安徽省合肥市第九中学2019届高三暑期调研考试英语试卷.doc

合肥九中2019届高三暑期检测
英语试卷
（时间：120分钟 满分：150分 命题：沈旭）

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）
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。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. What is the woman’s plan for tonight?
A. To see a movie. B. To visit a friend. C. To go swimming.
2. When does the conversation probably take place?
A. In the evening. B. At noon C. In the morning.
3. How did the woman get the dress?
A. She bought it on her own.
B. She found it in the countryside.
C. She got it as a Thanksgiving gift.
4. What was the woman’s attitude towards the concert?
A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Indifferent.
5. What is special about the glasses?
A. The material. B. The unique function. C. The attractive design.
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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the woman think of the weather in Beijing?
A. It’s hot. B. It’s cold. C. It’s windy.
7. Where are the two speakers now?
A. In Beijing. B. In Shanghai. C. In Guangzhou.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What are they mainly talking about in the conversation? 
A. Moving. B. Transport. C. Restaurant.
9. Which of the following is mentioned by Bob as an advantage for his suggestion? 
A. More office space. B. Convenient parking. C. Fewer office workers.
10. Why is Alice worried about winter in the new place? 
A. It is much colder there.
B. There are few activities.
C. There are no good restaurants. 
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why did the woman call the center?
A. She wanted to play a new sport.
B. She was a new comer and felt lonely. 
C. She wanted to know more about the ad.

12. Which one is the characteristic of the center?
A. It is increasing its membership. 
B. It has been set up for a long time.
C. It mainly organizes physical exercise activities.
13. In which day the woman might come to practice tennis?
A. Monday. B. Wednesday. C. Tuesday.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Why did the student go to the office?
A. To learn about an examination.
B. To find a solution for a problem.
C. To file a form before the deadline.
15. What was the reason for the delayed report?
A. Not clear yet. B. The student moved. C. The student didn’t attend all the exams.
16. What might the woman do next?
A. Turn to another teacher. B. Give him another report. C. Look up at the computer system.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When did Tom first become interested in China?
A. When he grew up. B. When he learned Chinese. C. When he was seven years old.
18. In which location did Tom spend most of his teenage life?
A. In China. B. In the Arab world. C. In his hometown.
19. What happened to Tom while he was in college?
A. He mastered modern Chinese.
B. He learned classical and modern Chinese.
C. He became interested in classical Chinese. 
20. What does the speaker talk about?
A. The suitable seasons for traveling. 
B. The expense to China is affordable.
C. A man’s life lasted interest in China.

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）
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。
A
The University of Sheffield
Back to its origin
The University of Sheffield is a research university in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original “red brick” universities, which are a group of top and famous old universities. The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the combination of three colleges. The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828, followed in 1879 by the opening of Firth College by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer (制造商), to teach arts and science subjects. Firth College then helped to provide money for the opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science. In 1897 the three institutions were joined together to form the University College of Sheffield, which in turn became the University of Sheffield by Royal Charter (特许) in 1905. This university is famous for its good education and boasts a number of Nobel Prize winners among its former students.
More information
System: The University has five departments: Arts and Humanities; Engineering; Pure Science; Social Sciences; Medicine, Dentistry and Health. Sheffield also has many research programs in fields including aerospace, environmental science, psychology, and biology.
City show: Sheffield is a lively city in the north of England. Sheffield is known as the greenest city in Europe because of its 2 million trees. As a result, there are many parks and woods throughout the city and beyond. Sheffield is the greenest city in England with 150 woodlands and 50 public parks within the city. Once, in Sheffield, the folk hero—Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest with 150 of his loyal friends. And Charlotte Bronte, the English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre was born in Sheffield.
21. Sheffield is in the of England.
A. east B. west C. south D. north
22. Which statement about the University of Sheffield is not TRUE?
A. It has a good fame for many great graduates. B. It has a long history of more than 180 years.
C. It is one member of “red brick” universities. D. It owns different departments and research programs.
23. What can we infer from the text?
A. Sheffield has very beautiful scenery. B. Charlotte Bronte is an English writer.
C. Sheffield is the biggest city of England. D. Robin Hood is a character in Jane Eyre.

B
In the future those who are taking care of old people may get help from the house itself.
Over the last few years, new technology, such as the Internet, Wi-Fi and flat TV screens, has changed our homes and the way that we live. Now, another technology revolution is happening. A new project at the University of Hertfordshire wants to create a home that monitors people living in it who are elderly.
The researchers have developed a wristband device（装置）which helps us to watch the elderly person who is wearing it. The device collects information to see if the person has fallen or has wandered away from where he or she should be.
The assisted-living project is part of the university’s wider Interhome project, which is the development of a smart house. The house remembers the habits of the person who lives there and it uses very low amounts of energy. The Interhome team hope that offering this service will help take care of the elderly. They say, “It’s very important that these technologies are there to help and support and not replace any of the existing services.”
The Interhome is not just a research method. It’s also a way for students from different scientific backgrounds to learn and develop technology. The university uses the latest technology to help students get experience by developing new hardware and software themselves. The team includes design, engineering and computer science students working together.
“We are working on a smart-home project in Watford with some companies at the moment,” says the project leader. “We are looking at how a smart home can provide even more services.” This could help millions of old people around the world have a better and safer life in the future.
24. The wristband device benefits its users by ______.
A. changing the living habits of the elderly B. monitoring people who live in a smart home
C. offering information to the person wearing it D. watching over the elderly who may fall or get lost
25. Whom does the University of Hertfordshire have in its research team?
A. Students who want to find a job eagerly. B. Students who prefer to work on their own.
C. Students from different scientific backgrounds. D. Students with a lot of rich working experience.
26. What is the project leader’s attitude towards the future of the smart home project?
A. Uncertain. B. Uninterested. C. Optimistic. D. Disappointed.
27. What might be the main idea of the passage?
A. A wristband device has changed the way that we live.
B. A smart home helps students develop hardware and software.
C. An Interhome project has been put into use to help the elderly.
D. An Interhome project will help the old live a better and safer life.

