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虹口区2017学年第二学期期中教学质量监控测试

高三英语 试卷 2018.4

考生注意：

1. 考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。

2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答題必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上

一律不得分。

3. 答題前，务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码貼在指定位置上，在答題纸反面清

楚地填写姓名。

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 restaurant.

B. In a bookstore.

C. At a bus stop.

D. In a library.

2. A. Guest and receptionist. 3. A. Writing his term paper. 4. A. It’s quite dear.

C. It’s very cheap.

B. Passenger and air hostess. D. Consumer and waitress. B. Having a coffee break. D. Attending an online school. B. It’s not good. D. She doesn’t like it. B. Look for a full-time job. D. Make a plan for a trip.

B. He’s sorry for there being no enough cash. D. She has to go to the manager’s desk. B. He is too busy at work to play. D. He lives in the countryside. C. 40MPH.

D. 10MPH.

C. Customer and shop assistant. C. Playing computer games.

5. A. Work in a restaurant.

C. Travel around Hainan Island. 6. A. He’s too busy to serve her. 7. A. He works as a gardener. 8. A. 60 MPH.

C. She should open a new savings account. C. He prefers sports to gardening.

B. 50MPH.

9. A. The man could not wait to see Susan.

C. Susan is waiting for the latest news.

B. Susan is eager to pass on information. D. The man knows the latest news in town.

10. A. Risks may exist when they chase high profits in a short time.

B. It’s feasible for people to be after large short-term profits. C. No one can avoid being victims of financial tricks. D. Every one is likely to make large short-term profits.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation 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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

C. On Wednesdays and Thursdays.

B. On Tuesdays and Thursdays. D. On Tuesdays and Fridays. C. Once a month. B. Attendance rate. D. Final exam.

D. Twice a month.

12. A. Once a week. B. Twice a week.

13. A. Classroom tests.

C. Research papers.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Parents.

B. Teachers.

C. Experts.

D. Businessmen.

15. A. Maintain a savings account.

C. Hire a personal accountant.

B. Visit the bank regularly. D. Manage his own money.

16. A. The current economic situation has a negative influence on America.

B. Parent-child communication on financial matters must be open. C. Teens should learn to handle money matters well on their own. D. Financial managers are most needed during the economic crisis.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. March.

B. April.

C. May.

D. September.

18. A. Inform the director of student housing in a letter.

B. Deposit some money in the bank.

C. Go to the housing office to make a dorm deposit. D. Maintain a high grade average.

B. It costs too much. D. It is too noisy. B. When to move. D. Whose house to visit.

C. The rooms are too small.

19. A. There are too many freshmen. 20. A. Where to live the following year.

C. How much time to spend at home.

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.

Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?

Booklovers, most of them, will tell you (21)______ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend – the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel (22)____ ____ you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn’t lend it out.

But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to have their latest literary enthusiasm (23)_____ (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can. You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, (24)______ (use) any device with the Barnes & Noble e-book reader software. It’s a big improvement from previous e-book readers.

The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is (25)______ on the lower part of the device there’s a color touch screen, (26)______ allows you to browse through a book or magazine, but goes black when you’re not using it so that you save power.

(27)______ exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection (28)______ (read) whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s competitors can come close to this.

But the Nook, ironically, (29)______ (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes and Noble, or at least a job-loser for Barnes and Noble’s employees. According to Marian Maneker at The Big Money Website, (30)______ the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.

Section B

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

A. branch B. department C. appropriate D. expansion E. withdrew F. dominated G. licensed H. contract I. considerable J. brands K. breakthrough Foreign Giants Target Chinese Milk Market

European dairy products giant Arla Foods has chosen a leading Chinese milk manufacturers as a business partner for its 31 in China—a clear sign that overseas companies are starting to cultivate huge China’s dairy market by tying up with local players.

Arla signed the cooperation 32 , which comes into effect this month, with Mengniu Dairy at the end of August to set up a milk-powder joint venture in Hohhot, capital of North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The deal between Arle Foods and Mengniu can be seen as a new 33 for Multinational’s re-entry into the sector.

Many foreign giants have found it difficult to create 34 profits in domestic milk market, especially the liquid-milk sector, which is followed closely by price wars and dominated by local 35 —companies like Danone, Kraft and Friesland Coberco have quitted dairy production in China.

A few have been successful—Nestle, Intel, Bristo-Myers Squibb and Wyeth have 36 the high-end milk-formula market in China.

“We will watch the market closely and re-invest here in a(n) 37 time,” an official of the Dutch firm Friesland said when it 38 its investment in its Tianjin joint venture last year after eight years.

The company has 39 its Chinese partner to continue using its Dutch Lady brand and also sells its imported Friso infant foods, Dutch Lady milk powder and Dutch Lady Calcimex in the Chinese market through its 40 company in Hong Kong. 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.

Our modern working lives are ruled by the concept of competence(能力). The idea that lies behind