湖北省宜昌市部分示范高中教学协作体2019届高三英语下学期期中试题.docx

宜昌市部分示范高中教学协作体2019年春期中联考高三英语（全卷满分：150分 考试用时：120分钟）第 I 卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）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。1. How much should the mans rent be?A. $500.B. $150. C. $125.2. What will the woman probably think of the man?A. He used to be an excellent athlete.B. He is a real sportsman.C. He is a sports fan.3. What has the man been doing?A. Having an interview. B. Filling out a form. C. Asking for information.4. What do we know about the woman?A. She is too busy to go.B. Shes willing to go swimming.C. She doesnt want to wait long.5. What does the woman mean?A. Its terrible to go abroad alone.B. It doesnt matter if the man is not good at English.C. The man should improve his English.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，各小题将给出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. What is the woman going to be?A. A cook. B. A teacher. C. A doctor.7. How long will the woman work every day?A. 8 hours. B. 4 hours. C. 5 hours.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What are the speakers talking about?A. An interview. B. An exam. C. A writing contest.9. How are they feeling at the moment?A. Pretty happy. B. Very sad. C. A little confused.10. Which part did they both find difficult?A. The oral self-introduction.B. The essay.C. The imitation writing.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What will Diana do this afternoon?A. Attend a lecture. B. Go to class. C. Write an essay.12. What do we know about Dr. Rich?A. He teaches English culture. B.Hes been absent three times. C.Hes very strict.13. What does Mike say about the business communication course?A. There is not much course work to do.B. He has already handed in three essays.C. He has a 3000-word term paper to write.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What are the speakers talking about?A. How much money they spend on meals.B. The changes of the food service in the school.C. The changes of food in the dining hall.15. What does the man think of the changes?A. He doesnt like them.B. Students will benefit from the changes.C. He cant understand them as they are too complicated.16. What plan did Tom choose to buy?A. A seven-meal plan.B. A ten-meal plan.C. A fourteen-meal plan.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Where do people believe the left hand is unclean?A. In Malaysia. B. In Pakistan. C. In Indonesia.18. When might elderly Westerners be offended?A. When others try to help them without their agreement.B. When others teach them new things.C. When others ask them too many questions.19. Why dont Italians give handkerchiefs as gifts?A. Handkerchiefs mean saying goodbye.B. Handkerchiefs are used in funerals.C. Handkerchiefs are connected with unhappy feelings.20. To whom might the talk be given?A. Those who are studying in college.B. Guests from all over the world.C. Those who will work for an international meeting.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。AThe Coolest InventionsAn Oceans VacuumTheres a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next years trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42% over 10 years.Easy-On ShoesIn 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the Fly Ease. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike Fly Ease shoes sells for $ 130.An Airport for Drones (无人机）As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goal is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.21. Whats the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum? A. It can be a money-saver. B. It can grow year by year.C. It can tear plastic into pieces.D. It can be put into wide use soon.22. What do we know about Nike? A. It offers free shoes to the disabled.B. It is designing new shoes frequently.C. It provides customer-friendly services. D. It responded to Matthews request passively.23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”？A. Because road travel there is rough.B. Because there are too many drones.C. Because theyre easier to construct than roads.D. Because they are receptive to new technology.BI grew up in a middle-class family. Dad worked hard to support our family and Mom tried to save money while making sure we had enough food to eat and clothes to wear. One of their greatest desires was to raise decent, loving children who had an opportunity to finish college.My brother, Gene, never hesitated to learn new things. He had an artistic hand, so he went into fine arts for a while. He also did a lot of screens about computers. He became so good at it that the school hired him to teach there after he completed his studies. My younger brother also pursued computers, following in his footsteps.Gene did not have a history of any health problems from his very young age to adulthood. One day， he came home from teaching, ate his dinner and went to bed. That evening，my “healthy” brother died suddenly of a cardiac arrest（心跳骤停）.My parents were extremely sad.At the viewing in the funeral house, amidst the sadness, my parents felt so much pride. So many people came and each was relating a story of how they were touched by Gene.A cleaner came to say that practically every day Gene brought him a sandwich. Finally, Mom found out why Gene had taken so many sandwiches to school! Then there was a man who came in bringing money, saying that Gene had lent