届虹口区高考英语二模 作者： 日期：虹口区 2017 学年度第二学期期终教学质量监控测试高三英语试卷 2018.04考生注意：1. 考试时间 120 分钟，试卷满分 140 分。2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答題必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸 上，做在试卷上一律不得分。3. 答題前，务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码貼在指定位置上， 在答題纸反面清楚地填写姓名。第 I 卷(共 100 分)I. Listening Comprehension II. Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: 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; f or the other blanks, use one word that best f its each blank.Nooks arrival, Good or Bad?Book lovers, most of them, will tell you(21)_ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to the friend the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of ; the travel book that made you feel (22) _you yourself w ere on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users w ere to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldnt lend it out.But now, with the Nock, the US book chain Barnes and Nobles response to Amazons Kind le, electronic readers will be ab le to have their latest literary enthusiasm(23) _ (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can, You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, (24) _ (use) any device with the Barnes& Noble e-book reader software. Its a big improvement from previous e-book readers.The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen. just like with Kind le. The difference is (25) _on the lower part of the device theres a colour touch screen,(26) _allow s you to browse through a book or a magazine , but goes black when youre not using it so that you save power.(27) _exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection (28) _ (read) whole e-books at Barnes& Noble for hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes& Nobles competitors can come close to this.But the Nook, ironically,(29) _ (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes& Noble, or at least a job- loser for Barnes& Nobles employees. According to Marian Moniker at The Big Money Website,(30) _the Nook is successful it might take sales from the companys bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.Section BDirections: 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.A. branchB. department C. appropriateD. expansionE. withdrewF. dominatedG. licensedH. contractI. considerableJ. brandsK. breakthroughForeign Giants Target Chinese Milk MarketEuropean dairy products giant Arla Foods has chosen a leading Chinese milk manufacture as a business partner for its (31)_ in China a clear sign that overseas companies are starting to cultivate huge Chinas dairy market by tying up with local players.Arla signed the cooperation (32) _, which comes into effect this month, with Mengniu Dairy at the end of August to set up a milk-pow der joint venture in Hohhot, capital of North Chin as Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The deal between Arle Foods and Mengniu can be seen as a new (33) _for Multinationals re-entry into the sector.Many foreign giants have found it difficult to create ( 34) _profits in domestic milk market, especially the liquid-m ilk sector, which is followed closely by price wars and dominated by local (35) _-companies like Danone, Kraft and Friesland Coberco have quitted dairy production in China.A few have been successful -Nestle, Inter, Bristo-Myers Squibb and Wyeth have (36) _ the high-end milk-formula market in China.“We will watch the market closely and re-invest here in a(n) (37) _ time,” an official of the Dutch firm Friesland said w hen it (38) its investment in its Tianjin joint venture last year after eight years.The company has (39) _its Chinese partner to continue using its Dutch lady brand and also sells its imported Friso infant foods, Dutch Lady milk pow der and Dutch lady Calcimex in the Chinese market through its (40) _ company in Hong Kong.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four word s or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Our modern working lives are ruled by the concept of competence(能力). The idea that lies behind competence is quite simple: that one can state