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青浦区2015学年第一学期高三年级期末学业质量调研测试英语试卷（时间120分钟，满分150分）2016.01考生注意：1．本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（第1-13页）和第II卷（第14页）两部分。
全卷共14页。
满分150分。
考试时间120分钟。
2．答题前，考生务必在答题卡（纸）上用钢笔或水笔清楚填写姓名、准考证号，并用铅笔正确涂写准考证号。
3．答案必须全部涂写在答题卡（纸）上。
第Ⅰ卷（1-16小题，41-77小题）由机器阅卷，考生应将代表正确答案的小方格用铅笔涂黑。
注意试题题号和答题纸编号一一对应，不能错位。
答案需要更改时，必须将原选项擦去，重新选择。
答案不能涂写在试卷上，涂写在试卷上一律不给分。
第Ⅰ卷中的第17-40小题，78-81小题和第II卷的试题，其答案用钢笔或水笔写在答题纸上，如用铅笔答题，或写在试卷上也一律不给分。
第I卷（共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. 9:40. B. 9:50. C. 10:30. D. 10:40.2. A. Leave right away. B. Stay for dinner.C. Catch a train.D. Wait for Eason.3. A. It will be fine. B. It will not rain at all.C. It will stop raining.D. It will rain heavily.4. A. Great. B. Moved. C. Disappointed. D. Sad.5. A. She is eager to have lunch. B. She is unwilling to go for lunch now.C. She is ready for the meeting.D. She is leaving right now.6. A. The driver will stop the bus immediately.B. The guy by the door will help the man.C. The man should check the map.D. She will tell the man when to get off.7. A. She dislikes fireworks. B. She has plans for the evening.C. She doesn’t feel like going out.D. She has to get theatre tickets.8. A. Surfing on the Internet. B. Mailing some documents.C. Sending a document via email.D. Writing an attachment.9. A. To make a tour of Chicago. B. To visit some friends.C. To attend a conference.D. To take language courses.10. A. She liked to go outing nearby. B. She studied very hard at school.C. She won the champion recently.D. She was in her third year in the university.Section BDirections:In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. How to read a book. B. How to make a list.C. How to form a habit.D. How to make friends.12. A. They are smart people. B. They are good examples of all people.C. They make a list for you.D. They help you cultivate good habits.13. A. Always have a book. B. Keep a ―To-Do‖ list.C. Get more intellectual friends.D. Put down what you will learn. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. An adult native speaker. B. A professional American actor.C. A beginner of English learning.D. An English expert.15. A. Reading and listening. B. Listening and speaking.C. Writing and reading.D. Reading and speaking.16. A. Fun and efficiency in enjoying reading masterpieces.B. The recall of all the good memories of your childhood.C. The true pleasure of the world’s language.D. The improvement of reading and listening abilities.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each 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 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, 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.(A)250 Drive-Thru（汽车穿梭）Customers Pay It Forward at McDonald’sIn Florida, one McDonald’s customer started a pay-it-forward chain that inspired other 249 customers to be generous and do the same. ABC News reports that (25)__________ spirit of giving is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald’s paid for the meals of the people next to them. A Lakeland custo mer, Torie Keene (26)__________ (pay) for her food on Wednesday morning when she decided to pay for the meal of the car next to her.Keene then purposely told McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa (27)__________ (greet) the other customer ―Merry Christmas‖ and not ―Happy Holidays.‖ The next customer was moved when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the previous car. That’s when she thought that she would love to do the same.It kept going and going. Figueroa, (28)__________ worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, said that the chain reaction almost lasted for her entire shift. ―I just kept (29)__________(give) everyone the same message, and they were all sosurprised and so happy,‖ she continued. ―One lady even paid for the meals of the next thre e cars (30)__________ her.‖While people were amazed by how generous they could get, Figueroa said she had the (31)__________ (unforgettable) Christmas experience in her 12 years of working for McDonald’s. ―I feel very (32)__________ (bless) to have been a part of all that,‖ the cashier said. And Keene said that she was surprised by the number of people who continued her good deed when she was ―only trying to brighten someone’s day.‖(B)It was Wayne’s wedding day.Mrs. Ker (33)__________（relieve）finally. Wayne wanted to cancel the wedding again couple of days ago. She kept asking him (34)__________ and then she was told that he heard Susan’s name.Mrs. Ker said to Wayne in a serious tone, ―You were both young then. You didn’t know anything about love! What’s going to happen (35)__________ __________ she has come back? She might have lots of children now! How can you still be dreaming about dating her? She has disappeared for such a long time. Don’t you see (36)__________ a cruel girl she is?‖Under his parent’s pressure, Wayne couldn’t cancel the wedding. Before the ceremony, he kept reminding himself of his bride’s name. He was afraid he (37)__________ say Susan’s name. He said to himself that he needed to give his parents, his bride a perfect wedding.When he was kissing his bride, he thought to himself, ―How nice it could be if my bride is Susan!‖But (38)__________ could go back any more.Their relationship ended 15 years ago.His pain was only a recall of yesterday.Mrs. Ker nodded her head at her son at the wedding, (39)__________ (feel) satisfied. She checked around among the guests. Suddenly, she saw a boy holding a bouquet in the hall. Everybody was sitting but him, (40)__________ he looked pretty outstanding.She was really shocked when she saw the boy. She gave her husband a slight push, ―Baldwin, look at that boy!‖Mr. Ker followed her direction and saw the boy too.―Doesn’t he look a younger version of our son?‖ Mrs. Ker said in a curious voice.Mr. Ker nodded.(To be continued) Section BDirections: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.the staff on the other end, and provide their feedback as to the quality of services that they have received. The role of most knowledge managers is to ensure thatIII. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.As a parent, you might have a close emotional connection with your child. You’re the only one who can feel their emotions and understand almost all behavioral 51 . Every mother has an opportunity to keep an eye on their children and analyze everything they say and do. Some signs 52 that something bad is going to happen. If you see that your child is in low 53 , you should be ready to take immediate measures to prevent the explosion of a crying bomb.Please forget about physical punishment. This old-school-method of parenting is not the best way to cope with a child’s bad temper. 54 , physical punishment is very painful for children. This strategy is the easiest way to put in discipline and make your child willing to obey. 55 , psychologists say that physical punishment is so offensive that it can lead to severe consequence. It fills the minds and hearts of children with fear,56 and anxiety.Children are like inexhaustible sources of energy. They can run, jump, scream and fool around all day long. So we should lead them to use their negative energy in a proper manner. It’s 57 important to find developmental activities and keep your child engaged as much as possible. Let them play games and exercise 58 they want —physical activity is good for their health. Don’t forget to encourage your child and present them with candies or stickers. If your child is fond of singing or dancing, then give them an opportunity to open up and perform like a star.Communication is vital for you and your kids. Every child needs 59 socialization and communication with parents and their peers. Your words and pieces of advice help them become stronger and find the right path in life. It’s a good chance to avoid generation gap and build a relationship 60 trust. Lack of contact and communication usually make children too 61 and cultivate antisocial personality in future.Remember to arm yourself with patience, for patience is the main 62 for many parents who deal with children’s bad temper. Every mother knows that it’s hard to preserve unchanged calmness and remain indifferent to children’s cries and tears. Increase the strength of your mind and fill your heart with hope and 63 , because parenting is the hardest job in the world.I think that the 64 of the problem is not children, but their parents. I hope these useful pieces of advice will help you 65 to your child’s bad temper. What other ways to deal with a child’s bad temper? Share your point of view!51. A. abilities B. principles C. hints D. virtues52. A. create B. indicate C. impose D. diagnose53. A. controls B. disciplines C. emotions D. spirits54. A. In return B. After all C. No wonder D. For instance55. A. Moreover B. Otherwise C. However D. Therefore56. A. hatred B. boredom C. carelessness D. shyness57. A. roughly B. extremely C. slightly D. subconsciously58. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as long as D. as far as59. A. gradual B. acceptable C. complete D. feasible60. A. leaving out B. addicted to C. going beyond D. based on61. A. curious B. courageous C. nervous D. generous62. A. priority B. responsibility C. potential D. possession63. A. dignity B. wisdom C. bravery D. diligence64. A. resource B. instruction C. source D. assessment65. A. adapt B. devote C. refer D. respond Section BDirections: 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.(A)①The past year, which is fast becoming just a memory, is the year I drove through the car wash at fifty miles an hour. At least, it felt like fifty miles an hour.②That day I followed the attendant’s instructions, drove to one of those do-it-yourself car washes. I forgot that my car was a bit moody. I’d been meaning to have it checked, but it didn’t happen often enough to rush me to the garage. Anyway, then unexpectedly, suddenly we picked up speed before the astonished eyes of the attendant. The car shot through the wash cycle, the wax（蜡）cycle, and the dry cycle at a ridiculous rate of speed, and then aimed for the street at the end of the tunnel. We shot through the tunnel with what seemed like the speed of sound and rushed out into the street while I was relieved to see that no cars were approaching. The water and the wax had not yet dried — the car looked as if it had caught some terrible disease.③―What happened then?‖ Bobbie asked after I had told my family the story at an evening meal.④―Nothing,‖ I said.⑤―Didn’t you go back to the car wash?‖⑥―Of course not,‖ I replied.⑦―I don’t blame you,‖ Peter said. ―They might have arrested you for speeding in a car wash.‖⑧We all laughed. It was a nice moment. We were relaxing after the dishes had been taken away, the pleasant smell of coffee filling the air. We had been talking about the past year and, without pausing to think of the possible consequences, I had told them about my experience with the car wash.⑨The story delighted the children —who are no longer children. Peter andBobbie are married, in fact, and I realized I had given them a sort of philosophy of life for the future. I could imagine them, years from now, when they gather together and one of them will say, ―Remember the time Dad drove through that car wash …?‖⑩ Other things happened last year, too, because each year has its events, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sorrowful, the ordinary and the terrific. The milestones and the small incidents stand side by side, fundamentally different in quality or kind, perhaps, but making a sweet kind of harmony.66. The description of the second paragraph brings up images of _______.A. disorderB. diseasesC. stormsD. conflict67. Which of the following is NOT included in Paragraph 8?A. The subject of the discussion.B. The atmosphere of the family talk.C. The time when the talk occurred.D. The reason for the car to lose control.68. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?A. A reflection on car tradeB. A memory of the past yearC. A lesson on driving carsD. A car accident at a car wash(B)The J. Paul Getty MuseumWith two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.Parking informationParking is $15; $10 after 4:00 p.m. Pay once, park twice on the same day. And get same-day parking at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa for one $15 fee.Saturday 5:00–9:00 p.m. Sunday BrunchSunday 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Closed Tuesdays69. Mr. Larry drove to the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on December 23 (Wednesday), 2015, and enjoyed a wonderful tour there. He paid the parking fee _______ altogether.A. $10B. $15C. $20D. $3070. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The J. Paul Getty Museum is an art museum housed on two sites.B. The Getty Villa is closed on the same holidays as the Getty Center.C. The sale of alcohol is forbidden to people in the J. Paul Getty Museum.D. Timed tickets must be obtained in advance in the Getty Villa.71. In 2015, at least _______ was/were a good time for enjoying all the art works inthe J. Paul Getty Museum in one day.A. all MondaysB. all TuesdaysC. New Year holidaysD. January 2 (Thursday)72. People who go to the Getty Villa may _______.A. enjoy the views overlooking Los AngelesB. conduct the visit any time because the tickets are freeC. appreciate the arts and cultures of ancient Greece and ancient RomeD. have lunches they bring with them anywhere inside the exhibition area(C)When a patient calls for help at Seton Medical Center, ―Hi, Mr. Rogers, can I help you?‖ says a nurse; it’s never a problem finding the nurse. It’s because they all wear locator tags that are part of a wireless system that tracks their movements on the f loor. ―You can even tell when they are walking down the hallway.‖ says James Hattori.This system made by Hill-Rom uses infrared（红外线的）signals to detect when nurses enter a room to answer a call. The Hill-Rom devices look like a mini computer mouse. Some h ospitals are putting them in nurses’ kitchens. Staff can talk and listen through a wall unit to nurses or even to patients in other rooms. ―We can put the time we were spending hunting staff down, trying to find and locate them to much better use,‖ says a staff member from Seton. Hill-Rom says it has systems installed in more than 850 U.S. hospitals.Some nurses worry that the devices will be used to listen in on conversations and scrutinize their movements. ―I’m not wearing mine. I will still meet my patient’s needs but I will not wear this badge.‖ Annette Bearden is among dozens of nurses at Eden Medical Center who staged an active protest two months ago and hid their badges though they were later recovered. ―You know it makes me not feel like a professional. It makes me feel like that someone has to watch me to make sure I am doing my job.‖―The biggest reason we installed this technology is because our old call system is about 25 years old,‖ says a hospital manager. For hospitals this is a case of techn ology allowing, perhaps forcing people to better make use of their time. Officials at Eden don’t deny they monitor how long it takes nurses to respond to calls but say their main concern is patient care. ―I think it is one tool that we can use in measuring overall performance but by itself it is not a valid disciplinary tool,‖ says an Eden spokesperson.Eden is expanding its system with hopes the nurse will eventually accept the new technology, but back at Seton where it’s been in place for about two years, there is no uneasiness. ―Once the staff actually find out how advantageous it can be for them and the patients, well, actually it became very popular.