陕西省西安市第八十三中学2016届高三英语上学期第一次阶段测试试题

西安市第八十三中学2016届高三年级第一次阶段测试英语试题第I卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20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.How did the woman get there?A.By car.B.By bus.C.By bike.2.How much is the dictionary?A.$24.B.$26.C.$50.3.Why does the man make this call?A.To cancel his travel.B.To book his ticket.C.To change the leaving date.4.What is the man trying to do?A.Make an excuse.B.Make an apology.C.Make a complaint.5.Where can the man find an available restroom?A.In the first and second floor.B.In the first and third floor.C.In the second and third floor.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，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。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6.What are the speakers mainly talking about?A.Life styles.B.Happy childhood.C.Activities in spare time.7.What does the woman think of taking photos?A.It's interesting.B.It's a waste of money.C.It's suitable for children.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。

8.When did the woman leave school?A.In 1994.B.In 1995.C.In 1996.9.Why did the woman start running?A.To keep fit.B.To become famous.C.To make money.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10.Why does the woman come to the man?A.To go over lessons with him.B.To have a chat with him.C.To inform him of a test.11.What do we know about the man?A.He was studying just now.B.He was looking for the woman.C.He didn't do well in the last test.12.What will the man do?A.Study with the woman.B.Give Elizabeth a call.C.Take a test.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。

13.What is the relationship between the speakers?A.Classmates.B.Co-workers.C.Waiter and diner.14.What did the woman have for lunch?A. A pizza.B. A hamburger.C. A sandwich.15.What have the speakers decided to order?A.Pasta,coff ee,Coke and iced water.B.Pizza,chicken salad and iced water.C.Soup,hamburger and cola.16.Where does the conversation probably take place?A.At McDonald's.B.At KFC. C.At an Italian restaurant.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17.What is the passage mainly about?A.Sports education.B.Children's psychology.C.Playground safety.18.Where do most of children injuries happen?A.On public playgrounds.B.At the gyms.C.On the hard-surface roads.19.What does the speaker suggest parents do?A.Join in their children's activities.B.Stay close to their children.C.Repair the equipment of the playground.20.What can we learn from the passage?A.There are 200,000 playgrounds all over the country.B.Children's sense of safety encourages creativity.C.Many children are afraid of being watched.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35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。

AIt is six o’clock in the morning. You are asleep in my left arm and I am learning the art of one-handed typing. Your mother, more tired yet more happy than I’ve ever known he r, is sound asleep in the room next door.When you’re older we’ll tell you that you were born in HongKong in the lunar year of the pig. “It's a boy, so lucky,” our neighbours told us. They said you were the first baby to be born in the block this year. This, they told us, was good Feng Shui, in other words, a positive sign. Naturally your mother and I were only too happy to believe that.Your coming has turned me upside down and inside out. I am pained by the memory of each suffering child I have come acr oss on my journeys as a journalist. To tell you the truth, it’s nearly too much for me to even think of the children being hurt and abused and killed.Last October, in Afghanistan, when you were growing inside your mother, I met Sharja, aged twelve, motherless, fatherless, guiding me through the grey ruins of her home. Everything was gone, she told me.There is another memory of Rwanda, and the churchyard where I found a mother and her three young children huddled(蜷缩) together where they’d been beaten to death. The children had died holding on to their mother.Daniel, these memories explain some of the protectiveness I feel for you, and the occasional moments of blind terror when I imagine anything bad happening to you.21．We can see that this text is written to ________.A. the author’s wifeB. the author’s neighbourC. DanielD. a suffering child22．The author mentions some of his painful memories because ________.A. he wants his son to care for othersB. he feels more pain thinking about them as a fatherC. he hopes to forget the tragedies he witnessedD. his experience has affected his mental health23．The underlined word “blind” in the last paragraph means ________.A. unable to seeB. meaningfulC. not clearD. not based on reason24．Which of the following words best describes the author’s feeling when typing this text?A. Critical.B. Regretful.C. Loving.D. Calm.BGoing to university can cause many unfamiliar feelings. It’s a stressful period. While it offers greater freedom, many find it difficult to let go of family ties and old school friends.Adding the pressures of academic performance and the loneliness of being in an alien environment, life can become confusing. For many students, good grades become the first concern and other ones, like that of mental health, become less important.Earlier this year, researchers from the US’ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine released a study earlier showing that between one-fifth and one-quarter of university students within the US suffer from some form of depres sion.Though a majority of people will feel depressed at some point in their life, this doesn’t mean symptoms can be ignored. How can we define “depression”? Although everyone gets sad at times, depression is an illness that is different from just feeling down.When a “bad day” turns into a “bad week” and goes on into a “bad month”, it’s probably time to get some help. Depression can form a cycle – it takes away the energy and confidence you need to get out of it, which may severely disturb their normal life. The good news, however, is that depression is treatable and most universities now offer a variety of services to help their students.There is a lot of professional help available today and a number of medical treatments have been shown to be a highly effective. For less severe cases, often just speaking to a tutor or a friend can make a huge difference. Sometimes all you need is a helping hand and that’s where friends can be of great help. Many researchers have also shown that gentle exercise, healthy foo ds and an optimistic outlook can do wonders for your mood. So stay positive and know that you’re not alone.25. Which is not mentioned by the writer in making students fe el depressed ?A. Being far away from homeB. Feeling homesickC. The pressures from studiesD. Local food26. Which of the following statements is right according to this passage?A. Being depressed can be ignored because it is rare in universities.B. Something has been done to help those suffering from being depressed.C. Once one feels down in campus, they must seek professional advice.D. So far, no medicine can be effective in treating depression.27. Depression is an illness because _____.A. it will occur again and again over a certain period of timeB. those suffering from it can not live a normal lifeC. it will make one sleepy in classD. it is hard to recover from itCWhy do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked tothe fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.“Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced i n men,” said Goldspink. “this is part of the ageing process.”What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.“This gender d ifference might just explain why women live long er than men,” said Goldspink. They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease. “The team has yet to f ind why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart,” said Goldspink.The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.28. The text mainly talks about ________.A. men’s heart cellsB. women’s ageing processC. the gender differenceD. hearts and long life29.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ________.A. women have more cells than men when they are bornB. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beatC. the female heart loses few of the cells with ageD. women never lose their pumping power with age30. If you want to live longer, you should ________.A. enable your heart to beat much fasterB. find out the reason for ageingC. exercise regularlyto keep your heart healthyD. prevent your cells from being lost31. We can know from the passage that ________.A. the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found outB. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cellsC. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater lossD. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20DWhen milk arrived on the doorstepWhen I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer (硬币兑换器)fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.Of course, he delivered more than milk. The re was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note-“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to out house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch （门廊）. Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.32. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer____.A. to show his magical power.B. to satisfy his curiosity.C. to pay for the deliveryD. to please his mother.33. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house?A. He wanted to have tea there.B. He was a respectable person.C. He was fully trusted by the family.D. He was treated as a family member.34. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?A. It has been driven out of the market.B. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.C. Its service is getting poor.D. It is forbidden by law.35. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?A. He missed the good old days.B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.C. He missed it for his milk bottles.D. He planted flowers in it.第二节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5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。