2018届高三上册英语期中考试试卷真题

2018届高三上册英语期中考试试卷

一、完形填空

1. 完形填空

Angela a 28-year-old Canadian, was driving to visit friends in another city 800 kilometres away. Her kids, 5-year-old Lexi and 10-week-old Peter, were fed and the car was1with all the necessities for a road trip: toys, milk powder and snacks.

The long journey had begun to2Peter, who started to cry. Angela inserted a nursery rhyme CD into the stereo and hoped it would help3him down. The soft music had a4effect. In no time, both children became5. Angela’s eyes 6too, for just a few seconds.

When Lexi suddenly woke up, she found it was7. Airbags obsured all the windows. Lexi’s neck hurt and Peter was crying loudly. She pulled the handle of the door, but the door was8. Turning onto her side, Lexi kicked at the door9it flopped open.

That’s when Lexi 10her mother in the front seat. She tried to wake her up but Angela didn’t11. At that time Lexi found their car was on a steep hill and it was kept from12by a large tree.

Her shoes had come off, but Lexi felt no13as she climbed over glass and rocks up the embankment to the14her mother had driven off.

A driver was traveling on the highway15he saw a tiny child jumping up and

down,16her arms, crying for help. He pulled over, and the child told him her mother needed help. The driver looked around but saw17. The barefoot child pointed to the destroyed car downhill. Without 18, he ran down the hill. Twenty minutes later, an19came. Angela was rushed to the hospital.

Later that year, the Royal Canadian Humane Association awarded Lexi a Bronze Medal for20.

（1）A . coveredB . packedC . sharedD . provided（2）A . interestB . confuseC . botherD . frighten（3）A . calmB . letC . bringD . put（4）A . relaxingB . excitingC . naturalD . different（5）A . noisyB . happyC . concernedD . quiet（6）A . openedB . rolledC . closedD . brightened（7）A . dangerousB . convenientC . sunnyD . dark （8）A . brokenB . openC . stuckD . repaired（9）A . whenB . untilC . sinceD . after （10）A . witnessedB . spottedC . realizedD . remembered（11）A . returnB . respondC . lookD . speak（12）A . rolling downB . pulling overC . setting offD . getting through（13）A . stressB . angerC . painD . shame（14）A . streetB . forestC . routeD . highway（15）A . whileB . whenC . beforeD . until（16）A . raisingB . wavingC . clappingD . stretching（17）A . nobodyB . somebodyC . anybodyD . everybody（18）A . complainingB . regrettingC . wonderingD . hesitating（19）A . carB . truckC . ambulanceD . lorry（20）A . strengthB . intelligenceC . kindnessD . bravery二、阅读理解

2. 阅读理解

Whether you have a piece of land or a few pots on a balcony, plant a family garden: You’ll all live healthier! Gardening is an easy activity to share and you’ll harvest benefits along with your fresh vegetables, colorful flowers,

and aromatic herbs. Even better, you don’t have to wait for your plants to bloom to see those benefits.

When parents and kids work together to plant and care for a garden, they can all enjoy these benefits:

Physical activity: Gardening and yard work are mild exercise, which we all need every day . While tending your family garden doesn’t requ ire the intense activity of running or playing singles tennis, it’s still beneficial to your health. For one thing, research shows that once you start gardening, you usually continue for more than 30 minutes. And gardening combines delicate skill strengthening and stretching.

Lower stress, better mood: Gardening is excellent stress relief for good reasons: enjoying fresh air and sunlight, performance of relaxing tasks, and even contact with harmless bacteria in the soil that helps release serotonin in the brain.

Outdoor time: Children prefer spending a lot of time indoors, which can negatively affect their behavior and health. A family garden gets them outside enjoying and experiencing the natural world.

（1）What does the author think of gardening?

A . Too strong work

B . Proper exercise

C . Time waste

D . Special skills required

（2）Which of the following isn’t the reason for gardening to relieve stress?

A . Keeping one’s brain fit.

B . Enjoying fresh air.

C . Getting farm

experienceD . Performing simple and easy act

（3）What can be learned from the passage?

A . Those who have plants on a balcony don’t need a garden.

B . Some bacteria help to build up one’s brain.

C . Gardening helps to drive cars.

D . Bad behavior results from staying indoors too long.

3. 阅读理解

I remember that it was a fall morning when the orchestra teachers came into Miss Newell’s third-grade classroom. “You have hands for the viola ,” Miss Ciano told me. I was excited because my hands were finally good for something. I told my parents I wanted to play, and naturally, they agreed.

