上海市上海中学2019届高三上学期摸底考试英语试题Word版含答案

上海市上海中学2019届高三上学期摸底考试英语试题Word版含答案

2018-2019学年上海中学高三第一学期摸底考试

II.Grammar and Vocabulary

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Section A

Direction: Beneath each of the following sentences there are

four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the other answer that

best completes the sentence.

25.While I was waiting to enter ________ university, I saw

advertised in a local newspaper a

teaching post at a school in ________ suburb of London.

A. /, a

B. an, a

C. a, the

D. the ,the

26.In most cases, ________ a passenger has his ticket and

managers to catch his train, he can

reach his destination more comfortably than ________ he had

to drive himself.

A. once, if

B. that ,if

C. when, while

D. where, when

27.The invention of the modern computer is one of the great contributions ________ to man’s

efficiency.

A. having ever been made

B. ever been made

C. ever made

D. having ever made

28.I was not able to work out the problem ________ my

teacher explained it.

A. as

B. unless

C. until

D. when

29.For him to be re-elected, what is essential is not that his

policy works, but ________ the

public believe that it does.

A. /

B. whether

C. that

D. if

30.What struck the audience most was ________ the blind girl

could accomplish with her own

hands.

A. that

B. what

C. who

D. so

31.The pressure ________ causes Americans to be energetic,

but it also puts them under a

constant emotional strain.

A. to complete B. completing

C. to be completed

D. to have completed

32.Though ________ money, his parents managed to send him

to university.

A. lacked

B. lacking of

C. lacking

D. being lack of

33.________ Japanese is certainly complex, it is by no means

impossible to learn.

A. Whereas

B. While

C. Since

D. As

34.To the students________, the new teacher felt very nervous

to say anything, with hands

slightly________.

A. concerned with, shaken

B. concerned, shaking

C. concerned with, shaking

D. concerned, shaken

35.–I can’t find Ms. Miller. Where did you meet her this

morning?

–It was in the hotel ________ he was staying.

A. that

B. which

C. the one

D. where

36.________ your opinion was worth considering, they won’t place too much importance on it.

A. As

B. Since

C. Unless

D. If only

37.We shall meet at the same place ________ we met for the

first place.

A. that

B. where

C. as

D. which

38.The monitor suggested ________ to the Sea World in the

summer vocation.

A. to me visiting

B. their visiting

C. to me their visit

D. they visit

39.He often wrote to the writer ________ the thought would

help him to become a writer, too.

A. whom

B. who

C. because

D. when

40.In the past decade, geologists have come closer than ever

to ________ the age of the earth.

A. calculate

B. calculating

C. be calculating

D. have calculated

Section B Direction: 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.

Traffic science is one of those ____41____ seems permanently

poised on the verge of a breakthrough. Professional journals

regularly publish promising research, and the ____42____

trumpets their importance. However, it turns out that traffic is a

deceptively complicated problem. It ____43____ molecular physics,

in fact, because it's a system of individual particles ____44____ in

complex ways. Except, with traffic, the particles have minds of

their own.

There are two kinds of traffic flow. In uncongested stable

flows, cars can move at or near the speed limit, and the "unstable

regime," what laypeople (外行) call a stop-and-go traffic. What

scientists have figured out over the past decade or so is when

and why traffic ____45____ between the two.

“We see in our models that traffic becomes unstable when

the number of cars(passing a specific spot) per lane per hour

reaches between 2,000 and 2,500. At that nominal capacity level,

traffic is very likely to become unstable,” says Hani Mahmassani,

a traffic scientist at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Consider a ____46____ case. A slow-moving car shifts into the

left lane to pass an even slower-moving car. The car ____47____

behind the lane-changer has to decelerate ____48____ - not just

to the speed of the car in front of him, but slow enough to create

a safe driving distance between them. The next car back has to

slow down even more, again to give itself a ____49____. This

slowdown ripples back through the lane and eventually spreads

into the other lanes as nearby drivers notice the sea of brake