2018届上海洋泾中学高三上学期11月月考试卷

洋泾中学2018高三练习卷I. Listening Comprehension (25’)Section A (10’)1. A. Apologize when Deborah is less angry. B. Return notes to Deborah in a few days.C. Write Deborah a note of apology.D. Let her talk to Deborah about the situation.2. A. Shop for new clothes. B. Lose some weight.C. Have his jeans altered.D. Wear clothes that fit more tightly.3. A. He hasn't done any work yet. B. He doesn't know what topic to research.C. He withdrew from his computer class.D. He's in a hurry to finish his paper.4. A. He has taken language arts as his major.B. He wants to take "The Psychology of Language".C. He and the woman are taking the same course.D. He hasn't chosen his courses for next semester.5. A. She'd rather take a direct train.B. She doesn't care how long the trip takes.C. It doesn't take long to get to Philadelphia.D. Taking an airplane might be more practical.6. A. Not many people know the song.B. He doesn't know the song well enough to play it.C. He hasn't been playing the piano long.D. People often ask him to play the song.7. A. Lisa is often late for meetings. B. Lisa's fight was delayed.C. Lisa has a busy schedule.D. Lisa's missed her flight.8. A. She's annoyed with the man. B. She's not upset about the spill.C. She wants the man to do the laundry.D. She doesn't know how to deal with the problem.9. A. A lecture. B. A professor. C. A point. D. A reason.10. A. She's not usually interested in watching documentaries.B. She doesn't have time to help the man with his project.C. She knew that the program was being shown.D. She was sorry for not having seen the program.Section B(15’)Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Eighteen. B. Sixteen. C. Fifteen. D. Twenty-seven12. A. She has four children to take care of.B. She has too much cooking and ironing to do.C. She works both at home and in the family business.D. She leaves home early every day to work in another city.13. A. He is happy with it because he is learning a lot.B. He is happy with it because he can travel a lot at work.C. He is unhappy with it because he can't go out with friends.D. He is unhappy with it because he doesn't have time off at weekends.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. How pollution changes the world. B. How uncertain the world's future will be.C. What he/she thinks of the world's future.D. What scientists have done to save the world.15. A. Problems were solved with new ideas.B. It has nothing to do with the world's future.C. Natural disasters were not as common as they are.D. Scientists didn't give as many warnings as they do.16. A. There will be no prejudice against women.B. Most people will live under the seas.C. There will be more species of fish.D. Starvation is still a big problem.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Classmates. B. Colleagues. C. Teacher and student. D. Boss and employee.18. A. Ways to improve test results. B. Places to go to if given holidays.C. Different cultures in the world.D. Languages spoken in various countries.19. A. It has a big city named Mumbai. B. It is located in South America.C. Its language is Spanish.D. Its capital is Perth.20. A. He was weak at geography but got a satisfying grade.B. He didn't think it was unusual for him to get such results.C. He knew who believed he was actually good at geography.D. He didn't expect that his classmates would doubt his results.II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20’)Section A (10’)While income worry is a rather common problem of the aged, loneliness is another problem that aged parents may face. Of all the reasons (21) _______ explain their loneliness, a large geographical distance between parents and their children is the major one. This phenomenon is commonly known as “Empty Nest Syndrome”(空巢综合症).In order to seek (22) ________ (good) chances outside their countries, many young people have gone abroad, (23) ________ (leave) their parents behind with no clear idea of when they will return home. Their parents spend countless lonely days and nights, taking care of themselves, in the hope that someday their children will come back to stay with them. The fact (24) ________ most of these young people have gone to Europeanized or Americanized societies makes it unlikely that they will hold as tightly to the value of duty (25) ________ they would have if they had not left their countries.(26)_________ the case, it has been noted that the values they hold do not necessarily match(27)________ they actually do. This geographical and cultural distance also prevents the grown-up children from providing timely response (28) _________ their aged parents living by themselves.The situation in which grown-up children live far away from their aged parents (29)________ (describe) as “distant parent phenomenon”, (30)_______ is common both in developed countries and in developing countries. Our society has not yet been well prepared for “Empty Nest Syndrome”.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be usedcan lead to increased ___31___but also to a greater likelihood of conflict.Recent reports found that lodging with a student of a different race may decrease ___32___and force students to engage in more ethnically diverse friendships. An Ohio State University study also found that black students living with a white roommate saw higher ___33___success throughout their college careers. Researchers believe this may be caused by social pressure.In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye – the only black student on his freshman year floor -said th at “if you’re surrounded by whites, you have something to prove.” Researchers also observed problems resulting from ___34___interracial students in residences.According to two recent studies, randomly assigned roommates of different races are more likely to experience conflicts so___35___that one roommate will move out. An Indiana University study found that interracial roommates were three times as likely as two white roommates to no longer live together by the end of the semester. Grace Kao, a professor at Penn said she was not surprised by the findings. “This may be the first time that some of these students have___36___, and lived, with someone of a different race,” she said.At Penn, students are not asked to indicate race when ___37___for housing. “On e of the great things about freshman housing is that, with some___38___, the process throws you together randomly,” said Undergraduate Assembly chairman Alec Webley. “This is the definition of integration.”