届上海市闸北区高三第二学期期中练习英语试题及答案.docx

1、届上海市闸北区高三第二学期期中练习英语试题及答案闸北区2017-2018高三英语二模卷 4 I. Listening Comprehension（30分）Section ADirections: 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 conversation and the question will be spoken

2、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. She should watch on her weight.B. She can sometimes eat at will.C. She is already overweight.D. She should av

3、oid sweet food.2. A. At the Emergency Room. B. At the grocery store. C. At the dentists. D. At a decade-old toast shop.3. A. 20. B. 30. C. 35. D. 45.4. A. On the phone. B. By text. C. Online. D. Face to face.5. A. Furniture shop assistant. B. House agent. C. Insurance agent. D. Carpenter.6. A. Ticke

4、ts bought online are cheaper. B. Its hard to buy the tickets at the box office. C. Free pamphlets provide discounts for the Ballet. D. The Ballet show could be watched online.7. A. There are all together three sections for the exam. B. She failed to finish the exam within time. C. She was poor at mu

5、ltiple choices. D. She performed well in the physics exam.8. A. It is too expensive a trip. B. Its a pity he cant take his family with him on the trip. C. The trip takes too much time. D. He doesnt enjoy going to New Zealand for a trip.9. A. Stay up late for exams. B. Dont pay too much attention to

6、exams. C. Study hard throughout the term. D. Give up on the math test.10. A. Relaxed B. Calm. C. Excited. D. Nervous. Section B Directions: In section B, 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 question

7、s will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Relationship problems. B. Low working productivity. C. Poo

8、r income. D. Depression.12. A. 6%. B. 10%. C. 15%. D. 26%.13. A. The poor treatment received from National Health Service. B. Patients inability to go to bed with a teddy bear. C. The bad quality of the mattress patients use. D. The tension they suffer from in lives.Questions 14 through 16 are based

9、 on the following passage.14. A. Because they were in need of clothes and food. B. Because they wanted to find honey. C. Because they wanted to take revenge. D. Because they intended to occupy the village.15. A. Because they migrated from Africa.B. Because they are a rare group surviving on the Anda

10、mans. C. Because they store precious honey. D. Because their DNA is valuable for scientific study.16. A. They want to learn local language. B. They come to see the outside world. C. They are chasing away outsiders. D. They need drinks and cigarettes.Section CDirections: In section C, you will hear t

11、wo 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 hear. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation:Complete the report form. WRITE ONE WORD for each answer.House

12、let Memo:Security measures: Gate _17_ & security company.Kitchen facilities:Stove, fridge, toaster, NO _18_.Garden maintenance :Watering & removing _19_.Rent:1000 per month with _20_ excluded.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation:Complete the form. WRITE NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

13、 for each answer.What was the shortage of the four existing presidential libraries in Kennedys time?Long distances from _21_.What did Kennedy Library primarily hold?_22_of Kennedy government. What was the Library intended to become?_23_ Where did the construction fees come from?_24_.II. Grammar and

14、VocabularySection ADirections: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are

15、 grammatically correct. (A)Being skinny is not beautiful but being healthy is. Most young people, unfortunately, (25)_(convince) that being thin, and therefore being stylish is a major way of maintaining self-worth. To make the matter worse, they might take this so far that they are likely to end up

16、 (26)_ eating disorders.Eating disorders are psychological illnesses defined by abnormal eating habits, (27)_ may involve either insufficient or too much food intake to the damage of an individuals physical and mental health. Bulimia nervosa(暴食症) and anorexia nervosa（食欲匮乏） are the (28)_(common) form

17、s of eating disorders. (29)_ diagnosed with anorexia nervosa are well under a healthy bodyweight. But patients with bulimia nervosa may have a body weight that falls within the range from normal to overweight. (30)_ primarily thought of as affecting females, eating disorders influence males as well.

18、 The precise cause of eating disorders is not entirely understood, but (31)_ is agreed that the disease is linked to other medical conditions and situations. Besides, cultural idealization of thinness and youthfulness also contributes to (32)_(reduce) weight forcefully. The problem has affected a la

19、rge population worldwide. (B)A new report said middle class workers could still be working (33)_ _ they are at the age of 70, to help out their grown up children.Middle class workers (34)_(age) 50 and above are being forced to delay their retirement, with many blaming their children, a report reveal

20、ed yesterday.To many middle class workers, (35)_ bothered them from work couldnt compare with the possibility that they might postpone their retirement date by around five years.It is not just the rising cost of living that is causing the delay. Many pointed to the fact that they are constantly havi

21、ng to provide for their grown-up children at an age (36)_ they assumed they should be financially independent.Actually, one in five middle class workers (37)_ keep working in order to support their children. Many workers struggled all along to the retirement date, only (38)_(realize) that they had t

22、o switch to a part-time working pattern, also called semi-retirement. Rarely (39)_ people hear of the concept of semi-retirement in the past but now semi-retirement has become the routine among wealthier people in their 50s and 60s, regarded as (40)_ sign of the countrys on-going worsening economy.S

23、ection BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A peak B. prospect C. intense D. indicating E. mildF. uncertainty G. unusually H. complicated I. applied J. prepare K. modelA drop in the

24、suns radiation can cause cold winters in parts of North America and Europe, scientists say, a finding that could improve long-range forecasts and help countries _41_ for storms.Scientists have known for a long time that the sun has an 11-year cycle during which radiation from the sun reaches a(n) _4

25、2_ then falls. But detecting a clear link of the cycle to the weather has proved much _43_ .Our research notices a link between solar activities and regional winter climate, lead author Sarah Ineson of the UK Met Office told the reporters in an email. Her team focused on the data from the recent min

26、imum solar radiation period during 2008-10, which was a(n) _44_ calm period for the sun but at the same time, _45_ winters in the U.S and Europe were recorded which brought troubles to many businesses and made peoples lives difficult.The researchers found that a reduction in radiation from the sun c

27、an affect wind patterns , _46_ cold winters.While radiation levels wont tell us what the day-to-day weather will be, they provide the exciting _47_ of improved prediction for winter conditions for months and even years ahead. These predictions play an important role in long-term weather planning, In

28、eson said.Inesons team used the data in a complex computer to _48_ long-term weather patterns. It successfully reproduced what scientists had observed happening in the upper atmosphere during changes in solar radiation. More study was needed, though. The key _49_ in the experiment lay in the satelli

29、te data used, because it spans(跨度) only a few years. So there are still questions concerning whether the current research results are accurate and whether they can be _50_ to other solar cycles, she said.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are

30、 four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Recently, Pew Research Center announced that over a quarter of Americans have shared a selfie online. Unsurprisingly, the practice of photographing oneself and sharing that image via so

31、cial media has _51_ among all age groups. Evidence of its mainstream nature is seen in other aspects of our culture too. Last year, selfie was not only added to the Oxford English Dictionary, but also named Word of the Year. Yet, despite the huge number of people practicing it, _52_ is also surrounding selfie. An assumption that sharing selfies is embarrassing runs throughout the journalistic and scholarly coverage on the topic. Negative words like self-centered and _53_ have inevitably become a part of any conversation about selfies among scholars. B