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高三期始考英语试卷第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节：单项选择（共20小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分）从a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项，把答案写在答题卷上。1. its quite _ honor to be _ chairman of the conference.a. /; theb. an; /c. a; /d. the; the2. every means _, but none proved _.a. have tried; a successb. have been tried; successfulc. has tried; to be successfuld. has been tried; successful3. the weather of this year is not so good as _ of last year.a. oneb. the onec. thatd. those4. it was in the small house _ was destroyed by the flood _ he spent his childhood.a. which; thatb. that; wherec. which; whichd. that; which5. all those second-hand goods are sold at _ before.a. 30% as lower price asb. as 30% low price asc. 30% as low a price asd. 30% lower price than6. most of the audience wondered what idea a man who is deaf from birth can have _music. a. withb. inc. ofd. to7. im putting on weight. the doctor has warned me to _ sugar.a. keep upb. keep backc. keep offd. keep away8. for the big house, the price is fairly cheap, but youve got to take into _ the money youll spend on home improvement.a. considerationb. thoughtfulnessc. responsibilityd. measures9. i tried to explain the problem to mary, but she was so angry that she _ listen.a. couldnt b. shouldntc. wouldntd. might not10. i heard several quarrels within our home, _ i had never before noticed.a. thatb. themc. oned. ones11. we are all ready, sir.ok, john _ here; the rest of you _ where you are.a. come; stayb. comes; stayc. will come; will stayd. comes; will stay12. sometimes proper answers are not far to seek _ food safety problems.a. inb. withc. afterd. to13. every morning they meet in the same caf. they _ there for years.a. have goneb. are goingc. god. have been going14. the researchers who study jokes want to know _ people from different nations and cultures find funny.a. whyb. thatc. whatd. whether 15. pity you missed the lecture on nuclear pollution.i _it, but i was busy preparing for a job interview.a. had attendedb. didnt attendc. would attendd. would have attended16. i had just finished doing my examination papers _ the bell rang.a. whenb. whilec. befored. after17. alex is said _ by heart 2000 chinese characters up to now.a. that he has learnedb. to have learnedc. to learnd. having learned18. john failed in the english test this time.-_a. of course.b. sure.c. because he is too lazy.d. what a surprise!19.whats the _, in your opinion, of helping him if he doesnt make an effort to help himself. a. sympathyb. pointc. objectd. theme20.at times the balance in nature is _, resulting in a number of possibly unforeseen effects.a. troubledb. confusedc. disturbedd. puzzled第二节：完型填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）in 1956, phoenix, arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. one day as i walked around the house with my 21 kathys new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, i wanted to show perky 22 the sky looked like. maybe he could make a little bird friend out there. i took him into the backyard, and then, 23 to my horror, perky flew off. the enormous, blue sky swallowed up my sisters blue 24 and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.kathy managed to 25 me. with fake optimism, she even tried to reassure （安慰）me that perky would find a new 26 . but i was far too clever to 27 that such a thing was possible. decades later, i watched my own 28 growing. we shared their activities, spending soccer saturdays in folding chairs with the 29 of the kids friends, the kissells. the two families went camping around arizona together. we became the 30 of friends. one evening, the game was to tell great pet stories. one person claimed to 31 the oldest living goldfish. someone else had a psychic dog. 32 barry, the father of the other family, took the floor(发言) and 33 that the greatest pet of all time was his blue parakeet, sweetie pie.the best thing 34 sweetie pie, he said, was the 35 we got him. one day, when i was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just dived down and 36 on my finger.when i was 37 able to speak, we examined the amazing evidence. the dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all 38 . it seems our two families had been 39 long before we ever met. forty years later, i ran to my sister and said, you were 40 ! perky lived!21. a. niece b. sister c. friend d. aunt 22. a. whatb. which c. how d. where 23. a. many b. much c. great d. very 24. a. pleasureb. sadnessc. treasured. sense25. a. forgiveb. comfortc. helpd. delight26. a. parentb. homec. housed. life27. a. imagineb. supposec. doubtd. believe28. a. birdsb. happinessc. worriesd. children29. a. parentsb. birdsc. interestsd. games30. a. firstb. bestc. last d. happiest31. a. catchb. findc. buy d. have32. a. but b. fortunately c. then d. however33. a. announcedb. argued c. toldd. hoped34. a. in b. aboutc. from d. on35. a. dayb. placec. way d. story36. a. fell b. flew c. landed d. went37. a. firstly b. finallyc. exactly d. even38. a. came upb. turned upc. turned outd. matched up39. a. knownb. joined c. connectedd. introduced40. a. rightb. wrongc. sillyd. mad第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）第一节：阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，把答案写在答题卷上。