北京市丰台区2011届高三上学期期末练习(英语)

1、 北京市丰台区20102011学年度高三第一学期期末考试英 语 试 题本试卷共150分。考试时长120分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项：1答题前，考生务必先将答题卡上的学校、年级、班级、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹签字笔填写清楚，并认真核对条形码上的准考证号、姓名，在答题卡的“条形码粘贴区”贴好条形码。2本次考试所有答题均在答题卡上完成。选择题必须使用2B铅笔以正确填涂方式将各小题对应选项涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦除干净后再选涂其它选项。非选择题必须使用标准黑色字迹签字笔书写，要求字体工整、字迹清楚。3请严格按照答题卡上题号在相应答题区内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题、

2、草稿纸上答题无效。4请保持答题卡卡面清洁，不要装订、不要折叠、不要破损。第I卷（选择题，共115分）第一部分：听力理解（共三节，30分）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。例：What is the man going to read?Anewspaper.BA magazine.CA book.答案是A。1Where does the m an prefer to go?AThe books

3、hop.BThe cinema.CThe restaurant.2When did Peter join a swimming club?AIn 1990.BIn 1992.CIn 2001.3What does the woman like to eat?AFish.BSeafood.CVegetables.4What are the speakers doing?AShopping.BParking the car.CLooking for their car.5Where does the conversation take place?AAt the post office.BAt t

4、he hospital.CAt the airport.第二节 （共10小题；每题1.5分，满分15分）听下面4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，每小题将给出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。6What is the relationship between the two speakers?ATeacher and student.BBrother and sister.CMother and son.7What a

5、re they going to buy?AA book.BA box of chocolates.CSome flowers.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。 8When does the music program start?AAt 12:00 noon.BAt 10:30 in the morning.CAt 4:00 in the afternoon.9What does the speaker talk about?ATV program.BSports.CMusic.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10Why didnt John turn up on time?AHe lost

6、 his phone.BHis car broke down.CHe went to visit his friend.11Where will the woman meet John?AAt the restaurant.BIn the mans flat.CIn the square.12What is the man trying to do?ASpeak for John.BMake a promise.CApologize to the woman.听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。13What did Lily go to Canada for?AVisiting friends.

7、BLearning English.CTaking a holiday.14Why did Lily like staying with the Smiths?AShe could learn to cook.BShe could practice English.CShe could share ideas with them.15What does Lily think of the Canadian classes?AThe courses are interesting.BThe teachers are very patient.CThe students have more fre

8、edom.第三节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，共7.5分）听下面一段对话，完成第16题至20题，每小题仅填写一个单词。听对话前，你将有20秒钟的时间阅读试题，听完后你将有60秒钟的作答时间。该段对话你将连续听两遍。House RentingNameKate 16 LocationSunny StreetRentLess than 120 a month, including 17 and gasRequirementsan apartment with an air conditioner and heating systema 18 placeRenting perioda year and

9、 a half, from 19 Telephone 20 第二部分：知识运用（共两节, 共45分）第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。例：Its so nice to hear from her again. , we last met more than thirty years ago.AWhats moreBThats to sayCIn other wordsDBelieve it or not答案是D。21Buy two CDs and get completely fre

10、e.Aother Bthe otherCanotherDall22She came in for coffee and told me traffic kept her awake last night.Aa, theBa, 不填Cthe, theDthe, 不填23Its an old car, its very reliable.Aso BbutCorDand24 increasing the distance of your walks, you may lose more weight.AByBFromCOnDFor25Put on your coat! I you down to t

11、he doctor.AtakeBam takingCtookDhave taken26He collected information on 1,000 people, whose IQ when they were ten years old.Ais testedBhas testedCwould testDhad been tested27- Havent I told you that you should be home earlier? - Yes, but I home earlier than I usually do.Awas comingBwill comeCcameDhad

12、 come28From the dates on the gold coin, we know that it was made 500 years ago.AmarkingBmarkedCto markDto be marked29 a little money, Jane was able to buy her mother a lovely new watch.ATo saveBSavingCSavedDHaving saved30The government has taken measures air quality.Ato improveBimprovedCbeing improv

