2017-2018学年高三英语期末试题和答案
2017-2018学年第一学期高三英语西城期末试题(含答案)word版

北京市西城区2017 — 2018学年度第一学期期末试卷高三英语2018.1本试卷共12页,共150分。
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第一部分:听力理解(共三节, 30分) 第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分,共7.5分)听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一道小题,从每题所给的 A 、B C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。
听完每段对话后,你将有 10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对 话你将听一遍。
例: What is the man going to read?A. A n ewspaper. 答案是A1. How will they go to the city cen ter? A. By taxi. B. By subway.2. What does the man suggest the woma n do?A. Eat outside.B. Buy a san dwich. music.3. How did the man feel after see ing the movie? A. Excited.B. Sad.4. What is the woma n going to do? A. Read the no tice. home.5. Why is the woma n worried? A. Her mother does n'tk now Jack.B. Someth ing private is in the message.C. The message is sent to the wrong pers on. 第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,共15分)听下面4段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后有几道小题,从每题所给的 A 、B C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。
听每段对话或独白前,你将有 5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。
上海市浦东新区区2017-2018学年度高三第一学期期末质量监控英语试卷

上海市浦东新区区2017-2018学年度高三第一学期期末质量监控英语试卷第Ⅰ卷Ⅰ. Listening Comprehension(25 分)Section A – Short ConversationsDirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a gym. B. In a shoe-repair shop.C. In a department store.D. At a track.2. A. $200. B. $400.C. $250.D. $500.3. A. Take classes. B. Find a job.C. Learn more.D. Get ready for the next term.4. A. To leave her a message with her roommate. B. To solve a problem in his homework.C. To talk with her roommate.D. To ask about his homework.5. A. He likes physics. B. His physics is the best in the class.C. He is working hard at physics.D. His physics is very poor in the class.6. A. A sportsman. B. A doctor.C. A news reporter.D. A game designer.7. A. Unforgettable. B. Impressive.C. Pleasant.D. Disappointing.8. A. Coins and banknotes. B. Weights and measures.C. Shapes and areas.D. Volumes and sizes.9. A. It’s too crowded and he can’t breathe very well. B. The next stop is the terminal station.C. The next stop is their stop.D. A lot of people get off at the next stop.10. A. The Parking places are very far away. B. He had no problem finding the park.C. There is enough parking space.D. He isn’t very good at parking the car.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. The driver took the wrong route. B. He missed his flight.C. He failed to get to the airport.D. His taxi got stuck in a traffic jam.12. A. One of the wings caught fire. B. The plane encountered a strong storm.C. There was something wrong with the engine.D. The hijacker forced the captain to do so.13. A. He had forgotten to lock his front door. B. He had lost his keys to the front door.C. He had left his luggage in the taxi.D. He had picked up the wrong suitcase.Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Women now want to be car repairwomen instead of teachers.B. Women tend to do jobs that are traditionally intended for men.C. More girls are choosing fixed jobs in Scotland.D. British women choose non-traditional jobs more than women in other countries.15. A. Because women see many job opportunities on TV.B. Because women feel car repairing is cool on TV.C. Because women are influenced by their stars on TV.D. Because women are told about job choices by career officers on TV.16. A. Britain needs more women to do non-traditional jobs.B. The media should call for women to do non-traditional jobs.C. British women have taken up too many traditional jobs for men.D. The change in men’s attitudes is not important for women job choices.Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. For ten years. B. For nine years. C. For eight years. D. For one year.18. A. She is more concentrated on her career. B. She is not sure about the marriage.C. She’s holding hatred against Frank.D. She’s not comfortable with children around.19. A. Keeping persuading Claire. B. Give up and compromise.C. Fight harder with Claire.D. Give Claire some time.20. A. They have just been to Hawaii for a holiday.B. They cannot reach an agreement on having a baby.C. They are planning to get a divorce.D. They are trying to overcome career crisis.Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary(20 分)Section ADirections: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.As a young child, Ann Makosinski would spend hours experimenting with her toys and other everyday objects around her to create her own inventions.Now a first-year Arts student, Makosinski is a well-known inventor and entrepreneu(r创业者). She won the2015Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award of Excellence,21recognizes innovative business solutions to social problems—the same recognition given to Barack Obama in 2014. Her own inventions, the Hollow Flashlight and the e-Drink, have been causing excitementinternationally 22 their creation.At the age of 15, Makosinski created a prototype(原型)for a flashlight 23 (power) by the heat of one’s hand. This invention was the result of a ninth grade science project, but Makosinski’s goal was 24 (o ffer)a practical solution to people with unlimited access to power and electricity.“I’m half-Filipino and half-Polish, and one of my friends from the Philippines told me that she failed school 25 she couldn’t afford electricity. She had no light to study with at night, so that was kind of the inspiration,”Makosinski explained.“I’ve always been interested in doing science projects, so I thought, why don’t I find a way to provide her and a lot of other people with light?”The Hollow Flashlight is made from Peltier tiles(珀耳贴贴片)that produce energy when one side 26 (heat)and the other side remains cool. The flashlight can produce a steady beam of LED lightfor 20 minutes, 27 (use)only the warmth of the human hand.Her advice to other student innovators?“S tart now. There 28 be nothing holding you back. Some students at colleges or even in high school think‘Oh, I’m a student. I just need to study.’ 29 may think it important to make friends and be social. The truth is, you can do a lot of other things. You can do 30 you want. Just go ahead.”Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. potentiallyB. filmedC. droppedD. commonlyE. treatsF. sympathyG. sensitive H. eyebrow I. domesticated J. selection K. confidentPuppy Dog Eyes Are for the Benefits of HumansDogs make puppy dog eyes for the benefit of humans and rarely use the pleasing facial expression when on their own, a new study has shown.It has long been assumed that animal facial expressions are involuntary and dependent on emotional state rather than a way to communicate.But scientists at the University’s Dog Cognition Centre at Portsmouth University have found that dogs mostly use facial expressions when humans are present, as a direct response to attention. Puppy dog eyes, in which the 31 is raised to make the eyes appear wider and sadder, was foundto be the most 32 used expression in the study. Researchers do not know whether the dogs are aware they look sadder, or have just learned that widening their eyes invites 33 a nd affection in humans.Dog cognition expert Dr Juliane Kaminski: “We can now be 34 that the production of facial expressions made by dogs are dependent on the attention state of their audience and are notjust a result of dogs being excited.”“In our study they produced far more expressions when someone was watching, but seeing food 35 did not have the same effect.”“The findings appear to support evidence dogs are 36 to humans’ attention and that expressions are 37 active attempts to communicate, not simple emotional displays.” The researchers studied 24 dogs of various breeds, aged one to 12. All were family pets. Each dog was tied by a lead a metre away from a person, and the dogs’ faces were 38 throughout a rangeof exchanges, from the person being oriented towards the dog, to being distracted and with her body turned away from the dog.facial They found that when a human was not watching the animal,they39 expressions.Dr Kaminski said it is possible that dogs’ expressions have evolved as they were 40 . “Domestic dogs have a unique history –they have lived alongside humans for 30,000 years and during that time selection pressures seem to have acted on dogs’ability to communicate with us, ”she said.Ⅲ. Reading comprehension(45 分)Section ADirections:For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers.I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children. Being 41 with the sound of a whistle that I had seen by the way, in the hands of another boy, I handed over all my money for one.I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but 42 all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, when I told of the43 I had made, said I had given four times as much as the whistle was worth. They put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation( 烦恼). Thinking about the matter gave me more44 than the whistle gave me pleasure.45 , this was afterwards of use to me, for the impression continued on my mind, so that often, when I was 46 to buy something I did not need, I said to myself, “Don’t give too muchfor the whistle, ” and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and 47 the actionsof men, I thought I met with many, very many, who “gave too much for the whistle.”If I knew a miser(守财奴)who 48 every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow citizens and the joys of friendship,___49__gathering and keeping wealth--- “Poor man,” said I, “ you pay too dear for your whistle.”When I met a man of pleasure, who did not try to improve his mind or his fortune but_____devoted himself to having a good time, perhaps neglecting his health, “ Mistaken man, you are providing51 for yourself, instead of pleasure; you are paying too dear for your whistle.” If I saw someone fond of 52 who has fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine earrings, all above his 53 , and for which he had run into debt, and ends his career in a prison. “Alas,” said I, “he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.” 