上海市宝山区统考高一上学期期末考试英语试题.doc

1、第I卷(共75分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection A (10%)Directions: 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 conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conver

2、sation 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. Allen is still in bed. B. Allen fell ill last week.C. The woman is Allens sister. D. The man is Allens brother.2. A. He is a writer. B. He is a

3、 student. C. He is a worker. D. He is a tour guide.3. A. The woman doesnt know the man. B. The woman and the man are friends.C. The man is very familiar with the women. D. The man often talks with women.4. A. The woman bought too many shirts.B. The woman bought all the shirts in the store. C. He wan

4、ted to see what the woman bought. D. He didnt like the style of the shirts.5. A. In Chicago. B. In Boston. C. In Washington. D. In Manchester.6. A. He is very shy. B. He is open-minded.C. He is brave. D. He is modest.7. A. No news is good news. B. The mans family has forgotten him. C. The woman work

5、s in the post office. D. The man expects to hear from his family.8. A. He wants to play tennis outdoors. B. He feels tired and sick.C. He doesnt want to play tennis. D. He wants to play basketball instead.9. A. Kim should study up late for the exam. B. Kim should be well rested for the exam. C. Kim

6、will get some fresh air in the morning. D. Kim will be the top student in the exam.10. A. The woman will rent the house. B. The woman likes the house very much. C. The woman is not satisfied with the house. D. The woman will buy the house.Section B(6%)Directions: In Section B, you will hear one shor

7、t passage, and you will be asked three questions on the passages. The passage 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 one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 1

8、1 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. The second Monday of every month.B. The Monday when the sky is blue.C. The day when people have to stop weekend to work.D. The day that most of the people feel blue.12. A. Jobs make people get money and social identity.B. Jobs can only offer peo

9、ple a lot of money. C. Jobs make people be busy every day. D. Jobs let people know many other new friends.13. A. How American workers are doing today. B. The current economic situation. C. What people say about the government. D. The history of work in U.S.Section C (4%)Directions: In Section C, you

10、 will hear a longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation.Relieve Pressur

11、eHow is JohnHe looks pale and _14_.The reason caused stressThe manager assigned two _15_ to him.Present situationThe deadlines are _16_. Solution Need someone to _17_to.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A (15%)Directions: After reading the passages b

12、elow, fill in the blanks to make the 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.AWhats the frightening situation you can think of? For many peop

13、le, its being shut somewhere they (18)_ not get out of. Thats exactly (19)_happened to an American tourist who said, “it feels good to be free” after he was locked inside a London bookstore for two hours. David Willis had been using the Internet inside the Waterstones store in Trafalgar Square, Lond

14、on, UK （20）_ he found that he had been shut inside, according to Sky News. He tried （21）_(get) out but failed, and it was only after posting messages on Twitter, a social network, that he （22）_( release). After he had spoken to the police but still not been released, he posted: “Hi Waterstones, I（23

15、）_(lock) inside of your Trafalgar Square bookstore for two hours now. Please let me out.” It got the attention of thousands of Internet users. The police arrived at（24）_ store, and they finally let him out just after 11 pm on Thursday. After he was released, he posted another,（25） _(simple) message:

16、 “Im free.” BGoogle has begun testing the electric car in Mountain View, California. The car does not have all the normal car controls. Instead, it has a smartphone app that calls it and tells （26）_the destination, and a STOP button between the two seats in case the passengers need to override the c

17、omputer. The companys co-founder, Sergey Brin, says that they want to change the world for people (27)_ do not find it easy to travel around. The cars have been built specially by a company in Detroit. Google will now test the cars, (28)_ are not yet for sale.There need to be detailed scans of the r

18、oads before the cars can drive on them, (29)_ they cannot collect and process enough information in real time.Chris Urmson, director of the driverless car project at Google, said: “The cars will be very basic. But they will take you (30)_ you want to go at the push of a button. And, thats an importa

19、nt step towards (31)_(improve) road safety and helping millions of people travel around more easily.” So far, the driverless cars have driven 700,000 miles without an accident caused by the computer. The company says that thousands of people die each year on the roads and that about 80% of crashes a

20、re caused (32)_ human mistakes.Section B (9%)Directions: 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. decided B. especially C. abroad D. problemE. findingF. struggling G.unemployment H. idea I.leaveJ.

21、 experienceGovernments in Europe dream of finding a magic solution to rising unemployment. But, in thepoorest parts of the EU, _33_ continues to rise.Now, in Sardinia, Italy, a mayor thinks he has found an answer to his towns unemployment_34_. Valter Piscedda, the mayor of Elmas, a small town near S

22、ardinias capital, Cagliari,wants to pay residents to _35_. The town will pay for ten unemployed local people to take English lessons, get on a cheap flight and look for jobs in other parts of Europe.“This _36_ comes from common sense and experience,” he told the Guardian. “In the past year and a hal

23、f _37_ in the past few months I have seen young people, almost every day, who have lost hope that they will find work. Some ask for help in _38_ work here. Others have tried everything and, now, they want to go and gain work experience _39_; life experience, too.” So he _40_ to help people who want

24、to gain experience abroad. Sardinia, and also much of southern and central Italy, is _41_ with high unemployment.Unemployment was at 17.7% in the second quarter of 2014, according to Italys National Institute of Statistics. More than 54% of people under 25 are out of work.III. Reading ComprehensionS

25、ection A (10%)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.There are about 50,000 mystery shopping trips every month in the UK. Mystery shoppers pretend to be a customer

