浙江省诸暨市牌头中学2019届高三英语上学期期中试卷.docx

牌头中学 2018 学年第一学期期中考试卷高三英语第一部分听力 （共两节，满分 30 分，每小题 1.5 分）第一节请听下面 5 段对话，选出最佳选项。每段对话仅读一遍。1.What does the woman imply?A. She didnt clean the apartment.B. She will help the man clean his apartment. C. She needs to clean the lab.2.What does the woman mean?A.Her coach didnt help her enough. B.She had no chance of winning. C.She didnt follow his coach advice.3.What does the woman think of the activities?A. They arent very good because they are so different. B. It doesnt matter which one they do.C. She thinks they should do both.4. What are the speakers talking about?A .Upstairs stores.B.Prices of some shoes.C.Quality of some clothes5. What is the womans plan for today?A. To go swimmingB. To see a doctorC. To rest at home第二节请听下面 5 段对话或者独白，选出最佳选项。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话,回答第 6 和第 7 四个小题。6 .What is true about the woman?A. She feels headache.B. She feels frightened.C. She feels stressed.7.What food is considered as low stress food?A.Apples and grapesB.Hamburgers.C.French fries.听下面一段对话,回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8.Where does the conversation most probably take place?A .At home.B. At the station.C. In the street9. How will they probably go to the station?A .On footB. By taxiC. By bus听下面一段对话,回答第 10 和第 12 三个小题。10. What does the man think of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer ?A. InformativeB.BoringC . Adventurous11.Which place gave Mark Twain the idea to write a book?A .New OrleansB. HannibalC. New York City.12. What happened to Mark Twain in 1859?A. He became a steamboat pilot.B. He left his hometownC. He met Horace听下面一段对话,回答第 13 和第 16 四个小题。13 What does the girl find in the test papers?A. The answers are wrongB.The total score is wrongC. The man marked something wrong14 What did the speakers do?A. Added up the scores againB.Did the test againC. Went over the lessons.15 .What score should the man give the girl?A.92B.95C.9716 What can be known from the conversation?A. The teacher will correct the mistakeB. The teacher refuses to correct the mistakeC. The teacher didnt make a mistake听下面一段对话,回答第 17 和第 20 四个小题。17. When is the sauna room open A. From 7: 00 a.m. to 11: 00 p.m B. From 1: 00 p. m to 9: 00 p.m C. From 6: 00 p. m to 10: 00 p.m18 .What class can people have every afternoon at three?A. An art class.B. A sports classC. A cooking class19. What kind of show will there be tonight?A. A jazz band showB. A comedy show.C. A musical20 What is the lecture about at two oclock tomorrow?A. The wildlife of North Africa. B. The culture of North Africa C. A kingdom in North Africa第二部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分 35 分）第一节（共 10 小题，每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 分）AMy biggest survival story lasted for six months six months of physical and mental struggle.On the first day, my mother talked as she drove towards the Foothills, near a town called Los Altos in California. She told me that the swimming coach she was taking me to was an Olympian, and she hoped that I was going to improve with the coach.After driving for 30 minutes, we drove through the gate of what appeared to be an expensive club, and saw the coach waiting for me. “Get into lane four, and do itquickly youre late. I want you to freestyle while I talk to your mom.”I think that was the fastest Id ever gotten into a pool. But if I thought that was bad, then I had another thing coming.Each day for the next week, the swimming training was so grueling that I could barely get myself out of the pool after the two-hour class. My coach would yell at me whenever I did something wrong or I was hesitant to perform a task. During the day I was so nervous about this woman, that even at school, I was constantly planning what to say and do at swim practice.The only reason I stayed as long as I did was because of one girl, whom I met around two weeks into the program. People didnt really want to talk when I tried toreach out to them. But this girl saw that I was alone and sat next to me while we were stretching .I “survived” the training because I had someone who could cheer me on and someone that I could have fun with but also be serious with. We stood up for each other when the coach called us out. Sometimes, it felt like it was us against the world when we were on that team. So finally, when we realized that this place just wasnt for us, we both left and Ive never seen her since. I obviously wouldnt have died without her, but I definitely wouldnt have improved so much as a swimmer and just as a person.21. What do we know about the authors swimming coach?A. She seems impatient with her students. B. She is quite popular among her students.C. She left a good first impression on the author.D. She was an Olympian and is known for her freestyle swimming.22. The underlined word “grueling” in Paragraph 5 probably means .A. boringB. exhaustingC.enjoyableD. meaningful23. How did the author survive her training days?A. By practicing really hard.B. With the encouragement of her coachC. By chatting with her teammates.D. With the help of a new friend.BChimpanzees do have stronger muscles than us but they are not nearly as powerful as many people think.