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崇明区2017届第二次高考模拟考试试卷

英 语

（考试时间120分钟，满分140分。请将答案填写在答题纸上）

I. Listening Comprehension Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about 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.

1. A. In a bank. B. In a hospital. C. In a garage. D. In a store. 2. A. Office secretary. B. Hotel receptionist. C. Restaurant waitress. D. Travel agency clerk. 3. A. Take his coat off. B. Get out of the car. C. Make a right turn. D. Pay the parking fine. 4. A. At 10:25. B. At 10:05. C. At 9:55. D. At 5:10. 5. A. Pay for some of the food. B. Thank Gary for his generous offer. C. Insist on choosing their own food. D. Treat Gary to dinner some other time. 6. A. Operating on a patient. B. Giving first-aid to a patient. C. Arranging a bed for a patient. D. Looking for an available doctor. 7. A. The job is unsettled. B. He’s eager to start his new job. C. His job starts next week. D. The job interview will go well. 8. A. He doesn’t want to drive any more. B. The road to Bridgeport has just closed. C. It doesn’t take long to go to Bridgeport. D. He has memorized every part of the drive. 9. A. He already has plans for Saturday night. B. He will make a reservation at the restaurant.

C. The woman should ask her brother for a suggestion. D. The woman should decide where to eat on Saturday. 10. A. The championship will help him to keep in shape. B. She is sure the man will win back the championship. C. The championship is to be put off until a few weeks later. D. She wishes the man to be able to attend the championship.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s) will be read twice, but the questions 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 are based on the following news. 11. A. Norway. B. Denmark. C. Canada. D. New Zealand. 12. A. People can lengthen their life B. People are honest with each other. C. The country is strong enough. D. People are free to choose their life. 13. A. The happiness rating of the USA ranked 15th last year. B. People in Europe are the happiest around the world. C. National poverty can make its people unhappy. D. The least happy country is South Africa.

Questions 14 through 17 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Unlucky people who have just lost their jobs. B. Young people who are beginning their careers. C. College students who are doing voluntary work. D. Inefficient employees who often make mistakes. 15. A. Learning in a workplace is crucial. B. Knowledge is important in finding a job. C. Enthusiasm is essential for one’s career. D. Making mistakes in work is unavoidable. 16. A. Errors in work won’t cause severe consequences. B. It is a golden rule to be careful not to fail in work. C. It is you yourself who are able to control your career. D. Your first jobs can’t help your career unless attractive. 17. A. To make a “five-year plan”. B. To give it up and continue your study. C. To assume that you actually love it. D. To accept it and try to learn something useful. Questions 18 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 18. A. His fault in the basketball game. B. His failure to control his emotion. C. His teammate’s rudeness to him. D. His team’s losing the basketball game. 19. A. He didn’t think it was his fault. B. He didn’t want to worsen the situation. C. He was afraid of Caleb’s scold. D. He wanted to respect his teammates. 20. A. Apologize to Caleb. B. Think twice before acting. C. Do the same to Caleb. D. Express his opinions enough.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary 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.

Delivering Food by Drone

A Singapore restaurant plans to use drones (遥控飞机) to transport food and drinks from the kitchen to a wait station near customers’ tables.

Infinium Robotics, the Singapore company that’s developing the drones for restaurant chain Timbre, has spent the past two weeks testing the technology at the restaurant before it opens each night 21 business and hopes to have it in place by the end of the year.

But how does the drone know where to hover (盘旋)? What if someone bumps into the drone or is standing in its way? “There’s no chance at all 22 it will hit anything,” says Infinium Robotics chief executive Junyang Woon.

The drones automatically charge while 23 (wait) in the kitchen. 24 the chef puts an order on the drone, he hits a button on a keypad and the drone automatically flies to one of two wait stations. Sense-and-avoid technology 25 (build) into the drone won’t allow it to land at the wait station if anything is in its way. The drones are equipped with sonar (声纳系统) and an infrared sensor (红外线传感器), too.

A waiter then removes the food or drink from the drone and hits a button 26 sends it back to the kitchen. The drones, weighing a little over five pounds, 27 carry just over four pounds of food. Infinium Robotics is working on a model that will carry twice as 28 (much) food.

“Its job is to help the waiters to reduce some of their boring tasks, ” Woon said. “If they let the robots 29 (do) the job, they can concentrate on interacting with customers to bring about higher customer satisfaction and dining experience.”

Since it drew recent media attention, Woon 30 (hear) from resorts and restaurants in 10 countries, including the United States.

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. keep G. develop B. market C. issue D. perspective E. relevant F. avoid H. switch I. natural J. responsible K. code FDA OKs Genetically Modified Salmon for Human Consumption

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon (转基因的三文鱼), the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.

The government had tried to 31 approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years due to consumer concerns about eating genetically modified foods. But the agency said Thursday the fish is safe to eat.

In announcing the approval, the FDA said that there are “no biologically 32 differences in the nutrition of AquAdvantage Salmon compared to that of other farm-raised Atlantic salmon.”

AquAdvantage Salmon was created by the Massachusetts-based company AquaBounty. Ron Stotish, the company’s CEO, said in a statement that the fish is a “game changer that brings healthy and nutritious food to consumers in an environmentally 33 manner without damaging the ocean and other marine habitats.”

The fish grows twice as fast as normal salmon, so it reaches 34 size more quickly. It has an added growth hormone (激素) from the Pacific Chinook salmon that allows the fish to produce growth hormone all year long. The engineers were able to 35 the hormone active by using another gene from an ocean pout (a kind of fish) that acts like an “on” 36 for the hormone. Typical Atlantic salmon produce the growth hormone for only part of the year.

There is no evidence that the foods would be unsafe, but for some people, it’s an ethical (伦理的) 37 . Some people have promised not to sell the salmon, and it’s still unclear whether the public will

38 an appetite for the fish if it is approved. Genetic engineering is already widely used for crops, but the government until now has not considered allowing the consumption of modified animals. Although the potential benefits and profits are huge, many people have doubts about controlling the genetic 39 of other living creatures.

Critics worry that it could cause human allergies (过敏) and the eventual extinction of the 40 salmon population if it escapes and breeds in the wild.

III. Reading Comprehension Section 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 phrase that best fits the context.

More Parents Shifting Careers to Achieve Work-life Balance

As a television news host, Cynthia Demos’ schedule made her home life a challenge. Working nights and weekends meant she rarely put her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter to bed, or spent Saturdays at the park. So, three years ago, Demos began testing the waters to see if operating her own business making marketing videos would create an option for more 41 time.

Last month, Demos took a leap. Instead of renegotiating her 42 , she left her job to take her venture to the next level — building her own video production/media training company. It’s a career shift on a path to work-life balance that more 43 are making.

New research shows the top reason why people leave their jobs is to 44 opportunities with a better work-life balance. Those who make the 45 say there almost always is a main cause, either work- or home-related. It could be a life-changing event like the birth of a child, or it could be a new demanding boss, change in job responsibilities, or too many missed milestone events. It might even be a more 46 job offer.

For Denie Harris, the main cause was the attraction of a better 47 situation for a mom with young daughters. Harris had been marketing director for two companies in South Florida when an opportunity came her way to hold a similar position at her daughters’ school. It was a decision that required 48 all factors. The upside included seeing her children during the workday and sharing the same 49 with them. The downside was leaving the corporate world and earning less. “Everything in life is a give-and-take,” Harris says. “For a mom, working at your children’s school is the best possible place to be.”

In the 50 to achieve work-life balance, working mothers having been “quitting” jobs for more than a decade, choosing to stay at home with their children when 51 possible. But today, both men and women are