上海市黄浦区2014届高考模拟考试（二模）
英语试题
2014年4月10日下午考生注意：
1. 考试时间120分钟, 试卷满分150分。
2. 本试卷设试卷和答题卷两部分。试卷分为第I卷和第II卷。所有答案
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必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题卷上，做在试卷上一律不得分。
3. 答题前，务必在答题卷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。
第I卷
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of eac
h 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. August 6. B. August 7. C. August 13.
D. August 19.
2. A. A coat store. B. A chemist’s. C. A dry cleaner.
D. A watch shop.
3. A. Policeman and driver. B. Teacher and student.
C. Boss and clerk.
D. Doctor and nur.
4. A. A brand of jeans. B. A new hair style. C. Popular
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stars. D. School uniforms.
5. A. The man enjoys dramas very much.
B. Soap operas aren’t the woman’s favorite.
C. The woman has watched a lot of soap operas.
D. The man doesn’t want to watch a drama with the woman.
6. A. Anxious. B. Casual. C. Supportive. D. Unbelieving.
7. A. The style of the watch. B. Her boyfriend’s figure.
C. The price of the watch.
D. Her boyfriend’s preference.
8. A. The damage to the environment. B. The location of the hotel.
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C. The demand of the job market.
D. The solution to the issue.
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9. A. She can’t afford that much for a trip.
B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money.
C. She doesn’t think 15,000 dollars is enough for the trip.
D. She considers 15,000 dollars only a small sum of money.
10. A. Skipping the meal to lo weight. B. Having the
pizza with the woman.
C. Ordering food to be eaten at home.
D. Dining out
instead of eating at home.
五更是什么时辰Section B
Directions: 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 bad on the following passage.
11. A. Engine trouble. B. Poor weather. C. Tall waterfalls. D. Tight budget.
12. A. Amazing as well as tough. B. Funny while incredible.
C. Disappointing but rewarding.
D. Fascinating and well-paid.
13. A. A mechanic. B. A photographer. C. A travel writer.
D. A weather man.
Questions 14 through 16 are bad on the following passage.
14. A. Becau it is totally beyond most students’ ability.
B. Becau it doesn’t help people today learn from history.
C. Becau students should be taught from the past forward.
D. Becau this kind of teaching approach is out-of-fashion.
15. A. By studying with the traditional approach.
B. By keeping names, places and dates in mind.
C. By putting forward questions about the near future.
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D. By looking into the past for answers to prent problems.
16. A. To explain the history of education.
B. To state the purpo of learning history.
C. To criticize students’ habits of history study.
D. To prent a new method of history education.
Section C
Directions: 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 bad on the following conversation. Array Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each blank.
Blanks 21 through 24 are bad on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank. II. Grammar and Vocabulary
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Section A
Directions: 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,u one word that best fits each blank.
( A )
Since my retirement from teaching music in 2001, I have spent a good deal of time 25. ______ (paint) as an artist. I actually began drawing in the summer of 1995 when my father died, so perhaps I was trying to recover 26. _____ the loss of my father, or maybe it was just paintings 27. _____ brought back memories of him. In any ca, I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years.
For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again, but 28. _____ _____ ______ I walked out of the school door for the last time, I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth, who quickly became my favorite artist.
I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be 29. _____ (clo) to how I thought good watercolors should look. So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However, watercolors remained my first choice, and I think I did my best work there, 30. _____ (display) my paintings at a number of art shows.
It is wonderful to have some time doing 31. _____ I want to do. As Confucius once said, “At venty I can follow my heart’s desire.”
( B )
面面厮觑In the last decade, rearch 32. _____ (show) that resistance exerci can help numerous dia states, including depression. You can improve your overall health just by watching your weight and taking walks in the neighborhood. But 33. _____ you want to improve
your fitness — look better, maximize health, have more energy, prevent injuries — you need to do more.
In recent years, emphasis has shifted to a type of resistance training 34. _____ builds muscles ud
in day-to-day tasks, helping avoid injury or re-injury. 35. _____ (call) functional strength training, it helps with tasks such as lifting infants in and out of car ats or lifting garage doors. Another goal is 36. _____ (reduce) the risk factors in patients with long-term dias such as heart dia and diabetes.
“Part of my job is trying to convince that 85-year-old woman that she really 37. _____ start weight lifting. 38. _____ who need persuading are women recently treated for breast cancer.” says Dr. Dennis Kerrigan, at Henry Ford Health System’s Center for Athletic Medicine.
“Friends and family tell them, ‘Take it easy,’ but chemotherapy (化疗) can reduce muscle mass, leaving body fat that is linked to cancer returning,” he says. “My suggestion? Strength training. It’s taken a long time for women to realize 39. _____ important strength training is, but once they try it, they 40. _____ (hook).”
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
When US’ Duke University cond-year student Christian Drappi es someone using a Square (an electronic payment rvice) credit card reader, he pulls out his phone, takes a picture and uploads it to Twitter. “It kind of spreads like __41__ through Twitter,” said Drappi, who is a campus brand reprentative for Square.
Companies are __42__ using college campus brand reprentatives to spread the word about their products. The reprentatives often rely on word-of-mouth tools like social media to __43__ the company and any promotional events they host.
