高三(上)英语期中考
厦门双十中学2016届高三（上）期中考英语试卷
2015-11-11 本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分，考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1.本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。第1卷1至8页，第II卷 9至10页。
2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷答卷纸上相应的位置。全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第I卷（选择题，共100分）
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30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。例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡ 19.15.
B. ￡ 9.18.
C. ￡ 9.15.
答案是C。
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 does the woman mean?
A. The man always loses his car keys.
B. The man should let the woman keep the car keys.
C. The man should study harder for his lessons.
2. What does the girl imply?
A. She will definitely go to the party.
B. She won’t come because it’s Friday the 13th.
C. She will be out of town that day.
3. Why doesn’t the woman want to drink the water?
A. She isn’t thirsty.
B. It has dark stuff.
C. It tastes bad.
4. What does the man imply?
A. The woman got a good deal.
B. The woman probably paid too much.
C. The woman’s hair looks better than normal.
5. What will the man do at noon?
A. Play football.
B. Ride a bike.
C. Stay at home.
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，各小题将给山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. Where is the woman’s new house?
A. By the beach.
B. In the city.
C. In the country.
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7. How does the man sound in the end?
A. Satisfied.
B. Unhappy.
C. Humorous.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What does the man recommend to begin with?
A. Sharing a flat.
B. Staying in a hotel.
C. Staying with a family.
9. According to the man, who can help the woman find the right place to stay?
A. Her teacher.
B. Her friends.
C. People at the student union 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is the woman a bit nervous?
A. She is afraid of getting up late.
B. She is a newcomer at the school.
C. She isn’t read y for the coming exam.
11. What must the students do before morning reading?
A. Hand in their homework.
B. Do some morning exercise.
C. Go to the teacher’s office.
12. What can students do if they feel hungry?
A. Ask the teacher for some food.
B. Eat something during a break.
C. Go home and have something to eat.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Where might the woman come from?
A. America.
B. China.
C. The UK.
14. Where will the speakers go first?
A. Chinatown.
B. Central Park.
C. National History Museum.
15. When is the best time to go to Broadway?
A. In the morning.
B. In the afternoon.
C. In the evening.
16. Where will the speakers have dinner probably?
A. In Harlem.
B. In Chinatown.
C. At the woman’s home.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the website called?
A. https://www.360docs.net/doc/949711612.html,.
B. https://www.360docs.net/doc/949711612.html,.
C. https://www.360docs.net/doc/949711612.html,.
18. What type of food does the speaker mention?
A. Chinese noodles.
B. American barbecue.
C. Italian rice dishes.
19. How can people find dishes to cook?
A. By typing words in the search bar.
B. By first paying a fee to use the site.
C. By pressing the “Shop” button.
20. What can we learn about the site’s users?
A. They always post videos of themselves cooking.
B. They sometimes make money from their posts.
C. They mainly come from America.
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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
While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.
The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to complete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.
I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold—his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.
I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.
But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.
No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.
A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.
Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.
In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals feeling they have somehow been cheated out of gold, or when they act so proudly in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog.
21. The crowd changed their attitudes because _______.
A. they felt sorry for the young man
B. they wanted to show their sympathy
C. they were moved by the young man
D. they meant to please the young man
22. From the passage we can learn that the young man _______.
A. made his turn to start back pitifully
B. was skillful in freestyle in the game
C. swam faster than the average swimmer
D. was not capable enough to win the medal
23. According to the passage, “it is nice to watch an underdog” probably means _______.
A. it’s amusing to watch a man with awful swimming skills
B. it’s amazing to watch an ordinary man challenging himself
C. it’s cheerful for athletes to act proudly before their competitors
D. it’s brave enough for some athletes to remove the silver medals
24. What’s the best title for the passage?
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A. Go for it!
B. Try again！
C. Compete for Gold!
D. Break a Record!
B
Dear SJ,
Losing a best friend is never easy.
Your problem, is not just that you miss your best friend, it is that you feel empty and lost without her friendship.
It takes time to get over a lost, and during that time, your mind is getting used to a new way of being. This is usually a good thing, even if it feels like a bad thing.
Now that you are on your own, you are being forced to learn to be by yourself and to rely upon your own inner voice for guidance. I am sure that this feels strange for you, but if you can hang on for a bit longer, it may work to your advantage.
Best friends are cool, but it is important to know the difference between missing someone and being too independent upon them.
At your age, girls do tend to stick together and having a good boyfriend may not yet be the better choice. Your friend is leaving you, her best friend, for a boyfriend. Boyfriends are completely different from best friends. The distinction is that boyfriends come and go, while girl friends often stay in your life throughout high school, and even afterwards. It is a completely different sort of bond.
I suggest that you take advantage of this period in your life to expand your horizons. Enjoy the freedom of having no best friend for a while, and hang with the group. By the time your former best friend breaks up with her boyfriend, you will be in a completely different place, a far better place.