‖In Castro Valley, California, the Eden Medical Center spent almost three hundredthousand dollars to install the Hill-Rom systems on two floors. Eden hopes to get more of the systems for other floors.73. Why is it easy to find a nurse at Seton Medical Center?A. The nurses are on television.B. The nurses wear locator badges.C. Every patient has his/her own nurse.D. Each room has a telephone.74. How can the staff talk to their patients when they are not in the same room?A. With hand signals.B. Through microphones in the pocket.C. Through a wall unit.D. With infrared signals on the doors.75. According to the passage, the underlined word ―scrutinize‖ (paragraph 3) probablymeans _______.A. watch closelyB. see insideC. scan word by wordD. make right76. How did the nurses at Eden Medical Center react to the badges?A. The nurses really liked the badges.B. They threw the locator badges away.C. They refused to work.D. They protested and concealed the badges.77. According to the administrators of the hospital, Eden Medical Center, theapplication of the Hill-Rom devices mainly aims at _______.A. introducing modern technologyB. adding a tool for disciplineC. replacing the old call systemD. improving the service for patientsSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.It was early in the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn’t slept in 57 hours. The only food I had been able to force down over the proceeding three days was a bowel of soup. Weeks of violent coughing had made ordinary breathing a bitter process. At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere（气体对流）, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Under the circumstances, I was incapable of feeling much of anything except cold and tired.I’d arrived on the summit a few minutes after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climbing guide working for an American commercial expedition, and just ahead ofAndy Harris, a guide on the New Zealand-based team to which I belonged. Although I just met Boukreev, I had come to know and like Harris well during the proceeding six weeks. I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down. My watch read 1:17 p.m. I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world.A moment later, I paused to take another photo, this one looking down the Southeast Eidge, the route we had chosen to go up. Training my lens（镜头）on a pair of climbers approaching the summit, I noticed something that until that moment had escaped my attention. To the south, where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier, a blanket of clouds now hid the peaks surrounding Everest. Later, after six bodies had been located, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had removed the rotten right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers, people would ask why, if the weather had begun to worsen, had climbers on the upper mountain not observed the signs? Why did experienced Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gang of relatively inexperienced amateurs — each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest — into an apparent death trap?Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, because both men are dead. But I can assure that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10th suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. To my oxygen-exhausted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm（西库姆冰斗）looked so friendly and innocent in the brilliant midday sun, not different from the harmless puffs（喷烟）that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.As I began my descent I was extremely anxious, but my concern had little to do with the weather: a check of the meter on my oxygen tank had revealed that it was almost empty. I needed to get down, fast.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)78. Where were the three climbers mentioned in the second paragraph from?_____________________________________________________________________ _79. Besides the change of the weather, what else led to the expedition team’s falling into a death trap?_____________________________________________________________________ __80. The underlined phrase ―the harmless puffs‖ in paragraph 4 refers to___________________________________________________________________________________ __.81. The author spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world and climbed down fastbecause_______________________________________________________________.第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1．如今，生态旅游已受到不同年龄旅游者的青睐。
IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Are You Ready for Your Exam?So, it‘s the exam time again -- have you done the necessary work to get good marks? Sleeping with the textbook under the pillow(枕头) in the hope that knowledge will be magically absorbed into your brain as you sleep doesn‘t work. The best strategy is to space your practice out, rather than cram(死记硬背) it all together. It means hit the books early!In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Tom Stafford, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK, advises: ―If you organi ze five hours of study into one hour a day, you‘ll remember more than if you study for five hours on one day.‖Don‘t rely on memory alone -- get pen and paper and start working. Students who can test themselves in advance will be better at getting back material from their memory and learn that material in the long run. John Dunlosky, Professor of Psychology at Kent State University in the US, sugge sts that ―you start by reading a textbook using your favourite highlighter(荧光笔) and favourite colours, but then you go back and make flashcards of all the critical concepts and instead of just rereading those, you basically try to test yourselves on them.‖Good revision should give you confidence, but if you are still anxious, there‘s no harm in indulging(放任) in a personal routine. In Japan, it seems to be a tradition for students to eat Katsudon before a test. This is a warm bowl of rice topped with egg and a deep-fried pork cutlet. The name of the dish reminds people of the word ‗katsu‘, meaning ‗winning‘.For some students in South Korea, the key to success is not washing their hair before sitting an exam because they believe they could wash all the knowledge out of their head. And in different parts of the world there are always those who swear by their ‗lucky underwear‘.The bottom line is that you need to study, sleep well on the eve of the test, eat a nutritious meal, drink plenty of water and believe that your efforts will pay off. Good luck in your exam!Keys:The best strategy to achieve good results in the exam is to study books early. According to experts, time management and self-testing in advance will also do you good. Furthermore,habitual psychological hint is helpful, too. Meanwhile, other factors such as necessary preparations, good sleep, nutritious diet and self-confidence can pay off your efforts as well. (56 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Super Size MeFast food, otherwise known as junk food, is a huge passion for a large number of people across the Western world. But what would happen if you ate lots of junk food, every day? Would it seriously damage your health? These were the questions which led Morgan Spurlock, an independent film-maker, to do an experiment, which he made into a documentary film entitled Super Size Me.The main basis of his experiment was that Spurlock promised to eat three McDonald‘s meals a day, every day, for a month. He could only eat food from McDonald‘s and every time an employee asked if he would like to ―super size‖ the meal, he had to agree. ―Super sizing‖ refers to the fact that with this type of meal you get a considerable larger portion of everything.Spurlock knew that by eating three McDonald‘s meals a day, he would consume a lot of fat and a great deal of salt and sugar in each meal—much more than he needed. Although Spurlock knew he would put on a bit of weight, and that this diet was unhealthy, he wasn‘t quite prepared for just how unhealthy it turned out to be. The changes in his body were horrifying in the first week, he put on 4.5 kilos and by the end of the thirty days he had gained nearly 14 kilos, bringing his total weight to a massive 98kg.Spurlock says ―I‘d love people to walk out of the movie and say, ‘Next time I‘m not going to ―super size‖. Maybe I‘m not going have any junk food at all. I‘m going to sit down and eat dinner with my kids, with the TV off, so that we can eat healthy food, talk about what we‘re eating and have a relationship with each other.‘‖ Food for thought indeed.Keys:Spurlock made an experiment to test the damage of eating lots of junk food and made adocumentary film later. In the one-month experiment, Spurlock ate three super size McDonald‘s meals every day if required, thus causing terrible increase in his weight. Spurlock hopes the film can help people establish a healthy eating habit. (56 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections:Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Food is life. We eat it to grow, stay healthy, and have the energy to do everyday activities. The food we consume makes all of these things possible, but not all food is created equal. Studies have shown, for example, that children who eat a nutritious breakfast do better in school than those with a poor diet. The well-fed child is able to pay attention longer, remember more, and participate more actively in class. The findings, then, are clear. Because our food choices affect our health and behavior, we must do more than just eat; we must eat well. For many people today, though, making healthy food choices is not easy.We are surrounded by information telling us what‘s good for us and what isn‘t, but usually this information is more confusing than helpful. In fact, different research about the same food often produces contradictory results. In previous research on eggs, people were encouraged to limit or completely eliminate eggs from their diets to prevent dangerous diseases. Recent studies say eggs are good for you. It‘s hard to know who to believe.Shopping for food can also be challenging. During a visit to a supermarket, we often need to make many different choices. Should you buy this cereal or that one? Regular or fat-free‘ milk? Tofu or chicken? It‘s hard to know which to choose, especially when two items are very similar. Many shoppers read product labels to help them decide. Indeed, many food labels are often misleading.Making healthy food choices and eating well do not have to be difficult. Doing simple things can result in a better diet and a healthier you. Urban gardening, which is becoming popular again is one such thing. On small pieces of land, neighbors are working together to grow fruit and vegetables. What are the benefits of these gardens? People have access to more fresh fruit and vegetables, especially poorer people who are less likely to spend money on these items. The food also cost less than it would in a supermarket. There are other benefits, too. Working together in thegarden helps people to exercise. Urban gardens have also been used to teach children about food production and healthy eating.Keys:Food choices affect health and behavior.However, it‘s not easy to make healthy ones.Because confusing/contradictory food informationand misleading food labels are making shopping difficult/a challenge. Urban gardening is a good way to making healthy food choices.Urban gardening also have other benefits: getting fresh and cheap food, a way of exercise and learning food knowledge for children. (59 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.The advantages of social networkingWhy do most people sign up to social networking sites? The main reason is to stay in touch with other people. These sites also help people to find their childhood friends that they have lost touch with. Renewing these long-lost friendships is just a click away. It is very exciting to be able to catch up with friends and keep up with their news on am almost daily basis thanks to frequent updates.Keep up-to-date,however,doesn‘t have to be restricted to fr iends and acquaintances(相识的人）.What many people tend to forget is that they can also use networking sites for professional reasons. It is actually a great way of finding out about upcoming job opportunities. Friends might know about job vacancies that may not be advertised elsewhere or they can even recommend their friends for certain jobs. Even people already employed can promote their business online. This is particularly important for artists, actors and musicians who can create pages devoted to their band or theatre company, and inform fans about their gigs(现场演唱会）or latest exhibitions. In addition, the sites can be used to allow the public to give instant feedback on the artists‘ work and to interact with their favourite artist.Another great advantage of social networking sites is how easy it is to organise an event with your friends. Thanks to different settings people can organise their friends by different criteria(标准）. These criteria could be how close friends they are, common interests and hobbies or where they live. This means if a certain event takes place, for example, an open-air concert or a football match, all they have to do is invite the right group of friends to attend. Some networking sites offer a range of quizzes and games, so friends living on opposite sides of the globe can invite each other to participate and compete in a variety of games without leaving their homes.Keys:Social networking sites benefit people in several different ways. Not only do they allow people to keep in close touch with friends old or new ,but they provide potential job opportunities and encourage online business promotion plus interaction.Moreover, they facilitate the organization of various events, connecting people with similar hobbies or preferences globally.(54words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Are we born with a preference for certain kinds of faces? Or is it just something that people learn, without realizing it? To find out, psychologist Judith Langlois and her team at the University of Texas in Austin worked with young children and babies.The researchers showed each baby photos of two faces. One face was more attractive than the other. The scientists then recorded how long the infants looked at each face.Babies spent longer viewing the attractive faces than the unattractive ones. That meant they preferred the pretty faces. These findings suggest that people prefer pretty faces very early in life. However, it‘s still possible that we learn that preference. After all, Schein, who worked with Judith, points out, ―By the time we test infants, they already have experience with faces.‖That experience can make a difference. Research conducted at the University of Delaware found that babies‘ brains are better at processing faces from their own race. So infants quickly come to prefer these faces, Schein says.It‘s well-known in psychology that familiar things are more attractive, says Coren Apicella. She is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ―Perhaps average faces aremore attractive because they seem more familiar.‖Indeed, her research backs this up. Apicella and Little worked with two groups of young adults: British and Hadza. The Hadza are hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, a nation in East Africa. Apicella chose them for her experiment because they had not been exposed to Western culture and standards of beauty.She showed people from both groups two images and asked which was more attractive. One image was an average of five British faces or five Hadza faces. The other was an average of 20 British faces or 20 Hadza faces. People of both cultures preferred the face that was more average —that is, compiled from 20 faces instead of five. The British participants found both Hadza and British faces beautiful. The Hadza, in contrast, preferred only Hadza faces.―The Hadza have little experience with European faces and probably do not know what an average European face looks like,‖ Apicella concludes. ―If they don't know what it looks like, how can they prefer it?