2014-2015丰台区高三第一学期期末英语试卷

丰台区2014~2015学年度第一学期期末练习高三英语2015.1第二部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）21. I missed supper_______I’m starving!A．but B．and C.or D.for22. The doctor asked him___________ the amount of salt in his diet.A. to reduceB. reduceC. reducedD. reducing23. Facebook is a place where you can share _________is going on in your life with friends.A. howB. whetherC. whoD. what24. She _________the sign language before she served as a volunteer to help the deaf.A. learnsB. has learnedC. was learningD. had learned25．-______you___ TV at the moment?-No. You can turn it off.A. Did; watch B．Are; watching C. Do; watch D. Have; watched26. I 'll wear a red jacket________ you can see me easily.A. in caseB. so thatC. now that D．if only27. With my mother's________ words in my mind, I never doubt I'll succeed.A. inspiredB. inspireC.inspiringD.to inspire28. His mother made Greg orange juice every day, _______would help his recovery.A. whichB. whoC. whenD. that29.______ in the training, Marbury couldn't play in the basketball season.A.InjuringB.InjureC.InjuredD.To injure30. They reached the top of the mountain__________ they could see the highway wandering before them.A. which B．why C. whose D. where31. -Can we sit at the table by the window?-I'm sorry, but it_______ alreadyA. has takenB. has been takenC. was takenD. took32. Judging from his accent, he_______ be from Australia.A. needn'tB. mustn'tC. can'tD. wouldn't33.People planted trees on the waste hills_________ water and soil loss.A. to decreaseB. decreasingC. decreasedD. decrease34. They met for the first time, but they talked happily as if they______ good friends for a long time.A. have beenB. were C．are D. had been35. Don't put your bicycle______ the window. The glass can be easily broken.A.againstB. with C．beyond D．for第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）Bobby was getting cold sitting in his backyard in the snow. His shoes had a few holes and did a poor job of keeping out the__36____. He had been out for about an hour already, ___37__ he could not come up with an idea for his mother' s Christmas gift. He had no money to spend.Ever since his father had passed away three years ago, the family had ___38___ The small wage of her mother could___39___ make ends meet.What the family lacked in _____40___ they made up for in love. Bobby' s sisters, clever with hands, had already____41___ beautiful gifts for their mother by themselves. But Bobby had nothing. Here it was Christmas Eve already.Standing up, Bobby walked to the street. It wasn't _____42__ being six without a father, especially when he needed a man to talk to. He walked from shop to shop. Everything seemed so beautiful and so out of_____43___.It was getting dark and Bobby turned to walk home when_____44__ his eyes caught something shining on the ground. He reached down and ______45___ a shiny dime(a coin of ten cents)Never before has anyone felt so _____46__ as Bobby felt at that moment. ______47__ spread throughout his body.___48__ his new found treasure, he walked into the first store he saw. His ____49__ quickly turned cold when knowing he could buy nothing with only a dimeThen he went into a flower shop. Bobby presented the dime and asked ____50___ he could buy one flower for his mother. Looking at Bobby and his dime, the shopkeeper____51_ for a second and asked Bobby to wait there. Then he went in.Few minutes later, the shopkeeper came out with a bunch of beautiful red roses. Bobby' s heart____52__ as the shopkeeper placed the roses gently into a beautiful box. He had only a dime !"That will be ten cents, young man,”the shop owner said._____53__ Bobby moved his hand to give the man his coin.Could this be true? No one else would give him a thing for his dime!_____54__ the boy' s mind, the shopkeeper added, "I just happened to have some roses on sale. Would you like them?"This time Bobby didn't ___55__ Walking out the door the owner was holding,Bobby heard the shopkeeper say, "Merry Christmas, son. "36. A. rain B. cold C. dark D. dust37. A. yet B. so C. or D. thus38.A. ended B. moved C.struggled D.united39. A.hardly B.probably ually D.totally40. A.time B.spirit C.money cation41. A.bought B.made C.orderde D.exchanged42. A.safe B.wise C.strange D.easy43. A.mind B.control C.reach D.sight44. A.gradually B.suddenly C. hurriedly D. deliberately45. A.searched B.watched C. placed D. discovered46. A.popular B.special C. wealthy D. comfortable47.A．Warmth B．Panic C. Regret D. Ambition48.A.Choosing B.Holding C. Bringing D. Fetching49.A．guilt B．patience C.curiosity D. excitement50.A．what B．why C. if D. when51.A．paused B．looked C. waited D. prayed52.A．settled B．sank C. bled D. relieved53.A．Slowly B．Calmly C.Secretlyd D. Unwillingly54.A.Changing B.Clearing C. Occupying D. Reading55.A．refuse B．stop C.insist D. hesitate第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）AThe Tropical Paradise HolidayWelcome to St Anna, our tropical paradise just off the coast of Latin America. You can spend two weeks in our luxury four-star hotel. The cost of your flight is included in the holiday, and you can be picked up from your home by our special airport bus. On your arriving, our coach will be waiting to take you to the hotel. All flights leave from Heathrow on a Monday morning.The Cowrie Hotel is built right on the beachfront,and many rooms havewonderful ocean views. If swimming and surfing are not enough for you, the hotel also offers horse rides on the island, and a discount membership of the golf club.The Rain Forest Adventure HolidayEvery year Broughton holidays offer twelve days of unforgettable adventure in a tropical rain forest. You may have a choice of Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia, oreven to the greatest rain forest of them all, the mighty Amazonian forest.You will fly to our special base camps at the edge of the forest, where you will be given five days of survival training, and talks on the local wildlife.Then you take a bus into the