“Theres this idea out there that chimpanzees are superhuman strong, says Matthew ONeill at the University of Arizona in Phoenix. Yet his teams experiments and computer models show that a chimpanzee muscle is only about a third stronger than a human one of the same size.This result matches well with the few tests that have been done, which suggest that when it comes to pulling and jumping, chimps are about 1.5 times as strong as humansrelative to their body mass. But because they are lighter than the average person, humans can actually outperform them in absolute terms,says ONeill.His findings suggest that other apes have similar muscle strength to chimpanzees.Humans are the odd ones, he says.ONeills team has been studying the evolution of upright walking. To create an accurate computer model of how chimps walk, the researchers needed to find out whether their muscles really are much stronger. So they removed small samples ofleg muscle from three chimps and measured the strength of individual fibers(纤维).The same procedure is used to study human muscles. Comparing the results with the many studies on those showed that, contrary to the claims of several other studies, there is nothing special about chimp muscle. Chimpanzee muscle is really no different than human muscle in terms of the force that individual fibers use, says ONeill.So why, on a pound-for-pound basis, are chimps slightly stronger than humans? The team went on to look at the muscle of chimps that had died of natural causes, which showed that two-thirds of their muscle is made of fast-twitch fibers, whereas more than half of human fibers are slow-twitch. Fast-twitch fibers are more powerful, but use more energy and become tired faster.Another factor, ONeill found, is that chimps have longer fibers on average which also improves their strength.This adds to the evidence that walking uses far more energy for chimps than for people. The results fit well with the idea that early humans evolved to walk or runlong distances. It seems that we gave up some strength for greater endurance(耐力).24. What does ONeill mean when he saysHumans are the odd ones(in para4)?A. Humans are better at jumping and pulling things than chimpsB. There is nothing special about human musclesC. Humans are heavier and stronger than chimpanzees.D. Humans muscle strength is different from that of apes25. What contributes a lot to the strength of chimp muscles?A. The evolution of upright walkingB. The slow-twitch fibers in their musclesC. The fast-twitch fibers in their muscles.D. Most of their muscles being made of short fibers26. We can infer from the text that .A, short fibers provide more energy for the muscleB. human muscles are more suited to long distance runningC. early humans needed much more energy than chimpsD slow-twitch muscle fibers help chimps survive in the wildCSeeds on IceClose to the North Pole, remote and rocky Plateau Mountain in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard seems an unlikely spot for any global effort to safeguard agriculture. In this cold and deserted environment, no grains, no gardens, no trees can grow. Yet at the end of a 130-meter-long tunnel cut out of solid stone is a room filled with humanitys most precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collectionmore than a half-billion seeds.A quiet rescue mission is under way. With growing evidence that unchecked climate change will seriously affect food production and threaten the diversity of crops around the world, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault represents a major step towards ensuring the preservation of hundreds of thousands of crop varieties. This is a seed collection, but more importantly, it is a collection of the traits found within the seeds: the genes that give one variety resistance to a particular pest and another variety tolerance for hot, dry weather.Few people will ever see or come into contact with the contents of this vault. In sealed boxes, behind multiple locked doors, monitored by electronic security systems, enveloped in below-zero temperatures, and surrounded by tons of rock, hundreds of millions of seeds are protected in their mountain fortress. Frozen in such conditions inside the mountain, seeds of most major crops will remain viable for hundreds of years, or longer. Seeds of some are capable of keeping their ability to grow for thousands of years.Everyone can look back now and say that the Seed Vault was a good and obvious idea, and that of course the Norwegian government should have approved and funded it. But back in 2004, when the Seed Vault was proposed, it was viewed as a crazy, impractical, and expensive idea.We knew that nothing would provide a definite guarantee. But we were tired, fed up, and frankly scared of the steady, greater losses of crop diversity. The Seed Vault was built by optimists who wanted to do something to preserve options so that humanity and its crops might be better prepared for change. If it simply resupplied seed gene banks with samples those gene banks had lost, this would repay our efforts.The Seed Vault is about hope and commitmentabout what can be done if countries come together and work cooperatively to accomplish something significant, long-lasting, and worthy of who we are and wish to be.27.According to the passage, the Seed Vault is .A. a tunnel where the collected seeds are displayedB. a stone room that contains the seeds of endangered cropsC. a seed gene bank that stores diverse seeds for future agricultureD. a lab where researchers study how to maintain the diversity of crops28. The underlined word “viable” in Paragraph 3 probably means .A. matureB.aliveC.cleanD. valuable29. Paragraph 3 mainly tells us .A. what people do to study the seedsB. where people keep the seedsC. why the seeds are protectedD. how the seeds are preserved30. We can know from the passage that .A. the Seed Vault offers a solution to climate changeB. most countries took part in rescuing the seed varietiesC. many people originally considered building the Seed Vault unwiseD. the Seed Vault guarantees to prevent the loss of crop diversity第二节（共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）Some experts feel that cars are certain to fall into disuse. They see a day in the not-too-distant future when all cars will be deserted and made useless. 