1、浦东新区浦东新区 2019 学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测 高三英语试卷 2019.12 考生注意：考生注意： 1. 考试时间 120 分钟，试卷满分 140 分。 2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答题必须涂（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. 答题前，务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名。 I. Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers
2、. 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 a question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question
3、you have heard. 1. A. At a bank. 2. A. Waiter. B. At a post office. B. Salesman. C. At a travel agency. C. Mechanic. D. At an airport. D. Accountant. 3. A. June 3rd. B. June 13th. C. July 13th. D. July 30th. 4. A. Business management. B. British literature. C. Popular science. D. Classical music. 5.
4、 A. Carry a lot of cash on her. B. Cancel the trip to the U.S. C. Search for information online. D. Try various payment methods. 6. A. He will give priority to the lecture. B. He will deliver a lecture to the graduates. C. He will attend the graduation ceremony. D. He will prepare presents for the g
5、raduates. 7. A. Jack has paid off all the debts through hard work. B. Jack and Sam have won the first place in the contest. C. They relaxed themselves the whole summer holiday. D. The robot contest was held in the innovation laboratory. 8. A. Peter hardly notices the changes in his class. B. Peter h
6、as greatly changed his personality. C. The man was surprised to learn Peters success. D. Peter has received training in delivering speeches. 9. A. The woman forgot to prepare the gifts. B. The gifts were purchased at the airport. C. The man is very pleased with the picture. D. The special gifts appe
7、al to the man greatly. 10. A. He didnt take any pictures at the ceremony. B. He forgot to take his cell phone to the ceremony. C. He couldnt record every detail because he ran away. D. He took only a few photos because of the limited storage. Section B Dierctions: In Section B, you will hear two sho
8、rt passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked some questions on the passages and the conversation. 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
9、one is the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. By donating money to help those in poverty-stricken areas. B. By reducing the price of the food that has gone bad. C. By giving away tons of food to developing nations every year
10、. D. By launching a store selling food once thrown into the trash bin. 12. A. The general public. B. The low-income people. C. The charity staff. D. The retailers. 13. A. $1 trillion. B. $700,000. C. $30,000. D. $50,000. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Snow or ice
11、sculptures. B. Parades on roads. C. Chalk drawings on pavements. D. Sand paintings. 15. A. He prefers to do his art work alone. B. He mostly creates his works in cities. C. He usually spends a short while creating. D. He has attracted many people in fashion industry. 16. A. Why art is not easy to fo
12、rget. B. The history of temporary art. C. A “temporary” artist and his works. D. How to make impressive temporary art. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. How English food is made. B. Why Indian foods are often tasteless. C. Why foods in some countries are spicy.
13、D. How spicy food was introduced into England. 18. A. The food in cold regions is usually tasty. B. The climate has little effect on the local food. C. India and England have quite similar climates. D. Spicy food causes people to sweat, cooling them off. 19. A. They cover the bad smells of food. B.
14、They give the food a unique flavor. C. They slow down the growth of bacteria. D. They come in handy where there is no refrigerator. 20. A. The mention of garlic and onion makes the woman hungry. B. The plants and bacteria can live in harmony to some extent. C. The unique flavor of the plants has con
15、tributed to their survival. D. It takes longer time for those plants like onions and garlic to grow. II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section 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
16、each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. A New Hero is Here to Save the Day Its thought that when a hero like Batman is blessed with great power, he or she must endure loneliness and suffering as a result. The Flash(闪电侠), howeve
17、r, makes a fun, lightning-quick and optimistic superhero. After the wild success of TV series Arrow, a TV network launched The Flash, (21) (show) the image of this Superhero, who was only a supporting character in Arrow. Like Spiderman, who gained the ability to make webs and climb walls after he (2
18、2) (bite) by a spider, Barry Allen in The Flash was shocked into superhero-status by accident. A strike from a lightning put Allen into a nine-month unconscious state, and when he emerged, he found himself (23) (equip) with super speed. Naturally, Allen slips on a colorful suit and becomes the Flash
19、, a hero (24) extreme speed to fight super-powered bad guys. But the Flash also has other purposes, namely finding out the truth behind his mothers death and his fathers unjust imprisonment. In line with superhero series standards, The Flash features action and eye-popping special effects. Theres no
20、thing terribly innovative here, but (25) we do get is a unique superhero with a more unusual personality. (26) Allen has gone through unpleasant childhood experience, in this show he grows into a superhero (27) powers include optimism. Hes got a group of scientists that not only save his life, but a
21、lso provide him with emotional support and the tools necessary (28) (fight) crime. A big surprise for me was that The Flash cast Prison Break star Wentworth Miller as a bad character, who uses a gun that (29) turn anything into ice. US shows began their entrance into the Chinese market with Friends,
22、 but Prison Break pushed interest in US TV series to a new height largely thanks to Millers wonderful acting. Now Millers back to act in The Flash. (30) is a nice surprise that this new show serves as a platform for Prison Break fans to revisit their old favorite, although this time around hes an an
23、tagonist(反派角色). Section B Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need. A. accustomed B. advances C. command D. common E. drain F. minimize G. precisely H. reduced
24、I. renew J. sustainably K. victims Criticism of the Fast Fashion In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesnt affect her. Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistan
25、ts sweater was 31 over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl probably found her clothes. This top-down concept of the fashion business couldnt be more out of date or in conflict with the mad world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Clines t