// “I’ve experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students that have both broken down stereotypes and___39___stereotypes,” said one Penn resident advisor (RA). The RA of two years added that while some conflicts “provided more multicultural acceptance and melding (融合),” there were also “jarring cultural resistance.” The RA said that these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the same race.Kao said she___40___against forming any generalizations based on any one of the studies, noting that more background characteristics of the students need to be studied and explained.III. Reading ComprehensionSection AWhile awareness and mastery of skills are important steps in any learning process, it is only when conscious skills are put to work that you will experience the involvement and excitement that accompany personal growth. The __41__ mimicking （模仿）sounds, the youngster practicing to ride his bicycle, the teenager learning to drive, the adult preparing to buy a house---all experience a good deal of anticipation (希望), but the anticipation pales next to the__42__of first communicating verbally or riding a bicycle solo or taking that first drive or moving into that first home.__43__, social interaction is the highest degree of personal involvement, the logical peak experience towards what awareness and mastery lead.More than any other experience it is social interaction by which a person __44__, expands, and develops his own personality.__45__, the more involved you are, the more experiences you have, the greater will be the actualization of your personality. If, __46__, you are an active person in your community, your personality will express this activity by its positive and __47__nature. If, on the other hand, you are passive, merely allowing yourself to be__48__without any involvement in theday-to-day activities of your community, you risk boredom and dullness. Much has been written about the “mass man” and about the__49__of the average citizen to affect his own destiny. Involved persons are not mass men or __50__ citizens. // Involvement in your community means developing your community and yourself by direct and__51__social interaction. Since this interaction could involve you in any and all of the functions of your community, we suggest here that you select for your involvement activities which are most__52__to you. You might consider your future career plans, hobbies, or educational interests as __53__ for your decision. For once you begin to be involved in your community and once you experience your own __54__ in self-awareness through community awareness, you may very well find social interaction a life-time project, __55__where your community may be or how it may change.41.A. girl B. boy C. infant D. animal42.A. realization B. surprise C. relief D. excitement43.A. For instance B. In other words C. As a result D. In comparison44.A. defines B. decides C. applies D. impresses45.A. Moreover B. However C. Otherwise D. Therefore46.A. for one thing B. on one hand C. by contrast D. for example47.A. outgoing B. outstanding C. outlining D. outbuilding48.A. checked on B. acted upon C. backed up D. taken after49.A. tendency B. decision C. intension D. inability50.A. risky B. dull C. passive D. unable51.A. positive B. relevant C. shared D. exposed52.A. meaningful B. available C. reasonable D. appropriate53.A. rules B. boundaries C. guides D. hints54.A. examination B. practice C. decision D. growth55.A. in case of B. because of C. but for D. regardless ofSection B(A)Until recently, women in advertisements wore one of three things —an apron, an attractive dress or a frown. Although that is now changing, many women still feel angry enough to deface offending advertisements with stickers protesting, “This ad degrades women.” Why does this sort of advertising exist? How can advertisers and ad agencies still produce, sometimes, after months of research, advertising that offends the consumer?The Advertising Standards Authority, the body which deals with complaints about print media, is carrying out research into how women feel about the way they are pictured in advertisements. Its conclusions are likely to be what the advertising industry already knows: although women are often annoyed by the ads, few feel strongly enough to complain.Women are not the only victims of poor and boring stereotypes—in many TV commercials men are seen either as useless, childish fools who are unable to perform the simplest household tasks, or as inconsiderate fellows, always on the lookout for an escape to the pub. But it is women who seem to suffer more from the industry’s apparent inability to put people into an authentic present-day situation.Yet according to Emma Bennett, director of a London advertising agency, women are not aggressive or extremely angry about those stereotypes and sexist advertising. “They just find itannoying or tiresome.” They reluctantly accept outdated stereotypes, but