上海市十三校高三12月联考英语试题及答案

高三学科测试 英语试卷 2013.12.13考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分 第一卷 (共103 分)I. Listening Comprehension （30分）Section 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. A student. B. A secretary. C. A teacher. D. A boss.2. A. In the department store. B. At the airport. C. At the railway station. D. At the furniture store.3. A. By car. B. By bike. C. By bus. D. On foot.4. A. The English test took place a week ago.B. The woman was confident about the English test. C. Tomorrows English test will be easy. D. There wont be an English test tomorrow. 5. A. She doesnt like English poetry. B. Poetry class is very popular. C. Dr. Robinson is easy to get along with. D. The course will be difficult. 6. A. Five feet tall. B. Only one foot tall. C. Six feet tall. D. Seven feet tall.7. A. Go to the library. B. Go to see a film. C. Get some exercise.D. Do homework in school.8. A. It is 4: 10 now. B. It is 4: 20 now.C. It is 4: 50 now. D. It is 5:00 now. 9. A. He is not very enthusiastic about his English lessons. B. He has made great progress in his English. C. He is a student of the music department.D. He is not very interested in English songs.10. A. He has always been so productive. B. He got his job done within a minute. C. He finished the paper just in time. D. He hasnt finished his paper yet.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. When directions are long. B. When directions are short. C. When homework is given. D. When your mother talks.12. A. Your pen and paper. B. A few words. C. Your mind and ears. D. Some pictures.13. A Topics or page numbers. B. Key words or a picture in mind. C. Some details. D. School assignments.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. It is based on individual needs, personal goals and different life styles. B. It is decided by the healthiest lifestyle. C. It is based on some tests and comparison with standards. D. It is based more on individual needs than personal goals. 15. A. It is more accurate. B. It is more flexible. C. It is less enjoyable. D. It is less effective.16. A. An accountant who can be as physically fit as an athlete. B. The importance of three basic factors concerning fitness. C. New concept of fitness and its essential factors. D. Some sports with significant training effect. 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.What was the weather like that night?It was a 17 night.Where was Room 14?Right beside the 18 shop. Where could the man get some soft drinks? From 19 machines.The office hour : Open until 20 .Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.How big is the Pocket Reader?It is life size. The length is 21 . What seem to be on the Pocket Reader?There seem to be 22 on it.What should you do when you want to play?You should press something on the left with the 23 .Advantages of the Pocket Reader: a) Reading any document wherever you are b) Reading the relevant information into the product.c) Making no notes or photocopies. d) 24 from the website.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.II. Grammar and Vocabulary （26分）Section 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.(A)Many kinds of music can stir the imagination and produce strong feeling. For some people, romantic composers such as Chopin and Tchaikovsky enhance feelings of love and sympathy. Religious and spiritual music 25 help some people feel peace or lessen their pain. But one musician seems to have a unique ability of healing(治愈) the human body Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Scientists have found Mozarts music to be remarkable in its ability 26 (calm) its listeners. It can also increase their perceptions, and help them express themselves more clearly.Many amazing cases have been documented using Mozart 27 a healing aid. For example, a tiny premature baby 28 (name) Krissy, who weighed just 1.5 pounds at birth, was on total life support. Doctors thought she had little chance of survival. Her mother insisted on playing Mozart for Krissy, and thought 29 saved her daughters life. Krissy lived, 30 she was very small for her age and slower than the average child. At the age of four, she showed an interest in music and her parents gave her violin lessons. 31 their astonishment, Krissy was able to play musical pieces from memory that were far beyond the ability of an average four-year-old. 32 (play) music helped her improve in all areas of her life.(B) Touch is the first tool we turn to when we face pain. We react similarly to 33 injured toe and a broken heart, tenderly 34 (grasp) the affected area. We are all born with the power to heal ourselves and to heal others because healing energy does not come from within but from outside ourselves. The energy is there for anyone to use, and no formal training 35 (require). When you have the intent to heal, and love is your only motive, you become a channel for healing energy. Through the simple touch of hands, you can use that universal healing energy to comfort those who 36 (experience) pain or distress. In performing healing energy work, it is necessary that you let your intuition (直觉) guide you to the affected area. Just imagine a healing light being drawn in through the top of your head and flowing through your hands. The energy will begin to flow once you have made a physical connection, and your touch will help awaken the bodys capacity for self-healing. The affected areas of the body, 37 were previously tense or tight, will relax with enough healing energy. 