1、- 1 -吴起高级中学 2018-2019 学年第一学中期考试高三英语试卷第一卷(选择题 共三部分)注意事项：请将答案正确填写在答题卡上。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，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. Who might Sam be? A. A baby. B. A pet. C. A toy.2. What did the woman do last night? A. She stayed at
2、home. B. She went to a party. C. She saw a doctor.3. Where are the speakers? A. At a party. B. In a store. C. In their new house.4. What does the woman mean? A. Her sister loves villages. B. Tom makes a mistake. C. She likes her sister. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A picture. B.
3、 A holiday. C. A sport.第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分) 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. What happened to the man? A. He broke a machine. B. The machine owed him 25 cents.C. The machine owner refused to help
4、him.- 2 -7. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Call the police. B. Rock the machine. C. Call the number on the machine. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Why is the mans blue shirt no longer suitable for him? A. Hes put on much weight. B. He thinks its old. C. Hes grown taller.9. What does the woman thi
5、nk of the man? A. Lucky. B. Busy. C. Lazy.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. How many showers has the man taken today? A. One. B. Two. C. Three.11. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Clean up the bathroom. B. Learn more about cities. C. Take a quick shower.12. What did Michael tell the woman? A. Wat
6、er supply in cities is endless. B. Water shortage happens everywhere.C. Its no good taking more than one shower a day.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Why does the woman come to Manchester? A. To watch a concert. B. To visit a friend. C. To give a performance.14. How did the woman feel when she first sang
7、 in public? A. Nervous. B. Happy. C. Disappointed.15. Where will the woman go tonight? - 3 -A. To theatres. B. To clubs. C. To bars.16. Who is Dean? A. The womans boyfriend. B. A club owner. C. A newspaper reporter.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What does Carl think of his music life? A. Interesting. B
8、. Helpful. C. Worthwhile.18. What is Carls problem at the moment? A. He finds it hard to succeed. B. Hes tired of working early. C. He lacks time to write songs.19. Why would Carl go to a quiet place? A. To be free from his work. B. To focus on his songwriting.C. To gain some life experience.20. How
9、 would Carl probably enjoy himself if he had no work to do? A. By going shopping. B. By talking with friends. C. By traveling around the world.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节：（共 15 分小，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，并在答题卡上将该答案涂黑。ABasketball Statistician Help WantedThe Athletic Departm
10、ent is looking for students to help assist staff during the Fall 2016,Winter 2016-17 and Spring 2017 semesters. Students in this position will be keeping live statistics during basketball games.Students must meet all of the following requirements:Good computer skillsAvailable evenings and weekendsKn
11、owing basketball rules and statistics- 4 -Students interested in working for the Athletic Department should contact the Athletic Coordinator at their respective(各自的) campuses.TP/SS Athletic Coordinator,Michael Simone,240-567-1308Rockville Athletic Coordinator,Jorge Zuniga,240-567-7589Springfield Ath
12、letic coordinator,Gary Miller,240-567-2273Germantown Athletic Coordinator,Gavri Chavan,240-567-691521.When will the job start?A. In May 2016 B. In September 2016 C. In May 2017 D. In September201722.Who is more likely to get job?A. Molly, part time programmer, high school basketball player, new moth
13、erB. Sam, English major, member of the college basketball teamC.Judy,IT staff with night classes,childrens basketball team coachD.Ted,computer major,basketball fan,free on evenings and weekends23. Whom should you contact if you want to apply for the job in Rockville?A.Michael B. Gavri C. Jorge D.Gar
14、yBLaptop computers are popular all over the worldPeople use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotelsThese laptops connect people to their workplaceIn the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer progr
15、am that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they wantWithin five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptopThe laptops are part of a 10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old collegeThe students with laptops will also have access to the InternetIn addit
16、ion, they will be able to use e-mail to “speak” with their teachers, their classmates, and their familiesHowever, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labsThey can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or und
17、er the treesanywhere at - 5 -all!Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workableAs laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computersIn addition, the portable computers can connect students to
18、 not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resourcesState higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help studentsState officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computersThe laptops will al
19、low all teachers to use computers in their lessonsAs one Westlake teacher said, “ Here we are in the middle of Virginia and were giving students a window on the worldThey can see everything and do everything.”24The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to _.A. connect t
20、hem to libraries B. access the InternetC. work at home D. use for their schoolwork25Which of the following is true about Westlake College?A. All teachers use computers B.1500 students have laptops.C. It is an old college in America D. Students there can do everything.26A window on the world in the l
21、ast paragraph means that students can _.Aattend lectures on information technology Btravel around the worldChave free laptops Dget information from around the world27. What can we infer from the passage?A. The program is successful B. The program is not workable.C. The program is too expensive D. We
22、 dont know the result yet.CYou may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But did you know there is such a thing as a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No. - 6 -They are just Chinese people lik
23、e you and me.ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-lo
24、oking like a Chinese.Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them dont speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are
25、overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people
26、 of the Peoples Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang (杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.28. “ABC” in this text stands for “_”.A. Chinese born in America B. a kind of bananaC. three English l
