高三上期中英语.doc

2015届第一学期期中考试
高三英语试题
注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生在答题卡上务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚。
2．在试题卷上作答无效。
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20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分，满分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。
例: How much is the shirt?
A. £ 19. 15. B. £ 9. 18. C. £ 9. 15.
答案是 C。
1. When will Oliver go to bed?
A. At 10:30 B. 10:50 C. 11:00
2. What can we learn about the man?
A. He worked very carefully. B. He received a traffic ticket. C. He drove in heavy traffic.
3. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Guest and receptionist B. Passenger and air hostess C. Customer and shop assistant
4. What will the speakers probably do?
A. Go back home B. Ask the way C. Buy a road map
5. Why did Bill lose his job?
A. He is always late for work.
B. He is having some financial problem.
C. He is not careful enough with his work.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分；满分15分）
听下面5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有2至4个小题, 从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. Where is the woman?
A. In her office B. At the airport C. At the restaurant
7. What time will the two speakers probably meet?
A. At 11:00 a.m. B. At 11:30 a.m. C. At 2:00 p.m.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. How is the woman trying to lose weight now?
A. By eating every other day.
B. By drinking plenty of water.
C. By eating orange-colored foods.
9. What does the man think of the woman’s diets?
A. Ridiculous. B. Balanced. C. Effective.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the woman?
A. Travel agent B. Air hostess C. Hotel manager
11. What will the man first do when he arrives?
A. Rent a car． B. Book a hotel． C. Find the driver．
12. How long will the man stay in London?
A. 3 days B. 4 days C. 5 days
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why does the woman smoke?
A. Many girls smoke. B. Light cigarette isn’t risky.
C. She doesn’t know its harm.
14. What does the man think of tobacco panies?
A. They spend much on mercials. B. They make great benefits.
C. They are smart at marketing.
15. What do tobacco mercials for women focus on?
A. Cool image B. Social themes C. Slim figure
16. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Stop smoking B. Be herself C. Find her voice
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Who could the speaker most probably be?
A. A police officer B. A college director. C. A person who saw the theft.
18. Why can’t the clock be sold easily?
A. It isn’t valuable. B. It has an obvious mark. C. It doesn’t work.
19. How did the college get the antique glasses?
A. They were given by a director.
B. They were presented by Arnolfini.
C. The college bought it from the market.
20. Which stolen object worries the speaker most?
A. The TV and video recorder. B. A painting of the college. C. Examination papers.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 单项填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题, 从题中所给的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。
21. Two-year-olds often scream until they _____ their way.
A. mind B. make C. get D. lose
22. If you _____ do it, make sure you keep the water wings handy in case you start to sink.
A. shall B. may C. must D. can
23. ---How would idioms go if they had been invented in the modern world?
---We would more likely say “_____” instead of “kill the fatted calf”.
A. have feet of glass B. reap what you sow
C. see words on the puter screen D. order out for pizza
24. When disturbed, your mind bees difficult to see. _____ you allow it to settle, the answer bees clear.
A. Unless B. Until C. If D. Since
25. It may take more time than expected to make the Lakers a championship again, but _____ Kobe Bryant is back.
A. at most B. at least C. at best D. at worst
26. ---A mix of Jacks and Jills makes a tough job a breeze.
---Uh-huh, that might be _____ boys and girls have a good chance of being study partners.
A. how B. what C. that D. why
27. Children are not the people women enjoy most being with, _____ after friends, relatives and spouses.
A. scoring B. ranking C. towering D. intending
