上海市静安区2018届高三英语上学期期末教学质量检测试题（含听力）.rar

- 1 -上海市静安区 2018 届高三英语上学期期末教学质量检测试题I. Listening ComprehensionSection 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. Air conditioner. B. Stove .C. Suitcase. D. Mobile phone.2. A. A nurse. B. A manager. C. A flight attendant. D. A secretary.3. A. On the day of Black Friday, he has nothing to do.B. He will buy nothing during the coming shopping day.C. His salary will be increased before Black Friday.D. He prefers to save money rather than spend.4. A. 6. B.8. C. 12. D. 16.5. A. People should carefully study information they get from various experts.B. There’s no need to turn to experts for health suggestions.C. Ordinary people should be invited on TV to talk about healthy life.D. Experts help a lot in promoting healthy life style.6. A. The professor failed everyone at the term end.B. The professor criticized him for failing the exam.C. The professor thought highly of him.C. The man failed the science course for the term.7. A. Jenny has graduation ceremony.B. They go for a movie.C. They have family dinner.D. Nothing happens.- 2 -8. A. Medicine. B. Math. C. History. D. Chinese.9. A. It’s wonderful in all aspects.B. It’s good on the whole with one shortcoming.C. It’s totally disappointing.D. It’s of average quality.10. A. Buying the expensive cake is foolish.B. The cake is worth the price.C. The taste of the cake is misleading.D. Eating the cake hurts people’s intelligence.Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the 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. Children looking for future husband and wife for their parents.B. Children trying to earn wedding fund for their parents.C. Children making plans for their parents’ wedding day.D. Children taking part in their parents’ wedding ceremony.12. A. Wedding dress. B. Wedding style.C. Food for wedding banquet. D. Honeymoon destination.13. A. The difficulties modern marriage meets.B. The good relationship between British children and parents.C. The unconventional weddings in modern Britain.D. The new marriage concepts combined with traditions.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.- 3 -14. A. For how long the event will last.B. The site address to purchase the event ticket.C. The past achievements the lecturer has made.D. The location where the lecture is to happen.15. A. Stand out and hold a poster for the event.B. Cover other event ads with your event ad.C. Rent school channel to introduce the event.D. Use modern communication media to spread the event.16. A. Tips on advertising campus events.B. Food work wonders to attract campus event attendees.C. The rise of modern social media on campus.D. Challenges to prepare for a high-quality campus event.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Academic and professional prospects.B. Life conditions on campus.C. Tuition and geographic advantages.D. Ranks among all the universities.18. A. Strong program background.B. Low living expenses.C. Circle of contacts on campus.D. Agreeable weather.19. A. Because they can hire talents from UCLA.B. Because foreign talents can be employed.C. Because their companies are near beaches.D. Because their bosses are from UCLA.20. A. Moving to live with his parents.B. Pursuing graduate study at UCLA.C. Accepting the offer from Chicago University.D. Keeping comparing the two Universities.- 4 -II. Grammar and VocabularySection 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.Today, Mandatory(强制的) recycling is a hard sell in the United States, where the economy runs largely along free market lines and the current landfilling waste remains inexpensive and efficient.Plain and simple, recycling still costs more than landfilling in most places. This fact, (21)______(couple) with the disappearance of the so-called “landfill crisis” of the mid-1990s, means that recycling has not caught on, which runs ______(22) some environmentalists’ wishes.However, many cities have found ways to recycle economically. They have cut costs by automating sorting and processing. They’ve also found profitable markets for the recyclables(可回收物) (23)______ cast-off items are acceptable or even welcome. Increased efforts by green groups (24)______(educate) the public about the benefits of recycling have also helped.(25)______ ______ ______ uneconomical recycling seems to some people, some cities, such as Pittsburgh, San Diego and Seattle, have made recycling mandatory. In these cities, recyclables are banned from both household and business garbage. Families (26)______ recycle all basic recyclables, such as paper, cardboard, glass and plastic. To businesses with garbage containers “polluted” with more than 10 recyclables，warnings (27)______(issue). If they fail to take action, fines are expected. New York, a national leader on recycling, decided to stop its least cost-effective recycling programs (plastic and glass) in 2002. But rising landfill costs ate up the $39 million savings expected.- 5 -As a result, the city brought back plastic and glass recycling and committed to a 20-year contract with a recycling firm, Hugo Neu Corporation, which built the (28)______(advanced) recycling facility in the country.The company focuses on (29)______could cut costs. Automation has streamlined the sorting process, and easy access to rail has cut both the environmental and transportation costs. The new deal and new facility have made recycling efficient for the city and its residents, (30)______(show) once and for all that responsibly-run recycling programs can actually save money, landfill space and the environment.Section B Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. shamed B. consequently C. criticism D. scarce E. authoritiesF. struggled G. original H. practical I. luxury J. blanketed K. assumeWilliam Shakespeare came from a modest start, but finished life living in a(n) ___31___ house in Stratford-upon-Avon, with a coat of arms and a series of business investments to his name.So was William Shakespeare a businessman, as well as a writer?Researchers have uncovered information from historical documents that point to Shakespeare being a greedy businessman, anxious to grab every penny whose practices caused ___32___in his lifetime.The academics believe that many of Shakespeare’s doubtful business dealings have been ___33___ by people’s romantic view of him as a creative genius who made his money through acting and writing plays. The idea that Shakespeare gave the world such wonderful narratives, language and entertainment makes it - 6 -uncomfortable to even ___34___ that he was simply motivated by his own thirst for financial interest.Shakespeare was a grain businessman almost for his life time. He bought and stored grain and then sold it on to his neighbors at high prices.In the late 16th and early 17th Century a bad weather gripped