江西省赣州市十四县(市)2019届高三上学期期中联考英语试卷(有答案)

1、赣州市十四县（市）2019届高三上学期期中联考英语试卷本试卷分第 i 卷（选择题）和第ii 卷（非选择题）两部分。全卷满分150分，考试时间 120分钟。第 i 卷（选择题共 100 分）第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节 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。 听完每段对话后， 你都有 10 秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. what does mrs. jones do every day? a. play tennis. b. wor overtime. c. go jogging. 2. what

2、does the apartment lac according to the man? a. laundry machines. b. decorations. c. bedroom furniture. 3. how many pages has the man written? a. two. b. eight. c. ten. 4. what will the woman probably do net? a. turn left. b. turn bac. c. par the car. 5. where does the conversation tae place? a. at

3、a caf . b. at a gas station. c. at a paring lot. 第二节 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。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、7 题。6. why wont the man tae flight f8008? a. it s not a direct flight. b. it leaves too early in the morning. c. the ti

4、cets are not available. 7. when will the man go to new yor? a. on wednesday. b. on tuesday. c. on monday. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. what is the womans attitude towards taing up golf? a. careful. b. negative. c. confident. 9. according to the woman, why is she considering the sport? a. to feel young agai

5、n. b. to have more eercise. c. to spend more time with her husband. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10至 12题。10. where does the man notice the red things first? a. on the womans legs. b. on the womans face. c. on the womans arms. 11. what might cause the red things? a. a plant. b. some food. c. oily sin. 12. what will

6、the woman probably do net? a. go to the drugstore. b. eat something different. c. receive hospital treatment. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13至 16题。13. what does the man want to get? a. a cray haircut. b. a nail special. c. a basic haircut. 14. when does the man get his hair cut? a. at 330. b. at around 300. c. at a

7、bout 400. 15. where does the man live? a. in new yor. b. in los angeles. c. in washington d.c. 16. what does the man do for a living? a. he wors for a newspaper. b. he wors as a novelist. c. he wors for the government.听第 10段材料，回答第 17至 20题。17. why was the postage rate high in the early times? a. many

8、 people were employed to put stamps on envelopes. b. the post offices had to send many people to collect the postage. c. the post offices had to send many people to deliver letters. 18. who was rowland hill? a. a schoolmaster. b. a postman. c. a government official. 19. how can the post office preve

9、nt people from reusing the stamps? a. by coloring them. b. by putting seals on them. c. by collecting them bac. 20. when did people first begin to use stamps? a. in 1919. b. in 1900. c. in 1840. 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。a the nobe

10、l prie-winning meican writer octavio pa said, “ the art of the festival has been debased（下降）almost everywhere else, but not in meico. ” here are several events that would have made him proud morelia international film festival the morelia film fest really brings this colonial city to life in mid-oct

11、ober. created as a platform for documentaries and fiction wors, the programming offers an up-close loo at meican society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of filmmaers. fashionable bars and sidewal cafes are buing with activity around the main square, where crowds gather nightly for open-

12、air screenings and other cultural events. day of the dead each year on november 1st and 2nd, meico turns its thoughts to the departed during the day of the dead festivities, a colorful tradition deeply rooted in native culture. for meicans, death is more a cause for celebration than mourning, and th

13、at spirit has been ept very much alive in p tcuaro, the d a de muertos mecca. prepare yourself to battle large crowds of the living. carnival in veracru &maatl n meico hosts many carnival celebrations every year featuring eciting parades, dance performances, live music and of course, big-time pa

14、rtying. the nine-day event in veracru, meico s biggest carnival, usually ics off in march, right around the same time when festivities get started on the pacific coast in maatl n. you can shae your body with salsa music in veracru or the brass band sounds of maatl n. la morisma an all-out war erupts

15、 on the streets of colonial acatecas, usually around late august. o, well, its actually a moc battle with well over 2,000 participants re-enacting battles between the christians and moors in old spain. the fau（假的） soldiers attac one another while accompanied on the streets by bands of musicians. 21.

16、 how do the meicans feel when the day of the dead comes? a. calm b. anious c. scared d. happy 22. what can people enjoy in both carnival in veracru &maatl n and la morisma? a. eciting parades b. dance performances. c. live music. d. a moc battle 23. what is the purpose of the tet? a. to tell som

17、ething about a nobel prie-winning writer. b. to introduce some famous meican festivals. c. to advise readers to join in the meican events. d. to criticie the bad customs of meican festivals. b one day a professor entered the classroom and ased his students to prepare for a surprise test. they waited

18、 aniously at their dess for the test to begin. the professor handed out the question paper, with the tet facing down as usual. once he handed them all out, he ased his students to turn the page and begin. to everyones surprise, there were no questions but a blac dot in the center of the page. the pr

19、ofessor seeing the epression on everyone face, told them the following, “i want you to write what you see there.”the students were confused and got started on the ineplicable ( 令人不解的 ) tas. at the end of the class the professor too all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in

20、front of all the students. all of them with no eceptions, described the blac dot, eplained its position in the middle of the sheet, imagined what the blac dot stood for and so on. after all had been read, the classroom was silent. the professor began to eplain, “i am not going to grade on you this t

21、ime. i just wanted to give you something to thin about. no one wrote about the white part of the paper. everyone focused on the blac dot and the same happens in our lives. we have a white paper to observe and enjoy, but we always focus on the dar spots. our life is filled with love and care, and we

22、always have reasons to celebrate nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles we see every day ”in fact, we insist on focusing only on the dar spotsthe health issues that bother us, the lac of money, the complicated relationship with a f

23、amily member, the disappointment with a friend, etc. tae your eyes away from the blac spots in your life. the dar spots are very small compared to everything we have in our lives, so enjoy each moment that life gives you. 24. why did the students feel confused about the test? a. the professor didnt

24、as them to prepare for the test. b. there was totally nothing on the question paper. c. it was too hard for them to answer the questions. d. they hadnt seen such an unusual question paper before. 25. which of the following is not mentioned on the students answer papers? a. the meaning of the blac do

25、t. b. the description of the blac dot. c. the white part of the paper. d. the position of the blac dot. 26. what is the professors purpose in giving this test? a. to show the students how hard the life is. b. to remind the students of the joys in life. c. to let the students now their shortcomings.

26、d. to encourage the students to study harder. 27. what does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean? a. dont pay attention to the hardship in life. b. remove the blac spots out of our life. c. dont focus on others faults but yours. d. remember you cant see all the things in life. c one of

27、 the questions surrounding climate change is how it might affect the food supply for a growing global population. a new study suggests that researchers have been overlooing how two ey human responses to climate how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plantwill affect food p

28、roduction in the future. the new study focused on the brailian state of mato grosso, an emerging （新兴的） global breadbaset （产粮地区） that as of 2013 supplied 10 percent of the worlds soybeans. the researchers used variations in temperature and precipitation（降水） across the state over an eight-year period

29、to estimate the sensitivity of the regions agricultural production to climate change. those historical comparisons can help in maing predictions about the sensitivity of agriculture to future climate change. the study found that, if the patterns from 2002 to 2008 hold in the future, an increase in a

30、verage temperature in mato grosso of just 1 degree will lead to a 9 to 13 percent reduction in overall production of soy and corn. “this is worrisome given that the temperature in the study region is predicted to rise by 2 degrees by 2050, ” said avery cohn, who led the study. most studies of this i

31、nd loo only at the etent to which climate shocs affect crop output. but researchers can miss critical dynamics（动力）that can affect overall output, says leah vanwey, one of the studys senior authors. “ if you loo at output alone, youre not looing at all of the information because there are economic an

32、d social changes going on as well,” said vanwey. if output decreases, farmers may put less land area into production because its not profitable. farmers may also vary the number of crops they plant in a growing season. double cropping is common in mato grosso. but if the weather is bad, farmers may

33、change their decision to plant a second crop. 28. the value of the new study lies in _. a. increasing the number of crops people plant b. focusing on an emerging global breadbaset c. maing predictions about human responses to climate change d. controlling people s choice of their farming area and cr

34、op numbers 29. according to avery cohn, by 2050, the overall production of soy and corn will _. a. remain almost unchanged b. decrease by more than 9% c. increase by from 9% to 13% d. decrease by more than 18% 30. what can we now about the similar studies mentioned in paragraph 3? a. they cant provi

35、de eact information to farmers. b. they dont tae into consideration some ey factors. c. their discouraging results largely affect overall crop output. d. they pay too much attention to economic and social changes. 31. what is the last paragraph mainly about? a. farmers possible reactions to climate

36、shocs. b. possible climate change in mato grosso. c. the benefits of double cropping in mato grosso. d. farmers decision on planting crops in the future. d it is believed that some of animals thin a great deal. many of them are lie children in their sports. some birds are very lively in their sports

37、; and the same is true with some insects. the ants, hardworing as they are, have their times for play. they run races; they wrestle; and sometimes they have moc fights together. very busy must be their thoughts while engaged in these sports. animals thin much while building their houses. the bird se

38、arches for what it can use in building its nest, and in doing this it thins. the beavers thin as they build their dams and their houses. they thin in getting their materials, and also in arranging them, and in plastering them together with mud. some spiders build houses which could scarcely have bee

39、n made ecept by some thining creature. as animals thin, they learn. some learn more than others. the parrot learns to tal, though in some other respects it is quite stupid. the mocing bird learns to imitate a great many different sounds. the shepherd dog does not now as much about most things as som

40、e other dogs, and yet he understands very well how to tae care of sheep. though animals thin and learn, they do not mae any real improvement in their ways of doing things, as men do. each ind of bird has its own way of building a nest, and it is always the same way. they have no new fashions, and le

41、arn none from each other. it is plain that, while animals learn about things by their senses as we do, they do not thin nearly as much about what they learn, and this is the reason why they do not improve more rapidly. even the wisest of them, as the elephant and the dog, do not thin very much about

42、 what they see and hear. nor is this all. there are some things that we understand, but about which animals now nothing. they have no nowledge of anything that happens outside of their own observation. their minds are so much unlie ours that they do not now the difference between right and wrong. 32

43、. why does the author mention that some birds and insects are very lively in their sports? a. to illustrate that some animals probably thin in the sports. b. to tell us that some birds and insects are more lively than others. c. to show us that ants are the cleverest insects in the animal ingdom. d.

