2017 学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷
高三英语 试卷
考生注意：
（满分 140 分，考试时间 120 分钟）
2017.12
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
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
答題纸反面清楚地填写姓名。
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. At a bank. B. On the street. C. At home. D. In a cafe. 2. A. A concert. B. A book sale. C. A banquet. D. An art exhibition. 3. A. 50 minutes. B. 25 minutes.
C. An hour and a quarter. D. An hour and a half. 4. A. The train will arrive on time. B. The train is late due to the storm. C. The woman will take the next train. D. The woman has to wait for the train. 5. A. She talks too much. B. She doesn’t like speaking. C. She is always very frank. D. She often talks loudly. 6. A. She doesn’t want to have a birthday party. B. She doesn’t like the gift. D. She doesn’t want to grow old. C. She wants to forget her birthday.
7. A. The woman doesn’t want to go out in the evening.
B. The film is not worth seeing at all.
C. The man won’t go to the movies with the woman.
D. The man is very tired from his work.
8. A. The summer this year is terribly hot. B. Last summer was even hotter. C. Hot weather helps people lose weight. D. Light was stronger this morning. 9. A. He should have invited Mary. B. He is doing business with Mary. D. He didn’t want to ask Mary to the party. C. He was not a man of his word.
10. A. She would rather invite more people to come.
B. They prepared too much food at a previous meeting.
C. The family members always eat a lot.
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D. They should prepare more food and drinks.
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. 12. 13.
A. She was born in a poor family.
B. She worked as a doctor in her early life. C. She spent her whole life in London.
D. She decided to help the poor when she was young. A. Because of the poor living conditions.
B. Because she was sent to a settlement house. C. Because of her health problem.
D. Because her family moved to another city.
A. She founded the first settlement house in America. B. She wrote books about the problems faced by the poor. C. She introduced laws to help workers, women, and children.
D. She helped those who had come to America from other countries.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. They are available in different languages except Russian.
B. They are a range of useful desktop publishing packages.
C. They are not allowed to be taken out of the college.
D. They can help the students with their language learning.
15. A. Consult him frequently. B. Use the computer regularly. C. Occupy the computer early. D. Print essays patiently. 16. A. Micro-computer lab service. B. Facilities of a college. C. The use of micro-computers. D. The operating of printers.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. He is the journalist of a local newspaper.
B. He is a huge fan of international stories.
C. He is an experienced editor of a TV program.
D. He is an advocate for environmental protection.
18. A. Current trends in economic development. B. Domestic issues of general social concern.
C. International relations and foreign policies. D. Conflicts among different political parties.
19. A. Based on what the public wants to know.
B. By interviewing people who have stories.
C. By analyzing the current social problems.
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D. Based on public expectations and editors’ judgment. 20. A. First-hand stories. B. Practical experience.
C. Audience’s feedback. D. Educational background.
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.
The Grasshopper in Van Gogh Painting
Art conservators(管理员) dream of finding (21)_______(hide) secrets in the masterpieces
they look after. Rarely do they expect to find a dead grasshopper.
Conservators at the Nelson-Atkins museum of art in Kansas City said they discovered the dead insect in one of its star paintings, Vincent van Gogh’s Olive
Trees, when it (22)_______ (scan) as part of the research for a catalogue of its French painting collection.
It was spotted by Mary Schafer. She told a local broadcaster that she found it in the work’s lower foreground. “(23)_______(look) at the painting with the microscope，I came across the tiny body of a grasshopper covered in the paint, so it (24)_______ have occurred in the wet paint back in 1889.
“We can connect it to Van Gogh painting outside, so we think of him battling the elements, dealing with the wind, the bugs, and then he’s got to walk back to his studio through the fields. What’s fun is that we can come up with all these stories for (25)_______ the insect landed in the paint.”
Schafer said they were curious to know if the grasshopper could be studied (26)_______(far) to possibly identify which season Van Gogh painted Olive Trees.
Michael Engel, a professor at the University of Kansas, was approached (27)_______(examine) the grasshopper further. He discovered that part of the insect’s body was missing and there was no sign of movement in the surrounding paint. In other words, it was already dead (28)_______ it somehow landed on the artist’s wet canvas and could not be used for dating purposes.
Van Gogh painted Olive Trees in 1889, the year after his falling out with his friend Gauguin, (29)_______ may have led to his famous act of self-mutilation in the history of art: cutting off his own ear.
The grasshopper may not help in any art historical research but it has become a talking point for museum visitors, looking closely into the painting to see (30)_______ they can spot the dead insect.
Section B
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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.