2018届高三英语上学期期中试题 (VII).doc

2018届高三英语上学期期中试题 (VII)注意事项：1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡上。作答时，务必将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。2. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。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，你将有两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。1. What does the man do?A. He is a weather forecaster.B. He is a pilot.C. He is a trainer.2. What does the man imply? A. The woman should go on playing chess. B. He wants to play chess with the woman. C. The woman is weak in playing chess.3. Why does the man stop his talk with the woman? A. He isnt interested in what she says. B. He is expecting another call. C. He is angry with her.4. When will the man probably meet Steven?A. In the morning. B. At noon.C. In the afternoon.5. What are the two speakers talking about?A. A story. B. A textbook. C. A movie.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至7题。6. What is the relationship between Mary and Justin? A. Boss and secretary. B. Good friends. C. Husband and wife.7. How will Mary spend her holiday? A. Go swimming. B. Work in her office. C. Stay with her children.听第7 段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Why does Mike call Mary? A. To get a lift from her. B. To discuss homework with her. C. To invite her to Jerrys apartment.9. What will Mary do on Monday? A. Take a chemistry class. B. Have an exam. C. Hand in a book report.听第8 段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why has Brian Sharp turned down many interviews? A. He doesnt want people to make up stories about him. B. He wouldnt like others to know about his private life. C. He is afraid to answer peoples questions directly.11. How is Brian Sharps life? A. Lonely and poor. B. Rich but unhappy. C. Successful and happy.12. What does Brian Sharp say about writing novels? A. He seldom draws stories from real life. B. He doesnt like following a fixed pattern. C. He wants to write over 100 historical novels.听第9 段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What did the boy have for breakfast? A. Bread and milk. B. A cheese burger and meat. C. A pudding and two cans of coke.14. Why did the boy have a stomachache? A. He ate too fast. B. He ate too much. C. He ran too fast.15. What do we know about the boy? A. He felt hungry after the PE lesson. B. He got a good record in the PE test. C. He only ate meat and rice for lunch.16. What does the woman think of the boys eating way? A. Good. B. Strange. C. Silly.听第10 段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What products does the speakers pany work on? A. Birthday cards. B. Games. C. Cars.18. How many playing pieces does Mindtwist standard have? A. Two. B. Four. C. Six.19. What are the playing pieces of Mindtwist Travel made of? A. Plastic. B. Wood. C. Metal.20. What will the speaker talk about next? A. Collect. B. Mindtwist. C. Board.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour is one of Seattles most-loved attractions. Located just 25 miles north of Seattle,the Boeing Tour is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to view 747, 777, and 787 Dreamlinersbeing assembled on the production linebefore they take to the sky. Before you purchase tickets, please read the following information:Buy tickets early:Tickets sell out quickly. To ensure that you are able to visit it on the day and time that work best for you, it is advisable to book your tickets ahead of time.On the Boeing Tour, you will: Walk up and down two steep flights of stairs at each end of the factory and walk through two large tunnels, the first 0.3 miles (0.5 km) round trip, the second shorter. Ride two freight elevators to balconies overlooking the Boeing factory floor. Special acmodationscan be made for wheelchairs or physically challenged guests with advance notice. Please advise us if you or someone in your party is confined to a wheelchair. There are restroom facilities and a caf at the Future of Flight. Restrooms are not available during the Boeing Tour. All tours are conducted in English and last 90 minutes. Groups wishing to make special arrangements for their own interpreter may reserve all 52 seats on the bus.RESTRICTIONS Children must be at least 4 feet (122 cm) tall to go on the tour. Children under 16 must be acpanied by an adult when visiting the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour. Still photos and video cameras, electronic devices (mobile phones, cameras) and personal items (purses, bags, backpacks) are not permitted on the Boeing Tour.Free lockersare available on-site. Tickets can be purchased at the door with no guarantee of tour availability, so advance tickets are highly remended, especially during peak season, MaySeptember. If you encounter any difficulties during this transaction, contact the Future of Flight at 1-800-464-1476 between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.21. The underlined word “assembled” in Paragraph 1 probably means “_”. A. broken downB. tried outC. put togetherD. packed up22. Which of the followings can you take on the Boeing Tour? A. Your wheelchair. B. Your cellphone. C. Your newborn. D. Your wallet.23. We can learn from the passage that _. A. it is a must to reserve the ticket in advance B. only English is allowed during the Boeing Tour C. youd better go to the toilet before the Boeing Tour D. primary school students could enjoy the tour on their ownBMy sister and I were flying by ourselves from our home in Kansas to a summer camp in Minnesota. Our plane had a two-hour stop at the airport in Omaba, Nebraska. To pass