高三英语-2016届高三上学期初英语测试卷

2015-2016学年高三上期初英语测试卷

一、单项选择

1. —Will you come over to Beijing next summer?

—I’d like to, but my family ______ London that summer.

A. are visiting

B. are to visit

C. will be visiting

D. will visit

2. The traditional view is ______ we sleep because our brain is “programmed” to make us do so.

A. when

B. why

C. whether

D. that

3. I don’t like people who try to _______ you with how much money they’ve got.

A. strengthen

B. show

C. press

D. impress

4. He didn’t make ______ c lear when and where the meeting would be held.

A. this

B. it

C. that

D. these

5. Across the Yangtze River ______ more than one bridge, the Nanjing Changjiang

Bridge being the first one.

A. lay

B. lies

C. lie

D. laid

6. —Was ______ Bill, ______ played basketball very well, ______ helped the blind

man cross the road?

—Yes, of course. He is always ready to help others.

A. it; who; that

B. this; who; that

C. which; that; that

D. it; that; who

7. She was the first woman ______ to the board.

A. to be appointed

B. having been appointed

C. appointing

D. to appoint

8. —Where did you lose your bicycle?

—It was in the playground______ I played basketball.

A. that

B. where

C. which

D. when

9.These problems, ，will seriously affect the growth of teenagers and even the nation’s future.

A.not if solved properly

B.if solved properly

C.not if properly solved

D.if not solved properly

10.Choosing the right dictionary depends on ______ you want to use it for.

A. why

B. what

C. how

D. whether

11. The ground is wet all over, so I’m sure it must have rained last night, _____ it?

A. hasn’t

B. didn’t

C. mustn’t

D. wasn’t

12. --- What do you know made Susan so upset?

--- ______ giving away state secrets.

A. Charged with

B. Being charged with

C. Accusing of

D. To be accused of

13. Mr. Mike didn’t understand ______ made his wife so upset this morning.

A. what was it that

B. why it was this

C. how that was

D. what it was that

14. Not until _____ on TV ____ that Ben Latin, the No. 1 terrorist in the world, was shot to death.

A. did I turn; did I learn

B. did I turn; I learned

C. I turned; did I learn

D. I turned; I had learned

15. Two middle-aged passengers fell into the sea. ______, neither of them could swim.

A. Fairly

B. Luckily

C. Unfortunately

D.

Naturally

二、完形填空

Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. 1 the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape 2 . It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.

But the hoisting game is not 3 it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know 4 they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed 5 and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.

Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court 6 for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple 7 dresses. It was an important test case which 8 other stores to install similar equipment.

When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n) 9 in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to 10 shoplifters. Their 11 ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

It did not take long, 12 , for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable 13 . Soon after the equipment was 14 at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman 15 putting bottles of perfume into her bag.

“As she turned to go,” Chadwick 16 , “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not 17 have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she 18 have had a feeling that I was looking at her.”

“For a moment she paused, but then she 19 to counter and started putting everything 20 . When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried ou t of the store.”

1. A. As B. With C. For D. Since

2. A. noticed B. noticing C. unnoticed D. unnoticing

3. A. how B. that C. which D. what

4. A. if B. that C. how D. why

5. A. at rest B. at attention C. at work D. at shock

6. A. case B. theft C. discussion D. conversation

7. A. trying B. wearing C. stealing D. packaging

8. A. stopped B. kept C. encouraged D. called

9. A. difference B. influence C. appearance D. function

10. A. attack B. calm C. excite D. frighten

11. A. somehow B. somewhat C. anyhow D. somewhere

12. A. however B. thus C. therefore D. anyway

13. A. respect B. interest C. fright D. courage

14. A. in operation B. in case C. in trouble D. in advance

15. A. publicly B. bravely C. quickly D. secretly

16. A. replied B. repeated C. recalled D. requested

17. A. possibly B. politely C. pleasantly D. patiently

18. A. could B. would C. should D. must

19. A. came B. left C. returned D. rushed

20. A. off B. in C. up D. back

三、阅读理解

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Sports is not only physically challenging, but it can also mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches， parents, and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological, and research has showed that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.

