enough he 'll stop being the baby who rests his head on my shoulder whenever he gets tired, or laughs. uncontrollably whenever I say the word teeth for reasons, (29)________ I don't think I'll ever work out.

But I've had' a year of this and it's ok. He's never going to stop changing, and I don't want him to.This sadness, this constant sense of loss, of time slipping just (30)________ your grasp, is an important part of this process. He wont realise this, of course. He's got years of unbroken progress ahead of him,where everything will always be new. Years of his life will pass in a moment and he won't be able to understand where they've gone. But it's ok. You can't freeze time. You just have to make the most of what you have.

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. A. forgotten E. marvelous I. symphony Touring Cenotes

My parents and I traveled to Mexico to visit my grandparents last summer. and we visited the cenotes (say-NO-tays), the natural? swimming holes located on the Yucatán Peninsula. The term “swimming hole” might make you think that cenotes are just average, but cenotes are truly (31)________. I had the most exciting experience of my life exploring these wonders of nature.

Thousands of years old, the cenotes formed and created sinkholes underneath. Though the ancient Mayans (玛雅人) used the cenotes as water (32)________ people can now swim, dive, take photographs, and admire local trees and (33)________ life, all through water as clear as liquid diamond.

In Cenote Azul, my parents, my grandparents, and I swam through water that seemed too blue to be real. I_ 34_ I countless younger kids diving into the water from a small cliff, but I dared not to jump at first. I finally worked up the courage, and my (35)________ try instantly put all my worries to rest.

A few days later, we went to Cenote Ponderosa. We stayed in the sun-covered pond, where we (36)________ floated while others did diving and took underwater photographs. Being surrounded by a valley of trees made everything else in the world seem to disappear. Grutas de Loltún were definitely the most magnificent of all the cenotes, even though there was no swimming involved. Grutas are caves, and the Grutas de Loltún are among the biggest caves on the entire Peninsula. Our guide, Carolina, walked us through several caves, where we saw many drawings thousands of years old on the cave walls! Just one brief look at those drawings made me feel like I had stepped back in time to a(n) (37)________ era of history. Our group thought Carolina was joking when she claimed she could make the stalagmites(T 4) sing for us, but when she (38)________ them, we heard what sounded like the words Lol and Tun -the name of the caves! I cannot imagine that a(n) (39)________ played at a concert at Carnegie Hall would have been any better.

Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula is filled with beauty, but the cenotes are a one-of-a-kind opportunity to commune with nature in a way that is impossible anywhere else on Earth, and I would not (40)________ to do it all again.

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.

Recently, the Victorian Government brought in new rules. Victorian state schools will be banned from using facial recognition technology in classrooms unless they have the ____41____ of parents,students and the Department of Education.

Students may be justifiably horrified at the thought of being ____42____ as they move throughout the school during a day. But a roll marking system could be as simple as looking at a tablet or iPad once a day ____43____ being signed off on a paper roll. It simply depends on the implementation. Trials have already begun in independent schools and. up to 100 campuses across Australia. According to the developers, the technology promises to save teachers up to 25 hours a week by ____44____ the need for them to mark the roll at the start of

B. hesitate F. leisurely J. tapped C. initial G. sources K. witnessed D. marine H. specific