1、1奉贤区 2015 学年度第一学期期末质量测试高三英语考生注意：1考试时间 120 分钟，试卷满分 150 分。 2016.1 2本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第卷和第卷。所有答題必须涂（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答題前，务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名。第卷 （共 103 分）I. Listening Comprehension (略)II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make th
2、e 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)Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? For years people believed that it is imp
3、ossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in 1954Within one year,37 runners broke the belief barrierAnd the year after that, 300 other runners did the same thingWhat happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will sw
4、im its way throughWhat happens _25_ someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? You drownIf an animal who has not learned swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown _26_ the animal does notThese cases show the power of beliefsThere is no othe
5、r _27_(powerful) force in directing human behavior than beliefOur beliefs have the power to create and to destroyIn a way it is our beliefs _28_ determine how much well be able to realize our potentialSo pay attention to some of your beliefsDo you believe you are weak in mathematics? Do you believe
6、that other people dislike you? Do you believe life is full of problems? Belief is not mysterious, however, its nothing but the generalization of a past incidentAs a kid, if a dog bit you, you believed all dogs to be dangerous_29_(change) certain behavior, identify the beliefs _30_(associate) with it
7、 Change those beliefs and a new pattern _31_(create)(B)While getting ready for school today, my 16-year-old daughter came into my room to give me a big hug and kiss. I asked her, “What do you want?” She said, “Nothing Mum, 2you always tell us to have a good day before we leave the house, but I was t
8、hinking about who tells you to have a good day and lets you know how much you are loved.”I am so touched by the capacity of love and understanding _32_ comes from my children. My 15-year-old son asked me last night _33_ there was a way for him to get a summer job this year in order to help us to pay
9、 our bills. Unfortunately, in our area, he _34_ be 16._35_ of my children depend on me so much because I am a single parent, but just when I pay the bills that I will not be able to provide for them, they come up with ways _36_(help out). I completely understand that I will still have to find a way
10、to pay the bills as I do not want my children to take up anything. But for now the fact _37_ they have stepped up and offered to help without anyone asking _38_(touch) me. When my daughter was two, I remember rushing to get to work, getting to the front door and asking her to hurry up and come. Then
11、 she appeared at the door _39_ a bag that she was holding open. I said, “We dont have time for this.” She stopped me and said, “Fill it with love, Mum.” I fell to my knees and hugged her and then kissed her. From then on she would bring the bag and I would bring the love to the door before _40_(leav
12、e) for school and work.Section BDirections: 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. purchases B. agricultural C. narrow D. pouring E. delivered F. coincideG. dedicated H. calculating I. enthusias
13、ts J. sales K. prioritiesAlibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Thursday that it will create another online shopping event in the next two months to tap further into rural consumption.The e-commerce giant, which generated a gross merchandise volume of 91.2 billion yuan ($14.3 billion) in the 24-hour sale
14、s event on Wednesday, said it will hold a similar festival to _41_ with the upcoming Spring Festival in February.Zhang Yong, chief executive officer of Alibaba, said like urban residents, many rural consumers have also become online shopping _42_. “The soon-to-be-launched shopping event will better
15、serve rural consumers and bring more _43_ products to the dining tables of urban consumers,“ he said.The Hangzhou-based firm said the Spring Festival event will be launched by its customer-to-customer site Taobao and its Rural Taobao business unit, which is _44_ to online shoppers in rural areas.Sun
16、 Lijun, vice-president of Alibaba who is in charge of Rural Taobao, said the Spring Festival shopping gala will help _45_ the gap between urban and rural consumers.“We want villagers to celebrate Lunar Chinese New Year with seafood from New Zealand and wine from France. That said, we also want urban
17、 residents to enjoy high-quality fresh produce _46_ directly to their doorsteps,“ he said.Alibaba has made globalization and going-rural its top _47_ for further development. Last year, it said it will invest 10 billion yuan over the next three to five years to 3provide e-commerce services in about
18、100,000 villages.Rural shoppers proved their buying power by _48_ more than 10 million yuan in the first eight minutes of the Nov 11 online shopping festival. People in 8,000 villages participated in the 24-hour _49_ on Wednesday. The most expensive order of the day was an order for a Porsche at abo
19、ut 500,000 yuan.Alibaba didnt disclose the specific _50_ made by rural shoppers, but said that items such as TV sets, air conditioners, shampoos and oil were very popular in villages.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phras
20、es marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life.These findings, published in Psycholo
21、gical Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological science, suggest that meaning in life may be higher in poorer nations _51_ greater religiosity(笃信宗教). As countries become richer, religion becomes less _52_ to peoples lives and they lose a sense of meaning in life.“Thus far, the wealth o
22、f nations has been almost always _53_ longevity, health, happiness or life satisfaction,” explains psychological scientist Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia. “Given that meaning in life is an important aspect of overall well-being, we wanted to look more carefully at differential _54_, c
23、orrelates(相关物), and predictors for meaning in life.”Oishi and colleague Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _55_ life satisfaction, meaning, and well-being by examining data from the 2007 Gallup World Poll, a _56_ survey of over 140,000 participants from 132 countries. _57_ a
24、nswering a basic life satisfaction question, participants were asked: “Do you feel your life has an important _58_ or meaning?” and “Is religion an important part of your daily life?”The data revealed some unexpected _59_:“Among Americans, those who are high in life satisfaction are also high in mea
25、ning in life,” says Oishi. “But when we looked at the societal level of analysis, we found a completely _60_ pattern of the association between meaning in life and life satisfaction.”When looking across many countries, Oishi and Diener found that people in wealthier nations were more educated, had f
26、ewer children, and expressed more individualistic attitudes compared to those in poorer countries all factors that were associated with higher life satisfaction but a _61_ lower sense of meaning in life.”The data suggest that religiosity may play an important role: Residents of wealthier nations, wh
27、ere religiosity is lower, reported _62_ meaning in life and had higher suicide rates than poorer countries.According to the researchers, religion may provide meaning to life to the extent that it _63_ people to overcome personal difficulty and cope with the struggles of working to 4survive in poor e
28、conomic conditions:Oishi and Diener hope to reproduce these findings using more comprehensive measures of meaning and religiosity, and are interested in _64_ countries over time to track whether economic _65_ gives rise to less religiosity and less meaning in life.51. A. by means of B. as a result o
29、f C. for the sake of D. with regard to 52. A. central B. ideal C. formal D. superior53. A. related with B. combined with C. associated with D. represented with54. A. models B. styles C. designs D. patterns55. A. investigated B. diagnosed C. explored D. exploited56. A. nationwide B. thorough C. compl
30、ete D. large-scale57. A. Except for B. Instead of C. Rather than D. In addition to 58. A. opportunity B. temptation C. purpose D. definition59. A. trends B. practices C. outlooks D. currents60. A. precious B. similar C. relevant D. different61. A. exactly B. significantly C. adequately D. partially6
31、2. A. better B. less C. more D. fewer 63. A. allows B. requests C. reminds D. helps64. A. following B. chasing C. pursuing D. predicting65. A. priority B. profit C. prosperity D. potentialSection BDirections: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished st
32、atements. 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.ASome people say the traditional calendar of 180 days no longer meets the needs of American society. They point out that students
33、 in most other industrial countries are in school more hours a day and more days a year. Critics also say a long summer vacation causes students to forget much of what they learned. Schools are under pressure to raise test scores. Some have changed their calendars to try to improve student performan
34、ce. They have lengthened the school day or added days to the year or both. This can be costly if schools need air conditioning on hot days and school employees need to be paid for the extra time.Some schools have a year-round schedule. The school year is extended over twelve months. Instead of a lon
35、g vacation, there are many short ones. Local businesses may object to a longer school year because students are unable to work as long at summer jobs. Some parts 5of the country had year-round programs in the nineteenth century, mostly for economic reasons. They felt it wasted money to use school bu
36、ildings for only part of the year. Year-round programs can also reduce crowding in schools. In one version, students attend school for nine weeks and then have three weeks off. The students are in groups that are not all in school at the same time.Another year-round calendar has all students in scho
37、ol together for nine weeks and off for three. This is meant to provide the continuous learning that can be lost over a long break. But year-round schooling has opponents. They say it can cause problems for families when they want to make summer plans. And they say it interferes with activities outsi
38、de school - including summer employment. Some experts say no really good studies have been done to measure the effect of school calendars on performance. But some educators think year-round schooling especially helps students from poor families that lack educational support at home.66. The best titl
39、e for the passage seems to be _. A. Debating upon Year-round SchoolingB. Advantages of Year-round EducationC. Disadvantages of a Long Summer VacationD. Different Types of School Calendars67. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that schools should extend school days?A. The traditional ca
40、lendar is out of date.B. Long holidays cause students to forget much of what they learned.C. Schools face pressure to raise test marks.D. Schools in other countries urge them to do so.68. Those against year-round schooling argue that _.A. it does little to help improve students performance at school
41、.B. it may cause learning tiredness.C. it will not have much educational value.D. it affects students activities outside school.69. We learn from the passage that year-round schooling _. A. will enable students to raise their scores.B. is expected to get under way soon.C. remains a controversial iss
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