福建泉州惠华中学2014届高三上期中考试英语试题

泉港区惠华中学2014届高三英语上期中考试试卷

出卷人：林碧霞 2013 11 06

第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)

1. What does the man mean?

A. The team needs more practice.

B. The next competition starts this week.

C. The team has done very well.

2. What can we learn from the conversation ?

A. The woman is asking the man to leave.

B. The woman feels sorry for the man.

C. The area is for passengers only.

3. What do we know about Jack?

A. He is often late for school.

B. His grandmother is ill.

C. He does well in his studies.

4. When will the woman leave?

A. Later than the man.

B. Earlier than the man..

C. Together with the man..

5. What is the woman’s job?

A. Lawyer.

B. Secretary.

C. Teacher.

第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分)听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What carving （雕刻品）does the man buy?

A. Letters.

B. Flowers.

C. Animals.

7. How much does the man pay?

A. 13.40.

B. 26.80.

C. 30.20.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a hotel.

B. In a laundry（洗衣店）.

C. In the tailor’s.

9. When does the woman promise to bring back the trousers?

A. At 7:00pm.

B. At 8:00pm.

C. At 9:00pm

.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What are the two speakers planning?

A. A Christmas party.

B. A money-making activity.

C. A school newspaper.

11. What will the man do tonight?

A. Write an article.

B.Hang up posters.

C. Draw a picture.

12. What does the man think of the woman?

A. She is idealistic（理想主义的）

B. She is humorous.

C. She ishelpful. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What are the two speakers going to do tomorrow night?

A. Go to the bars.

B.Take a walk.

C.Have dinner together

14. How will the woman get there probably ?

A. On foot.

B. By taxi.

C.By bus.

15. What happened to the man when he first moved in?

A. He had his purse stolen.

B. He saw a fight in the street.

C. He was taken to the police station.

16. What has the man seen?

A. There are many streets fights after the bars close.

B. The police always ignore the street crime.

C. There are many thieves on buses.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.How many ways does the speaker mention about making friends?

A. Two.

B. Three.

C. Four.

18. How many Internet users does China have?

A.19 million.

B. 53 million.

C. 253 million .

19. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Advantages of online English learning

B. Advantages of Internet teaching

C. Advantages of visual chatting.

20. What do we learn from the passage?

A.There is few untapped(未利用的) resource on the Internet.

B. People can share other’s experience of learning online.

C. People can enjoy programs 19 hours a week from the BBC website.

第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

21. Some villagers are resting themselves in ____shade.

A. a

B.an

C.the

D. /

22. He prefers___indoors____out this afternoon.

A. to stay;to go B staying; to going C. staying;to go D.to stay; going

23. —What made John wild _____ joy?

—Being admitted to his dream university.

A. with

B. by

C. at

D. for

24. So why not, he reasoned, _____ French the same way as he learned English? A. learn

B. learning

C. to learn

D. learned

25.I’m sure your suggestion will ____the problem.

A. contribute to solving

B.be contributed to solving

C. contribute to solve

D.be contributed to solving

26.As a candidate, you must make a good____on everyone you meet if you want to win the election.

A. decision

B. situation

C. impression

D. position

27. He felt very sad that though he worked very___indeed,he was not able to jump____.

A. hardly; high

B. hard; high

C. hardly; highly

D. hard; highly

28. Our city has experienced ___this year as it did last year.

A. twice as much rain

B. rain twice as much

C. as twice much rain

D. twice rain as much

29. It’s almost five years____we saw each other last time .

A. before

B.since

C.after

D. when

30. Little _____ at that time that this“boring”subject would become his favourite later on.

A. he knew

B. he has known

C. did he know

D. has he known

31. My meaning didn’t ___so I explained it a second time.

A. get around

B. get over

C. get through

D. get across

32. —Jack failed the driving test again.

—The question is_____ we can help him avoid making the same mistake. A. how

B. why

C. what

D. whom

33. Looking up ,I saw his eyes ___on me in curiosity.

A. fixing

B. to fix

C. fixed

D. having fixed

34. So far it has been suggested that special stress _____ on pre-school education.

A. is laid

B. be laid

C. has been laid

D. have been laid

35．—It shouldn't be so difficult to solve the problem if we all come to help．

—That's right_ _．

A．Many hands make light work B．Something is better than nothing．

C．The more, the better D．The sooner begun, the sooner done

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Once, my father and I were waiting to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there only one family _36 us and the counter, who made a big 37 on me. There were eight children, all probably under 12. You could 38 they weren’t rich. Their clothes weren’t expensive but 39 . The children were well-behaved., standing in line behind their parents and 40 talking about what they would see that night.