‖Her findings show how biology and the environment work together to shape our values. ―The prefere nce for average itself is biologically based,‖ Apicella says. But people must first experience other faces to learn what an average face should look like.Keys:Babies‘ preference to attractive faces indicates people begin to prefer pretty faces at an early age. Researches show average faces are more attractive because they are more familiar to people. Meanwhile, people‘s experience with faces matters a lot. The more people experience with certain faces, the more preference they will have to the average of these faces. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. This kind of loneliness is not serious. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Now researchers say there are three different types of loneliness, namely, temporary loneliness, situational loneliness, and chronic(长期的) loneliness.The first kind of loneliness is temporary. This is the most common type. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situational loneliness, is a natural result of a particular situation - for example a family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year. The third kind of loneliness is the most severe. Unlike the second type, chronic loneliness usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause. People who experience habitual loneliness have problems in socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many chronically lonely people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.Psychologists agree that one important factor in loneliness is a person‘s social contacts, e.g. friends, family members, co-workers, etc. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more. They question their own popularity.Keys:There are three types of Loneliness.Temporary loneliness disappears quickly and can be neglected. Situational loneliness is caused by the change of circumstance, which may lead to problems.Chronic Loneliness lasts the longest and is harmful. The victims often feel hopeless. Loneliness is usually caused when people need more social contacts than they have. (53 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Around the world, music therapy is being used to treat different medical conditions and illnesses. Some of the ways people use music therapy are to reduce pain, such as in childbirth or during cancer treatments, or to stimulate brain activity alter an injury or money loss. Music therapy has also been successful in aiding children to overcome disabilities. Children can move their bodies with the music and stamp along to the beat.Why is music a useful therapy? Music is soothing and relaxing, but it also stimulates ourbrains. Emotionally and physically, we respond to the sounds of music. But the complexity of music provokes (激发)the biggest response. Thus, classical music is most typically used for therapies dueto complex sounds and patterns. Playing a musical instrument rather than simply listening to music can also be therapeutic for some people, helping relieve stress and anxiety.Music has been shown to reduce pain in cancer patients by increasing the release endorphin (内啡肽).Endorphins are the body‘s natural painkillers, and when we listen to music, our brains respond by releasing these natural painkillers. It has also been known to contribute to the brain development of the babies who have just been born and even babies still in the mother‘s womb. Certain types of music have also been found to lower blood pressure and slow a person's heart rate. Al present, music therapy is used in a variety of settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, day cares and schools.Although music therapy is not yet considered a mainstreamtreatment, it is recognized more and more as a useful addition to traditional treatment. Sonext time you are feeling low or stressed out, put on some relaxing music and let the music heal you.Keys:Music therapy is a useful way to treat illness. Because our brain can be stimulated by responding to music, different kinds of music have different effects. The principle of music therapy is to increase the release of endorphins to produce effects to help treatment. Although music therapy is not used widely, it is regarded as an effective additional to treatment. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Airline seats have been one-size-fits-all since the beginning. Today, those 16.5 to 18-inch wide seats are anything but.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity(肥胖症)has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, and over 600 million were obese.The unchanged seat size and increase of obese passengershighlight the conflict betweenairlines‘ needs and basic passenger rights.Last month, lawyer Giorgio Destro,an Italian lawyer, sued Emirates, claiming his flight was disrupted by an obese passenger seated next to him. According to reports, Destro was not able to comfortably sit in his assigned seat, and spent much of the nine-hour flight standing or sitting in crew seats, because a 400-pound passenger took up half of his seat.Many airlines have responded to the growing obesityby insisting passengers of size buy two seats to ensure safety and comfort. Samoa Air, for example, is charging by weight (which has become known as a ―fat tax‖). At first glance, the fat tax issue sounds discriminatory (歧视的), but some argue that this is purely down to numbers. A kilo is a kilo. It has nothing to do with the condition of the weight.The heavier a plane is, the more fuel it burns through.In other words, the argument is whether it is fair that a 150-pound person is charged for their 50-pound bag, when a 300-pound person with a carry-on isn‘t charged anything extra.However, Peggy Howell of NAAFA argues that obesity is an illness, and that obese people should be entitled to having certain rights protected.―We question the legality of the discriminatory policy and whether it viol ates the Air Carrier Access Act governing the treatment of passengers with disabilities,‖ she says. ―The American Medical Association (AMA) recently declared obesity a disease, which should make fat passengers a protected class.‖Howell points out that the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) addressed this issue in 2009, and issued a ‗one-person, one-fare‘ ruling covering passengers with disabilities. Those passengers include ones who are ‗clinically obese‘ and who cannot fit into a single seat.Keys:With the increasing obesity, airline one-size-fits-all seats can‘t satisfy the needs of obese passengers. To solve the conflict between airlines‘ needs and passenger rights, many airlines ask overweight passengers to pay more to fly, because a heavier plane burns more fuel. However, objectors think the disabled, including fat passengers, should be protected instead of being charged more. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Gene Therapy―We used to think that our fate was in our stars, but now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our genes,‖ said James Watson. Watson is a molecular(分子的) biologist and co-discoverer of DNA structure. Why? Scientists are seeing that gene therapy is revolutionizing the treatment of disease.In gene therapy, healthy genes are introduced into defective (有缺陷的) cells to prevent or cure disease. While much of the research is in the beginning stages, some successes point to the real benefit of the therapy. In Italy, doctors have recently treated one genetic disease with gene therapy. This disease most often begins to destroy the brain when children are between 1 and 2, stopping them from walking and talking. By inserting normal, healthy genetic material into a virus and then infecting the patients, scientists seem to be able to cure the disease. Although the children given the therapy still need follow-up treatments, they now lead a relatively normal life.Gene therapy has also been used to help older patients. These people suffer from a disease that causes slow movement and uncontrollable shaking because part of the brain dies. Those treated with gene therapy showed a 23.1 percent improvement when tested six months later.Gene therapy appears to be a more positive alternative to surgery or medicine and is an exciting new approach that is just making the news. Researchers hope that in the coming years, every genetic disease will have gene therapy as its treatment. But more research is needed to assure its safety.Keys:Gene therapy, which prevents or cures disease by inserting healthy genes into defective cells rather than by means of surgery or medicine, is changing the treatment of disease revolutionarily. Though in the initial phases, gene therapy has been successful in treating both children and older patients with genetic disease. However, more research is called for to ensure its security. (59 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Teaching Is “One of the Least Popular Jobs in the UK”The UK government has just published a report on the future of secondary school teaching, and the conclusion of the report is that many secondary schools now face great difficulties in finding people who want to be teachers. Since the 1980s, the number of graduates who would ―seriously consider‖ teaching as a career has fallen sharply, from 64% in 1982 to just 17% today. The report suggests that urgent action needs to be taken in order to encourage more intelligent young graduates into teaching.The main drawback（缺点）of secondary teaching, according to the report, is the low salary. Earnings in teaching are much lower than in many other jobs. Joanne Manners, 24, is a good example: ―I graduated in maths last year, and I was thinking of doing a teacher-training course to become a maths teacher---but I saw I could earn twice as much if I worked in marketing or advertising, so I decided not to become a teacher.‖It's not just about the money, however. The survey concluded that another reason why people don‘t want to be teachers is that some teenagers behave very badly in school. A lot of schools have problems with discipline, and it seems clear that children do not have the same respect for teachers as in the past. Here‘s the view of Dave Hallam, an accountant from London: ―I think parents are to blame. They should have stricter rules with their children at home and also teach their children to have more respect for teachers.‖The report is clear that the problem of teacher shortage is a very serious one. It says that the government should raise teachers‘ pay significantly, to catch up with workers in o ther professions. It also indicates that the government could launch a nationwide publicity campaign, with some advertisements on TV and in the newspapers, to show the positive sides of teaching to young people.Keys:Secondary schools in UK experienced difficulties recruiting young teachers. The reasons are low salary and kid‘s bad behavior, which push talents to business occupations with twice income. Therefore, poorly behaved students need to obey stricter rules and parents need to discipline them at home. Also, government should increase teachers‘ income and promote a teaching campaign todisplay teaching‘s bright side. (60 words)/It is reported that many secondary schools in UK have trouble enrolling young teachers due to the low salary and the bad behavior of the youth in school. To change the situation, parents should be strict with the kids to back teachers up and the government are encouraged to improve teachers‘ income and publicize the positive image of teaching. (59 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it‘s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you‘re ―hot‖. That‘s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as: ―Get up, John! You‘ll be late for work again!‖ The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.You can‘t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you‘re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract（对抗）your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If our energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won‘t change your cycle, but you‘ll get up steam (鼓起干劲) and work better at your low point.Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.Keys:Everyone has an energy cycle, which is individually different. When your body temperature reaches the peak, you‘ll feel most energetic. Though we can‘t change the cycle, we can form some habits to make our life fit better and avoid many conflicts with people. Additionally, getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save our energy. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Now another American education icon may be disappearing: the hardbound textbook. More and more school districts are replacing traditional textbooks with electronic ones. Electronic textbooks are usually accessed either through an online server or are downloaded to student laptops.In North Texas, Plano and Irving schools are introducing e-books into a few classrooms, and Lancaster school officials also are considering them. But no local district appears to be going as far as Forney. The district most likely would be the first in the state to use e-books in every classroom for grades five to twelve.Officials point out several reasons for turning to e-books. For one, they are easier to update. Thus the publishers are able to find ways to do online textbooks and they can go back and change information. Using e-books will better prepare students for college and the workplace.Rapid district growth is another reason. The number of the students in the district is expected to double within five years. It‘s difficult to know textbook needs in advance and some students wait months for their books. But e-books can be uploaded onto a ―blank‖ laptop in a few hours.Cost may eventually be a deciding cause for choosing e-books, but here are no big savings yet. Even if they get it electronically, they still have to pay for the book because they‘re buying the instructional material. That may change as more and more districts move towards e-books.Today‘s students have little trouble adjusting to laptops and e-books, said Connie Cooley, who has taught at the Academy of Irving ISD for five years. But she said it could worry teachers.―It‘s harder for people who are right around my age and older.‖ said Ms. Cooley, 36. ―I‘m。
青浦区2015学年第一学期高三年级期末学业质量调研测试英语试卷（时间120分钟，满分150分）2016.01考生注意：1．本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（第1-13页）和第II卷（第14页）两部分。