54 , the miseries of mankind are largely due to their puffing a(n) 55 value on things --- to giving “too much for their whistle.”41. A. faced B. charmed C. sympathized D. provided42. A. disturbing B. attracting C. entertaining D. confusing43. A. trouble B. attempt C. choice D. bargain44. A. satisfaction B. relief C. annoyance D. stress45. A. Moreover B. Therefore C. However D. Indeed46. A. tempted B. determined C. forced D. persuaded47. A. took B. observed C. admired D. followed48. A. turned against B. gave up C. cared about D. relied on49. A. in case of B. instead of C. for the sake of D. in terms of50. A. merely B. similarly C. strangely D. positively51. A. inconvenience B. burden C. frustration D. pain52. A. appearance B. wealth C. comforts D. necessities53. A. demand B. fortune C. standard D. value54. A. As a result B. By contrast C. On average D. In short55. A. unexpected B. great C. false D. extraSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to mind, but that is exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks and tastes like coffee.74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that his unique “garlic coffee” is the result of a cooking blunder he made over 30 years ago, when he burned a steak and garlic while waiting tables at the same time. Intrigued by the scorched garlic’s aroma, he mashed it up with a spoon and mixed it with hot water. The resulting drink looked and tasted a lot like coffee. Making a mental note of his discovery, Yokimoto carried on with his job, and only started researching garlic coffee again after he retired.Committed to turning his weird drink into a commercial product, Yokitomo Shimotai spent years optimizing the formula, and about five years ago, he finally achieved a result he was satisfied with. To make his dissolvable garlic grounds, he roasts the cloves in an electric oven, and, after they’ve cooled off, smashes them into fine particles and packs them in dripbags.“My drink is probably the world’s first of its kind,” the garlic coffee inventor told Kyodo News. “It contains no caffeine so it’s good for those who would like to drink coffee at night or pregnant women.”“The bitterness of burned garlic apparently helps create the coffee-like flavor,” Shimotai adds. He claims that, although his garlic coffee does give off an aroma of roasted garlic, it doesn’t cause bad breath, because the garlic is thoroughly cooked. And if you can get past the smell, the drink apparently does taste a lot like actual coffee.If decaf isn’t good enough for you, and you’re in the mood for something new, you can try Yokitomo Shimotai’s garlic coffee at his shop, in the city of Ninohc, Iwate Prefecture, or buy your own dripbags for just 324 yen($2.8).56. Which word is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “blunder ”in the second paragraph?A. mistakeB. showC. mixtureD. brand57. Who is not suitable to drink garlic coffee?A. A woman bearing a baby.B. A student having trouble with sleep.C. A cleaner working on a day shift.D. A young lady sick of garlic.58. Which of the following is not characteristic of garlic coffee?A. It is caffeine-free.B. Garlic powder dissolves in water.C.The burnt garlic creates bitterness.D. It is an improvement on a garlic dish.59. Which of the following can be used to describe Yokitomo Shimotai?A. venturous and greedyB. innovative and perseverantC. hardworking and cautiousD. observant and helpful(B)How an advertisement is put togetherWhen you read an advertisement there are many factors you should consider, including: target audiencebrand namessloganspictures and colourspecial offers/couponsemotive/persuasive vocabularyTarget audienceAdvertisers aim particular products at different groups of people according to age, sex, social class and interests. They will often make assumptions about people and label or stereotype them.Who do you think these products would be aimed at: nappies, diamonds, mint chocolates, sports cars?What kind of products would be aimed at these people: teenagers, 25-year-old single men, 40-year-old working mums?Brand namesBrand names are chosen carefully. They can suggest particular lifestyles, values or interests and are intended to appeal to the target audience.Nissan Primera: this suggests quality. Primera is similar to premium and premier.Ford Ka: the spelling of Ka suggests novelty and simplicity. It is modern and futuristic. It is also bound to stick in your mind when you are looking for a new car!SlogansA slogan has to be catchy and memorable. Slogans use a range of devices: alliteration, repetition, puns, questions, personal pronouns and humour.Have a break. Have a Kit Kat. RepetitionThe totally tropical taste. AlliterationPicture and colourAll pictures try to make you feel something and most are biased, even photographs. They create aview of what the world is like using different tricks such as lighting and colour.Different colours have different associations that can be linked to particular products.Yellow: freshness, sunlight, lemons. This colour would be good for advertising washing up liquid. Green: countryside, natural, healthy. What would you use this colour for ?What do you associate these colours with: red, black, orange, gold, blue?Special offers/couponsAdvertisers often appear to offer something for nothing’: if you buy one product you will receive another one free or half price. These offers are incentive to try a new product or to encourage loyalty to an existing one.Emotive/persuasive vocabularyIn advertising you will find lots of words and phrases that are intended to persuade you or appeal to your emotions.mouthwatering silky free chocolateromantic creamy luxurious like mum used to make60. What color is suitable for dishwashing liquid?A. Green.B. Red.C. Orange.D. Yellow.61. Which of the following slogans applies the device alliteration?A. Mosquito Bye Bye Bye.(RADAR)B. We do, we said.(HENNESSY)C. M&Ms melt in your mouth(M&Ms)D. Start ahead.(RLJOICE)62. According to the passage, to reta.n the regular customers, advertising companies tend to.A. impress them with colorful picturesB. use promotional strategiesC. change slogans frequentlyD. create eye-catching brand names(C)Dental health: Brush with confidenceChildren should be taught to brush their teeth regularly. But the suspicion remains among some people, dentists included, that even so, certain children are doomed to develop dental cavities. The hypothesis behind this fear is that some combinations of genes may give rise to the sorts of oral bacteria which are responsible for cavities. If true, that would be sad for the youngsters concerned. But a study just published in Cell Host and Microbe, by Andres Gomez and Karen Nelson of the J. Craig Venter Institute, in San Diego, suggests it isn’t true.The mouth is home to many species of microbes. Most are good. Some, though, are well known to secrete acidic waste products when fed sugar. This acidity weakens teeth, causing them to decay.To try to find out whether a child’s genes play any role in encouraging such acid-secreting bugs, Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson set up an experiment with twins.Their“volunteers”were 280 pairs of fraternal twins and 205 pairs of identical twins, all agedbetween five and 11, who had not taken antibiotics during the previous six months. The children were asked to stop brushing their teeth the evening and the morning before the crucial moment of data collection. This was when the researchers swabbed the children’s gingival sulci(the clefts betweenteeth and gums, in which bacteria collect)to find out what was there. The children also had their teethscored by dentists as belonging to one of three categories: having no signs of current or previous dental cavities: having signs of current or previous cavities affecting the enamel(a tooth’s hard, outer layer); or having signs of cavities that penetrated the enamel and allected the underlying dentine as well.Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson found that, though identical twins shared many groups of bacteria which were not shared by fraternal twins, none of these was a type responsible for cavities. Moreover, similarities in bacterial flora were greatest among five-to seven-year-olds, weaker among seven- to nine-year-olds and weakest among nine-to 11-year-olds. This suggests that any role genes do play in regulating the mouth’s ecology fades with time.Far from supporting the idea that some children are fated to suffer from cavities no matter how well they brush their teeth, these results make it clear that the power to control the growth of the relevant bacteria is very much within reach of children and their parents. Brushing, however, may not be the only approach. Avoiding sugary foods is obviously de rigueur. It seems likely, though, that which other foods a child eats may help shape his oral ecosystem, too. This is an area of ongoing research. But, as in the intestines(肠道), so in the mouth, scientific medicine is at last coming to grips with the fact that the mixture of microbes present is both important and capable of manipulation, to the benefit of the host.63. What doe s“hypothesis”refer to in paragraph 1?A. Children’s failure to brush their teeth properly leads to tooth decay.B. Some children are programmed to develop tooth decay.C. Youngsters are suspicious of the effectiveness of tooth-brushing.D. Some genes are more likely to lead to dental cavites.64. Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson conducted an experiment to find out .A. whether genes have anything to do with dental decayB. which group of twins are more likely to have decayed teethC. what kinds of foods tend to give rise to tooth decayD. why the ecosystem of the intestines is similar to that of the mouth65. Which of the following statements is UNTRUE according to the passage?A. Scientists are not yet sure how ecosystem of the mouth is formed.B. The role genes play in controlling ecosystem of the mouth weakens with the time.C. The children are classified into three groups according to the degrees of dental cavities.D.Identical twins are not as genetically close to each other as fraternal twins.66. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. The existence of multiple microbes benefits children’s oral ecosystem.B. What a child eats enhances the healthfulness of a child’s oral ecosystem.C. Cutting down on sugar intake is the most likely way to prevent tooth decay.D. Parents are in no position to help their children maintain healthy oral ecosystem.Section CDirections: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable statement from A-F for each Blank. There are two extra statements, which you do not need.A. Reality has begun to catch up with the imagination of the film’s writer.B. Nanotechnology is one of the most exciting fields of research in the world today.C.When this becomes possible, great changes will take place in numerous fields.D. Small as they are, large quantities of them can make a difference and work wonders.E.Nanotechnology is also responsible for tremendous advances in many other fields.F. They carry medicine with them as they travel though the body, seeking our cancer cells.Nanotechnology Grows FastThanks to advances in technology, the science fiction of the past has become the“science fact”o f today, like the 1966 sci-fi Fantastic V oyag(e《神奇旅程》). In the film, a man with very important knowledge was dying. The only way to save him was by using experimental miniaturization technology. A number of scientists were shrunk to a tiny size and injected into the man’s body to locate the source of the problem and save him.67Over the past several decades, the science of nanotechnology has been developing rapidly, and, just as in the film, it involves working with objects of a very small size.Something very similar to the medial procedure seen in Fantastic Voyage is already being used to help save lives today. Tiny crystals known as“quanturn dots(量子点)”,whose diametersare one thousandth of a human hair, are injected into the body of a cancer patient. 68 Upon finding a tumor, these quantum dots release their medicine, and then light themselves up tso that doctors can see exactly where the cancer cells are.69 We may soon find our everyday lives being affected by it. Are you tired of having to charge the batteries in your mobile devices? Soon, you don’t need to. Scientists are working on solar-cell vests that will absorb energy from the sun as you walk around and provide power for your devices.Eric Drexler, an author and scientist, believes that nanotechnology will lead to a new kind of manufacturing, one in which products are assembled atom by atom. By rearranging atoms, you can turn one kind of molecule into another. For example, a wood molecule can be transformed into a metal molecule. If this is done many times according to a design, a large object such as an ax might eventually be created, just by rearranging atoms. 70 .Although we have already seen its first practical applications, even more dramatic advances will be made in the future.Ⅳ. Surmmary Writing(10 分)Directions:R ead the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.According to an official report on youth violence.“In our country today, the greatest threat to the lives of children and adolescents is not disease or starvation or abandonment, but the terrible reality of violence.”Given that this is the case, why aren’t students taught to manage conflict the way they are taught to solve math problems, drive cars, or stay physically fit?First of all, students need to realize that conflict is unavoidable. It is reported that most violent incidents between students begin with a relatively minor insult. For example, a fight could start over the fact that one student eats a peanut butter sandwich each lunchtime. Laughter over the sandwich can lead to insults, which in turn can lead to violence.If the conflict occurs, students can practice the golden rule of conflict resolution: stay calm. Once the student feels calmer. Once the student feels calmer. He or she should choose words that will calm the other person down as well. Rude words and accusations only add fuel to the emotional fire while soft words can put out the fire before it explodes out of control.After that, they can use another key strategy for conflict resolution. Listening allows the two sides to understand each other. One person should describe his or her side: and the other person should listen without interrupting. Afterwards, the listener can ask non-threatening questions to clarify the speaker’s position. Then the two people should change roles.Finally, students need to consider what they are hearing. An argument doesn’t mean trying to figure out the fault of the other person but means understanding what the real issue is. As the issue becomes clearer, the conflict often simply becomes smaller.(280 words)第Ⅱ卷Ⅴ. Translation(15 分)Directions:Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1. 为了安全起见,小孩不应该被单独留在家里。
2017-2018学年度高三期末考试英语试卷

2017-2018学年度高三期末考试英语试卷第二部分: 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)ADoing voluntary work abroad is a great way for you to learn about service learning and know better about the world and different cultures. Visit our website for further details.Global Vision InternationalExperience everything in our adventure when you join us in a team of international volunteers under 18. Assist with the projects that will benefit poor children's development and education. Discover the area' s splendid beaches, explore beautiful jungles and immerse (沉浸) yourself in the friendly local culture.Email: info@Website: www.V olunter and Adventure Experience in Costa Broadreach Summer AdventuresSince 1993, Broadreach has taken over 12,000 students on their worldwide summer adventure volunteer programs for middle school, high school students. Their 75+ program offerings include marine biology, sailing, medicine, culture, arts, community service and leadership adventures. Programs are located in 40+ countries.Email: info@Website: Cross-Cultural SolutionsCCS teen summer service trips are for high school students aged 15- 17. The High School V olunteer Abroad program offers you an awesome opportunity to volunteer side-by-side with local people. You can also meet new friends on a teens—only group volunteering project in Costa Rica, India, Peru, Ghana, and so on. You' ll participate in many cultural activities during the week and on weekends.Email: info@Website: United PlanetUnited Planet offers volunteer abroad programs in four destinations for those under 18. V olunteers may work in nursing home, Community Service Stations or in environmental conservation projects. Destinations include Romania, Peru, Mcuador and Chile. Candidates 16 years and older can apply.Email: quest@Website: 21. To help poor children learn, you can send an e-mail to .A. info@gviworld .comB. info@C. info@D. quest@22. If you join Broadreach Summer Adventures, you’ll.A. travel around the world with 12,000 studentsB. learn how to build a house on your ownC. experience adventures with your guideD. get to know something about medicine23. What can you do in Cross-Cultural Solutions?A. Explore beautiful sights.B. Know more about sea life.C. Do volunteer work with local people.D. Have the opportunity to visit four destinations.24. Who may have great interest in the four programs?A. Teens who want volunteer abroad.B. People who want to work abroad.C. Teens who want to study abroad.D. People who want to travel abroad.BMy relationship with my dad had been not good for a while—right around the time I started noticing he was drinking too much. Then my parents got divorced. When he was drunk, instead of taking care of me, I had to take care of him. Although there were some bad moments, he was a good father.Seven years ago, my dad told me he had joined an AA-meeting(戒酒会). Once he asked if I wanted to go along with him to it. It had never occurred to me that he needed someone's support.I didn't know much about AA. I'd only seen scenes in films, in which people sit together in a circle and tell their stories. Some say it's overly religious and that there’s no science behind the treatment. But I'd never had any direct experience with it. Curious about it, I accepted his invitation. As it turned out, I was the only family member there. Everyone got the chance to speak; while all stories were unique, they carried some common themes: a thirst for what you know you can’t have, the struggle following a relapse(复发), guilt, shame and sadness. I clearly remember having the lump in my throat after hearing everyone' s most private stories, including my dad's. I felt so many emotions at once.My dad is about to celebrate 15 years of being sober(清醒的). These days, he also acts as a volunteer for other members. We’re both so much better off than when he was at his worst. AA isn't for everyone, but in our case, I like to focus or the fact that without my dad getting help that way, he might still have been a stranger to me.25. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. The author didn't love her dad.B. The author didn't want to take care of her dad.C. The author's dad didn't quit drinking until divorce.D. The author's dad's drinking problem did harm to his family.26. Why did the author's dad ask her to go to the AA-meeting with him?A. He needed support from her.B. He wanted to tell stories to her.C. He wanted to get better treatment.D. He felt nervous being with other people27. What does the author mean by saying "having the lump in my throat"?A. She was proud of her dad.B. She was sick of their stories.C. She was moved by their stories.D. She was disappointed with her dad.28. What does the last paragraph imply?A. It is helpful to share stories with others.B. It took the author's dad 15 years to quit drinking.C. The author advises people to seek help from an AA-meetingD. The AA-meeting helped improve the author's relationship with her dad.CI' m sure we've all done something a little dishonest in our lives—maybe copying someone's work, or being given too much change in a shop and keeping quiet about it. Or maybe I' m wrong—maybe you’re a good, upstanding citizen who believes that honesty is the best policy.We may agree that admitting our mistakes and behaving in a genuine and decent way is the right way to lead our lives but is there something in our human nature that makes us unscrupulous? For example, in some shops and car parks you can find anhonesty box—a box where you pay for something by putting money in it. But it does provide a temptation(诱惑) to get away with not paying the full amount.Philip Graves,' a psychologist, suggests that this temptation is part of our evolution. He says: we have evolved with the ability to be dishonest. It' s part of our evolutionary psychological make up—because if we can gain an advantage over the people around us, we have a greater chance of surviving.So why do we place such importance on being honest if we benefit from being dishonest? It's because it is selfish behavior. If everybody acted selfishly and dishonestly all the time, the world would be a very unpleasant place. So, for societies to work together we need to trust each other and therefore we need to be honest.Being trustworthy with money is of course extremely important for an economy to survive and there are laws toprotect us from dishonest practices. But being honest with words is another matter; saying what we think to someone can be embarrassing. Is honest always the best policy?29. Which of the underlined words is similar to "dishonest" in meaning?A. upstanding(P1)B. decent (P2)C. unscrupulous(P2)D. trustworthy(P5)30. If there is an honesty box in a shop, what should a customer do?A. Take some money out if in need.B. Donate some money to the charities.C. Get away without paying the right amount.D. Put in the amount of money one should pay for his buying.31. What can we learn according to Philip Graves?A. Men are born to be dishonest.B. One will be criticized if he is dishonest.C. Dishonesty is of some benefit to survival.D. Breaking the balance is kind of dishonesty.32. The author may NOT agree that .A. Honesty is based on working together.B. Not all social members accept dishonesty.C. Dishonest economic behaviors will be punished.D. Being dishonest with words sometimes is acceptable.DTake a quick tipple (酒) and you could find yourself speaking a second language more naturally, according to new research.The foreign language skills of participants in the study were found to be improved after a drink of alcohol, which suggests the way alcohol can put us at ease outweighs the negative effects on our brain—at least for the first drink, anyway. It could reveal some interesting facts about the anxiety associated with speaking another language,and how alcohol can help us overcome it.The study involved 50 native German speakers studying Dutch at a Dutch university, who had recently learned to speak, read, and write in the new language. Participants were either given alcohol or water. The amount of alcohol varied based on body size, but was the equal to 5 percent beer for a 70kg male. They then chatted to a researcher for five minutes, assessed by two native Dutch speakers who weren't told whether they consumed alcohol. Those people who had been given the alcoholic drink were given better ratings by the observers, especially for their pronunciation.So what' s going on? We know that alcohol has 'a negative effect on our brain's executive functioning, including our memory and our attention. However, we also know that alcohol improves confidence and reduces social anxiety. "One possible reason could be that," says one of the researchers. "But more research is needed to test this.""It is important to point out that participants in this study consumed a small amount of alcohol," adds one of the team." Higher levels of alcohol consumption might not have beneficial effects on the pronunciation of a foreign language."33. What’s the passage mainly about?A. A right amount of alcohol can easily remove one’s anxiety.B. Alcohol do es harm to one’s skills in learning a second language.C. Speaking a foreign language gets easier after having a quick drink.D. Whether alcohol can help learn a foreign language remains to be seen.34.Which of the following caused alcohol drinkers to get better ratings in the experiment?A. The brain's executive function.B. The anxiety-reducing effect of alcohol.C. The skills of speaking a foreign language.D. Alcohol's role in improving one's memory.35. This text is most probably taken from .A. a science magazineB. a personal diaryC. an advertisementD. an information leaflet第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)Here are some of my favorite ways to have a productive day by starting a day with the right habits. Have an amazing breakfast. Having a healthy breakfast can help keep you feeling energetic. 36 In this way, you can have a relaxing breakfast which can help set you up for success all day long.37 I believe it' s very important to plan out your day. It works best for me to take a few minutes at the end of every day to write out my plan for the next day. When I have a plan for my day," it helps me get started on my goals and priorities (优先考虑的事) immediately the next morning.Turn off distractions. Do you get out of bed and immediately start surfing online, listen to your voice mails, or check your email? 38 I turn off distractions and 'start my day focused on my goals.Choose someone to help keep you' responsible. 39 Even if your partner has different interests and goals, you can both help encourage each other to stay on task, and set up times to check in with each other to report that you’ve complete d your daily or weekly goals.Spend time each day working on a big goal. 40 Even if it just takes you a few minutes to start, it will gradually add up to great progress over time. Also, when you take little steps every day toward your long-term goal, your confidence will grow with the small progress you experience.A. Plan your day in advance.B. Start your day with a good plan.C. I' m used to that, which is most important for me.D. It doesn't have to be someone with the same goals as you.E. Set aside time to work toward a big long-term goal you have.F. Do everything you can in advance, so you car avoid having a rush in the morning.G. I used to do that, but now I have made some big changes in my morning routine.第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)It’s that time of year when people need to lock their cars. It's not because there are many 41 around stealing cars. It's because 42 neighbors who want to share their harvest. Leaving a car unlocked is an 43for someone to fill it with zucchini(西葫芦).My sister-in-law, Sharon, recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had 44 so many that they'd begun to feel their skin turn 45 red. That's when she decided it. That’s when she decided it was time to share her 46 . She told everyone," feel free to take 47 you want." Later that day, Sharon found taut her garden had indeed been harvested. She felt delighted that the food wasn't48 .A few days later, Sharon 49 the door. There was a neighbor, holding a hot loaf of some kind of sweet bread. The neighbor smiled pleasantly, "I want to thank you for all of the 50 , and I have to 51 that I look a few other things and hoped you wouldn't mind."Sharon couldn’t think of anything else in her garden that had been 52 ___harvesting, but the neighbor 53 that there really were bright-green zucchini. Sharon’s 54 got the better of her and she wanted to see where the zucchini had grown. The two walked into the backyard. When the neighbor 55 the long green vegetables, Sharon smiled." Well, 56 those are cucumbers that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and 57 for eating."The neighbor looked at Sharon, shock written 58 her face. She then held out the bread, part of a batch(批)she had 59 all over the