青浦区2020-2020学年第二学期教学质量监测
高三年级英语学科试卷
2020.12 考生注意：
1.考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。
2.本次考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。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，并将核对后的条形码贴在指定位置上，在答题纸反面清楚地填写姓名。
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. Two. B. Four. C. Five. D. Three.
2. A. In a bookstore. B. In a clinic.
C. In an electronics store.
D. In a cinema.
3. A. A salesperson. B. A pilot. C. A waitress. D. A firefighter.
4. A. To work in July. B. To print a form.
C. To go back to school.
D. To take a vocation.
5. A. He dropped his phone. B. He hates long-distance calls.
C. His call got cut off.
D. His mobile is too long.
6. A. He is consulting. B. He is arguing with the woman.
C. He is complaining.
D. He is giving advice.
7. A. People are waiting at the automatic ticket machine.
B. The man will not stay in line for the tickets.
C. The woman will exchange tickets at the machine.
D. They are waiting in line buying tickets for a movie.
8. A. She has confidence in her job. B. She has just got a job promotion.
C. She is excited to see the man.
D. She will make greater efforts.
9. A. Find a paper in the copy machine.
B. Fill out an application form.
C. Show her library card.
D. Sit at the table next to her.
10. A. The posters are not as good as the stalls.
B. The stall could have been more amazing.
C. The charity event was a copy of the past.
D. She was having hearing problems.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you
will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s)
and the passage(s) 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. To show one’s love. B. To comfort someone.
C. To identify an old friend.
D. To congratulate someone.
12. A. France. B. America. C. China. D. Britain.
13. A. A comparison between the west and the east.
B. People hug each other for many reasons.
C. The French is a nation fond of hugging.
D. A study on IQ and hugs.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.
14. A. To save time for laws to take effect.
B. To weaken the government’s check.
C. To give himself more power.
D. To change the country’s political system.
15. A. A category. B. A measurement.
C. An activity.
D. An airport.
16. A. The major industrial growth. B. The number of people at the airport.
C. The side effect of an emergency.
D. The unhealthy level of pollution.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. Aging process. B. A talk show.
C. Job hunting.
D. Work pressure.
18. A. He will be in a talk show in the afternoon.
B. He used to be an actor but now a manager.
C. He noticed the woman was under stress long ago.
D. He suggests the woman do something different.
19. A. Hungry. B. Exhausted. C. Energetic. D. Relaxed.
20. A. The woman feels stressed because she is aging.
B. The woman feels sick, so she doesn’t want to have lunch.
C. Payday makes the woman feel better despite the great pressure.
D. The man was happy that he was not given the job he applied for II. Grammar and vocabulary 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.
One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. After hearing that, all students ____21____ (seat) and waited for the test to begin. The professor gave the test papers to all students with the text____22_____ (face) down at the desk. Once he handed out the test papers to all students, he asked them to turn the test pages and begin.
Students’ were confused to see there was not a question ____23_____just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor noticed the students’ face expression and told them, “I want you to write
about what you see there.”
printformThe students were even __24__ (confused) but started the test by then. At the end of the class,. the professor took all answer sheets and started reading each answer in front of all students. All of them described about the black dot, ___25______ position they tried to explain. After the professor finished reading, the whole class was silent.
The professor explained, "Don't worry. I am not going to give you grades but I just want you to think about something. Here ___26______ focused on the black dot but no one wrote about the white paper, and the same is with our lives. The white paper represents our whole life and the black spot represents problems in our life. ___27___ our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, we have every reason to celebrate. Still we just focus on problems like health issues, problems in relationships etc., but we never see these problems are very small compared with___28___ we have in our lives.”
So there is the moral lesson: we ___29______ try to take eyes off our problems and enjoy each moment that life _____30____ (give) us. Be happy and live the life positively.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only onc
e. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. approached
B. generous
C. financially
D. effort
E. dates
F. victim
G. closed H. substituting I .boosts J. visible K. seemingly
Have you ever watched a television show or a movie and felt like you were watching a really long commercial? If so, then you’ve fallen ___31______to bad product placement (产植入）.Clever marketing folks want their products to be __32_ within a scene, but not the focus. When done correctly, product placement can add a sense of realism to a movie or television show.
Product placement ___33______ from as early as 1950s when a drinks company paid to have a character in the movie The African Queen toss loads of their product overboard. Since then, there have been countless placements in thousands of movies.
Sometimes product placement just happens. A set dresser (布景人员）might think of something that _34— the level of credibility or realism of the story. One example is the use of a can of ant killer in a violent fight scene in the popular television programme The Sopranos. A spokeswoman for the manufacturer said if the company had not been —35— about the use of their product, they would not have given it a thumbs-up.
Arranged product placement deals are more prevailing. The most common type is a simple exchange of the product for the placement. A deal is made; in exchange for the airtime, the cast and crew are provided with a(n)___36______supply of the company's products.
Sometimes, a gift of the product isn’t an appropriate form of compensation, and then the deal, ____37___with money, works well. Someone from a manufacturer's marketing team hears about a movie project, and approaches the set dresser with a(n) _38_ attractive proposal. They come to an agreement, and the product makes a number of 39— casual appearances. Both teams are happy.
Before product placement really saw a rapid growth in the mid-1980s, it was pretty much a do-it-yourself ___40___. Now there are entire agencies that can handle the job. Some larger corporations will dedicate personnel to seek out opportunities for placement within films, television
shows ——even games and music.
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.
Traditionally uniforms were manufactured to protect the worker. When they were first designed, it is also likely that all uniforms made symbolic sense —those for the military, for example, were originally____41_____to impress and even terrify the enemy; other uniforms indicated a distinction in ____42_____ chefs wore white because they worked with flour, but the main chef wore a black hat to show he inspected and supervised.
The last 30 years, however, have seen an increasing____43_____ on their role in mirroring the image
of an organization and in uniting the workforce, particularly in “customer facing” industries. From uniforms and workwear has emerged “___44______ clothing”. “The people you employ are your ambassadors (大使），’’ says Peter Griffin, managing director of a major retailer in the UK. “What they say, how they look, and how they behave is of vital importance.” From being a simple means of ___45___ who is a member of staff, the uniform is emerging as a new channel of marketing communication.
Truly effective marketing through____46_____ images such as uniforms is a subtle art, however. How we look sends all sorts of powerful messages to other people. Dark colors give a sense of ____47_____ while lighter color shades suggest approachability. Certain dress style creates a sense of conservatism (守旧），while others a sense of___48______ to new ideas. If the company is selling quality, then it must have quality uniforms. If it is selling style, its uniforms must be stylish. If it wants to appear ____49____, everybody can’t look exactly the same.
But turning corporate philosophies into the right combination of color, style, degree of branding and uniformity is not always ____50_____. According to Company Clothing magazine, there are 1000 companies supplying the workwear and corporate clothing market. Of these, 22 ____51_____for 85% of total sales 一£380 million in 1994.
A successful uniform needs to___52______two key sets of needs. On the one hand, no uniform will work if staff feel uncomfortable or ugly. On the other hand, it is ___53______ if the look doesn't express the business's marketing strategy. The greatest challenge in this respect is time. When it comes to human awareness, first impressions count. Customers will assess the way staff look in just a few seconds, and that few seconds will____54_____ their attitudes from then on. Those few seconds can be so important that big companies are prepared to____55_____ years, and millions of pounds, getting them right.
41. A. intended B. tended C. extended D. attended
42. A. statue B. stability C. status D. statistics
43. A. preference B. argument C. compliment D. emphasis
44. A. cooperate B. political C. corporate D. academic
45. A. exposing B. identifying C. qualifying D. requesting
46. A. studio B. audio C. visual D. casual
47. A. clarity B. authority C. availability D. accessibility
48. A. exposure B. rejection C. reluctance D. openness
49. A. stable B. uniform C. innovative D. similar
50. A. smooth B. disagreeable C. objective D. complex
51. A. exchange B. call C. stand D. account
52. A. establish B. balance C. neglect D. desert
53. A. pointless B. significant C. useful D. careless
54. A. maintain B. shape C. draw D. value
55. A. commit B. command C. dedicate D. invest
Section C
Directions: Read the following three 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 read.
(A)
St Kilda is a tiny archipelago (岛）of the North Atlantic Ocean. The islands are among the most spectacular, but the greatest fascination is that, for over a thousand years, people lived there and possessed a sense of community. Cut off from the mainland, the islanders had a distinct way of living their lives, mainly eating the seabirds that returned to breed on the rocks.
Isolation also had a big effect upon St kildans attitudes and ideas. The people sacrificed themselves year in and year out, in a constant battle to secure a livelihood. In such harsh conditions, life was only possible because the whole community worked together.
In the 19th century St Kilda was subject to pressures from the outside world. Education, religion and tourism all attempted to throw the St Kildans5 way of life into doubt. In the early 20th century, the strength of the community became weakened as contact with the rest of Britain increased. When disease cut their numbers, and wind and sea made it difficult to get adequate food, the St Kildans were forced to turn to the mainland for assistance.
In 1930, the St Kildans finally agreed to abandon their homes. They settled on the Scottish mainland, not realizing it meant throwing themselves into the 20th century. As adults, they had to accept those va
lues most Scots believe in. For instance, the islanders found it difficult to' base their existence upon money. They had never lived in a world where they bought goods and services from each other.
The islanders showed themselves indifferent to the jobs they were given on the mainland. The labours asked of them were unskilled compared with the spectacular skills they had once performed in order to kill seabirds. Moreover, killing birds had once provided the community with food to survive. On the mainland, however, the tasks they were asked to perform did not provide them immediately with what was needed to keep them fed and warm.
The history of the St Kildans after the evacuation (撤离），of their inability and lack of resolution to fit into urban society, makes sad reading. When they were resettled on the mainland, the St Kildans were forced to live in a society whose values were unacceptable and incomprehensible to the majority of them. For many, the move was a tragedy.
56. According to Paragraph 3, the following factors lead to St kildans seeking help from outside EXCEPT______________.
A. unbearable wind
B. insufficient food supply
C. contact with Britain
D. worsening health
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