On e could 41 they had never bee no the circus before. The mother was holding her husband’s hand while the father was smiling in 42 . The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly 43 , “Eight for children and two for adults, please.”

The ticket lady told him the price. The man’s wife let go of 44 hand, her head dropped, and his lip began to tremble. The father leaned a little 45 and asked, “How much did you say?”

The ticket lady 46 the price. The man didn’t have enough money. 47 was he supposed to turn and tell his kids that he didn’t have enough 48 to take them to the circus? Seeing this, my father put his hand in his pocket, 49 a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. Then my father _50 down, picked up the bill and said the man, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”

The man knew what was going on. He wasn’t begging for it but certainly 51 the timely help in such an 52 situat ion. He took my father’s 53 in both of his, squeezed(紧捏) tightly onto the 54 , and with a rear running down his cheek, he replied, “Thank you, sir. This really _55 a lot to me and my family.”

36 A. before B. between C. behind D. besides

37 A. difference B. effort C. impression D. suggestion

38 A. tell B. agree C. believe D. suppose

39 A. clean B. shabby C. simple D. common

40 A. disappointedly B. bitterly C. excitedly D. carelessly

41 A. sense B. expect C. doubt D. Recognize

42 A. surprise B. turn C. silence D. pride

43 A. laughed B. announced C. commented D. responded

44 A. my B. his C. her D. their

45 A. backwards B. away C. closer D. farther

46 A. refused B. recited C. reduced D. repeated

47 A. When B. Where C. How D. Why

48 A. time B. money C. chance D. courage

49 A. pulled out B. pulled up C. picked out D. picked up

50 A. jumped B. lay C. knocked D. reached

51 A. appreciated B. admired C. rejected D. offered

52 A. interesting B. embarrassing C. enjoyable D. unbelievable

53 A. pocket B. wallet C. arm D. hand

54 A. ticket B. bill C. pound D. paper

55 A. pays B. costs C. means D. gives

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

A

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps. One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting us in age.

Men often discover their similarity to each other by the common love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admira tion which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love my, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond(纽带) of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

A good book is often the best container of a life preserving the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which become our steady companions and comforters.

Books are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay(腐朽), but good books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago.

The great and good do not die, even in this world. Preserved in books, their spirits walke d abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect(智者) to which one still listens.

56.The writer introduces the topic of the passage by .

A. describing life experience of great writers

B. telling his own story of reading good books

C. presenting the best thoughts in good books

D. comparing good books to good friends in life

57What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Readers feel sympathy for the author.

B. Readers live together with the author.

C. Readers and the author share the same feeling.

D. Readers are the author’s companions and comforters.

58hich of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. We can learn about the great and good through books.

B. The most important part of a man’s life is his treasures.

C. Good books help us to know about their authors’ friends.

D. Books are often regarded as best containers in our life.

59he passage mainly tells us that .

A. one should have some good friends

B one should read as many books as possible

C. one should keep company with good books

D books are the most lasting products of human efforts

B

Express delivery: How you can buy your groceries from a virtual supermarket Aug, 1st, 2011 Daily Mail

A “virtual supermarket” consisting of posters of goods put on platform walls is set to be introduced at London Underground stations. Passengers “shop” by scanning QR—Quick Response—codes of the items they want to buy using their smart phones. These goods are later delivered to their home address. Supermarket giant(巨头) Tesco successfully trialed the hi-tech store in a South Korean underground station and there are now plans to bring the concept to Britain.

NYPD to Scan Facebook, Twitter for Trouble

Aug, 11th, 2011 Forbes

The New York Police Department announced it will form a new unit to search social media as part of its law enforcement(执行) efforts, responding to the criminals’ growing use of these sites to plan and celebrate illegal activities. The NYPD unit created particularly to comb social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and BlackBerry messenger for information on planned crimes and their criminals.

Space Junk(太空垃圾) reaching “tipping point”, report warns

Sep 3rd, 2011 Toronto Sun

The amount of debris(碎片) o rbiting the Earth has reached “a tipping point” for crashes, which would produce more debris that may be dangerous to astronauts and satellites, according to a US study. According to the US Space S urveillance Network, the number of orbital debris jumped from 9,949 in December 2006 to 16,094 in July 2011.

60T he “virtual supermarket” would be introduced to Britain because of .

A. the successful experience of a hi-tech store in South Korea

B. the wide use of smart phones for scanning QR codes

C. the large varieties of goods in the supermarket

D the convenient home delivery system around London

61we can learn from the news that .