him some when he was down and out. Gene had never asked him for the money back.From the school president to the guard, people came. And because of his good heart and deeds, my younger brother was awarded a full scholarship in the school as a tribute to my dead brother.In the end, my parents realized that even at the young age of 26, my brother had lived a full life and was very instrumental in helping others live theirs a little better.24. What was the biggest wish of the authors parents?A. To have a better life.B. To save enough money for the future.C. To give their children a college education.D. To raise their children to be respectable people.25. The authors parents felt proud in the funeral house because_.A. many people from all walks of life came.B. Gene was praised by the school president.C. Genes brother was awarded a full scholarship.D. they heard about many good deeds done by Gene.26. What can we learn about Gene from the passage?A. He took many sandwiches to school to share with others.B. He lent a man some money and then asked for it back.C. He was not in very good health from an early age.D. He taught fine arts in his school.27. What is the message conveyed in the passage?A. Good deeds deserve praise.B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.C. Kindness in students should be encouraged.D. The meaning of life consists in its devotion, not its length.CMany people dont consider their breakfast without a glass of milk. Right now, cows, buffalos, goats and sheep provide most of the worlds milk. But soon, people could get milk from roaches(蟑螂).That isnt as crazy as it might sound. New research shows this “milk” is super-nutritious. Whats more, some scientists have already begun referring to a lot of insects as source of milk.In 2004, Subramanian Ramaswamy started studying milk crystals found inside the roach. At the time, he was teaching biochemistry at the University of Iowa City.To learn more about the milk crystal from roaches, the scientists used X-rays to look at the atoms in it. The data basically revealed the chemical recipe of the roach crystal. They showed that roach milk is a “complete food”. It contains sugar with a fatty acid stuck to it. Fatty acids are the building blocks of fats. The protein in the milk is also full of essential amino(氨基的) acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. Since our bodies cant produce the “essential” ones, we need to get them from our food. And so do baby roaches.Barbara Stay, a biologist at Iowa University, also worked on the new study. She says the new data show that the roach milk is “three times more nutritious than cows milk and four times more nutritious than buffalos milk”.Ramaswamy would like to see roach milk turned into a protein supplement to feed hungry people. But not everyone is confident that it can be done.Marcel Dicke studies insects as a potential source of human food at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Dicke says this is a “sound study”. However, in his opinion, “Extracting(提取) milk from roaches can only likely be done in a destructive way with only small quantities”. That means youd have to raise and kill many bugs to get even tiny quantities of the milk.28. What is the opinion of the scientists about milk in Paragraph 2?A. Many insects are sources of milk.B. Milk is an important part of breakfast.C. Milk from insects is the most nutritious. D. Milk from insects is well accepted now.29. What can we know about the use of roach milk in life?A. It will replace the milk from animals like cows.B. Scientists think it the key to solving world hunger.C. All people dont think it can be used in life soon.D. Most people depend on roach milk from protein.30. According to Marcel Dicke, extracting insect milk on a large scale is _.A. simple B. challenging C. safe D. necessary31. What should be the best title for the text?A. Roach milk has been found scientifically B. Roach milk could be produced industriallyC. Roach milk could be a new super food D. Roach milk will be widely used soonDNext week California will try to take cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from millionaires to workers that conversations behind the wheel must be on an earphone.Californians interviewed by Reuters mostly supported the law requiring hands-free phones in cars and banning cell phones entirely for drivers under 18, which will take effect on Tuesday, though they were puzzled by a loophole(漏洞) that allows seemingly more dangerous text messaging. Some were doubtful about lawmakers, who they blamed for failing to build more freeways or public transportation in the face of increasingly crowded roads in the nations most populous state and said hands-free conversations were not safer.KFI-AM radio talk-show host John Kobylt told Reuters. “Its stupid because weve one over about seven different studies and each one of them says its the conversation that distracts you, not holding the phone.”State Senator Joe Simitian, who introduced the bill, said keeping both hands on the wheel was always safer. He expected his law to save hundreds of lives. The Democratic lawmaker was considering introducing a new law to ban text messaging in the car, which he said wasnt an issue when he began working on the first one in 2001.Connecticut, New Jersey and New York have already banned drivers from talking on hand-held cell phones. In New Jersey, police have issued 35,000 tickets for using a hand-held phone or texting while driving since the law went into effect on March 1.But Californians interviewed by Reuters expressed ambivalence.