2018届辽宁省大连市第八中学高三上学期期中考试 英语

2018届辽宁省大连市第八中学高三上学期期中考试英语本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分，其中试题卷由第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）组成，共10页；答题卡一张；满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第I卷（选择题共100分）第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）1.What will the man probably do?A. Visit Bill.B. Play tennis.C. Go swimming.2. What time is Alex supposed to arrive?A. At 7:30.B. At 8:00.C. At 8:15.3. Where will the speakers probably spend their vacation?A. In China.B. In Italy.C. In Korea.4. Which color MP4 player does the man want?A. Blue.B. Brown.C. Green.5. What is the man doing?A. Making an apology.B. Making an invitation.C. Offering help.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，选出最佳选项。

听第 6 段材料，回答6、7 题。

6. What‟s the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Mother and son.B. Husband and wife.C. Brother and sister.7. What will the woman most probably do?A. Buy some flowers.B. Clean the house.C. Make a card.听第7 段材料，回答8、9 题。

8. Why is the man tired?A. He stayed up late for work.B. He got up too early.C. He went to a party.9. Which means of transport did the man take at first?A. The subway.B. The car.C. The bus.听第8 段材料，回答10 至12 题。

10. Why is the man a bit short on cash?A. He bought a new phone.B. He didn‟t get paid.C. He paid the rent.11. When will the woman pay the man back?A. This Friday.B. This Sunday.C. Next Wednesday.12. How much more does the woman have to get?A. $200.B. $300.C. $500.听第9 段材料，回答13 至16 题。

13. When was the first manned balloon launched?A. In the 15th century.B. In the 17th century.C. In the 18th century.14. Who was the first American to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean?A. Charles Lindbergh.B. Amelia Earhart.C. John Glenn.15. When did the first American women travel into space?A. In 1962.B. In 1973.C. In 1983.16. What is the man‟s attitude toward people living on another planet one day?A. Doubtful.B. Hopeful.C. Uninterested.听第10 段材料，回答17 至20 题。

17. Where are under-eleven matches held?A. In the sports field.B. In the secret garden.C. In the village football field.18. Why was the play equipment removed?A. It blocked the entrance to the garden.B. It didn‟t meet some regulations.C. It was replaced with a car park.19. What can be found in the secret garden?A. Fish.B. Cats.C. Dogs.20. What is in the middle of the garden?A. The tree house.B. The recycling centre.C. The story teller‟s chair.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，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

