2019-2020学年西南位育中学高三下英语周测卷

西南位育高三练习题

 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.

The expression, “everybody’s doing it,” is very much at the center of the concept of peer pressure. It is a strong influence of a group, especially of children, 21________members of that group to behave as everybody else does. It can be positive or negative. Most people experience it in some way during their lives.

People are social creatures by nature, and so it is hardly surprising that part of their self-respect comes from the approval of others. This instinct  is 22_______ the approval of peers, or the fear of disapproval, is such a powerful force in many peoples lives. It is the same instinct that drives people 23_______(dress) one way at home and another way at work, or to answer “fine” when a stranger asks “how are you?” 24_____ _______ it is not necessarily true. There is 25______ practical aspect to this: it helps society to function efficiently, and encourages a general level of self-discipline that simplifies day-to-day interaction.

For certain individuals, seeking social acceptance is so important 26_______ it becomes like an addiction; in order to satisfy the desire, they may go so far as to abandon their sense of right and wrong. Teens and young adults 27______ feel forced to use drugs, or join gangs that encourage criminal behavior. Mature adults may sometimes feel pressured to cover up illegal activity at the company where they work, or end up in debt 28______ they are unable to hold back the desire to buy a house or car that they can’t afford in an effort to “keep up with the Joneses.”

However, peer pressure is not always negative. A student whose friends are good at academics may 29_____ ______ (urge) to study harder and get good grades. Players on a sports team may feel driven to play harder in order to help the team win. This type of influence can also get a friend off drugs, or to help an adult take up a good habit or drop a bad one. Study groups and class projects are examples of positive peer groups that encourage people to better themselves.

Schools try to teach kids about the dangers of negative peer pressure. They teach kids to stand up and be 30_______, and encourage them to politely decline to do things that they believe are wrong. Similarly, it can be helpful to encourage children to greet the beneficial influence of positive peer groups.

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.

Here is the VOA news:India's economy grew by 7.9 percent in the three months through September - its fastest pace since last year's global 31_____ crisis. India, along with several other Asian economies, is recovering from the global slowdown.

Officials say the latest numbers show that the Indian economy is beating forecasts to grow at a faster-than-expected rate. The growth in the July to September quarter is the highest since April, last year.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says the recovery has been helped by government 32_____ spending and a surge in manufacturing.

"One point is quite clear is that the initiatives taken by the government by providing stimulus and helping the generation of demand 33______ has paid dividend," he noted. "And, corporate sector is also responding. The industrial growth is taking place. Negative 34____ of exports has come down. And, I do hope things will be okay."

The good news 35_____ stock markets. The benchmark Sensex index (孟买证券市场指数) was up by about 1.5 percent, Monday, after the government released the new data. But, as the economy pick up, the focus is now on how the government will handle inflation(通货膨胀). Food prices have 36_____ by more than 12 percent, recently, badly affecting millions of poor people in the country.

Most policy makers expect the government to raise interest rates in the coming months. However, a top policy adviser to the government, Montek,, says the government is unlikely to 37_______ monetary (货币) policy in the near future.

At the moment, the main 38_______ on the inflationary front, I think, is food prices and you know food prices are not something that is going to be affected by introducing a monetary 39_____he said. Although the global slowdown put the 40________ on India's economy, it weathered the financial crisis better than Western countries. And India now appears to be recovering quickly with other Asian countries like China, Singapore, and South Korea, which lead the world out of the global slowdown

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.

Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the ___41___one. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not __42____to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
      Listening well also requires total __43____upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or _44___your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. __45____, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary __46____ of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to__47____up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be __48____ only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
       Most of the time we_49____ this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening __50____. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain__51_____ results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far
more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply__52____ to listen to what we don’t want to hear.
       It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic.  In about a quarter of the patients I saw, __53____ improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy, before any of the__54___of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s ___55___ that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.

41.A.positive             B. opposite             C. same                      D. wrong

42.A.reluctant            B. generous             C. willing                    D. considerate

43. A. dependence         B. influence            C. decision                  D. concentration

44. A. setting aside        B. getting over           C. noting down              D. sticking to

45. A. Therefore          B. Moreover               C. However                D. Otherwise

46. A. abandonment        B. acceptance              C. forgetfulness         D. absorption

47. A. turn                B. take                  C. make                   D. open

48. A. performed          B. accomplished           C. accompanied        D. experienced

49. A require             B. produce                C. lack                 D. motivate

50. A. hopefully          B. selectively               C. thoroughly           D. objectively

51. A. required           B. unexpected              C. desired                 D. approved

52. A. hesitate            B. decide                 C. refuse                   D. agree

53. A. imposing           B. surprising               C. fortunate                D. instinct

54. A. features            B. reasons                 C. varieties                 D. roots

55. A. purpose            B. responsibility            C. conclusion                D. sense

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

Milton Landowne, a beginner in computer and second-year student at Lasell College, was afraid his Web-design class would be too tough. But when he did well in thefinal project three weeks ago, he decided to take more computer courses in the fall. “I never want to stop learning，”says Landowne, who is 90 years old.

