上海市洋泾中学2018-2019学年高一下第一次月考英语试题

上海市洋泾中学2018学年度第二学期
高一英语月考考试试卷
第Ⅰ 卷
Vocabulary and Grammar
Section A
Directions：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.
I became a vegetarian five years ago. I was working at an activity camp, as an environmental officer ___21___（teach）others about being green, but my behavior towards food was anything but green. At the camp, I lived off junk food and wasn’t eating sustainably, so I gave vegetarianism a try.
My family were supportive, yet some friends made fun of me. Sometimes it’s awkward, especially at weddings or parties. Just ___22___（ask）for black tea starts a conversation about ___23___ I don’t take milk. Going out for meals is tedious. I’ve been to restaurants ___24___ everyone gets amazing food and I get bland vegetables. It makes me feel cheated, but I bite my tongue.
At the school where I teach, we take turns ___25___（bring）cake every week. For ages, nobody remembered I was vegetarian so I just sat there. It’s got better but it’s still uncomfortable when someone says,“We forgot Laura.”Sometimes I feel ___26___（leave）out.
___27___ of my friends is vegetarian, but my partner became one six months after we met. His mum took it badly. She loves cooking and thought vegetarianism was a tricky. But she understands now. She knows we enjoy her family dinners, only we have nut roast and they have beef.
Often people apologize if they’re eating meat, thinking I ___28___（offend）. Sometimes I feel bad for my partner’s mum ___29___ we go round for dinner, because I worry she feels I’m not joining in. But this is my choice, and I’m much ___30___（happy）living this way.
Section B
Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Would you like to work for a company that lists making its employees happy as one of its goals? According to a recent report in The Guardian, a new wave is rolling over workplaces in the US, the UK and other European countries. Among the CEOs, CFOs and CPOs, a new executive has emerged. Meet the CHO, or Chief“Happiness”Officer, who is responsible for the contentment of individual employees.
“The CHO’s job is to lead different ___31___ to make people happier, like celebrations, training, events and similar activities in the workplace that help people do great work and see the purpose of what they do,”Alexander Kjerulf, co-founder at Woohoo Inc. in Denmark, told The Guardian. Kjerulf conducts speeches and workshops worldwide to help companies such as Lego and Ikea ___32___ happier workplaces.
Why do companies care about whether their employees are happy or not? The theory goes that happy workers are more productive, so happiness turns out to be in the company’s best interest. After all, no boss wants ___33___ worke rs.
What does the CHO do? According to a story in US magazine The New Republic, a CHO’s daily duties include ___34___ the emotional well-being of their co-workers and the office atmosphere. They adjust workplace policy and culture in order to create the conditions for happiness. To achieve this, CHOs put out surveys that measure contentment. They also ___35___ workshops on everything from communication skills to mindfulness meditation（冥想）.
It seems that happiness is no longer a philosophical and romantic concept. The pursuit of happiness has become a business itself. And CHOs may not be enough for some companies. In order to make themselves more ___36___ and profitable, some companies now use digital technology to ___37___ their workers’ well-being. A recent New York Times article reported that more than 20 US companies in banking, technology and health care industries use a kind of sensor-rich ID card developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to monitor and analyse workers’ communication behaviours including tone of voice, posture and body language, as w ell as the
duration of the conversation. Companies then use the data to adjust their working environment. For example, a bank has found through the new technology that workers are more productive if they have more social interaction. So, it introduced a shared 15-minute coffee break.
Having a boss who is ___38___ concerned with your happiness might sound nice to an employee. Bust there are some problems, says The New Republic article. Workplace supervision measures aimed at increasing productivity may intrude upon workers’ privacy. And the article claims making someone else ___39___ responsible for our happiness is dangerous:“It represents an intrusion into our emotional lives that should not be ___40___ to any kind of authority figure—be it corporate or governmental—regardless of intention.”
Ⅰ. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions：For each blank in the follow ing passages 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.
In commerce, customer experience is measured during all points of contact against the individual’s expectations over the duration of their relationship with a company. Customers ___41___ direct or indirect contact with a company. Direct contact usually occurs when the ___42___ or use is initiated by the customer. Indirect contact often involves advertising, news reports, unplanned ___43___ with s ales representatives, word-of-mouth recommendations or criticisms. Customer experienc e is created by the contribution of not only the customers’ ___44___ but also the company providing the experience.
The development of a positive customer experience is imp ortant as it increases the chances of a customer to make continued purchase and develops brand loyalty. Brand loyalty can turn customers into ___45___, resulting in a long term relationship. Nevertheless, males and females respond to the same brand differently. ___46___, if female consumers are the target market, an app advertisement focused on the emotion of the product will provide an effective customer experience. In this present day it requires more than just low prices and innovative products to ___47___ the competitiveness of the retail business. Customer experience has emerged as a vital strategy for all retail business that are facing competition. When a customer is undertaking the experience, it is seen as personal and unique. It is through the ___48___ of goods and services that customers create a