38 (try) not to feel like you arent helping if you dont feel the flow. The work you are doing is indeed helping.Understanding 39 energy works is less important than consciously making use of it. Performing a loving healing treatment on your loved ones can be a wonderful experience that brings you closer together. And as the healing energy passes through you, it can awaken a feeling within you that helps you 40 (well) understand the interactions between the spiritual, physical and mental selves. Section B 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. A. procedure B. original C. occasions D. inherited E. characteristics F. rooted G. single H. involves I. occurring J. identifying K. separate Genes are found in every plant or animal cell. They are the basic units of life that are capable of passing specific 41 from one generation to another. For example, whether you are tall or short depends upon the genes that you 42 from your parents. Cloning plants or animals is a process that 43 the production of a new organism that is genetically identical to the organism from which cells were taken. Although this 44 has aroused great interest around the world over the last ten years or so, cloning is not something new in nature. Most mothers give birth to just one child at a time; however, on rare 45 a mother may give birth to a set of twins. If these two children are identical twins, then they are in fact naturally 46 clones of each other, although not of the parents. The reason for them being clones is that the two children originated from one 47 egg and consequently they are genetically identical. Twins that develop from two 48 eggs are not clones of each other.Cloning also occurs naturally in plants. Strawberry plants reproduce themselves by sending out runners, or modified stems, and these runners take root a short distance from the 49 plant and start to grow, and to produce fruit. In time, this plant sends out runners of its own that also take root. This is known as asexual reproduction; in other words, reproduction that does not involve the fusion (融合) of male and female cells. The newly 50 plants are clones of the original. In addition to strawberry plants, certain types of flowers and grasses reproduce themselves in the same way. Throughout history, people have also facilitated cloning by taking small cuttings from plants and then growing them into new plants. This form of cloning is called vegetative propagation.III. Reading Comprehension（47分）Section ADirections: 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.Robert Frank, an economist at Cornell, believes that his profession is restricting cooperation and generosity. In the U.S., economics professors give _51_ money to charity than professors in other fields. Economics students in Germany are more likely than those from other majors to recommend an overpriced plumber (水管工) when they are _52_ to do it. Economics majors tend to rate _53_ as “generally good,” “correct,” and “moral” more than their peers. Does studying economics change people? Maybe not. It could be self-selection: students who already believe in self-interest are _54_ to economics. But this doesnt exclude the possibility that studying economics pushes people further toward the selfish extreme. By spending time with like-minded people, economics students may become _55_ that selfishness is widespread and reasonable - or at least that giving is rare and foolish. “As a business school professor, these effects worry me, as economics, _56_ every aspect of our lives, is taught widely in business schools, providing a _57_ for courses in management, finance, and accounting.” says Frank. If economics can _58_ pro-social behavior, which is central to the well-being of people or society, what should we do about it? A change in economics and business _59_ is suggested. Courses in behavioral economics, which considers the role of “social preferences” like _60_, fairness and cooperation, are required for students of economics major. In fact, economics courses not involving some behavioral economics are considered both an inadequate education and a poor preparation to be a practising economist. Also, _61_ width, economics majors are required to take courses in social sciences like sociology and psychology, which place considerable emphasis on how people are _62_ about others, not only themselves. _63_, within economics courses, we should do a better job _64_ the principle of self-interest, which involves anything a person values - including helping others. Not until then may the prophecy (预言) by Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen be _65_. Calling economists “rational fools,” he observed: “The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social fool.”51. A. fewerB. lessC. smallerD. more 52. A. encouragedB. requestedC. assignedD. paid 53. A. teamworkB. greedC. desireD. economics 54. A. opposedB. entitledC. drawnD. attached 55. A. convincedB. depressedC. relaxedD. doubtful 56. A. depending onB. adapting toC. differing from D. relating to 57. A. potentialB. judgmentC. foundation D. reason 58. A. assessB. researchC. discourageD. cause 59. A. educationB. standardC. approachD. application 60. A. competition B. evaluationC. community D. generosity 61. A. in case ofB. in terms ofC. in relation to D. in need of 62. A. concernedB. anxiousC. curiousD. enthusiastic 63. A. HoweverB. ThereforeC. FurthermoreD. Otherwise 64. A. claimingB. definingC. overlookingD. recalling 65. A. brokenB. predicted C. challenged D. fulfilled Section 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)I used to think of myself as a fairly cosmopolitan（全球的）sort of person, but my bookshelves told a different story as my literature collection mainly consisted of British and American titles. Worse still, I hardly ever read anything in translation. My reading was limited to stories by English-speaking authors.So, at the start of 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country in a year to find out what I was missing.With