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第I卷（共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. 9:40. B. 9:50. C. 10:30. D. 10:40.2. A. Leave right away. B. Stay for dinner.C. Catch a train.D. Wait for Eason.3. A. It will be fine. B. It will not rain at all.C. It will stop raining.D. It will rain heavily.4. A. Great. B. Moved. C. Disappointed. D. Sad.5. A. She is eager to have lunch. B. She is unwilling to go for lunch now.C. She is ready for the meeting.D. She is leaving right now.6. A. The driver will stop the bus immediately.B. The guy by the door will help the man.C. The man should check the map.D. She will tell the man when to get off.7. A. She dislikes fireworks. B. She has plans for the evening.C. She doesn’t feel like going out.D. She has to get theatre tickets.8. A. Surfing on the Internet. B. Mailing some documents.C. Sending a document via email.D. Writing an attachment.9. A. To make a tour of Chicago. B. To visit some friends.C. To attend a conference.D. To take language courses.10. A. She liked to go outing nearby. B. She studied very hard at school.C. She won the champion recently.D. She was in her third year in the university. Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. How to read a book. B. How to make a list.C. How to form a habit.D. How to make friends.12. A. They are smart people. B. They are good examples of all people.C. They make a list for you.D. They help you cultivate good habits.13. A. Always have a book. B. Keep a “To-Do” list.C. Get more intellectual friends.D. Put down what you will learn.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. An adult native speaker. B. A professional American actor.C. A beginner of English learning.D. An English expert.15. A. Reading and listening. B. Listening and speaking.C. Writing and reading.D. Reading and speaking.16. A. Fun and efficiency in enjoying reading masterpieces.B. The recall of all the good memories of your childhood.C. The true pleasure of the world’s language.D. The improvement of reading and listening abilities.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each 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 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.II. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, 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.(A)250 Drive-Thru（汽车穿梭）Customers Pay It Forward at McDonald’s In Florida, one McDonald’s customer started a pay-it-forward chain that inspired other 249 customers to be generous and do the same. ABC News reports that (25)__________ spirit of giving is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald’s paid for the meals of the people next to them. A Lakeland customer, Torie Keene (26)__________ (pay) for her food on Wednesday morning when she decided to pay for the meal of the car next to her.Keene then purposely told McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa (27)__________ (greet) the other customer “Merry Christmas” and not “Happy Holidays.” The next customer was moved when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the previous car. Th at’s when she thought that she would love to do the same.It kept going and going. Figueroa, (28)__________ worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, said that the chain reaction almost lasted for her entire shift. “I just kept(29)__________(give) everyo ne the same message, and they were all so surprised and so happy,” she continued. “One lady even paid for the meals of the next three cars (30)__________ her.”While people were amazed by how generous they could get, Figueroa said she had the (31)__________ (unforgettable) Christmas experience in her 12 years of working for McDonald’s. “I feel very (32)__________ (bless) to have been a part of all that,” the cashier said. And Keene said that she was surprised by the number of people who continued her good deed when she was “only trying to brighten someone’s day.”(B)It was Wayne’s wedding day.Mrs. Ker (33)__________（relieve）finally. Wayne wanted to cancel the wedding again couple of days ago. She kept asking him (34)__________ and then she was told tha t he heard Susan’s name.Mrs. Ker said to Wayne in a serious tone, “You were both young then. You didn’t know anything about love! What’s going to happen (35)__________ __________ she has come back? She might have lots of children now! How can you still be dreaming about dating her? She has disappeared for such a long time. Don’t you see (36)__________ a cruel girl she is?”Under his parent’s pressure, Wayne couldn’t cancel the wedding. Before the ceremony, hekept reminding himself of his bride’s name. He was afraid he (37)__________ say Susan’s name. He said to himself that he needed to give his parents, his bride a perfect wedding.When he was kissing his bride, he thought to himself, “How nice it could be if my bride is Susan!”But (38)__________ could go back any more.Their relationship ended 15 years ago.His pain was only a recall of yesterday.Mrs. Ker nodded her head at her son at the wedding, (39)__________ (feel) satisfied. She checked around among the guests. Suddenly, she saw a boy holding a bouquet in the hall. Everybody was sitting but him, (40)__________ he looked pretty outstanding.She was really shocked when she saw the boy. She gave her husband a slight push, “Baldwin, look at that boy!”Mr. Ker followed her direction and saw the boy too.“Doesn’t he look a younger version of our son?” Mrs. Ker said in a curious voice.Mr. Ker nodded.(To be continued) Section BDirections: 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.43 efficiency, but has further improved productivity. Through cloud computing, virtual offices are being operated almost everywhere around the globe. All it takes is the click of a button! As for companies, it is vital for them to hire professionals from all over the world.For businesses that rely greatly on customer satisfaction and approvals, 44 on their services is very important. Customers in particular are able to 45 with the staff on the other end, and provide their feedback as to the quality of services that they have received. The role of most knowledge managers is to ensure that information is kept current, accurate and 46 . Significant developments in the database management systems have made it easier to achieve this goal, and there can only be so much to look forward to as we 47 into the future.At the moment, 48 information that passes through these systems can be run through different forms. There was a time when such information was 49 document-based. Today however, reports and other relevant information can be presented to the seeker through different media.The most efficient knowledge base management systems in the market at the moment are built with the 50 to handle all kinds of information. One of the other things that we cannot forget to mention is the mobile functionality of these programs. They are compatible（兼容的）with users across all platforms, and this makes them even more convenient than before.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.psychologists say that physical punishment is so offensive that it can lead to severe consequence. It fills the minds and hearts of children with fear,56 and anxiety.Children are like inexhaustible sources of energy. They can run, jump, scream and fool around all day long. So we should lead the m to use their negative energy in a proper manner. It’s 57 important to find developmental activities and keep your child engaged as much as possible. Let them play games and exercise 58 they want — physical activity is good for their health. Don’t forget to encourage your child and present them with candies or stickers. If your child is fond of singing or dancing, then give them an opportunity to open up and perform like a star.Communication is vital for you and your kids. Every child needs 59socialization and communication with parents and their peers. Your words and pieces of advice help them become stronger and find the right path in life. It’s a good chance to avoid generation gap and build a relationship 60 trust. Lack of contact and communication usually make children too 61 and cultivate antisocial personality in future.Remember to arm yourself with patience, for patience is the main 62 for many parents who deal with children’s bad temper. Every mother knows that it’s hard to preserve unchanged calmness and remain indifferent to children’s cries and tears. Increase the strength of your mind and fill your heart with hope and 63 , because parenting is the hardest job in the world.I think that the 64 of the problem is not children, but their parents. I hope these useful pieces of advice will help you 65 to your child’s bad temper. What other ways to deal with a child’s bad temper? Share your point of view!51. A. abilities B. principles C. hints D. virtues52. A. create B. indicate C. impose D. diagnose53. A. controls B. disciplines C. emotions D. spirits54. A. In return B. After all C. No wonder D. For instance55. A. Moreover B. Otherwise C. However D. Therefore56. A. hatred B. boredom C. carelessness D. shyness57. A. roughly B. extremely C. slightly D. subconsciously58. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as long as D. as far as59. A. gradual B. acceptable C. complete D. feasible60. A. leaving out B. addicted to C. going beyond D. based on61. A. curious B. courageous C. nervous D. generous62. A. priority B. responsibility C. potential D. possession63. A. dignity B. wisdom C. bravery D. diligence64. A. resource B. instruction C. source D. assessment65. A. adapt B. devote C. refer D. respondSection BDirections: 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.(A)①The past year, which is fast becoming just a memory, is the year I drove through the car wash at fifty miles an hour. At least, it felt like fifty miles an hour.②That day I followed the attendant’s instructions, drove to one of those do-it-yourself car washes. I forgot that my car was a bit moody. I’d been meaning to have it checked, but it didn’t happen often enough to rush me to the garage. Anyway, then unexpectedly, suddenly we picked up speed before the astonished eyes of the attendant. The car shot through the wash cycle, the wax （蜡）cycle, and the dry cycle at a ridiculous rate of speed, and then aimed for the street at the end of the tunnel. We shot through the tunnel with what seemed like the speed of sound and rushed out into the street while I was relieved to see that no cars were approaching. The water and the wax had not yet dried — the car looked as if it had caught some terrible disease.③“What happened then?” Bobbie asked after I had told my family the story at an evening meal.④“Nothing,” I said.⑤“Didn’t you go back to the car wash?”⑥“Of course not,” I replied.⑦“I don’t blame you,” Peter said. “They might have arrested you for speeding in a car wash.”⑧We all laughed. It was a nice moment. We were relaxing after the dishes had been taken away, the pleasant smell of coffee filling the air. We had been talking about the past year and,without pausing to think of the possible consequences, I had told them about my experience with the car wash.⑨The story delighted the children — who are no longer children. Peter and Bobbie are married, in fact, and I realized I had given them a sort of philosophy of life for the future. I could imagine them, years from now, when they gather together and one of them will say, “Remember the time Dad drove through that car wash …?”⑩Other things happened last year, too, because each year has its events, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sorrowful, the ordinary and the terrific. The milestones and the small incidents stand side by side, fundamentally different in quality or kind, perhaps, but making a sweet kind of harmony.66. The description of the second paragraph brings up images of _______.A. disorderB. diseasesC. stormsD. conflict67. Which of the following is NOT included in Paragraph 8?A. The subject of the discussion.B. The atmosphere of the family talk.C. The time when the talk occurred.D. The reason for the car to lose control.68. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?A. A reflection on car tradeB. A memory of the past yearC. A lesson on driving carsD. A car accident at a car wash(B)The J. Paul Getty MuseumWith two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.Parking informationParking is $15; $10 after 4:00 p.m. Pay once, park twice on the same day. And get same-day parking at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa for one $15 fee.69. Mr. Larry drove to the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on December 23 (Wednesday), 2015,and enjoyed a wonderful tour there. He paid the parking fee _______ altogether.A. $10B. $15C. $20D. $3070. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The J. Paul Getty Museum is an art museum housed on two sites.B. The Getty Villa is closed on the same holidays as the Getty Center.C. The sale of alcohol is forbidden to people in the J. Paul Getty Museum.D. Timed tickets must be obtained in advance in the Getty Villa.71. In 2015, at least _______ was/were a good time for enjoying all the art works in the J.Paul Getty Museum in one day.A. all MondaysB. all TuesdaysC. New Year holidaysD. January 2 (Thursday)72. People who go to the Getty Villa may _______.A. enjoy the views overlooking Los AngelesB. conduct the visit any time because the tickets are freeC. appreciate the arts and cultures of ancient Greece and ancient RomeD. have lunches they bring with them anywhere inside the exhibition area(C)When a patient calls for help at Seton Medical Center, “Hi, Mr. Rogers, can I help you?” says a nurse; it’s never a problem finding the nurse. It’s because they all wear locator tags that are part of a wireless system that tracks their movements on the flo or. “You can even tell when they are walking down the hallway.” says James Hattori.This system made by Hill-Rom uses infrared（红外线的）signals to detect when nurses enter a room to answer a call. The Hill-Rom devices look like a mini computer mouse. Some hospitals are putting them in nurses’ kitchens. Staff can talk and listen through a wall unit to nurses or even to patients in other rooms. “We can put the time we were spending hunting staff down, trying to find and locate them to much better use,” says a st aff member from Seton. Hill-Rom says it has systems installed in more than 850 U.S. hospitals.Some nurses worry that the devices will be used to listen in on conversations and scrutinize their movements. “I’m not wearing mine. I will still meet my patient’s needs but I will not wear this badge.” Annette Bearden is among dozens of nurses at Eden Medical Center who staged an active protest two months ago and hid their badges though they were later recovered. “You know it makes me not feel like a professional. It makes me feel like that someone has to watch me to make sure I am doing my job.”“The biggest reason we installed this technology is because our old call system is about 25 years old,” says a hospital manager. For hospitals this is a case of technol ogy allowing, perhaps forcing people to better make use of their time. Officials at Eden don’t deny they monitor how long it takes nurses to respond to calls but say their main concern is patient care. “I think it is one tool that we can use in measuring overall performance but by itself it is not a valid disciplinary tool,” says an Eden spokesperson.Eden is expanding its system with hopes the nurse will eventually accept the new technology, but back at Seton where it’s been in place for about two years, there is no uneasiness. “Once the staff actually find out how advantageous it can be for them and the patients, well, actually it became very popular.”In Castro Valley, California, the Eden Medical Center spent almost three hundred thousand dollars to install the Hill-Rom systems on two floors. Eden hopes to get more of the systems for other floors.73. Why is it easy to find a nurse at Seton Medical Center?A. The nurses are on television.B. The nurses wear locator badges.C. Every patient has his/her own nurse.D. Each room has a telephone.74. How can the staff talk to their patients when they are not in the same room?A. With hand signals.B. Through microphones in the pocket.C. Through a wall unit.D. With infrared signals on the doors.75. According to the passage, the underlined word “scrutinize” (paragraph 3) probably means_______.A. watch closelyB. see insideC. scan word by wordD. make right76. How did the nurses at Eden Medical Center react to the badges?A. The nurses really liked the badges.B. They threw the locator badges away.C. They refused to work.D. They protested and concealed the badges.77. According to the administrators of the hospital, Eden Medical Center, the application of theHill-Rom devices mainly aims at _______.A. introducing modern technologyB. adding a tool for disciplineC. replacing the old call systemD. improving the service for patientsSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.It was early in the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn’t slept in 57 hours. The only food I had been able to force down over the proceeding three days was a bowel of soup. Weeks of violent coughing had made ordinary breathing a bitter process. At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere（气体对流）, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Under the circumstances, I was incapable of feeling much of anything except cold and tired.I’d arrived on the summit a few minutes after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climbing guide working for an American commercial expedition, and just ahead of Andy Harris, a guide on the New Zealand-based team to which I belonged. Although I just met Boukreev, I had come to know and like Harris well during the proceeding six weeks. I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down. My watch r ead 1:17 p.m. I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world.A moment later, I paused to take another photo, this one looking down the Southeast Eidge, the route we had chosen to go up. Training my lens（镜头）on a pair of climbers approaching the summit, I noticed something that until that moment had escaped my attention. To the south, where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier, a blanket of clouds now hid the peakssurrounding Everest. Later, after six bodies had been located, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had removed the rotten right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers, people would ask why, if the weather had begun to worsen, had climbers on the upper mountain not observed the signs? Why did experienced Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gang of relatively inexperienced amateurs — each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest — into an apparent death trap?Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, because both men are dead. But I can assure that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10th suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. To my oxygen-exhausted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm（西库姆冰斗）looked so friendly and innocent in the brilliant midday sun, not different from the harmless puffs（喷烟）that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.As I began my descent I was extremely anxious, but my concern had little to do with the weather: a check of the meter on my oxygen tank had revealed that it was almost empty. I needed to get down, fast.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)78. Where were the three climbers mentioned in the second paragraph from?______________________________________________________________________79. Besides the change of the weather, what else led to the expedition team’s falling into a death trap?_______________________________________________________________________80. The underlined phrase “the harmless puffs” in paragraph 4 refers to _____________________________________________________________________________________.81. The author spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world and climbed down fast because _______________________________________________________________.第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1．如今，生态旅游已受到不同年龄旅游者的青睐。
青浦区2015学年第一学期高三年级期末学业质量调研测试英语试卷听力文字稿和参考答案Q2016.01一、听力文字稿Section A1. M: Hurry! The train leaves at 10:30.W: Take it easy. We still have 40 minutes.Q: What time is it now? (B)2. M: What’s the hurry? We’d like you to stay for dinner.W: Thanks, but Eason and I have to meet my parents at the railway station.Q: What will the woman do next? (A)3. M: Do you think it will rain?W: Rain? It’s about to pour.Q: What can we learn about the weather? (D)4. M: How did your interview go?W: I couldn’t feel better about it!Q: What does the woman feel about the interview? (A)5. M: Let’s go for lunch right now,there’s a meeting 30 minutes from now.W: What? Right now?Q: What is implied in the woman’s reply? (B)6. M: Do you know if this bus stop’s at Red Square?W: Well, there is a map over there by the door.Q: What does the woman mean? (C)7. M: Let’s go watch the fireworks now.W: I have tickets to the theatre.Q: What does the woman mean? (B)8. M: How do you attach a document with your email?W: Click on the “Attachment”, browse to the document you want to attach, and click “OK”.Q: What are the speakers talking about? (C)9. M: What’s the purpose of your visit?W: I am a student. I will be attending an English learning program at the University of Chicago.Q: Why does the woman want to go to America? (D)10. M: Sally had nearly spent all her spare time studying during the past three years. W: That’s right, or she couldn’t have taken the first place in exams so often.Q: What can be inferred about Sally from the conversation? (B)Section B(A)Here are some tips for developing the habit of lifelong learning.First, always have a book. It doesn’t matter if it takes you a year or a week to read a book. Always strive to have a book that you are reading through, and take it with you so you can read it when you have time. Just by shaving off a few minutes in-between activities in my day I can read about a book per week. That’s at least fifty books each year.Second, keep a “To-Learn” List. We all have to-do lists. These are the tasks we need to accomplish. Try to also have a “To-Learn” list. O n it you can write ideas for new areas of study. Maybe you would like to take up a new language, learn a skill or read the collective works of Shakespeare. Whatever motivates you, write it down.Finally, get More Intellectual Friends. Start spending more time with people who think. Not just people who are smart, but people who actually invest much of their time in learning new skills. Their habits will influence you. Even better, they will probably share some of their knowledge with you.Now listen again please.11. What is the passage mainly about? (C)12. What’s true about people interested in learning new skills according to the passage?(D)13. Which one is not the tip for developing the habit of lifelong learning? (B)(B)All the beautiful fairy tales and masterpieces that you have encountered during your childhood remain as warm memories in your adulthood. This time, let’s enjoy ourselves in the world of masterpieces through English. When you enjoy reading, your ability to understand English will also rapidly improve.This series of Reading Room are special reading comprehension booster program, designed to improve reading comprehension for beginners whose command of English is not satisfactory, or who are elementary, middle, and high school students. With this program, you can enjoy reading masterpieces in English with fun and efficiency.This carefully planned program is composed of 5 levels. With this program’s level-by-level system, you are able to read famous texts in English and enjoy the true pleasure of the world’s language.In addition, with our “Guide to Listening”, not only is reading comprehension enhanced but also listening comprehension skills are highlighted. In the audio recording of the book, texts are vividly read by professional American actors. The texts are rewritten, according to the levels of the readers by an expert editorial staff of native speakers, on the basis of standard American English with the ministry of education recommended vocabulary. Therefore, it will be of great help even for all the students who want to learn English. Please enjoy the fun of reading and listening English through Reading Room.(Now listen again please.)14. Who may find this program most useful? (C)15. What can readers improve through this program? (A)16. Which of the following is not the benefit of this program according to the speaker?(B)Section CBlanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.W: What can I do for you?M: Can I change my flight schedule?W: Sure. Could you please tell me your name and the flight you’ve booked?M: My name is Tony Brown. The flight I’ve booked is UA3478.W: Oh, yes … Which flight would you like to change to?M: Are there any flights available on March 26th?W: Yes, China Air flight CA905, taking off from Shanghai at 9 pm and arriving in New York at 5 pm.M: Is it a nonstop flight?W: Yes, it is.M: Ok, I’ll take that flight.(Now listen again please.)17. schedule 18. nonstop/ non-stop 19. 905 20. MarchBlanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.M: What were you doing when I called you last night? You seemed to be watching TV.W: Yes. I was watching a TV programme about horses.M: Oh, I love horses. The programme must be interesting.W: Yes. The programme is about how people use horses for all kinds of purposes.M: Horses are useful to people. We use them for sports and recreation. For example, we can see horse races in many countries. What else can they help people do? Did the programme tell you about it?W: Yes. It also showed examples in which horses still work in the fields in some countries.M: Really? What a hard job they are doing! By the way, can you ride a horse?W: Yes, I can. But I don’t ride regularly though. How about you?M: I can ride too. Perhaps we can go horse riding together at the weekend.(Now listen again please.)21. various purposes/ different purposes22. sports and recreation（或agriculture）23. horse racing/races24. At the weekend二、参考答案第I卷II. Grammar and vocabularySection A(A)25. the 26. was paying 27. to greet 28. who 29. giving30. behind/after 31. most unforgettable 32. blessed(B)33. was relieved 34. why 35. even if/even though 36. what37. might/could 38. nothing/nobody 39. feeling 40. soSection B41-50 BJACK HEGDIIII. Reading ComprehensionSection A51-65 CBDBC ABCAD CABCDSection B66-68 ADB69-72 BCDC73-77 BCADDSection C78. America and New Zealand.79. Climbers’ unnoticing weather change and guides’ wrong decision(s)80. the clouds drifting up the valley of ice81. his oxygen tank was almost empty第II卷I. Translation1. Nowadays, ecotourism has become popular among travelers of all/different ages.2. In the early morning, these children couldn’t wait （any longer）to get outdoors to make a snowman and play/fight with snow.3. Whenever it was his turn to make a plan, he would invite his colleagues to have a discussion first.4. Much to our appreciation, the university student speaking on the platform set up his own company from nothing last year.5. Many international organizations urged that both sides should keep calm to stop the situation from getting worse, which did not work at all.II. Writing（略）。
青浦区2015学年第一学期高三年级期末学业质量调研测试英语试卷（时间120分钟，满分150分）2016.01考生注意：1．本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（第1-13页）和第II卷（第14页）两部分。
全卷共14页。
满分150分。
考试时间120分钟。
2．答题前，考生务必在答题卡（纸）上用钢笔或水笔清楚填写姓名、准考证号，并用铅笔正确涂写准考证号。
3．答案必须全部涂写在答题卡（纸）上。
第Ⅰ卷（1-16小题，41-77小题）由机器阅卷，考生应将代表正确答案的小方格用铅笔涂黑。
注意试题题号和答题纸编号一一对应，不能错位。
答案需要更改时，必须将原选项擦去，重新选择。
答案不能涂写在试卷上，涂写在试卷上一律不给分。
第Ⅰ卷中的第17-40小题，78-81小题和第II卷的试题，其答案用钢笔或水笔写在答题纸上，如用铅笔答题，或写在试卷上也一律不给分。
第I卷（共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. 9:40. B. 9:50. C. 10:30. D. 10: 40.2. A. Leave right away. B. Stay for dinner.C. Catch a train.D. Wait for Eason.3. A. It will be fine. B. It will not rain at all.C. It will stop raining.D. It will rain heavily.4. A. Great. B. Moved. C. Disappointed. D. Sad.5. A. She is eager to have lunch. B. She is unwilling to go for lunch now.C. She is ready for the meeting.D. She is leaving right now.6. A. The driver will stop the bus immediately.B. The guy by the door will help the man.C. The man should check the map.D. She will tell the man when to get off.7. A. She dislikes fireworks. B. She has plans for the evening.C. She doesn’t feel like going out.D. She has to get theatre tickets.8. A. Surfing on the Internet. B. Mailing some documents.C. Sending a document via email.D. Writing an attachment.9. A. To make a tour of Chicago. B. To visit some friends.C. To attend a conference.D. To take language courses.10. A. She liked to go outing nearby. B. She studied very hard at school.C. She won the champion recently.D. She was in her third year in the university.Section BDirections:In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. How to read a book. B. How to make a list.C. How to form a habit.D. How to make friends.12. A. They are smart people. B. They are good examples of all people.C. They make a list for you.D. They help you cultivate good habits.13. A. Always have a book. B. Keep a “To-Do” list.C. Get more intellectual friends.D. Put down what you will learn. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. An adult native speaker. B. A professional American actor.C. A beginner of English learning.D. An English expert.15. A. Reading and listening. B. Listening and speaking.C. Writing and reading.D. Reading and speaking.16. A. Fun and efficiency in enjoying reading masterpieces.B. The recall of all the good memories of your childhood.C. The true pleasure of the world’s language.D. The improvement of reading and listening abilities.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each 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 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, 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.(A)250 Drive-Thru（汽车穿梭）Customers Pay It Forward at McDonald’sIn Florida, one McDonald’s customer started a pay-it-forward chain that inspired other 249 customers to be generous and do the same. ABC News reports that (25)__________ spirit of giving is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald’s paid for the meals of the people next to them. A Lakeland cust omer, Torie Keene (26)__________ (pay) for her food on Wednesday morning when she decided to pay for the meal of the car next to her.Keene then purposely told McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa (27)__________ (greet) the other customer “Merry Christmas” and not “Happy Holidays.” The next customer was moved when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the previous car. That’s when she thought that she would love to do the same.It kept going and going. Figueroa, (28)__________ worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, said that the chain reaction almost lasted for her entire shift. “I just kept (29)__________(give) everyone the same message, and they were all so surprised and so happy,” she continued. “One lady even paid for the meals of the next thr ee cars (30)__________ her.”While people were amazed by how generous they could get, Figueroa said she had the (31)__________ (unforgettable) Christmas experience in her 12 years of working for McDonald’s. “I feel very (32)__________ (bless) to have been a part ofall that,” the cashier said. And Keene said that she was surprised by the number of people who continued her good deed when she was “only trying to brighten someone’s day.”(B)It was Wayne’s wedding day.Mrs. Ker (33)__________（relieve）finally. Wayne wanted to cancel the wedding again couple of days ago. She kept asking him (34)__________ and then she was told that he heard Susan’s name.Mrs. Ker said to Wayne in a serious tone, “You were both young then. You didn’t know anythi ng about love! What’s going to happen (35)__________ __________ she has come back? She might have lots of children now! How can you still be dreaming about dating her? She has disappeared for such a long time. Don’t you see (36)__________ a cruel girl she is?”Under his parent’s pressure, Wayne couldn’t cancel the wedding. Before the ceremony, he kept reminding himself of his bride’s name. He was afraid he (37)__________ say Susan’s name. He said to himself that he needed to give his parents, his bride a perfect wedding.When he was kissing his bride, he thought to himself, “How nice it could be if my bride is Susan!”But (38)__________ could go back any more.Their relationship ended 15 years ago.His pain was only a recall of yesterday.Mrs. Ker nodded her head at her son at the wedding, (39)__________ (feel) satisfied. She checked around among the guests. Suddenly, she saw a boy holding a bouquet in the hall. Everybody was sitting but him, (40)__________ he looked pretty outstanding.She was really shocked when she saw the boy. She gave her husband a slight push, “Baldwin, look at that boy!”Mr. Ker followed her direction and saw the boy too.“Doesn’t he look a younger version of our son?” Mrs. Ker said in a curious voice.Mr. Ker nodded.