上海市高三上学期12月月考英语试题及答案

1、 上海市2014届高三英语12月考试卷 ii. grammar and vocabularysection a directions: 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

2、 meaning. (a)mr. briggs got a job 25 an insurance pany(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes 26 (sell) them life insurance. one day, after he 27 (work) for the pany for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, “mr. briggs, i have been looking 28

3、your record as a salesman with our pany, and there is one thing 29 surprises me about it. why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous conditions? youll ruin our pany 30 you go on like that. ” “oh, no, sir,” answered mr. briggs

4、 at once, “before i started work, i looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country 31 the past ten years, 32 i can tell you that few people die at the age of 95. ” (b)he is the man who for many people has been a role model. now your _33_ (big) hero deserves a special day when you can express y

5、our thanks and let him know how important he is to you. the third sunday of june, _34_ falls on june 19 this year, is fathers day. the idea of fathers day came from _35_ american woman called sonora smart dodd in 1909. dodd wanted a special day _36_( honor) her father. he raised six children by _37_

6、 after his wife died. dodd thought there needed to be a day to honor loving dads. the first fathers day _38_(celebrate) on june 19, 1910. in 1924, us president calvin coolidge supported the idea of a _39_ (nation) fathers day. finally, in 1966, president lyndon johnson declared the third sunday of j

7、une _40_ fathers day. here are some ways to show your love and respect: send him a greeting card. fathers prefer cards that are not too emotional. so choose one that will make him laugh. if he has a puter, cover his desktop with words like “i love you，dad”. a small present, such as a framed photo of

8、 your family, can make him feel like a king. 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. a. offer b. capital c. inputs d. internal e. varies f. reduce g. information h. transformat

9、ion i. regular j. economick. control a department stores inputs include the land upon which the building is located, the labor of the employees, (41) _ in the form of building, equipment and merchandise, and the management skills of the store managers. on a farm, the operation system is the transfor

10、mation that occurs when a farmers (42) _ (land, equipment, labor, etc.) are changed into such outputs as corn, wheat or milk. the exact form of the change process (43) _ from industry to industry, but it is a(n) (44) _phenomenon that exists in every industry. economists refer to this (45) _ of resou

11、rces into goods and services as the production function. for all operation systems, the general goal is to create some kind of value-added outputs that are worth more to consumers than just the sum of the inputs. to the consumers, the resulting products (46) _ use value due to the form, the time, or

12、 the place of their availability from the conversion process. however, the process is subject to random changes. unplanned or uncontrollable influences may cause the actual output to differ from planned output. random fluctuations can arise from external disruption (fire, floods or lightning, for ex

13、ample) or from (47) _ problems in the conversion process. variability of equipment, material imperfections, and human errors all affect output quality differently. in fact, random variations are the rule rather than the exception in production processes; therefore, to (48)_variation becomes a major

14、management task. the function of the feedback is to provide (49) _ linkages. without some feedback of information, management personnel cannot (50) operations because they don' t know the results of their directions.iii. reading comprehensionsection adirections: for each blank in the following p

15、assage there are four words or phrases marked a, b, c and d. filling in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. it was my first day to miss hargroves seventh grade. past “newcomer” experiences had been difficult, so i was very_51_ to fit in. after being introduced to the class

16、, i bravely put on a smile and took my seat.lunchtime was a pleasant surprise when the girls all crowded around my table. they were friendly, so i began to _52_. my new classmates told me about the school, the teachers and the other kids. they _53_ out the class nerd (书呆子) to me: mary lou. she was a

17、 pretty girl with dark eyes and olive-skin, _54_ she wore a long woolen skirt and an old-fashioned blouse. she looked stupid. the girls whispered and giggled _55_ mary lou walked by. she ate alone.after school, the girls invited me to join them in front of the school. i was thrilled to be a member o

18、f the club. we waited. for what, i didnt know. then mary lou came down the school steps. the girls started making fun of her, shouting rudely, biting comments. i _56_, then joined right in. mean remarks fell from my lips. no one could _57_ id never done this before. the other girls stepped back and

19、started cheering for me. feeling _58_, i pulled on her backpack and then pushed her. her backpack broke, mary lou fell and i backed off. everyone was laughing. i _59_ in. i was a leader.i was not proud. something inside me hurt. if youve ever picked a wing off a butterfly, you know how i felt. mary

20、lou got up, gathered her books and left without a tear or saying anything. she held her head _60_ as blood ran down from her knee. i _61_ her limp away down the street.i turned to leave with my _62_ friends and noticed a man standing beside his car. he must have been mary lous father he had the same

21、 olive skin, dark hair and handsome look. he remained still and watched the _63_ girl walk toward him. only his eyes shining with both sadness and pride followed. as i passed, he looked at me in silence with burning tears that reminded me of my _64_.mary lous fathers eyes taught me a good lesson tha

22、t day. i never again hurt someone for my own _65_.51. a. anxious b. excited c. worried d. afraid52. a. talk b. hesitate c. relax d. suspect53. a. picked b. pointed c. worked d. found54. a. because b. so c. and d. but55. a. as b. before c. after d. since56. a. paused b. refused c. hurried d. escaped5

23、7. a. tell b. say c. report d. announce58. a. ashamed b. guilty c. encouraged d. powerful59. a. turned b. went c. took d. fitted60. a. cautiously b. casually c. lowly d. high61. a. watched b. noticed c. glared d. glanced62. a. caring b. laughing c. puzzling d. satisfying63. a. silly b. only c. lonel

24、y d. friendly64. a. pain b. pity c. weakness d. shame65. a. loss b. gain c. effort d. dutysection 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

25、fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (a) zoe, damacela, 19, didn't have nice clothes when she was young. it wasn't easy for zoes hard-working single mother to make ends meet. they moved in and out of homeless shelters. everything changed for zoe in

26、grade nine. at that time, she heard about a sewing(缝纫) class at her school. she signed up and couldn't wait to turn her designs into clothes. the color of the first dress she made was white-black strips. soon the clothes she wore were all made by her. other girls at school loved her designs too.