44、 to attract readers by introducing some interesting facts about animals. 33. “animals thin much while building their houses” because _. a. they have to communicate with each other in getting their material b. they have to calculate something to arrange all the material c. no animals have a must to b

45、uild a “house” ecept some thining creatures d. it is unimaginable to build “ houses ” without thining wor involved 34. the underlined word plain in paragraph 5 can be replaced by _. a. flat b. clear c. vital d. reasonable 35. the author will probably agree that _. a. animals can t thin as a matter o

46、f fact b. animals can t really learn to do something c. animals can thin and learn but limitedly d. each ind of animal has their own language 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。if you stayed up or had a bad night of sleep last night, you now its difficult to stay awae

47、in class today. your teachers voice might begin to sound lie a lullaby（催眠曲） . 36 to eep yourself awae, some tips are worth trying in class. sit in the front of the room. why? 37 besides, it ll be easier to pay attention and participate when youre in the front. you ll also be near the people who are

48、more liely to participate, and the sound of their voices might eep you awae. 38 as and answer questions and pay attention to the lecture. this will help if you re tired or discouraged by the content of the lecture, because you can as your teacher questions to get to the bottom of the problems. talin

49、g will also eep you engaged and alert. it might be helpful to mae a goal for yourself to answer or as at least 3 questions per class. 39 for eample, you might say “i didn t understand the last part of the proof. could you eplain it again in more detail?”listen actively to the lesson. active listenin

50、g is a great way to force yourself to stay awae because it requires engagement of your mind as well as your body. 40 to effectively listen to your teacher, you should try to maintain eye contact, face the speaer, pay close attention to what the speaer is saying and as questions during a pause in the

51、 lecture. a. participate in class activities. b. develop interest in the subject. c. if so, classrooms can be boring because you re tired. d. eep silent all the time and try to catch as much information as possible. e. to avoid annoying your teacher you should try to eep your questions on topic. f.

52、youll be more motivated to stay awae if you now that the teacher can see you easily. g. practicing active listening can help you eep your eyes open for the length of the lesson. 第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45 分）第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30 分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的a、b、c 和 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。i, a postma

53、n, married athy twenty-eight years ago. our marriage life was filled with quarrels, swearing, throwing pots it was too much lie 41 . so i had an idea that our time as husband and 42 was about up but i didnt epect it would 43 with a fight. we were 44 at home one evening after tea, one at each end of

54、the table. i was 45 a boo, and athy just sat there. 46 she said, “i do love you, harry.” i was still in the boo and said 47 . then, “harry, loo at me.” my 48 came up, smiled and went down again to my reading. maybe i was in the wrong, and should have said something, 49 the boo was too good. “im sure

55、 all that reading s bad 50 your eyes,” she commented. i went on reading, not looing up. she added, “ my dad used to say that only fools read boos. ”the words 51 me and i couldnt resist replying, “he only said that because he didn t now how to read. he was 52 .”athy never read boos. she hated 53 lie

56、poison. she sneered (冷笑 ), “ no need to be jealous of you. weve got more sense, and too much to do. ”then i was upset, but in a 54 way, “let me read, anyway, won t you? it s an interesting boo, and im tired.”she 55 out loud, “tired? you ought to do some real wor for a change instead of 56 the street

57、s with that stupid post-bag.”she snatched the boo out of my 57 and screamed, “nothing but boos, boos, boos,” throwing the boo into the fire. this really 58 me, so i slapped (掌掴 ) her across the face, not very hard but i did. one day, a month after 59 the boo, i came bac from wor and found a note wai

58、ting for me, “i am going away and not coming bac. ”we 60 si years after we married. 41. a. living b. fighting c. complaining d. suffering 42. a. wife b. friend c. companion d. partner 43. a. begin b. go c. end d. come 44. a. sitting b. standing c. playing d. woring 45. a. writing b. editing c. revie

59、wing d. reading 46. a. humorously b. immediately c. suddenly d. hopelessly 47. a. anything b. nothing c. something d. none 48. a. face b. patience c. anger d. courage 49. a. for b. but c. as d. though 50. a. in b. to c. for d. at 51. a. scared b. hurt c. moved d. surprised 52. a. foolish b. stupid c

60、. mistaen d. jealous 53. a. me b. it c. them d. herself 54. a. mild b. secret c. normal d. practical 55. a. cried b. shouted c. spoe d. laughed 56. a. cleaning b. waling c. crossing d. running 57. a. pocet b. room c. hand d. chair 58. a. terrified b. teased c. amused d. annoyed 59. a. reading b. snatching c