高三英语上学期期末考试试题

在学生就要走出校门的时候，班级工作仍要坚持德育先行，继续重视对学生进行爱国主义教育、集体主义教育、行为规范等的教育，认真落实学校、学工处的各项工作要求河南省2017届高三英语上学期期末考试试题 本试题卷分第卷和第卷两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上（答题注意事项见答题卡），在本试题卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试题卷和答题卡一并交回。第卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有2分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：How much is the shirt? A.19. 15. B.9.18. C.9.15.答案是C。1. Why is the woman looking for clothes? A. Her clothes are too small. B. She needs to attend a party. C. She feels hot in her clothes.2. Why are the speakers celebrating? A. Its the womans birthday. B. The woman got a new job. C. They recently got engaged.3. How does the man react when seeing the woman? A. Hes sad. B. Hes scared. C. Hes surprised.4. Why does the woman want to go to Paris? A. To study dance. B. To open a studio. C. To go to college.5. What happened to the mans hand? A. He broke his finger, B. He cut his finger. C. He had an operation. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. How does the woman feel about owning a boat? AIt is fun. BIt is expensive. C. It takes rip too much space. 7. What is the man most concerned about? A. Getting a discount on a boat. B. Finding a place to keep his boat in. C. Getting his parents to buy him a boat. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. How many DVDs does the man have?A. About five hundred. B. About one thousand. C. About five thousand. 9. What is the mans favorite movie? A. The Godfather. B. The Graduate. C. Batman. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What does the man think is the biggest part of the problem? ACars that go too fast. B. Bikers who get across the street. C. People who walk into the traffic. 11. How many accidents have there been in a month? A2 B3 C4 12. How does the woman think the leaders will react? AThey wont care. B. They will argue with her. C. Most of them will support her view. 听第9段材料，回答第1 3至16题。 13.What did the man think of his boss? A. He Was very young. B. He was very relaxed. C. He was formal and polite. 14.Where does the man work? A. At a newspaper office. B. At a music company. C. At a financial company. 15. What does the mans boss advise him to do? A. Listen to music. B. Read the newspaper. C. Play sports more often. 16. What did the woman give the man? A.A newspaper. B.A pen. C.A book. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17;hat. did the speaker rise to do after lunch? A. Play sports. B. Write short stories. C. Read inside the classroom. 18. What did the speaker do in middle school? A. She started a book club. B. She went. out to parries frequently. C. She wrote for the school newspaper. 19. When did the speaker first get her writings published? A.1n middle school. B. In high school. C. At college. 20. What is the speakers favorite activity now? A. Reading books. B. Talking about her writing. C. Traveling around the world. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项项并在答题卡将该项涂黑。A The holidays are a time to give. These charities（慈善机构）and many more-are looking for volunteers and donations. Read on to learn more about them.American Red Cross Your donation can make a difference at home or overseas. The American Red Cross is making it easy to help victims of natural disasters, members of the U. S. armed forces. and children all over the world.National Military Family Association Each year hundreds of Americans serve both nationally and overseas to keep our countrysafe. Through donations, National Military Family Association helps to support the wellbeing of military members and their families with scholarships, family retreats, camp programs for kids,and more.Network for Good This unique website allows its users to donate to charities and discover volunteerism. Thesite also offers tips for kids who want to give.Make-A-Wish Foundation Sometimes all it takes is one wish satisfied to make someone smile. The mission. of Make-A-Wish Foundation is to satisfy the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses. Throughsupport and donations, the foundation has made dreams come true for hundreds of thousands ofchildren. Each year, the foundation collects only new, unwrapped toys for the holidays. The toys collected are given as gifts to children in need so they can experience the joy of Christmas.World Wildlife Fund The World Wildlife Fund is helping to protect endangered species all over the world, and you can too! The WWF offers many ways to get involved, including the Species Adoption program. Those who adopt an animal will get an and adoption certificate and a photo of their species. Anyone can support. endangered species year round.21. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To appeal for donations and volunteers. B. To compare some charities. C. To introduce some charities. D. To promote holiday spending.22.What do we know about Make-A-Wish Foundation? A. It doesnt we1come used toys. B. It helps people gain hope for life. C. It is intended for people of all ages. D. It encourages people to realize their dreams.,23. Which of the following will probably provide support for hurricane survivors. A. Network for Good. B. American Red Cross. C. Make-A-Wish Foundation. D. National Military Family Association. 