“On the one hand I dont want to see people crash into each other, but Im not going to get an ear thing.” 38-year-old bank employee Jason Fischer said in Los Angeles.32. We can infer from Paragraph 2 that_.A. most Californians hate to use an earphone while making a call in the carB. public transportation in California isnt developed enoughC. in New Jersey few people use a hand-held phoneDmost of Californians are probably against the new law33. According to John Kobylt，_.A. all the lawmakers are stupidB. holding the phone is safer than using an earphoneC. it isnt dangerous to make a phone call while drivingD. it is the phone conversation while driving that is really dangerous34. What will State Senator Joe Simitian probably do in the future？A. He will suggest a law to forbid text messaging while rivingB. He will conduct a new survey among CaliforniansC. He will suggest building more roads in CaliforniaD. He will suggest a law to completely ban cell phones while driving.35. The underlined word “ambivalence” in the last paragraph probably refers to_.A. a positive attitude B. a negative attitude C. a confused feeling D. an excited feeling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。选项中有两项为多余选项。Childrens Games in Ancient ChinaUnlike the children nowadays, the children during ancient times didnt have smart phone, iPador computer to entertain themselves. 36 Lets take a look.Kicking stone ballsDuring the Qing Dynasty, kicking a stone ball around was a popular sport in the northern part of China, and it was often played in the winter to keep warm. Stones were carved into small balls and kicked along with feet.Flying kitesKites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite. 37 For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.Playing hide-and-seekHide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. Even nowadays, many children like playing it. There are two ways to play. One way is covering a childs eyes while other kids run around to tease him. 38 39 The closest thing to watching a film or television for entertainment during ancient times was going to see a shadow play. Folk artists manipulate puppets behind the screen, narrating stories and accompanied by music. Setting off firecrackersFirecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that there was a beast named Nian in ancient China. 40 After gunpowder was invented, it gradually replaced the bamboo joint cracker. Crackers are still set off during Spring Festival to symbolize auspiciousness.A. Watching shadow playsB. Each of them has distinctive features.C. Different materials are used to make the kite.D. Shadow plays were the popular entertaining form in ancient times.E. And to scare off the beast, people burnt bamboo joints to make it blast.F. More commonly, participants hide and one child must try to find them.G. Instead, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood.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小题；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。We were depressed and things were tough. Mom had a41time raising us on her own because Dad died five years ago. We relied on social assistance for42.Looking back, I 43 remember what Mom went through to send us to school. I studied hard then. Every morning, she would put a new piece of cardboard in our shoes because our shoes were44. Constant moving was typical for my family in these times. Rent was 25 dollars a month but Mom couldnt45it. Though it was hard, we never46. Christmas was approaching. We were given 25 dollars for social services. Instead of buying food, Mom would use the money to pay the 47 , ensuring us all of a 48 over our head.49we had nothing for Christmas.Unknown to Mom, I had been selling Christmas trees to earn enough money for a new pair of50. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, I was51to go to catch the bus.As I reached the stop, I began to feel 52 . I was going to buy a new pair of boots 53 Mom was at home in tears. My mind was 54 and I realized what I had to do. I didnt get on the55.I went in a grocery store and bought the Christmas treats. I56home and put them quietly against the door. I knocked on the door. When Mom opened the door,57rolled into the house. She just stood there58. I managed to hold back the59, saying, “Merry Christmas, Mom! There really is a Santa Claus!”That day I got many60and kisses from Mom. It was a Merry Christmas for us after all!41.A.good B.short C.hard D.funny42.A.life B.travel C.nursery D.movement43.A.hardly B.still C.yet D.then44.A.handed overB.picked upC.turned overD.worn out45.A.store B.afford C.make D.get46.A.complainedB.glancedC.enviedD.calculated47.A.decorationB.giftsC.rentD.clothes48.A.cloudB.lightC.roofD.window49.A.AndB.ButC.OrD.So50.A.glassesB.jeansC.bootsD.socks51.A.luckyB.concernedC.fearfulD.excited52.A.frightenedB.guiltyC.proudD.content53.A.whileB.becauseC.whetherD.unless54.A.woken upB.made upC.given awayD.turned down55.A.platformB.trainC.busD.plane56.A.droveB.rangC.leftD.rushed57.A.ballsB.shoesC.dollarsD.things58.A.surprisedB.nervousC.disappointedD.painful59.A.wordsB.troubleC.tearsD.sweat60.A.candiesB.hugsC.awardsD.creams第卷第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第二节