上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2017届高三12月月考英语试题

华东师大二附中2017届高三12月月考

II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A

Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

You may think that mom-and-pop stores are gradually dying out, giving way to chain stores and big business, (21) you would be wrong. The online shopping platform Taobao is a game changer and (22) (revolutionize) the way we buy and sell.

Taobao, or “treasure hunt”, recently became the largest e-commerce website in terms of traffic, surpassing Amazon. It has 190 million (23) (register) users and serves (24) (big)marketplace in the world. Half of China’s Internet users go to Taobao, either to browse, buy or sell, according to Web information company Alexa.

(25) Taobao borrowed its original business model from eBay when it started up in 2003, the student soon became the master. Just three years later, eBay shut down its site and now Taobao controls about 80 percent of the country’s online shopping market.

It charges almost (26) to list items for sale and makes most of its money from advertising. It also plans to share transaction data with its users so they can cash it on buying trends. This allows anyone with an idea and a computer to start a viable business, doing away (27) the need for significant start-up capital. (28) opening up a store on the high street selling to passersby, the world is every Taobao user’s oyster.

A friend of mine is a typical. She opened up a store selling children’s clothing near Nuren Jie, (29) was a popular market in Beijing. It was not a great success but her online sales through Taobao went ballistic. She closed the store and is now e-commerce only.

Effectively, taobao has become the country’s high street, but with global reach.(30) China is the world’s manufacturing base, it is relatively easy for individuals to source cheap goods and sell at a reasonable markup. Micro-stores are opening in their thousands everyday and delivering an amazing variety of goods.

答案：but；has revolutionized; registered; the biggest; Although; nothing; with; Instead of; which; As

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 word more than you need. A. distinctive G. fell B. gigantic H. remains C. resembling I. possessing D. ancestors E. fed J. intensive F. characteristics K. immense The movie “Jurassic Park” shown sometime this year took cinema lovers by storm and since then, there has been a revived interest in dinosaurs. Numerous articles have been written and

intensive research has been conducted on dinosaurs.

Scientists believe that dinosaurs came into existence about 180,000,000 years ago, but have been extinct for several millions of years, and to-date, only reconstructed fossil (31) serve as tangible(实际的) proof that dinosaurs did exist on earth at one time.

Dinosaurs were actually reptiles, a separate class of animals with the following (32) ; they are cold-blooded; they can live on land; they have a (33) type of heart and most of them have scales.

The first reptiles appeared long before the dinosaurs (34) big lizards and (35) short tails, thick legs and big heads. They subsisted mainly on plants. The first dinosaurs resembled their reptile (36) , but they could walk on their hind legs. Some kinds remained small, but in the course of time, others grew to (37) sizes and lengths, ranging from 8 to 20 feet and weighing more than an elephant. There was a giant dinosaur, known as Brontosaurus, measuring70-80 feet long and weighing 38 tons. Another (38) kind, called Allesaurus, could walk about on land, and (39) on the Brontosaurus and other plant-eating reptiles, with its sharp teeth and powerful claws.

Today, dinosaurs are only found in books, pictures and in motion pictures. With the remarkably widespread interest in dinosaurs, people become agog in asking this question: Why did the giant creatures become extinct? Many scientists offer one conjecture(猜测) that they disappeared because of the changes in the climate of the earth, which deprived them of the places to live in and feed. Other experts have recently come up with the theory that giant meteors (40) upon the earth and destroyed the dinosaurs in an instant. Many more theories may be put forward by experts, but still, no one had a conclusive and definite answer to the puzzle.

答案：HFACI DKBEG

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.

The most obvious benefit of a single currency is that it will no longer be necessary to incur(引起)the costs of exchange from one currency to another. Travelers know that these costs are not negligible. First of all, there is a commission (41) (usually a fixed amount); secondly, the price (42) which the traveler purchases foreign currency for domestic currency (43) from the price of exchanging back surplus (过剩)foreign currency. The removal of these transaction costs constitutes a gain from monetary union.

Another benefit is that removal of exchange rate (44) between the countries of the EU would provide much more assurance to (45) location decisions. At present, a company takes (46) of the risk of exchange rate variation in its location decision, and this may lead it to scatter its plants across the various economies to hedge against(防范)the risk of exchange rate variation. Removing this source of uncertainty allows investors to (47) according to

economies of scale and may lead to more plants of (48) size, a reduction in unit cost of production, and increase in (49) . A single currency provides the (50) for counter-inflationary(反通胀)policies. A single currency could lead to a (51) in the market discrimination that currently exists in the EU(for example, prices of motor cars of the (52) specification(规格) stand higher in the UK than they do in France) as the quotation(报价) of prices in common currency discourages arbitrage(套利)activity and reduces the market division(53) which such discrimination relies.(54) , firms in one country cannot continue to (55) their prices higher than their European competitors and still remain competitive. 41. A. money 42. A. on 43. A. different 44. A. float 46. A. account 47. A. decide