no idea how to go about this, thinking that I was unlikely to find books from nearly 200 nations from my local bookshop, I decided to ask the planets readers for help. I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World, appealing for suggestions of titles that I could read in English.The response was amazing. Before I knew it, people all over the world were getting in touch with ideas and offers of help. Some posted me books from their home countries. Others did hours of research on my behalf. In addition, several writers sent me unpublished translations of their novels, giving me a rare opportunity to read works otherwise unavailable to the 62% of British people who only speak English. Even with such support, however, sourcing books was no easy task. Tracking down stories in some unfamiliar places even took as much time as the reading and blogging. It was hard to fit it all in around work and many were the nights when I sat bleary-eyed (睡眼惺忪的) into the small hours to make sure I stuck to my target of reading one book every 1.87 days.Still，one by one, the country names on the list made at the start of the year transformed into vital, exciting places filled with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear. Lands that had once seemed exotic became familiar to me places I could identify with. At its best, I learned, fiction makes the world real.66. What help did the writer receive to achieve his goal?A. Some writers sent him their original works.B. The local bookstore provided books from 200 nations even if it was unlikely.C. Some writers did research work on what books are popular.D. Some people mailed books from their own countries.67. In order to accomplish his goal, the writer did the following except _.A. asking for help from all over the worldB. making full use of his leisure time after workC. reading until early next morningD. appealing to writers to send him new books68. What does the word "exotic" in the last paragraph most probably mean?A. Unrealistic.B. Uncivilized.C. Strange.D. Unimaginable.69. Which of the following best describe the writers experience in the year?A. Original but tiringB. Hard but relaxing C. Busy but fruitfulD. Helpful but challenging(B)Villa dEste, Tivoli (Italy) - Official Site Useful InformationCall Center 199766166Number to dial from all of Italy for pre-sales and reservations for: tickets, guided tours, school groups,instructional visits.Bookings from abroad:email: villadestetivoliteleart.orgfax: 00390412770747telephone: 00390412719036Visiting Hours:Opening 8.30 closed one hour before sunset. The ticket office closes one hour before the closing of the monument.The hydraulic organ of the Organ Fountain is active daily, from 10.30 am, every two hours. The Fontana della Civetta functions daily, from 10.00 am, every two hours.Ticket Prices:(fromMay 17 to October 20, 2013)Full ticket (exhibition + villa and gardens, not divisible): 11.Reduced ticket: 7.These prices will be valid during the daytime openings of the Villa until the closure of the exhibition, due on the 20th of October, 2013(From the 22nd of October, 2013)Full ticket: 8Reduced ticket: 4These fares may vary in conjunction with exhibitions set inside the Villa.The right to purchase reduced price tickets belongs to all citizens of the European Union between the ages of 18 and 24 as well as permanent teachers of state schools (upon presentation of identity documents). School Visits:Reservations are required.The management of Villa dEste, in the aim of preserving the monument and better distributing the flow of students,has limited the number of students allowed into the Villa to 100 students per hour.Should any school group arrive at the Villa without having made a reservation, it will be admitted to the Villa according to space availability at a particular time and asked to wait until such space becomes available. Right of Reservation cost: 1,00.Notices:Certain areas of the villa may be closed for restoration: for information inquire at the ticket office.Please pay particular attention to the areas marked with signs indicating danger (in Italian: pericolo).70. How can a visiting Chinese professor of architecture in Rome make a booking?A. By dialing 199766166.B. By writing an email to villadestetivoliteleart.org.C. By calling 00390412719036.D. By sending a fax to 00390412770747.71. The receptionist at the ticket office may recommend you to see _ first, if you arrive at 10.25 am.A. the exhibition inside the villaB. the Organ FountainC. the gardensD. the Fontana della Civetta72. Why are reservations essential for school visits?A. Reservations are more economical.B. Reservations enable as many students as possible to visit the monument.C. Reservations ensure a pleasant visit for students and a manageable one for the Villa.D. Reservation fees can help preserve the site.73. Which of following statements is NOT TRUE?A. Villa dEste is closed at night.B. Ticket prices are usually higher than usual when there happens to be an exhibition.C. Tourists are not allowed to enter areas marked with signs “pericolo”. D. Visitors can buy reduced tickets as long as they make a reservation.(C)Have you ever seen harmful robots refuse to die, no matter how fiercely people fight back? As is known, it is always the case in some of the scariest science fiction.Now, science fiction has changed into science fact. For the first time, researchers have created a robotic machine that can stand a beating and keep on walking. Developed by scientists from Cornell University and the University of Vermont, the new robot looks like a spider with four legs. This four-legged robot can teach itself to walk, even changing how it walks after it has suffered damage.Until now, even the most advanced robot was al