28. For Dylan O’Brien’s acting _____, getting a job was a different story. He just walked into his interview with two online links on a piece of paper.
A. career B. profession C. employment D. business
29. Activities of the Science Festival _____ model planes and model rockets are flown over the school grounds include the Inventions Show and the Essay petition.
A. when B. which C. whose D. where
30. This was just the first stage of the robot design challenge, the finals _____ for 2015.
A. will be set B. being set C. set D. having set
31. Surprisingly, he picked up this valuable antique at a stand for next to _____.
A. none B. nothing C. something D. anything
32. I've already spent two days trying to _____ the pile of paperwork I missed when I was home with flu.
A. carry back to B. carry on with C. catch out with D. catch up on
33. We went to the supermarket. Next _____ washing and cutting up. Then we cooked.
A. was ing B. would e C. came D. had e
34. A Zimbabwean may have left his mark in the Guinness Book of Records by giving the longest lecture _____ last week.
A. even B. once C. never D. ever
35. ---Beware the price of beauty. Using hair dye too often increases the risk of some kinds of cancer.
---Oh, _____. That was true back in the 1970s.
A. e on B. go ahead C. all right D. no problem
第二节: 完形填空(共20 小题; 每小题1 分, 满分20 分)
请认真阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的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。
We must think anew --- and act anew. —— Abraham Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln wrote these words, he was facing the greatest crisis: the Civil War. He knew that 36 measures were not enough. “The dogmas (教条) of the 37 past,” he wrote, “are inadequate to the stormy present. We must think anew, and act anew.”
New thought, new action --- how simple it sounds and how 38 it is! Most of us tend to be
39 by old habits of thought. When crisis threatens, it is all too easy to react as we did before.
But great 40 awaits men and women who can change the pattern of their thinking to meet new challenges. I have 41 of this in my own experience. When I first left college, I had no 42 of being a psychiatrist(精神病医生). I taught drama in university. But two years later, 43 my life, I decided that, much 44 I enjoyed teaching, what I really wanted to be was a doctor.
The 45 to “act anew” was not easy. I knew I could hardly hope to bee a(n) 46
psychiatrist before I was forty. My friends advised strongly against such an extreme step. I took it 47 . I have never regretted it.
Today, many of the people who e to me for help are suffering from a kind of 48 caused by blindly sticking to old patterns of thinking and acting. They can’t adapt to 49 conditions. They find it so difficult to 50 that sometimes they break.
Quite often, in my 51 to help such people, I quote these words of Lincoln. When problems annoy us, I tell them --- when there is 52 no solution --- we must not act rigidly. We must not 53 our difficulties from old, habitual points of view. We must think anew, and with it will e the 54 and the confidence to act anew.
A great American told us this. We should remember his words and try to live 55 them.
36. A. immediate B. ordinary C. effective D. temporary
37. A. quiet B. dark C. glorious D. recent
38. A. impossible B. difficult C. exciting D. interesting
39. A. attracted B. covered C. ignored D. restricted
40. A. reward B. promotion C. responsibility D. trouble
41. A. notice B. enough C. proof D. memory
42. A. sense B. chance C. knowledge D. intention
43. A. enjoying B. reviewing C. spending D. restarting
44. A. as B. since C. for D. unless
45. A. promise B. chance C. desire D. decision
46. A. little-known B. privileged C. established D. ambitious
47. A. moreover B. anyway C. instead D. therefore
48. A. rigidity B. foolishness C. sickness D. gravity
49. A. pressing B. existing C. changing D. appealing
50. A. insist B. pass C. bend D. flee
51. A. beliefs B. requests C. wishes D. efforts
52. A. seemingly B. surprisingly C. partly D. originally
53. A. take on B. look at C. deal with D. see to
54. A. interest B. reason C. passion D. power
55. A. in B. by C. on D. for
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的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。
A
Movies About Teachers

