高三上学期期中考试英语试题.doc

高三上学期期中考试英语试题第I卷 （105分）IListening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Part A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakersAt the end of each conversations, a question will be asked about what was saidThe conversation and the question will be spoken only onceAfter you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers in your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard1AAt the chemists BAt the hairdressersCAt the tailorsDAt the bakers2AThe woman shouldnt learn the chess BThe woman needs a lot of practice in playing chessCHe is willing to coach the woman in playing chessDHe is not a good chess player himself3AUnderstandinglyBWith satisfactionCGuiltilyDAngrily4AThe service is terrible BThe prices are goodCThe restaurant is too small DThe food is poor5AOn weekendsBOn SaturdayCOn Sunday afternoonDOn Sunday morning6AShe doesnt want to stay in the dormitoryBShe doesnt like the idea of moving outCShe thinks the dormitory is a good place for studyDShe hasnt decided whether to move out or not7AHe returned thanks to teachersBHe won a prize in the finalsCHe did well in the final examDHe spent all his time in study8ASwedenBItaly CFrance DSwitzerland9ATo the airportBTo the doctorsCTo the companyDTo the station10AProfessor and student BManager and clerkCInterviewer and intervieweeDDesigner and advertiserSection BDirections: In part B, you will hear two short conversations, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passagesThe passage will be read twice, but the question will be spoken only onceWhen you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heardQuestions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage11ATo buy some food for the week BTo buy some food for the childrenCTo make a mess of the supermarketDTo make things difficult for the shop assistants12ACookies BPotato chips CDoughnuts DChicken13AIt is a pain for MrsGomezBIt causes headaches to the supermarketCIt affects the service of the supermarketDIt is a push to the shop-assistants of the supermarketQuestions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage14AThe rise of death toll in the forest firesBThe forest fires in the South of FranceCThe involvement of French soldiers in the forest firesDThe abandonment of many holiday homes near the forest fires15AHe got into trouble over a pop concertBHe gave an open-air concert in his groundsCHe was fined for letting a rock band play overtimeDHe was asked to pay a fine before the concert16AThe cancellation of the concertBThe concert given by the pop group FantasyCAn improper concert organizationDThe fans crazy passion for the concertSection CDirections: In Part C, you will hear two longer conversationsThe conversations will be read twiceAfter you hear each conversation, you are asked to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with the information you hearBlanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversationPossible place where the conversation took placeIn a（n） _17_ storeThe mans problemHis arm got_18_The medicine recommendedMedicated oil and _19_ C pillsThe womans adviceGo to see a _20_ if the injury is very seriousComplete the formWrite ONE WORD for each answerBlanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.What does the advisor want to talk to the student about?His _21_from classHow many lessons has the student failed to attend?_22_ in different classesWhat does the student think of the lessons?_23_What does the student visa require a student to do during his school time?To _24_Complete the formWrite NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answerIIGrammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C andDChoose the one answer that best completes the sentenceSection B25We spend _ winter of 1938 in _ USA Athe; the B/;/ Cthe;/ D /;the26A report _ littering last year found that chewing gum accounted for nearly 30 percent of all liters Aof Boff Cin Don27The more things a man is interested in, _Athe more he has opportunities of happinessBthe more opportunities of happiness he has Cthe more opportunities of happiness does he have Dmuch more opportunities of happiness he has28The bank is reported in the local newspaper _ in broad daylight yesterdayAto be robbedBrobbed Cto have been robbedDhaving been robbed29_ on a Long March II F carrier rocketAUp did the Shenzhou VI goBUp the Shenzhou VI wentCUp went the Shenzhou VIDUp does the Shenzhou VI go30Look at the pride on Toms faceHe _ to have been praised by the manager just nowAseemed Bseems Chad seemed Dis seeming31It is astonishing that she _ so rude to her motherAWas Bshould be Cwould be Dbe32Michael put up a picture of Yao Ming beside the bed to keep himself _ of his own dreamsAreminding Bto remind CremindedDremind33Although he knew little about the large amount of work done in the field, he succeeded _ other more well-informed experiments failedAwhich Bthat Cwhat Dwhere 34He is on-unemploymentHis parents cant stand _ him around the house all dayAto have Bto having Cto have Dhaving35The factory used 65 percent of the raw materials, the rest of which _ saved for other purposesAis Bare CwasDwere 36Its not what we do once in a while _ shapes our lives but what we do consistentlyAwhichBthat ChowDwhen37_, the bunch of flowers made everybody in the room very happyASmelling sweetly BSmelling sweetCSmelled sweetlyDSmelled sweet38Our teachers always tell us to believes in we do and who we are if we want to succeedAwhy Bhow CwhatDwhich39Planning so far ahead _ no sense- so many things will have changed by next yearAmadeBis makingCmakes Dhas made40_ action is eventually taken will come too late for the victimsAWheneverBWhateverCHoweverDWhereverDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the boxEach word can only be used onceNote that there is one word more than you needAreplaceBharmlessCradiationDdamageEsignificantFSimilarlyGresponsibleHmysteriesIdetectJpartlyNuclear powers danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be described in one word; _41_Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, _42_ because it cannot be detected by human sensesIt cant be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around usThere are other things like thatFor example, radio waves are all around us but we cant _43_ them, sense them, without a radio receiver_44_, we cant sense radioactivity without a radiation detectorBut unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not _45_ to human beings and other living thingsAt very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in important organsBut even the lowest levels can do serious _46_There is no level of radiation that is completely safeIf the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be _47_This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outrightYour body will _48_ the dead cells with healthy onesBut if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in troubleThey reproduce themselves in an unusual wayThey can grow into cancerSometimes this does not show up for many yearsThis is another reason for some of the _49_ about nuclear radiationSerious damage can be done without the knowledge of the person at the time that damage has occurredA person can be irradiated and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a resultOr a child can be born weak or easy to get serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparentsRadiation can hurt usWe must know the truthIIIReading Comprehension Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and DFill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the contextFor many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winnerLike a border conflict between _50_ countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I _51_ and what you do? Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict_52_, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for _53_ itFrom the parents point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents complete _54_And of coursethe teens see it in exactly the same way, except _55_Both feel trapped In this articleIll describe three no-win _56_ that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the _57_The first no-win situation is quarrels over _58_ thingsExamples include the color of the teens hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the childs _59_ to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekendsSecond, blamingThe goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrongThird, needing to be right, It doesnt matter what the _60_ is politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg the _61_ of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrongfor both wish to be considered a/an _62_someone who actually knows something and therefore to command _63_Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they _64_ more than the other, theyll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress50AancientBdevelopingCindependentDneighboring51AdoBhaveCpromiseDcontrol52AIn partBIn shortCIn particularDIn contrast53AstartingBpreventingCstoppingDhandling54ArudenessBimpatienceCunreasonablenessDimmatureness55AvaguelyBoppositelyChesitantlyDunexpectedly56AquarrelsBoccasionsCsituationsDconsequences57AtrapBhatredCcompetitionDdifficulty58AsimpleBdomesticCeducationalDunimportant59AdesireBfailureCpracticeDlateness60AgoalBtopicCregulationDargument61AproblemBpointCsignificanceDconsequence62AseniorBleaderCwinnerDauthority63AbeliefBrewardCrespectDapology64AgainBregretCknowDpossessSection BDirections: Read the following three passagesEach passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statementsFor each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and DChoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read（A）When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of meIve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the timeI know kids who have been shot or beaten upI have friends who ended up in prisonI could have ended up that way, too, but MrClark wouldnt let that happenMrClark worked long hours, making sure I did