浦东新区2018学年度第二学期高三综合练习

1、浦东新区2018学年度第二学期高三综合练习英 语考生注意： 考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答 题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名。 listening comprehensionsection adirections: in section a, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. at the end of each conversation, a question will be asked a

2、bout what was said. the conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. after you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. a. ata supermarket.b. at a snack bar.c. at

3、a photo studio.d.at a fancy restaurant.a. airport staff and passenger.c. ticket collector and moviegoer.3.a. $39.9.b. $87. a. herself.b. her coach. a. she broke her leg.c. she broke up with him. a. smoke with the window open.c. resist the temptation of smoking. a. she never reads a newspaper.b. wait

4、er and customerd. policeman and witness.c. $93.d. $41.8.c. a barber.d. her friend.b. she broke her walking stick.d. she was in bed with the flu.b. quit smoking completely.d. be careful of smoking.b.shehas made a great fortune.c. she has the foggiest idea of business. d. she is a gifted stock operato

5、r.a. hit the display until it unfreezes. ask the repair store to fix the calculator. borrow the tools needed to fix the calculator. figure out what is wrong with the calculator. a. laborious. b. casual.c. extended. d. well-planned. a. violence sports are the source of social instability. violence sp

6、orts are to blame for the school bullying. violence sports serve as an escape for negative emotions. violence sports should expand the fans base in the long run.section bdirections: in section b, you will hear two passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of

7、 the passages and the conversation. the passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the question will be spoken only once. when you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.questions 11 through 13 a

8、re based on the following passage. a. finding an ideal job.b. helping others in trouble.c. wearing fashionable skirts.d. living in a beautiful apartment. a. to explore psychology and philosophy. to finish his paper on positive psychology. to find how people can live a meaningful life. to pursue happ

9、iness and get rid of depression. a. by editing, interpreting and retelling their story. by being loyal to what happens in their daily life. by learning from the events of other people's life. by fully understanding how others became fulfilled.questions 14 through 17 are based on the following pa

10、ssage. a. wearing gloves.b. telling stories-c. taking moves.d. publicizing souvenirs. a. round edges are more time-consuming than angles in animation. animation （动画制作）is long considered to be an easy process. animators strategically simplifies the process by means of gloves. animation wins the popul

11、arity because of its fast output and accuracy. a. because characters in the cartoons were given a personal touch. because they distinguished the characters9 hands from the bodies. because walt disney pioneered the industry and others followed the suit. because mickey mouse and his friends wrote thei

12、r signature with gloves. a. what do glove stand for in disney? how did gloves become popular in disney? when were gloves brought into being in disney? why do many disney characters wear gloves?questions 18 through 20 are based on the following conversation. a. he has kept the healthy habit for a lon

13、g time. he goes to the gym accompanied by his girlfriend. he used to have the dream of becoming a muscular man. his old clothes look tight on him due to physical exercise. a. it's quite practical.b.it's quite impressive.c. it's really rewarding.d.it's a little extreme. a. ryan still

14、kept the intensity of workout during christmas. ryan invested a lot of money in his outfits to look fashionable. ryan has kicked the caffeine habit because of unhealthy ingredients. speaking of fitness, what ryan says is not in line with what he does. grammarandvocabularysectionadirections: after re

15、ading 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.can indoor plants really purify the air?plants

16、 are very important to human life. through photosynthesis (光 合作 用)，they transform carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen. they (21)_(assume) to remove toxins from the air we breathe一but is this true?one famous nasa experiment, published in 1989, has found indoor plants can clean the air by removing pollut

17、ants (22)_(cause) cancer. later research has found soil micro-organisms in the potted plant also (23)(play) a part in cleaning indoor air.based on this research, some scientists say house plants are effective natural air purifiers, and the bigger and leafier the plant, the better. the amount of leaf

18、 surface area influences the rate of air purification. (24), however, s“there are no definitive studies to show that having indoor plants can significantly increase the air quality in your home," (25)luz claudio, aprofessor of environmental medicine and public health. "there's no quest

19、ion (26)plants are capable of removing volatile (易挥 发的)chemical toxins from the air under laboratory conditions," says claudio. but in your home or office space, the notion that putting a few plants together can purify your air doesn't have much hard science (27)(back) it up.most research e

20、fforts to date, including the nasa study, placed indoor plants in small,(28)_ (seal) environments to assess how much air-purifying power they have. "but those studies aren't really applicable to what happens in a house. in many cases, the air in your home completely turns overthat is, excha