26、hree-year accusation of “fast fashion”. In the last decade or so, 32 in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara, H her example cant be imitated. Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to 38 their impact on labor and the environmentincluding H people will only start s
27、hopping more 40 when they cant afford not to. III. Reading Comprehension Section 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 networked computer is an amazing dev
28、ice. It is the first media machine that serves as the mode of production (you can make stuff), means of distribution (you can upload stuff to the network), site of 41 (you can download stuff and interact with it), and place of praise and criticism (you can comment on the stuff you have downloaded or
29、 uploaded). 42 , the computer is the 21st centurys culture machine. But for all the reasons there are to 43 the computer, we must also act with caution. This is because the networked computer has started a secret war between downloading and uploadingbetween passive consumption and active 44 whose ou
30、tcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine. All animals download, but only a few upload anything besides faces and their own bodies. Humans are 45 in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous( 过 剩 的 ) material goods
31、 (paintings, sculpture and architecture) and superfluous experiences (music, literature, religion and philosophy). 46 , it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but 47 to move be
32、yond downloading is to rob oneself of a defining ingredient of humanity. Despite the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still 48 download mode, brought about by television watching. Even after the 49 of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small nu
33、mber of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining satisfied to just 50 . The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to 51 the flow caused by TV viewing, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even mor
34、e importantly, meaningful uploading. The computer offers the opportunity to bring about a complete 52 from the culture of television and a shift from a consumption model to a production model. This is a historic opportunity. Fifty years of television dominance has given birth to an unhealthy culture
35、. The 53 is now in our collective grasp. It involves controlling our intake, or downloading, and 54 our levels of activityuploading. Of course people will still download. Nobody uploads more than a tiny percentage of the culture they consume. But using the networked computer as a download-only devic
36、e, or even a download-mainly device, is a 55 opportunity that history affords us. Therefore, the goal must be to establish a balance between consumption and production. 41. A. celebration B. conversations C. reception D. ceremonies 42. A. Without doubt B. In return C. In particular D. By contrast 43
37、. A. liberate B. celebrate C. concern D. reject 44. A. request B. support C. defense D. creation 45. A. unique B. familiar C. efficient D. loyal 46. A. In addition B. In fact C. For instance D. By the way 47. A. striving B. comparing C. failing D. attempting 48. A. optimistic about B. unfamiliar wit
38、h C. stuck in D. ashamed of 49. A. transformation B. emergence C. encounter D. maintenance 50. A. consume B. neglect C. combine D. innovate 51. A. enhance B. quicken C. reverse D. extend 52. A. outcome B. exposure C. break D. evolution 53. A. puzzle B. cure C. regret D. favor 54. A. analysing B. mai
39、ntaining C. featuring D. increasing 55. A. wasted B. treasured C. multiplied D. revised Section B 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 f
40、its best according to the information given in the passage you have read. （A） Dame Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect whose tall structures left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process reshaped architecture for the modern age. She was not an average designer
41、. She liberated architectural geometry( 几何), giving it a whole new expressive identity. Geometry became, in her hands, a vehicle for unprecedented and eye-popping new spaces. Her buildings elevated uncertainty to an art, conveyed in the odd ways. Her work implying mobility, speed, freedom and uncert
42、ainty spoke to a worldview widely shared by a younger generation. “I am not European, I dont do conventional work and I am a woman, Strikingly Ms. Hadid never allowed herself on her work to be categorized by her background or her gender. And she was one of a kind, a path breaker. In 2004, she became
43、 the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architectures Nobel. Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad on October 31, 1950. Then in 1972, she arrived at the architectural association in London, a center for experimental design. Her teachers included Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas. “They aroused my ambitio
44、n,” she would recall, “and taught me to trust even my strangest instincts.” By the 1980s she had established her own practice in London. And she began to draw attention with an unrealized plan in 19821983 for the Peak Club. Her partner, Patrick Schumacher, played an instrumental and collaborative ro
45、le in her career. Mr. Schumacher coined the term parametric(参数的) design to include the computer-based approach that helped the firms most weird concepts become reality. Ms. Hadid called what resulted in an organic language of architecture, based on these new tools, which allow us to combine highly c
46、omplex forms into a fluid(流线的) and complete whole. Her sources were nature, history or whatever she sought useful. When her Rosenthal Center, a relatively modest project, opened in 2003, Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic declared it “the most important American building to be completed since
47、 the end of the cold war”. “She was bigger than life, a force of nature,” as Amale Andraos, the dean of Columbia Universitys architecture school, put it, “she was a pioneer.” She was. For women, for what cities can desire to build and for the art of architecture. 56. What features the structures des
48、igned by Zaha Hadid? A. Free architectural geometry. B. Conventional design. C. Odd imagination. D. Colorful patterns. 57. According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, which of the following statement is TRUE? A. Zaha Hadid taught herself to trust instincts. 2020 SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE 17th Celebratio
49、n of Craft, Commerce some scientists suggest that the spices in hot food help protect humans from certain kinds of bacteria found in food. In fact, the hotter the country, the more likely it is that its food will use the kind of spices that slow down the growth of bacteria. W: You mean some ingredients can decrease the speed at which bacteria grow? M: Thats right. For example, onion and garlic alone can kill or block up to twenty-nine different kinds food-borne ba