A. people with mobile phones can shop at London Underground stations

B. Facebook, Twitter, and BlackBerry messenger are not popular in the US

C. the amount of space junk has more than doubled in the past few years

D. more and more criminals are using social media sites for crimes

62w hat does the underlined word “comb” in the second piece of news mean?

A. Create.

B. Operate.

C. Block.

D. Search.

63 The third piece of news will be in the section of the newspaper.

A. sports

B. opinion

C. science

D. business

C

The New York Philharmonic(爱乐乐团) came to an unexpected stop on Tuesday night when an audience member’s cell phone started ringing and wouldn’t stop.

Conductor Alan Gilbert was nearing the end of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony(交响乐) when the int erruption began. As eh New York Times writes, the symphony, “contains some of the most spiritual and peaceful music ever written.”

As the cell phone continued to ring, the iPhone’s signature ringtone, Gilbert stopped the entire performance. And yet sho ckingly the phone continued to ring. “Nothing happened,” Gilbert told the Times, “Nobody was to blame for it. It was unbelievable.”

Gilbert said minor cell phone interruptions have become common and rarely interfere with a live performance. The Philharmonic does what it can to remind to audience to turn off their cell phones before the performance begins. But the audience and performers stood by in astonished silence as Gilbert asked the offender(肇事者) to silence the phone, only to hear it continue.

Mr Gilbert said audience pointed out two people sitting where the sound was coming from. “They were staring at me firmly,” he said of the couple. Eventually, the man put his hand in his pocket and the ringing stopped.

The conductor said he asked the man if he was sure the phone was quieted. “Then he nodded his head,” Mr Gilbert said.

People in the hall had been shouting for the sound to stop. Mr Pelkonen reported that they yelled: “Thousand-dollar fine!” “Kick him out!” “Get out!”

Once the phone was finally silenced, Gilbert apologized to the audience. They responded with cheers and applause(掌声). And the performance continued.

64.The underlined words “interfere with” in the third paragraph means “”.

A. enjoy

B. attend

C. disturb

D. complete

65What do we know about the offender?

A. He silenced the phone the moment he was reminded to.

B. He enjoyed the ringtone so he kept the phone ringing.

C. He quieted the phone after hearing people’s angry shouts.

D. He didn’t like the music so he wouldn’t silence the phone.

66What does the writer of this passage intend to imply?

A. It’s not acceptable to carry an iPhone to a concert.

B. It’s rude to attend a concert with the phone ringing.

C. It’s necessary to quiet the phones when the performance is over.

D. It’s common for a conductor to make an apology to the audience.

67What can be the best title for the passage?

A. iPhone ringtone bring New York Philharmonic to a stop

B. iPhone signature ringtone defeats New York Philharmonic

C. New York Philharmonic puts on a successful performance

D. New York Philharmonic stops the audience using iPhone

D

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899—July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. His writing style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image(形象) affected later generations. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Hemingway was raised in Illinois. After high school he reported for The Kansas City Star,

before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign journalist. Advised and encouraged by other American writers in Paris—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, he began to see his work appear in print there, and in 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called In Our Time, was published. A year later, he published The Sun Also Rises, a novel with which he scored his first solid success. The writing of books occupied Hemingway for most of the postwar years. He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing. Hemingway’s love of Spain and bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon (1932). His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927. The harvest of Hemingway’s considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In the public view, however, the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) overshadowed such works.

Shortly after he published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went to Africa, where he was almos t killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway lived in Florida and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where ended his life in the summer of 1961.

68Which best arranges Hemingway’s works i n the correct order of time?

a. A Farewell to Arms

b. Men Without Women

c. The Old Man and the Sea

d. Death in the Afternoon

e. The Sun Also Rises

f. For Whom the Bell Tolls

A. e, a, b, f, d, c

B. e, b, a, d, f, c

C. b, a, d, f, e, c

D. b, d, a, e, c, f

69The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means that A Farewell to Arms.

A. was thought to be better than other works of Hemingway’s

B. was conside red to make a show in Hemingway’s life

C. was only as excellent as the other works of Hemingway’s

D. was believed to be among the worst works of Hemingway’s

70Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Hemingway must have spent his childhood in Italy.

B. Hemingway was an energetic writer with a wide interest.

C. Hemingway’s first book In Our Time was published before 1925.

D Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature ju st before his death.

71It can be concluded from the passage that .

A. Hemingway produced most of his works in Africa

B. Hemingway led a very happy life in his last few years

C. most of Hemingway’s works were based on his life experience

D. Hemingway’s writing style affected the life of later generations

E

Around the world coral reefs(珊瑚礁) are fac ing threats(威胁) brought by climate change and great changes in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also whiten corals. A new study by scientists compared damaged to corals exposed to heat as well as cold stress. The results show that cool

temperatures can cause more damage in the short term, but heat is more destructive(破坏性的) in

the long run.

