--上海市封浜高级中学学年第一学期高三英语期中试卷

2014学年第一学期高三英语期中考试试卷第I卷（共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. 145 minutes B. 140 minutes C. 130 minutes D. 160 minutes2. A. In a bank B. At a hotel C. At a tourist agency D. In a supermarket.3. A. A travel agency clerk. B. An office secretaryC. An emergency room nurseD. A hotel receptionist4. A. A manager B. A teacher C. A secretary D. jobless5. A. Only four courses are offered next year.B. Five courses may be too many.C. It would be wise to take one more course.D. A sensible decision must be made as soon as possible.6. A. In a restaurant across the street. B. In a garden near the restaurant.C. In a driving club not far away.D. In a car on the way.7. A. Betty will start working in this company in four years.B. Betty will be working in this company for at least four more years.C. Betty began to work in this company more than four years ago.D. Betty left her company less than four years ago.8. A. David was too tired and depressed to studyB. David didn’t take the woman’s advice.C. David didn’t do well in any of his exams.D. David failed in his exam because he was depressed.9. A. Lisa is still in the kitchen. B. Lisa didn’t drive her car that day.C. Lisa doesn’t like her new car.D. The key on the table was a special one.10. A. The battery is not correctly positioned.B. The woman doesn’t know how the calculator works.C. The calculator needs a new battery to work properly.D. The man should put down the different batteries.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Political system B. Religion C. Working language D. Race12. A. Discuss current issues. B. Celebrate their friendship.C. Join in a writing competition.D. Attend an arts and crafts competition.13. A. The Common Wealth Games. B. An Important Holiday.C. The Common Wealth members.D. An international association.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. A particular spider in U S. B. Habitats of all Spiders in North America.C. How to defend spiders.D. People’s fear of spiders and powerful poison.15. A. Most spiders will not bite even when handled by people.B. Most spiders are poisonous and dangerous although they are shy.C. Most spiders tend to attack people directly with their silk.D. Most spiders have sharp eyes and do not like being disturbed.16. A. Because she is too frightening to find a husband for herself.B. Because the female spider is larger than the male one.C. Because the female spider often kills her husband.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.(A)English is ___25____ (widely) used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings ___26____ speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary —perhaps as many as two million words.However, let’s face it: English is a crazy l anguage. There is no egg in ____27____ eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, ___28____ aren’t sweet, are meat.We take English ___29____ granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.And why is it ___30____ a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth?How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?So far English, ___31____ (invent) by people not computers, ___32____ (reflect) the creativity of human beings.(B)About 18 months ago, my father was in hospital recovering __33__ a major lung operation. My mother had recently passed away, and my father had taken the loss of his partner of 55 years and had lost interest in life.__34___(t ry) to get him to eat each day was quite a chore as he didn’t want anything. The one thing, however, that he would ask us to bring him was ice-cream.One evening, to our surprise, he refused ___35___(eat ) the ice-cream, so I placed __36__ in a staffroom freezer. A little while later, my son decided he wanted it, so I fetched it for him.As I passed another ward, a woman asked, ‘Are there more ice-cream?” .__37__ I had explained the situation, she apologized. She then said the she had cancer and could eat very little, other than the occasional ice-cream.The next morning, I decided to buy two ice-creams. On the way to Dad’s room, I stopped in at the sick woman’s room and of fered her the ice-cream I’d bought for h er. She was totally surprised at what I __38__ (think) for her, and accepted the gift with tears in her eyes. I spoke with her for a few minutes, explaining__39_ was happening in my family and listened to her similar story of pain and suffering. It was clear that she didn’t have many visitors, and the ice-cream and our short chat meant a great deal to her.I repeated the gesture a few days later, and this time, I __40__(reward) with a big hug.I never even thought to ask her name, never saw her again, but it made me realize that an act of kindness can be more rewarding when you give it, rather than receive it.Section BDirections: Complete the passage with the words given in the table. Each word can be used only once. There is an extra one that you will find no use for.terrifying night in the high country, they were wandering 41 –cold, wet and hungry. “They’ll never find us,” one girl said between sobs. “We’re all going to die.” Then, an 11-year-old, Evancell Towne, stepped forward. “I’m not going to die,” she said 42 . “I’ve heard that if you follow a little stream, it empties into a bigger stream and finally you come to a town. I’m going to follow that str eam we saw. The rest of you can come if you want.”Evancell43 resolutely into the woods toward a tiny stream. The others followed. For more than five hours they 44 through bushes along ever-larger stream beds. Finally, they heard voices, and their shouts brought the rescue party. The 45 youngster had led the group to safety.“A born leader,” people say when I tell this story. In their 46 , people like Evancell are47 at birth to lead, while others are destined to follow. But my work with athletes, students, Air Force pilots and hotel managers has convinced me that leaders aren’t born –they’re made. Men and women who run organizations, lead the community and captain sports teams are the 48 of strict parents who follow rules that help develop a leadership mentality –strength of mind and independent thinking. Their children don’t easily give in under pressure; they follow their own 49 . A leadership mentality pays off tomorrow as well as today. Childhood leadership in class and after-school activities is more accurate a predictor of adult50 for both sexes than intelligence or academic grades.