And, by the way, next time you feel empty and lost, try to write about it in a diary. In several months, you will look back and read it with curiosity about yourself. “Who was I then, and what could I have been thinking?”25．Judging from the letter, SJ’s problem was that she didn’t know _______ .
A．whether to give up her best friend
B．what to do without her best friend
C．whom to choose between two friends
D．how to stop missing her former friend
26．The underlined part “a new way of being” (in Paragraph 3) refers to the situation in which SJ has to _______.
A．find a new friendship B．live without her boyfriend
C．learn to give up D．learn to be independent
27．The writer believes by the time SJ’s former friend loses her boyfriend, SJ will _______.
A．take revenge on her former friend
B．comfort her former friend
C．feel more independent and confident
D．continue friendship with her former friend
28．What does the last paragraph seem to suggest?
A．Unhappy experiences are easy to forget.
B．Keeping a diary helps correct oneself.
C．SJ will get over her problem soon.
D．One shouldn’t forget the past experiences.
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The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts had found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.
Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.
He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”
“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been hear d saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘citay ’ and ‘dutay’ , rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’ a nd ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”
The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, th e 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.
The results were published in the Journal of Phonetics.
29. The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.
A. she has been Queen for many years.
B. she has a less upper-class accent now.
C. her speeches are familiar to many people.
D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years.
30. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?
A. “dut a y”
B. “citee”
C. “hame”
D. “lorst”
31. We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on _________.
A. speech sounds
B. Christmas customs
C. TV broadcasting
D. personal messages
32. What is the text mainly about?
A. The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.
B. The relationship between accents and social classes.
C. The changes in a person’s accent.
D. The recent development of the English language.
D
Less than one year after France imposed a nationwide ban on smoking in most
public places, it will, from Jan. 1, 2009, extend the ban to bars, restaurants, hotels,
nightclubs—and the most cherished of all: cafés.
Ireland and Italy show that countries with long-standing smoking traditions
may introduce bans fairly smoothly, as they did in 2004 and 2005. In Germany, where regulations vary locally, Berlin will join France on Jan 1. But fierce critics of the new law in France say it all but destroys the café's basic function: to serve as the socio-economic glue of society.
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Cécile Perez, owner of La Fronde, a typical Parisian neighborhood café, said: “In the morning, street cleaners in bright green uniforms sip coffee next to well-dressed businessmen; at lunch hour, working-class types rub shoulders with those of the latest fashion at the bar, while couples of all ages rub noses over salads; during the after-work rush, there is a steady soundtrack of clinking glasses combined with conversation; the constant, no matter what time of day, is the smoke that drifts through the air in curls and clouds, seemingly unnoticed.”
“Our motto in France is: liberty, equality, fraternity,” Olivier Seconda, a regular at the café, sai d. “The café is the pla ce that represents that. You’re free to smoke, everyone pays the same price for a beer and different kinds of people talk with one another. This new law goes against that.”
Seconda expects the ban to be felt even more strongly in small villages far from Paris, where the café is often the only means of social activity. “People already miss the space that allows people of all walks of life to share something—even if it is sometimes no more than a few words and the smoke floating between them.”
33．Cécile Perez mentions the curls and clouds of smoke drifting through the air to ______.
A．describe a friendly atmosphere B．show the beauty of his own café
C．support the ban on smoking D．remind us of something unnoticed
34．Olivier Seconda implies that ______.
A．the café provides people with enough liberty, equality, and fraternity
B．people, regardless of their social classes, enjoy equal rights in a café
C．the new ban on café smoking should be put in effect only in villages
D．people would not find fun in a café without smoking a cigarette
35．The passage is written to _______.
A．show the writer’s personal opinion against a new law
B．provide information for law-makers to pass a new law
C．tell why some people are unhappy about smoking ban in cafés
D．compare attitudes to a law, held by people from different countries
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。（答题卡上E涂AB；F涂AC；G涂AD)
How to Study Better
If you want to study better, you should pay attention to learning methods, study skills and study habits. Developing them can help you learn better.
Keep your study area tidy and organized. Papers, books, magazines, or pictures all over your work area may distract you from the work you have to do. 36 If there are too many icons on your desktop, it is difficult for you to find what you need immediately.
Maintain a quiet work area for yourself. Make sure your work area is free of distractions. There are too many distractions at home, such as a phone, music, TV, friends, or family members. Proper study space can usually be found in the public library, school library, or your bedroom. 37
38 While learning, you need write, calculate and look up something. So it is very important and necessary to have all the necessary materials and tools that you need with you. In this way, you needn’t be busy borrowing them.
39 In addition to reading your textbook, it is helpful to read or view materials from other sources, such as newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and television programs. You can understand what you will learn in class better.
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Never forget to take notes carefully in class. Taking notes carefully can help to grasp the key parts. 40 We can say that it is really a successful way to study.
A. A quiet place can help to improve study efficiency.
B. You should know how to schedule your study time.
C. The same is your computer desktop.
D. Try hard to learn knowledge as much as possible.
E. It is convenient to review them later.
F. Having necessary materials is very beneficial to study.
G. Get ready for class by reading extra materials ahead of time.
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45)
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B, C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to 41 in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she 42 a big bald（秃顶的）man running through the parking lot. Before she came to 43 what would happen, the man was there, sh outing through her window, “Get out!”