13、edDto be improved31- Mary I smoke here? - If you , choose a seat in the smoking section.AshouldBcouldCmustDmay32 most parents care about is to provide the best education for their children.AWhatBThatCHowDWhether33In 1963 we moved to New York, my grandparents lived.AwhichBwhereCwhyDwhat34When his dad

14、 died, he felt his world had turned upside down. Ain caseBas ifCso thatDeven though35If you had seen a doctor, you much better now.AareBwill beCwould beDwould have been第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I grew up poor living with six brothers, my father a

15、nd a wonderful mother. We had 36 money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was 37 and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, they could 38 afford a dream.My dream was to be a 39 . When I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety mile per hour

16、 fastball. I was also 40 : my high school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who 41 me the difference between having a dream and showing strong belief. One particular 42 with him changed my life forever.It was a summer and a friend recommended me for a summer 43 . This meant a chance for my first income cash f

17、or a new bike and new clothes, and the 44 of savings for a house for my mother. The opportunity was attracting, and I wanted to 45 at it.Then I realized I would have to 46 summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldnt be playing. I was 47 abo

18、ut this.When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as 48 as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said. “Your 49 days are limited. You cant afford to waste them.”I stood before him with my head 50 , trying to think of how to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and havin

19、g money in my pocket was worth 51 his disappointment in me.“How much are you going to make at this job?” he demanded.“$ 3.25 an hour,” I replied.“Well, is $ 3.25 an hour the price of a 52 ?” he asked.That 53 laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I dev

20、oted myself to 54 that summer, and within the year I was offered a $ 20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1984 for $ 1.7 million, and bought my mother the 55 of my dreams.36AsomeBlittleCnoDmuch37AhappyBlovelyCangryDnoisy38AonlyBeverCstillDalmost39AteacherBcoachCdoctorDsportsman40Aluc

21、kyBsatisfiedChopefulDsurprised41AtaughtBaskedCtoldDtrained42AmatchBstoryCmomentDincident43AjobBcampCholidayDcourse44AcauseBstartCneedDamount45AstandBcallClookDjump46Atake outBcut offCput onDgive up47AexcitedBcuriousCanxiousDdisappointed48AmadBpuzzledCregretfulDdiscouraged49AworkingBplayingClearningD

22、shining50AshakingBhangingCholdingDnodding51AfeelingBsufferingCfacingDexpressing52AdreamBgameCchanceDlife53AofferBpriceCquestionDorder54AstudyBsportsChomeworkDbusiness55AclothesBbikeChouseDgoods第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共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。AObama Still

23、 Smokes in SecretUS President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco pr

24、oducts.At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday.Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadnt completely kicked the habit. Every now and then he still smokes in secre

25、t.“As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No.” Obama said at a news conference.“I don t do it in front of my ladsI don ?t do it in front of my familyI would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess

26、up, he saidOnce you go down this path, it s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so importantThe new law is not about me, it s about the next generation of kids coming upWhat we don t want is kids going down that path, he saidNearly 20% of Americans smoke and toba

27、cco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases56The new law makes life difficult for .AObama Btobacco industryCWhite House DUS Food and Drug Administration57What do we know about Obama?AHe no longer smokesBHe still smokes as us

28、ual CHe began to smoke at eighteenDHe is trying hard to give up smoking58According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about Achildren Bofficials Chis family DbusinessmenBThanks a Million, DadI was born disabledA difficult birth, feet first, my head stuckBy my first birthday, I couldnt stand or

29、walkWhen I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy （脑瘫）A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my bodyBut no son of my dad s was going to be disabledEvery morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to

30、 exercise my right legThe muscles were shrunk and twisted togetherBack and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shapeBut my dad s exercise of passion didnt stop thereFor my 13th birthday, he threw me a special partyWhen everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, i

31、t was a-set of boxing glovesWe put them onMy dad kept on beating me mercilesslyEach time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jawI begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasnt picked for Lit