26、 in a store but they are really_42_ information on the store and how good or bad its service is. The _43_ for mystery shoppers is growing because online shopping is becoming more popular. “Retailers (零售店) are becoming increasingly _44_ that shoppers who visit a physical store want a service and an e

27、xperience they cant get _45_,” says Simon Boydell, spokesman for Marketforce, which has more than 300,000 mystery shoppers. “Our customers want to know how well their _46_ are delivering on that experience.”“We assign different store locations to each shopper and take turns so that they never _47_ t

28、o the same shop within three months,” says Jill Spencer of mystery shopping company ABa. “Each day, they spend up to eight hours _48_ five to ten stores, plus another hour or two writing detailed _49_ on every part of their visit.” For that, the mystery shoppers can earn up to 155 a day. Their expen

29、ses are also paid. Mystery shoppers who film their visits with a _50_ camera can earn even more around 300 a day.Mystery shoppers are usually repaid any money they spend in the stores and may also be allowed to _51_ the products they buy. “Im always given a specific task, such as buying something fr

30、om a specific department or a new product range, but I can often buy whatever I want and keep it.” says mystery shopper Laura. 42. A. collectingB. checkingC. deletingD. downloading 43. A. foundationB. satisfactionC. decisionD. demand44. A. popularB. awareC. detectiveD. imaginative45. A. homeB. offic

31、eC. onlineD. paid46. A. storesB. customersC. headquartersD. access47. A. round offB. pass onC. get overD. go back 48. A. staringB. simplifyingC. visitingD. predicting49. A. billsB. reportsC. articlesD. diaries50. A. hiddenB. amusedC. renewedD. displayed51. A. release B. benefitC. keepD. expandSectio

32、n B (15%)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 according to the information given in the passage you have just read.AAt the end

33、 of every British summer I find myself praying for a proper winter, one that will allow a bit of fun: sledging, snowballing, snowman-building. Im not very demanding; I dont need amazing downhill skiing and the Cresta Run. What I want is a few days out with the kids. And, much as I like blue skies an

34、d sun in summer, Id s every time for frozen ponds, a hillside covered in fresh snow and icehanging off the houses. Maddy, 11, wants the same and so, instead of waiting and hoping, we are going to make sure. We are going to Sweden.Winter fun in Sweden is a bit more advanced than in most of the UK. Th

35、ey do snowshoeing, ice-fishing, snow house-building and so on. They also do lots of Father Christmas matter, which Maddy didnt want: “Im too old for that kind of nonsense, Dad.” Above all, what Maddy wanted was dogs with puppies. Shes not too old for that. We flew to Lulea, a city at the top of the

36、finger of Baltic Sea that reaches out to the north between Sweden and Finland, almost touching the Arctic Circle, then transferred, with some other winter-hungry families, to woodland houses by the sea. There was plenty of snow and ice, but the guides were keeping a nervous eye on the instrument for

37、measuringtemperature, which was dangerously close to zero.“Normally, we are 10C below,” said Roger, our guide, who was also handing out our equipment for the days ahead: snowshoes, boots, gloves and so on. A holiday that provides all the necessary outfits will save you a fortune.52. “I find myself p

38、raying for a proper winter” because _.A. winter is much more fun than summerB. I like playing exciting sports in winterC. I want a few days out with the kidsD. the activities in winter are more demanding53. What does the word “swap” mean in paragraph 1? A. offer B. exchange C. wait D. reject54. Whic

39、h best describes our trip to the city Lulea? A. We did not see any other people except the guidesB. The guides were nervous because of the low temperature C. We had everything prepared so that we could have a good journeyD. The guides gave us the equipment in order to transfer quicklyBBRANDON Carter

40、-Chan has the world at his feet.The Dannemora resident danced his way to victory in a number of individual performance groups at the Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts last month. Its one of the major tap-dancing awards in New Zealand and offers $1000 in prize money to the winner. “I entered becau

41、se the competition offers a lot of prize money, but also because it attracts a lot of really good dancers from around the country,” Brandon told the Times.“I really like competing.If Im entering a tap-dancing contest, I want to beat good dancers so I can learn and get better.”Brandon, 16, trains und

42、er tutor Simon Watts at the Carter-Chan Dance Performance Centre in East Tamaki, run by his mother Brigid.Mrs Carter-Chan says her talented son wasnt as prepared for the contest in Tauranga as they would have liked.“It was a real struggle in a way,” she says.“Brandon had worked so hard on his school

43、 studies all year and was also quite sick.“One of the dances he was doing, a tango, he had to make up the week of the competition.“It was a different style to what hes used to and that put pressure on him for the senior tap award.“He was totally out of his comfort zone.”Brandon is having a highly su

44、ccessful 2014. Brandon has only been competing in tap-dancing for two years and is also a highlyskilled singer. He earned the peoples choice award, voted on by the viewing audience, at the Xtreme Talent Quest stage performance competition for teenagers in Howick in 2012.The rising star regularly per

45、forms in public as a singer and dancer, including as a cast member of the annual Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park entertainment showcase.55. What is Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts probably? A. A competition held for tap-dancing lovers or dancers.B. A contest where dancers can get a lot of prize

46、 money as long as they join in.C. The dance centre owned by Brandons mom.D. A dancing game which only good dancers can sign up for.56. Which is probably Brandons Moms job?A. A manager B. A designer C. A judge D. A school teacher.57. Which does not describe Brandon having the world under his feet?A.

47、He was the winner at the Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts.B. He earned the peoples choice award.C. He performs the annual Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park entertainment showcase.D. He regularly performs in public as a singer and dancer.CThe Earths moon used to have a stronger magnetic field(磁场). During samples collected from the Apollo task, researchers claimed that the moon featured a magnetic field as strong