memorable experience they will never forget.
On the whole, one of the most efficient ways to develop customer experience is concerned with the ___49___. Today, retail stores tend to exist in shopping areas such as maths or shopping districts. Very few operate in area alone. Therefore, a stopping centre’s reputation that a store is located in will affect a customer’s experience. If the location is ___50___ with historical richness, it can provide an opportunity for the town centre and local business to connect at deeper level with their customers. So it is suggested that town centre management and retail outlets should work ___51___ to develop an effective customer experience.
Another effective ways of improving the customer’s experience is by actively engaging a customer with an activity. Customers are able to recall active, hands-on experience much more effectively and accurately than ___52___ activities. Of course, while active hands-on experiences can greatly develop value creation, it can produce value ___53___. Only by understanding what causes satisfaction or dissatisfaction of a customer’s experience, can management appropriately ___54___ changes within their approach.
Anyway, what the company needs to do is some change in the vision, evaluation and, above all, the ___55___ with customers. C u stomers experience can only be changed when it becomes a business’s top priority.
41. A. take up B. enter for C. respond to D. act upon
42. A. purchase B. opponent C. benefit D. emotion
43. A. discounts B. encounters C. account D. discussions
44. A. predictions B. memories C. virtues D. value
45. A. objectives B. advocates C. miracles D. symbols
46. A. For example B. In addition C. In contrast D. In all
47. A. highlight B. seek C. judge D. survive
48. A. variety B. feedback C. stimulation D. security
49. A. environment B. opportunity C. poverty D. service
50. A. satisfied B. bound C. owned D. compared
51. A. independently B. fiercely C. cooperatively D. reluctantly
52. A. extensive B. negative C. persuasive D. passive
53. A. destruction B. image C. alert D. definition
54. A. reform B. implement C. drain D. bridge
55. A. discipline B. satisfaction C. overlook D. interaction
Section B
Directions：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）
Home to 8.2 million people, 36 percent of whom were born outside the United States, New York, known as the Big Apple, is the biggest city in America. Nearly twenty times bigger than the capital, Washington DC, you might expect New York to be twenty times more dangerous. Actually, it’s safer. Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100,000 people than 193 other US cities. It’s also healthier than it used to be. For example, the smoking rate has gone down from 21.5 percent a few years ago, to 16.9 percent today.
New Yorkers should be delighted, shouldn’t they? In fact, many feel that New York is losing its identity. It used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty (at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.
If you decided to have a picnic in Central Park, you’d need to be careful—if you decided to feed the birds with your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s banned. In many countries a mobile phone going off in the cinema is annoying. In New York it’s illegal. So is putting your bag on an empty seat in the subway. If you went to a bar for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er … no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City. In fact, you can’t smoke outdoors on the street or in parks either. The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, says, “Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray.” He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.
But not all of New York’s inhabitants are complaining. Marcia Dugarry, seventy-two, said, “The city has changed for the better. If more cities had these laws, America wou ld be a better place to
live.”
The new laws have helped turn the city into one of the healthiest—and most pleasant places to live in America—very different from its old image of a dirty and dangerous city. Its pavements are almost litter-free, its bars clean and its streets among America’s safest. Not putting your bag on subway seats might be a small price to pay.
56. The author writes Paragraph 1 in order to tell the reader that New York is ___.
A. bigger than Washington D.C.
B. the city with most immigrants
C. safer and healthier
D. the most populated city in the U.S.
57. Which of the following is forbidden by law in New York?
A. Eating sandwich in the Central Park.
B. Putting a bag on an empty subway seat.
C. Turning on the sound of the mobile phone.
D. Smoking indoors.
58. What does Graydon Carter imply?
A. Some of New York’s new laws are not reasonable.
B. A gun is much easier to get than an ashtray.
C. The police had no right to take away his ashtray.
D. There should be a law to keep guns away from people.
59. What is the author’s attitude towards New York’s new laws?
A. Supportive.
B. Negative.
C. Neutral.
D. Uninterested
（B）
February 28th, 2009 2:54 am GMT
I have to say that I am shocked at just how bad the new music is. This cannot be the same band that produced great albums such as HTDAAB and A TYCLB! This is awful! They either do not care anymore, or have completely lost it. I never thought U2（a rock band founded in Dublin, Ireland）would become irrelevant, but they have officially become one of th ose bands that you will now say, “Remember when they were great?”
—Posted by Ronald Harris
February 28th, 2009 8:29 pm GMT