C
Flying for a long time, you finally arrive at the place where you can relax—your hotel room. Now you throw your bag on the bed, turn on the TV and watch an international news programme on a satellite channel probably from UK or the USA.
The main international broadcasters are BBC World and CNN. With an audience of over 1.5 billion people, these are popular channels that offer good-quality news programmes. In both companies, the journalists are experienced writers that produce journalism of a high standard.
However, there are alternative news channels which people watch because they want a less traditional or non-Western view on world events. Russia Today and Al Jazeera International, an Arabic company, are international channels that broadcast in English. Both companies say they give a fresh view on big stories, and their experienced journalists often report from places where Western journalists do not work, and so they give us stories that we don’t normally see.
The Internet offers more variety. OneWorldTV is an Internet site where you can find stories about the developing world and human rights, rather than the usual stories about US politics and business. The writers for this company are often local people who write the stories for free. This non-professional journalism is increasing, and it certainly offers more choices.
This increase in citizen journalism means that you can write the news, too. Main news broadcasters often use photographs and stories that members of the general public send to them, especially when there is a dramatic breaking news story. Besides this, some blogs are popular sources of news, and the website NowPublic lets you write stories using information you can get from anywhere, including sites like Youtube, Flickr and Twitter.
28. The first paragraph is meant to ______.
A. offer a suggestion B. give a warning C. explain a reason D. introduce the topic
29. It can be learned from the text that more and more people will ______.
A. prefer to read local news B. pay more attention to world news
C. start a career in citizen journalism D. give up watching TV news programmes
30. What would be the best title for the text?
A. The Latest Local News B. More Choices for News
C. The End of TV News D. Traditional World News

D
You can see a sea turtle named Herman, an octopus (章鱼) called Octavia, and a seal named Lidia at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Rather than real animals, they are actually artworks made out of plastic trash from the ocean.
These artworks are part of a traveling exhibit called “Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea”. The Washed Ashore project, led by the artist called Pozzi, works to raise awareness about plastic pollution in Earth’s oceans.
More than 315 billion pounds of plastic litter the world’s oceans today. Most of the plastic is garbage from towns and cities, as well as trash that people leave on beaches. Rainwater, winds, and high tides bring the trash into the ocean or into rivers that lead to the ocean. Once it is under the waves, the plastic begins to break up into smaller and smaller pieces.
Thousands of sea animals die each year from eating plastic bags and other things. Each year, millions more pounds of plastic end up in the ocean. A recent study found that if that continues, by 2050 the total weight of plastic will be more than that of all the fish in the ocean.
The Washed Ashore project is working to stop that from happening. Since 2010, Washed Ashore volunteers have collected 38,000 pounds of plastic trash from more than 300 miles of beaches. They helped Pozzi create more than 60 artworks of sea creatures harmed by plastic pollution.
“These artworks are a powerful reminder of our personal role and global responsibility in preserving biodiversity (生物多样性) on land and in the sea,” says Dennis Kelly, director of the National Zoo.
31. What is the purpose of the artworks shown at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo?
A. To let people know about animals in the ocean. B. To introduce one way of recycling plastic trash.
C. To warn people of plastic pollution in the ocean. D. To show Pozzi’s great gift for creating artworks.
32. According to the passage, what is the source of plastic pollution in the ocean?
A. Garbage from towns and cities. B. Trash left on beaches by people.
C. Plastic bags broken up by waves. D. Litter created by human activities.
33. The data in Paragraph 5 is given to prove that ______.
A. plastic pollution will be more serious in the ocean
B. more and more artworks of sea creatures will be made
C. the Washed Ashore project has made great achievements
D. volunteers can solve the ocean pollution successfully by 2050
34. What’s Dennis Kelly’s attitude towards the artworks?
A. Worried. B. Supportive. C. Doubtful. D. Unconcerned.
35. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Turning Trash into Art B. Working for Washed Ashore
C. Collecting Plastic Trash D. Stopping Environmental Pollution

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
When you got sick, did your parents and doctors make you drink a “terrible soup”? 36 , but it can really make you feel better in several days. The “soup” is actually a kind of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
In recent years, TCM has become more popular around the world. 37 . China has 10 TCM centers abroad, such as in France and the United States. Doctors give TCM treatment to local people there. They also teach TCM knowledge to local people. Now, there are over 100,000 TCM clinics, with about 300,000 TCM workers around the world.
TCM came from China thousands of years ago. It is based on the Chinese philosophy (哲学) of yin and yang. Humans should follow the natural rules to stay healthy. Old Greece and Egypt created western medicine. 38 . Western doctors check people’s height, weight, blood pressure and body temperature.
39 . “Bringing together western medicine and TCM can use collective knowledge, rather than create competition between them. It can develop the great effects of both of them,” said Bernhard Schwartlander, a World Health Organization representative in China.
On Dec 6, a government document reported that 86 countries and regions are now developing TCM together with China. In 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize. 40 . Today, with more and people paying attention to TCM, it will definitely have a bright future.
A. Let’s see some facts and figures
B. It might be a bad drinking experience
C. It is difficult to comp