27、etters D. Americans born in China29. Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because _.A. their bodies are white inside but yellow outsideB. they were born in China but go to study in AmericaC. they think like Westerners but look like Chinese D. they are Chinese who look like banana
28、s30. C. N. Yang is mentioned here to show that _.A. American Chinese are great B. American Chinese are not Chinese citizens C. Chinese people can win Nobel Prizes D. we love American Chinese- 7 -31This text is mainly about _.A. different kinds of bananas B. the life story of C. N. YangC. the Nobel P
29、rize D. overseas Chinese DWhere do the turtles go?Every summer, thousands of endangered green sea turtles climb onto beaches around the world. Each mother sea turtle produces 100 or more eggs in a hole, and covers the hole with sand before she swims away.Two months later, the eggs hatch(孵化), and the
30、 baby turtles climb out of the sand and swim into the ocean. They dont reappear until they have grown as large as dinner plates. Until now, no one knows where the baby turtles go or what they do.“If we dont know where these little turtles are, we cant protect them,” says Kim Reich, who helps solve p
31、art of the mystery.Her teacher, Karen Bjorndal, has studied green sea turtles for more than 30 years. Every year, Bjorndal goes to the Bahamas Islands. Many young sea turtles come here to live and eat at the end of their childhood.These turtles are the only sea turtles that live as plant eaters. In
32、fact, their name may be a result of what they eat. The turtles dont look green but they do have green fat. Scientists learned that the turtles eat green sea plants, which may turn their fat green.Between 2002 and 2004, Bjorndal caught 44 green sea turtles in the Bahamas. After testing them, she foun
33、d something to support the 20-year-old idea: baby green sea turtles eat meat before they turn to a diet of plants. In fact, they eat animals that live in the open ocean.Scientists still need to find where exactly green sea turtles grow. We now know that baby green sea turtles are out in the open oce
34、an, but the open ocean is a big place.- 8 -“It is really a problem,” says Bjorndal. The discovery may help us do a better job of protecting this sea animal.32. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?A. Baby turtles go to the ocean when they are two months old.B. Mother turtles leave the egg
35、s alone after they produce them.C. No one knows when turtles appear on the beach.D. Mother turtles are as large as dinner plates.33. Kim Reich does research on where baby turtles go because she wants to _.A. help her teacher B. prove an ideaC. protect turtles D. become a scientist34. What does the u
36、nderlined word “It” in the last paragraph refer to?A. Finding out where young turtles grow.B. Protecting this endangered sea animal.C. Changing young turtles eating habits.D. Living in the open ocean.35. What does Karen Bjorndals research prove about green sea turtles?A. the young live in the Bahama
37、s Islands.B. The young eat meat before turning to a diet of plantsC. They live in the open ocean for a lifelong timeD. They are the only sea turtles that live as plant eaters.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。There is an old Spanish saying which states,
38、 “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.“ How many times have we put off our dreams until tomorrow? 36 We have to go for them now!Tomorrow is not promised.Nobody likes to talk about death, but everybody is going to die at one point. None of us know the day or the hour. 37 Dont go to your tom
39、b with unrealized dreams. Make the decision to go after every dream, big or small right - 9 -now.38. One of the biggest dream killers is fear. Many people could have achieved amazing things if only they werent afraid. Just think about all the things youve wanted to do, but allowed fear to convince y
40、ou that you werent capable, or good enough. Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Choose not to let fear stop you from achieving your dreams.Take action to realize your dream.You can dream about writing a great play but its never going to happen unless you actually put pen to pap
41、er. You can dream about finding a cure for cancer, but it will never happen unless you actually become equipped with the necessary tools to find that cure. 39. Possibilities are waiting on you.There are so many amazing opportunities and people waiting on you. How do you get to them? Simple! Follow y
42、our dream. 40 Youll never see those doors if you sit around waiting on a dream to happen, instead of actually working to make it happen.A. In other words, dreams dont work unless you do.B. Dont let fear win.C. Therefore, today is all we have.D. Our dreams should not, and cannot wait.E. Doors that yo
43、u couldnt imagine open up when you go after what you want.F. You were born into the world with a unique gift, which nobody can copy.G. Youll be much happier if you go for it.第三部分 完形填空（共 20 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）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。In the United States there was
44、 an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic (技工). One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl 41 to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl 42_ the mother would - 10 -not return to her eggs and she 43 to take them home. There she carefully 44 the eggs in th
45、e heat of a lamp. Several days 45 the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the 46 .Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother. 47, to these young geese, the girl was their mother.As they 48, the girl was able to 49 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not
46、teach them to50. The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when 51 and in her dreams. Later, she had an 52: She would fly a plane to guide them in 53 . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled (组装) a small aircraft for her.Caring about 54 safety, the father decided to fly the pl
47、ane himself. However, the birds did not 55 or follow him, and 56 slept in the grass.One day, the girl 57into the plane, started it and soon left the 58. Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds 59 flapped (拍打) their wings and 60. She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.
48、41. A. managed B. happened C. tried D. supposed42. A. admitted B. expected C. imagined D. realized 43. A. decided B. helped C. afforded D. meant44. A. treated B. protected C. placed D. examined45. A. ago B. later C. out D. long46. A. family B. lake C. world D. home 47. A. But B. Also C. Still D. Thus 48. A. grew B. improved C. rose D. increased49. A. ask B. allow
