高三英语周考试卷.doc

2015-2016学年度上学期周考（二）高三英语试卷第卷第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)第1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 woman want to do?A. Look for her daughter.B. Buy her daughter some clothing.C. Wait for her daughter in the department.2. What season is it now?A. Spring.B. Summer.C. Autumn.3. How does the man go to work?A. By car.B. By bus.C. By bicycle.4. Which program does the woman want to watch?A. A movie.B. A fashion show.C. International news.5. What does the woman want to buy?A. A basket.B. Some pineapples.C. Some apples.第2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 did the man do?A. He bought some CDs.B. He met a close friend.C. He went to a concert.7. How does the woman feel aout the man?A. Enthusiastic.B. Lucky.C. Crazy.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. How much can the woman lose a week according to the man?A. 13 pounds.B. 20 pounds.C. 30 pounds.9. What does the woman decide to do?A. Order the weight loss plan.B. Give up losing weight at once.C. Know more about the weight loss plan.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What did the man do last night?A. He watched a football game very late.B. He played computer games very late.C. He spent too much time cooking his supper. 11. When did the police come to solve the problem?A. At about 8.B. At about 9.C. At about 10.12. What does the woman do finally?A. She fires the man.B. She comforts the man.C. She warns the man.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. When will the woman leave the hotel?A. On March 23rd.B. On March 26th.C. On March 29th.14. What kind of room does the woman like?A. A double one with a view over the lake.B. A single one with a view over the park.C. A double one with a view over the sea.15. How much should the woman pay?A. 84 dollars.B. 168 dollars.C. 252 dollars.16. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The womans room is on the 4th floor.B. The woman will have breakfast in the hotel.C. The man gives the woman his phone number.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What was the weather like today in Los Angles?A. Hot.B. Sunny.C. Windy.18. What do many locals think of June weather?A. Pleasant.B. Terrible.C. Changeable.19. Which season in Los Angles is a rainy season?A. Spring.B. Summer.C. Winter.20. Who often complain about the weather?A. Visitors.B. Viewers.C. The weather people.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)第1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。A The brand new Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, situated in the heart of Melbournes CBD, is one of Victorias leading visitor attractions and an unforgettable outing for the whole family. Having 12 amazing zones of discovery, Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is the very place that you cannot miss when you visit thecity.* Opening Times Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium isopenfrom 9:30 am until 6:00 pm every day of the year, including public holidays. Last admission is at 5:00 pm, one hour before closing.* Location (位置) Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is located on the corner of Flinders Street and King Street, Melbourne. It is situated on the Yarra River, opposite Crown Entertainment Complex.* Getting to Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium Train Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is a short walk from either Flinders or Southern Cross train stations. Tram The Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium train stop is located on the free City Circle Tram route (公交线路) and also routes 70 and 75. City Circle trams run every 10 minutes in both directions. Shuttle Bus The Melbourne Tourist Shuttle is a free bus service, stopping at key tourist attractions in and around the City. Runningdaily, every 15 minutesfrom10:00 am to 4:00 pm.* Car Parking While there is no publiccarparking at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, there are several public car parking lots available only a short walk away.* Wheelchair Access Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium provides people in wheelchairs with full access to all 12 zones. Each floor also has wheelchair accessible toilets.* Terms Tickets will be emailed to you immediately after purchase or you can download and print your ticket once payment has been accepted. Please print out all tickets purchased and present at the front entrance of Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. No ticket, no entry!21. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium _ .A. is located at the center of the CBD in thecityB. has 12mostattractive places in MelbourneC. admits visitors from 9:30 am until 6:00 pmD. is beside Crown Entertainment Complex22. Getting to Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, visitors can take _.A. trainsfromSouthern Cross train stationB. shuttle buses around the train stationC. boats across the Yarra RiverD. either tram route 70 or 7523. Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium offers visitors _.A. freecarparkingB. wheelchair accessC. Internet connectionD. transportation service24. Tickets to Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium _ .A. are free to all visitors B. can be purchased by emailC. are checked at the entrance D. can be printed at the ticket officeB No matter how rich we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do everything we want. Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someones time or money could be better spent on something else. Every hour of our time has a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of these options has a different opportunity costnamely, what they cost us in missed opportunities. Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. Why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and use theleftovermoney andtimeto have dinner with friends? Thisthe alternative use of your cash and timeis the opportunity cost. For economists, every decision is made by knowledge of what one must forgoin terms of money and enjoymentin order to take it up. By knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. Consider that most famous economic rule of all: theres no such thing as a free lunch. Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities. Some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imagine spending your entire life calculating whether your time would be better spent elsewhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. Yet, in a sense its human nature to do precisely thatwe assess the advantages and disadvantages of decisions all the time. In the business world, a popular phrase is “value for money.” People want their cash to go as far as possible. However, another is fast obtaining an advantage: “value for time.” The biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. By reading this passage you are giving over a bit of your time which could be spent doing other activities, such as sleeping and eating. In return, however, this passage will help you to think like an economist, closely considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.25. According to the passage, the concept of “opportunity cost” is applied to_.A. making more moneyB. taking more opportunitiesC. reducing missed opportunities D. weighing the choice of opportunities26. The “leftover . time” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to the time_.A. spared for watching the match at homeB. taken to have dinner with