上海市奉贤区2014届高三英语二模试卷(含答案及听力文字).doc

2013学年奉贤区调研测试
高三英语试卷 （2014,04）

考生注意：
1．本试卷分为第I卷(第1-12页)和第II卷(第13页)两部分。全卷共13页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。
2．答第I卷前，考生务必在答题纸上用钢笔或圆珠笔清楚填写姓名、准考证号（区统一编号，9位），并用铅笔在答题卡的相应位置上正确涂写准考证号。
3．第I卷第1—16小题、41—77小题采用多项选择题形式，答案必须涂写在答题纸相应的位置上，写在试卷上无效。第I卷中的第17—40小题、第78—81小题和第II卷的答案必须用钢笔或水笔写在答题纸上，如用铅笔答题，或写在试卷上一律不给分。

第I卷 （105分）

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

2. A. Excited.
B. Dissatisfied.
C. Bored.
D. Exhausted.

3. A. Because she didn’t like him.
B. Because visiting hours were over.
C. Because he didn’t hear the bell.
D. Because she needed to rest.

4. A. Stop the bus.
B. Walk to the zoo.
C. Cross the street.
D. Call the police.

5. A. On a farm.
B. In a plane
C. In a coffee shop.
D. In a restaurant.

6. A. A manager.
B. A teacher.
C. A worker.
D. A secretary.

7. A. $5. B. $10.
C. $15. D. $50.

8. A. He is careless about his appearance.
B. He is ashamed of his present condition.
C. He changes his job frequently.
D. He shaves every other day.

9. A. Training for the Middle Atlantic Championship.
B. Making preparations for a trans-Atlantic (跨大西洋的) trip.
C. Collecting information about baseball games.
D. Analyzing their opponents’ on-field performance.

10. A. Jane may be caught in a traffic jam.
B. Jane should have started a little earlier.
C. He knows what sort of person Jane is.
D. He is annoyed at having to wait for Jane.

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. Teaching music.
B. Repairing musical instruments.
C. Writing music.
D. Making musical instruments.

12. A. Teamwork and patience.
B. The value of time.
C. The truth of society.
D. Diligence and confidence.

13. A. How to repair musical instruments.
B. How to prepare a musical performance.
C. Learning experiences of a repairman.
D. The enjoyable job of a music lover.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.
14. A. Equipping students with knowledge.
B. Qualifying students for certain jobs.
C. Developing students’ habits of mind.
D. Helping students to go to graduate school.

15. A. The ability to have critical analysis.
B. Creative use of leisure time.
C. Logical use of information.
D. Willingness to accept uncertainty.

16. A. Goals to reach in a college education.
B. Roles of knowledge in students’ growth.
C. Qualifications needed for a job.
D. Importance of after-class activities.

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.
Information About the English Course
●Beginning date of the course: 17 1st.
●Class schedule for the 18 classes: Every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 in the evening.
●The facilities in each room: 19 and tape recorders.
● The tuition for one course: 20 dollars.

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
What are the two speakers talking about?
Suggestions concerning 21 and advertising strategies.
What does the woman say about the equipment of their factory?
New equipment should 22 long ago.
What does the woman suggest about human resources?
A few engineers should be employed to 23 .
Why does the woman suggest advertising on TV?
Advertising in newspapers alone is 24 .

II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: 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)
For most people, meat is a necessary part of any meal. But just ask yourself, would you still eat it if you knew that it had come from a cloned chicken or pig?
The European Food Safety Authority has, so far, found no indication（25）______ food products, such as milk and meat, from cloned animals, are less safe than ones from normal animals. However, there are still economic and ethical (伦理的) concerns related to (26) ______(eat) cloned animals.
That’s (27) ______ the European Union has launched a proposal to ban the sale and import of food from cloned animals.
First of all, cloning is extremely costly. More importantly, cloning has a low success rate. It means that many cloned animals won’t survive into adulthood, and some (28) ______ die before they are even born. This causes unnecessary suffering among animals and is opposed by animal rights supporters.
While it would make it illegal to sell and import cloned animals, the proposal says that (29) ______ sale and import of food from the offspring (后代) of clones would be allowed since they are not considered to be the direct products of cloning. But they are required to be clearly labeled (30) ______ ______customers can choose whether they want them or not.
The proposal (31) ______ (put) to the European Parliament and member states, and it is not expected to come into force until 2016.

(B)
California has long attracted visitors seeking fortune, fame or both. Way back in 1849, hundreds of thousands started digging (32) ______ gold in the great Gold Rush of California, a historical event that (33) ______ (capture) the American imagination.
Nowadays, the state is the most diverse（多元化的）in the entire mainland US – both in terms of the races of its people and the languages that (34) ______ speak. Thus, California is a true example of the “melting pot”, so often (35) ______(associate) with the US.
But why is it (36) ______ all these different types of people choose to live and work in California? You’ve probably heard of Silicon Valley. Located outside of San Francisco in northern California, it is home to many of the world’s most successful technology companies. (37) ______ you ever send texts on an iPhone, e-mail with Yahoo, search on Google or edit pictures with Photoshop, then you have Silicon Valley to thank.
But it’s not just electronic innovation that inspires people to move to California. Another major draw is one of (38) ______ (old) American dreams — the chance (39) ______ (become) a movie or TV star. People (40) ______ visit California get a special rush from going to Mount Lee in Santa Monica and seeing the famous Hollywood sign, a lasting symbol of the American film and television industries.

