浙江省效实中学2014届高三英语上学期期始考试题新人教版

1 高三期始考英语试卷高三期始考英语试卷 第一部分 英语知识运用 共两节 满分 30 分 第一节 单项选择 共 20 小题 每小题 0 5 分 满分 10 分 从 A B C D 四个选项中 选出最佳选项 把答案写在答题卷上 1 It s quite honor to be chairman of the conference A theB an C a D the the 2 Every means but none proved A have tried a successB have been tried successful C has tried to be successfulD has been tried successful 3 The weather of this year is not so good as of last year A oneB the oneC thatD those 4 It was in the small house was destroyed by the flood he spent his childhood A which thatB that whereC which whichD that which 5 All those second hand goods are sold at before A 30 as lower price asB as 30 low price as C 30 as low a price asD 30 lower price than 6 Most of the audience wondered what idea a man who is deaf from birth can have music A withB inC ofD to 7 I m putting on weight The doctor has warned me to sugar A keep upB keep backC keep offD keep away 8 For the big house the price is fairly cheap but you ve got to take into 2 the money you ll spend on home improvement A considerationB thoughtfulnessC responsibilityD measures 9 I tried to explain the problem to Mary but she was so angry that she listen A couldn t B shouldn tC wouldn tD might not 10 I heard several quarrels within our home I had never before noticed A thatB themC oneD ones 11 We are all ready sir Ok John here the rest of you where you are A come stayB comes stay C will come will stayD comes will stay 12 Sometimes proper answers are not far to seek food safety problems A inB withC afterD to 13 Every morning they meet in the same caf They there for years A have goneB are going C goD have been going 14 The researchers who study jokes want to know people from different nations and cultures find funny A whyB thatC whatD whether 15 Pity you missed the lecture on nuclear pollution I it but I was busy preparing for a job interview A had attendedB didn t attend 3 C would attendD would have attended 16 I had just finished doing my examination papers the bell rang A whenB whileC beforeD after 17 Alex is said by heart 2000 Chinese characters up to now A that he has learnedB to have learned C to learnD having learned 18 John failed in the English test this time A Of course B Sure C Because he is too lazy D What a surprise 19 What s the in your opinion of helping him if he doesn t make an effort to help himself A sympathyB pointC objectD theme 20 At times the balance in nature is resulting in a number of possibly unforeseen effects A troubledB confusedC disturbedD puzzled 第二节 完型填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 20 分 In 1956 Phoenix Arizona was a city with boundless blue skies One day as I walked around the house with my 21 Kathy s new parakeet 小鹦鹉 on my finger I wanted to show Perky 22 the sky looked like Maybe he could make a little bird friend out there I took him into the backyard and then 23 to my horror Perky flew off The enormous blue sky swallowed up my sister s blue 24 and suddenly he had gone clipped wings and all Kathy managed to 25 me With fake optimism she even tried to reassure 安慰 me that Perky would find a new 26 But I was far too clever to 27 that such a thing was possible Decades later I watched my own 28 growing We shared their activities spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the 29 of the kids friends the Kissells The two families went camping around Arizona together We became the 30 of friends One evening the game 4 was to tell Great Pet stories One person claimed to 31 the oldest living goldfish Someone else had a psychic dog 32 Barry the father of the other family took the floor 发言 and 33 that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet Sweetie Pie The best thing 34 Sweetie Pie he said was the 35 we got him One day when I was about eight out of the clear blue sky a little blue parakeet just dived down and 36 on my finger When I was 37 able to speak we examined the amazing evidence The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all 38 It seems our two families had been 39 long before we ever met Forty years later I ran to my sister and said You were 40 Perky lived 21 A niece B sister C friend D aunt 22 A whatB which C how D where 23 A many B much C great D very 24 A pleasureB sadnessC treasureD sense 25 A forgiveB comfortC helpD delight 26 A parentB homeC houseD life 27 A imagineB supposeC doubtD believe 28 A birdsB happinessC worriesD children 29 A parentsB birdsC interestsD games 30 A firstB bestC last D happiest 31 A catchB findC buy D have 32 A But B Fortunately C Then D However 33 A announcedB argued C toldD hoped 34 A in B aboutC from D on 35 A dayB placeC way D story 36 A fell B flew C landed D went 37 A firstly B finallyC exactly D even 38 A came upB turned upC turned outD matched up 39 A knownB joined C connectedD introduced 40 A rightB wrongC sillyD mad 第二部分 阅读理解 第一节 20 小题 第二节 5 小题 每小题 2 分 满分 50 分 第一节 阅读下面短文 从每题所给的四个选项中 选出最佳选项 把答案写在答题卷上 A 5 How I Turned to Be Optimistic I began to grow up that winter night when my parents and I were returning from my aunt s house and my mother said that we might soon be leaving for America We were on the bus then I was crying and some people on the bus were turning around to look at me I remember that I could not bear the thought of never hearing again the radio program for school children to which I listened every morning I do not remember myself crying for this reason again In fact I think I cried very little when I was saying goodbye to my friends and relatives When we were leaving I thought about all the places I was going to see the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures The country I was leaving never to come back was hardly in my head then The four years that followed taught me the importance of optimism but the idea did not come to me at once For the