neighborhood. "I bought you a nice loaf of cucumber bread, in 60 that you like it." 41. A. neighbors B. criminals C. children D. farmers42. A. greedy B. energetic C. intelligent D. goodhearted43. A. accident B. invitation C. event D. invention44. A. eaten B. planted C. sold D. stored45. A. extremely B. badly C. slightly D. merely46. A. sorrows B. secrets C. blessings D. stories47. A. whatever B. wherever C. whoever D. whenever48. A. remained B. damaged C. saved D. wasted49. A. pushed B. greeted C. replied D. answered50. A. zucchini B. cucumbers C. tomatoes D. potatoes51. A. admit B. promise C. explain D. deny52. A. valuable B. worth C. precious D. worthy53. A. insisted B. suggested C. demanded D. announced54. A. anxiety B. emotion C. curiosity D. fear55. A. glared at B. pointed at C. laughed at D. aimed at56. A. naturally B. eventually C. truly D. actually57. A. smelly B. fresh C. bitter D. sweet58. A. across B. through C. in D. along59. A. baked B. cooked C. kept D. shared60. A. doubts B. hopes C. dreams D. worries第三部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)61 (Australia) have been encouraged to eat more kangaroo meat as a way ofcontrolling the population, ____62 is nearing 50 million63 government figures from 2016 show is that there were almost 45 million kangaroos, nearly double the human population of Australia.In 2010, there 64 (be) around 27 million, with the huge rise in numbers 65 (consider)to be due to environment factors, with high rainfall resulting in more food for the kangaroos.Experts are now encouraging Australians 66 (hunt) the kangaroos in order to reduce 67 (they) numbers. They warn a large kangaroo population could cause 68 threat to biodiversity. "It’s not the kangaroos’ fault. It’s probably we’ve just been 69 lazy to take measures on them, to remove them out of the systemsooner, to actually prevent the damage 70 being caused."第四部分写作( 共两节,满分35分)第一节短文改错(共10小题; 每小题1分,满分10分)On-line voting becomes increasing popular. Many competitions get people involving in it. It is beneficial to some people, but it puts the others into a dilemma over if to vote or not. In my opinion, on-line voting should be welcomed, since it is just a way to participate public life. It is similar to ordinary voting events, which candidates go around to seek vote. In addition, the Internet make voting easy and convenient, regardless of time and space.Things will turn much good if we can work out some rules for people to obey. Therefore, I hold a positive attitude of it.第二节:书面表达(25分)近期投放到地铁站点、公交站点等公共服务区的共享单车给人们带来了很大便利,同时缓解了交通压力。
2017—2018学年上期期末考试英语试卷(含答案)

2017—2018学年上期期末考试九年级英语试题卷注意:本试卷分试题卷和答题卡两部分.考试试卷100分钟,满分120分。
考生应首先阅读试题卷及答题卡上的相关信息,然后在答题卡上作答,在试题卷上作答无效。
交卷时只交答题卡。
一、听力理解(20小题,每小题1分,共20分)第一节听下面五段对话。
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,井在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
每段对话读两遍。
1. What is the man?A. A servant.B. A waiter.C. A director.2. What happened to Mary?A. She missed the train.B. She took the wrong seat.C. She lost her wallet.3. How is the school now?A. It’s not as good as it was.B. It’s better than it used to be.C. It’s wo rse than people say.4. When will the movie start?A. At 10 o’clock.B. At 10:30.C. At 10:50.5. What did the woman advise the man to do?A. Go to see a doctor at once.B. Give up solving the problem.C. Be patient with the problem.第二节听下面几段对话或独白。
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答案,并将其标号填入题前括号内。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话,回答第6至第8三个小题。
6. Who sent the scarf to Tina?A. Her mother.B. Her boyfriend.C. Her brother.7. Where does Tina come from?A. Sydney.B. London.C. New York.8. Who are the two speakers?A. Relatives.B. Neighbors.C. Classmates.听下面一段独白,回答第9至第10两个小题。
北京市海淀区近五年高三第一学年期末英语试卷汇编- 语法填空 单项选择含答案

北京市海淀区近五年高三第一学年期末英语试卷汇编-语法填空+单项选择(1)2019-2020 年北京市海淀区高三上学期期末英语试卷第一节语法填空(共10 小题;每小题1.5 分,共15 分)A阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空。
在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1 个适当的单词,在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
The first time I saw May, she ___1___ (sit) in my front yard, hugging my dog Harley. She had just moved into a small house down the road from us. From the second I talked to her, I knew May would be a cherished friend. Her smile and good cheer made me feel better when I was around her.It didn’t take long ___2___ May was beloved by everyone in our neighborhood. Children and adults visited her home often. When we visited her, she would kindly listen to all of our___3___ (trouble) and then say something so wise that we would leave her home with our hearts ___4___ (sing).B阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空。
在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1 个适当的单词,在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
We are drowning in a sea of free information. The Internet is in our businesses, homes and our bedrooms. An army of designers and data engineers spend their working life figuring out ways ___5___ (make) us stay plugged in longer. Our desires are repackaged by giant tech companies and then ___6___ (sell) back to us under the cover of free content, but it isn't free.We are paying for it with invisible currencies, such as our time and privacy, ___7___ people are only now beginning to understand.C阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空。
2017至2018高二英语下学期期末联考试题附答案全套

2017至2018高二英语下学期期末联考试题附答案全套本试题卷由四个部分组成。
其中,第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。
第三部分的第二节和第四部分为非选择题。
考试时间120分钟,满分150分。
考试结束后,请将答题卡交回。
第一部分听力(共两节,满分30分)做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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 wears short hair?A. Linda.B. Rose.C. Jenny.2. What do the two speakers mainly talk about?A. Life.B. Marriage.C. Children.3. How much did the speakers have to pay the hospital at last?A. Over three thousand dollars.B. Nothing.C.Only part of it.4. Why did the woman get home in a hurry?A. To avoid rush hour.B. To avoid a ticket.C. To get rid of the police.5. What will the man do?A. Go to a big party.B. Attend a small party.C. Wear a short coat.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。
2017-2018学年高三英语期末试题和答案

2017-2018学年度第一学期期末考试试题高三年级英语学科试卷(考试时间100分钟满分120分)本试卷共10页。
考生务必将答案答在答题卡上,在试卷上作答无效。
第一部分: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)从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,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。
例:It’s so nice to hear from her again. _____,we last met more than thirty years ago.A. What’s moreB. That’s to sayC. In other wordsD. Believe it or not答案是D。
1.These fresh vegetables are easy to rot so you ______eat them within two days.A.mightB. shouldC. canD. would2. ______ the pictures on the screen more clearly, they moved to the front row.A. To watchB. WatchingC. WatchedD. Having watched3. He missed the worst of the traffic this morning, ______ he set out before 6 o’clock.A. butB. soC. forD. or4. ––Did you have to do much for the dinner party?––No, Tina ______ everything by the time I got home.A. has finishedB. had finishedC. would finishD. will finish5. Two blocks beyond the school is a field ______ we often played football during childhood.A. whoB. whichC. whenD. where6. My parents graduated from this university; that’s ______I insisted on applying for it.A. whichB. whyC. whatD. where7.––Why are you buying a new refrigerator?––The old one ______ so many times that it’s not worth it any more.A. has repairedB. is repairedC. has been repairedD. has been repairing8. A child should be receiving either meat or eggs daily, preferably ______.A. neitherB. noneC. eitherD. both9. ––Can I give you a call on Saturday morning?––I think I ______ to the mountains, so call me on my cell phone.A.driveB. am drivingC. will driveD. will be driving10.What will you do if the people ______ at the back of the hall have trouble hearing the speech?A. sittingB. sitC. satD. to sit11. Having a hobby is good for you. It doesn’t matter what it is _____ it drives you forward.A. a s long asB. thoughC. unlessD. in order that12. ______ the characters leave unsaid is often more important than what they put into words.A. ThatB. WhenC. WhatD. How13.––My car is making a really strange noise.––You’d better get it ______ before you drive to Denver.A.looking atB. looked atC.to look atD. being looked at14. I wish I ______ your advice then. In that case things might not be so bad.A. have takenB. tookC. had takenD. would have taken15. W hat’s touching about being a volunteer is seeing _____ helping brings out the best in people.A. whatB. whetherC. whyD. how第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,共30分)阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
2018年浦东新区高三英语一模试卷及答案

