2019-2020年高三研英第一次质量调语考试试题.doc

2019-2020年高三研英第一次质量调语考试试题I. Listening prehensionSection ADirections: 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. 3:40.B. 4:00. C. 4:20. D. 3:20.2. A. He wants to get a new position. B. He is asking the woman for help. C. He has left the woman a good impression. D. He enjoys letter writing.3. A. At a newsstand. B. At a car dealers. C. At a newspaper office. D. At a publishing house.4. A. The weather forecast says it will be fine. B. The weather doesnt count in their plan. C. They will not do as planned in case of rain. D. They will postpone their programme if it rains.5.A. He is not used to city life. B. He is very tall and thin.C. Its hard to find him there. D. He is always holding a needle.6. A.His puter doesnt work well. B.He isnt getting along with his stuff.C. He didnt register for a proper course. D.He cant apply the theory to his program.7. A. He lent her his extra pen. B. He was afraid of losing his pen.C. He offered her a pencil. D. He said he didnt have any extra ink.8. A. Neither of the watches keeps good time. B. The womans watch stopped three hours ago. C. The mans watch goes too fast. D. Its too dark for the woman to read her watch.9. A. By going on a diet. B. By having fewer meals.C.By doing physical exercise. D. By eating fruits and vegetables.10. A. The planes departure time remains unknown. B. The man went to a wrong check-in counter. C. The man has just missed the flight. D. The plane will leave at 9:14.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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. 100 million. B. 50 to 100 million. C. 15 million. D. 500 million.12. A. Aristotle. B. A Russian. C. Nobel. D. Dolly.13. A. Animal testing is unnecessary and a poor scientific practice. B. Animals have played an important part in many scientific research. C. Many Nobel Prize winners are interested in animal testing. D. Animal research was carried out in every medical advance of the last century.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. To encourage people to participate in a club activity. B. To introduce a new kind of bicycle. C. To inform beginning cyclists about New Jerseys traffic laws. D. To warn tourists about bicycling on the roadways.15. A. Some of them are inaccessible to beginning cyclists. B. Some of them record the development of the bicycle. C. They are nice places to visit on bicycle tours. D. They help to make New Jersey a wealthy state.16. A. Repair their bicycles. B. Go on a bicycle tour. C. Take a test about road safety. D. Participate in a bicycle race. Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Hospital RegistrationNAME: Michelle RobertsHOME ADDRESS: 81 South 17 DrivePOSTCODE: 18 NATIONALITY: 19 ARRIVAL DATE: May 12thDEPARTURE DATE: May 20 plete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Why does the woman want to see the manager?Because she wants to 21 .Why is the woman so angry?Because it seems that the hotel didnt have 22 before she moved in.What will the manager send someone to do there?He will send someone to examine the 23 .What is the possible reason for the hotels carelessness?They have been extremely busy with 24 .plete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.IIGrammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages 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.ARunning is being increasingly popular in cities because it is a good way of keeping fit. More importantly, it (25)_ (signal) a societys awakening against the slavery imposed by the modern way of life, plete with the Internet, mobile phones, iPads and apps which make people lazy, says Liao Baoping in (26)_ article in Xinhua News Telegraph.Not only are more people taking to running, they are (27)_ using wearable devices and using software on their cellphones to record the distance they cover and the amount of calories they burn. Besides, charting out ideal running routes in cities has bee a popular topic of discussion among runners.But apart from physical fitness and stress-relief, there are other reasons why running has bee so popular in China. (28)_ hen an activity bees fashion, says Liao, it has to satisfy peoples psychological needs .The mute from home to office and back, or a drive to a shopping mall, has bee routine in todays concrete jungles. Living in rooms (29)_ with air conditioners, many people dont even feel the changes in the season. We are moving farther away from nature thanks to the knowledge and technologies (30)_ have been acquired and mastered so far,says Liao. According to Liao, to some extent, running is an escape from the risks and boredom of modern life. It (31)_ be seen as peoples longing for a return to nature.People desperately want to get rid of the restrictions of modern life. And a pair of running shoes and perseverance are (32)_ one needs to bee a runner and embrace nature.BAmericans are living longer, with ouraverage life expectancy now surpassing 78 years, up from less than 74 years in 1980.But we are not necessarily living (33) _(healthy). The incidence of a variety of chronic diseases,(34) _diabetes and heart disease, has also been growing dramatically, especially among people who are not yet elderly.The mix of those two developments (35) _(lead) to what some researchers have identified as a “lengthening of morbidity(病态)”. (36) _means we are spending more years living with chronic disease and ill health-not the oute that most of us would hope for from a prolonged life span.But a notable new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that a little advance planning could change that prospect. Being or being fit in middle age, the study found, (37) _ _ you havent previously bothered with exercise, appears to reshape the landscape in aging.For the study, researchers gathered medical records for 18,670 middle-aged men and women whod visited the Cooper Clinic for a checkup (38) _ (begin) in 1970.