21、nges places with outdoor air一once every hour. in most instances, air exchange with the outside has a (29) (great) effect on indoor air quality than plants.” says stanley kays, a professor of horticulture (园艺学).disappointed (30)many people may be by what kays said, the professor alsomade it clear tha

22、t he believes house plants are beneficial. studies have shown plants can knock out stress and make people feel happier. more research shows spending time around nature has a positive effect on a person's mood and energy levels.section bdirections: fill in each blank with a proper word chosen fro

23、m the box. each word can be used only once. note that there is one word more than you need.a. directlyb. popularityc. regulard. sustainabilitye. arousingf. restoringg. estimateh. demandi. mainstreamj. definitelyk. tracksmart homes around the cornerinternet-connected lights, locks and laundry machine

24、s are close to becoming everyday household items, thanks in part to voice-activated speakers such as amazon's echo and google home.the market has witnessed increasing sales of lights that turn off when you say "good night," smart locks that let in your friends before you get home, and

25、other smart-home gadgets ( 小 配 件).smart speakers and their digital assistants also have been growing in_31_. from your couch, you can ask these smart assistants to play your favorite music, check the weather, order pizza or_32_flights.while the devices are still relatively expensive一you can get six_

26、33_light bulbs for the price of a single smart one.34_is likely to pick up further as prices fall in the future.moreover, the more people use such speakers, it turns out, the more things they want them to do. in some cases, that leads_35to other smart gadgets for the home. people who own anecho are_

27、36_more likely to install other smart gadgets, said david limp, amazon's senior vice president of devices and services. "they don't start by rewiring the whole home. they start with a switch." that switch, known as a smart plug, can make any appliance remote-controllable by cutting

28、 or_37jts powerust ask an assistant to turn it off or on.u.s. sales of smart speakers have more than tripled （增至三倍）to nearly 25 million in 2017, as shown by a cta （commodity trading advisors） 38 . they're expected to grow further this year, to about 36 million, as apple's homepod joins the c

29、ompetition.smart-home products such as lights and security cameras are lagging behind, but they have been catching up. "we're still in the early stages/ said jeff patton, a smart-home executive at general electric. "while the gadgets aren't yet_39_,'' he said, "average

30、 people are much more aware of them".alex hawkinson, ceo of samsung's smart things smart-home business, said that about half of his new customers are coming because of smart speakers "_40_a lot of excitement?" once people get their first smart product, such as a smart plug, they a

31、re likely to buy more, market researchers say. they also tell friends and neighbors about them, and might buy some as gifts. readingcomp reh ensi on sec tion a directions: 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

32、phrase that best fits the context.children's books are filled with fantastic friendships between humans and beasts. from a young age, we learn that if a tiger comes for tea we should expect it to eat all our sandwiches, and if a peruvian bear41for lunch we had better have some marmalade （柑橘酱）int

33、he cupboard.in this fantasy world, we can coexist peacefully with large mammals.42, inreal life, young people are having fewer wild interactions than ever before. in part this is a result of43screen time and decreased access to wild spaces. perhaps it doesn'thelp that many countries drove out th

34、eir most exciting 44 bears and wolvesenturies ago.had they not, more people in the developed world might now be facing similar problems to those in novaya zemlya. the playgrounds of this remote russian archipelago （彳我罗 j圻 半岛）were recently_45_ by a group of hungry polar bears, driven into human settl

35、ements in search of food and46after rising temperatures destroyed the last hospitable slices of the arctic sea ice. it's the same stoiy we see across the world: habitat_47_driving elephants to attack crops, human settlements spreading into tiger territory, and people losing their lives to big ca

36、ts.the incident of the polar bear in the playground is not a/an48consequencesto the humans who melted the ice caps. we have known for years that arctic temperatures are rising at49 rates. it should come as no surprise that the polarbears we have forced to leave their natural homes have50shouting at

37、humans'front doors in search of their basic requirements for survival. unfortunately, they are more 51to be met with the business end of a shotgun than a marmalade sandwich. and whocan criticize the people in the main settlement, belushya guba, for wanting to protect themselves?we've had yea

38、rs to52these issues. this is not an unusual53but thelatest in a list of increasingly frequent human/polar bear incidents. and it's part of an even longer list of rapidly growing areas where there is human/wildlife conflict. we can't_54_the local residents of novaya zemlya for their quiet tow

39、n becoming a bear refugee camp. they are not the ones burning fossil fuels,_55_ farming cows and flying across the world fbr business meetings. it's almost always the case that those making the decisions that are most serious for the environment are the furthest from the consequences-a. drops in