浦东新区2017 学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测试题高三英语试卷第Ⅰ卷Ⅰ. Listening Comprehension(25 分)Section A – Short ConversationsDirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a gym. B. In a shoe-repair shop.C. In a department store.D. At a track.2. A. $200. B. $400.C. $250.D. $500.3. A. Take classes. B. Find a job.C. Learn more.D. Get ready for the next term.4. A. To leave her a message with her roommate. B. To solve a problem in his homework.C. To talk with her roommate.D. To ask about his homework.5. A. He likes physics. B. His physics is the best in the class.C. He is working hard at physics.D. His physics is very poor in the class.6. A. A sportsman. B. A doctor.C. A news reporter.D. A game designer.7. A. Unforgettable. B. Impressive.C. Pleasant.D. Disappointing.8. A. Coins and banknotes. B. Weights and measures.C. Shapes and areas.D. Volumes and sizes.9. A. It’s too crowded and he can’t breathe very well. B. The next stop is the terminal station.C. The next stop is their stop.D. A lot of people get off at the next stop.10. A. The Parking places are very far away. B. He had no problem finding the park.C. There is enough parking space.D. He isn’t very good at parking the car.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. The driver took the wrong route. B. He missed his flight.C. He failed to get to the airport.D. His taxi got stuck in a traffic jam.12. A. One of the wings caught fire. B. The plane encountered a strong storm.C. There was something wrong with the engine.D. The hijacker forced the captain to do so.13. A. He had forgotten to lock his front door. B. He had lost his keys to the front door.C. He had left his luggage in the taxi.D. He had picked up the wrong suitcase.Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Women now want to be car repairwomen instead of teachers.B. Women tend to do jobs that are traditionally intended for men.C. More girls are choosing fixed jobs in Scotland.D. British women choose non-traditional jobs more than women in other countries.15. A. Because women see many job opportunities on TV.B. Because women feel car repairing is cool on TV.C. Because women are influenced by their stars on TV.D. Because women are told about job choices by career officers on TV.16. A. Britain needs more women to do non-traditional jobs.B. The media should call for women to do non-traditional jobs.C. British women have taken up too many traditional jobs for men.D. The change in men’s attitudes is not important for women job choices.Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. For ten years. B. For nine years. C. For eight years. D. For one year.18. A. She is more concentrated on her career. B. She is not sure about the marriage.C. She’s holding hatred against Frank.D. She’s not comfortable with children around.19. A. Keeping persuading Claire. B. Give up and compromise.C. Fight harder with Claire.D. Give Claire some time.20. A. They have just been to Hawaii for a holiday.B. They cannot reach an agreement on having a baby.C. They are planning to get a divorce.D. They are trying to overcome career crisis.Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary(20 分)Section ADirections: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.As a young child, Ann Makosinski would spend hours experimenting with her toys and other everyday objects around her to create her own inventions.Now a first-year Arts student, Makosinski is a well-known inventor and entrepreneu(r创业者). She won the2015Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award of Excellence,21recognizes innovative business solutions to social problems—the same recognition given to Barack Obama in 2014. Her own inventions, the Hollow Flashlight and the e-Drink, have been causing excitementinternationally 22 their creation.At the age of 15, Makosinski created a prototype(原型)for a flashlight 23 (power) by the heat of one’s hand. This invention was the result of a ninth grade science project, but Makosinski’s goal was 24 (o ffer)a practical solution to people with unlimited access to power and electricity.“I’m half-Filipino and half-Polish, and one of my friends from the Philippines told me that she failed school 25 she couldn’t afford electricity. She had no light to study with at night, so that was kind of the inspiration,”Makosinski explained.“I’ve always been interested in doing science projects, so I thought, why don’t I find a way to provide her and a lot of other people with light?”The Hollow Flashlight is made from Peltier tiles(珀耳贴贴片)that produce energy when one side 26 (heat)and the other side remains cool. The flashlight can produce a steady beam of LED lightfor 20 minutes, 27 (use)only the warmth of the human hand.Her advice to other student innovators?“S tart now. There 28 be nothing holding you back. Some students at colleges or even in high school think‘Oh, I’m a student. I just need to study.’ 29 may think it important to make friends and be social. The truth is, you can do a lot of other things. You can do 30 you want. Just go ahead.”Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. potentiallyB. filmedC. droppedD. commonlyE. treatsF. sympathyG. sensitive H. eyebrow I. domesticated J. selection K. confidentPuppy Dog Eyes Are for the Benefits of HumansDogs make puppy dog eyes for the benefit of humans and rarely use the pleasing facial expression when on their own, a new study has shown.It has long been assumed that animal facial expressions are involuntary and dependent on emotional state rather than a way to communicate.But scientists at the University’s Dog Cognition Centre at Portsmouth University have found that dogs mostly use facial expressions when humans are present, as a direct response to attention. Puppy dog eyes, in which the 31 is raised to make the eyes appear wider and sadder, was foundto be the most 32 used expression in the study. Researchers do not know whether the dogs are aware they look sadder, or have just learned that widening their eyes invites 33 a nd affection in humans.Dog cognition expert Dr Juliane Kaminski: “We can now be 34 that the production of facial expressions made by dogs are dependent on the attention state of their audience and are notjust a result of dogs being excited.”“In our study they produced far more expressions when someone was watching, but seeing food 35 did not have the same effect.”“The findings appear to support evidence dogs are 36 to humans’ attention and that expressions are 37 active attempts to communicate, not simple emotional displays.” The researchers studied 24 dogs of various breeds, aged one to 12. All were family pets. Each dog was tied by a lead a metre away from a person, and the dogs’ faces were 38 throughout a rangeof exchanges, from the person being oriented towards the dog, to being distracted and with her body turned away from the dog.facial They found that when a human was not watching the animal,they39 expressions.Dr Kaminski said it is possible that dogs’ expressions have evolved as they were 40 . “Domestic dogs have a unique history –they have lived alongside humans for 30,000 years and during that time selection pressures seem to have acted on dogs’ability to communicate with us, ”she said.Ⅲ. Reading comprehension(45 分)Section ADirections:For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers.I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children. Being 41 with the sound of a whistle that I had seen by the way, in the hands of another boy, I handed over all my money for one.I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but 42 all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, when I told of the43 I had made, said I had given four times as much as the whistle was worth. They put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation( 烦恼). Thinking about the matter gave me more44 than the whistle gave me pleasure.45 , this was afterwards of use to me, for the impression continued on my mind, so that often, when I was 46 to buy something I did not need, I said to myself, “Don’t give too muchfor the whistle, ” and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and 47 the actionsof men, I thought I met with many, very many, who “gave too much for the whistle.”If I knew a miser(守财奴)who 48 every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow citizens and the joys of friendship,___49__gathering and keeping wealth--- “Poor man,” said I, “ you pay too dear for your whistle.”When I met a man of pleasure, who did not try to improve his mind or his fortune but_____devoted himself to having a good time, perhaps neglecting his health, “ Mistaken man, you are providing51 for yourself, instead of pleasure; you are paying too dear for your whistle.” If I saw someone fond of 52 who has fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine earrings, all above his 53 , and for which he had run into debt, and ends his career in a prison. “Alas,” said I, “he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.” 54 , the miseries of mankind are largely due to their puffing a(n) 55 value on things --- to giving “too much for their whistle.”41. A. faced B. charmed C. sympathized D. provided42. A. disturbing B. attracting C. entertaining D. confusing43. A. trouble B. attempt C. choice D. bargain44. A. satisfaction B. relief C. annoyance D. stress45. A. Moreover B. Therefore C. However D. Indeed46. A. tempted B. determined C. forced D. persuaded47. A. took B. observed C. admired D. followed48. A. turned against B. gave up C. cared about D. relied on49. A. in case of B. instead of C. for the sake of D. in terms of50. A. merely B. similarly C. strangely D. positively51. A. inconvenience B. burden C. frustration D. pain52. A. appearance B. wealth C. comforts D. necessities53. A. demand B. fortune C. standard D. value54. A. As a result B. By contrast C. On average D. In short55. A. unexpected B. great C. false D. extraSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to mind, but that is exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks and tastes like coffee.74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that his unique “garlic coffee” is the result of a cooking blunder he made over 30 years ago, when he burned a steak and garlic while waiting tables at the same time. Intrigued by the scorched garlic’s aroma, he mashed it up with a spoon and mixed it with hot water. The resulting drink looked and tasted a lot like coffee. Making a mental note of his discovery, Yokimoto carried on with his job, and only started researching garlic coffee again after he retired.Committed to turning his weird drink into a commercial product, Yokitomo Shimotai spent years optimizing the formula, and about five years ago, he finally achieved a result he was satisfied with. To make his dissolvable garlic grounds, he roasts the cloves in an electric oven, and, after they’ve cooled off, smashes them into fine particles and packs them in dripbags.