1、徐汇区学年第一学期质量监控试题卷高中三年级英语含标准答案 2017届高三徐汇区高三英语一模2016.12II. Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: 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;
2、 for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Please mind the silence Despite being used by 1.34 billion people each year, traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely. An unwritten rule encouraging silence, mixed with classic British reserve,means that (21)_ _ youre
3、packed into an enclosed space with hundreds of other people,the morning commute (上下班) can leave you feeling somewhat isolated. One London resident, however, is trying to change this. “You get on the Tube here and ifs completely silent and ifs weird, says Jonathan Dunne, 42, an American living in Lon
4、don, who has, ironically, started (22)_ worldwide dialogue after giving out badges (徽章) with the slogan “Tube chat?” last month, encouraging commuters in London to get talking to one another. “I handed out 500 badges during rush hour in a city of 8 million, expecting many refusals and most of them (
5、23) _ (throw) away, but after about 24 hours it completely snowballed,” he says. Dunne and his “Tube chat” campaign (24) _(feature) in media across the world ever since, seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the UK, as well as countless website, newspaper and magazine appearances. Although Dunn
6、e says hes received mostly positive feedback, not everyone agrees with his sentiment. Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of (25) _ own, handing out 500 badges with the words Dont even think about it” on them. “I (26) _ hardly stand the idea of having to talk to strangers on the Tube on
7、my way to work,” he told the BBC. Michael Robinson, 24, a student from London, agrees. “Being on the Tube is the only peace and quiet some people get on their journeys to and (27) _work. It doesnt need to be spoiled by people coming up and chatting to you,” he says. While London has its seemingly an
8、tisocial set of regulations to follow, not everywhere lacks a sense of community. Does Dunne hope that some of this community spirit (28) _(mirror) in the UK following his campaign? “People assume that I just walk up and talk to strangers, (29) _ I dont, but its been a great way to meet people you w
9、ould never have normally spoken to,” he says.“On Monday, Oct 10, the curator (馆长) of the London Transport Museum had me over for tea.” So if you ever end up (30) _ (use) public transport in the West, why not say hello to the person next to you? Just make sure to check for a badge first.Section BDire
10、ctions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. overtook B. promising C. likelihood D. ridiculous E. shared F. controlledG beliefs H. reasonable I. trend J. tracked K. demonstrated The rise in stori
11、es describing events that never happened, often involving fake people in fake places, has led to Facebook and Googles (31) _ to deal with them. But are we really so easy to fool? According to several studies, the answer is yes: even the most obvious fake news starts to become believable if its (32)_
12、 enough times. In the months running up to the US election there was a surge(大浪) in fake news. According to an analysis by Craig Silverman, a journalist, during this time the top 20 fake stories in circulation (33)_ the top 20 stories from 19 mainstream publishers. Paul Horner, a creative publisher
13、of fake news, has said he believes Donald Trump was elected because of him. “My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time His followers dont fact-check anything theyll post everything, believe anything,” he told the Washington Post. Silverman previously (34)_ rumours circulating online i
14、n 2014 and found that shares and social interactions around fake news articles dwarfed (使.相形见绌) those of the articles that exposed them. According to Silverman, fake news stories are engineered to appeal to peoples hopes and fears, and arent (35)_ by reality, which gives them the edge in creating sh
15、areable content. You might think youre immune to falling for these lies, but a wealth of research disagrees. Back in the 1940s, researchers found that “the more a rumour is told, the more (36)_ it sounds”. They suggested this means that a rumour born out of mild suspicion can, by gaining currency, s
16、hift public thinking and opinion. This false impression of truth was (37)_ practically in 1977 when researchers in the US quizzed college students on the actuality of statements that they were told may be true or false. The researchers found that simply repeating the statements at a later date was e
17、nough to increase the (38)_ of the students believing them. Last year, Lisa Fazio at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and her team found that students become more likely to believe a statement that they know must be false if it is repeated. “Our research suggests that false news can and likely doe
18、s affect peoples (39)_. Even if people are conscious that a headline is false, reading it multiple times will make it seem more trustworthy,” Fazio says. Reassuringly, the team found that a persons knowledge still has a large influence over their beliefs, but its still a worrying (40)_ given that fa
19、lsehoods appear repeatedly in our newsfeeds every day.III. Reading Comprehension Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there arc four words or phrases marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Two key climate change indicators
20、global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest (41)_ month globally in the modern temperatu
21、re record, which (42)_1880, according to scientists at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planets warmest half-year on record, with a(n) (43)_ temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the la
22、te nineteenth century. Five of the first six months of 2016 also (44)_ the smallest respective monthly Arctic sea ice (45)_ since regular satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developed by scientists at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The one (46)_, March,
23、 recorded the second smallest for that month. (47)_ these two key climate indicators have broken records in 2016, NASA scientists said it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continuing their decades-long trends of change. Both trends are ultimately driven by rising (48
24、)_ of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically (49)_ 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent in September, the seasonal low point in th
25、e annual cycle, has been (50)_ at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade. While the El Nio event in the tropical Pacific this winter (51)_ the gaining global temperatures from October, it is the basic trend which is producing these record numbers, GISS Director Gavin Schmidt said. (52)_ El Nio events hav
26、e driven temperatures to what were then record levels, such as in 1998. But in 2016, even as the effects of the recent El Nio wear off, global temperatures have risen well beyond those of 18 years ago (53)_ the overall warming that has taken place in that time. The global trend in rising temperature
27、s falls behind the regional (54)_ in the Arctic, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA Goddard. It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme, Meier said. This warmth as well as unu
28、sual weather (55)_ have led to the record low sea ice extents so far this year.41. A. resistant B. respective C. resolved D. remote42. A. makes sense of B. keeps up with C. dates back to D. goes ahead of43. A. average B. ordinary C. common D. temporary44. A. confirmed B. witnessed C. involved D. con
29、ducted45. A. standard B. content C. amount D. extent46. A. datum B. example C. month D. exception47. A. While B. When C. After D. As48. A. combinations B. reductions C. concentrations D. applications49. A. includes B. covers C. approaches D. indicates50. A. increasing B. changing C. declining D. mov
30、ing51. A. ended up with B. gave rise to C. broke away from D. resulted from52. A. Frequent B. Natural C. Disastrous D. Previous53. A. in return for B. in case of C. in spite of D. because of54. A. warming B. falling C. gathering D. changing55. A. forecasts B. varieties C. patterns D. illustrationsSe
31、ction BDirections: 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 Late one autumn day at the aquatic center (水上运动中心）in Ancenis, France, something went quietly, horribly wrong. An 18-year-oid named Jean-Francois LeRoy was a regular, coming often in the early evenings to swim in the 25-meter pool. Drownings are often difficult to spot. Most are near-s