B. sum B. infers B. contrast

B. cooperative B. count B. locate

B. maximum

C. tip

C. differs C. difference C. corporate C. mind C. choose

D. charge D. over D. variable D. variation D. reasonable D. range D. invest D. optimum D. efficiency D. door D. excessive D. at D. Although D. set

B. at

C. in

45. A. appropriate

48. A. largest 49. A. effect 50. A. shade 52. A. same 53. A. in 54. A. While 55. A. rise

51. A. rise

C. medium C. framework C. revival C. similar

C. However C. raise

B. effectiveness C. deficiency B. reduction B. different B. on

B. Thus

B. firework

D. cause

C. over

B. arise

答案：DBCDC ABDDC BABBC Section B

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)

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become \"better\" people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition

for admission to graduate school. Other find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out—often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn't explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.

Some adventuresome educators and watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—may it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.

56. According to the author, ___.

A. people used to question the value of college education. B. people used to have full confidence in higher education. C. all high school graduates went to college.

D. very few high school graduates chose to go to college.

57. In the 2nd paragraph, “those who don’t fit the pattern” refer to___. A. high school graduates who aren’t suitable for college education. B. college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis. C. college students who aren’t any better for their higher education. D. high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college.

58. The dropout rate of college students seems to go up because___.

A. young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at college. B. many people are required to join the army.

C. young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher education.

D. young people don’t like the intense competition for admission to graduate school.

59. In this passage the author argues that___.

A. more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduates.

B. College education is not enough if one wants to be successful.

C. College education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning people. D. Intelligent people may learn quicker if they don’t go to college.

答案：BCCA

(B)

Noad was a tall, handsome 23-year-old Balinese man who was in love with one girl but expected to marry another. His stepmother had arranged everything- he would wed a distant relation and bring the two families closer together. Noad had two choices. He would either marry the girl he did not love, or he could go against the wishes of parents and be expelled from his village. Actually he had another choice, one which none of his family foresaw. One day his friends found him slumped in a comma on his bed after he had consumed two liters of a powerful insecticide.

For more than 60 years the tropical Indonesian island of Bali has been portrayed to the outside world as a heavenly paradise where a strong culture and sense of community protect its inhabitants from the rigors of the modern world. It is an image supported by many millions of dollars from the international hotel community which provides luxury accommodation and facilities for nearly a million foreign visitors now travelling annually to the holiday island.

Yet behind the marketing hype lies another story- one which exist in stark contrast to the sun, sand and sea”dream”. The truth is that the lives of Bali’s 2.7 million local inhabitants are often marked by poverty, suffering and family conflict. Ketut is a 22-year-old maid who works part-time for an expatriate resident in Ubud, in the centre of the island. Her husband works as a driver for a white-water rafting company which provides day trips to tourists.” sometimes I have no money for my baby because my husband gambles all his wages.” the husband’s father, unfamiliar with western support system, combats his son’s behavior by calling in the dukun, a spiritual” healer” who makes offerings to the bad spirits at play in his mind.

60. You would expect to find this passage in______ ? A. A newspaper B. An advertisement C. a travel brochure D. a book

61. It can be inferred from the paragraph 1 that the third choice that Noad’s family failed to foresee is that____.

A. He fell into sleep

B. He went against their wishes and left home C. He commited suicide D. He started to take drugs

62. In paragraph 2 it refers to______ A. Strong culture. B. Sense of community.

C. Heavenly paradise. D. The modern world.

答案：BCC

(C)

Most people don’t leave their front door unlocked, and the same is true of their home Wi-Fi networks. But some believe that preventing access to your wireless Internet actually does more harm than good. Peter Eckersley of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization devoted to defending digital rights, is calling for an \"Open Wireless Movement\" and encouraging people to be \"socially responsible\" by sharing their connection. Eckersley compares the current situation of locked-down networks to \"finding yourself parched(干透的)and thirsty while everyone around you is sipping from nice tall glasses of iced water\and offers a technological solution. We restrict access to our networks for two reasons: to prevent other people from using up our bandwidth, and to ensure our security and privacy. He suggests we can still protect ourselves from both problems by using routers(路由器)that share a certain amount of bandwidth in the open while also providing an encrypted(加密的)connection for personal use, but such technology already exists, and people aren’t choosing to use it. Perhaps the problem is not technological, but legal, as home users don’t want to be responsible for the activities of others on their network. Quite understandable, really. But Eckersley says that \"individuals can enjoy the same legal protections against liability as any other Internet access provider\but the law is far from clear in this area and differs from country to country. In a footnote on his article, Eckersley says US law \"may\" offer protection, but that didn’t prevent a man who left his network open from being called a pedophiles (恋童癖者)by armed police in his living room this past weekend. Courts in Germany have previously ruled that people can be fined if they allow unauthorized users to access illegal materials through their connection, while in the UK disputes over recent changes to the law leave the matter uncertain. Perhaps these legal concerns can be overcome by turning to an unlikely role-model — Estonia, where access to the Internet is a legal human right. The country is blanketed in a network of free Wi-Fi access points in cafes, bars and other public locations, allowing people to easily get online almost anywhere. So who wants to open up their network first?