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections:For each blank in the following passage 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.Napping for a while at daytime is a very smart and healthy move. The Mayo Clinic says naps _51 relaxation, better mood and alertness, and a sharper working 52 . A 2008 British study found that compared to getting more nighttime sleep, a mid-day nap was the best way to 53 the mid-afternoon sleepiness.According to the Harvard Health Letter, several studies have shown that people 54 new information better when they take a nap shortly after learning it. And, most 55 , a 2007 study of nearly 24,000 Greek adults in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people who napped 56 had a 37 percent reduced risk of dying from heart disease com pared to people who didn’t nap.Of course, napping isn’t57 for everyone. If you’re suffering from inability to sleep, naps that are too long or taken too late in the day can 58 with your ability to fall or stay asleep at night.But for most, naps can make you feel sharper and happier. Naps provide different benefits 59 on how long they are. A 20-minute nap will boost alertness and concentration; a 90-minute snooze（小睡）can 60 creativity.According to , you 61 a natural nap in body temperature between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. A short nap at this time can boost alertness for several hours and, for most people, shouldn’t 62 being able to fall asleep at night.Pick a dark, cozy place that’s not too warm or too chilly. 63 napping on the couch instead of in bed, so you’re less64 to snooze for too long.Surprisingly, the best place to take a nap may be a hammock（吊床）if you have one. A Swiss study 65 last year found that people fell asleep faster and had deeper sleep when they napped in a hammock than in a bed. That same rocking motion that puts babies to sleep works wonders for grown-ups, too.51. A. relieve B. promote C. operate D. support52. A. feeling B. frame C. smell D. mind53. A. cope with B. put aside C. talk about D. carry upon54. A. remark B. consider C. remember D. concern55. A. reportedly B. unbelievably C. constantly D. frankly56. A. regularly B. enormously C. heavily D. strongly57. A. exact B. wrong C. right D. accurate58. A. connect B. deal C. compete D. interfere59. A. focusing B. depending C. force D. basing60. A. enlarge B. engage C. enhance D. enroll61. A. explore B. experience C. exercise D. implement62. A. produce B. handle C. affect D. urge63. A. postpones B. discourages C. acknowledges D. recommends64. A. obliged B. tempted C. adopted D. attracted65. A. pronounced B. published C. discovered D. cultivatedDirections: 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）On a hill 600 feet above the surrounding land, we watch the lines of rain move across the scene, the moon rise over the hills, and the stars appear in the sky. The views invite a long look from a comfortable chair in front of the wooden house.Every window in our wooden house has a view, and the forest and lakes seldom look the same as the hour before. Each look reminds us where we are.There is space for our three boys to play outside, to shoot arrows, collect tree seeds, build earth houses and climb trees.Our kids have learned the names of the trees, and with the names have come familiarity and appreciation. As they tell all who show even a passing interest, maple（枫树）makes the bestfighting sticks and white pines are the best climbing trees.The air is clean and fresh. The water from the well has a pleasant taste, and it is perhaps the healthiest water our kids will ever drink. Though they have one glass a day of juice and the rest is water, they never say anything against that.The seasons change just outside the door. We watch the maples turn every shade of yellow and red in the fall and note the poplars’（杨树）putting out the first green leaves of spring. The rainbow smelt fills the local steam as the ice gradually disappears, and the wood frogs start to sing in pools after being frozen for the winter. A family of birds rules our skies and flies over the lake.66. What can be learned from Paragraph 2?A. The scenes are colorful and changeable.B. There are many windows in the wooden house.C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house.D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.67. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that ______ .A. the kids like playing in treesB. the kids are going to study in natureC. the kids have learned much knowledgeD. the kids find trees useful learning tools68. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?A. The change of seasons is easily felt.B. The seasons make the scenes change.C. The weather often changes in the forest.D. The door is a good position to enjoy changing seasons.69. What is the main purpose of the author writing the text?A. To describe the beauty of the scene around the house.B. To introduce her children’s happy life in the forest.C. To show that living in the forest is healthful.D. To share the joy of living in the nature.（B）One of the greatest contributions to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual. In 1879, Oxford University in England asked Prof. James Murray to serve as editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the history of the English language. It would include every English word possible and would give not only the definition but also the history of the word and quotations (引文)showing how it was used.This was a huge task.,so Murrary had to find volunteers from Britain, the United States, and the British colonies to search every newspaper, magazine, and book ever written in English. Hundreds of volunteers responded, including William Chester Minor. Dr. Minor was an American surgeon who had served in the Civil War and was now living in England. He gave his address as “Broadmoor, Crowthorne, Berkshire,”” 50 miles from Oxford.Minor joined the army of volunteers sending words and quotations to Murray. Over the next 17 years, he became one of the staff’s most valued contributors.But he was also a mystery. In spite of many invitations, he would always decline to visitOxford. So in 1897，Murray finally decided to travel to Crowthorne himself. When he arrived, he found Minor locked in a book-lined cell at the Broadmoor Asylum（精神病院）for the Criminally insane.Murray and Minor became friends, sharing their love of words. Minor continued contributing to the dictionary, sending in more than 10,000 submissions in 20 years. Murray continued to visit Minor regularly, sometimes taking walks with him around the asylum grounds.In 1910, Minor left Broadmoor for an