the time, a flight attendant took us to a souvenir shop. There was a toy airplane that looked just like the plane we were flying on. I really wanted it. I had $10 and the plane cost $8. I had no idea what I needed to buy at camp, but I bought the airplane anyway.When we reached the camp, I discovered that there were no showers! Instead, we bathed in a lake every night (with our swimming suits on). I needed to buy special soap because the regular soap I bought had chemicals that could hurt the fish. The special soap cost $4 at the camp store. After buying the plane, I had $2 left, so I couldnt buy the soap.I soon discovered that you cant get very clean just splashing around in a lake without soap. After a week, I was a grimy, greasy mess. Sally, our camp counselor, noticed and asked me if I needed some soap. When I blurted out that I had spent my soap money on a toy airplane, she laughed and said, “You need to budget.” She then explained that a budget was a plan for spending money to help make sure you set aside enough for things you needlike soapbefore you buy fun thingslike toys.Sally gave me one of her extra bottles of special soap, which I gratefully took. When I returned home from camp, I decided to budget.I spent several weeks writing down everything I bought, just to get an idea of how I was already spending my money. Then I made my first weekly budget.My budget wasnt always the same each week. Some weeks I would have more in my “Money In” account because I did odd jobs around the house. Once summer vacation started, I didnt need to buy school lunches, so I had extra money to go to the neighborhood swimming pool or to give to the town animal shelter.Budgeting was hard, especially when my friends bought sodas at the drugstore after school and I couldnt because I had spent all my “Want to Spend” money. But I stuck with it, and by the next summer, I had saved enough money to buy a Paula Pilot doll at the Omaha airport, as well as a bottle of soap at the camp store to pay back Sally!24. Why did the author buy the toy airplane? A. Because she wanted to kill time. B. Because she didnt know what to buy at camp. C. Because it resembled the plane she was taking. D. Because it was a souvenir of her summer camp.25. What made the author begin to budget? A. Special soap. B. Sallys words. C. Buying a toy airplane.D. Returning home from camp.26. We can infer from the passage that the author _. A. didnt take a bath because there was no soap B. made budgets according to different situations C. needed special soap because there were no showers D. made her first budget as soon as she returned home27. What is the best title for the text? A. My Week without Soap B. The Secret of Budgeting C. My Toy AirplaneD. Hard BudgetingC You will probably never go to Mars, swim with dolphins, run an Olympic 100 meters, or sing onstage with the Rolling Stones. But if virtual reality, or VR, ever lives up to its promise, you might be able to do all these things and many more.VR software programs are being used in many video games. But others have been developed for education, to train doctors and in military training.VR gives the people who use it an interactive three-dimensional experience. They can see realistic images and hear sounds that are almost like those one experiences in real life.Khora Virtual Reality opened earlier this year in Denmarks capital, Copenhagen. It may be the first virtual reality store in the world. Simon Lajboschitz, the CEO of Khora. says the panys developers do more than create games.“We work with artists in New York. We work with psychology. We work with the main city hospital here. We work with businesses to tell a new way of telling stories”Lajboschitz says that is what the students at the University of Copenhagen experience.“My favorite thing is showing people virtual reality and then, when they take off the glasses, its like, Whoa, I forgot that I was in this space with white walls and with people around me. When they realize that they actually forgot, thats my favorite part.”Clara Lykkegaard is a student at the university.“I have read about virtual reality before, and Ive seen others trying it, but I have never tried it myself. And it is a brand new world. Its so fantastic because you almost forget where you are.”Khoras leaders believe helping students get interested in this technology might persuade some of them to work in the industry, and gain a share of what is expected to be a more than $3 billion market by xx.28. According to the passage, VR can _. B. be used in every aspect of life A. make swimming with dolphins a reality C. provide a realistic experience in the virtual world D. make an interactive 3D experience e true in the future29. The underlined sentence probably means Khoras producers _. A. do more than those in other panies B. play games apart from designing games C. take up other jobs besides creating games D. work with people in many other industries30. Khora invites college students to experience VR because_. A. they have never experienced it before B. they may be a new force of this industry C. they will gain a more than $3 billion market D. they must be most interested in the technology 31. The purpose of this passage is _. A. to promote VR games B. to introduce VR industry C. to attract students to join Khora D. to show how to play VR games D Experts have learnt when children first attend school, some of them speak a lot more fluently than others and that childrens socioeconomic status is closely related to their language facility. The better off and more educated a childs parents