England. The cold and rain resulted in poor harvests and ___35___ severe lack of food. Referred to as the ‘Little Ice Age’, the period was the time when thousands of people ___36___ for survival. At that time, Shakespeare was under investigation for tax evasion(逃避) and later charged with storing grain when food was ___37___.One could argue that he did not do this without a conscience and that perhaps this is demonstrated in the way he portrayed one of his famous character Shylock in his play the Merchant of Venice. Many people claim Shylock personifies Shakespeare’s own self-hatred, who is eventually ___38___ for his greed as a money lender and all that he owns is seized from him. Perhaps with the ___39___ pursuing Shakespeare for his evil dealings during Little Ice Age, Shylock’s tragic fate was a real fear for Shakespeare.Shakespeare’s ___40___ funeral monument at Holy Trinity Church was a bag of grain which implied that he prided himself on his role as a grain businessman as well as on his writing. It was not until the 18th century that the bag of grain was replaced by a pillow.III. Reading ComprehensionSection 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.The sights, sounds, and smells of the modern marketplace are rarely accidental. More likely, they are tools of an evolving strategy of psychological marketing called “sensory marketing” to create an emotional association to a(n) - 7 -___41___ product or brand.By relating to people in a far more ___42___way through everyone’s own senses, sensory marketing is able to affect people in a way that traditional mass marketing cannot.Traditional marketing believes that consumers will systematically consider___43___ product factors like price, features, and utility. Sensory marketing, by contrast, seeks to resort to the consumer's life experiences and feelings. Sensory marketing believes that people, as consumers, will act according to their emotional urge more than to their ___44___ reasoning. In this way, an effective sensory marketing effort can result in consumers choosing to buy a lovely but expensive product, rather than a plain but cheap ___45___.In the past, communications with customers were mainly monologues — companies just ‘talked at’ consumers. Then they evolved into dialogues, with customers providing ___46___. Now they’re becoming multidimensional conversations, with products finding their own voices and consumers responding ___47___ to them.Based on the implied messages received through five senses, consumers, without noticing it, tend to apply human-like personalities to brands, leading to intimate relationship and, hopefully for the brands, persistent ___48___. And that’s the very thing brands are dying to foster in customers rather than instant trend or profits. Most brands are considered to have either “sincere“ or “exciting“ personalities.“Sincere“ brands like IBM and Boeing tend to be regarded as conservative and reliable while “exciting“ brands like Apple, and Ferrari are as imaginative and ___49___. In general, consumers tend to form ___50___ relationships with sincere brands than with exciting ones. This explains the relatively enduring history of the “Sincere Brands”Certainly, with the eyes containing two-thirds of all the ___51___cells in a person's body, sight is considered the most important of all human senses. Sensory marketing uses sight to create a memorable “sight experience“ of the - 8 -product for consumers which extends to packaging, store interiors, and printed advertising to form a(n) ___52___ image for the brand.In other words, no aspect of a product design is left to ___53___ anymore, especially color. Brand acceptance is linked closely with the appropriateness of the colors on the brand—does the color ___54___ the product at all? If not, customers, though not realizing it themselves, will ___55___ the brands in all possible ways--sales, reputation, etc. Therefore, brands, isn’t it time now to study the new field of marketing?41. A. specific B. qualified C. average D. adequate42. A. economic B. personal C. artificial D. mechanic43. A. obvious B. potential C. accessible D. concrete44. A. imaginable B. objective C. psychological D. gradual45. A. alternative B. reward C. sample D. exhibit46. A. compliment B. fund C. prospect D. feedback47. A. temporarily B. subconsciously C. occasionally D. attentively48. A. loyalty B. philosophy C. endurance D. regulation49. A. mild B. daring C. steady D. classic50. A. far-fetched B. hard-won C. long-lasting D. easy-going51. A. individual B. sensory C. present D. general52. A. overall B. ambitious C. dramatic D. additional53. A. chance B. maintenance C. progress D. leadership54. A. accept B. overlook C. fit D. treat55. A. shape B. punish C. signify D. exploitSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four - 9 -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)Overcoming extreme cold，cruel ice and people dismissing him as mad, Slovenian Davo Kamicar became the first person to ski non-stop down Mount Everest.After a dramatic fall over almost sheer cliffs of snow, stones and ice, 38-year-old Kamicar emerged in his base camp after five hours of skiing. “I feel only absolute happiness and absolute tiredness,” he said.At one stage he had to speed over stretches of ice that collapsed and broke underneath him and could have sent him falling into the deep crevasses(裂缝) that dot the mountain.The descent(下落) had been seen by many as insanely dangerous. The Darwin Awards website, which documents deaths which are foolhardy, urged people to log on to Internet broadcasts of the attempt. “Keep your eyes peeled for a live Darwin Award,” it said.However, the only body to make the news was the corpse(尸体) of an unknown mountaineer which Kamicar zipped past as he descended, one of an estimated 120 corpses, thought to litter the slopes.“This mountain is always full of surprises. Seeing a dead man out there was a really shocking experience,” he said.Thanks to strategically placed cameras on the mountain and one attached to his safety helmet, hundreds of thousands of people witnessed his descent on the Internet, which was one of the record highs ever. During the run more than 650,000 hits were registered on his expedition website jamming it for a time as others tried to access the site.Weather conditions were so severe that Kamicar had to abandon plans to rest on the summit before attempting to descend. Instead, suffering from fatigue, as soon as he reached the top he put on his skis and flung himself back down the mountain.- 10 -Dealing with the mountain had already cost Kamicar two fingers when a previous failed attempt saw him get frostbite as a fierce storm lashed the peak.Kamicar comes from a skiing family and took part in his first Himalayan skiing expedition in 1989. Since then, h