2023年上海市金山区高三上学期期中英语试题及答案（考试时间：120分钟 满分：140分）第I卷（共95分）I. Listening Comprehension (25%)Section ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation 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. March. B. May. C. June. D. July.2. A. By car B. By bus. C. By train. D. On foot.3. A. Choose a new dentist. B. Cure the pain by herself.C. Make an appointment with her dentist. D. Ask for the right way to brush her teeth.4. A. A bus driver. B. An airline ticket agent.C. A post office clerk. D. A department store salesperson.5. A. Close the window. B. Prepare their clothes.C. Lock the suitcase. D. Call a taxi.6. A. Take a day off from work. B. Go and join the people in the office.C. Find more people to help with the move. D. Move to a new place at free time.7. A. Find a larger room. B. Sell the old table.C. Buy two bookshelves. D. Rearrange some furniture.8. A. He wants to spend more time with his family.B. He doesnt think he is capable of doing the job.C. He thinks the pay is too low to support his family.D. He doesnt enjoy business trips as much as he used to.9. A. The man is willing to help the woman.B. The man is losing patience with the woman.C. The woman will let Bob chat with the man.D. The man has already finished his project.10. A. The woman believes that Peter can give up smoking.B. Peter finds it easy to give up smoking.C. Peter has not given up smoking.D. Peter has convinced the woman that he can give up smoking.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one conversation. You will be asked three questions on each of the passages and four questions for the conversation. The passages and conversation 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 based on the following passage.11. A. Now teleshopping is popular in almost every country in the world.B. People can shop things from the biggest European company on TV.C. Frenchmen spend about $ 20 million a year buying things on TV.D. More TV channels can open for telebusiness in America.12. A. They have to stay at home and watch TV.B. They think its a new way of buying things.C. They are not sure about the quality of the goods.D. They worry about the safety of their personal information.13. A. Popularity of teleshopping. B. Advantages of teleshopping.C. Future of teleshopping. D. Convenience of teleshopping.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Her weight was above average. B. She had good memory.C. She got a stomachache. D. She had no trouble sleeping.15. A. She didnt take medicine as the specialist asked.B. She was sensitive to what she ate, breathed and touched.C. She avoided some of the things that make her healthy.D. Her roommates couldnt understand her well.16. A. She has graduated from Cambridge.B. She is not confident about her future job.C. She plans to move to London and find a job there.D She has to depend on sleeping pills at night.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following dialogue.17. A. The tickets have to be booked in advance.B. It will be performed at 6 p.m.C. There will be two performances.D It will be on at the theatre.18. A. The Piazza. B. The Concert Hall. C. The theatre. D. The Town Hall.19. A. $8. B. $10. C. $15. D. $20.20. A. Art Exhibition. B. Ballet Performance. C. Mask Party. D. Living Theatre.II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)Section ADirections: After reading the passage 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, use one word that best fits each blank.Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is going to experience _1_ unwelcome surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer (锁止器), and a radio signal from a control center miles away will ensure that _2_ the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro-processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control center to block the