2019学年奉贤区学科教学质量调研
高三英语试卷（2020.05）
（满分140分，考试时间120分钟）
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
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 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. Supermarket. B. Tailor's shop. C. Department store. D. Convenience store.
2. A. 200 pounds. B. 600 pounds. C. 300 pounds. D. 700 pounds.
3. A. Call the ticket office later. B. Order the tickets online.
C. Not to buy the ticket on the Internet.
D. Order the tickets when it's not busy.
4. A. Borrowing money from a business company.
B. Lending some money to a student.
C. Asking for some financial aid.
D. Reading students' application.
5. A. The bed is to blame for his not falling asleep.
B. He can fall asleep if he stops drinking.
C. He can drink more to fall asleep easily.
D. Drinking is good for sleeping.
6. A. He is satisfied with the content. B. He feels sorry for it.
C. He thinks it is valueless.
D. He thinks it is valuable.
7. A. Professor Smith spoke Greek when he explained the maths problem.
B. The woman still didn't understand the maths problem.
C. Unfortunately, she didn't hear Professor Smith's explanation.
D. Professor Smith didn't explain the problem clearly.
8. A. Collect papers for the man. B. Do the typing once again.
C. Check the paper for typing errors.
D. Read the whole newspaper.
9. A. Proceed in his own way.
B. Stick to the original plan.
C. Negotiate with his colleague.
D. Try to change his colleague's mind.
10. A. His project proved to be unsuccessful.
B. He was unable to get sufficient money.
C. Lack of land prevented his success.
D. He was successful with his project.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s) 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following talk,
11. A. To guide and help children's play. B. To give children an opportunity to play.
C. To make children excited.
D. To keep children company.
12. A. It determines the standard a child can reach.
B. It is the happiest period during one's life.
C. It is the most important time to shape one's character.
D. It is the best time for children to learn new things.
13. A. The relationship between play and learning.
B. The way to help children develop both physically and mentally.
C. The importance of children's play.
D. Different stages of children's development.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage,
14. A. It tends to wander towards unpleasant experiences.
B. It wanders for almost half of their waking time.
C. It has trouble concentrating after a brain injury.
D. It tends to be affected by their negative feelings.
15. A. To find how happiness relates to daydreaming.
B. To observe how one's mind affects one's behavior.
C. To see why daydreaming impacts what one is doing.
D. To study the relation between health and daydreaming.
16. A. Participants with clear goals in mind outperformed those without clear goals.
B. The difference in performance between the two groups was insignificant.
C. Non-daydreamers were more confused on their tasks than daydreamers.
D. Daydreamers did better than non-daydreamers in task performance.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the fallowing conversation.
17. A. Their average lifespan was less than 50 years.
B. It was very common for them to have 12 children.
C. They retired from work much earlier than today.
D. They were quite optimistic about their future.
18. A. Get ready for ecological changes.
B. Adapt to the new environment.
C. Learn to use new technology.
D. Explore ways to stay young.
19. A. When all women go out to work.
B. When family planning is enforced.
C. When a world government is set up.
D. When all people become wealthier.
20. A. Eliminate poverty and injustice.
B. Migrate to other planets.
C. Control the environment.
D. Find inexhaustible resources.
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 each blank with the proper form of the given word: for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Plants Scream in the Face of Stress
For the first time, researchers appear to have evidence that like animals, those plants deprived of water or (21) __ (force) to endure bodily harm can let out their pain. The study. (22) has yet to be published in a scientific Journal, adds another dimension to scientists (23) (grow) understanding of how plants detect and interact with their surroundings.
In recent years, it has become very clear that plants are more sensitive than researchers (24) (think). They respond when touched by insects and turn toward sources of light. "Plants are not just robotic stimulus-response devices," said Frantisek Baluska of the University of Bonn in Germany. "They're living organisms which have their own problems/'
Actually making their suffering hearable, however, is another matter entirely. (25) (test) that possibility, a team led by Itzhak Khait. a plant scientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel, placed microphones capable of detecting ultrasonic frequencies (超声波频率)four inches from tomato and tobacco plants. The researcher then either stopped watering them or cut their stems.
Measuring in the range of 20 to 150 kilohertz (千赫).the researchers found that even happy, healthy plants made the occasional noise. But when cut, tobacco plants emitted (26) average of 15 sounds within an hour of being cut. (27) tomato plants produced 25 sounds.
(28) ____ researchers aren't yet sure how plants produce these sounds. Khait and his colleagues proposed one possibility in their paper (29) as water travels through the plants' tubes, air bubbles will form and explode, producing small vibrations.
All this "screaming” caused by stress wasn't in a range detectable by human ears. But organisms that can hear ultrasonic frequencies—like mice, bats or perhaps other plants—(30) possibly hear the plants cries from as far away as 15 feet.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.