福建省师大附中2016届高三上学期期中考试英语试题Word版含答案.doc

福建师大附中2015－2016学年第一学期期中考试卷
高三英语

本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第I卷
注意事项:
1. 答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在答题卡上。
2. 选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10称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. Who does the wallet belong to?
A. The man. B. The woman. C. Mr.Miller.
2. Why was Michael scolded by the boss?
A. He had been careless. B. He told a lie. C. He was seeking a new job.
3. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a clothes store. B. In a tailor’s. C. In a stadium.
4. What is the man doing?
A. Preparing for a meal. B. Doing his homework. C. Making a shopping list.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. The man’s children. B. The man’s work. C. A serious disease.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 is the woman’s plan for her holiday?
A. She will stick to a limited budget.
B. She will be away for more than a week.
C. She will do her work meanwhile.
7. What will the man do on holiday?
A. Go shopping. B. Go sightseeing. C. Relax on a beach.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8. What kind of job is the woman looking for?
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A. A training job. B. A computer job. C. A voluntary job.
9. What will the library provide for the woman?
A.Car service. B. Special training. C. All the bus fares.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。
10. What do we know about the man?
A. He is familiar with New York.
B. He is a newcomer to New York.
C. He wants to rent a big house.
11. Where is the best apartment according to the woman?
A. At number 27. B. At number 40. C. At number 79.
12. What does the woman say about the most suitable apartment for the man?
A. It is the newest. B. It is the biggest. C. It is the most expensive.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。
13. What is the purpose of the man’s phone call?
A. To make an advertisement.
B. To buy a second-hand bookcases.
C. To find workers to decorate his study.
14. What kind of bookcases does the man like?
A. Wooden. B. Metal. C. Stone.
15. What color would the man paint it if he got the first bookcase?
A. White. B. Yellow. C. Brown.
16. How much should the man pay in total?
A. $30. B. $45. C. $60.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. Who did the speaker live with when she was in Spain?
A. Two Spanish girls. B. The house owner. C. Her friends.
18. What was the most difficult for the speaker when she first arrived in Spain?
A. Finding a house.
B. Getting on with her roommates.
C. Understanding the housing agreement.
19. What was the house owner’s attitude towards the speaker’s difficulty?
A. Unhappy. B. Puzzled. C. Disappointed.
20. What is the main aim of having a year abroad according to the speaker?
A. Know more local people.
B. Enter the university.
C. Learn real language.

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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
On the eve of our daughters’ weddings, I gave both of them what I considered to be excellent marital advice: never leave your husband unsupervised (无人监督的) with pruning shears (修枝剪).
If only I had taken my own advice. I recently let my guard down. Thirty-some years of marriage can do that to a woman. Give a man pruning shears and electric trimmers (电动修剪器) and he will give new meaning to “armed and dangerous.”
One day earlier this year, my husband said that the crab apple tree was dead.
“Why do you think it is dead?” I asked.
“Look at it. There’s not a leaf on it.”
“There’s not a leaf on anything. It’s March,” I said.
“It looked sick last fall and with this bitter winter we had, I’m convinced it’s dead.”
The truth is he’s never liked the crabapple. Sure, it has beautiful blooms in the spring, but then it gets a disease, the leaves curl, and it drops those little apples that sit on the driveway.
Each passing week he pronounced the tree dead. Eventually I began to believe him. Though he agreed it would be a regrettable loss, there was a twinkle in his eye. He armed himself a couple of weeks ago and began trimming. A branch here, a branch there, a small limb,then a large limb. I watched and then decided to check the wood on some of the branches closer to the trunk. I broke one off and saw green.
The crabapple was not dead. It just hadn’t had time to leaf out. The tree was now falling to one side, but it was not dead. I would have told him so, but he had moved on to a maple. Once the man starts, he can’t stop. One trim leads to another.
“Please, stop!” I called.
He smiled and nodded, but he couldn’t hear because he had started the hedge (树篱) trimmers and was getting ready to fix a line of hedges.
Zip (飕飕声), zip, zip.
“What do you think?” he shouted.
“It’s supposed to be a privacy hedge; now all that will be private are our ankles.”
He started the trimmers again.
“Stop!” I called, “Come back!”
“Why?” he shouted.
“You’re in the neighbor’s yard.”
21. By saying “if only I had taken my own advice.” the author means that ___
A. she didn’t follow her own advice about pruning shears
B. she feels regretful about her marriage after many years
C. she should have kept a closer watch on her husband
D. she shouldn’t have given that marital advice to her daughters
22. We can learn from the article that the author’s husband ______.
A. has a great talent for gardening
B. nearly ruined their neighbor’s garden
C. mistook their crab apple tree for a maple tree
D. had never used pruning shears before
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23. What does the article mainly talk about?
A. Why the author’s husband insisted on trimming their crab apple tree?
B. Why husbands shouldn’t be left to trim trees alone.
C. How the author has survived her “thirty-some” years of marriage.
D. How the author’s husband killed their crab apple tree.
24. What is the tone of the article?
A. Anxious. B. Critical. C. Serious. D. Humorous.

