松江区2016学年度第一学期质量监控试卷
高三英语
（满分140分，考试时间120分钟）
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 conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers in your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. At a train station. B. At an airport. C. At a gas station. D. At a bus station. 2. A. $4. B. $10. C. $14. D. $40. 3. A. Receptionist and guest. B. Teacher and student. C. Doctor and patient. D. Waiter and diner. 4. A. She has got everything ready. B. She never hesitates over what to take. C. She hates packing by herself. D. She needs more time for packing. 5. A. They should wait for John for a while. B. They should stay here for the night. C. They should start the meeting right away. D. They should call John at once. 6. A. Reasonable. B. Bright. C. Serious. D. Ridiculous. 7. A. She isn’t the mood to travel. B. France is too far for family holiday. C. Family holiday no longer interests her. D. She has had too many holiday this year. 8. A. Send leaflets. B. Go sightseeing. C. Do some gardening. D. Visit a lawyer. 9. A. The man is too forgetful. B. The man shouldn’t get annoyed. C. The man has too many keys. D. The man should attend more lessons. 10. A. He wants to live in apartments. B. He thinks his signature is unnecessary. C. He has already signed a contract. D. He doesn’t always say what he means.
Section B
Directions: In section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passage. The passage 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 would be the answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Use the company’s equipment. B. Give orders to robots. C. Make decisions for the company. D. Act as Big Brother. 12. A. Employees gain full freedom. B. Employees suspect one another. C. Employees children are happy. D. Employees enjoy working there. 13. A. Reward. B. Safety. C. Trust. D. Honesty.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Education children. B. Saving rare animals. C. Recreating an environment. D. Making a profit. 15. A. Animals make visitors stressful. B. Animals must live their lives in cages. C. Animals can feel bored and sad. D. Animals are in danger of extinction. 16. A. They are still useful and necessary.
B. They have more disadvantages than advantages. C. They are a perfect environment for animals. D. They are recreational places for animals.
Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear a conversation. The conversations will be read twice. 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.
Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. It comes from the heart. B. It’s something you have to think about. C. It never gets boring. C. It’s not a feeling or an emotion. 18. A. She had long black hair. B. She wore black leather clothes. C. She never wore pants. C. She wore blue jeans. 19. A. Up Your Alley. B. The Blackhearts. C. Gary Glitter. D. Sly and the Family Stone. 20. A. She didn’t actually have much influence. B. People still don’t understand her. C. She still wants to perform. D. She is a star on the stage.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.
Maddie and her mother, Stephanie, thought the screams for help were just Boy Scouts (童子军) messing around. But then they saw the scene: the boy scouts surrounding a hiker who (21)________(take) a scary six-meter drop in an area near the Hoover Darn, a fall that left his
right arm with a bone (22)__________(stick) out. The mother and the daughter (23)
__________(suppose) to be having a fun-filled weekend to celebrate Maddie’s 17th birthday. But the trip turned into an emergency life-saving adventure. Maddie and her mother were nearly a kilometer into their 18 kilometer river trip in Black Carryon when they pulled onto some sand. The boy scouts.(24)__________ had called 911, had tied a loose bandage around the hiker’s broken arm to stop the bleeding.
Maddie knew another bandage was needed and thought of her lifeguard training. She asked (25)__________anyone had a pen or a stick, and someone picked up a branch. She turned the bandage, careful not to hit the bone(26)_________ it stopped most of the bleeding.
The girl grew up doing junior guards and had recently takena first-aid class as part of her training (27)__________(become) a lifeguard with California State Parks at Crystal Cove. “I’m happy these trainings are so useful” she said. “(28)_________ them, this guy probably would have died. This is something I will never forget. I’ve been considering my college and future career choices and now really feels like that the emergency medical field is(29)________ I would enjoy.”
It’s not the first time Maddie has quickly jumped into action when (30)_________(need). In 2015 when she was just 15 during the Surf City Marathon, she was near a man who dropped at mile 26. She pulled him out of the road and treated him for shock until paramedics (医务人员) arrived.
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 world more than you need. A. statuses B. relevantly C. reserves D. highlighting E. population F. estimated G. downgraded H. driving I. critically J. enforced K. reverse
Good news for giant panda lovers: the cute and cuddly creature has just been brought back from the edge of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ____31____ the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union released its updated Red List on Sept.4 at Hawaii with their ____32____ growing by 17 percent in the decade leading up to 2014.
Chinese conservation efforts, including forest protection and reforestation, are considered to be the ____33____ force behind the animal’s re-prosperity. The number of panda ____34____ in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds of all wild pandas live there. Restoring the panda’s habitat has given them back their space with food available to them.
A part from giant pandas, the Tibetan Antelope has also moved from “endangered” to “near threatened”. According to a statement from IUCN, the animals numbers have shrunk severely- dropping from around I million to a(n)___35___65,000-72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s-due to commercial poaching(偷猎). Rigorous protection has since been ___36___ to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000.
Despite the improved __37__ wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face great challenges. The IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate more than 35 percent of the panda’s bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would ____38____ the species recent gains.