“My drink is probably the world’s first of its kind,” the garlic coffee inventor told Kyodo News. “It contains no caffeine so it’s good for those who would like to drink coffee at night or pregnant women.”“The bitterness of burned garlic apparently helps create the coffee-like flavor,” Shimotai adds. He claims that, although his garlic coffee does give off an aroma of roasted garlic, it doesn’t cause bad breath, because the garlic is thoroughly cooked. And if you can get past the smell, the drink apparently does taste a lot like actual coffee.If decaf isn’t good enough for you, and you’re in the mood for something new, you can try Yokitomo Shimotai’s garlic coffee at his shop, in the city of Ninohc, Iwate Prefecture, or buy your own dripbags for just 324 yen($2.8).56. Which word is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “blunder ”in the second paragraph?A. mistakeB. showC. mixtureD. brand57. Who is not suitable to drink garlic coffee?A. A woman bearing a baby.B. A student having trouble with sleep.C. A cleaner working on a day shift.D. A young lady sick of garlic.58. Which of the following is not characteristic of garlic coffee?A. It is caffeine-free.B. Garlic powder dissolves in water.C.The burnt garlic creates bitterness.D. It is an improvement on a garlic dish.59. Which of the following can be used to describe Yokitomo Shimotai?A. venturous and greedyB. innovative and perseverantC. hardworking and cautiousD. observant and helpful(B)How an advertisement is put togetherWhen you read an advertisement there are many factors you should consider, including: target audiencebrand namessloganspictures and colourspecial offers/couponsemotive/persuasive vocabularyTarget audienceAdvertisers aim particular products at different groups of people according to age, sex, social class and interests. They will often make assumptions about people and label or stereotype them.Who do you think these products would be aimed at: nappies, diamonds, mint chocolates, sports cars?What kind of products would be aimed at these people: teenagers, 25-year-old single men, 40-year-old working mums?Brand namesBrand names are chosen carefully. They can suggest particular lifestyles, values or interests and are intended to appeal to the target audience.Nissan Primera: this suggests quality. Primera is similar to premium and premier.Ford Ka: the spelling of Ka suggests novelty and simplicity. It is modern and futuristic. It is also bound to stick in your mind when you are looking for a new car!SlogansA slogan has to be catchy and memorable. Slogans use a range of devices: alliteration, repetition, puns, questions, personal pronouns and humour.Have a break. Have a Kit Kat. RepetitionThe totally tropical taste. AlliterationPicture and colourAll pictures try to make you feel something and most are biased, even photographs. They create aview of what the world is like using different tricks such as lighting and colour.Different colours have different associations that can be linked to particular products.Yellow: freshness, sunlight, lemons. This colour would be good for advertising washing up liquid. Green: countryside, natural, healthy. What would you use this colour for ?What do you associate these colours with: red, black, orange, gold, blue?Special offers/couponsAdvertisers often appear to offer something for nothing’: if you buy one product you will receive another one free or half price. These offers are incentive to try a new product or to encourage loyalty to an existing one.Emotive/persuasive vocabularyIn advertising you will find lots of words and phrases that are intended to persuade you or appeal to your emotions.mouthwatering silky free chocolateromantic creamy luxurious like mum used to make60. What color is suitable for dishwashing liquid?A. Green.B. Red.C. Orange.D. Yellow.61. Which of the following slogans applies the device alliteration?A. Mosquito Bye Bye Bye.(RADAR)B. We do, we said.(HENNESSY)C. M&Ms melt in your mouth(M&Ms)D. Start ahead.(RLJOICE)62. According to the passage, to reta.n the regular customers, advertising companies tend to.A. impress them with colorful picturesB. use promotional strategiesC. change slogans frequentlyD. create eye-catching brand names(C)Dental health: Brush with confidenceChildren should be taught to brush their teeth regularly. But the suspicion remains among some people, dentists included, that even so, certain children are doomed to develop dental cavities. The hypothesis behind this fear is that some combinations of genes may give rise to the sorts of oral bacteria which are responsible for cavities. If true, that would be sad for the youngsters concerned. But a study just published in Cell Host and Microbe, by Andres Gomez and Karen Nelson of the J. Craig Venter Institute, in San Diego, suggests it isn’t true.The mouth is home to many species of microbes. Most are good. Some, though, are well known to secrete acidic waste products when fed sugar. This acidity weakens teeth, causing them to decay.To try to find out whether a child’s genes play any role in encouraging such acid-secreting bugs, Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson set up an experiment with twins.Their“volunteers”were 280 pairs of fraternal twins and 205 pairs of identical twins, all agedbetween five and 11, who had not taken antibiotics during the previous six months. The children were asked to stop brushing their teeth the evening and the morning before the crucial moment of data collection. This was when the researchers swabbed the children’s gingival sulci(the clefts betweenteeth and gums, in which bacteria collect)to find out what was there. The children also had their teethscored by dentists as belonging to one of three categories: having no signs of current or previous dental cavities: having signs of current or previous cavities affecting the enamel(a tooth’s hard, outer layer); or having signs of cavities that penetrated the enamel and allected the underlying dentine as well.Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson found that, though identical twins shared many groups of bacteria which were not shared by fraternal twins, none of these was a type responsible for cavities. Moreover, similarities in bacterial flora were greatest among five-to seven-year-olds, weaker among seven- to nine-year-olds and weakest among nine-to 11-year-olds. This suggests that any role genes do play in regulating the mouth’s ecology fades with time.Far from supporting the idea that some children are fated to suffer from cavities no matter how well they brush their teeth, these results make it clear that the power to control the growth of the relevant bacteria is very much within reach of children and their parents. Brushing, however, may not be the only approach. Avoiding sugary foods is obviously de rigueur. It seems likely, though, that which other foods a child eats may help shape his oral ecosystem, too. This is an area of ongoing research. But, as in the intestines(肠道), so in the mouth, scientific medicine is at last coming to grips with the fact that the mixture of microbes present is both important and capable of manipulation, to the benefit of the host.63. What doe s“hypothesis”refer to in paragraph 1?A. Children’s failure to brush their teeth properly leads to tooth decay.B. Some children are programmed to develop tooth decay.C. Youngsters are suspicious of the effectiveness of tooth-brushing.D. Some genes are more likely to lead to dental cavites.64. Dr Gomez and Dr Nelson conducted an experiment to find out .A. whether genes have anything to do with dental decayB. which group of twins are more likely to have decayed teethC. what kinds of foods tend to give rise to tooth decayD. why the ecosystem of the intestines is similar to that of the mouth65. Which of the following statements is UNTRUE according to the passage?A. Scientists are not yet sure how ecosystem of the mouth is formed.B. The role genes play in controlling ecosystem of the mouth weakens with the time.C. The children are classified into three groups according to the degrees of dental cavities.D.Identical twins are not as genetically close to each other as fraternal twins.66. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. The existence of multiple microbes benefits children’s oral ecosystem.B. What a child eats enhances the healthfulness of a child’s oral ecosystem.C. Cutting down on sugar intake is the most likely way to prevent tooth decay.D. Parents are in no position to help their children maintain healthy oral ecosystem.Section CDirections: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable statement from A-F for each Blank. There are two extra statements, which you do not need.A. Reality has begun to catch up with the imagination of the film’s writer.B. Nanotechnology is one of the most exciting fields of research in the world today.C.When this becomes possible, great changes will take place in numerous fields.D. Small as they are, large quantities of them can make a difference and work wonders.E.Nanotechnology is also responsible for tremendous advances in many other fields.F. They carry medicine with them as they travel though the body, seeking our cancer cells.Nanotechnology Grows FastThanks to advances in technology, the science fiction of the past has become the“science fact”o f today, like the 1966 sci-fi Fantastic V oyag(e《神奇旅程》). In the film, a man with very important knowledge was dying. The only way to save him was by using experimental miniaturization technology. A number of scientists were shrunk to a tiny size and injected into the man’s body to locate the source of the problem and save him.67Over the past several decades, the science of nanotechnology has been developing rapidly, and, just as in the film, it involves working with objects of a very small size.Something very similar to the medial procedure seen in Fantastic Voyage is already being used to help save lives today. Tiny crystals known as“quanturn dots(量子点)”,whose diametersare one thousandth of a human hair, are injected into the body of a cancer patient. 68 Upon finding a tumor, these quantum dots release their medicine, and then light themselves up tso that doctors can see exactly where the cancer cells are.69 We may soon find our everyday lives being affected by it. Are you tired of having to charge the batteries in your mobile devices? Soon, you don’t need to. Scientists are working on solar-cell vests that will absorb energy from the sun as you walk around and provide power for your devices.Eric Drexler, an author and scientist, believes that nanotechnology will lead to a new kind of manufacturing, one in which products are assembled atom by atom. By rearranging atoms, you can turn one kind of molecule into another. For example, a wood molecule can be transformed into a metal molecule. If this is done many times according to a design, a large object such as an ax might eventually be created, just by rearranging atoms. 70 .Although we have already seen its first practical applications, even more dramatic advances will be made in the future.Ⅳ. Surmmary Writing(10 分)Directions:R ead the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.According to an official report on youth violence.“In our country today, the greatest threat to the lives of children and adolescents is not disease or starvation or abandonment, but the terrible reality of violence.”Given that this is the case, why aren’t students taught to manage conflict the way they are taught to solve math problems, drive cars, or stay physically fit?First of all, students need to realize that conflict is unavoidable. It is reported that most violent incidents between students begin with a relatively minor insult. For example, a fight could start over the fact that one student eats a peanut butter sandwich each lunchtime. Laughter over the sandwich can lead to insults, which in turn can lead to violence.If the conflict occurs, students can practice the golden rule of conflict resolution: stay calm. Once the student feels calmer. Once the student feels calmer. He or she should choose words that will calm the other person down as well. Rude words and accusations only add fuel to the emotional fire while soft words can put out the fire before it explodes out of control.After that, they can use another key strategy for conflict resolution. Listening allows the two sides to understand each other. One person should describe his or her side: and the other person should listen without interrupting. Afterwards, the listener can ask non-threatening questions to clarify the speaker’s position. Then the two people should change roles.Finally, students need to consider what they are hearing. An argument doesn’t mean trying to figure out the fault of the other person but means understanding what the real issue is. As the issue becomes clearer, the conflict often simply becomes smaller.(280 words)第Ⅱ卷Ⅴ. Translation(15 分)Directions:Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1. 为了安全起见,小孩不应该被单独留在家里。
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2017-2018 学年度第一学期期末考试试题高三年级英语学科试卷(考试时间100 分钟满分120 分)本试卷共10 页。
考生务必将答案答在答题卡上,在试卷上作答无效。
第一部分: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)从每题所给的A 、B、C、D 四个选项中,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。
例:It ' s so nice to hear from her again_. __ , we last met more than thirty years ago.A. What ' s moreB. That ' s to sayC. In other wordsD. Believe it or not答案是D 。
1. These fresh vegetables are easy to rot so you ____ eat them within two days.A. mightB. shouldC. canD. would2. ____ the pictures on the screen more clearly, they moved to the front row.A. To watchB. WatchingC. WatchedD. Having watched3. He missed the worst of the traffic this morning, ____ he set out before 6 o 'clock.A. butB. soC. forD. or4. - Did you have to do much for the dinner party?-No, Tina ______ everything by the time I got home.A. has finishedB. had finishedC. would finishD. will finish5. Two blocks beyond the school is a field _____ we often played football during childhood.A. whoB. whichC. whenD. where6. My parents graduated from this university; that '__s ___ I insisted on applying for it.A. whichB. whyC. whatD. where7. - Why are you buying a new refrigerator?The old one _____ so many times that it 'snot worth it any more.A. has repairedB. is repairedC. has been repairedD. has been repairing8. A child should be receiving either meat or eggs daily, preferably ____ .A. neitherB. noneC. eitherD. both9. Can I give you a call on Saturday morning?I think I _____ to the mountains, so call me on my cell phone.A. driveB. am drivingC. will driveD. will be driving10. What will you do if the people ____ at the back of the hall have trouble hearing the speech?A. sittingB. sitC. satD. to sit11. Having a hobby is good for you. It doesn 'tmatter what it is ____ it drives you forward.A. as long asB. thoughC. unlessD. in order that12. ____ the characters leave un said is ofte n more importa nt tha n what they put i nto words.A. ThatB. WhenC. WhatD. How13. - My car is making a really strange noise.—You ' better get it ______ b efore you drive to Denver.A. look ing atB. looked atC. to look atD. being looked at14. I wish I _____ your advice the n. In that case things might not be so bad.A. have take nB. tookC. had take nD. would have take n15. What 's touching about being a volunteer is seei ____ helping brings out the best in people.A. whatB. whetherC. whyD. how第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,共30分)阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Failing SuccessfullyTwo years ago I took part in a speech competition and delivered a memorized speech. It was a hard time for me when the judge __16__ the winn ers. At last, the mome nt of truth came. I got the worst.After n ot being placed in the competiti on, I really wan ted to __17__ aga in. I realized that finding the right topic was the most important part of the whole __18__. It needs to be motivational and inspirational to the __19__. So I reworked my speech for the following year, __20__ a different topic and spending many hours before the computer and in libraries doing research. Then I worked __21__ the speech, line by line, word by word, making it __22__ better.The next year I participated in the competition again. I gave my __23__ in two parts, one was about my own experienee and the other was about the feelings that people usually have when givi ng a speech— how __24__ it is, sta nding on a stage all alone, with every one sitt ing and watching them. My speech __25__ down well and I was hoping to do that a little bit better. __26__, my wish didn 'come true. The competition was so fierce and again I wasn '__27__.I was deeply disappo in ted, since I could n ' accept the fact that I had __28__ twice in someth ing that I had worked so hard on. However, I knew that los ing is __29__ and part of life. One of the judges said to me that my speech was quite good, __30__ it needed to be better if I wan ted to go any further. He advised me to struggle to __31__ someth ing like some of the empty gestures. He said that I would surely succeed someday.While I didn ' etarn __32__ as a result of the competition, I did gain a new viewpoint. I discovered that I could fail successfully. I think I' __33__ to work hard and enter the next competition. Now, whenever I ' m faced withdafeat, I __34__ myself of what a famous person said, “ The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself that it ' asslip and not a __35_. ”16. A. announced B. predicted C. observed D. interviewed17. A. suffer B. compete C. win D. check18. A. range B. con diti on C. system D. process19. A. audie nee B. compa nion C. director D. author20. A. reviewi ng B. suppos ing C. picki ng D. compari ng21. A. duri ng B. aga inst C. beh ind D. through22. A. in crease B. flow C. expose D. occur23. A. choice B. in structi on C. reas on D.speech24. A. annoying B. surpris ing C. frighte ning D. confusing25. A. went B. dropped C. slowed D. rolled26. A. An grily B. Sadly C. Stra ngely D. Eagerly27. A. settled B. treated C. placed D. affected28. A. decreased B.escaped C. struggled D. failed29. A. flexible B. no rmal C. appropriate D. typical30. A. but B. so C. for D. or31. A. assume B. declare C. overcome D. acquire32. A. profits B. awards C. comme nts D. qualities33. A. contin ue B. agree C. regret D. apply34. A. allow B. i nform C. accuse D. remi nd35. A. kick B. push C. fall D. walk第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,共30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。