27、 they asked her if they could buy dresses from her. zoe sold her first dress for $13. unfortunately, it cost her $25 to make the dress. “i had the creativity in designs," says zoe. “but i really had no idea about business.”zoe kept selling the clothes she designed. her business was booming, and

28、 even the girls who had ever teased her became her customers. in the eleventh grade, zoe took a business class. she learned how to price her clothes so that she could be sure to make a fair profit. her business teacher suggested she take part in a contest for teenaged entrepreneurs (企业家). the contes

29、t was for teens from all over the united states. zoe sent in her business plan, which explained how she planned to make her pany grow. she won the second prize in the end. zoe s success became a news item. supermodel tyra banks heard about it and she invited zoe to take part in her tv show. “being r

30、ecognized i felt really unreal,”says zoe. zoe has advice for teens who want to start their own business. “if you really work hard on it, you will be able to make it happen,” she says. “if i can do it, anyone else can.”66.we can learn that _ when she was in grade nine. a. zoe had no interest in desig

31、ning clothes b. zoe seldom wore her self-made clothes c. zoe didn' t know how to make money d. zoe attended a business course67.after winning the contest, zoe _ a. considered it a reward b. expected to be known c. was proud of her own gift d. could hardly believe it68.zoe advised the teens _ . a

32、. to make efforts to achieve their dreams b. to design and make their own clothes c. to try every means to bee famous d. to do whatever they would like to69.what is the main idea of the passage? a. how zoe learned to design clothes. b. a poor girl achieved success in business. c. how zoe got a prize

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41、p; jackson trowel73. the underlined word workhorse is closest in meaning with _.a.makerb. laborerc. speakerd. digger (c)american researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special “language protein” in the brain.the study, conducted by neuroscientists(神经学家) and psychologist fr

42、om the university of maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of the foxp2 protein. the research, published in the journal of neuroscience, found that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats that were males. their findings came after it was previousl

43、y claimed that ladies speak about 20,000 words a day over 13,000 more than men. "this study is one of the first to report a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in humans or animals,” said prof margaret mccarthy, who led the study. in their study, the researchers at

44、tempted to determine what might make male rats more vocal than their female friends. they separated four-day-old rats from their mothers and then counted the number of times they cried out in the “ultrasonic range”, the frequencies higher than humans can hear, over five minutes. while both sexes cal

45、led out hundreds of cries, the males called out twice as often, they found. but when the pups were returned to their mothers cage, she fussed over her sons first. tests conducted on the parts of the brain known to be associated with vocalcalls showed the male pups have up to twice as much foxp2 prot

46、ein as the females. the researchers then increased the production in the brains of female pups and reduced it in males. this led to the female rats crying out more often and their mothers showing more interest to them. in contrast, males became less “talkative”.the researchers then tested samples fr

47、om ten children, aged between three and five, which showed that females had up to 30 per cent more of the foxp2 protein than males, in a brain area key to language in humans.“based on our observations, we assume higher levels of foxp2 in girls and higher levels of foxp2 in male rats is an indication

48、 that foxp2 protein levels are associated with the more municative sex,” said prof mccarthy."our results imply foxp2 as a ponent of the neurobiological basis of sex differences in vocal munication in mammals."74. from the second paragraph, we can learn that _.a. women always speak more wor

49、ds than menb. men and male rats have low levels of language proteinc. women and male rats have similar levels of foxp2d. mccarthy isnt the first to find females more talkative75. the underlined phrase “fussed over” in the third paragraph probably means_.a. paid attention to b. related toc. put press

50、ure ond. counted on76. the researchers carried out the experiments on rats in order to _.a. test which part of the brain is key to language in rats and humansb. prove the levels of foxp2 protein in humans and rats are differentc. determine the reason why female rats are more talkative than male rats

51、d. discover the association between foxp2protein and vocal munication77. which of the following can be the best title for the passage? a. tests on humans and ratsb. why women are the talkative sex c. sex differences in foxp2 proteind. foxp2 protein determines oral abilitysection c directions: read t

52、he passage carefully. then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. throughout this long, tense election, everyone has focused on the presidential candidates and how they' 11 change america. rightly so. but selfishly. i' m more fascinated by michelle obam

53、a and what she might be able to do, not just for this country, but for me as an african-american woman. as the potential first lady, she would have the world' s attention. and that means that for the first time people will have a chance to get up close and personal with the type of african-ameri

54、can woman they so rarely see.usually, the lives of black women go largely unexamined. the prevailing theory seems to be that we' re all hot-tempered single mothers who can' t keep a man. even in the world of make-believe, black women still can' t escape the stereotype of being eye-rollin

55、g, oversexed females raised by our never-married, alcoholic （酗酒的） mothers.these images have helped define the way all black women are viewed, including michelle obama. before she ever gets the chance to commit to a cause, charity or foundation as first lady, her most urgent and perhaps most complica

56、ted duty may be simple to be herself.it won't be easy. because few mainstream publications have done in-depth features on regular african-american women, little is known about who we are, what we think and what we face on a regular basis. for better or worse, michelle will represent us all.just as she will have her critics, she will also have millions of fans who usually have little interest in the first lady. many african-american blogs have written about what they' d like to see michelle bring to the white housemainly showing t