AInspiring young minds!TOKNOW Magazine is a big hit in the world of children‟s publishing, bringing a unique combination of challenging idears and good fun to young fans every month.What is so special about TOKNOW magazine? Well, it has no ads or promotions inside—instead it is jam-packed with serious ideas. TOKNOW makes complex ideas attractive and accessible to children, who can become involved in advanced concepts and even philosophy—and they will soon discover that TOKNOW feels more like a club than just a magazine. What’s inside?Every month the magazine introduces a fresh new topic with articles, experiments and creative things to make —the magazine also explores philosophy and well-being to make sure young readers have a balanced take on life.Sounds too good to be true?Take a look online—evidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend TOKNOW to their friends.Happy Birthday All Year!What could be more fun than a gift that keeps coming through the letterbox every month? The first magazine with your gift message will arrive in time for the special day.SUBSCRIBE NOW□Annual SubscriptionEurope £55 Rest of World £65□Annual Subscription with Gift PackIncludes a Mammoth Map, a passport Puzzle Booklet, and SubscriptionEurope £60 Rest of World £70Refund Policy—the subscription can be cancelled within 28 days and you can get your money back.21. Why is TOKNOW a special magazine?A. It entertains young parents.B. It provides serious advertisements.C. It publishes popular science fictions.D. It combines fun with complex concepts.22. What does TOKNOW offer its readers?A. Online courses.B. Articles on new topics.C. Lectures on a balanced life.D. Reports on scientific discoveries.23. How much should you pay if you make a 12-mouth subscription to TOKNOW with gift pack from China?A. £55.B. £60.C. £65.D. £70.24. Subscribers of TOKNOW would get .A. free birthday presentsB. full refund within 28 daysC. membership of the TOKNOW clubD. chances to meet the experts in personBBack in 1953, mathematics looked like a big hurdle for me and several of my classmates. When we reached the 9th class, we got Mr. Lyer, the strict maths teacher who was our class teacher as well. He always stuck to his discipline. We had to arrive on time, pay undivided attention to his lectures, and dared not neglect any of h is homework.Even so, as our class teacher, we got to know him better. Noticing some of us fidgeting one day as the mid-term exams approached, he stopped solving a mathematical problem to ask us why. “There‟s too much to do,”we sighed. “We,re afraid we‟ll never manage to finish our revision before the exams.”“Nothing is impossible,” Mr. Lyer told us. “This classroom is on the second floor. Do you have a problem reaching here?”We reacted with blank stares.“No, you don‟t!” he said,answering his own question. “You have a staircase to help you climb up to this level. No one expects you to make it in two giant leaps......you simply take one step at a time. Any task can be completed if you focus on the immediate action to be taken. The rest w ill take care of itself if you keep at it. One step at atime. That‟s the secret!”Then, he wrote down an old motto on the blackboard: “The longest journey starts with a single step.” And having heard his staircase analogy（比喻）, we saw him in a new light.Most of my classmates got good scored in maths. And I went on to become an English teacher.To this day, whenever I pass on Mr. Lyer‟s invaluable advice to my own students, they brighten up at the prospect of a lighter academic burden.25. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Maths was difficult for most of the author‟s classmates.B. The students thought Mr. Lyer was not a good teacher.C. The students showed great fear to Mr. Lyer.D. Mr. Lyer would punish the students neglecting his discipline.26. Why did we react with blank stares?A. We thought reaching the second floor had nothing to do with the exams.B. We were too tired to understand what Mr. Lyer said.C. We felt surprised that Mr. Lyer should talk about such an unbelievable problem.D. We had no interest in any subjects that were no good for our exams.27. The staircase analogy tells us .A. one can reach his/her goals in a giant leapB. the goals can be reached step by stepC. there is only one step between success and failureD. tasks can be solved under the guide of the teacherCSome people call it a travelling museum. Others refer to it as a living or open-air museum. Built in Brazil to honor Columbus‟ first voyage to the New World, the Nina, a Columbus-era replica（复制品）ship, provides visitors with an accurate visual of the size and sailing equipment of Columbus‟ favorite ship from over 500 years ago.I joined the crew of the Nina in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in February 2013. As part of a research project sponsored by my university, my goal was to document my days aboard the ship an a blog. I quickly realized that I gained insights of great value when I observed or gave tours to school-age children. The field-trip tour of the Nina is hands-on learning at its best. In this setting, students could touch the line, pass around a ballast stone（压舱石）, and move the extremely large tiller（船柄）that controlled the direction of the ships Columbus‟ days. They soon came to understand the labor involved in sailing the ship back in his time. I was pleased to see the studentsbecome active participants in their learning process.The Nina is not the only traveling museum that provides such field trips. A visit to Jamestown Settlement, for example, allows visitors to board three recreations of the ships that brought the first settlers from England to Virginia in the early 1600s. Historical guides, dressed in period costumes, give tours of the Susan Condspeed, and Discovery. These guides often portray a character that would have lived and worked during that time period . Students touring these ships are encouraged to interact with the guides in order to better understand the daily life in the past.My experience on the Nina helps confirm my long-held belief that students stay interested, ask better questions, and engage in higher-order thinking tasks when they are actively engaged in the learning process. The students who boarded the Nina came as passive learners. They left as bold explorers.28. What occupation is the author engaged in?A. Shiping.B. Education.C. Ecological tourism.D. Museum administration.29. Which of the following is true about the Nina introduced in the passage?A. She is a replica of a ship that Columbus built in Brazil.B. She is always crowded with foreign tourists during holidays.C. She is the boat Columbus sailed in his voyage to the New World.D. She displays what Columbus‟ ship was like and how it operated.30. What is the third paragraph mainly about?A. Guidelines for visitors on the ships.B. Life of the first settlers in Jamestown Settlement.C. Duties of the guides in the British museums.D. Introduction to another museum similar to the Nina.31. What does the author mean by the last two underlined sentences of the passage?A. The students are interested in becoming tour guides.B. The experience has changed the students‟ learning attitude.C. The students become brave and are ready to sail the seas on their own.D. The museums are successful in teaching the students survival skills at sea.DThis month, Germany‟s transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt, proposed the first set of rules for autonomous vehicles（自主驾驶车辆）. They would define the driver‟s role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the “death valley” of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.Dobrindt wants three things: that a car always chooses property(财产) damage over personal injury; that it never distinguishes between humans based on age or race; and that if a human removes his or her hands from the driving wheel —to check email, say —the car‟s maker is responsible if there is a crash.“The change to the road traffic law will permit fully automatic driving,”says Dobrindt. It will put fully driverless cars on an equal legal footing to human drivers, he says.Who is responsible for the operation of such vehicles is not clear among car makers, consumers and lawyers. “The liability(法律责任) issue is the biggest one of them all,” says Natasha Merat at the University of Leeds, UK.An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human “be watchful and monitoring the road” at every moment.But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars. “When you say …driverless cars‟, people expect driverless cars.” Merat says. “You know —no driver.”Because of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says Ryan Calo at Stanford University, California. That is happening in the UK and Singapore, where government-provided driverless vehicles are being launched.That would go down poorly in the US, however. “The idea that the government would take over driverless cars and treat them as a public good would get absolutely nowhere here,” says Calo.32. What does the phrase “death valley” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. A place where cars often break down.B. A case where passing a law is impossible.C. An area where no driving is permitted.D. A situation where drivers‟ role is not clear.33. The proposal put forward by Dobrindt aims to __________.A. stop people from breaking traffic rulesB. help promote fully automatic drivingC. protect drivers of all ages and racesD. prevent serious property damage34. What do consumers think of the operation of driverless cars?A. It should get the attention of insurance companies.B. It should be the main concern of law makers.C. It should not cause deadly traffic accidents.D. It should involve no human responsibility.35. What could be the best title for the passage?A. Autonomous Driving: Whose Liability?B. Fully Automatic Cars: A New BreakthroughC. Autonomous Vehicles: Driver Removed!D. Driverless Cars: Root of Road Accidents第二节七选五（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。