(To be continued) Section BDirections: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.Our world is changing, and the business world is on an evolutionary path that is virtually unstoppable. Knowledge base management is a very good example of suchdevelopments. With time the need to bring the customers closer has become even more41 , and this has further resulted in companies taking measures to respond better to their customers.When discussing trends in knowledge management systems, it is almost impossible to ignore the 42 that cloud computing has had on it. The application of cloud computing has not only 43 efficiency, but has further improved productivity. Through cloud computing, virtual offices are being operated almost everywhere around the globe. All it takes is the click of a button! As for companies, it is vital for them to hire professionals from all over the world.For businesses that rely greatly on customer satisfaction and approvals, 44 on their services is very important. Customers in particular are able to 45 with the staff on the other end, and provide their feedback as to the quality of services that they have received. The role of most knowledge managers is to ensure that information is kept current, accurate and 46 . Significant developments in the database management systems have made it easier to achieve this goal, and there can only be so much to look forward to as we 47 into the future.At the moment, 48 information that passes through these systems can be run through different forms. There was a time when such information was 49 document-based. Today however, reports and other relevant information can be presented to the seeker through different media.The most efficient knowledge base management systems in the market at the moment are built with the 50 to handle all kinds of information. One of the other things that we cannot forget to mention is the mobile functionality of these programs. They are compatible（兼容的）with users across all platforms, and this makes them even more convenient than before.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.As a parent, you might have a close emotional connection with your child. You’re the only one who can feel their emotions and understand almost all behavioral 51 . Every mother has an opportunity to keep an eye on their children and analyze everything they say and do. Some signs 52 that something bad is going to happen. If you see that your child is in low 53 , you should be ready to take immediate measures to prevent the explosion of a crying bomb.Please forget about physical punishment. This old-school-method of parenting is not the best way to cope with a child’s bad temper. 54 , physical punishment is very painful for children. This strategy is the easiest way to put in discipline and make your child willing to obey. 55 , psychologists say that physical punishment is so offensive that it can lead to severe consequence. It fills the minds and hearts of children with fear,56 and anxiety.Children are like inexhaustible sources of energy. They can run, jump, scream and fool around all day long. So we should lead them to use their negative energy in a proper manner. It’s 57 important to find developmental activities and keep your child engaged as much as possible. Let them play games and exercise 58 they want —physical activity is good for their health. Don’t forget to encourage your child and present them with candies or stickers. If your child is fond of singing or dancing, then give them an opportunity to open up and perform like a star.Communication is vital for you and your kids. Every child needs 59 socialization and communication with parents and their peers. Your words and pieces of advice help them become stronger and find the right path in life. It’s a good cha nce to avoid generation gap and build a relationship 60 trust. Lack of contact and communication usually make children too 61 and cultivate antisocial personality in future.Remember to arm yourself with patience, for patience is the main 62 for many parents who deal with children’s bad temper. Every mother knows that it’s hard to preserve unchanged calmness and remain indifferent to children’s cries and tears. Increase the strength of your mind and fill your heart with hope and 63 , because parenting is the hardest job in the world.I think that the 64 of the problem is not children, but their parents. I hope these useful pieces of advice will help you 65 to your child’s bad temper. What other ways to deal with a child’s bad temper? Share your point of view!51. A. abilities B. principles C. hints D. virtues52. A. create B. indicate C. impose D. diagnose53. A. controls B. disciplines C. emotions D. spirits54. A. In return B. After all C. No wonder D. For instance55. A. Moreover B. Otherwise C. However D. Therefore56. A. hatred B. boredom C. carelessness D. shyness57. A. roughly B. extremely C. slightly D. subconsciously58. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as long as D. as far as59. A. gradual B. acceptable C. complete D. feasible60. A. leaving out B. addicted to C. going beyond D. based on61. A. curious B. courageous C. nervous D. generous62. A. priority B. responsibility C. potential D. possession63. A. dignity B. wisdom C. bravery D. diligence64. A. resource B. instruction C. source D. assessment65. A. adapt B. devote C. refer D. respond Section BDirections: 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.(A)①The past year, which is fast becoming just a memory, is the year I drove through the car wash at fifty miles an hour. At least, it felt like fifty miles an hour.②That day I followed the attendant’s instructions, drove to one of those do-it-yourself car washes. I forgot that my car was a bit moody. I’d been mean ing to have it checked, but it didn’t happen often enough to rush me to the garage. Anyway, then unexpectedly, suddenly we picked up speed before the astonished eyes of the attendant. The car shot through the wash cycle, the wax（蜡）cycle, and the dry cycle at a ridiculous rate of speed, and then aimed for the street at the end of the tunnel. We shot through the tunnel with what seemed like the speed of sound and rushed out into the street while I was relieved to see that no cars were approaching. The water and the wax had not yet dried — the car looked as if it had caught some terrible disease.③“What happened then?” Bobbie asked after I had told my family the story at an evening meal.④“Nothing,” I said.⑤“Didn’t you go back to the car wash?”⑥“Of course not,” I replied.⑦“I don’t blame you,” Peter said. “They might have arrested you for s peeding in a car wash.”⑧We all laughed. It was a nice moment. We were relaxing after the dishes had been taken away, the pleasant smell of coffee filling the air. We had been talking about the past year and, without pausing to think of the possible consequences, I had told them about my experience with the car wash.⑨The story delighted the children —who are no longer children. Peter and Bobbie are married, in fact, and I realized I had given them a sort of philosophy of life for the future. I could imagine them, years from now, when they gather together and one of them will say, “Remember the time Dad drove through that car wash …?”⑩Other things happened last year, too, because each year has its events, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sorrowful, the ordinary and the terrific. The milestones and the small incidents stand side by side, fundamentally different in quality or kind, perhaps, but making a sweet kind of harmony.66. The description of the second paragraph brings up images of _______.A. disorderB. diseasesC. stormsD. conflict67. Which of the following is NOT included in Paragraph 8?A. The subject of the discussion.B. The atmosphere of the family talk.C. The time when the talk occurred.D. The reason for the car to lose control.68. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?A. A reflection on car tradeB. A memory of the past yearC. A lesson on driving carsD. A car accident at a car wash(B)The J. Paul Getty MuseumWith two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.Parking informationParking is $15; $10 after 4:00 p.m. Pay once, park twice on the same day. And get same-day parking at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa for one $15 fee.69. Mr. Larry drove to the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on December 23 (Wednesday), 2015, and enjoyed a wonderful tour there. He paid the parking fee _______ altogether.A. $10B. $15C. $20D. $3070. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The J. Paul Getty Museum is an art museum housed on two sites.B. The Getty Villa is closed on the same holidays as the Getty Center.C. The sale of alcohol is forbidden to people in the J. Paul Getty Museum.D. Timed tickets must be obtained in advance in the Getty Villa.71. In 2015, at least _______ was/were a good time for enjoying all the art works inthe J. Paul Getty Museum in one day.A. all MondaysB. all TuesdaysC. New Year holidaysD. January 2 (Thursday)72. People who go to the Getty Villa may _______.A. enjoy the views overlooking Los AngelesB. conduct the visit any time because the tickets are freeC. appreciate the arts and cultures of ancient Greece and ancient RomeD. have lunches they bring with them anywhere inside the exhibition area(C)When a patient calls for help at Seton Medical Center, “Hi, Mr. Rogers, can I help you?” says a nurse; it’s never a problem finding the nurse. It’s because they allwear locator tags that are part of a wireless system that tracks their movements on the floor. “You can even tell when they are walking down the hallway.” says James Hattori.This system made by Hill-Rom uses infrared（红外线的）signals to detect when nurses enter a room to answer a call. The Hill-Rom devices look like a mini computer mouse. Some hospitals are putting them in nurses’ kitchens. Staff can talk and listen through a wall unit to nurses or even to patients in oth er rooms. “We can put the time we were spending hunting staff down, trying to find and locate them to much better use,” says a staff member from Seton. Hill-Rom says it has systems installed in more than 850 U.S. hospitals.Some nurses worry that the devices will be used to listen in on conversations and scrutinize their movements. “I’m not wearing mine. I will still meet my patient’s needs but I will not wear this badge.” Annette Bearden is among dozens of nurses at Eden Medical Center who staged an active protest two months ago and hid their badges though they were later recovered. “You know it makes me not feel like a professional. It makes me feel like that someone has to watch me to make sure I am doing my job.”“The biggest reason we installed this t echnology is because our old call system is about 25 years old,” says a hospital manager. For hospitals this is a case of technology allowing, perhaps forcing people to better make use of their time. Officials at Eden don’t deny they monitor how long it ta kes nurses to respond to calls but say their main concern is patient care. “I think it is one tool that we can use in measuring overall performance but by itself it is not a valid disciplinary tool,” says an Eden spokesperson.Eden is expanding its system with hopes the nurse will eventually accept the new technology, but back at Seton where it’s been in place for about two years, there is no uneasiness. “Once the staff actually find out how advantageous it can be for them and the patients, well, actually i t became very popular.”In Castro Valley, California, the Eden Medical Center spent almost three hundred thousand dollars to install the Hill-Rom systems on two floors. Eden hopes to get more of the systems for other floors.73. Why is it easy to find a nurse at Seton Medical Center?A. The nurses are on television.B. The nurses wear locator badges.C. Every patient has his/her own nurse.D. Each room has a telephone.74. How can the staff talk to their patients when they are not in the same room?A. With hand signals.B. Through microphones in the pocket.C. Through a wall unit.D. With infrared signals on the doors.75. According to the passage, the underlined word “scrutinize” (paragraph 3) probablymeans _______.A. watch closelyB. see insideC. scan word by wordD. make right76. How did the nurses at Eden Medical Center react to the badges?A. The nurses really liked the badges.B. They threw the locator badges away.C. They refused to work.D. They protested and concealed the badges.77. According to the administrators of the hospital, Eden Medical Center, theapplication of the Hill-Rom devices mainly aims at _______.A. introducing modern technologyB. adding a tool for disciplineC. replacing the old call systemD. improving the service for patientsSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.It was early in the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn’t slept in 57 hours. The only food I had been able to force down over the proceeding three days was a bowel of soup. Weeks of violent coughing had made ordinary breathing a bitter process. At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere（气体对流）, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Under the circumstances, I was incapable of feeling much of anything except cold and tired.I’d arrived on the summit a few minutes after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climbing guide working for an American commercial expedition, and just ahead of Andy Harris, a guide on the New Zealand-based team to which I belonged. Although I just met Boukreev, I had come to know and like Harris well during the proceeding six weeks. I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down. My watch read 1:17 p.m. I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world.A moment later, I paused to take another photo, this one looking down the Southeast Eidge, the route we had chosen to go up. Training my lens（镜头）on a pair of climbers approaching the summit, I noticed something that until that moment had escaped my attention. To the south, where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier, a blanket of clouds now hid the peaks surrounding Everest. Later, after six bodies had been located, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had removed the rotten right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers, people would ask why, if the weather had begun to worsen, had climbers on the upper mountain not observed the signs? Why did experienced Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gang of relatively inexperienced amateurs —each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest — into an apparent death trap?Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, because both men are dead. But I can assure that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10th suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. To my oxygen-exhausted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm（西库姆冰斗）looked so friendly and innocent in the brilliant midday sun, not different from the harmless puffs（喷烟）that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.As I began my descent I was extremely anxious, but my concern had little to do with the weather: a check of the meter on my oxygen tank had revealed that it was almost empty. I needed to get down, fast.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)78. Where were the three climbers mentioned in the second paragraph from?_____________________________________________________________________ _79. Besides the change of the weather, what else led to the expedition team’s falling into a death trap?_____________________________________________________________________ __80. The underlined phrase “the harmless puffs” in paragraph 4 refers to ___________________________________________________________________________________ __.81. The author spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world and climbed down fastbecause_______________________________________________________________.第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1．如今，生态旅游已受到不同年龄旅游者的青睐。
静安区2015学年第一学期期末教学质量调研九年级英语（满分150分，考试时间100分钟）2016.1考生注意：本卷有7大题，共94小题。
试题均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题纸上完成，做在试卷上不给分。
Part 1 Listening (第一部分听力)I. Listening Comprehension (听力理解): (共30分)A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) : (6分)A B C DE F G H1. ______2. ______3. ______4. ______5. ______6. ______B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案)：(8分)7. A) Coins. B) Clocks. C) Signs. D) Stones.8. A) Once a day. B) Twice a week. C) Once a month. D) Twice a month.9. A) Cloudy. B) Rainy. C) Sunny. D) Windy.10. A) 10 yuan. B) 90 yuan. C) 100 yuan. D) 110 yuan.11. A) In the cinema. B) In the library.C) At the supermarket. D) At the post office.12. A) To speak to Mary. B) To leave a message.C) To see the manager. D) To call back.13. A) She’ll invite the man to dinner later. B) She has her own plans for dinner tonight.C) She doesn’t like to have dinner with him. D) She’ll have dinner with the man tonight.14.A) Tom failed to see the film that day. B) Tom bought two film tickets in all.C) Tom found the film boring. D) Tom missed part of the film.C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的内容, 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示)：(6分)15. Wang is called “the youngest hacker(黑客) in China” after giving a lecture in September.16. Wang began to play computer games because he hated writing computer programs.17. When Wang was a junior school student, he learned to write computer programs all by himself.18. Wang hacked an online shopping site, changed the price and bought a lot of things.19. Wang felt very pleased while he was doing something online against the laws.20. Wang attended the meeting in order to warn people of the Internet risks (危险).D.Listen to the dialogue and complete the following sentences (听对话，完成下列内容，每空格限填一词)：(10分)Living on a student budget (预算)21. Lisa is twenty-one, a student at a ________ ________ in Chicago.22. At the start of ________ ________, Lisa’s parents pay the tuition (学费) for her.23. Lisa works about ________ ________ a week to earn about $330 after taxes (税).24. Kim doesn’t think that Lisa has much money left ________ ________.25. To save money, Lisa _______ ________ her roommates instead of going to restaurants.Part 2 Phonetics,Vocabulary and Grammar（第二部分语音、词汇和语法）II.Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) : (共20分)26. Sam was found innocent in the case and was finally set free. Which of the following is correctin pronunciation for the underlined word?A) /k s/ B) /k s/ C) /k s/ D) /k s/27. ______ young man living next door wants to be a detective in the future.A) A B) An C) The D) /28. The story of A Wooden Horse attracts the kids a lot and keeps ______ excited for hours.A) they B) them C) theirs D) themselves29. I got six presents at Christmas. Two were from my parents, and ______ four from my friends.A) others B) the others C) other D) the other30. The little boy wants to know which animals come out for food only ______ night.A) for B) at C) on D) in31. The two sisters planned to borrow some money ______ their friends to start online business.A) with B) to C) by D) from32. Most of Frank’s books, usually with ______ pictures in each book, are for young children.A) hundred B) hundreds C) hundred of D) hundreds of33. The students ran to the playground as ______ as they could to cheer for their favorite team.A) fast B) faster C) fastest D) the fastest34. Julia looked very ______ when she finished her performance and said thanks to the audience.A) happily B) quietly C) lovely D) seriously35. This pet shop is losing its customers ______ its staff work slowly and often make mistakes.A) so B) because C) until D) although36. You will surely realize your dream of being a scientist ______ you give it up halfway.A) though B) if C) unless D) since37. One ______ easily lose his way when he visits or comes to a new place.A) may B) must C) need D) should38. You’d better ______ ask old granny for help because her memory is getting poorer now.A) not B) don’t C) not to D) to not39. Sam denied ______ computer games for hours in the net bar yesterday afternoon.A) to play B) playing C) play D) played40. The Korean girl can speak Chinese without difficulty because she ______ in China for years.A) stay B) will stay C) has stayed D) stayed41. The Greens ______ the welcome party already before Henry came to talk about it.A) has arranged B) would arrange C)were arranging D)had arranged42. – ______ are you able to type the English words?– About forty to fifty words a minute.A) How often B) How long C) How fast D) How far43. Let’s bring our friends confidence and hopes when they are in trouble, ______?A)do you B)shall we C) will you D)do we44. – I won a big prize, an iPad mini2, in our school talent show this year.– ______A) Congratulations! B) You are welcome! C) Best wishes! D) Not at all!45. – We should be more independent in order to meet the needs of our modern life.– ______A) It’s a pleasure. B) What a pity! C) I think so, too. D) The same to you.III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。
2016届高三第一次模拟考试英语试题参考答案一、听力1-5 ABBCA 6-10 ACACB 11-15 ABCCB 16-20 AABBC二、单项选择21-25 DBCDB 26-30 CCBBC 31-35 CCDDC三、完型填空36-40 ACBDC 41-45 DBDCA 46-50 BDCAD 51-55 BCBAD四、阅读理解56-58 DAB 59-62 BDCD63-66 ACBD 67-70 BCCD五、任务型阅读1.Introduction2. depend/ rely/count3. combine4. influencing/impacting5. approaches6. attention/ minds7. apply8. whether9. actively 10. involved六、书面表达When surfing the Internet, I came across a list of ordinary people who moved China,I was especially touched by an old lady from Zhoukou, Henan Province. The old lady and her husband are homeless, wandering in Shenzhen. Every evening, she sits near Shenzhen University, selling her paintings. When hungry, she just eats some dry food. Usually she can only finish two paintings a night, for either of which she charges 10 yuan. Tough as life is , the old lady has her pride and refuses to beg money from others.The old lady’s optimistic attitude towards life has left a deep impression on me. In addition, She would rather make a living by working hard than be a beggar. Her story puts me to shame, for I always complain about everything and has a habit of depending on others.I have learned the spirit of independence from the old lady. Besides, when faced with difficulties, I will choose never to give up and make the greatest efforts.听力读稿Text 1W: What is that you are listening? It is too noisy. I can’t concentrate on my work.M: No problem. I can switch over to something lighter.Text 2W: Oh, Professor Jackson, I was wondering… but uh… well, if uh… if you had a chance yet to uh… look at my thesis proposal?M: Well, I know you gave it to me over a week ago, but to be honest, I have been swamped with(对……应接不暇) other things.Text 3W: I bought a recorder on sale. It was $50.M: Including tax?W: No, I paid another $2 in tax.Text 4W: Who took you to the tennis match yesterday afternoon?M: My friend Mark took me there.W: Who beat Sally in the match?M: Her brother beat her.Text 5M: Sue, you must have had a good time on your beach vacation.W: Yes, I really enjoyed myself. The weather was always nice and sunny. I went sunbathing every day.M: How was the food?W: Just marvelous. I’ve also been to some scenic spots and learned every legend behind the scene.M: Be my guide next time we go there together.W: My pleasure.Text 6W: Why is Jenny not here yet? We’re running late for Lily’s birthday party.M: Jenny is always on time. What’s delayed her this time?W: I hope she hasn’t had an accident. There was a car accident near my apartment the other day. A woman was seriously injured and two men were slightly injured.M: Don’t think like that. Accidents don’t happen all the time .W: Then why isn’t she here yet? She was supposed to be here fifteen minutes ago.M: Maybe she doesn’t know how to get here. Why not call her?W: Is her number 65743215?M: Oh, look! There she is. What’s in her hand? Is it a gift? She must have stopped for a gift and that’s why she is late.Text 7W: Can I help you?M: Yes, I need to apply for a parking permit.W: Are you a professor?M: What? Are you kidding? I’m only 22 years old!W: Yes, I am kidding. But don’t you know only professors and students with disabilities can apply for parking permits?M: Yes, I know. I have a disability. My hip was broken last year. And I can’t walk well.W: Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know.M: It’s alright. You didn’t see me walk to the desk.W: Here is the application form. I also need to see your student ID and your permission letter from the university.M: Here you are.W: Thank you.Text 8M: Hi, Mary, how’s your new flat?W: It’s great. I really like it.M: How big is it?W: It’s one big room, and it has a bathroom and a small kitchen, too.M: How far is it from the office?W: It’s only about 10 minutes.M: 10 minutes by bus or by car?W: On foot. I walked to work this morning. I was 10 minutes early.M: You are lucky. I was 10 minutes late.W: What happened?M: All the buses came late.W: What did Lily say?M: She was late too.W: What happened to her?M: She took the train, and it was late, too.W: Well, then, you’re really lucky after all. But what are you going to do tomorrow?M: I’ll start out 15 minutes earlier.Text 9M: There never seems to be enough of me to go around. I wish there could be another me.W: What are you saying?M: I read an article. It said scientists created a clone sheep. I had a dream last night about someone cloning me. And I could do so many things. One of me went to work. The other stayed at home to clean the house and even cook dinner.W: It is strange to see you cooking dinner.M: Very funny! But back to the science topic, it is amazing to see science advance so rapidly.W: Now, they are studying how to copy human DNA. We may see two of you.M: You are right. But realistically, I like having only one of me. We already have a problemwith over-population. I don’t think we need to have two of everybody.W: I must say, it all sounds interesting. I can’t imagine what they will think of next.Text 10W: One-Day Course: Introduction to Complex SystemsDate: Sunday, October 6.Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Room to be announced.Sponsor: Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & TechnologyCourse Description:A one-day course, Introduction to Complex Systems, will be offered on Sunday, October 6. This course will give an introduction to the opportunities that complex systems provide in research and in applications. Several approaches to the study of complex systems will be described, basic concepts will be introduced and implications for the study of biological, social and engineered systems will be discussed.Tuition: MIT students, faculty, and community attend free. Registration required. Space is limited.Outside of MIT;Student: $50;Faculty: $150;Corporate: $350.。
2016一模翻译I. Translation（杨浦）Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1.为了赶时髦，一些年轻人花费一个月的工资去购买新发行的电子产品。
（spend）2.人们理所当然地认为颜值高的人更有可能受到雇主的青睐。
（grant）3.网购存在风险，因此下单之前的深思熟虑有助于避免不必要的损失。
（exist）4.消息传来在新西兰发生地震后，中国政府立即租用直升机实施救援，为此国人感到十分自豪。
（Word）Translation1.To follow the fashion, some young people spend one-month salary in buying anewly-released electronic product.2.It’s taken for granted that those with good physical appearance are morelikely to be favored by their employers.3.There exist risks in online shopping, so careful consideration before placingan order can help avoid unnecessary losses.4.Word came that the Chinese government rented helicopters to rescue victims/carry out rescue operations immediately after the earthquake hit New Zealand, which made Chinese people very proud.（徐汇）Direction: Translate the following sentences into English ,using the words given in the brackets.72.我以为你会和我一起乘高铁去北京（think）73.每月她都会留出一部分钱以备不时之需。
青浦区2015学年第一学期高三年级期末学业质量调研测试英语试卷（时间120分钟，满分150分）Q2016.01考生注意：1．本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（第1-13页）和第II卷（第14页）两部分。
全卷共14页。
满分150分。
考试时间120分钟。
2．答题前，考生务必在答题卡（纸）上用钢笔或水笔清楚填写姓名、准考证号，并用铅笔正确涂写准考证号。
3．答案必须全部涂写在答题卡（纸）上。
第Ⅰ卷（1-16小题，41-77小题）由机器阅卷，考生应将代表正确答案的小方格用铅笔涂黑。
注意试题题号和答题纸编号一一对应，不能错位。
答案需要更改时，必须将原选项擦去，重新选择。
答案不能涂写在试卷上，涂写在试卷上一律不给分。
第Ⅰ卷中的第17-40小题，78-81小题和第II卷的试题，其答案用钢笔或水笔写在答题纸上，如用铅笔答题，或写在试卷上也一律不给分。
第I卷（共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. 9:40. B. 9:50. C. 10:30. D. 10:40.2. A. Leave right away. B. Stay for dinner.C. Catch a train.D. Wait for Eason.3. A. It will be fine. B. It will not rain at all.C. It will stop raining.D. It will rain heavily.4. A. Great. B. Moved. C. Disappointed. D. Sad.5. A. She is eager to have lunch. B. She is unwilling to go for lunch now.C. She is ready for the meeting.D. She is leaving right now.6. A. The driver will stop the bus immediately.B. The guy by the door will help the man.C. The man should check the map.D. She will tell the man when to get off.7. A. She dislikes fireworks. B. She has plans for the evening.C. She doesn’t feel like going out.D. She has to get theatre tickets.8. A. Surfing on the Internet. B. Mailing some documents.C. Sending a document via email.D. Writing an attachment.9. A. To make a tour of Chicago. B. To visit some friends.C. To attend a conference.D. To take language courses.10. A. She liked to go outing nearby. B. She studied very hard at school.C. She won the champion recently.D. She was in her third year in the university. Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. How to read a book. B. How to make a list.C. How to form a habit.D. How to make friends.12. A. They are smart people. B. They are good examples of all people.C. They make a list for you.D. They help you cultivate good habits.13. A. Always have a book. B. Keep a ―To-Do‖ list.C. Get more intellectual friends.D. Put down what you will learn.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. An adult native speaker. B. A professional American actor.C. A beginner of English learning.D. An English expert.15. A. Reading and listening. B. Listening and speaking.C. Writing and reading.D. Reading and speaking.16. A. Fun and efficiency in enjoying reading masterpieces.B. The recall of all the good memories of your childhood.C. The true pleasure of the world’s language.D. The improvement of reading and listening abilities.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each 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 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, 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.(A)250 Drive-Thru（汽车穿梭）Customers Pay It Forward at McDonald’sIn Florida, one McDonald’s customer started a pay-it-forward chain that inspired other 249 customers to be generous and do the same. ABC News reports that (25)__________ spirit of giving is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald’s paid for the meals of the people next to them. A Lakeland customer, TorieKeene (26)__________ (pay) for her food on Wednesday morning when she decided to pay for the meal of the car next to her.Keene then purposely told McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa (27)__________ (greet) the other customer ―Merry Christmas‖and not ―Happy Holidays.‖The next customer was moved when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the previous car. That’s when she thought that she would love to do the same.It kept going and going. Figueroa, (28)__________ worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, said that the chain reaction almost lasted for her entire shift. ―I just kept (29)__________(give) everyone the same message, and they were all so surprised and so happy,‖she continued. ―One lady even paid for the meals of the next three cars (30)__________ her.‖While people were amazed by how generous they could get, Figueroa said she had the (31)__________ (unforgettable) Christmas experience in her 12 years of working for McDonald’s. ―I feel very (32)__________ (bless) to have been a part of all that,‖the cashier said. And Keene said that she was surprised by the number of people who continued her good deed when she was ―only trying to brighten someone’s day.‖(B)It was Wayne’s wedding day.Mrs. Ker (33)__________（relieve）finally. Wayne wanted to cancel the wedding again couple of days ago. She kept asking him (34)__________ and then she was told that he heard Susan’s name.Mrs. Ker said to Wayne in a serious tone, ―You were both young then. You didn’t know anything about love! What’s going to happen (35)__________ __________ she has come back? She might have lots of children now! How can you still be dreaming about dating her? She has disappeared for such a long time. Don’t you see (36)__________ a cruel girl she is?‖Under his parent’s pressure, Wayne couldn’t cancel the wedding. Before the ceremony, he kept reminding himself of his bride’s name. He was afraid he (37)__________ say Susan’s name. He said to himself that he needed to give his parents, his bride a perfect wedding.When he was kissing his bride, he thought to himself, ―How nice it could be if my bride is Susan!‖But (38)__________ could go back any more.Their relationship ended 15 years ago.His pain was only a recall of yesterday.Mrs. Ker nodded her head at her son at the wedding, (39)__________ (feel) satisfied. She checked around among the guests. Suddenly, she saw a boy holding a bouquet in the hall. Everybody was sitting but him, (40)__________ he looked pretty outstanding.She was really shocked when she saw the boy. She gave her husband a slight push,―Baldwin, look at that boy!‖Mr. Ker followed her direction and saw the boy too.―Doesn’t he look a younger version of our son?‖ Mrs. Ker said in a curious voice.Mr. Ker nodded.(To be continued) Section BDirections: 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.The most efficient knowledge base management systems in the market at the moment are built with the 50 to handle all kinds of information. One of the other things that we cannot forget to mention is the mobile functionality of these programs. They are compatible（兼容的）with users across all platforms, and this makes them even more convenient than before.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: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.As a parent, you might have a close emotional connection with your child. You’re the only one who can feel their emotions and understand almost all behavioral 51 . Every mother has an opportunity to keep an eye on their children and analyze everything they say and do. Some signs 52 that something bad is going to happen. If you see that your child is in low 53 , you should be ready to take immediate measures to prevent the explosion of a crying bomb.Please forget about physical punishment. This old-school-method of parenting is not the best way to cope with a child’s bad temper.54 , physical punishment is very painful for children. This strategy is the easiest way to put in discipline and make your child willing to obey. 55 , psychologists say that physical punishment is so offensive that it can lead to severe consequence. It fills the minds and hearts of children with fear, 56 and anxiety.Children are like inexhaustible sources of energy. They can run, jump, scream and fool around all day long. So we should lead them to use their negative energy in a proper manner. It’s57 important to find developmental activities and keep your child engaged as much as possible. Let them play games and exercise 58 they want —physical activity is good for the ir health. Don’t forget to encourage your child and present them with candies or stickers. If your child is fond of singing or dancing, then give them an opportunity to open up and perform like a star.Communication is vital for you and your kids. Every child needs 59 socialization and communication with parents and their peers. Your words and pieces of advice help them become stronger and find the right path in life. It’s a good chance to avoid generation gap and build a relationship 60 trust. Lack of contact andcommunication usually make children too 61 and cultivate antisocial personality in future.Remember to arm yourself with patience, for patience is the main 62 for many parents who deal with children’s bad temper. Every mother knows that it’s hard to preserve unchanged calmness and remain indifferent to children’s cries and tears. Increase the strength of your mind and fill your heart with hope and 63 , because parenting is the hardest job in the world.I think that the 64 of the problem is not children, but their parents. I hope these useful pieces of advice will help you 65 to your child’s bad temper. What other ways to deal with a child’s bad temper? Share your point of view!51. A. abilities B. principles C. hints D. virtues52. A. create B. indicate C. impose D. diagnose53. A. controls B. disciplines C. emotions D. spirits54. A. In return B. After all C. No wonder D. For instance55. A. Moreover B. Otherwise C. However D. Therefore56. A. hatred B. boredom C. carelessness D. shyness57. A. roughly B. extremely C. slightly D. subconsciously58. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as long as D. as far as59. A. gradual B. acceptable C. complete D. feasible60. A. leaving out B. addicted to C. going beyond D. based on61. A. curious B. courageous C. nervous D. generous62. A. priority B. responsibility C. potential D. possession63. A. dignity B. wisdom C. bravery D. diligence64. A. resource B. instruction C. source D. assessment65. A. adapt B. devote C. refer D. respondSection BDirections: 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.(A)① The past year, which is fast becoming just a memory, is the year I drove through the car wash at fifty miles an hour. At least, it felt like fifty miles an hour.②That day I followed the attendant’s instructions, drove to one of those do-it-yourself car washes. I forgot that my car was a bit moody. I’d been meaning to haveit checked, but it didn’t happen often enough to rush me to the garage. Anyway, then unexpectedly, suddenly we picked up speed before the astonished eyes of the attendant. The car shot through the wash cycle, the wax（蜡）cycle, and the dry cycle at a ridiculous rate of speed, and then aimed for the street at the end of the tunnel. We shot through the tunnel with what seemed like the speed of sound and rushed out into the street while I was relieved to see that no cars were approaching. The water and the wax had not yet dried —the car looked as if it had caught some terrible disease.③―What happened then?‖ Bobbie asked after I had told my family the story at an evening meal.④―Nothing,‖ I said.⑤―Didn’t you go back to the car wash?‖⑥―Of course not,‖ I replied.⑦―I don’t blame you,‖ Peter said. ―They might have arrested you for speeding in a car wash.‖⑧ We all laughed. It was a nice moment. We were relaxing after the dishes had been taken away, the pleasant smell of coffee filling the air. We had been talking about the past year and, without pausing to think of the possible consequences, I had told them about my experience with the car wash.⑨ The story delighted the children — who are no longer children. Peter and Bobbie are married, in fact, and I realized I had given them a sort of philosophy of life for the future. I could imagine them, years from now, when they gather together and one of them will say, ―Remember the time Dad drove through that car wash …?‖⑩ Other things happened last year, too, because each year has its events, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sorrowful, the ordinary and the terrific. The milestones and the small incidents stand side by side, fundamentally different in quality or kind, perhaps, but making a sweet kind of harmony.66. The description of the second paragraph brings up images of _______.A. disorderB. diseasesC. stormsD. conflict67. Which of the following is NOT included in Paragraph 8?A. The subject of the discussion.B. The atmosphere of the family talk.C. The time when the talk occurred.D. The reason for the car to lose control.68. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?A. A reflection on car tradeB. A memory of the past yearC. A lesson on driving carsD. A car accident at a car wash(B)The J. Paul Getty MuseumWith two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.Parking informationParking is $15; $10 after 4:00 p.m. Pay once, park twice on the same day. And get same-day parking at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa for one $15 fee.@The Getty Center ♏See spectacular art @ The Getty Villa ♏Visit the ancient69. Mr. Larry drove to the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on December 23 (Wednesday), 2015, and enjoyed a wonderful tour there. He paid the parking fee _______ altogether.A. $10B. $15C. $20D. $3070. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The J. Paul Getty Museum is an art museum housed on two sites.B. The Getty Villa is closed on the same holidays as the Getty Center.C. The sale of alcohol is forbidden to people in the J. Paul Getty Museum.D. Timed tickets must be obtained in advance in the Getty Villa.71. In 2015, at least _______ was/were a good time for enjoying all the art works in the J.Paul Getty Museum in one day.A. all MondaysB. all TuesdaysC. New Year holidaysD. January 2 (Thursday)72. People who go to the Getty Villa may _______.A. enjoy the views overlooking Los AngelesB. conduct the visit any time because the tickets are freeC. appreciate the arts and cultures of ancient Greece and ancient RomeD. have lunches they bring with them anywhere inside the exhibition area(C)When a patient calls for help at Seton Medical Center, ―Hi, Mr. Rogers, can I help you?‖ says a nurse; it’s never a problem finding the nurse. It’s because they all wear locator tags that are part of a wireless system that tracks their movements on the floor.―You can even tell when they are walking down the hallway.‖ says James Hattori.This system made by Hill-Rom uses infrared（红外线的）signals to detect when nurses enter a room to answer a call. The Hill-Rom devices look like a mini computer mouse. Some hospitals are putting them in nurses’ kitchens. Staff can talk and listen through a wall unit to nurses or even to patient s in other rooms. ―We can put the time we were spending hunting staff down, trying to find and locate them to much better use,‖ says a staff member from Seton. Hill-Rom says it has systems installed in more than 850 U.S. hospitals.Some nurses worry that the devices will be used to listen in on conversations and scrutinize their movements. ―I’m not wearing mine. I will still meet my patient’s needs but I will not wear this badge.‖ Annette Bearden is among dozens of nurses at Eden Medical Center who staged an active protest two months ago and hid their badges though they were later recovered. ―You know it makes me not feel like a professional. It makes me feel like that someone has to watch me to make sure I am doing my job.‖ ―The biggest reason we installe d this technology is because our old call system is about 25 years old,‖ says a hospital manager. For hospitals this is a case of technology allowing, perhaps forcing people to better make use of their time. Officials at Eden don’t deny they monitor how long it takes nurses to respond to calls but say their main concern is patient care. ―I think it is one tool that we can use in measuring overall performance but by itself it is not a valid disciplinary tool,‖ says an Eden spokesperson.Eden is expanding its system with hopes the nurse will eventually accept the new technology, but back at Seton where it’s been in place for about two years, there is no uneasiness. ―Once the staff actually find out how advantageous it can be for them and the patients, well, ac tually it became very popular.‖In Castro Valley, California, the Eden Medical Center spent almost three hundred thousand dollars to install the Hill-Rom systems on two floors. Eden hopes to get more of the systems for other floors.73. Why is it easy to find a nurse at Seton Medical Center?A. The nurses are on television.B. The nurses wear locator badges.C. Every patient has his/her own nurse.D. Each room has a telephone.74. How can the staff talk to their patients when they are not in the same room?A. With hand signals.B. Through microphones in the pocket.C. Through a wall unit.D. With infrared signals on the doors.75. According to the passage, the underlined word ―scrutinize‖(paragraph 3) probablymeans _______.A. watch closelyB. see insideC. scan word by wordD. make right76. How did the nurses at Eden Medical Center react to the badges?A. The nurses really liked the badges.B. They threw the locator badges away.C. They refused to work.D. They protested and concealed the badges.77. According to the administrators of the hospital, Eden Medical Center, the applicationof the Hill-Rom devices mainly aims at _______.A. introducing modern technologyB. adding a tool for disciplineC. replacing the old call systemD. improving the service for patientsSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.It was early in the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn’t slept in 57 hours. The only food I had been able to force down over the proceeding three days was a bowel of soup. Weeks of violent coughing had made ordinary breathing a bitter process. At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere（气体对流）, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Under the circumstances, I was incapable of feeling much of anything except cold and tired.I’d arrived on the summit a few minutes after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climbing guide working for an American commercial expedition, and just ahead of Andy Harris, a guide on the New Zealand-based team to which I belonged. Although I just met Boukreev, I had come to know and like Harris well during the proceeding six weeks. I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down. My watch read 1:17 p.m. I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the worl d.A moment later, I paused to take another photo, this one looking down the Southeast Eidge, the route we had chosen to go up. Training my lens（镜头）on a pair of climbers approaching the summit, I noticed something that until that moment had escaped my attention. To the south, where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier, a blanket of clouds now hid the peaks surrounding Everest. Later, after six bodies had been located, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had removed the rotten right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers, people would ask why, if the weatherhad begun to worsen, had climbers on the upper mountain not observed the signs? Why did experienced Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gang of relatively inexperienced amateurs —each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest —into an apparent death trap?Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, because both men are dead. But I can assure that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10th suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. To my oxygen-exhausted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm（西库姆冰斗）looked so friendly and innocent in the brilliant midday sun, not different from the harmless puffs（喷烟）that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.As I began my descent I was extremely anxious, but my concern had little to do with the weather: a check of the meter on my oxygen tank had revealed that it was almost empty. I needed to get down, fast.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)78. Where were the three climbers mentioned in the second paragraph from?______________________________________________________________________ 79. Besides the change of the weather, what else led to the expedition team’s falling into a death trap?_______________________________________________________________________ 80. The underlined phrase ―the harmless puffs‖ in paragraph 4 refers to ______________ _______________________________________________________________________.81. The author spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world and climbed down fast because _______________________________________________________________.第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1．如今，生态旅游已受到不同年龄旅游者的青睐。
