静安区2016学年第一学期教学质量检测

高三年级英语试卷 2016.12

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。试卷分为第I卷和第II卷，全卷共12页。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。 3. 答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名。

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 library

2. A. A clerk 3. A.5:00

4. A. She lost her way. C. She lost her car.

5. A. The woman would understand if she did Mary’s job. B. The woman should do the typing for Mary. C. The woman should work as hard as Mary. D. The woman isn’t a skillful typist.

6. A. He gets nervous very easily. C. He is an awful speaker.

7. A. The apple pie tastes very nice. C. The apple pie can’t match his brother’s.

8. A. She is not very interested in the article.

B. His mother likes the apple pie very much. D. His mother can’t make apple pies. B. He hasn’t prepared his speech well. D. He is an inexperienced speaker. B. She lost her keys. D. She lost her handbag.

B. 5:15

C. 5:30

D. 5:45

B. A banker

C. An operator

D. A salesman

B. In a bookstore

C. In a hospital

D. In a laboratory

B. She has given the man much trouble. C. She would like to have a copy of the article.

D. She doesn’t want to take the trouble to read the article.

9. A. He is not very enthusiastic about his English lessons. B. He has made great progress in his English. C. He is a student of the music department. D. He is not very interested in English songs.

10. A. The man went to a wrong check-in counter. B. The man has missed the flight. C. The plane will leave at 9:14.

D. The plane’s departure time remains unknown. 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 longer conversation.The passages and the longer 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.

Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. A basket. B. An egg. C. A cup.

12. A. To let in the sunshine. C. To keep the nest cool.

13. A. Some are built underground. C. Most are sewed with grasses.

B. To serve as its door.

D. An oven.

D. For the bird to lay eggs. B. Some use pears as their nests. C. Most are dried by the sun.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14.A. South Africa.

15. A. It’s a trade that is driven by customer appetites. B. The latest trick seems to be promoting business.

C. You can hardly resist the temptation when seeing the pictures of food. D. People have no idea in buying things.

B. Asia.

C. Europe.

D. South America.

16. A. Young people.

B. Foreigners.

C. Local people.

D. Old people.

Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. It is nice. C. It is totally silent.

18. A. They are available on the last Saturday of the month. B. They could work at night this month.

C. They have to be paid overtime if working this month. D. They could work at weekends at normal pay.

19.A. The engineer. C. The repairman.

20. A. They charge a fixed fee for this service. B. They provide free maintenance for 24 hours. C. They provide free maintenance for a year. D. They provide automatic maintenance service.

B. The mechanic. D. The electrician. B. It is safe and reliable. D. It is noisy.

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 from of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

iPhone 7 being investigated after surfer claims it set his car on fire

Apple is investigating a report from an Australian man who claimed his iPhone 7 caught fire and destroyed his car, the company said on Friday.

Surfer Mat Jones told Channel 7 News that he (21) __________ (go) into water off a New South Wales beach and left his new iPhone 7,brought last week, (22) __________ (wrap) in a pair of trousers in his car on the beach.

He said that (23) __________ he returned from the water he saw smoke rising from the car. “As I looked into my car, I could not see inside the car, like all the windows were just black.”

A video footage(影像) taken from another phone showed the front seats, dashboard and stick melted and charred, and Jones said that he felt “pretty much like a big heat wave just came out of the car”.

Eventually the surfer was able to remove (24)__________ was left of his clothes. “Ash was just coming from inside the pants. Once the pants were unwrapped, the phone was just melting