forest. You will have to walk the final five miles to the camp sites to avoid disturbing the local ecology. All of the camp sites have been carefully built to cause the minimal amount of disturbance to the local wildlife.Remember that these adventure holidays take you deep into the wilderness,and they are not suitable for families with young children. Also remember that no more than two dozen guests can stay at any camp at one time, so if you want to go on one of these very special holidays, you will need to book early !56. Choosing the Tropical Paradise Holiday, travellers can enjoy ______.A. a welcome partyB. beautiful ocean viewsC. different indoor activitiesD. free membership of the golf club57. What can we learn about the rain forest holiday?A. Different means of transportation will be used.B. Travelers will leam to talk with wild animals.C. The holiday will end with a survival training.D. Booking early, travelers will get a discount.58. What kind of people will probably choose the rain forest holiday?A. People loving water sports.B. People travelling with children.C. People preferring comfortable hotels.D. People concerned with environment and wildlife.59. Which of the following is mentioned in both holidays?A. Price.B. Transportation.C. Reservation.D. Departure time.BIf there's one thing I' ve learned from my years of being a kid, it' s that you have ZERO control over your own life.Ever since school ended, I haven' t had anything I' ve needed to do or anywhere I' ve needed to be.As long as the air-conditioning(空调) was working and the TV remote had batteries in it, I'was ready for a relaxing summer holiday.But then, out of the blue, this happened - " Pack your bags. We' re going on a road trip ! " Mom said excitedly.This isn't the first time Mom has sprung a trip on us without any warming. Last year on the first day of summer, she said we were going .to visit Aunt Loretta at the nursing home.It wasn't exactly my idea of a fun way to kick off the summer. One time when we visited Aunt Loretta, her roommate grasped me and wouldn' t let me go until someone gave her a chocolate cookie !Mom kept talking about going to the nursing home for a whole day, which made me worry a lot. But at breakfast the next morning, she told us where we were really going - Disney World.I was very happy, because I was really worried about spending the whole week at the nursing home. So was Dad.But when my little brother, Danny, heard about the change he became very angry. Mom had talked up the Aunt Loretta trip so much that Danny was actually excited about going there.We ended up putting off our trip to Disney so we could visit Aunt Loretta.I tried to talk Mom into letting us do something normal, like going to a water park for the day, but she didn't want to hear it. She said that spending a lot of time together in the car would be a " bonding" experience for the whole family.60. What did the author prefer to do during his summer holidays?A. Visit Aunt Loretta.B. Travel with his family.C. Look after his little brother.D. Watch TV comfortably at home.61. From the passage, we can learn that the author_______A. loved his aunt very muchB. got pretty excited about the road tripC. felt helpless with his mother's surprise tripsD. blamed Danny for not going to Disney World62. Who makes the final decision in the family?A. The author.B.Mom.C.Dad.D. Aunt Loretta63. The author wrote the passage to_______A. remember his motherB. tell the story of his auntC. express his love for his brotherD. share with readers his childhood experiencesCCulture ShockThe term, culture shock, describes the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do, and not knowing what is appropriate or inappropriate. The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place.We can describe culture shock as the physical and emotional discomfort one suffers when coming to live in another country or place. Often, the way that we lived before is not accepted as or considered as normal in the new place. Everything is different, for example, not speaking the language, not knowing how to use ba nking machines and so forth.Although one can experience real pain from culture shock, it is also an opportunity for resetting one' s life objectives. It is a great opportunity for learning and acquiring new viewpoints. Culture shock can make one develop a better understanding of oneself.Culture shock has many stages. The first stage is called the "honeymoon" stage. The new arrival may feel excited as everything is new.In the second stage, a person may encounter some difficult times in daily life. For example, communication difficulties may occur such as not being understood. There may be feelings of discontent, anger, sadness, and feeling incompetence. This happens when a person is trying to adapt to a new culture. Transition (过渡) between the old methods and those of the new country is a difficult process and takes time to complete.The third stage is characterized by gaining some understanding of the new culture. One may start to feel a certain psychological balance. The new arrival may start to have a feeling of direction and want to belong.In the fourth stage, the person realizes that the new culture has good and bad things to offer. The person has a more solid feeling of belonging and starts to set goals for living.The fifth stage is called the " re-entry shock". This occurs when a return to thecountry of origin is made. One may find that things are no longer the same. For example, some of the newly acquired customs are not in use in the old culture.Many factors (因素) contribute to the length and effects of culture shock. For example, the individual' s state of mental health, type of personality, previous experiences, familiarity with the language, and level of education. So the five stages are present at different times and each person has their own way of reacting. 