Front of the Class
Brad Cohen’s story stars as a young boy whose mother helped doctors to realize that he had Tourette syndrome(妥瑞症). With his mother’s help and the support of his school principal, Brad eventually bees an award-winning teacher. Thanks to his mother never giving up, Brad is a success story and shares his success with everyone around him.

Mona Lisa Smile
Katherine, takes a position teaching “History of Art” in a conservative women’s college.
She wants to make a difference and influence upon the next generation of women. Discovering that the girls have memorized everything from the textbook, she encourages spirited classroom discussions about topics such as what the Mona Lisa’s smile means. This brings her into conflict with College President who warns Katherine to stick to the textbook if she wants to keep the job …

Good Will Hunting
After MIT professor Lambeau challenges students with a math problem on a hallway blackboard, Will, the rebellious 20-year-old MIT cleaner leaves the correct solution.
As Will has problems with the police, Lambeau offers an out. He also contacts a therapist(治疗师) as his instructor. Both are equally stubborn, but Will is finally forced to deal with his past and his future.

Les Choristes
Clement Mathieu works as an inspector in a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, most of whom have severe punishments for their faults by the cruel director Rachin.
Clement decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir and identify the musical potential of the rebel Pierre Morhange. With his methods, Clement changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own.
56. Which of the following films does NOT deal with problematic students?
A. Front of the Class B. Mona Lisa Smile
C. Good Will Hunting D. Les Choristes
57. All the films conveys a message that _____.
A. Education begins at the mother’s knee.
B. All that glitters is not gold.
C. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
D. A teacher can never tell where his influence stops.
B
Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University, Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, share the 2014 Nobel physics prize for the invention of the blue light-emitting diode(LED).
The light of candles and lamps gave way to the incandescent bulb (白炽灯) in the 19th century, but such bulbs still waste a great deal of electrical energy as heat. An LED uses semiconductors to transform electricity into light with almost perfect efficiency. In an LED, light is produced when negative electrons bine with positive “holes” in very thin layers of semiconductors. Red LEDs came first, in the early 1960s. Green ones took until the end of that decade. But blue, the third primary colour needed to be able to generate white light, was difficult to find. Scientists failed for decades in their attempts to create blue LEDs. These were extremely important though if white LED lighting was ever to bee a reality: only blue light --- which has the highest visible frequencies --- can be transformed into white light.
The stumbling block was that no one had a way to grow a material called gallium nitride. In 1986, Akasaki and Amano cracked the problem by growing the material on sapphire coated with aluminium nitride. Six years and countless failed experiments later, they revealed their first LED that gave off bright blue light. Nakamura, meanwhile, grew the first layer of gallium nitride at a low temperature, and adding further layers at higher temperatures. In 1992, Nakamura made another major breakthrough that showed how to change gallium nitride layers to carry the positive holes needed to make blue LEDs work.
White LED lights have great benefits on mankind. Unlike some energy-efficient lightbulbs, they e on instantly. They can survive 11 years of continuous use. The three scientists went on to join forces to build a blue laser, which had at its heart a blue LED the size of a grain of sand. Because blue light has such a short wavelength, it can store far more information than other colours, quickly leading to the development of Blue-ray discs.
Frances Saunders, president of the UK Institute of Physics, said: “This is physics research that is having a direct impact on the grandest of scales (规模), helping protect our environment, as well as turning up in our everyday electronic gadgets (设备).”
58. Paragraph 2 is mainly about _____.
A. when the three LEDs were invented B. how blue LEDs were invented
C. why blue LEDs are so important D. how the three LEDs work
59. What is the key material in making blue LEDs?
A. Gallium nitride B. Sapphire C. aluminium nitride D. temperature
60. According to the passage, blue LEDs have the striking features except _____.
A. improved efficiency B. increased storage
C. longer lasting in use D. good value for money
C
“Daddy’ll kill you.”
“No, he won’t. The worst he’ll do, he’ll give me hell again, and then send me to that goddam military school. And I won’t even be around then.”
“I suppose you failed in every single subject again.”
“No, I didn’t,” I said. “I passed English.”
“Oh, why did you drop out of school?”
“Oh, God, Phoebe. It was one of the worst schools I ever went to. It was full of phonies. And mean guys. And even the couple of nice teachers were phonies, too. There was this one old guy, Mr. Spencer. When the headmaster, came in the history class and sat down in the back of the room, he’d interrupt what old Spencer was saying to crack a lot of dull jokes. But Spencer’d practically kill himself smiling, like as if Thurmer was a goddam prince or something.”
“You don’t like anything that’s happening.”
“Sure I do.”
“Name one thing.”
“I like Allie,” I said. “And I like doing what I’m doing right now. Sitting here with you, and talking, and …”
“All right, name something else. Like a lawye