Climate change is widely known to produce warming conditions in the oceans, but extreme cold-water events have become more frequent and serious as well. In 2010, for example, coral reefs around the world faced on of the coldest winters and one of the hottest summers on record.

During a unique experiment, corals under cold temperatures suffered g reater damage in just days compared with heat treated corals. Yet the researchers found that corals were eventually able

to adjust to the cold conditions, make their health stable and continue to grow. However, over the long term corals subjected to heat suffered more greatly than those in cold, with evidence of severe whitening and growth stoppage, which leads to death.

The coral’s ability to adjust to cool temp eratures surprised the researchers, who say the study’s results show the complexities(复杂性) of monitoring coral health in response to different environmental factors(因素).

“Global warming is associated with increases but also decreases of temperatures,” said Deheyn, one of the researchers. “Not much has been known about the comparative effects of temperature decrease on corals. These results are important because they show that corals react differently to temperature differences, which is important for future management of coral reefs in

the field of climate change.”

72Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Corals are unable to adjust to temperature changes.

B. Cold temperature causes greater damage to corals.

C. Hot temperature helps coral reefs to grow quickly.

D. Heat and cold damage corals in their own ways.

73We can learn from the passage that .

A. scientists used to pay no attention to the effect of cold events on corals

B. 2010 witnessed one of the greatest temperature differences on record

C. corals prefer warmer conditions to cold temperatures in the long run

D. global warming has nothing to do with the decrease of temperature

74According to the research, .

A. corals may continue to grow in cold events after a few days

B. cold events help corals grow more quickly in a short time

C. corals show no response to hot temperatures in the first days

D. corals are whitened mainly because of warm temperatures

75Scientists reached the conclusion through .

A. news report

B. scientific study

C. great imagination

D.natural conditions

第二卷（共35分）

第一节：短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Everyone has their own way of learning a foreign language.

When I was ten years old, I _______(开始)to chat with foreigners. But I 76.________ was very shy. G________, I became more and more confident with their 77.________ help. The f______ year, I went to Y angzhou with two foreigners. I became 78.________ their g____. First, we came into the Shouxi River, which they wanted to 79.________ look around ______ boat. After that, they wanted to buy some souvenirs . 80.________ The sellers couldn’t speak English, _____I tried my best to put81. _______

_______ they said into English. Next, we went to a small zoo, 82.________ where we took some _______.This was an unforgettable 83._______ _____(挑战). I hope I can catch many opportunities in the 84.________ in the future, then I can speak English, because I think practice makes ______. 85.________ 2014届高三英语上期中考试答题卡

班级_____姓名______座号_____

一听力1-5_______6—10_______11—15_________16—20_________

二．单选21—25________26—30_________31—35____________

三．完形36—40__________41—45__________

46—50__________51—55_____________

四．阅读56—60___________ 61—65___________

66 —70 ___________71—75______________

五．短文填词76______77. _______ 78.________79._______ 80. _______

81.______82.______83.________84.________85._________

第二节：书面表达（满分：25分）

假如你是李华，某校高三年级学生，你想给曾经教过你的外教Alan写一封邮件请教在

英语学习上遇到的一些问题。主要内容包括：

1.英语成绩不理想；2。恐难进心仪大学；3。花时多，收效少

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要求：1. 不要逐条翻译，可适当发挥，行文通畅；2. 词数：120左右

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2014届高三英语上期中考试试卷答案

一．听力1-5 CAACB 6-10 CBAAB 11-15ACCBA 16-20 ABCAB

二．21. C 22.B 23. A 24. A 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. B 30 C

31. D 32. A 33. C 3.4 B 35. A

三．完型填空36-40: BCAAC 41-45: ADDBC 46-50: DCBAD 51-55: ABDBC

五．短文填词：76.began 77 .Gradually 78 .following 79. guide 80.by

81 .so 82 what 83 .photos/pictures 84. challenge 85.perfect

One possible version

Dear Alan,

Recently I’m faced with some difficulty in learning Englis h which has been bothering me continuously. Hardly have I seen any progress in my English s tudy even though I have spent quite

a lot of time in English every day. No matter how hard I try, I would never get good results in the exams. I began to rea lize how serious the situation would be. I feel so worrie d that I always

blame myself for it. To improve the situation, I have discussed it with some of my teachers and classmates. They have done their best to help me, but I am still not confident. Nowadays, it has even become such a headache for me that being admitted to my dream university seems impossible. I would appreciate it if you could give me some advice. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Yours, sincerely,

Li Hua