上海国际高中入学英语测试模拟卷

High School Placement Examination

English (Time: 30 mins Score: 100’)

Section ⅠVocabulary & Grammar (30’)

Questions 1- 15

Find the word that matches each definition and circle the correct letter (A, B, C, D or

E)in the spaces provided on your Answer Sheet.

A offer

B thin 1.to improve a system or organization by making a lot of changes to it

C reporter 2.the process of gradually becoming bigger, better, stronger

D reform 3.to hold something out to somebody

E development

A gentle

B beneath 4. a formal meeting

C interview 5.kind and careful in the way you behave or do things

D composition 6.to think about something carefully

E consider

A smell

B present 7.the quality that people and animals recognized by using nose

C deny 8.refuse to accept or believe

D section 9.one of the parts that something is divided into

E judge

A estimate

B unique 10. a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody

C noble 11.on purpose

D concern 12.morally good or generous

E intentional

A integration

B emerging 13.in an early stage of development

C betrayal 14.the combing of two or more things

D complicate 15.the act of helping an enemy

E explore

Questions 16 - 20

Choose the one word that is most nearly the same in meaning as the word underlined in the sentence.

16.Fear of retaliation may deter our enemies from attacking.

A.hinder

B.halt

C.steer

D.sting

17.King Edward abdicated from the English throne to marry a divorced woman.

A.resign

B.explain

C.remorse

D.disprove

18.Jimmy Durante had a prominent nose.

A.extravagant

B.outstanding

C.surreptitious

D. disturbing

19.Mexico shares a boundary with the state of Texas.

A.limit

B.seam

C.hovel

D.ceiling

20.Many of the homeless are unemployed because they are illiterate.

A.sickly

B.unclean

C.unmanageable

D.unable to read

Questions 21 - 30

Part of each following sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are four ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice one that makes a better sentence.

21.Unable to find a direct flight to her destination, the only choice was a flight with two

stopovers.

A. a flight with two stopovers was the only choice

B.two stopovers in the flight was the only choice

C.she had to choose a flight with two stopovers

D.what she had to do was choose a flight with two stopovers

22.Hoping to slow the decline of populations of a small primate called the slender loris,

conservationists planning to restore the creatures' forest habitat.

A.conservationists planning restoring

B.conservationists plan to restore

C.the plan of conservationists is for restoring

D.what the conservationists plan is to restore

23.The first hint of the role ice has played in shaping the world has appeared in the late

1830s, when scientists postulated that sheets of ice once covered much of the globe.

A.world appeared

B.world appearing

C.world, it appeared

D.world, which appeared