have a sigh of relief when an advertisement really gets it right.” She says that it is not advertising’s use of the housewife role that bothers women, but the way in which it is handled. “The most important thing is the advertisement’s tone of voice. Women hate being insincerely praised or given desperately down-to-earth common-sense adv ice.”In the end, the responsibility for good advertising must be shared between the advertiser, the advertising agency and the consumer. Advertising does not set trends but it reflects them. It is up to the consumer to tell advertisers where they fail, and the process of change will remain slow until people on the receiving end take the business seriously and make their feelings known.56. Despite recent changes in attitudes, some advertisements still fail to _________.A. change women’s opinions of themselvesB. show any understanding of consumers’ feelingsC. persuade the public to buy certain productsD. meet the needs of the advertising industry57. The advertisers don’t give up presenting misleading image of women in ads mainly because __.A. consumers seldom make complaints about itB. they are ignorant about consumers’ feelingsC. They aren’t afraid of being complained aboutD. consumers don’t take the advertisements seriously58. According to the author, the most crucial factor in the improvement of the advertisementsis _________.A. the industryB. the advertisersC. the productsD. the consumers(B)It's finally over. We mean both the Oscar telecast, which ran as long as Gone With the Wind (though with fewer important roles for African Americans), and the three-month death march of critics' citations, guild(行业) awards and expert opinions on who'd win. In case you nodded off, Birdman took Best Picture and Director, and the acting prizes went to Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything, Julianne Moore for Still Alice, J.K. Simmons for Whiplash and Patricia Arquette for Boyhood --- four folks whom most people know from the speeches they gave, not the movies they were in.This year, the only big hit among the eight Best Picture finalists was American Sniper. The other seven were art-house films. You see, there is Hollywood, which makes movies the whole world watches, and there is off-Hollywood, which hatches the films that get Oscars. Somebody has to ask: Why does Hollywood hate what it does for a living?It can't be as simple as "films" are great and "movies" are rubbish. On the Rotten Tomatoes website, which shows the reviews of dozens of critics, Birdman pulled a 93 rating (out of 100) and The Imitation Game an 89. But some popular hits also scored with the critics: 91 for Guardians of the Galaxy, 89 for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 88 for Gone Girl and a dramatic 96 for The Lego Movie. Audiences liked these four films too, paying more than $1 billion to see them in North American theaters (plus another $1.3 billion abroad).So why weren't at least a couple of these films nominated(提名) for Best Picture? Maybe simply because they were popular. They got their awards as cash prizes, not Oscar statuettes. The Oscar winners have become a category of little films about big diseases. Another disconnect between Oscar voters and moviegoers: ages. The average age of the 6,700 Academy members is about 60,and they see most of the nominated films on screeners at home. Basically, they want movies to be television: educating, intimate(亲密的) dramas. The stories they respond to are not of youngsters on grand quests --- the action-film --- but of unsung heroes battling weakness and approaching death.The very first Oscar party, in 1929, had two Best Picture categories: one for "outstanding picture" (William Wellman's spectacle Wings), the other for "unique and artistic picture" (F.YV Murnau's masterpiece Sunrise). Maybe the Academy, obsessed with indie (独立制片的) artistry should return to the double award. Then Avatar could win along with The Hurt Locker, am Gravity with 12 Years a Slave. Next year, even the new Star Wars might have a shot.59. It can be inferred from the last sentence of Paragraph l that __________ .A. not many people saw the four filmsB. awards shouldn't be given to the four peopleC. the four actors and actresses made great speechesD. the four films won the awards as expected60. Why does the author mention these films in Paragraph 2?A. To introduce the great films that are worth watching.B. To explain why some films are given a higher score than others.C. To illustrate there are films welcomed by both viewers and critics.D. To highlight the importance of turning to critics' reviews when choosing films.61. Which of the following statements is the author most likely to agree with?A. Less emphasis should be given to moviegoers' opinions about films.B. Oscar voters are unsung heroes fighting against weakness.C. Being popular may prevent a film winning Oscar awards.D. It is better to see a film in the cinema than at home.62. What suggestion does the author give about Oscar awards?A. Having more independent film makers nominated for awards.B. Setting up an award for the films different from present winners.C. Improving the standard for outstanding films.D. Giving more chances to the greatest hits.