asylum in his native America. Murray was at the port to wave goodbye to his remarkable friend.Minor died in 1920, seven years before the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was completed. The 12 volumes defined 414,825 words, and thousands of them were contributions from a very scholarly and devoted asylum patient.70. According to the text, the first Oxford English Dictionary _________.A. came out before minor diedB. was edited by an American volunteerC. included the English words invented by MurrayD. was intended to be the most ambitious English dictionary71. How did Dr. Minor contributed to the dictionary?A. He helped Murray to find hundreds of volunteers.B. He sent newspapers, magazines and books to Murray.C. He provided a great number of words and quotationsD. he went to England to work with Murray.72. Why did Dr. Minor refuse to visit Oxford?A. He was shut in an asylumB. He lived far from OxfordC. He was busy writing a bookD. He disliked traveling73. Prof. Murray and Dr. Minor became friends mainly because __________.A. they both served in the Civil War.B. They had a common interest in wordsC. Minor recovered with the help of MurrayD. Murray went to America regularly to visit Minor（C）Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg，a distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I became increasingly impatient.At one point along an open road, I came to a crossing with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I drove near the light, it turned red and I made a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of car lamps, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.I started wondering why 1 refused to run the light I was not afraid of being caught, because there was clearly no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it.Much later that night, the question of why I'd stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it's part of a contract(契约)we all have with each other. It's not only the law, but itis an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don't go through red lights.Trust is our first inclination(倾向).Doubting others does not seem to be natural to us. The whole construction of our society depends on mutual(相互)trust, not distrust .We do what we say we'll do; we show up when we say we'll show up; and we pay when we say we'll pay. We trust each other in these matters, and we're angry or disappointed with the person or organization that breaks the trust we have in them.I was so proud of myself for stopping for the red light that night.74. Why did the author get impatient while driving?A. He was lonely on the road.B. He was slowed down by a truck.C. He got tired of driving too long.D. He came across too many traffic lights.75. What was the author's immediate action when the traffic light turned red?A. Stopping still.B. Driving through it.C. Looking around for other cars.D. Checking out for traffic police.76. The event made the author strongly believe thatA. traffic rules may be unnecessaryB. doubting others is human natureC. patience is important to driversD. a society needs mutual trust77. Why was the author proud of himself?A. He kept his promise.B. He held back his anger.C. He followed his inclination.D. He made a right decision.Section CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in no more than 12 words..Scientists have tried to come up with biological explanations for the difference between boys and girls.However, none were believable enough to explain the general picture. As one scientist points out, “There are slight genetic differences between the sexes at birth which may affect the subjects boys and girls choose. But the difficulty is that by the time children reach school age, there are so many other effects that it is almost impossible to tell whether girls are worse at science and maths, or whether they’ve been brought up to think of these subjects as boys’ ‘territory’”.Statistics show that in mathematics, at least, girls are equal to boys. A recent report suggests that girls only stop studying mathematics because of social attitudes. One of the reports’ authors says, “While it is socially unacceptable for people not to be able to read and write, it is still acceptable for women to say that they are ‘hope-less’ at maths. Our research shows that, althoughgirls get marks which are as good as the boys, they have not been encouraged to do so.”The explanation for the difference, which is very clear during the teenage years, goes as far back as early childhood experiences. From their first days in nursery school, girls are not encouraged to work on their own or to complete tasks, although boys are. For example, boys and not girls, are often asked to ‘help’ with repair work. This encouragement leads to a way of learning how to solve problems later on in life. Evidence shows that exceptional mathematicians and scientists did not have teachers who supplied answers; they had to find out for themselves.A further report on maths teaching shows that teachers seem to give more attention to boys than to girls.Most teachers who took part in the study admitted that they expect their male students to do better at mathematics and science subjects than their female students. All of this tends to encourage boys to work harder in these subjects, gives them confidence and makes them believe that they can succeed.Interestingly, both boys and girls tend to regard such ‘male’ subjects like mathematics and science as difficult. Yet it has been suggested that girls avoid mathematics courses, not because they are difficult, but for social reasons.Mathematics and science are mainly male subjects, and therefore, as girls become teenagers, they are less likely to take them up. Girls do not seem to want to be in open competition with boys. Neither do they want to do better than boys because they are afraid to appear less female and so, less attractive.78. According to scientific studies, girls can learn maths as well as boys if___________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.79. Those who made extraordinary contributions in mathematics and science_________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.80. Why are boys favored over girls when it comes to mathematics and science?______________________________________________________________________________.81. What caused girls to give up mathematics courses?______________________________________________________________________________.第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1.他已经养成了每天晚饭以后散步的好习惯。