上海市闵行区七宝中学2021-2022学年高三下学期期中英语试卷

2021届七宝中学第二学年英语期中考试 第I卷(共90分) I. Listening Comprehension Section A 1. A. Quite embarrassed. B. Relaxed and happy. C. Worried and frightened. D. Deeply ashamed. 2. A. Bill has never used a calculator. B. Bill needs a calculator for this work. C. Bill is working with a calculator. D. Bill can work better without a calculator. 3. A. To go on a diet. B. To cut his jeans short. C. To wear fitted clothes. D. To buy a pair of jeans. 4. A. Having an interview. B. Filling out a form. C. Talking with a friend. D. Asking for information. 5. A. Put her report on his desk. B. Mail her report to the publisher. C. Read some papers he recommended. D. Improve some parts of her paper. 6. A. Continue to read. B. Meet the woman at the library. C. Make some coffee. D. Go out with some friends. 7. A. The price of a meal may vary from month to month. B. Buying the meal ticket won’t save the man any money. C. The man should buy a different meal ticket every month. D. It is better for the man to pay for each meal separately. 8. A. She’s upset that she missed the television program. B. She doesn’t think the television program was funny. C. She doesn’t like talking about television programs. D. She watched the television program at a friend’s house. 9. A. He doubts the woman’s words. B. He hasn’t read the novel yet. C. He enjoyed reading the novel a lot. D. He is not interested in the novel at all. 10 A. The talks haven’t achieved much. B. The talks haven’t started yet. C. The talks broke down and went no further. D. They have come to a general agreement. Section B Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. They cannot sleep well before sports day. B. Only a few school children can win the championship. C. They may fall down halfway through the race and feel ashamed of themselves. D. They may fail to live up to the expectations of their parents or coaches. 12. A. They needed help building their character. B. They didn’t deserve to suffer. C. Participation mattered more than winning for them. D. They were honorable for keeping school traditions alive. 13. A. More school children should get involved in it. B. Parents should take part in it as well. C. More competitive events should be added. D. It should be replaced with team sports. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. There is a great difference between reading and listening. B. There are some effective ways to practice your reading skill. C. Highly educated and poorly educated people have different reading habits. D. The speed and efficiency of reading greatly depend on contents and purposes. 15. A. They move very fast through the text. B. They vary their speed when reading. C. They concentrate on the key words. D. They re-read the text at least twice. 16. A. Too slow for a difficult book though just right for a non-serious one. B. Too slow for a non-serious book but too fast for a difficult one. C. Too fast for difficult material though just right for a non-serious book. D. Too fast for a non-serious book as well as for a difficult one. Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Classmates. B. Cousins. C. Parent and child. D. Professor and student. 18 A. She can cook her favourite food. B. She can keep her room clean and tidy. C. She can finally have some privacy. D. She doesn’t get along well with her sister. 19. A. He cannot understand recipes. B. He has trouble socializing with others. C. It is easy for him to get into financial trouble. D. He is not good at doing household chores. 20. A. Work out a weekly budget. B. Prepare food on her own. C. Go to parties and clubs less often. D. Have a part-time job to earn more. II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 语法填空 Future Inventions Everyone has their favourite invention. Some of us even make lists of them. One survey, which asked for Britain’s greatest invention, named the bicycle, which received twice as many votes as the World Wide Web. That’s the past, but what about the future? What inventions ____1____ (shape) our lives? J.B.S. Haldane, a British scientist and not one of life’s optimists, once made his prediction for the future. He said that ____2____ hadn’t happened would happen and no one would be safe from it. Whether you agree or not, one thing is ____3____ doubt: human beings need to invent a few things pretty quickly. Here is our own list: Number one is a new source of power. Oil is running out. A teenager, in a recent letter to a newspaper, wrote that it would take over a hundred years ____4____ (produce) fresh oil. He was wrong by a few million years. Once our oil is gone, it’s gone forever. We have about fifty years’ worth left, and even less ____5____ rates of industrialisation speed up. At a recent conference about the world’s future, scientist Hilary Craft