Since I first touched the viola, I haven’t been able to put it down. Ignoring the difficulty, I am pulled closer to it each day.

Classical music is truly my best friend. It is the trusted friend of every man, woman and child. Various feelings are expressed in classical music. I discovered that when I was eleven and played a Bach cello concerto in a competition, the first movement was joyful, but the second movement was mysterious and full of pain. From that piece, I learned that music expressed not only feelings, but also sudden mood changes. By listening to classical music, I know that someone else share these feelings. Since I am lucky enough to be able to play classical music, I am comforted when I am upset. It gives me a way to escape from my problems for a short period. Classical music can express my joy, sadness and anger.

Now look at that fall day and think how gullible I was for believing that

anyone, even music teachers, could tell if hands were perfect for a certain instrument. I’m certain they told me I had “viola hands” not because they were fortune-teller, but because there was a lack of violists in our district. Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it will become your friend for life.

（1）What’s the author’s purpose in writing the first two paragraphs?

A . To introduce an interesting musical class.

B . To show the importance of proper guide.

C . T o offer the evidence of her gift for music.

D . To tell the power of support from parents and teachers.

（2）According to the passage, in what way does classical music help the author?

A . Developing social skills.

B . Broadening life experience.

C . Promoting menial health.

D . Building close relationship.

（3）Which of the words has the similar meaning to “gullible” in the last paragraph?

A . firmly opposed

B . easily tricked

C . greatly affected

D . secretly hidden

（4）Which could be the best title for the passage?

A . Lifetime dream, great effort

B . Happy childhood, unforgotten experience

C . Special event, sweet memory

D . Classical music, endless passion

4. 阅读理解

A national study led by a Michigan State University scholar finds that the course students take have powerful effects on the friendships they make.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Sociology, indicate the

patterns of course-taking are different in each high school. In one school, for example, friendships may form among students taking woodshop, Spanish or European history, while in another it may be among students taking agricultural business management, advanced accounting and calculus .

“People generally want to think that kids are choosing their friends by joining groups such as the football club and they do the same al every school,” said Kenneth Frank, professor in MSU’s College of Education.” But our argument is that the opportunities an adolescent has to choose friends are guided by the courses the adolescent takes and the other students who take the courses with them. Moreover, the pattern of opportunities differs from school to school.”

Students were more likely to make friends in small classes. Friendships were more likely to be created in Latin and woodshop, for example, than in a large physical education class that is required of everyone in a particular grade.

The findings means a lot to school administrators as well. “Schools that simply offer classes without thought for mixing up high- and low-achieving students run the risk of driving them apart socially and a cademically,” Frank said. To prevent this, he said schools could better highlight the value of certain academic subjects, such as math, and also group students together so the low-achievers have high-achievers in their classes potentially throughout high s chool. “This would give the students in the lower group encouragement or make others who could be there as a marker to help them move along.”

（1）According to Kenneth Frank, people generally consider that .

A . teenage friendships are decided by their similar interest

B . kids are more likely to make friends with well-known players.

C . different stories about teenage friendships happen in every school.

D . those enthusiasts about football are the most popular among teenagers.

（2）What will Kenneth Frank’s group probably agree with?

A . What course a student takes will totally determine his friendship.

B . Students who take the same course can easily develop friendships.

C . Whether a teenage friendship can last is affected by the other students.

D . Patterns of course-taking are the same in every high school.

（3）What’s the advantage of students in small classes?

A . They can focus more on how to be as cool as possible.

B . They are more likely to be affected by others, appearances.

C . They can make friends regardless of understanding of each other.

D . They can make friends more easily than in large ones.

（4）Which of the following is NOT the purpose of Kenneth Frank s advice?

A . To stop low-achieving students from falling behind academically.

B . To encourage low-achieving students to work hard and move along.

C . To prevent .low-achieving students from socializing with the others too much.

D . To prevent distinguishing high-achieving students from low-achieving ones.

5. 阅读理解

What makes you grow? While rolling many ideas around in my head to write this piece. I narrowed my focus a bit and chose: family and sense of purpose.

My family keeps me excited to be alive-beginning the day with a morning kiss from the man I love. He is there to listen and guide, to laugh and sigh, to explore and relax, and to make each day meaningful. Together we have three delightful children. Even though they have caused various gray hairs over the years, they have also provided love and laughter.