first two years in New York I was really lost having to study in three schools as a result of family moves I did not quite know what I was or what I should be Mother remarried and things became even more complex for me Some time passed before my stepfather and I got used to each other I was often sad and saw no end to the hard times My responsibilities in the family increased a lot since I knew English better than everyone else at home I wrote letters filled out forms translated at interviews with Immigration officers took my grandparents to the doctor and translated there and even discussed telephone bills with company representatives From my experiences I have learned one important rule almost all common troubles eventually go away Something good is certain to happen in the end when you do not give up and just wait a little I believe that my life will turn out all right even though it will not be that easy 41 How did the author get to know America A From her relatives B From her mother C From books and pictures D From radio programs 42 Upon leaving for America the author felt A confused B excitedC worried D amazed 43 For the first two years in New York the author A often lost her way B did not think about her future C studied in three different schools D got on well with her stepfather 44 What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 4 A She worked as a translator 6 B She attended a lot of job interviews C She paid telephone bills for her family D She helped her family with her English 45 The author believes that A her future will be free from troubles B it is difficult to learn to become patient C there are more good things than bad things D good things will happen if one keeps trying B Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns not far apart Both towns have many hotels and in summer the hotels are full of holiday makers and other tourists Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon The next day this news appeared on Page Two of the town s newspaper The Beldon Post FIRE AT SEABREEZE Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire We say again to all our visitors Please don t smoke cigarettes in bed This was Beldon s first hotel fire for five years The canfield times gave the news in these words on Page One ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel An angry holiday maker said An electric lamp probably started the fire The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels When I turned the bedside light on I heard a funny noise from the lamp We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield What are the facts then It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel 1st August that is one fact Do we know anything else Yes we know that firemen went to the hotel 46 The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think A this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel B hotels in Beldon often catch fire 7 C hotels in Beldon don t often catch fire D Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe 47 The Canfield newspaper gave a report just opposite to The Beldon Post by saying that A the bedroom lamps were very old at some of the Seabreeze s hotels B the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took place C the firemen failed to save clothing bedclothes and other things D such accidents never happened in Canfield for the past five years 48 The angry holiday maker A lived in the room which had caught fire B was talking about the lamps in seabreeze Hotel C caused the fire when he turned on a lamp D did not actually tell what had caused the fire 49 Which of the following BEST gives the main idea of this passage A A fire broke out one night in Seabreeze Hotel B It was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapers C Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter D Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer C Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle 航天飞机 Challenger in June 1983 The achievement of Sally Ride America s first woman astronaut to fly into space made this flight especially memorable Students from two Camden New Jersey high schools however are probably to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight Norma didn t travel alone She brought about 100 companions along with her Norma was an ant a queen ant who with her subject made up the first ant colony 群体 to travel into space The ants were part of a science experiment designed by students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly throughout the long space trip The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened The problem didn t occur in space but on the ground after challenger had landed The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was moved The hot dry desert air dried out the colony s container and the ants died from lack of moisture 水分 8 The project was tested success because it did provide useful information Students will continue their efforts to pinpoint 精确找到 what went wrong They will try to prevent the same difficulties from recurring on future missions They don t want to be discouraged either by the demise of the ants or by the 10 000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space 50 What does the passage mainly tell us A Sally Ride America s first woman astronaut B How to keep ants alive in space C How to make equipment for insects in space D An experiment with ants in space 51 According to the passage we know that the underlined word demise is another word for A deathB colonyC insectD moisture 52 We don t think the project was a failure This is because A everything went as smoothly as expected B the students had pinpointed exactly the reason C something important had been learned D the students had succeeded in the experiment 