In fact, Landowne can’t stop learning even if he wants to. As a resident of Lasell College’s retirement facility, Lasell Village, Landowne is required to attend classes—450 course-hours per year—until he actually can’t take any more. Lasell College takes a hard line with its older students. Before moving in, each villager must agree in writing to complete full courses every year until a doctor states that he，s no longer able to do so. Two hundred highly accomplished retirees一including professors, scientists and musicians一now live and study at tiny Lasell. Every morning the villagers ride the bus two blocks to attend courses like the Computer Science and Beginning Spanish. They have to write papers and take quizzes, but they don’t take the final exam. Instead of tuition, the villagers buy their apartments—which cost between $180，000 and$ 650，000—and pay $ 2,000 to $ 4,000 monthly for meals, health care, nursing-home insurance and instruction.

The old folks，invasion has delighted Lasell professors, and college students say they like them, too--up to a point. The students admit they learn a lot from the seniors in class discussions but draw the line at the possibility of intergenerational parties. Some， like Kim Hawkins, 21，say it can be hard to see the winter of life. “It’s depressing when someone gets sicker and sicker，”she says. Others worry that the retirement program outshines the college. But villager Helen Wasserman, 82，says that the college students are equals, not competition. “We’re all struggling with the same subjects. We’re in this together. ” A lesson learned about staying younger.

56. Before starting college education, an older student is required to ______.

A. produce his health certificate   B. sign a written guarantee

C. take a selective examination    D. attend computer courses

57.According to the passage, the word invasion in paragraph 3 most probably implies_____ .

 A. entrance B. introduction C. performance D. achievement

58 The main purpose of these retired citizens, going back to college is _____ .

A. to learn to keep mentally healthy B .to be permanent residents at Lasell Village

C. to obtain some basic skills     D. to make friends with young people

(B)

       The traditional distinction between products that satisfy needs and those satisfy wants is no longer adequate to describe classes of products. In today’s prosperous societies, the distinction has become unclear because so many wants have been turned into needs. A writer, for instance, can work with paper and pencils. These are legal needs for the task. But the work can be done more quickly and efficiently with a word processor. Thus a computer is soon viewed as a need rather than a want.
        In the field of marketing, consumer goods are classed according to the way in which they are purchased. The two main classes are convenience goods and shopping goods. Two lesser types are specialty goods and unsought (主动提供的) goods. It must be emphasized that all of these types are based on the way shoppers think about products, not on the nature of the products themselves. What is regarded as a convenience item in France (wine, for example) should be a specialty goods in the United States.
        People do not spend a great deal of time shopping for such convenience items as groceries, newspapers, toothpaste, aspirin, and candy. The buying of convenience goods may be done routinely, as some families buy groceries once a week. Such regularly purchased items are called staples. Sometimes convenience products are bought without enough thinking; someone has a sudden desire for an ice cream sundae(圣代) on a hot day. Or they may be purchased as emergency items.
       Shopping goods are items for which customers search. They compare prices, quality, and styles, and may visit a number of stores before making a decision. Buying an automobile is often done this way.
        Shopping goods fall into two classes; those that are recognized as basically the same and those that are regarded as different. Items that are looked upon as basically the same include such things as home appliances, television sets, and automobiles. Having decided on the model desired, the customer is primarily interested in getting the item at the most favorable price. Items regarded as essentially different include clothing, furniture, and dishes. Quality, style and fashion will either take precedence(优先) over price, or they will not matter at all.

59. It can be learned from the first paragraph that ______.

A. a writer needs a word processor
B. needs and wants can’t be separated clearly
C. the way to distinguish the products is unimportant
D. a computer is a need rather than a want

60. The example of wine is used to illustrate that ______.

A. goods are classified differently in different countries
B. the types of the product lie on the people rather than its nature
C. Frenchmen often drink but Americans sometimes do
D. one product may belong to many types

61. Shopping goods that are considered as basically the same are those that ______. A. consumers don’t care where to buy them
B. consumers spend much time searching for
C. satisfy similar needs of the consumer
D. can be found in nearly every shop

C

 The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has positioned itself as the premier champion of investor rights, regularly singling out bad managers at some of the nation's largest companies in its annual corporate-governance focus lists. And with $153 billion under management, Wall Street tends to listen when CalPERS speaks out. But the country's largest pension fund has never taken on as big a fish as it did Dec. 16, when it filed a class action against the New York Stock Exchange and seven of its member firms. CalPERS' suit charges the NYSE and specialist firms with fraud, alleging that the exchange skirted its regulatory duties and allowed its members to trade stocks at the expense of investors.

The move is a major slap in the face for the NYSE's recently appointed interim Chairman John Reed. The former Citibank chairman and CEO came on board in September after the exchange's longtime head, Richard Grasso, resigned under pressure over public outrage about his excessive compensation.

Reed has been widely criticized by CalPERS and other institutional investors for not including representatives of investors on the exchange's newly constituted board and not clearly separating the exchange's regulatory function from its day-to-day operations. The CalPERS lawsuit is evidence that the investment communities' dissatisfaction hasn't ebbed. "Our hopes were dashed when Mr. Reed didn't perform," says Harrigan.