(C)You stare at waterfall for a minute or two, and then shift your gaze to its surroundings. What you now see appears to drift upward.These optical illusions occur because the brain is constantly matching its model of reality to signals from the body’s sensors and interpreting what must be happening—that your brain must have moved, not the other; that downward motions is now normal, so a change from it must now be perceived as upward motion.The sensors that make this magic are of two kinds. Each eye contains about 120 million rods, which provide somewhat blurry black and white vision. These are the windows of night vision; once adapted to the dark, they can detect a candle burning ten miles away.Color vision in each eye comes from six to seven million structures called cones. Under ideal conditions, every cone can “see” the entire rainbow spectrum of visible colors, but one type of cone is most sensitive to red, another to green, a third to blue.Rods and cones send their messages pulsing an average 20 to 25 times per second along the optic nerve. We see an image for a fraction of a second longer than it actually appears. In movies, reels of still photographs are projected onto screens at 24 frames per second, tricking our eyes intoseeing a continuous moving picture.Like apparent motion, color vision is also subject to unusual effects. When day gives way to night, twilight brings what the poet T.S. Eliot called “the violet hour.” A light levels fall, the rods become progressively less responsive. Rods are most sensitive to the shorter wavelengths of blue and green, and they impart a strange vividness to the garden’s blue flowers.However, look at a white shirt during the reddis h light of sunset, and you’ll still see it in its “true” color—white, not red. Our eyes are constantly comparing an object against its surroundings. They therefore observe the effect of a shift in the color of illuminating on both, and adjust accordingly. // The eyes can distinguish several million graduations of light and shade of color. Each waking second they flash tens of millions of pieces of information to the brain, which weaves them incessantly into a picture of the world around us.Yet all this is done at the back of each eye by a fabric of sensors, called the retina, about as wide and as thick as a postage stamp. As the Renaissance inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci wrote in wonder, “Who would believe that so small a space could contain the ima ges of all the universe?”63. Visual illusions often take place when the image of reality is ______.A. matched to six to seven million structures called cones.B. confused in the body’s sensors of both rods and cones.C. interpreted in the brain as what must be the case.D. signaled by about 120 million rods in the eye.64. The retina send pulses to the brain ______.A. in short wavelengthsB. as color picturesC. by a ganglion cellD. along the optic nerve.65. Twenty-four still photographs are made into a continuous moving picture just because ______.A. the image we see usually stays longer than it actually appears.B. we see an object in comparison with its surroundings.C. the eyes catch million pieces of information continuously.D. rods and cones send messages 20 to 25 times a second.66. The author’s purpose in writing the passage lies in ______.A. showing that we sometimes are deceived by our own eyes.B. informing us about the different functions of the eye organs.C. regretting that we are too slow in the study of eyes.D. marveling at the great work done by the retina.EmpathyLast year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported that empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years.(67)_______ Today, people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.Jennifer Freed, a co-director of a teen program, has another explanation. Turn on the TV, and you’re showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. (68)__________There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature.(69)____ Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they look for in new managers. Good social skills, including empathy, are a kind of “emotional intelligence” that will help you succeed in many areas of life. “Academics are important. But if you don’t have emotional intelligence, you won’t be as successful in work or in your love life.” she says.What’s the best way to up your EQ? For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others.(70) __________To really develop empathy, you’d better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.第II卷(50’)I. Summary. (10’)How you rank in society has a lot to do with how much you care about your fellow man. That’s the main idea of a new paper written by the psychologists and the social scientists at University of California.The authors write that one’s sense of social class---derived mainly from income and education ---“exerts broad influences on social thought, emotion, and behavior”. Using various tests that measure empathy, those who consider themselves among the lowe r classes demonstrate “heightened vigilance of the social context and another–focused social orientation”. In other words, poorer, less well-educated individ uals tend to notice, and care more about, the people around them. “Upper-class rank awareness”, on the other hand, “triggers a focus away from the context toward the self, prioritizing self-interest”.The paper also claims that people with less education and less money tend to be more generous with what money they do have. When the question is posed regarding how much people should give to charity, “lower-class” ranks suggest a higher percentage of one’s income than the percentage recommended by the wealthy.Another study mentioned in the paper involved giving participants 10 points, which would later be traded in for money. The individuals given the points were to divide them up between themselves and an unknown partner. Guess who shared more of their points?We found that individuals reporting lower subjective socioeconomic status gave more to their partner than did upper-socioeconomic-status participants.In this context, the next time you’re called “low-class”, consider it a compliment.I. Translation （15’）1. 面临意外情况，我们不应该显得缺乏勇气和自信。