53 The ants were not able to live because A no one fed them in spaceB they dried out in the desert C weightlessness damaged themD space caused too much pain 54 We can conclude that ants on the next space trip A will have to be kept alive in a container full of water B will have to be sent into space with the first woman astronaut C should be put into a container where there is enough food D should be put into a container which is not too dry D The opening scene of The King s Speech was in a word terrifying The moment King George VI wonderfully played by Colin Firth stepped up to the microphone at Wembley Stadium a rush of nervousness came over me It took me back to my school days standing at my desk having to read aloud to the class I whispered to my wife Jill A stutterer 口吃者 wrote this screenplay 剧本 9 I grew up with a stutter really afraid of trying to get through simple sentences knowing that I would then or later be laughed at I still remember the reading when I was in 7th grade at St Helena s Sir Walter Raleigh was a gentleman I remember reciting Sir Walter Raleigh was a gentleman The school teacher said Master B B B Biden What s that word She wanted me to say gentleman But by then I had learned to put my sentences into bite size pieces and I was reading it gentle breath man Ninety nine percent of the time the teachers were great I never had professional treatment but a couple of teachers taught me to put a regular rise and fall in my tone of speaking and that s why I spent so much time reading poetry But even in my small boys prep school I got nailed in my class with the nickname Joe Stutterer You get so desperate you re so embarrassed I actually went and stood by the side of my house once with a small round stone in my mouth and tried to talk Jill always thought I was kidding until she saw the movie and saw King George did the same thing King George relied on the support his wife and the help of Lionel Longue who in describing working with other stutterers said My job was to give them confidence in their voices and let them know that a friend was listening I was lucky enough to have more than a couple of Lionels in my life Nobody in my family ever ever made fun of me or tried to finish my sentences My mother would say Joey you cannot let stuttering define you And because of her and others I made sure it didn t Through hard work and determination I beat my stutter in high school I even spoke briefly at my graduation ceremony in 1961 the most difficult speech of my life My fight against shyness and embarrassment at my early age has developed my ability to understand others feelings as Vice President of the country in public life I still mark up all of my speeches the same way Firth s character does in the movie pencil marking every line to remind myself to stop to breathe to pause to beat back my stuttering as best as I can I don t stutter anymore and most people who know me only late in my life are shocked that I ever did By capturing exactly how a stutter feels The King s Speech has shown millions of people how much courage it takes for a stutterer to stand up and 10 speak Equally important it has shown millions who suffer from the pain that it can be overcome we are not alone and with the support of those around us our deepest fears can be conquered 55 The writer whispered to his wife A stutterer wrote this screenplay because A he desired to release his secret to his wife B he was reminded how it was as a stutterer on such occasions C he thought Colin Firth had a wonderful performance in the film D he wanted to make his wife realize why the film was so popular 56 What can we learn from the example in Paragraph 2 A Kids with a stutter could be made fun of at schools B Gentleman was very difficult for a 7th grader to pronounce C It was impossible for a stutterer to pronounce even very simple words D The teacher had a clever way to teach how to pronounce the word 57 Which word can best replace nailed in Paragraph 3 A attached B uncovered C hammered D tricked 58 What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 imply A The writer would have a good fortune to get help from many people B The writer should realize he had to stand up from his pain and defeat it C The writer could get enough confidence under his mother s help D The writer must be happy that everyone in his family did not laugh at him 59 To give a speech as well as he can the writer reveals the fact that A he tried to talk with a small round stone in his mouth B his wife keeps encouraging him to practice C he still marks up all his speeches D his teacher helps him to put a rise and fall in his tone 60 What message is conveyed in the passage A Whatever pain and fear we have we can defeat them if we try hard B The similar stories of the writer and King George VI gains great admiration 11 C The suffer we had at our early age will have a heavy influence on our future life D Stuttering is such a pain for children that we should give help and encourage them 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 并在答题卡上将该 项涂黑 选项中有两项为多余选项 How to Make Friends Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends Good friendship has many benefits It offers companionship improves self worth and promotes good health There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town or changed our jobs or schools Such changes often leaves us without a friend 61 But for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends 1 Associate with others The first step to making friends is associating with other people You can go to public places to meet new people Besides you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places 2 Start a conversation Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends 62 You can always start the c