friendsC. spent on the way to and from the matchD. saved from not going to watch the match27.What are forgone opportunities?A. Opportunities you forget in decision-making.B. Opportunities you give up for better ones.C. Opportunities you miss accidentally.D. Opportunities you make up for.C Youve flown halfway around the world; youve sniffed out this place that nobody in Falongland or Thailand seems to have ever heard of; so what on earth is there to do here? You consider this question as you sink into an old wooden beach chair that holds you above the sand. It was a long journey from Bangkok to Huaplee. By the time you found the bus station and got yourself sorted out, it took almost as long as theflightfrom Falongland. Huaplee is located just south of Hua Hin, about two hundred kilometresfromBangkok, down thewestside of the Gulf of Thailand. Not many tourists find this place, and the ones that do wonder if finding it has been their purpose all along. Theres an apparent laziness that surrounds you here. Its what this place offers, and its free of charge. The small waves thattapthe shoreline seem to slow everything down. You settle into your beach chair in preparation for a long rest. You sit there and watch the sea. Its early afternoon, so the cook comes out and asks what youd like to eat this evening. Before long hes rushed off to the market tobuythe ingredients for whatever it was that you orderedevery meal freshand to order. No menu here. There is no poolside noise here but just that wonderfully warm, clear blue sea. Theres no street noise. The only sounds are the murmurs of nature. For now you just count your blessings, listing them in the sand with your toe. You dont have to worry about being late for work. You dont have to do anything. The beach to your right stretches off to the horizon, slowly narrowing to nothingness only to re-emerge again on your left, now steadily widening until it covers the chair beneath you. Sand to your left and sand toyour right; its unbroken, endless. No start, no end, just sand, sun, and peace. Step off it, and you re-enter the world of traffic, stress, work, and hurry. Normally youre the type who cant sit still for more than ten minutes, but youre on Huaplee Lazy Beach now and, in the right frame of mind, it stretches all the way around the world. “How could it take me so long to find it?”youwonder.28. When the author first went to Huaplee Beach, _.A. he found it unworthwhileB. he failed to sort himself outC. he became sensitive to smellD. he had difficulty in finding it29. What is special about the food service at Huaplee Beach?A. No menu. B. Freefood. C. Self service. D. Quick delivery.30. In the authors opinion, a tourist can enjoy Huaplee Beach most when he _.A. sits in a beach chair B. forgets hisdailyroutineC. plans a detailed schedule D. draws pictures in the sand31. What does the author imply by his question at the end of the passage?A. He shouldnt have countedhisblessings.B. He should have understood the wonder of nature.C. He shouldnt have spent so much time on the trip.D. He should have come to the place earlier.D If a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen (氮) dissolved (溶解) in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles (气泡) accumulate in a joint, is sharp pain and a bent bodythus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain, the consequence can be death. Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression (减压) sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs (鱼龙). That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil (化石) bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends. Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the worlds natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen (标本) showed evidence of that sort of injury. If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quicklyand, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change. Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator (捕食动物) such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark- and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey (猎物) as well as predatorand often had to make a speedy exit as a result.32. Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?A. A twisted body.B. A gradual decrease in blood supply.C. A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.D.A drop in blood pressure.33. The purpose of Rothschilds study is to see _.A. how often ichthyosaurs caught the bendsB. how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompressionC. why ichthyosaurs bent their bodiesD. when ichthyosaurs broke their bones34. Rothschilds finding stated in Paragraph 4 _.A. confirmed his assumptionB. speeded up his research processC. disagreed with his assumptionD. changed his research objectives35. Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs _.A. failed to evolve an anti-decompression meansB. gradually developed measures against the bendsC. died out because of large sharks and crocodilesD. evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost it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。 A lot of benefits can be seen from getting enough rest, but for many of us, falling asleep can be challenging. Theres plenty of advice about what to do to fall asleep. 36 Herere some pre-bedtime activities that could be hurting your chance of sleeping well. 1. Exercising. / Taking a hot shower. Exercise is a vital activity for your health. It can actually contribute to getting better-quality sleep. The problem, though, is that exercising within three hours of bedtime or taking a bath too close to bedtime can raise your body temperature, and make it more difficult to fall asleep. 37 2. Watching TV. / Surfing the web. 38 The bright lights of these screens can hold back the development of what promotes sleep. So close your laptop and turn off your TV about an hour before bed. 3. 39 Whatever schoolwork it is, it can certainly wait until morning. Dealing with work stimulates (刺激) your brain and can cause you unneeded stresspretty much the opposite of what you want to feel if youre trying to fall asleep! 4. Reading interesting stories. Many people have done this: youre reading a really interesting novel and suddenly its 2:00 am! Reading an interesting book before bed will make it difficult to fall asleep. 40 A. Perhaps you need the most boring thing imaginable to read!B. Screen time before bed can disturb your ability to fall asleep.C. Exercising or bathing, then, is best left for earlier in the day.D. Realize the power of a good nights sleep.E. Solve conflicts before you go to bed.F. But what about the not-to-dos?G. Busying yourself with work.第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第1节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从4160各小题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. Im left 41 . Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other 42 ? I was growing up in Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s, 43 children from different races and religions played and studied 44 in harmony. At that time my family lived a stones 45 from Ismails. And no one was bothered that Ismail was a Malay Muslim and I was an Indian Hinduwe just 46 our differences. Perhaps, our elders had not filled our heads with unnecessary advice, well 47 or otherwise. We were nine when we became friends. During the school holidays, wed 48 the countryside on our bicycles, hoping to 49 the unexpected. At times Ismail would accompany my family as we made a rare shopping trip