2013学年奉贤区调研测试
高三英语试卷
（2014,01）
考生注意：
1、本试卷分为第I卷（第1-11页）和第II卷（第12页）两部分。全卷工12页。满分150分。考试时间为120分钟。
2、答第I卷前，考生务必在答题纸上用钢笔会圆珠笔清楚填写姓名、准考证号（区统一编号，9位），并用铅笔在答题卡上的相应位置上正确涂写准考证号。
3、第I卷1-16小题、41-77小题采用多项选择题形式，答案必须涂写答题纸相应的位置上，写在试卷上无效。第I卷的第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
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 question 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.A television C.A telescope 2. A. In a cosmetics shop C. In a supermarket 3. A. Caught colds C. Travelled overseas 4. A. He is kind
C. He is somewhat busy 5. A. Take a break C. Keep trying
6. A. He wants to ride to school with the woman B. He prefers to take the bus
C. He has to stand on the bus if he takes it to school D. He doesn’t think the traffic is a problem 7. A. He plans to go home C. He doesn’t not plan to study
B. He has not registered yet D. He has a very busy schedule B.A computer D. An elevator B. In a library D. At home
B. Watered Julie’s plants D. Disapproved of her plan B. He is impolite D. She has no comments B. Go to work D. Do other problems
8. A. Allow the woman to go ahead of him B. Accept the woman’s apology
C. Go to the front of the line D. Apologize to the woman 9. A. He is willing to help her
B. He will help her after he finishes his assignment
C. He is too busy to help her D. His car broken down and he couldn’t afford a new one 10. A. More people like dancing C. More people should learn dancing Section B
Directions: In section A, 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 question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Envy and encouragement. C. Decisions and understanding. 12. A. She had little experience of social life. B. She could hardly understand the society. C. She would do something for her own life. D. She needed to travel more around the world. 13. A. How Liz managed to enter Harvard University. B. What a hard time Liz had in her childhood. C. Why Liz loved her parents so much. D. How Liz struggled to change her life.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. It's a preparation for next year's college entrance examination. B. The SAT test is only held in Hong Kong. C. It includes subject tests and reasoning tests. D. It's a piece of cake for the Chinese students. 15. A. He wanted to enter Harvard or Yale. B. His friends encouraged him to do that. C. He wanted to challenge himself.
D. He wanted to prove that survival of the fittest is true both in America and China
16. A. A growing number of Chinese students have lost interest in China's college entrance examination. B. All SAT lest takers want to apply for American universities. C. Chen Huanlu, a student from Shandong, has got high marks in SAT.
B. Willpower and determination. D. Love and respect for her parents. B. There is going to be a party D. Big dances are the most fun
D. By taking the test, you can learn something more than knowledge. 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 answer on your answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer. Money they plan to spend on the advertisement: Ways of advertising: Time of advertising: Reasons why customers are going to buy the product: Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. They were from 21 ,the Far East, the Middle East and Latin America 17 pounds TV, newspapers, 18 and cinema From May 1st to 19 1st It looks good, 20 well and fast Where were the oversea students from? What did the woman do before she became an She was a secretary of 22 at assistant director? Birmingham What did the man suggest the woman doing? What did the woman’s new job like? II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 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 proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. (A)
When I was young I wanted to be a model, so I convinced my parents to take me for an audition （试演）．I was (25) (select)and told I had potential．
23 a different kind of responsibility or doing something else There is going to be more 24 .
I imagined (26) (sign) by some famous model companies．For months, any boredom or disappointment I faced was pushed aside because I knew I (27) ( have ) the chance to be a real model soon．
Of course, I wasn't signed, but (28) hurt the most was being told that if I grew to 1．75 meters I could be a success．I prayed for a growth spurt （冲刺）because I didn’t want to give up my dream．I made an appointment with a local modeling agency.
The agency sent me out on a few auditions, but with every day I didn't receive a call, I grew more (29) (depress)．The final straw came in July (30) I had decided to focus on commercial modeling．There was an open call in New York City．We spent hours driving, only to be told that I was too short．
Years later, I realize that the trip to New York was good as (31) made me notice I didn't actually love modeling, just the idea of it．I wanted to be special and I was naively determined
(32) (reach) an impossible goal．The experience has made me stronger and that will help me later in the future．
(B)
The cold came a little bit earlier this winter. The weather has been harsh and unforgiving.
Beijing witnessed the (33) (early) snowfall since the 1950s on Nov 3. Temperatures in many parts of China have hit record lows, with Inner Mongolia suffering from a killer cold of -40 C. Cold weather also brought heavy snowstorms (34) the US, Russia and Europe, (35) (cause) deaths and forcing highways to shut down. You may not think they are related in any possible way, but scientists say that the extreme cold started in the North Pole, where the sea ice is melting rapidly (36) the burning of fossil fuels. This summer, the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the US announced that the sea ice coverage in (37) Arctic had reached its lowest level with less than half of the coverage it has four decades ago.
Large amounts of sea ice loss could change (38) air circulates in the atmosphere. At the same time, melting sea ice also release more ocean water, which result in increased water vapor in the atmosphere that (39) be transferred into snow.
Also, the attack of the cold came quickly and without a break this year. This left no time for the temperature to revive(回升)，(40) caused the cold to accumulate.
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 each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
PRINCE Harry of Wales, Scottish actress Karen Gillan, Ron Weasley from the wizard movie Harry Potter – what do they have 51 ? They all have ginger hair, or as people usually say, they are all “redheads”. Britain may be the most red-headed country in the world. About 1 to 2 percent of the world's population has red hair, but in the UK the numbers are much 52 , with 13 percent of Scots, 10percent of the Irish, and 6 percent of people in England having red hair, according to the BBC.