40、b. makes upc. carries ond. reaches outa. thereforeb. meanwhilec. otherwised. furthermorea. accumulatedb. wastedc. increasedd. fixeda. immigrantsb. citizensc. localsd. inhabitantsa. invadedb. searchedc. desertedd. suitoundeda.cavesb. territoryc. companionsd. sheltera. rangeb. formationc. lossd. selec

41、tiona. profoundb.severec. unexpectedd. upseta. moderateb. horrifyingc. similard. varyinga. stuck tob. gone onc.ended upd. protested ata. reluctantb. likelyc. desperated. confidenta. examineb. reportc. identifyd. addressa. occurrenceb. escapec. presenced. explorationa. admireb. rewardc.respectd. blam

42、ea. intensivelyb. realisticallyb. specificallyd. practicallysection 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 fits best according to the inf

43、ormation given in the passage you have justread.(a)when i was a puppy, i entertained you and made you laugh. you called me your child, and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered pillows, i became your best friend. whenever i was "bad”，you'd shake your finger at me and ask

44、 "how could you?”一but then you rolled me over for a belly (腹部)rub.i remember those nights of rubbing you in bed and listening to your secret dreams, and i believed that life could not be any more perfect.gradually, you began spending more time at work and on your career, and more time searching

45、 for a human mate. she, now your wife, is not a “dog person”一still i welcomed her into our home, tried to show her affection, and obeyed her. i was happy because you were happy.then the human babies came along and i shared your excitement. i was fascinated by the pinkness, how they smelled, and i wa

46、nted to mother them, too. only she and you worried that i might hurt them, and i spent most of my time in another room.there had been a time, when others asked you if you had a dog, that you produced a photo of me from your wallet and told them stories about me. these past few years, you just answer

47、ed "yes” and changed the subject i had gone from being “your dog” to 'just a dog”.now, you have a new career opportunity in another city, and you and they will be moving to another apartment that does not allow pets. you've made the right decision for your "family", but there

48、was a time when i was your only family.people in the animal shelter are attentive to me, but i lost my appetite. at first whenever anyone passed, i rushed to the front, hoping it was youthat this was all a bad dream or i hoped it would at least be someone who cared, anyone who might save me. how did

49、 the author treat the puppy when it was at a younger age? he entertained the puppy with jokes and gestures. he treated the puppy as if it were a family member. he disciplined the puppy when it made a mess. he kept the puppy at a distance for the chewed shoes. why was the puppy excluded from the room

50、 after the babies were born? the puppy was tempted by the babies' pinkness and sweet smell. the puppy poses a serious danger to the health and well-being of babies. the couple were concerned that the babies would be in danger. the master envied the natural affection between the babies and the pu

51、ppy. what can we infer from the last 3 paragraphs? it was hard for the puppy to accept the fact that it was ignored. the master had a mixed feeling for the advancement in career. the puppy felt relieved for the master's establishment of a new family. it was urgent for the master to give up the p

52、uppy and move to another city.which of the following could be the best title for the passage?a. a good heart to lean onb. new member of the familyc. the words of an abandoned dogd. animal shelter: the lasthome for puppies(b)with the lure (诱 惑 )of high salaries and strong job prospects, a lot of stud

53、ents enter college thinking they will major in engineering. if you think engineering might be a good choice for you, a summer engineering program is a great way to learn more about the field and expand your experiences. below are some excellent summer engineering programs.johns hopkins engineering i

54、nnovationthis introductory engineering course for rising juniors and seniors is offered by johns hopkins university at several locations across the country. engineering innovation teaches critical thinking and applied problem-solving skills for future engineers through lectures, research and project

55、s. if the student achieves an a or b in the program, they will also receive three transferable credits from johns hopkins university. the program runs for four or five days a week over four to five weeks, depending on the location. most locations offer commuter programs only, but the johns hopkins h

56、omewood campus in baltimore also offers a residential option.minority introduction to engineering and science (mites)the massachusetts institute of technology offers this enrichment program for high school juniors interested in engineering, science and entrepreneurship. students select five of 14 ri

57、gorous (严格的)academic courses to study over the six weeks of the program, during which time they have several opportunities to network with a diverse group of individuals within the fields of science and engineering. students also share and celebrate their own cultures. mites is scholarship-based; th

58、ose students selected for the program need only provide their own transportation to and from the mit campus.summer engineering exploration camphosted by the university of michigan, this program is a one-week residential camp for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in engineering. participants have the opportunity to explore several different areas of engineering during engineering workplace tours, group projects, and presentations by students, faculty and professional engineers. campers also enjoy recreati