Neilson 44 .
Pulling open her door, the man seized her 45 the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed, 46 her purse and the keys.
Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a 47 , heard the screams and began running.
When they 48 Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was 49 searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker 50 back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no 51 for the two athletic men.
Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to 52 the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes—used to tie up newspapers.
With his arms 53 tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said 54 , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves—you just caught one of the most wanted men.” The y 55 him and waited for the police.
Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the 56 carjacker（劫车者）and suspected murderer, whose 57 —but with a full head of hair—had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
Neilson considers herself lucky 58 she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a
59 ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she said, “many people would
60 have done what the y did, and that’s the real truth.”
41. A. bring B. let C. gather D. send
42. A. recognized B. watched C. noticed D. met
43. A. realize B. understand C. imagine D. conclude
44. A. escaped B. struggled C. refused D. obeyed
45. A. by B. around C. with D. on
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46. A. burying B. forgetting C. offering D. grabbing
47. A. trip B. visit C. break D. holiday
48. A. started B. stopped C. entered D. reached
49. A. carefully B. madly C. disappointedly D. patiently
50. A. fought B. turned C. jumped D. shouted
51. A. match B. target C. equal D. companion
52. A. remind B. phone C. invite D. beg
53. A. rolled B. folded C. bent D. tied
54. A. angrily B. kindly C. coldly D. warmly
55. A. caught B. thanked C. comforted D. ignored
56. A. ordinary B. professional C. honest D. outstanding
57. A. picture B. background C. character D. story
58. A. and B. but C. though D. when
59. A. ridiculous B. similar C. strange D. different
60. A. sometimes B. never C. often D. forever
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非选择题，50分
注意事项：用0.5毫米黑色签字笔在答题卡上作答。在试卷上作答，答案无效。
第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45)
第二节单词拼写（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
根据下列句子单词首字母或所给汉语注释，在横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）
61.After the police arrested him, they went to the thief’s house to （追回）the stolen jewelry.
62.Some adverts about __________（环境）protection cater for our conscience or our desire to be respectable
citizens.
63.Though he has retired, still he reads newspapers every day to keep himself i of the latest news.
64.Oh, I’ve put on weight recently. I should eat less and take exercise on a r basis.
65.As we know, Wardian cases improved the __________ （存活）rates of plants transported long distances.
66.In the center of the b of flats, there is a small courtyard where I can plant some flowers.
67.In France the children place their shoes by the fireplace, a tradition d back to when children wore
wooden peasant shoes.
68.I was quite annoyed the other day, with Xiamen Airline c me extra for the overweight luggage.
69.The young girl has been __________（提拔）from an ordinary office clerk to a manager due to her excellent
performance.
70.These comments came in r to specific questions often asked by local newsmen.
71.Some cigarette advertisements are not aimed at mature audiences but instead t at children.
72.Another __________（潜在）dangerous sea animal is the jelly fish, which can cause severe pain to anyone who
touches them.
73.If an alarm is s , do get out of the water as quickly as possible, as sharks are spotted nearby.
74.Many countries have a government organization to deal with customers’ __________（投诉）about ads.
75.Teaching as a career ____________（吸引）to many young people because of the long holiday.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分35)
第一节短文改错（10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Last week we held a discussion on which we should do for our school before we graduate．The students in our class have different suggestion．Some students thought that we can collect money to buy some books for the school library or everything else for the schoo1．Other students argue that there’s not necessary to spend money．We can study hard and make our school feeling proud of us．
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In my opinion, we don’t have to spend money. We can do something meaningfully without money. For an example，we can do some voluntary work to beautify the school and try to get better results in the coming exams so that our school will proud of us．
第二节书面表达（25分）
假设你是Abby，是学校英文报社“知心学长”栏目主编。一位叫Sophia的学妹来信反映自己有“拖延”的坏习惯。即使她有很多如做作业、弹琴等重要的事要做，也总是不由自主地把时间花在看电视、玩手机等琐事上，为此她非常苦恼。请用英文给她回信，提一些建议。
内容包括：1．拖延的本质；2．改正的建议。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．文章的开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数。
参考词汇：p rocrastination n．拖延，耽搁
Dear Sophia，
I am glad to hear from you. _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ In a word, don't spoil yourself. Although you have a long way to go, the first step is very essential. Good luck!
Yours,
Abby
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短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Last week we held a discussion on which we should do for our school before we graduate．The students in our class have different suggestion．Some students thought that we can collect money to buy some books for the school library or everything else for the schoo1．Other students argue that there’s not necessary to spend money．We can study hard and make our school feeling proud of us．
In my opinion，we don’t have to spend money．We can do something meaningfully without money. For an example，we can do some voluntary work to beautify the school and try to get better results in the coming exams so that our school will proud of us．
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