The suit alleges that seven specialist firms profited by abusing and overusing a series of trading tactics. The tactics, which are not currently illegal, include "penny jumping," where a firm positions itself between two orders to capture a piece of the price differential, "front running," which involves trading in advance of customers based on confidential information obtained by their orders, and "freezing" the firm's order book so that the firm can make trades on its own account first.

Many of the suit's allegations are based on a previously disclosed investigation of the exchange conducted by the Securities & Exchange Commission. According to the suit, the October SEC report found "serious deficiencies in the NYSE's surveillance and investigative procedures, including a habit of ignoring repeat violations by specialist firms."

The suit highlights the growing frustration that institutional investors have expressed with what they perceive as a system that needs to be revamped -- if not eliminated. According to California State Comptroller Steve Westley, a CalPERS board member who participated in the Dec. 16 press conference, he has repeatedly called on the NYSE to end its use of specialist firms to facilitate trades and move to a system of openly matching of buyers and sellers. BLIND EYE? "There's no reason not to move to a fully automated exchange," Westley says. "Every exchange in the world is using such a system. The time is now for the NYSE to move into the 21st century and remove the cloud that there's self-dealing working against investors."

62.What does the word “ a fish” (Para. 1) probably refer to ?

A. CalPERS. B.pension fund. C. Wall Street. D. NYSE.

63. The CalPERS lawsuit indicates that ____.

A. the NYSE did ignore its regulatory duties

B. John Reed should resign like his predecessor

C. the investors were dissatisfied with the NYSE

D. the exchange should have its board reelected

64. Which of the following statements is Not true ?

1. Investors were not sufficiently represented on NYSE’s board.

B. The seven specialist firms made profits by illegal procedures.

C. CalPERS’ suit against the NYSE resulted largely from a SEC’s report.

D. NYSE had ignored the firms’ improper operations for a long time.

65. According to Westley, NYSE’s problem results from ____.

1. its reliance on specialist firms

B. its system of matching traders

C. its automated exchange

D. its violation of investors’ interest

66.The best title for the text may be ____.

A．Champion of investor rights

B．Seven specialist firms

C．CalPERS speaks out to Wall Street

D．Lawsuits against NYSE

Section C

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences listed below.

Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.

       An Iowa high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the “C” her child received on an assignment. “The parent argued every point in the essay,” recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so disappointed about the grade. “___67______”

In a survey, 90% of new teachers agreed that involving parents in their children’s education is a priority at their school, but only 25％described their experience working with parents as “very satisfying.” ___68____73％of new teachers said too many parents treat schools and teachers as enemies.

At a time when competition is rising and resources are limited, when battles over testing force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels slip into the parent-teacher conference, it’s harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.

__69___ But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety and panic.

When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn't necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. __70____According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision. school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related to academic achievement.

IV.Summary Writing.

Over the last century, American scientists have tried to find ways to measure intelligence. Testing a person’s IQ has been one of the most widely used means to decide his future success. It was believed that people were simply born smart or stupid and there was nothing they could do about it. Based on Terman’s test to measure IQ, the men serving in the U.S. military during World WarⅠwere given duties according to their tested intelligence. However, recently it is claimed that besides IQ, EmotionalIntelligence ---the ability to control our emotions and actions --- is also very important for one’s future success. Many scientists believe that in a sense we have two brains, two minds and two different kinds of intelligence: rational and emotional. How well we do in life is determined by both IQ and EQ. Therefore learning to rule our spirit, that is, control our thoughts and feelings, is a form of intelligence that can be developed. Scientists have discovered that emotionally intelligent people have a number of skills to deal with the ups and downs that may happen in everyone’s life. Such people know their feeling very well and are able to control their feelings as needed. Relationship skills and dealing with anger are two areas where emotional intelligence can always play an important role. People possessing this type of intelligence are able to sense the feelings of others around them and influence others in good ways. In dealing with anger, these same people have learned how to persuade themselves to stay calm. They do not necessarily forget about the unpleasant thing. They may clearly explain their dissatisfaction, but they do so without losing control.

V. Translation.

1. 从未有人想到这里的石油价格如此便宜。（occur）
2. 那些年，网络购物在全球迅速发展。（see）
3. 他词汇量大，常被别人称作活字典，而且乐于助人。（refer）
4. 当我们选择学术研究作为终身职业时，我们不是选择了通往名利的道路，而是选择了对人类的责任。（not....but...）

Writing.

最近，学校为了鼓励学生认真做眼保健操，组织同学们积极参与讨论，一起来为做眼保健操选择一个合适的时间，有的同学认为可以上课前做，有的认为可以上课结束后做，还有得认为可以中午做，对此你有何看法？请给有关老师写封信，信的内容必须包括：

1.      你对何时做眼操的建议
2.      结合自身实际，阐述你的理由。

Keys:21on  22 why  23to dress 24 even if  25a  26 that 27 may 28 because 29 be urged 30 themselves

Keys:BC CD B D ABC A C AD AB BD

Keys:41-45 BCDAB  46-50 BDBCB 51-55CCBDD

Keys:BAB

Keys: BBC

Keys:CBAA

Keys:67. D  68. AB 69. A 70.A