ahow i turned to be optimistici began to grow up that winter night when my parents and i were returning from my aunts house, and my mother said that we might soon be leaving for america. we were on the bus then. i was crying, and some people on the bus were turning around to look at me. i remember that i could not bear the thought of never hearing again the radio program for school children to which i listened every morning.i do not remember myself crying for this reason again. in fact, i think i cried very little when i was saying goodbye to my friends and relatives. when we were leaving i thought about all the places i was going to seethe strange and magical places i had known only from books and pictures. the country i was leaving never to come back was hardly in my head then.the four years that followed taught me the importance of optimism, but the idea did not come to me at once. for the first two years in new york i was really losthaving to study in three schools as a result of family moves. i did not quite know what i was or what i should be. mother remarried, and things became even more complex for me. some time passed before my stepfather and i got used to each other. i was often sad, and saw no end to the hard times. my responsibilities in the family increased a lot since i knew english better than everyone else at home. i wrote letters, filled out forms, translated at interviews with immigration officers, took my grandparents to the doctor and translated there, and even discussed telephone bills with company representatives.from my experiences i have learned one important rule: almost all common troubles eventually go away! something good is certain to happen in the end when you do not give up, and just wait a little! i believe that my life will turn out all right, even though it will not be that easy.41.how did the author get to know america? a. from her relatives. b. from her mother. c. from books and pictures. d. from radio programs.42.upon leaving for america the author felt_. a. confused b. excitedc. worried d. amazed43.for the first two years in new york, the author _. a. often lost her way b. did not think about her future c. studied in three different schools d. got on well with her stepfather44.what can we learn about the author from paragraph 4? a. she worked as a translator. b. she attended a lot of job interviews. c. she paid telephone bills for her family. d. she helped her family with her english.45.the author believes that_. a. her future will be free from troubles b. it is difficult to learn to become patient c. there are more good things than bad things d. good things will happen if one keeps tryingbbeldon and canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart. both towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists. last august there was a fire at the seabreeze hotel in beldon. the next day this news appeared on page two of the towns newspaper, the beldon post. fire at seabreeze late last night firemen hurried to the seabreeze hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom. the hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. we say again to all our visitors, please dont smoke cigarettes in bed. this was beldons first hotel fire for five years. the canfield times gave the news in these words on page one: another beldon hotel catches fire last night beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the seabreeze hotel. an angry holiday-maker said, “ an electric lamp probably started the fire. the bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels. when i turned the bedside light on, i heard a funny noise from the lamp.” we are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in canfield. what are the facts, then? it is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident. there was a fire at the seabreeze hotel 1st august: that is one fact. do we know anything else? yes, we know that firemen went to the hotel.46.the canfield times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think _.a.this was the second fire at the seabreeze hotelb.hotels in beldon often catch firec.hotels in beldon dont often catch fired.beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe47.the canfield newspaper gave a report just opposite to the beldon post by saying that _.a.the bedroom lamps were very old at some of the seabreezes hotelsb.the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took placec.the firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other thingsd.such accidents never happened in canfield for the past five years48. the “angry holiday-maker” _.a.lived in the room which had caught fireb.was talking about the lamps in seabreeze hotelc.caused the fire when he turned on a lampd.did not actually tell what had caused the fire49. which of the following best gives the main idea of this passage?a.a fire broke out one night in seabreeze hotelb.it was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapersc.two newspapers gave reports on the same matterd. beldon and canfield are both good places for tourists in summercmany people will remember the flight of the space shuttle (航天飞机)challenger, in june, 1983. the achievement of sally ride, americas first woman astronaut to fly into space, made this flight especially memorable. students from two camden, new jersey, high schools, however, are probably to remember norma rather than sally whenever they think about the flight.norma didnt travel alone. she brought about 100 companions along with her. norma was an ant, a queen ant who, with her subject, made up the first ant colony(群体) to travel into space. the ants were part of a science experiment designed by students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects.the equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly throughout the long space trip. the young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened. the problem didnt occur in space, but on the ground after challenger had landed. the container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was moved. the hot, dry desert air dried out the colonys container and the ants died from lack of moisture(水分).the project was tested success because it did provide useful information. students will continue their efforts to pinpoint (精确找到)what went wrong. they will try to prevent the same difficulties from recurring on future missions. they dont want to be discouraged either by the demise of the ants or by the $10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space. 