2017届上海市浦东新区高三英语三模

2017年浦东新区高三综合练习英语试卷

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I. Listening Comprehension

(略)

II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)

Section A

Did you know that spending a few dollars on a bottle of salad dressing could

help children

with serious illnesses enjoy a week at summer camp? It’s true, (21)________ ________

Newman’s Own.

In December 1980, Paul Newman, a famous American film actor, and his friend A.

E.Hotchner made gallons of salad dressing to give to family and friends as gifts.

Their friends loved it and wanted more, so Hotchner and Newman made more. But this

time they decided to sell the test, as a result of (22)________ Newman’s Own was

born.

By the end of 1982, the first year of production, profits (23)________ (reach)

$400,000.Since (24)________ Newman nor Hotchner needed money. Newman said, “Let’s give it all away to (25)________ needs it.” Over the years, Newman’s Own added

more and more products. Towards the end of 2008, more than 40 products were being

sold, and all of the profits went to charity, more than $265 million worth as of

April 2009.

The profits (26)________ (donate) to various charities, but the one closest to

Newman’s heart is the Hole in the Wall Gang camp, (27)________ (establish) in 1988.

This special camp is for seriously ill children. For one week, children at this camp

(28)________ forget about their illnesses and enjoy (29)________. Medical needs are taken care of, and since they are all sick,the children don’t have to feel

“different.” It’s all paid for through people (30)________ (buy)

salad dressing — a small price for such a great reward.

Section B

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. Formation B. initially C. place D. advocates E. assumptions F.

Unaffected G. undoubtedly H. characterized I. enormous J. revised K.

existing

Minimum wage laws in the U.S. were first introduced during the 1930s in response

to the Great Depression. This period was __31__ by falling output, falling prices,

and falling employment. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933

attempted to stop this downward trend by encouraging the __32__ of trade association

agreements that established the lowest price and minimum wages. This was the first

time that minimum wages were introduced in major industries. But in 1935, the U.S.

Supreme Court ruled that the NIRA was unlawful, and these initial minimum wage

agreements came to an end.

In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) established a national minimum wage

of $0.25 an hour. This Act __33__ only applied to a relatively small share of the

labor force, but has been __34__ over time so that it now applies to about 90% of

all nonsupervisory workers.

Introductory economies textbooks usually first introduce the minimum wage as

an application of demand and supply analysis. This starting discussion is usually

based on the following __35__: the labor market is perfectly competitive, the

minimum wage covers all workers, and worker productivity is __36__ by the wage

rate.

While minimum wage increases generally receive __37__ public support,

economists have generally argued that such laws will result in an increase in the unemployment rate in low-wage labor markets.

An issue related to that of a minimum wage is a growing movement for a “living

wage”.Living wage proposals suggest that the __38__ minimum wage is too low to allow

families to be above the poverty level. Now, __39__ of this view support “living

wage laws” that require the local government to only accept contracts from firms

that pay their workers a wage that is high ___40_____a law in 1994. Under Baltimore’s “living wage” requirement, firms must pay a worker an hourly wage that will allow

a full-time worker to receive an annual income greater than or equal to the poverty

level for a family of three.

III. Reading Comprehension (45%)

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.

When you’re shopping at the grocery

store, you probably expect that the olive

oil you see came from,well, olives. And

that the organic vegetables were never

exposed to poisonous chemicals.

Increasingly, however, there’s a

chance you might be __41__. In recent

years, there has been a rise in reports of so-called food fraud, or attempts by

various entities — including storage workers, suppliers and distributors — to

alter products and mislead customers and food companies alike for __42__ gain. Among