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. regular
B. eventually
C. inspired
D. value
E. substitute
F. wholly
G. bother
H. estimates
I. involve
J. resistant
K. replacing

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This question has remained unsolved for hundreds of years, yet soon it might not be a problem anymore — the egg of the future may not 41 a chicken at all.
But if not from a chicken, where will the egg come from? Apparently, a plant is one of the possibilities, as Hampton Creek, a food technology company in San Francisco, US, has found. They created a 42 for eggs, called Beyond Eggs, using a mixture of 11 plants, including sunflowers and a variety of beans.
Unlike the image you might now have in your mind, Beyond Eggs look nothing like 43 eggs. They are sold as gray powder that you mix with water before cooking. But the final product tastes just like the real thing.
But the question is, why 44 with “plant eggs”? What’s the problem with ordinary eggs?
The truth is that 99 percent of our eggs come from industrial warehouses (养鸡场仓库) where chickens are crowded into cages too small for them to even spread their wings. This cruelty is what 45 Hampton Creek to carry out the Beyond Eggs project in the first place.
In addition, the cages where chickens are kept so close together are a hotbed for viruses. To help the chickens stay healthy, farmers feed them antibiotics (抗生素), which may cause dangerous bacteria to grow 46 to the drugs and 47 spread to humans through eggs and meat.
In fact, 48 the egg is not a new idea, but Beyond Eggs seems to be the most successful attempt so far.
Besides their great taste and eco-friendliness, Beyond Eggs provide the same nutritional 49 as real eggs, and they’re even healthier since they don’t contain cholesterol (胆固醇). The company also 50 that the cost of their products is around 19 percent less than real eggs, which makes them more affordable.

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.

Have you ever gotten a sunburn? If you have, you’ve already learned the hard way about the sun’s ultraviolet (紫外线的), or UV light. It can burn your skin so bad that it turns it red or even makes it peel off. The 51 helps you remember to wear sunscreen the next time.
Well, Earth has its own version of sunscreen, the ozone (臭氧) layer, which 52 us all from the vast majority of the UV light released by the sun. Without it, we wouldn’t just get a sunburn. Life on Earth would go 53 due to the hugely damaging power of all those UV rays.
The ozone layer 54 Earth’s stratosphere (同温层), a part of the atmosphere that 55 from about 10 kilometers up to nearly 50 kilometers above the ground. Despite its name, the ozone layer isn’t just ozone gas. It contains relatively higher concentrations of ozone than the lower atmosphere, but that’s still a small amount 56 those of the main elements of the atmosphere. Even so, it 57 a lot of UV rays, preventing them from reaching the surface of Earth.
However, people weren’t fully aware of its importance until 1985, when a huge hole in the layer was found over Antarctica.
The 58 quickly pointed to a kind of chemical called chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC, which was widely used in refrigerators, air conditioners and hairsprays. CFCs are able to rise up to the stratosphere and cause reactions that destroy ozone. With a 59 ozone layer, people on Earth are more likely to develop skin cancer, cataracts (白内障) and other health problems due to too much UV light 60 .
As a result of this discovery, an international treaty (条约) called the Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987 to 61 the manufacture of CFC products so that the ozone layer could slowly recover and return to its natural state by 2050.
62 , at a time when it seemed that everything was going back to 63 , earlier this month scientists detected four new man-made gases in Greenland and Australia that could causes new risks to the ozone layer.
Scientists haven’t identified the 64 of the gases, but “this highlights that ozone loss is not yet yesterday’s story,” said Professor Piers Forster from the University of Leeds, UK, to BBC. Scientists believe that there are more such gases out there, and they still have much work to do to “ 65 the holes”.

51. A. harm
B. loss
C. pain
D. factor
52. A. survives
B. shades
C. prevents
D. covers
53. A. extinct
B. helpless
C. meaningless
D. wrong
54. A. links to
B. lies in
C. looks to
D. consists of
55. A. receives
B. locates
C. extends
D. varies
56. A. belonged to
B. turned to
C. taken to
D. compared to
57. A. absorbs
B. captures
C. figures
D. imposes
58. A. result
B. evidence
C. trace
D. movement
59. A. further
B. clearer
C. thinner
D. broader
60. A. return
B. exposure
C. companion
D. approach
61. A. ban
B. oppress
C. motivate
D. recycle
62. A. Therefore
B. Furthermore
C. Otherwise
D. However
63. A. minor
B. bitter
C. concrete
D. normal
64. A. source
B. guidance
C. condition
D. destination
65. A. fasten
B. heighten
C. tighten
D. strengthen

Section B
Directions: 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 or D. Choose the one that suits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)
In December 2008, Caroline Kennedy — daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy—sat down, as a frontrunner for the Senate seat in New York, for a televised interview that helped decide the future of her campaign. The result was a disaster.
Her performance wasn’t well received, in part because her speech was full of filler words—“ums,” “ahs” and “you knows.” One listener counted 27 “ums” and 38 “you knows” in the space of five minutes. A few weeks after the interview, Kennedy ended her Senate campaign.
Filler words may seem natural in everyday speech, but they can be deadly in formal presentations. “Using excessive fillers is the most annoying speech habit,” said Susan Ward, a speech specialist. “They take your listener’s attention away often to the point that he doesn’t hear anything you say. Your message is entirely lost.”
Many speakers are afraid of pause. They believe their audience will think they are inarticulate (不善于表达) if they pause to think of what to say next, so they use filler words to avoid the silence. However, a pause is actually more impressive than a filler word. Listeners know that the speaker is thinking, trying to find the right word. Sometimes a pause can actually improve a speech, as when an actor uses a dramatic pause to hold the attention of his audience. A speaker shouldn’t be afraid to pause occasionally during a speech; it shows self-confidence.
It takes some work to cut out filler w