32、tle League. Two weeks laterDad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid playedDad coached us and made me a pitcher （棒球投手）The power of my dad s love guaranteed I walked and moreIn high school, I became a football starIn 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didnt t have cerebral palsy

33、 after allHe explained how and where the doctor s forceps （镊子） at birth had damaged my brain. My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years agoBut all that counts is the bottom lineAfter all his madness, on this Father s Day, like every Father s Day, I m no longer disabled59What cause

34、d the author s disability?AA failed operationBThe doctors forcepsCAn accident in a gameDShrunken and twisted muscles60What do we learn from the passage?AThe author has a talent for boxingBThe author achieved a lot thanks to his father s loveCThe author became a baseball star with the help of his fat

35、herDThe author doesnt think his father should be so strict with him61Paragraph 3 suggests that the author s father_.Awouldnt give up hope easilyBbelieved his son was a normal childCblamed the doctors for his son s disabilityDcouldnt accept the truth that his son was disabled62The author wrote the pa

36、ssage to _.Aremember his fatherBencourage disabled childrenCshow the difficulty the disabled faceDgive advice to the parents of disabled childrenCI live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year - round sunYou may think People ,n such an attractive, fun - filled place are happier than othersIf so yo

37、u have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happinessMany intelligent people still think fun equals happinessThe truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in commonFun is what we experience during an actHappiness is what we experience after an actIt is a deep, long-lasting emotionGoi

38、ng to an amusement park or a ball game, watching a movie or television are fun activities that help us relax, temporally forget our problems and maybe even laughBut they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun endsI have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a ro

39、le to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with funThey have constant access to exciting parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells happiness But in memoir（回忆录） after memoir, they expose Ac unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug a

40、ddiction, broken marriages and lonelinessAsk a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfyingIf he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitmentFor commitment is in fact quite painfulThe single life is filled with fun, adventure and

41、 excitementMan-iage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing featuresSimilarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happinessThey can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they wantCouples with babies are lucky to g

42、et a whole night s sleepI dont know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising childrenUnderstanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever come toIt liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activit

43、ies that can truly increase our happinessIt liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointlessAnd it frees us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and famous people we were so sure are happy because they are alwa

44、ys having so much fun actually may not be happy at all63What is the passage mainly about?AFun and happinessBSuccess and satisfactionCMarriage and commitmentDEntertainment and responsibility64The author probably agrees that _Afun creates long - lasting satisfactionBlong - standing fun may lead to hap

45、pinessCfun is short-lived while happiness is long-lastingDfun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness65What does the author think of marriage?AIt ends in pain BIt means commitmentCIt affords greater fun DIt leads to raising children66If one gets the real meaning of happiness, he _Awill star

46、t a business Bwon t place too much value on moneyCwill seek for freedom Dwont devote himself to his familyDTime and how we experience it have always puzzled usPhysicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum （钟摆） and is not psychological time, which leaps with l

47、ittle regard to the clock or calendarAs some-one who understood the distinction observed, When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hoursPsychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and ye

48、ars, fly on swifter wings as we ageThey also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to passFor example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beachSince most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age,

49、 an increase in structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow olderExpectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidlyAlmost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere weve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no re

50、al idea of when well arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.When was become as i

51、dentical as identical as beads（小珠子）on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your dayto stop time, so to speak.Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days

52、 of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesnt have to be.67The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show .Apsychological time is quite puzzlingBtime should not be measured by a p

53、endulumCphysical time is different from psychological timeDphysical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time68Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?AOur sense of time changes.BWe spend less time at the beach.CMore time is structured and scheduled.DTime is structured with too m

54、any appointments.69In Paragraph 3 “novelty” probably means .AexcitementBunfamiliarityCimaginationDamusement70The purpose of the passage is to .Agive various explanations about timeBdescribe how we experience time psychologicallyCshow the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on timeDexplain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologically第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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 7.0 magnitude（级）earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks