安徽省滁州市定远县育才学校2019届高三英语上学期入学考试试题（实验班）

1、定远育才学校2018-2019学年第一学期入学考试高三实验班英语全卷满分150分,考试用时120分钟第I卷（选择题100分）第一分 听力（共20题，每小题1. 5分，共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，从题屮所给的A、B、C三个选项屮选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来冋答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.Where does the conversation probably take place?A.In a bookstore.B. Tn a classroom.C. Tn a

2、 library.2.At what timewill the film begin?A.7:20.B. 7:15.C. 7:00.3.What are thetwo speakers mainly talking about?A.Their friendJane.B. A weekend trip.C. A radio programme.4.A.Catch a train.B. See the man off.C Go shopping.o.Whydid the woman apologize?A.Shemade a late delivery.B.Shewent to the wrong

3、 place.C.Shecouldn t take the cake back.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）What wi11 the woman probably do?从题中所给的A、B、C三个听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有儿个小题，选项屮选出最佳选项，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。每段对话或独口读两遍。听下面一段对话，冋答第6和第7题。()6. Whose CD is broken?A. Kathy s.B. Mum s.C()7. What does the b

4、oy promise to do for the girl?Buy her a new CD. B. Do somen cleaning C Give her 10 dollars.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9题。()8. What did the man think of the meal?Just so-so.B. Quite satisfactory.C. A bitdisappointing.()9. What was the 15% on the b订1 paid for?The food.B. The drinks.C. The service.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12

5、题。()10.Why is the man at the shop?A.To order a camera for his wife.B.To have a camera repairedC.To get a camera changed()11.What color does the man want?A.Pink.B. Black.C. Orange.()12.What wil1 the man do afterwards?A.Make a phone cal1B.Wait until further noticeC.Come again the next day.听下面一段对话，回答第1

6、3至第16题。()13. What would Joe probably do during the Thanksgiving hoiiday?Go to a play.B Stay at home C Visit Kingston.()14. What is Ariel going to do in Toronto?Attend a partyB. Meet her aunt.C See a car show.()15. Why is Ariel in a hurry to leave?A. To cal 1 up Betty. B. To buy some DVDs. C. To pick

7、 up Danie 1.()16. What might be the relationship between the speakers?A. ClassmateB. Fellow workersC Guide andtourists.听下面一段对话，回答第17至第20题。17.A.In the Guinness Company.B.At a radio station.C.In a museum.18.Where did the idea of a book ofrecords come from?Where does Thomas binning work?A bird-shooting

8、 trip.A visit to Europe.C.A television talk show.19.When did Sir Hugh s first bookofrecords appear?A.In 1875.B. In 1950.C. In 1955.20.What are the two speakers goingtotalk about next?A.More records of unusual facts.B.The founder of the company.C.The oldest person in the world.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（

9、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）屮，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I m learning to drive in Switzerland. I think it will be a good idea to learn now because T have plenty of free time and am earning a little money to pay for lessons.I never learnt when I lived in the UK, so luckily driving on the wron

10、g” side isn t a problem.However, there are a lot of rules to remember. When you see a road to your right and there are no white lines on the ground, the cars to your right have the right to go before your car and you have to stop for them. Tn practice, lots of people forget this and cars either wait

11、 for each other while both drivers try to remember what to do, or beep (鸣喇叭)at each other if both try to go at the same time!When you drive round a roundabout, you should chock all your mirrors. To remember how to do this, I often cou nt them aloudone, two, threet hen a seco nd glance at your blind

12、spot when you，re in the roundabout. One friend came driving with me and after about an hour asked why on earth I was counting. He had passed his test so long ago, he couldn， t remember ever having to check three mirrors!Driving still seems scary to me so I drive quite slowly. I also don t know the c

13、ountryside roads very well and don t know what s coming up round the comer or over the next hill. T drive si owl y so T feel safe, but my dri v ing instructor tel 1 s me to speed up or cars will bump into me from behind or try to overtake somewhere dangerous. So driving slowly is just as dangerous a

