上海市青浦高级中学高三英语上学期期中试题(无答案)牛津上海版

上海市青浦高级中学高三英语上学期期中试题（无答案）牛津上海版I.Grammar amid VocabularySection ADirections: Read the following passage. For some blanks there is a word given in the brackets. Fill in each of these blanks with the proper form of the given word Fill in the other blanks with words that are correct in structure and proper in meaning(A)Mr. Jackson lived in the center of London but he had a hotel near the airport. There a lot of foreigners stayed for night. He didn’t know any ____25__ language but English and he found it difficult for him to understand the foreign visitors. Sometimes he had to use the gesture to talk with them, and tried his best to make himself ___26___(understand). But he was often misunderstood (误解) and it brought him a lot of trouble. A friend of his___27___ taught a few foreign languages in a university would teach him. He was happy and studied hard. At first he learned some, but soon he found it wasn’t very easy to remember the words and expressions. His friend advised him to write down the useful expressions in his notebook so that he ___28___ use them when necessary. He did as he was told. He found it helpful for him to do so.One evening there were plenty of people in the dining-room. They were all busy eating something ____29__ a Japanese. He was wandering (徘徊) there,__30___ (wait) for his wife who was dressing herself up upstairs. Mr. Jackson thought to himself, “ The man wants to eat something but he doesn’t know any English. Let me help him.”___31___ he knew only a little Japanese, he had to bring out his notebook and showed it to the man, pointing to the sentence “I’m hungry.” The Japanese had a look at it,____32___ him two pounds and left(B)What does the term phubbing mean?The word was coined by Alex Haigh，a 23-year-old Melbourne resident. 'Phubbing' stands for 'phone snubbing, and describes "the act of ignoring someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of _33（pay）attention to them".Now 'Stop Phubbing' 34 (become) the online home of a campaign against digitally derived rudeness recently.The motive behind the effort is quite straightforward: to highlight the embarrassment of 35__ (ignore) in public places, text-tapping fingers during personal dinners and coffee dates that 36 as well have been taken online. Among all, the 37 innovative bit of the campaign are the wedding place cards that you can download to place on tables during your big day. It asks guests to pay attention to the wedding and not play with their phones! According to statistics,87 percent of teens would rather text than 38 (communicate) face-to-face with a person.The 'Stop Phubbing1 website even 39 (allow) you to upload photos of your friends/family who are phubbers to a Name-and-Shame section. Or download posters that read，"No Tweeting, No Facebook, No Instagram, No Foursquare, No Sexting".There's even an option to send phubbers e-mails to let them know of the negative effect they could possibly have 40 their friends.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 flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done__41___ by women----ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing __42___ work-----still need to be done by someone .Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a __43___ that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crushing “poverty of time “ and look for help elsewhere , ___44__opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like.Although there is still a big wage __45___ between men and women, the income working women gives them new ___46____ and buying power. For example, women now __47___ about half of all cars. Not long ago, many cars dealers insulted women shoppers by___48____ them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are ___49___ customers. It’s interesting that some leading Japanese car dealers were the first to really pay attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy cars ---- the Japanese society is still very much male—oriented. Perhaps it was the __50___ contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers.II. 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."Papaderos, what is the meaning of life?" I asked the aging German professor of Greek culture and history．The usual laughter __51____，and people stirred（搅动）to go．Papaderos 52 his hand, stilled the room，and looked at me lot a long time．Asking with his eyes if I was 53 and seeing from my eyes that I was．"I will answer your question．"Taking his 54 out of his pocket，he brought out a very small 55 mirror，about the size of a quarter．And what he said went like this．"When I was a small child，during the war, we were very poor and we live in a remotevillage．One day, on the road．I found the 56 piece of a mirror．A German motorcycle had been wrecked（破坏）in that place．""I tried to find all the pieces and put them together, but it was not ___57_，so I kept only the largest piece．this one．And by ___58___ it on a stone I made it round．And I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could 59 light into dark places where the sun would __60___ shine-in deep holes，crevices（裂缝）and dark clothes．It became a game for me to get light into the most __61__ places I could find．""I kept the little mirror, and as I grew up，I would take it out in idle moments and continue the ___62____ of the game．As I became a man，I came to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life．I understood that I am not the light or the ___63__ of light．But light-truth．understanding．knowledge--is there。