(39) _ they found was that those adults who had been the least fit at the time of their middle-age checkup also were the most likely (40) _ (develop) any of eight serious or chronic conditions early in the ageing process. These include heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimers, and colon or lung cancer.Section BDirections: plete the following passage by using the words in the boxEach word can only be used onceNote that there is one word more than you needA. equivalents B. increase C. capped D. acknowledged E. regulations F. paratively G. undeniable H. vast I. restoration J. ranked K. moderatelyThis past National Day holiday saw upwards of half a billion Chinese citizens travelling. While some flew off to international destinations, the _41_ majority enjoyed the many tourist sites that China has to offer. If you were one of those people who decided to explore Chinas scenic spots, you probably realized that it isnt just the mountain steps that are steep-the entrance fees are, too!The average cost of the highest _42_ 5A attractions is 109 yuan. This could prove to be a little too steep for some families, who find themselves spending too large a portion of their holiday budget on admission tickets. The 32 5A locations that upped their prices in the past five years experienced an average _43_ of over 40 percent. The bad news is that these prices are expected to continue to rise. So how does Chinas situation pare to other parts of the world? The average fees for cultural and historical sites seem to be on par with(与同价) international _44_ Its quite another story, however, when you pare natural wonders. For example, the cost of a ticket to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park(张家界国家森林公园) hovers around 245 yuan for a three-day tour. This seems _45_ high when you consider that a week long pass to Americas Yellowstone National Park (黄石国家公园)is a mere 74 yuan. here are _46_ benefits to increased revenue(收益) from ticket sales, which support necessary _47_ , maintenance and operation costs. This is especially important for sites that must keep visitor numbers down in order to protect the natural environment. However, it must also be _48_ that many of Chinas tourist attractions are operated by private panies who are ultimately protecting their bottomline(盈亏底线). While the government has put some _49_ in place, such as only allowing entrance fees to be raised once every three years, they have not _50_ the upper limit of ticket prices and increases. Further measures to settle the dispute are being considered. In the meantime, some families are forced to re-think if some attractions are really worth the costs.III. Reading prehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passages 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.The continuous presentation of frightening stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it _51_ our kids.Al Gore famously _52_ how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost pletely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, _53_ that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that. When _54_ with these exaggerations（夸大）, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.This _55_ is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying excessively about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, _56 _, on global warmings impact on malaria (疟疾)-which will put slightly more people at _57_ in 100 years - instead of tackling the half a billion people _58_from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be. Exaggeration also wears out the publics _59_to cope with global warming. If the planet is certain to be destroyed owing to global warming, people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A _60_ of people now believe incorrectly that global warming is not even caused by humans.But the _61_ cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes particularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal _62_ from global warming.The newspaper also reported that parents are _63_effective outlets for their eight-year-olds concern with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, _64_ to mon belief, the global polar bear population has doubled over the past half- century, to about 22,000. _65_ the possible disappearing of summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not bee extinct.51. A. exhausts B. depresses C. terrifies D. exploits52. A. dismissed B. demonstrated C. deposited D. described53. A. measuring B. justifying C. estimating D. advocating54. A. faced B. identified