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1、最新 料推荐上海交通大学附属中学2014-2015 学年度第二学期高三英语摸底考试试卷II.Grammar and VocabularySection ADirection: 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
2、 blanks,used one word that best fits each blank.(A)My dad was a fisherman,and he loved the sea.He had his own boat,but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and wouldstay outhe caught enough to feed the family. Not just enoughfor our family,for his Mom and Dad and the otherkids that
3、 were still at home.He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets andfighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled the ocean.He would wear his old canvas,foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls.His rain hat would be pulled down over his brow.hard mu mother wash
4、ed them,they would still smell of thesea and of the fish.When the weather was bad, hedrive me to school. Hehad this old truck that he used in his fishing business.That truck was older1最新 料推荐than he was.As he would drive toward the school.I would shrink downinto the seat(hope)to disappear.Half the ti
5、me,he would salm toa stop and the old truck would belch a cloud of smoke.He would pullright up in front of the school,and it seemed like everyone would bestanding around and watching.Then he would lean over and give me a bigkiss oncheek and tell me to be a good boy.It was soembarrassing for me.I rem
6、ember the day I decided I was too old for a good-bye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said,No, Dad.It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he hadthis(surprise)look on his face.I
7、 said, Dad, Im too old for a good-bye kiss. I m too old for any kind of kiss.My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. I had never seen him cry. He turned and looked our thewindshield. Youre right, he said. You are a big boy. I won tkiss youanymore.”It wasn tlong aft
8、er that when my Dad went to sea and never came back.It was a day when most of the fleet stayed in ,but not Dad.He had a big family to feed.They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half2最新 料推荐out.He must have gotten into a gale and was trying to save the nets andthe floats,but.You dontkno
9、wI would give to have my Dad give mejust one more kiss on the cheek to feel his rough old face to smellthe ocean on him to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a good-bye kiss.”(B)Google is to start building
10、its own self-drivingcars,rather thanmodifyingvehicles built by other manufactures.The car willhave astop-go buttonno controls, steering wheel or pedals.Pictures of the Google vehicle show it looks like a city car with afriendlyface, designed to make it seem non-threatening and helppeople accept self
11、-driving technology. Co-founder Sergey Brin revealedthe plans at a conference in California.Were really excited about this vehicle - itsthat will allowus to really push the capabilities of self driving technology, and understand the limitations, said Chris Urmson, director of the companys self-drivi
12、ng project.He added that the cars had the ability to improve peoples lives bytransforming mobility.But some researchers working in this field(investigate)3最新 料推荐potential downsides to driverless car technology. They believe they couldmake traffic and urban sprawl(bad), as people accept longercommute
13、s as they do not have to drive themselves.It looks almost cartoon-like, it has no traditional bonnet at the front,and the wheels are pushed to the corners.It willseat two people,propulsion will be electric, and at the start it will be limited to 25mph (40km/h) to help ensure safety.The most signific
14、ant thing about the design is that it does not have any controls, apart from a stop/go button. For early testing, extra controls (fit) so one of Googles test drivers can take over if there is a problem.The controls will simply plug in, and Mr Urmson believes that overtime, as confidence inthe techno
15、logy grows, they willbe removedentirely. The front endof the vehicle isdesigned tobe safer forpedestrians, with a soft foam-like materiala traditional bumperwould be, and a more flexible windscreen, which may help reduce injuries.The vehicle willuse a combination of laser and radar sensorscamera dat
16、a to drive autonomously. It will depend on Googles road maps,built specifically for the programme, and tested on the companys currentfleet of vehicles.Section BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the4最新 料推荐box.Each word can only be used once.Note that there is one world m
17、ore than you need.A.adaptableB.advocatesC.applicationsD.commerciallyE.commonF.fightingG.mostlyH.knowI.pushJ.recognizeK.tailorsPictures this:You stop in front of a digital advertising display at a mall and suddenly an ad of makeup pops up,followed by one for shoes and then one for canilla ice cream.I
18、t seems to that youre a woman in your late 20s and, in fact, it does. When you looked at the display, itscanned your facial features andits messages to you.Once the stuffofscience fictionand high-tech crime, facialrecognitiontechnology has become one of the newest tools in marketing, even thoughpriv
19、acyconcerns abound.KraftFoods Inc. and Adidassay they areplanningtoexperiment with itas early as thisyear totheirproducts.The commercialof facialrecognition are in contrast to thosebeing usedbylawenforcementtoidentifyspecificindividuals.Companies,atleastat this point,justwanttopinpoint ademographic
20、based on age and gender to tailor their ads.But even this facial recognition-lite alarms privacy, given that it5最新 料推荐could greatly popularize and expand use of the technology.Intel Corp., which makes such software, said its widely.Youcan put this technology into kiosks, vending machines, digital si
21、gns, said Christopher OMalley, director of retail marketing for Intels embedded and communications group. Its going to become a much more common thing in the next few years.So far, the technology isuse commercially in Japan, where avariety of businesses use it to customize ads.III.Reading Comprehens
22、ionSection AAmbition is a necessaryquality in life. It is the _51_ whichdrives us on to use whatever talent we have got. If we havent got somedegree of ambition, these talents will not be used for our own and others_52_.Ambition, _53_, can have several defects.First of all,it can be_54_. We may not
23、be able to see the limits of our own abilities, sowe do ambitious things that are completely beyond us. Our career masters can see our good qualities and our limitations _55_. They may tellus that we havent the ability to deal with people and would make good businessmen. We refuse to take their eval
24、uation. We keep on trying. Many years and many _56_ later we are forced to accept their_57_. But what a waste of time our ill-founded ambition has6最新 料推荐caused us!Secondly, our ambition can be too _58_. Our attention isdevoted to one narrow aim, such as getting distinctions in our science subjects.