31 They hold that the car will remain a leading means of city travel in the foreseeable future. 32 .It should become smaller, safer, and more practical, and should not be powered by the gas engine. The car of the future should be for more pollution-free than present types.Unless changes take place in the power system, the car in the future will still be the main problem in city traffic jams. 33When the car enters the highway system, a small arm will drop from the car and connect with a rail, which is similar to hose( 软管) powering subway trains electrically.Once joined to the rail, the car will become electrically powered from the system and control of the car will pass to a central computer.34The driver will use telephone to do instructions about his position and the place he heads for into the system. The computer will find the best way and reserve space for the car all the way to the correct exit from the highway. 35 It is believed that an automated highway will be able to deal with 10,000 cars per hour, compared with the1,500 to 2,000 carried by a present-day highway.A. The car will undoubtedly change greatly over the next 30 years.B. There will be plenty of policemen on the highway to control the traffic.C. The driver will be free to relax and wait for the call that will warn him of his coming exitD. Other experts however thin k the car is here to stay.E. The computer will then monitor all the cars movements.F. One suggested solution to this essential problem is the automated system which seems to hold water.第三部分语言运用42. A. hurtingB. shakingC. sufferingD. struggling第一节 完型填空 （共 20 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）43. A. powerfulB. gentleC. innocentD. distant44. A. againstB. withinC. outsideD. beyondTaking Chances45. A. OtherwiseB. ThusC. ButD. ThereforeMy mother recently read me a speech she had made at a local high school, hoping46. A. ordinaryB. independentC. vitalD. additionalto 36 my endless pursue for answers to everything.47. A. chancesB. turnsC. measuresD. sidesEver since I was very young, 37 of making mistakes, Ive asked countlesstimes, What should I do?I dont remember clearly when I 38 only to do things the right way, and made doing it the right way my motto.However, sometime during my high school years, I 39 . Maybe it was when Idecided to try for the lead in Beauty and the Beast. Never mind that I would have to memorize 40 and rehearse( 排 练 ) movements, I would take the chance that Imight 41 . On the day of tryouts, my heart was pounding; my hands were 42 badly when I got up to sing. But when I opened my mouth, the sound was loud and43 . I reached for the high notes(高音) that sometimes were 44 my reach. I wastrying to do my best even though I might fail. 45 I didnt!The audition (试镜) was definitely an 46 part of the process. I realized that if Iwanted to live life to the fullest, I had to take 47 .Now, I do take these chances, with baby steps, every day; voicing my opinions in class discussions or debates, 48 for a high note in church choir, riding my horse over a three-foot jump.Three years ago, I broke my back when I fell from my horse. The 49 meant I couldnt try out for basketball, which I loved. And, the day I 50 out for track was the first day my doctor allowed me to do any physical activity at all. The coach didnt take me, so I started running with my mom. No stop-watches. No cheering crowds. I didnt 51 the track team, but I didnt fail, either.I have finally learned to52myself, like taking a tough science course. And Ihave come to realize that even though my parents, friends and teachers dont always have the53to “What should I do?”, they will be there to54me when I try.“Life is learning to deal with Plan B,” my mother 55 in her speech. But I now know that the Plan As I make for my life will become easier and easier with every chance I take.36. A. satisfyB. seekC. exciteD. tolerate37. A. awareB. afraidC. certainD. free38. A. decidedB. agreedC. promisedD.afforded39. A. survivedB. learnedC. changedD. quitted40. A. linesB. textsC. lessonsD. roles41. A. stayB. leaveC. failD. join48. A. lookingB. waitingC. hopingD. reaching49. A. eventB. injuryC. diseaseD. experience50. A. triedB. workedC. lookedD. held51. A. visitB. admireC. takeD. make52. A. helpB. enjoyC. pushD. save53. A. answerB. approachC. responseD. access54. A. teachB. watchC. trustD. support55. A. plannedB. statedC. expectedD. discussed第二节语法填空 （共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适当的词（一个）或者用所给词的适当形式填空Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khanand aiming at 56 (provide) “a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.”Khan offers more than 4,200 free micro lectures, each of 57 usually lasts 10 to 15 minutes. Unlike 58 (tradition) classes, Khan mainly offers courses for students below the college level. The classes can also help those planning to take the SAT, 59 exam often required for student wishing to enter an American college or university. 60 (start) your learning journey at Khan Academy, you should first of all enter the website with a personal e-mail account. Your personal homepage at Khan Academy61 (design) to help you learn math. You can take it first to see your level. The academy then suggests exercises of the right level for you.If you are interested in other subjects, click “LEARN” to see all topics 62 (offer) online. Try “Art History”, for example, 63 you will be taken to all the things in that area like articles, videos and questions.Dont worry if you find 64 difficult to follow the course in English. Courses in65 (translate) in Chinese, Japanese and other languages are also available.第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节应用文写作（满分 15 分）假设你是李华，你在 的网站上看到一则为期两周的美国夏令 营启事。请你给组织者 Mr.Smith 写一封信，询问有关情况。主要