14、s driving fast!I m not a very practical person so learning to drive has been a challengc. I don t have a lot of confidence and find it quite demotivating to do some thing that doesn t come naturally to me. To make driving more fun and in teres ti ng, I learn in Swiss German, so my instructor gives m

15、e instructions in Swiss This way I? ve tricked myself into enjoying driving and hopefully wi11 pass the test!What can be inferred from the first paragraph?It isn t a proper time for the author to take driving lessons now.Driving on the uwrong side” doesn，t influenee the author.The author was too poo

16、r to pay for driving lessons in Switzerland.D It is easy for the author to get conf used about the driving rules in Swi tzerla nd.The author often co.unts “one, two, threev aloud when driving round a roundaboutto .A. remind himself to check the mirrors B. speed upovertake somewhere dangerousD. make

17、driving more interestingWhat does the underlined word demotivating” in Paragraph 5 mean?A. Encouraging. B AmazingC. Exciting.D. Discouraging.What is the text mainly about?Driving speedStrict driving instructorsC Anecdotes of my driving experience.Complicated driving rules in SwitzerlandBOver the pas

18、t century, an alarming number of animals have become endangered or even ext i net. Be 1 ow are some ani ma Is whose nu mbers have bee n rap idly dropp ing in reco nt years.Panda BearOne of the biggest reasons contri buting to the decline in the panda species is the destruction of its natural habitat

19、 Farmers in China have gradually been claiming more and more of the land. As a result, pan das are forced to move away to places where it is hard to find bamboo for food.Green TurtleThe green sea turtle species has survived for several mil 1 ions of years, so you might wonder why it，s only becoming

20、endangered now. A major cause is the change in climate and temperature, which both affect the hatching rates of turtle eggs Climate changes also cause violent weather and rising water levels to flood areas where turtles usually go to lay their eggs. Apart from this, oil spills and other poisonous po

21、llution, as wel 1 as increased fishing activities can cause sickness, or even death to the green turtles CheetahCheetahs are famous for being the fastest animal on land but even they can t run from some of the larger threats that have harmed them. Like the panda bears, cheetahs have gradually been l

22、osing their natural homes due to huma.ns claiming land and developing in those areas. To make matters even worse, smaller animals move away when these areas are occupied, which means that the cheetah has less food! Don， t forget that other large animals, such as lions, are also fighting for any food

23、 that they can find, so occasionally young cheetahs end up as prey too.Tndi an ElephantElephants are extremely intel 1igent animals and al so the largest mammals that live on land Sadly, in Asia many elephants were killed so that people could remove their tusks to use as decorative objects. While th

24、is practice has been banned now, some people still illegally continue. Forests in India have also been steadily destroyed and elephants are sometimes killed when they end up on human territory.Humans increasing demand for land doesn, t affect the number of .Indian elephantsB cheetahspanda bears D. g

25、reen turtlesWe can save the largest mammals living on land by .planting more bambooshelping them find matesstopping hunting themD preventing poisonous pollution21. The living conditions of the fastest animal on land become worse becauseforests have been destroyedthey are threatened by humans and lar

26、ger animalsC people are fond of hunting wild animalsno law bans people from removing their tuskscEveryone knows that if a dog s ears are up and its tai 1 is wagging energetical ly, it is definitely pleased to see you. but now scientists using a robot have found that the way dogs use their tails is m

27、ore complicated th an we thought, and that dogs which w.ag them to the left may he more friendly. The animal psychologists discovered that when real dogs approached a life-sized robot dog, they were less cautious about it when it was wagging its tai 1 to the left, whlie if it was wagging its tai 1 t

28、o the right, far fewer dogs approached it in a confident manner.In the first experiments, 56 percent of the animaIs approached the model without hesitation when the tail was wagged to the left, while only 21 percent did so in the other situation. When the researchers excluded（排除）owners from being pr

