上海市普陀区届高三上学期期末质量监控英语试题.docx

1、上海市普陀区届高三上学期期末质量监控英语试题普陀区2018-2019学年度第一学期期末质量监控试卷高三英语（满分140分，完卷时间120分钟） 2018.12I. Listening Comprehension （略）II. Grammar and vocabularySection A 10%The Best Book Ive Ever Read Frankly, I have read nearly all of the great works of literature, but no book has ever impressed me as deeply or directly (2

2、1)_ Joel Steins Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masendinity. Havent we all, on some level, been Jewish boys in New Jersey in (22)_ 1970s with only female friends, an Easy-Bake oven and a strong preference for show tunes? Havent we all had a panic attack (23)_ learning were going to have a son, since th

3、at means were going to have to figure out how to throw footballs, watch other people throw footballs and decide (24)_ to be happy or sad about the results of football throwing? Havent we all then tried to correct our lack of maleness by becoming a man, fighting fires with firefighters, (25)_ (drive)

4、 a Lamborghini and doing three days of Army training camp? I know I have. The only parts I didnt fully enjoy were (26)_ in which the author suffered horribly. After just three hours of training camp, he fainted weakly into the arms of a soldier. The film rights to Man Made have already been sold to

5、Fox, and I hope it gets (27)_ (turn) into a movie with George Clooney playing the Stein role, since they remind me so much of each other. (28)_ this is only Steins first book, I would already consider him as someone like David Sedaris, Dave Barry, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. I (29

6、)_ (recommend) Man Made not just to all my friends and family but also to strangers on Twitter over and over again. My one fear is (30)_ after this great achievement, Stein will lose his ability to be a cruel critic of our shallow times.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A （10分）Directions: After read

7、ing 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. A. generated B. furniture C. fame D. resulting

8、E. suggestionsF. developed G. eventually H. completed I. fixed J. commercial K. softlyThe Father of JD Printing About twenty years ago, the surgeons at the Wilford Hull medical center working to separate a pair of conjoined(连体的) twins thought that only one would be able to walk after the operation.

9、After a model of the girls bone structure was (31)_ using 3D printing, however, they found a shared upper leg bone to be bigger than expected and split it successfully, (32)_ in both twins being able to walk. Now eighty and still working as chief technology officer of 3D Systems. Chuck Hull is enjoy

10、ing some minor (33)_ 31 years after he first printed a small black eye-wash cup using a new method of manufacturing known as 3D printing. At the time, he was working for a company that used UV light to put thin layers of plastic coats on tabletops and (34)_. He had an idea that if he could place tho

11、usands of thin layers of plastic on top of each other and then cut their shape using light, he would be able to form three dimensional objects. After a year, he (35)_ a system where light was shone into a bottle of photopolymer a material which changes from liquid to plastic-like solid when light sh

12、ines on it and traces the shape of one level of the object. Subsequent layers are then printed until it is (36)_. After patenting the invention, he set up 3D Systems, (37)_ getting $6m (3.5m) from a Canadian investor. The first (38)_ product came out in 1988 and proved a hit among car manufacturers,

13、 in the aerospace sector and for companies designing medical equipment. The possibilities appear endless from home-printed food and medicine to (39)_ that pictures of objects be able to be taken in shops and then recreated using plans downloaded from the Internet Although deliberate in his responses

14、, there is one moment when the (40)_ spoken Chuck Hull tells of his surprise about what exactly his creation was capable of achieving.III. Reading Comprehension Section A （15分）Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank

15、 with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Words to Turn a Conversation Around Its not what you say, but its how you say it isnt it? According to a language expert, we may have this wrong. “We are pushed and pulled around by language far more than we (41)_,” says Elizabeth Stoke, professor

16、of social interaction at Loughborough University. Stoke and her colleagues have (42)_ thousands of hours of recorded conversations, from customer services to mediation(调解) hotlines and police crisis (43)_. They discovered that certain words or phrases have the power to change the course of a convers