C. equipped D. entitled55. A. announcement B. argument C. interaction D. dialogue56. A. for example B. in addition C. by contrast D. in short57. A. peace B. leisure C. ease D. risk58. A. suffering B. evolving C. developing D. prohibiting59. A. ability B. endurance C. willingness D. preference60. A. mixture B. majority C. quantity D. crowd61. A. smallest B. worst C. fewest D. least62. A. separation B. reservation C. isolation D. extinction63. A. turning out B. taking over C. searching for D. pulling through64. A. sensitive B. contrary C. related D. accustomed65. A. Despite B. Besides C. Without D. ExceptSection BDirections: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just readAAre some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by ourenvironment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. Tosome extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a geniusout of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environmentwill develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of persons intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can besupported in a number of ways. It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extentsomething we are born with. The closer theblood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will bepletely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be asintelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth. Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We mightsend one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We wouldsoon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth playsa part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other,but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.66. Which of these sentences best describes the writers point in Paragraph 1? A. To some extent, intelligence is given at birth. B. Intelligence is developed by the environment. C. Some people are born clever and others born stupid. D. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.67. It is suggested in this passage that_.A. close relation usually have similar intelligence B. unrelated people are not likely to have different intelligenceC. the closer the blood relationship between people, the more different they are likely to be in intelligenceD. people who live in close contact with each other are not likely to have similar degrees of intelligence68. The phrase “at random”(Line3, para.2) means _ . A. purposely B. intendedly C .aimlessly D. independently69. The best title for this article would be_.A. What Dose Intelligence Means ?B. On IntelligenceC. We Are Born with IntelligenceD. Environment Plays a Part in Developing IntelligenceB WhichtabletputershouldYOUbebuying:Theyarethisyearsmusthave.andtheresastyletosuiteveryone?Best for young childrenLeapPad Explorer 2, 68Aimedat children between three and nine (though a nine-year-old might find it a little simple), it es in pink or blue and with five built-in education games (you can buy more). Besides, the LeapPad does not allow access to the internetso it is impossible for your child tostumble acrossanything inappropriate.Pros:The education games are well-designed, the built-in video camera is a fun way to play at being a film director.Cons:Some of the games are shockingly expensive. And the power adaptor is not included.Best for teenagersiPad 4th generation, 399-659The iPad is still the market leader, and for good reason. If the teenager in your house enjoys playing puter games, the latest offering from Apple is the one to choose.Pros:No other tablet can pete with the near one millionapps (the name Apple created for specially-designed downloadable programs) available for the iPad.Simple to use, even for those who usually struggle with technology.Cons:Considerably more expensive than most petitors.Best forworking parentsMicrosoft Surface, 399-559Tablets are brilliant for leisurebut what if you want to do a bit of work? No tablet can yet pete witha full-size laptop puter, butthis is the only tabletthat allows you to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint(they are all pre-installed and included in the price) and youcan buy a pretty lovely mini- keyboard for typing letters and emails, which also doubles up as the cover.Pros:The Surface is good for watching moviesa bonus when stuck in the airport on a business tripand surfing the internet.Con:The keyboard is an expensive add-oncosting up to 109. It might be cheaper to buy a laptop (though a tablet is much smaller and lighter).Best for bookwormsAmazon Kindle Paperwhite, 109Nearly all tablets let you download books. Its a great way to take a mountainous pile of hardbacks on holiday without stuffing your suitcase.But most tablets have a shiny screenwhich can be very distracting when youre trying to read. The Paperwhite is different: its matt screen and crisp black lettering imitate the look of words on paper brilliantly.And yet you can still read the words in the dark.Pros:Easy on the eye, excellent battery life, 180,000 free books (if you subscribe to the Amazon Prime customer loyalty service) plus hundreds of thousands more to buy.Cons:No TV, films, games, internet or camera.70. The underlined phrasestumble acrossmost probably means_.A.quarrel with