my workMy grades roseIn fact, the scores of our whole class roseOne day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of HarlemBefore the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths fullWe did not want to let him downMrClark was selected as Disneys 2000 Teacher of the YearHe said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the awardBut when the time came to draw names, MrClark said, “Youre all going”On graduation day, there were a lot of tearsWe didnt want his class to endIn 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touchHe started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55In 2003, MrClark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit orphanages（孤儿院）It was the most amazing experience of my lifeIts now my dream to one day start a group of womens clubs, helping people from all backgrounds65Without MrClark, the writer Amight have been put into prisonBmight not have won the prizeCmight have joined a womens clubDmight not have moved to Atlanta66The Essential 55 is Aa showBa speechCa classroom ruleDa book67In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that 来源:Zxxk.ComAMrClark went to South Africa because he liked travellingBMrClark helped to set up a group of womens clubsCa good teacher can help raise his or her students scoresDa good teacher has a good influence on his or her students（B）Below is a web page from GoogleOlympicModern Olympic GamesThe complete results archive of summer and winter Olympic games, with winners lists, statistics, national anthems and flags of all countries since 1896wwwolympicit/english/home-16kEnvironmentBeijing steel plants to run at the lowest level of cost during 2008 Olympics 2007-03-11 Beijing able to treat 90 pct of waste water 2007-02-05 Air quality in Beijing has improved over the past six years 2007-02-01Green Olympics dream coming true enBeijing2008com/80/67/column211716780shtml-52kBeijing announces planned route of Olympic torch relayBeijing announced the 2008 Olympic Games torch relay route and set off the Olympic Games torch on Thursday Green Olympics is one of the three concepts of the Beijing Games, englishchinacom/zh_cn/news/sports/11059227/14069663html-26kEnvironmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics Green OlympicsEnvironmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics Green Olympics, officially announced on Saturday, 24 September 2005The symbol, created using a calligraphic art form, is composed of human and tree-like shapes, myoperacom/green_head/blog/showdml/92155-18kGreen Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004On behalf of BOCOG, Wang Wei, executive vice president of BOCOG, gave a presentation about Green Olympics, introduced the environment protection work of BMG and BOCOG, and answered several questions such as protection of cultural relics enbeijing2008com/84/91/article211929184shtml-36kOlympic Games Quizzes and Olympic Games TriviaWho was the founder of the Modern Olympics? In which cities were the modern Olympic Games due to be held/ scheduled during the war years, ie, 1916, 1940, and 1944? In which three years of the Modern Olympic Games were More questions wwwfuntriviacom/quizzes/sports/ olympic_gameshtml-12kOFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT aimed at young researchers engaged in scholarly research on the Olympic Movement, its history and values, and the impact of the Full story SPORT ACCORD2005-01-23wwwolympicorg/Ancient Olympic Heritage and Modern Olympic Games in Athens 2004As put forward in the various official texts, the Olympic symbols of ancient Olympia, the Olympic flame and the Marathon race are bridges between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games, wwwc2008org/rendanews/knowledge_detailasp?id=911-106k68When was the environmental symbol of Beijing Olympics made public? AOn January 23, 2005 BOn September 24, 2005 COn February 5, 2007 DOn March 11, 200769Which of the following websites is designed for young researchers interested in the Olympics? AEnvironmentBGreen Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004 COlympic Games Quizzes and Olympic Games Trivia DOFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT70Which website provides a complete list of the winners in the Olympic Games? AOlympicModern Olympic GamesBGreen Olympics Forum In Beijing 2004 CEnvironmental Symbol of Beijing Olympics Green Olympics DAncient Olympic Heritage and Modern Olympic Games in Athens 200471What do we learn from the above web page? ABeijing has made efforts to improve its air quality BThe Olympic torch relay route has not been planned CThe Olympic flags will be on display in Athens DA quiz on the Olympics will be held in Beijing （C）We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupilsThe standards may be changedno examination is perfectbut to have tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standardsThere are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in school or on teachersThis would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them a fo