B
How cool can libraries be in an era（时代）of iPods and Kindles? More than you think．Only if you know where to go.
Central Library: Seattle, Washington, United States
The Central Library in Seattle is modern and fashionable and has tourists from around the world paying visits and taking tours. It was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and American designer Joshua Ramus. Tours began in 2006, two years after its opening. The library holds various art exhibitions, book signings and other events, while visitors can stop by the Chocolate cart for a coffee and scan through the gift shop anytime.
Trinity College Library: Dublin, Ireland
The Trinity College Library in Dublin is the oldest library in Ireland, founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. It is the largest single library in the world, also known as the Long Room, which contains more than 200,000 of the library's oldest books. The Long Room houses one of the oldest harps（竖琴）in Ireland. Dating to the 15th century, the old harp is the model for the symbol foreland.
Geisel Library, University of California: San Diego, United States
At first glance, it looks like a spaceship. Architect William Pereira, who helped design actual space launch facilities at Cape Canaveral in Houston, Texas, designed the library in 1970. It has been featured in sci-fi films, short stories and novels. The library hosts “Dinner in the Library,” which invites readers for cocktails, and also a special speech from distinguished authors．
TU Delft Library: The Netherlands
The library at the Delft University of Technology was constructed in 1997 and has more than 862,000 books, 16,000 magazine subscriptions and its own museum．The building itself exists beneath the ground, so you can't really see the actual Library. What makes it interesting is the roof, which is a grassy hill. The roof covers 5,500 square meters.And it has become one of the most striking and greenest structures in the area.
25.Which of the four libraries has the longest history?
A.Central Library B.Trinity College Library C.Geisel Library D.TU Delft Library
26.What makes Geisel Library different from the others is that _____________.
A. Queen Elizabeth I founded the library B. it has a roof of grassy hill
C. famous writers often deliver speeches there D. it is the largest single library in the world
27.In Central Library, you can _________________.
A. drink cocktails B. buy souvenirs C. enjoy sci-fi films D. see the old harp

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C
“A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” is the definition of “selfie” in the Oxford English Dictionary. In fact, it wasn't even in the dictionary until August of last year. It earned its place there because people are now so obsessed with (对……痴迷) selfies ─ we take them when we try on a new hat, play with our pets or when we meet a friend whom we haven't seen in a while.
But is there any scientific explanation for this obsession? Well, you should probably ask James Kilner, a neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) at University College London.
Through our lifetime we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other people's faces and facial expressions. In contrast, according to Kilner, we have a very poor understanding of our own faces since we have little experience of looking at them ─ we just feel them most of the time.
This has been proved in previous studies, according to the BBC.
Kilner found that most people chose the more attractive picture. This suggests that we tend to think of ourselves as better-looking than we actually are. To further test how we actually perceive our own faces, Kilner carried out another study. He showed people different versions of their own portrait ─ the original, one that had been edited to look less attractive and one that was made more attractive ─ and asked them to pick the version which they thought looked most like them. They chose the more attractive version.
But what does it say about selfies? Well, isn't that obvious? Selfies give us the power to create a photograph ─ by taking it from various angles, with different poses, using filters (滤色镜) and so on ─ that better matches our expectations with our actual faces.
“You suddenly have control in a way that you don't have in non-virtual(非虚拟的) interactions," Kilner told the Canada-based CTV News. Selfies allow you “to keep taking pictures until you manage to take one you're happy with”, he explained.
28. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The definition and fun of taking selfies.
B. A study of why people love taking selfies.
C How taking selfies influences people’s daily lives.
D. How to interpret people’s facial expressions in their selfies.
29. The underlined word “perceive” in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by “______”.
A. interpret   B. beautify   C. choose    D. explain
30. What did Kilner discover from his researches?
A. People tend to believe they look more attractive than they actually are.
B. People tend to spend more time looking at their faces than at others’.
C. People interpret others’ facial expressions worse than their own.
D. People who like taking selfies know more about their facial expressions.
31. According to Kilner, people like taking selfies probably because they think ______.
A. it is a good chance to learn more about their actual faces
B. it allows them to satisfy their expectations with their appearances
C. it enables them to interact with their friends in social media
D. it is a way to respond to others’ facial expressions correctly

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D
Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eighty-two-year-old Munro is only the 13th woman to win the 112-year-old prize．
Munro didn’t publish her first collection of short stories until she was 37 years old, but her stories have always been well-received. Lots of her stories share similar themes and characters, but each story has its own twists and turns.
Even though she’s won Canada’s most famous literary award, the Giller Prize, twice, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is the cherry on top of Munro’s career. “It brings this incredible recognition，both of her and her career，and of the dedication to the short story, ”said one person.
Along with the well-respected title comes 1.3 million dollars. Munro said everything was “so surprising and wonderful” and that she was “dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way.”
Munro knew she was in the running—she was named the second-most likely person to win this year’s prize, after Haruki Murakami（村上春树）of Japan—but she never thought that she would win.
Munro’s win also represents the long way Canadian writers have come. “When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world. Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe,” Munro said on Thursday.
She is technically not the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but many like to think that she is．In 1976 Saul Bellow, who was born in Quebec but moved to Chicago when he was still a child, won the prize. Even though he was born in Canada, he is mostly considered to be an American writer.
“This is a win for us all. Canadians, by our very nature，are not very nationalistic,” said Geoffrey Taylor.“But things like this suddenly make you want to find a flag．”
She wasn’t sure whether she would keep writing if she won the prize，saying that it would be “nice to go out with a bang. But this may change my mind.”
32. What is the feature of Munro’s stories？
A. They have specific themes for children．
B. They have similar story backgrounds．
C. They have their own complicated contents．
D. They have the same characters in each book．
33. For Munro,the Nobel Prize for Literature is an award for______．
A .her love for Canadian culture     B. her devotion to the short story
C. her special form of writing     D. her career of editing short stories
34. What is implied