17、ation. Some of these words are surprising, and (44)_ what weve been taught to believe. For example, in a study of conversations between doctors and patients, evidence showed that doctors who (45)_ options rather than recommended best solutions, got a better response, despite the suggestion from hosp

18、ital guidelines to talk about the best interests of the patient. But, from conversation experts such as Stoke to FBI negotiators and communication coaches, were learning which words are likely to (46)_ or persuade us. Stoke found that people who had already responded (47)_ when asked if they would l

19、ike to attend mediation seemed to change their minds when the mediator used the phrase. “Would you be willing to come for a meeting?” “As soon as the word willing was used, people would say: Oh, yes, definitelythey would actually (48)_ the sentence to agree.” Stoke found it had the same effect in di

20、fferent settings: with business-to-business cold callers; with doctors trying to (49)_ people to go to a weight-loss class. She also looked at phrases such as “Would you like to” and “Would you be interested in”. “Sometimes they (50) _, but willing was the one that got people to agree more rapidly a

21、nd with more enthusiasm.” “Hello is a really important word that can change the (51)_ of a conversation,” Stoke says. “Its about how you respond to people who are what we call first movers people who say something really (52)_,” “It might be the work colleagues who are extremely angry to your desk w

22、ith a complaint or the neighbor who (53)_ rude words about parking as youre putting out the bins.” “What do you do with that person? Rather than respond in the same manner, saying something nice, such as a very bright Hello!, socializes that other person a little bit.” Use it when you want to resist

23、 getting into a (54)_. “You have to be careful not to sound too passive-aggressive,” Stoke says, “but just one friendly word in a bright tone can delete the (55)_ of the conversation.”41. A. suggest B. realize C. imply D. emphasize42. A. analyzed B. addressed C. simplified D. discovered43. A. instru

24、ctions B. revolutions C. associations D. negotiations44. A. get into B. turn away C. go against D. insist on45. A. pointed B. inspired C. motivated D. listed46. A. comfort B. defend C. support D. protect47. A. actively B. positively C. negatively D. passively48. A. finish B. reject C. refuse D. inte

25、rrupt49. A. persuade B. stimulate C. force D. tempt50. A. interacted B. worked C. responded D. initiated51. A. approach B. course C. evolution D. pattern52. A. impractical B. unimaginative C. critical D. illogical53. A. keeps back B. answers for C. agrees on D. launches into54. A. conflict B. disast

26、er C. strike D. damage55. A. challenge B. debate C. worry D. silenceSection B （22分）Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best accord

27、ing to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) Last summer, bird-watchers confirmed the discovery of a new species of bird in Cambodia was not an event of particular biological significance, but it was striking for one reason in part. This species of bird was discovered not in a

28、n unspoiled rain forest but within the limits Cambodias capital, Phnom Penh a city the size of Philadelphia. What the researchers found was surprising in cities. The medium-sized city in the state about 110 species of birds, over 95 percent of which would have been growing there urbanization. Ecolog

29、ically speaking, cities are different, concrete buildings. Rather, each unique bio-profile a kind of ecological fingerprint that is against the idea of an environment dead zone.Of course, its also true that in the world of birds and plants, as in human society, there is such a thing as worldwidethe

30、city-inhabitants who feel equally at home in San Francisco, Milan and Beijing. Four birds occur in more than 80 percent of the cities studied, and 11 plants occurred in more than 90 percent of the cities. On the plant side, those are seemingly spread by European settlement. In the air, its the usual

31、 suspects: the rock pigeon and many other birds.“They have become completely adapted to urban life,”Katti says.“Thats not much of surprise. But they dont actually dominate as much as we think they do.”Those speciesoccurring in the cities across the globerepresent only a small part of a citys natural varieties.Not all cities are equal protectors of native animals and plants, though. One of the biggest predictors for a citys biodiversity is its urban design. Territory as varied as backyards