25、Everything that may draw us away from this aim is cut out of our lives. In the end we get our distinctions. But what damage we have caused ourselves in the process! We are isolated beings who only care about a particular examination. And we probably wont make good scientists. We _59_ the breadth of
26、vision necessary for success in higher level.Thirdly, our ambition can be limited to lifeless objectives. We want to gain money, or power, or membership of some circles. Persons who feel inferior try to _60_ by seeking the respect of others throughpossessions of these artificial signs of worth.Fourt
27、hly, our ambition may be _61_. Instead of directingsome of our ambition towards community improvement we may exploit members of the community in the interests of self-advancements. In later life we may be ambitious for the success of our children but we regard this success as only a further _62_ of
28、our own success.Ambition is necessary in the lives of individuals-necessary for their own improvement and for the improvement of the _63_ inwhich they live. But, like all blind forces, it must be directed if it is not to cause disaster. It must be tightly controlled by the head and the heart.7最新 料推荐
29、Otherwise ambition may _64_ too high a price in terms of humanqualities.51.A. meanB. forceC. courageD. action52.A. justiceB. affectionC. benefitD. emotion53.A. howeverB. thereforeC. besidesD. furthermore54.A. unpredictableB. unusualC. unrealisticD. unfavorable55.A. objectiveB. positiveC. amusinglyD.
30、 negatively56.A. miraclesB. recoveriesC. occasionsD. disappointments57.A. noticeB. solutionC. judgmentD. measure58.A. devotedB. concentratedC. separatedD. isolated59.A. causedB. madeC. drivenD. troubled60.A. omitB. lackC. ownD. value8最新 料推荐61.A. take inB. make upC. turn downD. give out62.A. self-cen
31、teredB. self-disciplinedC. self-satisfiedD. self-controlled63.A. timeB. imageC. designD. mark64.A. familyB. communityC. sectionD. position65.A. possessB. satisfyC. overtakeD. demand Section B(A)Franz Kafka wrote that a book must be the ax (斧子 ) for the frozen sea inside us. I once shared this senten
32、ce with a class of seventh graders, and it didnt seem to require any explanation.Wed just finished John Steinbecks novelOf Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. Are you crying? one girl asked. I am, I to
33、ld her, and the funny thing is Ive read it many times. But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, Ive taught kids with imprisoned9最新 料推荐parents, abusive(辱骂的 ) parent
34、s, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novels terrible logic the giving way of dreams to fate .For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, re
35、ading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school-one that often attracts the literary-minded childrenof Manhattan
36、s upper classes into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional cultural capital could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps f
37、or the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D.s.Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didnt always read from the expected point of view. I had never before seen the parall
38、els between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeths speechread as raps 说(唱 ) , but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbecks writing, one boy went on to10最新 料推荐read The Grapes of Wrath and told me how amazing it was that all these peopl
39、e hate each other, and theyre all white. His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.Year after year, however, we are increasing th
40、e number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read complex text, not foremotional punch but for text complexity. Yet, we can tenrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do no. amaze but confuse. We may succeed
41、in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach that reading can be transformative(起改造作用的 ) and that it belongs to them.66. The sentencea book must be the ax (斧子 ) for the frozen sea inside us. in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to_A. translate our dreams into actionB. fillour heart wi
42、thhappinessC. steel our hearts to overcome difficultiesD. awake our deepemotions67. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?A. Because they had similar life experiences. B. Because they were bred in a violent society.11最新 料推荐C. Because they obtained a sufficient explanatio
43、n from the teacher.D. Because they had read the novel many times.68. The girl left the selective high school probably because_.A. she wasnt a literary-minded girl .B. her parents wereimmigrants.C. she couldnt fit in with her class .D. her father was thenin prison.69.The author writes the passage mainly to_.A. suggest reading classic works of literature creatively .B.