64. What do we learn about culture shock?64. What do we learn about culture shock?A. It has negative effect on people.B. Its effect can differ from person to person.C. It disappears when people return to their homelands.D. It can be avoided if one can understand the language.65. Which stage of culture shock is Tommy in?Tommy moved to France with his parents two months ago. But now he still can not get used to the life there. He also has problems in schooling. Even worse, he doesn't think anybody cares about him.A. Stage 2.B. Stage 3.C. Stage 4.D. Stage 5.66. The main purpose of the passage is to________A. discuss and clarifyB. argue and adviseC. introduce and explainD. compare and evaluateDCertainly, a well-rounded education is the foundation from which all of us spring forth. I am grateful to the many incredible teachers who have inspired me to do greater things, and have fired my enthusiasm for everlasting learning!I have also been honored to have the most amazing teachers in all of my children's lives. These are extraordinary people who not only teach our children, but love them, challenge them, and provide an environment where a child learns how to learn.But, sometimes I wonder if the outline of our educational plan is lacking something. I watched the movie Easy A with my older daughter. The main character' s parents were loving, supportive, and built great confidence in their daughter and developed her ability to handle her own problems.There was a scene where the mother was speaking to the younger child and he announced that he received an "A" on his spelling test. She replied, "That' s great, honey, but everything has spell check these days. " It was funny --- but TRUE ! I don't mean that we shouldn't teach our children how to spell, but maybe some of our time should be spent educating them about the dangers of posting things on Facebook.Maybe we might want to spend time showing them how real life works - the credit card isn't free money - you will have to pay it back at sometime. Oh, and get this - they charge you for borrowing that money. Perhaps, we should spend some time on interpersonal relationships. I worry that our kids do not know how to relate to one another.Choosing a career (职业) is a daunting task. My daughter is in her second year in college and has changed her major twice. It' s not that she didn' t know what she wanted to do. What she "wanted to do" and the degree she chose did not match.I have learned many college students do not know what they want to do because they haven' t seen what it looks like in the real world. Being a journalist in the real world looks very different from writing stories. Maybe if we spent some time exposing them to real life experience - maybe two or three courses m areas of interest in high school that give them a "feel" for what that particular field would look like, they might be better prepared. I do not know the solution, but it seems that it should at least be a topic of discussion.67. Why does the author mention the movie Easy A?A. To prove the importance of book learning.B. To show the parents' ignorance of spelling.C. To lead to the topic he is going to talk about.D. To share with the readers his feeling about the movie.68. The author believes thatA. students need to focus on the skills in learningB. parents and school should be consistent in educationC. his daughter is smart enough to make her own choiceD. courses in areas of interest in high schools will benefit students69. The underlined word "daunting" in Paragraph 6 probably means_____A. discouragingB. specificC. rewardingD. regular70. What is mainly discussed in the passage?A. Schools should prepare students for the real life.B. What students learn in school should be practiced in life.C. Life experience is of greater importance than school education.D. Students should spend more time discussing practical problems.第二节七选五（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein of the California Institute of Technology, Nobel prize winners, discovered that the human brain has two sides, and each side has different work to do.The left side of the brain controls language and number and it analyses and reasons. ___71__ It controls our appreciation of music and our sense of rhythm.It is also the right side of our brain which daydreams.Leonardo da Vinci was the great painter and sculptor. He was also an architect, a scientist and an inventor!____72___ When he invented machines he used both his imaginative ability and his analytical ability.____73__ Albert Einstein enjoyed art, playing the violin and sailing. Indeed, Einstein said his scientific discoveries grew from his imagination rather than from analysis, reason and language. He said that written and spoken words were not important in his thinking. The story goes that Einstein was daydreaming one summer's day whilesitting on a hill. He imagined that he was riding on sunbeams to the far distance of the universe. Then he found that he had returned to the sun. So he realized that the universe must curve(弯曲).___74__ He then used the left side of his brain to apply analysis, number and reason. And finally he used language to explain it.Traditional education in schools encourages us to use the left side of our brains. Language, number, analysis and reason are given more importance in our schools than imagination and daydreaming. Why don' t we give more value to visual thinking? Why jump on one foot if we have two perfectly good legs !___75__ We need to use our imagination to think of solutions to problems and to enjoy emotional and artistic experiences. And we need to be logical able to analyze and organize in order to survive day by day.A. We benefit by thinking creatively.B. We all need both sides of our brain.C. He got this idea by using his imagination.D. Great scientists and great artists are similar.E.He was considered crazy for his strange ideas.F.He used both sides of his brain within each activity.H.The right side controls our imagination and our understanding of space.第四部分：书面表达（共两节，35分）第一节（15分）你校英语社团将要排演英语话剧Sound of Music，需要一些演员。