63 What does the author say about the Electronic Frontier Foundation? A. It encourages people to share their networks. B. Its work is about protecting digital rights. C. It is advocating an \"Open Wireless Movement\". D. Its main business is trading electronics.

. One reason leading most people to lock their network is________ A. Laws protect home users of internet from responsibilities.

B. Internet access provides take no responsibility for their users’ illegal activities

C. Home users enjoy the same right as internet access providers.

D. It is internet access providers who should be responsible for their user’s activities.

65. What can be inferred from Eckersley’s words individual......internet access provider in para4_________.

A. Laws protects home users of internet from responsibilities

B. Internet access providers take no responsibility for their for their user’s illegal activities. C. Home users enjoy the same rights as internet access providers

D it is internet access providers who should be responsible for their user’s activities.

66. What information can be got about Estonia from the passage? . A. It restricts free access to internet B. Free Wi-Fi is set up all over the country C. It is impossible for other countries to follow its suit D its people can get free Wi-Fi access almost everywhere.

答案：BCBD

Section D

Directions: Read the following passage and fill in each blank with the sentence that best fits the context. Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.

A. Many adults also like to play Second Life. B. To play Second Life a computer user signs up at the Second Life Web site. C. In some ways the imaginary world is like the real world. D. You can get your first Second Life account for free. E. By playing the game, some people want to get out of the real world. F. How many people do you think play Second Life? Second Life is an online imaginary world where a computer user can create a new self and experience a separate life. Second Life is similar to other popular \"massively multiplayer online role-playing games.\" The company Linden Lab of San Francisco, California created Second Life in two thousand three.

____67____Then he or she creates an electronic image, or animated character, called an avatar. Some people try to make their avatar look as close to their real self as possible. Other people change their sex or become an imaginary creature as their Second Life avatar.

Once you have your avatar you become a \"resident\" of Second Life. ____68____Your avatar also can make friends with other Second Life avatars. Residents can go to school, own a business, even get married. But, there are also activities in Second Life that are impossible in the real world. For example, if you do not feel like walking to that park near your Second Life home, why not fly?

____69____But it costs money to get other accounts and to buy land. The virtual world has its own currency, the Linden dollar. You use these to buy virtual clothes, property, entertainment and many other things. You can earn Linden dollars by working at a job. That unreal money has a real life value. About two hundred fifty Linden dollars are worth one American dollar.

Second Life is popular among schools and businesses.Many universities have set up campuses on the Web site. Many kinds of stores can also be found there. And, entertainers sometimes perform live on Second Life with their Second Life avatars.

____70____It is said that the total number of residents is more than thirteen million from more than one hundred countries.

答案：BCDF

IV. Summary Writing

Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.

It’s a joy to be young

A noted American psychologist once remarked that childhood is a magical period in one’s life．Indeed it is, for during childhood, one undergoes a step-by-step transformation not only in mental capacity, but also in physical and verbal skills．Each step signals an increase in the difficulty of a child’s conceptual and learning abilities．During the early stages of childhood, from infancy to about five, the child learns simple skills including using the toilet, bathing and dressing himself independently．At this stage, he also learns to be very observant, curious, imaginative and creative．His ability to remember things also leaps at this stage． He remembers details that an adult may have difficulty in remembering．Gradually , he learns elementary skills in problem-solving． As he graduates to the later stages of childhood bordering on the teenage years, the child learns the complexities of human relations and socialization by interacting with his peers—his friends and schoolmates．He also learns to experiment with new life situations, including dates and part-time work．Given a tight schedule of schoolwork, the child learns to prepare his own schedules of work and play.

Some youngsters look at life pessimistically. They complain that it is a tragedy to be young because they are faced with what they consider insurmountable(无法克服的) problems and pressures at home and school, let alone with the opposite sex. Given that, however, children’s pressures pale in comparison with the adults’. It is true that studying can be burdensome at times, but at least children do not have the same pressure and burden that adults feel-the burden of working to make ends meet and give the children a decent and comfortable life.

It is an inescapable truth that childhood is a happy stage- a time of sheer joy, innocence and freedom from the complexities and challenges of the adult world.

第II卷 （共40分）

I. Translation

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1. 这位演讲者见多识广，在台上总能处变不惊。(calm)

2. 许多人意识到要寻找一种能够进一步开发他们潜能的完全不同的学习方式。(conscious) 3. 大熊猫是中国特有的动物，因此中国做出了很大的努力来保护这一濒危动物。(unique) 4. 最近调查显示，很多年轻人想要通过旅行来体验不同的文化，丰富知识，拓展视野。(broaden)