24. In what way is the WWF different from the other four charities? A. Its source of fund. B. Its range of influence. C. Its service areas. D. Its service objects. B Before I had the flu, I thought it was a serious cold that was only dangerous to older people and young children with poor immune systems(免疫系统). However, when I was at the age of 38 with no previous health concerns9 it nearly killed me. Last January I got sick. I thought it was a cold and tried to work through it. By the end of the week I was in the hospital, unconscious and on complete life support with doctors and nurses working round the clock trying to save my life. Three days into my ICU stay my family was told to ;hope for the best but prepare for the worst. I lost two weeks of my life in unconsciousness. When I woke up, I discovered the severe fluhad left fluid on my brain and the only thing I could move were my eyes. It is the most terrifying feeling to be trapped in your body, unable to communicate, move and breathe on your own. After four weeks in the ICU recovering and learning to breathe and swallow again, I spent five more weeks in the hospital gradually learning to move and walk again. All told., I spent several months in hospitals, had six operations, one of which requiredopening my chest, and worst of all I missed out on hundreds of important moments in myhusband and three boys lives. Without a second of hesitation, I can say that getting the flu has affected my life forever. First and foremost, I now know the importance of getting the. Flu shot.25. What can be inferred about the author from the first paragraph? A. She suffered from the flu frequently. B. She often took the flu too seriously. C. She had been in poor health condition. D. She used to hold a wrong view on the flu.26. What happened after the author spent three days in the ZCU? A. She quickly- came back to life. B. She was found to be in quick recovery. C. Doctors thought her survival chance was slim. D. Doctors announced that she could no longer talk or move.27. What does the author realize from her flu experience? A. East or west, home is the best. B. Its important to have the flu shot. C. Health comes before everything else, D. Something once lost can never be regained.C As the days get shorter and the chilly weather rolls in, we all want to curl up in a blanker and hibernate(避寒) until spring rolls around. But making time to get outside in the sun, even when its cold out, could have bigger mental benefits than you might realize. While the link between sunshine and mental health is nothing new, new research from Brigham Young University ( BYU) has shown that the association may be even stronger thanpreviously realized. It finds that sunlight exposure is by- far the greatest weather-related factor determining mental health outcomes. In other words: more sunshine, more happiness. For the study, a psychologist, a physicist and a statistician from BYU teamed up to compare daily environmental data from the university s Physics and Astronomy Weather Station with emotional health data archived(存档) by day for 16,452 adult therapy patients who were being treated at the BYU Counseling and Psychological Services Center. Exposure to sunlight is a significant factor in seasonal affective disorder. Research has shown that the brain produces more of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin on sunny days than it does on darker days. What s more, lack of sunlight is linked with lower vitamin D levels, which in turn has been related to depression and low energy. If you re getting enough sunlight, your emotions should remain relatively stable, the researchers found. But as the amount of sunlight in the day is reduced, levels of emotional paincan soar. Other weather variables including temperature, pollution and rain were not found to have an impact on mental health. “We were surprised that many of the weather and pollution variables we included in the study were not significantly related to clients scores on the emotional pain measure once we had accounted for suntime ,” said Dr. Mark Beecher, a professor of psychology at the university andthe study s lead author. People tend to associate rainy days, pollution, and other meteorological phenomena with sadness or depression, but we did not find that. 28. What does the author suggest we do in the first paragraph?A. Realize the benefits of sunshine.B. Avoid hibernating in springtime.C. Curl up in a blanket in cold weather.D. Enjoy sunshine even in cold weather.29. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word soar in Paragraph 5?A. rise sharply B. remain the sameC. drop slightly D. change greatly30. What does the text say about the research done by BYU?A. It is done on nor-mal adults of various ages.B. It is carried out by Dr. Mark Beecher alone.C. It concludes that sunshine largely affects happiness.D. It. finds that temperature is strongly related to mental health.31. What can be inferred from the text?A. Lower vitamin D levels are helpful in keeping us energetic.B. Some research findings are inconsistent with the popular belief.C. The more sunshine we get, the more excited we are likely to feel.D. The link between sunshine and mental health was unknown before. D Advertisers often use humor to attract customers attention, but they should do so with caution, according to a recently published. study. Ads that make people laugh are not always in the best interest of brands, researchers found. Humor may way work to advertisers benefit only when it s just right. In the study, Caleb Warren, assistant professor of marketing in the University of Arizona, showed participants ads for three T-shirts designed for a young girl. One ad featured a plain, non-humorous, red T-shirt. One featured the same shirt with a funny face on it. And one featured a red T-shirt with two tassels (流苏装饰) on the chest. When surveyed, study participants said they found the smiley-face shirt and the tasseled shirt equally funny, but they had more negative feelings toward the ad featuring the inappropriate, tasseled shirt. What we show in this paper is that advertisements that are equally funny can have opposite effects on brand attitudes, Warren said. One can be persuasive and help the brand, and another can be counterproductive (产生不良后果的) and hurt the brand. So, how do you strike the right balance? Warren suggest advertisers ask themselves a series of key questions before attempting humor. The first: Is the humor attempt funny? If you try to be funny and fail, it almost always hurts the brand, Warren said, adding that audience testing before launching an ad is a good idea to assess whether something will be considered as funny. Other questions to consider: Does the ad create humor in a way that seems too threatening? Will the ad create humor in a way that also motivates avoidance? Whats the context for the humor attempt?“ Marketers are always asking themselves,Should I use humor? and really they need to be thinking about how to create the humor, Warren said. In general, the more a consumer likes a brand and the more positive their attitude is toward it, the more likely they are to purchase it or use it.”32. What do researchers find about advertisements? A. Once used properly, humor can promote sales. B. Humor should be used as much as possible in ads. C. Laughter-causing ads are sure to do good to brands. D. Advertisers usually try to avoid using humor in ads,33. What can we know from Paragraph 2? A. How the study is carried out. B. The reason for doing the study. C. The influence of the study. D. Why T-shirts are used in the study.34. Which of the following reflects Warrens opinion? A. The effects of jokes on advertisements dont vary greatly. B. There is no need for ads to have audience testing in advance. C. Peoples attitudes toward brands dont influence purchasing decisions. D. Its necessary for marketers to consider the way of making ads humorous.35. What can be the best title for the text? A. How to Bring More Fun into Ads B. Funny Ads May Not Be Effective C. Humor Should Be Widely Used in Ads D. How Ads Influence Consumers Attitudes第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Changing your life can come in small, easy steps. You can transform yourself and live a better life by making positive changes along the way. Here are some choices that will lead toyour transformation. Choose to change bad habits. Some bad habits seem to stick around without us even realizing it 36 You can overcome them, find better alternatives, and get through your struggle to become a better you! Do it for yourself more than anything. Choose to grow. Its easy to get stuck in a fixed way of life. 37 In choosing to grow, you build character, develop your strengths, become aware of what needs improvement, and turn into the well-rounded person you need to be to succeed. Choose to seek a balanced life. Where do you need balance? Are you all work. no play? Or the opposite? 38 If you re spending too much time working or locked away alone, find the time for social communication and having fun. If you havent committed to a schedule in a while, make the decision to start following one. 39 This is vital to human existence. We need the loving bonds created by family members and friends. Personal relationships are key to emotional growth and social stability. Choose to live your passion（激情）. Whatever your dream is, you can have it. The person you wish to be and the things you wish to achieve are within you. Make the choice to pursue those passions at whatever cost. It may mean clearing out your schedule or doing something youve never done. 40 A. Choose to spend time with those you love. B. Choose to organize your schedule flexibly. C. Make the choice today that you wont be ruled by them. D. Neither extreme will lead you to a pleasant life for very long. E. However, with re-evaluation and growth comes a beautiful freedom. F. Its good to change, and youve only got so many years to refresh yourself. G. However, the reward from success and personal accomplishment will be worth it.第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节完形填空（共20水题；每小题1。5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。One morning in early fall. I spotted a pair of wild geese on my pond. I was surprised.because Id never 41 geese there before. I assumed theyd soon leave, so I enjoyed the opportunity to be 42 to these graceful (优雅的)creatures.1 wondered where they came from and why theyd 43 my pond. The next morning, they were still my guests, 44 I tried to show them I meant no harm. Still, I couldnt 45 getting a closer look, but l was 46 to see they were staring at me! As the days passed, I started talking to them. They raised their heads 47 but seemed to realize I was a friend. I felt as though we were beginning to 48 each other. By then, my 49 about why they were staying so long at the pond changed to 50 . It wouldnt be long before the severe Michigan winter set in and the pond 51 . One day, I discovered the reason for the