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　　2016学年松江区上师大附中高三第一学期英语摸底考试卷
　　I. Listening Comprehension (30%)
　　II. Grammar and Vocabulary (26%)
　　（A）
　　We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. Both of them (25)__________(dress) them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was (26)__________(join) Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang.
　　The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of guests. Each of the (27)__________ made a particular fuss over Kelly, the younger one, admiring her dress, her hair and her smile. I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big "to do" over the younger one because she's the one (28)__________ seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions. But it is we parents (29)__________ seldom think of how it might affect the other child.
　　I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being outshined. I was about to serve dinner (30)__________ I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom,(31)__________(cry). I said, "What are you doing, my dear?" She turned to me with a sad expression and said, "Mommy, why don't people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I'm not pretty? Is that (32)_________ they don't say nice things about me as much?" I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging her to make her feel (33)__________(good). Now, (34)__________ I visit a friend's home, I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.
　　（B）
　　Increasing dependence on iPads, computers and smartphones has left many young people with an eye problem that usually affects those much older.
　　Millions are developing ‘dry eye’, a condition that results in gritty, itchy, inflamed(发炎的) eyes, (35) __________ __________ hours staring at a screen.
　　When we use such devices, the mind focuses so strongly on the screen we(36)__________ can ‘forget’ to blink, according to dry eye specialist Dr Christine Purslow. This can affect the eye’s lubrication system, she said.
　　We normally blink 12-15 times a minute, but using a computer screen (37)__________ cut this to seven or eight a minute. This leaves the tear film – the lubricating substance that protects the surface of the eye – not working properly.
　　About 30 per cent of those over 50 have dry eye but numbers are rising, with many more young people (38)__________(affect).Younger people (39)__________(experience) problem nowadays because of the modern office, with computers and air-conditioners making it worse,as well as home use of display screens.
　　‘As (40)__________ nation we are getting older, which means the proportion suffering age-related dry eye is increasing,’ Dr Purslow said.
　　Section B
　　A. cultivation   B. farmed     C. constant    D. machinery    AB. plunged            AC. lightning    AD. envy      BC. precious   BC. uncomfortable   CD. aircrafts    ABC. consequence
　　Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazing. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, __41__cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at __42__ speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts of saving __43__ seconds in handling tasks.
　　All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the __44__ feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, speeding too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may send harmful radiation into our brains, a __45__ we do not like to thint.
　　However , what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to __46__ activities that we find it difficulty to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination tas into another world.
　　There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the __47__ of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might __48__ a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasr ancestor faced: they __49__ with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern __50__ has freed people from that primitive(原古的)existence.
　　III. Reading Comprehension
　　Section A
　　Directions:  For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.  Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. 
　　It’s believed that intelligent people are better at learning languages. Most language learning skills, __51__, are habits, which can be formed through a bit of discipline and self-awareness. But, some of them are not good enough. Here