The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents’ and coaches’ criticisms to heart and find a flaw in themselves.

Coaches and parents should also be cautious that youth sport participation does not

become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today’s youth sport setting, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game, many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find fault with youngsters’ performances. Positive reinforcement should be provided in spite of the outcome. Research shows that positive reinforcement motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.

1. According to the passage sport is positive for young people in that _____.

A. it can help them learn more about society

B. it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves

C. it can provide them with valuable experiences

D. it enables them to find flaws in themselves

2. According to the passage parents and coaches should _____.

A. help children to win every game

B. enable children to understand the positive aspect of sports

C. pay more attention to letting children enjoy sports

D. train children to deal with stress

3. The author’s purpose in writing the passage is _____.

A. to emphasize the importance of positive reinforcement to children

B. to persuade young children not to worry about criticism

C. to discuss the skill of combing criticism with encouragement

D. to teach young athletes how to avoid burnout

B

The healthy adolescent boy or girl likes to do the real things in life, to do the things that matter. He would rather be a plumber’s mate and do a real job that requires doing than learn about hydrostatics(流体静力学) sitting at a desk, without understanding what practical use they are going to be. A girl would rather look after the baby than learn about child care. Logically we should learn about things before doing them and that is probably why the experts enforce this in our educational system.

But it is not the natural way —nor, in my view, the best way. The adolescent wants

to do things first for only then does he appreciate the problems involved and want

to learn more about them.

They do these things better in primitive life, for there at puberty(青春期) the boy joins his father in making canoes, patching huts, going out fishing or hunting. He is serving his apprenticeship in the actual accomplishments of life. It is not surprising that anthropologists(人类学家) find that the adolescents of primitive communities do not suffer from the same neurotic(神经质的) “difficulties”as those

of civilized life. This is not, as some assume, because they are permitted more sexual freedom, but because they are given more natural outlets for their native interests and powers and are allowed to grow up freely into a full life of responsibility in the community.

In the 19th century this was recognized in the apprenticeship system, which allowed the boy to go out with the master carpenter, or ploughman, to engage in the actual work of carpentry or roof-mending, and so to learn his trade. In some agricultural colleges a t the present time young men have to do a year’s work on

a farm before their theoretical training at college. The great advantage of this system is that it lets the apprentice see the practical problems before he sets to work learning how to solve them, and he can therefore take a more intelligent interest

in his theoretical work.

Since more knowledge of more things is now required in order to cope with the adult world, the period of growing-up to independence takes much longer than it did

in a more primitive community, and the responsibility for such education, which formerly was in the hands of the parents, is now necessarily undertaken by experts

at school. But that should not make us lose sight of the basic principle, namely the need and the desire of the adolescent to engage responsibly in the real pursuits

of life and then to learn how—to learn through responsibility, not to learn before responsibility.

4. According to the author, what is the natural way of education?

A. Doing things while learning.

B. Doing things as an apprentice.

C. Doing things before learning.

D. Learning practical knowledge first.

5. The main advantage of the natural way of education, whether in primitive or modern times, is that learners ________.

A. can learn the trade through solving problems at work

B. can work with their masters throughout their learning

C. are given more freedom in doing things and learning

D. are given opportunities to develop their interest first

6. According to the context, “this” in the third paragraph refers to ________.

A. the way of learning in primitive communities

B. the difficulties modern adolescents experience

C. the amount of freedom in learning in primitive life

D. the kind of skills boys learned from their father

7. Which of the following sums up the author’s main point?

A. The apprenticeship system was effective in learning.

B. Students should be given more freedom in learning.

C. Students develop their interest through learning.

D. Learning to solve problems is learning through responsibility.

C

In some urban centers, workholism is so common that people do not consider it unusual: they accept the lifestyle as normal. Government workers in Washington D. C., for example, frequently work sixty to seventy hours a week. They don’t do this because they have to; they do it because they want to.

Workholism can be a serious problem. Because true workaholics (工作狂) would rather work than do anything else, they probably don’t know how to relax.

Is workholism always dangerous? Perhaps not. There are, certainly, people who work well under stress. Some studies show that many workaholics have great energy

and interest in life. Their work is so pleasurable that they are actually very happy.

For most workaholics, work and entertainment keep them busy and creative.

Why do workaholics enjoy their jobs so much? There are several advantages to work. Of course, it provides people with paychecks, and this is important. But it offers more than financial security. It provides people with self-confidence; they have a feeling of satisfaction when they’ve produced a challenging piece of work and are able to say, “I made that.” Psychologists claim that work gives people an identity through participation in work, they get a sense of self and individualism. In addition, most jobs provide people with a socially acceptable way to meet others. Perhaps some people are compulsive about their work, but their addiction seems to be a safe-even an advantageous-one.

8. The passage indicates that workaholics ______.

A. just know work but nothing else

B. find their work provide them more satisfaction and self-confidence than how

much they are paid

C. are willing to work hard for long hours without pay

D. has the work with more responsibility than others

9. One of the reasons that some people are not willing to qui t their jobs even in their eighties and nineties is that ______.

A. they are in the need of financial security

B. they long for a sense of identity and being accomplished

C. they would rather work than be disturbed by domestic affairs

D. they may have health problems from sheer boredom

10. This passage is mainly about ______.

A. people who are absorbed in their work may enjoy movies, sports and other kinds

of entertainment

B. workaholics are usually successful people, but their lives are in a mess

C. workholism can lead to serious problems but it can also create a joyful life

D. those who work even under difficult conditions may be very happy

11. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. in the eyes of all the common people workaholics are peculiar

B. workaholics are as addicted to their job as other people are to drugs or alcohol

C. a piece of challenging work may provide the workaholics a sense of satisfaction

D. to workaholics, work is the sole source of happiness

D

A friend of mine, in response to a conversation we were having about the injustices of life, asked me the question, “Who said life was going to be fair, or that it was even meant to be fair?” Her question was a good one. It reminded me of something I was taught as a youngster: Life isn’t fair. It’s disappointing, but it’s absolutely true. One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It’s not and it won’t.

One of the nice things about surrendering(屈从) to the fact that life isn’t fair is that it keeps us from feeling sorry for ourselves by encouraging us to do the very best we can with what we have. We know it’s not “life’s job” to make everything perfect, it’s our own challenge. Surrendering to this fact also keeps us from feeling sorry for others because we are reminded that everyone is dealt a different hand; everyone has unique strengths and problems in the process of growing up, facing the reality and making decisions; and everyone has those times that they feel victimized or unfairly treated.

The fact that life isn’t fair doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do everything in our power to improve our own lives or the world as a whole. To the contrary, it suggests that we should. When we don’t recognize or admit that life isn’t fair, we tend to feel pity for others and for ourselves. Pity, of course, is a self-defeating emotion that does nothing for anyone, except to make everyone feel worse than they already do. When we do recognize that life isn’t fair, however, we feel compassion(热情) for others and for ourselves. And compassion is a heartfelt emotion that delivers loving-kindness to everyone it touches. The next time you find yourself thinking about the injustices of the world, try reminding yourself of this very basic

fact. You may be surprised that it can persuade you out of self-pity and into helpful action.