Friends fall into the family category as well. Although they are not cut of the same cloth, they are part of the same quilt. True friends are often as giving .and maybe even more giving as family. Even though our friends enter our life later than our family, strong relation exists. In fact, sometimes friends know us better than family.

The second drive is a sense of purpose. While impossible to describe, it is very easy to picture as we think of even thing of value that touches us. A purpose may be a happy family, home life, and so on. Actually in most cases it is a combination of all these as they affect our lives deeply.

Purpose is new, fresh, exciting and always changing. You’re taking up the same job each day except sometimes challenged. I always wanted to be a teacher, for example, and I chose junior high French. However, over the years my tasks changed so that I had various opportunities to teach K-12 and beyond in a wide range of subjects, levels and school districts. I remained in the same profession for more than 40 years but never in the same setting.

（1）What did the author do before writing the article?

A . She chose her own family as the main topic for writing.

B . She studied many families in detail for some ideas.

C . She took some concerned drives into

consideration.D . She had a quick mind in writing.

（2）What’s the author’s attitude to her marriage?

A . Curious.

B . Puzzled.

C . Pessimistic.

D . Satisfied.

（3）What is the closest meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?

A . Though not born into a family, friends are considered life mates.

B . Friends wear different clothes but sleep on the same bed.

C . A friend in need is a friend indeed.

D . Blood is thicker than water.

（4）What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A . Everyone has his own purpose.

B . Purpose needs to be flexible.

C . Teachers must be knowledgeable.

D . Teaching is very difficult in America.

三、语法填空

6. 语法填空

Have you ever thought about the best meal you have ever eaten? For many people, it isn’t just about the quality of the food; it’s also about great memories of a particular vacation or the person it was shared ________. We asked 100 famous chefs from around the world ________their best meals were, and we got some________ answers.

As the researchers expected, 30% of the chefs________ said that their best meal as a kid was still what they liked the most as an adult. 20% ________ a meal in a fancy restaurant as the best one in their lives, and another 10% said that a meal while on vacation with their wife________husband was the best of all time. 15% said that a simple meal that they often cooked at home ranked________

than any other meal, and the same number said that their best dish was something they make where they work.________, 10% of these chefs said that their favorite meal of their entire lives was at a fast food restaurant! These best________ in the world would pick McDonald’s or KFC if they had the choice of what ________.

四、任务型阅读

7. 任务型阅读

Reasons why you should travel while you’re young

I have been very lucky to travel around the world while still young. According to my experiences, I advise every young person to get out of his hometown and see what’s out there. Here are three ways that traveling has changed me forever.

Traveling changes the way you connect with the world

I grew up in a small town.________. When you travel to other countries and see the amazing beauty of sunsets over seas, monkeys swinging through rainforests, you realize the world is-full of more beauty than you are able to see in a lifetime. But, you still want to try.

Traveling changes the way you connect with others

Everyone in my hometown looked and acted basically the same.________. I realized that my life could be enriched by developing friendships with people who didn’t look or act like me. Far from my hometown, I developed friendships with people who were nothing like me, but were exactly what I needed.________.

Traveling helps develop your interest in education

________. Just reading the stories in books seemed so boring to me. However, when I visited the Palace of Versailles in France and walked in the halls of the Louvre. I couldn’t help but have interest in history.________.

A. Traveling taught me, not to fear.

B. Traveling makes history come alive.

C. Sadly, I never liked history in school.

D. When I traveled, I learned a lot about other cultures.

E. It also taught me the importance of communication skills.

F. The older I become, the more 1 realize I actually know very little about life.

G. If I hadn’t the chance to travel, I would have a different time imagining much else outside my hometown.

五、短文改错

8. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1).每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2).只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I went to London for a visit two weeks before. While walked in Hyde Park one morning, I found an ID card of a Frenchman on the ground. There is

nobody around, so I figured that it was best to pick them up. The moment I got back to my hotel, I searched for the owners online, and found a Facebook account that exact matched his picture. It was happened that his phone number was in the account, but I sent him a message with a photo of the ID card. He wrote back to me with no time. And next day he picked up the ID card from the hotel’s front desk.

六、书面表达

9. 假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Peter在给你的信中提到他最近在准备期中考试，心理压力很大，内心很苦恼，希望得到你的帮助。请你给他回信，内容包括：

1)给对方安慰；

2)分析心理压力过大会导致的后果；

3)给出相应的建议及其理由。

注意：1)词数100个左右；2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,

I’m sorry to learn that

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua