上海市徐汇区届高三年级第一学期学习能力诊断英语试题版.docx

1、上海市徐汇区届高三年级第一学期学习能力诊断英语试题版2016学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷 高三英语试题 2016.12高三英语试卷(听力略） Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: 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 o

2、f the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Please mind the silence Despite being used by 1.34 billion people each year, traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely. An unwritten rule encouraging silence, mixed with classic British reserve,means th

3、at (21) youre packed into an enclosed space with hundreds of other people,the morning commute (上下班）can leave you feeling somewhat isolated.One London resident, however, is trying to change this.“You get on the Tube here and ifs completely silent and ifs weird, says Jonathan Dunne, 42,an American liv

4、ing in London, who has, ironically, started (22) worldwide dialogue aftergiving out badges (黴章）with the slogan “Tube chat?” last month, encouraging commuters in London to get talking to one another. “I handed out 500 badges during rush hour in a city of 8million, expecting many refusals and most of

5、them (23) (throw) away, but after about 24hours it completely snowballed,” he says.Dunne and his “Tube chat” campaign (24) (feature) in media across the world eversince, seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the UK, as well as countless website, newspaper and magazine appearances.Although Dunne

6、 says hes received mostly positive feedback, not everyone agrees with hissentiment. Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of (25) own, handing out500 badges with the words “Dont even think about it” on them.“I (26) hardly stand the idea of having to talk to strangers on the Tube on my way

7、towork,” he told the BBC. Michael Robinson, 24, a student from London, agrees. “Being on the Tubeis the only peace and quiet some people get on their journeys to and (27) work. It doesntneed to be spoiled by people coming up and chatting to you,” he says. While London has its seemingly antisocial se

8、t of regulations to follow, not everywhere lacks a sense of community.Does Dunne hope that some of this community spirit (28) (mirror) in the UKfollowing his campaign? “People assume that I just walk up and talk to strangers, (29) Idont, but its been a great way to meet people you would never have n

9、ormally spoken to,” he says. “On Monday, Oct 10, the curator (馆长）of the London Transport Museum had me over for tea.”So if you ever end up (30) (use) public transport in the West, why not say hello to theperson next to you? Just make sure to check for a badge first. Section BDirections: Fill in each

10、 blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only A. overtookB. promisingC. likelihoodD. ridiculousE. shared F. controlledG beliefsH. reasonableI. trendJ. trackedK. demonstratedonce. Note that there is one word more than you need.The rise in stories describing events that nev

11、er happened, often involving fake people in fakeplaces, has led to Facebook and Googles (31) to deal with them. But are we really so easy tofool? According to several studies, the answer is yes: even the most obvious fake news starts to become believable if its (32) enough times.In the months runnin

12、g up to the US election there was a swrge(大浪）in fake news. According to an analysis by Craig Silverman, a journalist, during this time the top 20 fake stories in circulation (33) the top 20 stories from 19 mainstream publishers.Paul Horner, a creative publisher of fake news, has said he believes Don

13、ald Trump was elected because of him. “My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the timeHis followers dont fact-check anything - theyll post everything, believe anything,” he told the Washington Post.Silverman previously (34) rumours circulating online in 2014 and found that sharesand social

14、interactions around fake news articles dwarfed (使.相形见绌）those of the articles thatexposed them. According to Silverman, fake news stories are engineered to appeal to peopleshopes and fears, and arent (35) by reality, which gives them the edge in creating shareablecontent.You might think youre immune

15、to falling for these lies, but a wealth of research disagrees.Back in the 1940s, researchers found that “the more a rumour is told, the more (36) itsounds”. They suggested this means that a rumour born out of mild suspicion can, by gaining currency, shift public thinking and opinion.This false impre

16、ssion of truth was (37) practically in 1977 when researchers in the USquizzed college students on the actuality of statements that they were told may be true or false. The researchers found that simply repeating the statements at a later date was enough to increase the (38) of the students believing

17、 them.Last year, Lisa Fazio at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and her team found that students become more likely to believe a statement that they know must be false if it is repeated.“Our research suggests that false news can and likely does affect peoples (39) . Even ifpeople are conscious tha

18、t a headline is false, reading it multiple times will make it seem more trustworthy,” Fazio says.Reassuringly, the team found that a persons knowledge still has a large influence over theirbeliefs, but its still a worrying (40) given that falsehoods appear repeatedly in ournewsfeeds every day.II. Re

19、ading Comprehension Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there arc four words or phrases marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Two key climate change indicators global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent have bro

20、ken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest (41) month globally in the modern temperature record, which (42) 1880,according to scientists at NASAs God

21、dard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planets warmest half-year on record, with a(n)(43) temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the latenineteenth century.Five of the first six months of 2016 also (44

22、) the smallest respective monthly Arcticsea ice (45) since regular satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developedby scientists at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The one (46)_,March, recorded the second smallest for that month.(47) these two key climate i

23、ndicators have broken records in 2016, NASA scientistssaid it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continuing theirdecades-long trends of change. Both trends are ultimately driven by rising (48) ofheat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

24、.The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically (49) 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent inSeptember, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been (50) at a rate of 13.4percent per decade.While the El Nin

25、o event in the tropical Pacific this winter (51) the gaining globaltemperatures from October, it is the basic trend which is producing these record numbers, GISS Director Gavin Schmidt said.(52) El Nino events have driven temperatures to what were then record levels, such asin 1998. But in 2016, eve

26、n as the effects of the recent El Nino wear off, global temperatures haverisen well beyond those of 18 years ago (53) the overall warming that has taken place inthat time.The global trend in rising temperatures falls behind the regional (54) in the Arctic, saidWalt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA

27、 Goddard.It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme, Meier said. This warmth as well as unusual weather (55) have led to the record low sea ice extents so far this year.41. A. resistant

28、B. respectiveC. resolvedD. remote42. A. makes sense ofB. keeps up withC. dates back toD. goes ahead of43. A. averageB. ordinaryC. commonD. temporary44. A. confirmedB. witnessedC. involvedD. conducted45. A. standardB. contentC. amountD. extent46. A. datumB. exampleC. monthD. exception47. A. WhileB. W

29、henC. AfterD. As48. A. combinationsB. reductionsC. concentrationsD. applications49. A. includesB. coversC. approachesD. indicates50. A. increasingB. changingC. decliningD. moving51. A. ended up withB. gave rise toC. broke away fromD. resulted from52. A. FrequentB. NaturalC. DisastrousD. Previous53.

30、A. in return forB. in case ofC. in spite ofD. because of54. A. warmingB. fallingC. gatheringD. changing55. A. forecastsB. varietiesC. patternsD. illustrations Section BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of t

31、hem 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.ALate one autumn day at the aquatic center (水上运动中心）in Ancenis, France, something went quietly, horribly wrong. An 18-year-old named Jean-Francois LeRoy

32、was a regular, coming often in the early evenings to swim in the 25-meter pool. Drownings are often difficult to spot. Most are near-silent incidents where the victim quickly sinks out of view. On this particular day maybe the lifeguards werent paying as close attention as they should have been. Certainly they believ