Total drivel（废话）, Mr Harris. The new album is great, far better than the safe, cynical HTDAAB and A TYCLB. U2 have become inventive a gain, like they were in the 1990s. thank goodness!—Posted by Dan
March 3rd, 2009 12:09 pm GMT
Agree, Dan. The new album is the best since Actung Baby. Magnificent is an anthem in the waiting, Breathe is unbelievable, and Stand Up Comedy is absolutely outstanding—to name just three! Loving the new sound, pure class as usual.
—Posted by Martin
March 4th, 2009 7:43 pm GMT
Totally agree with you guys. This album is unbelievable. Breathe is definitely a great song, same with Moment of Surrender. I bet their upcoming tour（巡回演出）will be amazing. If you haven’t bought the CD yet, you should. I bought mine on for $3.99. I couldn’t believe it.—Posted by Josh Briggs
60. Whose comment is contrary to the others?
A. Martin’s
B. Dan’s
C. Josh Briggs’
D. Ronald Harris’
61. Which of the following statements is Not true according to the passage?
A. U2 is good at playing classical music.
B. The new album is available on the Internet.
C. The people who made comments are fans of U2.
D. U2’s upcoming tour may be a great success.
62. The passage is most probably from ___.
A. a concert poster
B. a TV review
C. a newspaper
D. the internet
（C）
In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible
answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one investigation, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents listed "to give children a good start academically" as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contr ast, over half the American respondents chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japanese schools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as persistence, concentration, and the ability to function as a member of a group. The vast majority of young Japanese children are taught to read at home by their parents.
In the recent comparison of Japanese and American preschool education, 91 percent of Japanese respondents chose providing children with a group experience as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. Sixty-two percent of the more individually oriented (强调个性发展的) Americans listed group experience as one of their top three choices. An emphasis on the importance of the group seen in Japanese early childhood education continues into elementary school education.
Like in America, there is diversity in Japanese early childhood education. Some Japanese kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and secondary schools. Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing in some Japanese kindergartens.
63. We learn from the first paragraph that many Americans believe _____.
A. Japanese parents are more involved in preschool education than American parents
B. Japan’s economic success is result of its scientific achievements
C. Japanese preschool education emphasizes academic instruction
D. Japan’s higher education is better than theirs
64. Most American respondents believe that preschools should also attach importance to ______.
A. problem solving
B. group experience
C. parental guidance
D. individually-oriented development
65. In Japan’s preschool education, the focus is on ______.
A. preparing children academically
B. developing children’s artistic interests
C. tapping children’s potential
D. shaping children’s character
66. Free play has been introduced in some Japanese kindergartens in order to ___.
A. lighten children’s study load
B. cultivate children’s creativity
C. broaden children’s horizons
D. enrich children’s knowledge
Section C
Directions：Choose from the sentences A-F to complete the passage. There are two extra sentences which you do
not need to use.
In the United Kingdom, many women born in the 1950s are now finding that they must wait up to six years longer than expected to receive a pension. Campaign groups Back to 60 and Women Against State Pension Age Inequality say that women who have worked for decades and now stand on the verge of retirement have discovered they are years away from receiving the state pension. Some are staying in tiring jobs longer than they ever anticipated. Others are unable to find work. ___67___ They are angry enough to march, as more than a thousand did at Westminster last October.
In theory, the 1995 change gave the 3.8 million women affected 25 years’ notice. Many planned
accordingly. However, as the Commons Work&Pensions Committee has noted,“more could and should have been done”to communicate the changes. Then, in 2011, the government saved almost 30 billion by unfairly speeding up the changes. Women who still believed they would receive the state pension at 60 suddenly received letters telling them they would get it as late as ___68___.
These changes have had a cruel impact on women born in the 1950s. These women saw little equality in their working lives. Many of them now face the additional and unpaid burdens that fall more often on women, such as caring for aging relatives or grandchildren.
There are clear lessons here for the future. The first is that, in the words of former pensions minister Ros Altmann,“Women have been the poor relation in pensions for a long time.”___69___ Even though many women knew the pension age was rising, they did not realize they were personally affected.
None of that will help the women left in poverty today. ___70___ Fairness is not easy to achieve in such a complex area of policy. But the injustice done to many of these women is clear, and it must be addressed.
第Ⅰ 卷
Translation
71. 博物馆前矗立着两位著名运动员的雕塑。

（In…）
72. 据说警方已将三个凶手全部抓获。

（capture）
73. 门被强行打开，警方闯入了恐怖分子（terrorists）藏身的屋子。

（burst）
74. 这本书值得一读是因为它是如此的鼓舞人心以至于被多次改编成电影。

（worth）
Keys
21.teaching 22. asking 23, why 24. where 25 to bring
26.left27. none 28. am offended 29. when 30. happier
31.D 32, BC 33. CD 34. A 35. AC 36. BD 37. C 38. AB 39. AD 40 B 41-45 CABDB 46-50 BADCA 51-55 CDABD
56.C 57. B 58. A 59. A
60. D 61. A 62 D
63. C 64. B 65. D 66. A
67. C 68.D 69. B 70. AB。