are, the better vocabulary ability that the child tends to have by school age. Children from low-ine families, who may often start school knowing significantly fewer words than their better-off peers, will struggle for years to make up that ground. Previous studies have shown that wealthier, educated parents talk to their young children more, using more plex vocabulary and sentences, than parents of lesser means. And these differences may help explain why richer kids start school with richer vocabularies. But do well-off parents also gesture more to their kids before they can talk? Susan Gold in-Meadow and Meredith Rowe of the University of Chicago found that at 14 months of age, babies already showed a wide range of “speaking” ability through gestures, and that those differences were closely linked with their socioeconomic background and how frequently their parents used gestures to municate. High-ine, better-educated parents gestured more frequently to their children to convey meaning and new concepts, and in turn, their kids gestured more to them. When researchers tested the same children at 54 months of age, those early gesturers turned out to have better vocabulary ability than other students. “At 14 months, you cant see a difference with their speech, but you can already see a difference with their gestures,” says Gold in-Meadow. “And childrens gestures can be traced back to parents gestures.” But Gold in-Meadow is quick to point out that the study shows only an association, not a causation (因果关系), among socioeconomic status, gestures and vocabulary ability. “Id remend teachers encourage their kids to gesture, because it makes them more easily receive teaching,” Gold in-Meadow says, “It allows teachers to have a better understanding of what their kids are understanding.”32. Kids have different speech abilities because _. A. they go to different schools B. they are treated unfairly by their teachers C. they interact with their parents differently D. they lack equal access to advanced study33. Experts like Susan Gold in-Meadow and Meredith Rowe believe that _. A. the better use of gesture improves childrens language skills B. rich parents prefer language to gestures with their children C. babies of 14 months dont know how to use gestures properly D. socioeconomic background doesnt have influence on gestures34. Gold in-Meadow is sure that childrens gesture _. A. causes their difference in vocabulary ability B. shows their different speech abilities C. doesnt affect their language skills D. is learned from their parents35. According to Gold in-Meadow, gestures should be encouraged in the classroom _. A. to help teachers understand how well students learn B. to inspire teachers to sharpen their teaching skills C. to have students language skills improved D. to raise students enthusiasm about study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。 Have you ever noticed how terrible weather seems to drag your spirits down? 36 , there are various things you can do to keep your spirits up until spring.l Find things to enjoy about winter. A snowy, icy, cold, or rainy world can be beautiful and often has sounds and smells of its own. If youre an artist, or photographer, winter provides a great deal of inspiration and different colors to work with. 37 , simply watching a winter scene from the fort of your home can be a pleasant way to relax and enjoy the peace.l Take part in winter activities. 38 . If youre a beginner to these snow sports, try learning in areas where you wont be worried about more experienced people crowding you out. Local parks are ideal starting points to encourage you to get out and give new winter sports a go. l 39 . Winter es with the shortest days and lowest light of the year. Go out if you can. If you cant, or if youre so far from the equator as to have little or no daylight, usebright lights and perhapslight or white walls.l Stay active.As much as possible, get yourself outside. Take at least a short walk. If the weather does not permit, move around inside. Walk up and down your stairs if you have them. 40 . It also regulates such things as sleep anddiet. Move around at least a bit each day. A. Go out B. Brighten up C. Even if you dont feel that creative D. Enjoy skiing, sledding, or ice-skating E. While theres nothing you can do about the weather F. Making snowmen is a fun activity for both kids and adults G. Exercise gets your body temperature up and your blood flowing第三部分 英语知识运用（共二节；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。The past Christmas was rather tough for me. My family returned home, leaving me 41 in California. I was working too many hours, 42 , at the airline ticket counter until the Christmas Eve. When it was time for me to 43 the next person to the counter, I looked 44 to see the sweetest-looking old man standing with a cane (拐杖). He walked very 45 over to the counter, 46 he had to go to New Orleans. I tried to 47 to him there were no more 48 that night and that he would have to go in next morning. So 49 and confused, he just kept 50 , “She said I have to go to New Orleans.” After much time, I 51 that this old man had been cruelly dropped off that day by his sister-in-law to be reunited with his family by 52 . Here I was feeling very 53 for myself about being alone on Christmas, when this senior was sent to me to 54 me of what being alone really 55 . 56 , I told him we would get it all well, and our Customer Service manager helped book him a seat for the earliest flight the next morning. Suddenly, I saw his leg 57 in a bandage with a small amount of 58 on.