陕西省西安市曲江第一中学高三英语上学期期中试题.doc

西安市曲江第一中学20142015学年度第一学期期中考试高三年级（英语）试题 注意：1、第卷中1- 65题将对应正确选项用2b铅笔涂在答题卡上，其中e涂a、b两个字母，f涂a、c两个字母。第一部分 英语知识运用（共四节，满分55分）第一节 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）从每小题的a、b、c、d四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。1. seriesa. seriousb. receptionc. energeticd. equal2. feasta. breastb. leaguec. measured. wealthy3. insurancea. usualb. usagec. suitcased. ensure4. exista. expressb. extremelyc. exactlyd. exit5. oxygena. genuineb. gravityc. garlicd. glory第二节 情景对话（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。jerry: hi, mike. look like youve got some sun.mike: i guess so. i spent the weekend on the beach.jerry: really? that sounds exciting. 6 mike: at my friends house .he invited me to stay there for as long as i wanted.jerry: 7 mike: oh, i have a paper to work on.jerry: 8 i mean besides lying out in the sun. mike: i played volleyball. i never realized how hard it is to run on sand.jerry: 9 did you go swimming? mike: i intended to. 10 so i just went fishing. jerry: all sounds so relaxing.a. what a pity!b. it must be cool.c. where did you stay?d. but how did you get there?e. so what else did you do out there?f. but the water wasnt warm enoughg. then why not stay there for a longer time?第三节 语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 从每小题的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。11. one of the best ways for people to keep fit is to_ healthy eating habits.a. grow b. develop c. increase d. raise12. he made another wonderful discovery, _ of great importance to sciencea. which i think isb. which i think it isc. which i think itd. i think is13. dont sit there _ nothing. come and help me with this table.a. do b. to doc. doingd. and doing14. he asked _ for the violin. a. did i pay how muchb. i paid how muchc. how much did i payd. how much i paid15. he did not regret saying what he did but felt that he_ it differently.a. could expressb. would expressc. could have expressedd. must have expressed16. bill, can i get you anything to drink? _.a. you are welcomeb. no problemc. i wouldnt mind a coffeed. doesnt matter17. forty people were expected to the party. but only half of them _.a. turned aroundb. turned upc. turned offd. turned out18. could i speak to _is in charge of international sales, please ?a. anyoneb. someone c. whoever d. no matter who19. ive read another book this week. well, maybe _ is not how much you read but what you read that counts.a. thisb. thatc. thered. it20. you will be successful in the interview _ you have confidence.a. beforeb. oncec. untild. though21. i have reached a point in my life _ i am supposed to make decisions of my own.a. whichb. wherec. howd. why22. it is usually warm in my hometown in march, but it _ be rather cold sometimes.a. mustb. canc. shouldd. would23. the growing speed of a plant is influenced by a number of factors, _ are beyond our control.a. most of whichb. most of themc. most of whatd. most of that 24. a number of books in the library _ been stolen so that the number of them _smaller than before.a. have; is b. has; isc. has; are d. have; are25. whats that noise? oh, i forgot to tell you. the new machine _.a. was testedb. will be testedc. is being testedd. has been tested第四节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。while attending a conference, i returned to my hotel room late one evening. the overhead light outside my door was burned out and i had 26 finding the keyhole. when i 27 to open the door, i 28 around the wall for a light switch. i found a plate where a switch was 29 installed. but no switch!not discouraged easily, i remembered 30 a lamp by the bed when i laid my luggage 31 in the day. i found the bed in the 32 and then the lamp, but when i switched it on, nothing 33 ! i thought that perhaps if i opened the curtains i might be able to use whatever light comes in from the 34_ to find another lamp. so i 35 my way slowly across the room to the curtains and. no drawstring! i finally stumbled（跌跌撞撞地走）around 36 i found a desk lamp which actually 37 ! that evening i discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world 38_ be and how necessary light is! but even more necessary than 39 light is the light that shines from people the light of 40 and faith. because, for many people, the world is a dark and 41 place. for someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in 42 of some light. so let your light shine. whatever light you 43 may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. and if you feel that your light is 44 a candle in a forest remember there isnt enough darkness in all the world to 45 the light of one small candle. 26. a. confidenceb. respect c. admiration d. difficulty 27. a. managed b. failed c. wished d. meant 28. a. touchedb. felt c. sensed d. looked 29. a. already b. never c. still d. once 30. a. equipping b. producing c. spotting d. removing 31. a. later b. earlier c. lower d. upper 32. a. lightb. dark c. room d. corner 33. a. happened b. operated c. fired d. developed 34. a. machine b. street c. room d. car 35. a. wound b. forced c. made d. lost 36. a. after b. until c. while d. since 37. a. helped b. affected c. worked d. inspired 38. a. can b. shall c. will d. must39. a. mental b. psychologicalc. electrical d. physical 40. a. existence b. lovec. truth d. wisdom 41. a. lonely b. colourfulc. friendly d. complex 42. a. short b. favourc. face d. need 43. a. make b. offer c. take d. contribute 44. a. not more than b. other than c. no more than d. rather than 45. a. put out b. give out c. get over d. set up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）阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ajeanne calment, a french woman, became a record breaker on 17 october of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. a japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days. jeanne calment lives in a small old peoples home in the south of france; her husband, her only child and her grandson have all died. she is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheelchair, but her doctor describes her as being more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120. she still has a lively sense of humor. when asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future, she replied: a very short one. she also remarked that she thought the good lord had forgotten all about her. so what is the key to a long life? according to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. jeanne calment has followed two of the tips. she has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do exercise every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115. however, until recently she drank two glasses of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke (now only a little). besides, jeanne calment might have got very good genes from her parents. her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86. a local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year until her death. it must have seemed a good move at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at least three times the value of the house. every year on her birthday jeanne calment sends him a card saying: sorry, im still alive! 46. how does jeanne calment feel about her old age? a. she is miserable and unhappy. b. she is cheerful and humorous. c. she would like to live much longer. d. she feels she is going to die very soon. 47. jeanne calment owes her good health and long life to _. a. smoking only a little every dayb. her giving up smoking and drinkingc. drinking two glasses of strong red wine every dayd. the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercise48. which of the following could best replace the word “move” in the fourth paragraph? a. dealb. trickc. marchd. sport 49. why does jeanne calment say “sorry, im still alive” to the local lawyer every year on her birthday?a. because she had an agreement at 80 with the lawyer which was to her advantage. b. because she has asked the lawyer to pay her more rent than they first agreed. c. because the lawyer has paid her much more money than the value of the house.d. because the house she sold to the lawyer isnt worth the money he has already paid. bask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. recycling in the home is very important of course. however, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. we are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.the total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. it now makes up a third of a typical households waste in the uk. in many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. the uk, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. if such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. the solution is not to produce such items in the first place. food waste is a serious problem, too. too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. however, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.but this is not just about supermarkets. it is about all of us. we have learned to associate packaging with quality. we have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. this is especially true of food. but it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.there are signs of hope. as more of us recycle, we are beginning to realise just how much unnecessary material is collecting. we need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.50. what does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?a. using too much packaging.b. recycling too many wastes.c. making more products than necessary.d. having more material than is needed.51. the author uses figures in paragraph 2 to show _.a. the tendency of cutting household wasteb. the increase of packaging recyclingc. the rapid growth of super marketsd. the fact of packaging overuse52. what can be inferred from paragraph 4?a. unpackaged products are of bad quality.b. supermarkets care more about packaging.c. it is improper to judge quality by packaging.d. other products are better packaged than food.53. what can we learn from the last paragraph?a. fighting wastefulness is difficult.b. needless material is mostly recycled.c. people like collecting recyclable waste.d. the author is proud of their consumer culture.cwhen we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. it is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are. people who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes, and everything else seems blurry (=unclear). many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near-sighted. people who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. they can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arms length. if they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too. other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. they have what is called astigmatism (散光). this, too, can be corrected by glasses. some peoples eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). long ago these people often became blind. now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them. having two good eyes is important for judging distances. each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. to prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. you will find the objects relation to the background and other things around it has changed. the difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. people who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.54. when things far away seem indistinct(模糊不清) , one is probably_.a. near-sighted b. far-sighted c. astigmatic d. suffering from cataracts55. the underlined word suffer in the third paragraph probably means_.a. experience b. imagine c. feel pain d. are affected with56. having two eyes instead of one is particularly useful for_.a. seeing at night b. seeing objects far awayc. looking over a wide area d. judging distances57. people who suffer from astigmatism have_.a. one eye bigger than the otherb. eyes that are not exactly the right shapec. a difficulty that can be corrected by an operationd. an eye difficulty that cannot be corrected by glassesdon the coast of brazil lies its most famous city rio de janeiro. rio is a beautiful place to visit. it is full of exciting parades, historical architecture and natural beauty.the most famous time of year in rio is the spring when the samba schools organize a giant parade of dance, music and costumes. samba is a type of fast brazilian music, which is perfect for dancing. the carnival lasts two days and over 20 samba schools perform, a total of 70,000 people in brightly coloured costumes, all dancing and singing! it is a magnificent spectacle and millions of people watch the carnival on television around the world.rio de janeiro is a religious city and it is full of churches. some, like the former imperial church, were built over 400 years ago while others, like the metropolitan cathedral, are very modern. the metropolitan cathedral was built in 1976 and is so large that 20,000 people can stand inside at one time!another important religious site in rio is the corcovado hill. on the top of the hill, along with a small church, stands a 30-metre high statue of jesus with his arms stretched out. from this point you can see every part of the city.58. brazilian carnival is_.a. a type of brazilian musicb. a parade of 70,000 people dancing and singingc. a parade of millions of people on televisiond. the name of a samba school59. the metropolitan cathedral_.a. was built 400 years agob. is on corcovado hillc. is a religious cityd. was built in 197660. the corcovado hill is famous for_.a. the samba paradeb. the beautiful view of the cityc. the statue of jesusd. the small church第二节、（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从下框的af选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。a. slow down your lifeb. escape now and thenc. separate your actionsd. allow yourself to be weake. relieve pressure by firmly saying nof. stop expecting everything to be perfecthow to simplify your lifeless is more. this is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, slow down instead of speeding up. apply these principles in your everyday life in a conscious way. you will then find yourself well along on your journey to simplification. 61._when you concentrate on one task, you find you have energy that you didnt even know you had. just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. if you keep grabbing one and then the other, it will take forever, because one of them will keep slipping out from under your arm and running off. but if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your strength and make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back and get the other one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, then you can be sure of success. 62._ the pressure at work is on the increase in all occupations. in the modern nuclear family, the expectations that formerly would have been shared among all the relatives are now concentrated on the individual partner. if you have the feeling that 24 hours per day are not enough for all the things you need to do, then its not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. a simple fact that overloaded people often tend to forget. the solution is equally simple: refuse to accept so many work assignments in your private life or your working life. 63._“i can handle stress” is regarded as a positive statement in the world of work. people who can handle stress are given more and more to cope with - until one day they break. pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can cope with. these signals came from various area