29、esent, the result were: 31 percent of the dogsapproached continuously when the tail was wagging to the left, whi1e only 18 percent did so when it was on the rightAnimal psychologist Roger Mugford said it added to the growing evidence that does were even more complicated comm unicators than the anima

30、ls more closely related to man such as mon keys. He said, We know that dogs, in a sense, have languages, but it is more complicated because it is not just them wagging their tails, but also giving out chemical displays”He adds, “The research confirms earlier studies suggesting that dogs, like humans

31、, had a left-side preference. If you are going to present a signal to a dog, it is sensible to put it on your left-hand side because that is where dogs, uni ike most other animals, tend to look It is another example of the similarity betwe en dogs and humans. They are a lot more human than we give t

32、hem credit for”What does it tell us if a dog wags its tail to the right?A. It was very energeticB. It was in a bad moodIt might be unfriendly D. It must be confidentWhat can be inferred from the second paragraph?Some dogs approach the robot dog confidentlyMost dogs were afraid to approach the robot

33、dogSome dogs lack confidence with their owners presentD Dog owners may influence the behaviour of their petsWhat can we learn from animal psychologist s experiments?Dogs can communicate more than human beingsDogs have more complicated emotions than monkeysDogs tail-wagging conveys more information t

34、han previously believedD Dogs intelligence can be much higher than any other kind of animalWhat can we infer from Roger Mugfords words?A. The Left-side preferenee should be studied furtherB Dogs have more in common with humans than we thinkNo other animals show the left-side preference except dogsDo

35、gs have a more complicated 1anguage than we people doDThe Amazing Penguin RescueThe summer of 2016, the ship MV Treasure sunk, creating an oil spill. Thirteen hundred tons of fuel oil were flowing right in the middle of the African Penguins habitat. Soon the oi 1 covered about 20, 000 penguins. With

36、out swift help, the seabirds would have no chanee for surviva 1 Volunteers were showing up by the thousands and I also took part in what was the largest animal rescue operation ever.A warehouse was turned into a rescue center near the habitat and hundreds of pools were built to hold about 100 oiled

37、birds each. When walking into .the center, I couldiV t bel ieve my ears. T had expected to walk into a chorus of honking and squawking（叫声） Instead, the center sounded like a library. The penguins were dead silent. My heart ached for the painful birds. Cleaning them al 1 seemed like an impossible tas

38、k But we had to carry on like doctors in an emergency room There was no time for doubt. Cleaning oil off a penguin wast easy- Even with more than 12, 500 volunteers, it took a month to bathe al 1 20, 000 birds at the center.While volunteers were busy bathing the oiled penguins, another crisis （危机）wa

39、s developing. Oil from the spill had started moving north Tens of thousands of penguins were in the oil s path But we already had our hands full with 20,000 recovering birds. If any more birds were oiled, we wouldn t have eno ugh resources to save them.One researcher came up with an idea: What if th

40、e penguins were temporari 1 y moved out of harm s way? Experts decided to have a try. Volunteers rounded up the penguins and released them 500 miles away. The hope was that by the time the seabirds swam home, the oil would be gone The plan worked! Another 20,000 penguins were savedThe entire penguin

41、 rescue took about three months. More than 90% of the oiled penguins were successful 1y returned to the wi1d. Looking back on the rescue, I am still amazed by the work of the volunteers What I could hardly believe was that we accomplished an impossible taskThe African penguins were in danger because

42、 of .A. a knock by a ship B. a spill of oilC. a change of habitats D. a lack of helpWhen walking into the rescue center, the author felt.A ambitious B. hopelessC shocked D inspiredThe crisis was ended bv stopping the flow of the oi 1cleaning the polluted habitatasking more volunteers to helpmoving t

43、he penguins from homeThe author mainly intends to tell us that .many hands make great workwhere there is a will there is a waythe future of wildlife is in our handsD unite to make the earth pollution-free 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。根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入

44、空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。In the 60s, people asked about your astrological （about star） sign In the 90s, they want to know your website. 36. Your website is an electronic meeting place for your family, friends and potentially, mi 11 ions of people around the world. Best of all, you may not have to spend

45、a cent. The Web is filled with al 1 kinds of free services and all it takes is some time and creativity.Like the table of contents of a book or magazine, the home page is the front door. Your site can have one or more pages, depending on how you design it.While web pages vary greatly in their design

46、 and content, most use a traditional magazine layout （J板面设计） At the top of the page is a bariner （横I）GRAPHIC Next comes a. greeting and short description of the site. Pictures, text, and links to other websites followThink about whom the site is for and what you want t.o say. Next, gather up the mat

47、erial that you want to put on the site.While, there are no rules you have to fol low, there are a few things to keep in mind: 39. If you want too much at the begirming, you may never get the site off the ground. You can always add to your site.Less is better. Most people don t like to read a lot of

48、long texts online. 40.Smaller is better. Since it can take a long time to download 1 arge fi les, keep the file sizes small.Have the rights. Don t put any material on your site unless you are sure you can do it legally. Always remember to get the permission from the writer first Now it s time to rol

49、l up your sleeves and start building.St art simply.Break it into small piecesDraw a rough layout on a sheet of paper.D Many websites are considered very interestingBefore you start building your site, do some planning.Think of your home page as the starting point of your website.G These days, having

50、 a web address is almost as important as a street address. 第三部分 英语知识运用（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）Over the last 15 years, as a doctor, I have had heart-to-heart conversations with countless patients near the end of their lives. The most common emotion they express is41 And that s42I cam

51、e up with a project to encourage people to write a43to their loved ones. It/ s a lesson I learned years ago from a memorab1e44patient.He was a retired45with a cancer. Every day, his46spent many hours watching him watch television. She explained to me he had never been much of a47in their 50-plus yea

52、rs of marriage. But he seemed quite48to share his ideas with me, 49when it became clear his days were50. He spoke of his deep regre t for not having spent eno ugh time with his wife, and of his greatSlin his son, who had joined the Navy in his father s footst.eps One afternoon, when I mentioned thes

53、e52to his wife and son, they looked disbelievingly at each other. They thanked me for being so kind but53my patient was uniikely to express such feel ings. To make sure his fami ly could hear his54, T took my video camera with me the next morning and with the patients，55, recorded an open letter fro

54、m him to his family. When I gave them the561etter, both his wife and sonwere moved to tears.The experi e nce57my let ter projec t, wh ich can help peopl e complete their 1 i f e revi ew tasks: remembering to those we may have hurt;58those who have hurt us and saying I love you” . It may take much co

55、urage to write a 1 ife review letter For some people, it59deep and troubling emotions. 50it may be the most important letter you will ever write.41. A. gratitudeD. affection42 A. becauseD. howA. noteletterA. .dyingC unconscious45 A. merchantI), soldierA. familywifeA. husbandD. companionA. willingC.

56、embarrassedA. speciallyC exact 1 yA. numberedD completedA. satisfact 1 onC concernA. commentsC cxplanationsB. regretB. whyB.billD.sentenceB. weakD silentB. workerB.daughterB. loverC.apologyC. whenC officialC. sonC talkerB.disturbingD. deightedB. especiallyD.graduallyB diedC. endedB. prideD comp la i

57、ntB decisionsD.promises53. A. deniedB. disbelievedC. insistedD. realized54. A. sorrowB.anxietyC. wishD. love55. A. desireB. permissionC.requestD. assistance56. A. tapedB. typedC writ tenD.unopened57. A. raisedB. inspiredC. provedD. welcomed58.A.acknowledgingB forgettingC. hurtingD.forgiving59. A. calls forB.calls o