50. what does the passage mainly tell us?a. sally ride, americas first woman astronaut.b. how to keep ants alive in space.c. how to make equipment for insects in space.d. an experiment with ants in space.51.according to the passage, we know that the underlined word “demise” is another word for “_”.a. deathb. colonyc. insectd. moisture52. we dont think the project was a failure. this is because _.a. everything went as smoothly as expectedb. the students had pinpointed exactly the reasonc. something important had been learnedd. the students had succeeded in the experiment53. the ants were not able to live because _.a. no one fed them in spaceb. they dried out in the desertc. weightlessness damaged themd. space caused too much pain54. we can conclude that ants _ on the next space trip.a. will have to be kept alive in a container full of waterb. will have to be sent into space with the first woman astronautc. should be put into a container where there is enough foodd. should be put into a container which is not too dryd the opening scene of the kings speech was, in a word, terrifying. the moment king george viwonderfully played by colin firthstepped up to the microphone at wembley stadium, a rush of nervousness came over me. it took me back to my school days, standing at my desk, having to read aloud to the class. i whispered to my wife, jill, “a stutterer(口吃者) wrote this screenplay(剧本).” i grew up with a stutter, really afraid of trying to get through simple sentencesknowing that i would then, or later, be laughed at. i still remember the reading when i was in 7th grade at st. helenas: “sir walter raleigh was a gentleman” i remember reciting, “sir walter raleigh was a gentleman.” the school teacher said, “master b-b-b-biden! whats that word?” she wanted me to say gentleman. but by then, i had learned to put my sentences into bite-size pieces and i was reading it: “gentle”breath“man”. ninety-nine percent of the time, the teachers were great. i never had professional treatment but a couple of teachers taught me to put a regular rise and fall in my tone of speaking, and thats why i spent so much time reading poetry. but even in my small, boys prep school, i got nailed in my class with the nickname joe stutterer. you get so desperate, youre so embarrassed. i actually went and stood by the side of my house once, with a small round stone in my mouth, and tried to talk. jill always thought i was kidding until she saw the movie and saw king george did the same thing. king george relied on the support his wife and the help of lionel longue, who, in describing working with other stutterers, said, “my job was to give them confidence in their voices and let them know that a friend was listening.” i was lucky enough to have more than a couple of lionels in my life. nobody in my family everevermade fun of me or tried to finish my sentences. my mother would say, “joey, you cannot let stuttering define you.” and because of her and others, i made sure it didnt. through hard work and determination, i beat my stutter in high school. i even spoke briefly at my graduation ceremony in 1961the most difficult speech of my life. my fight against shyness and embarrassment at my early age has developed my ability to understand others feelings as vice president of the country in public life. i still mark up all of my speeches the same way firths character does in the movie, pencil-marking every line to remind myself to stop, to breathe, to pauseto beat back my stuttering as best as i can. i dont stutter anymore, and most people who know me only late in my life are shocked that i ever did. by capturing exactly how a stutter feels, the kings speech has shown millions of people how much courage it takes for a stutterer to stand up and speak. equally important, it has shown millions who suffer from the pain that it can be overcome, we are not alone, and with the support of those around us, our deepest fears can be conquered. 55. the writer whispered to his wife, “a stutterer wrote this screenplay”, because _. a. he desired to release his secret to his wife b. he was reminded how it was as a stutterer on such occasions c. he thought colin firth had a wonderful performance in the film d. he wanted to make his wife realize why the film was so popular 56. what can we learn from the example in paragraph 2? a. kids with a stutter could be made fun of at schools. b. “gentleman” was very difficult for a 7th grader to pronounce. c. it was impossible for a stutterer to pronounce even very simple words. d. the teacher had a clever way to teach how to pronounce the word. 57. which word can best replace “nailed” in paragraph 3?a. attached b. uncovered c. hammered d. tric