12. The writer thought of his friend’s question as a good one because _______.

A. he also wanted to know who held such an opinion

B. it made him recall something during his childhood

C. like his friend, he also thought life was unfair

D. he learned something from the question as a youngster

13. Surrendering to the fact that life isn’t fair will ________.

A. keep us from making everything perfect

B. keep us from doing everything in our power

C. make us face unfair treatment bravely

D. make us know it’s our duty to perfect things

14. The second paragraph of the passage mainly tells us that ________.

A. it’s nice to accept the injustice of life

B. it’s nice to surrender to the life

C. we should not surrender to the life

D. we should not feel sorry for everything

15. In the last paragraph, “this very basic fact”refers to the fact that _______.

A. you should not pity for others

B. life isn’t and won’t be fair

C. compassion is heartfelt emotion

D. pity is a self-defeating emotion

四、任务型阅读

Do you love traveling? If the answer is yes, then have you ever thought about why? You may maintain that traveling can help you expand your scope of knowledge, especially geographical and historical learning. It will provide more chances for you to enjoy food and try on clothes that you otherwise cannot possible have. A famous English author Francis Bacon (1561-1626) makes a point when he says that, “Travel, in the younger sort, is a pa rt of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

Evidence of leisure travel can be traced as far back as ancient Babylon. This year, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, the 1 billionth tourist will

cross an international boundary before the end of this month. That means that one in seven people on the planet traveled this year, something that would not have been possible a few decades ago. Around 20 years ago only the rich could travel.

While the US and France remain the two largest destinations for world travel, experts say much of the explosive growth in tourism has been to countries like Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the Ivory Coast, which weren’t even on the world tourism map a decade ago. The top five destinations in the world, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, are Paris, London, New York, the Mediterranean, Turkey.

Several factors have led to the boom in world travel. The prosperity (富裕) of people in Asia is one factor. People in Asian developing countries have lifted their incomes above middle-class levels in the past few years. And a lot of them have used their new wealth to travel. In addition, travel costs have been reduced thanks to the rapid development of transportation, and competition between airlines to give customers the best prices.

五、书面表达

请阅读下面短文,并按照要求用英语写一篇 150 词左右的文章。

When we get some money as a gift, how to deal with the money becomes a problem we must face. From my perspective, the answers are diverse in different periods. However, no matter how you deal with the money, the most important thing is to use it wisely.

In my childhood, when the cartoons about the car race extremely attracted me, I would use the money I received to buy toy cars. But when I entered the school, toys could not attract me. In this period, the things I wanted most were some electronic products. I always hurried to buy the up-to-date mobile phone immediately I received money as a gift.

Now I have got a job, the things above me not important for me. I do not need some useless things or something I have already had. Probably, saving money in the bank is my best choice.

In conclusion, if I receive a sum of money, in different periods I may have different choices. Whatever I choose to do with the gift of money, it must make me feel happy.

1. 用约 30 个单词概括上文的主要内容;

2. 用约 120 个单词就“收到零用钱为礼物”发表你的观点,内容包括:

(1)你怎么看待以钱作为礼物；

(2)收到钱时，你怎么处理它；

(3)你认为青少年用钱时需要注意什么。

1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子;

2. 阐述观点或提供论据时,不能直接引用原文语句;

3. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称;

4. 不必写标题。

内容完整,语言规范,语篇连贯,词数适当。

参考答案

一、单项选择

1-5 CDDBB 6-10 AABDB 11-15 BBDCC

二、完形填空

1-5 BCDAC 6-10 ACCCD 11-15 BAAAD 16-20 CAAAD

三、阅读理解

1-3 CCA 4-7 CDAD 8-11 BBCB 12-15 CDAB

四、任务型阅读

1. geography

2.food(s)

3.Dating

4.decades

5.reach

6.destinations

7. explosively/quickly/rapidly/fast 8.resulting 9.richer/wealthier 10. Spent

五、书面表达

The way the author deals with money as a gift changes over time. In the past he would use it to buy toy cars or mobile phones but now he chooses to save it in the bank.

Money is always the last thing I would consider as a present. Instead, I prefer to send such gifts as a purse or a pen so that the receivers can use them every day, which is a good way to recall the sincere friendship between us.

When I receive money as a gift, I will put it away, for I intend to travel to France next summer. Besides, I’ve decided to donate a small portion of the money to poor children so that they can have a chance to study like me.

It is important for teenagers to develop the ability to handle money. First, as teenagers, we should have a plan rather than use money without control. What’s more, we can use the money to help others, because as the saying goes, to give is better than to receive.