黑龙江省大庆高三英语上学期期末考试试题

大庆一中高三年级上学期期末考试

英语试卷

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分３０分）

第一节（共5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's the correct time?

A. 8:20.

B. 8:25.

C. 8:15.

2. Where are the two speakers?

A. On a ship.

B. On a train.

C. On a plane.

3. Where is the woman going now?

A. Her brother's office

B. Her own house.

C. The market.

4. Why can't the woman go to the party?

A. She is sick.

B. She has to work.

C. She has to stay at home.

5. What is the problem with her English?

A. Her spelling is very poor.

B. Her spe aking is not good.

C. Her pronunciation is not good.

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至8题。

6. Where are the two speakers?

A. In the library.

B. In a department store.

C. In the street.

7. Who are the two speakers?

A. A woman and his husband.

B. A woman and a passer-by.

C. A woman and her friend.

8. Where will the woman change buses?

A. At the zoo.

B. At the traffic lights.

C. At the end of the No. 9 bus.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Why is the man going to the States?

A. Visit places of interest.

B. Visit his friends.

C. Attend a conference.

10. How long will the conference last?

A. One month.

B. Two weeks.

C. Seven days.

11. What is the man?

A. A scientist.

B. A writer.

C. A traveler.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where does this conversation take place?

A. At school.

B. In the street.

C. On the phone.

13. Why is the woman going to borrow some old exam papers?

A. She wants to look through them.

B. Hers are missing.

C. She wants to check them.

14. Why is the girl worried about her physics exam?

A. Because she hasn't prepared well.

B. Because she has lost her physics book.

C. Because she has no old exam papers.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a library.

B. In a classroom.

C. In a bookstore.

16. What is the man doing?

A. Returning some books.

B. Looking for a book.

C. Writing a research paper.

17. What does the woman tell the man to do?

A. To return the due books.

B. To refer to the card list.

C. To make use of the computer.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Who does the speaker talk to?

A. A friend of his.

B. A group of new students.

C. A group of visitors.

19. What is the total number of departments in the college?

A. Six.

B. Five.

C. Four.

20. Where do the teachers in the English department mainly come from?

A. England and America.

B. America and Australia.

C. America and Canada.

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

Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a small pool of water ahead on the path. I changed my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn’t covered by water or mud. As I reached the pool, I was suddenly attacked! Yet I did nothing for the attack. It was so unpredictable and from somewhere totally unexpected. I was surprised as well as unhurt though I had been struck four or five times. I backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking me. Had I been hurt, I wouldn’t have found it amusing. And I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!

Having stopped, laughing, I took a step forward. My attacker rushed me again. He charged towards me at full speed, attempting to hurt me but in vain. For a second time, I took a step backwards while my attacker paused. I wasn’t sure what to do. After all, it’s just not eve ry day that one is attacked by a butterfly. I stepped back to look the situation over. My attacker moved back to land on the ground. That’s when I discovered why my attacker was charging at me only moments earlier. He had a mate and she was dying.

Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her. I could only admire the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate. He had taken it up on himself to attack me for his mate’s sake, even though she was clearly dying and I was so large. He did so just to give her those extra few precious moments of life. His courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mate’s safety seemed admirable. I couldn’t do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult side of the pool. He had truly earned those moments to be with her, undisturbed.

Since then, I’ve always tried to remember the courage of that butterfly whenever

I see huge barriers facing me.

21. Why did the writer change his direction while walking down a path?

A. To get close to a butterfly.

B. To look the bad situation over.

C. To escape a sudden attack.

D. To avoid getting his shoes dirty.

22. What did the man find funny?

A. Making the attacker pause.

B. Being attacked by a butterfly.

C. Stepping on a butterfly.

D. Discovering the energetic butterfly.

23. Which of the following words can best describe the male butterfly?

A. Careless.

B. Amusing.

C. Courageous.

D. Aggressive.

24. From this experience the man learned ________.

A. what he should do when faced with trouble

B. people should show sympathy to the weak

C. how he should deal with attacks

D. people should protect butterflies

B

Kids Flying Alone Guide

Before the flight：

Try to book a morning flight. If it is delayed or canceled, you have the rest of the day to make alternate plans.

Make sure your child doesn't wear any clothing that has his or her name on it, which could make it easier for a stranger to convince a child that they can be trusted.

At the airport：

Make sure the flight attendants know that your child is traveling alone. Make sure that he or she will be seated in an area of the aircraft that's convenient for attendants to keep an eye on—the very front or very back of the aircraft is ideal.

Register your child's travel plans with the U.S. State Department, which can provide assistance in an emergency. This is a free service.

What to pack：

Cell phone: If your child doesn't have a cell phone, buy him or her a pay-as-you-go phone at a cell phone retailer so he or she has an easy form of communication for emergencies.

Gif t cards: Invest in a few pre-paid gift cards worth $25 or $50. This will reduce the worry of traveling with a large amount of cash.

Family/Friends contact information: Give your child a complete list of names, telephone numbers and addresses of the people who are picking your child up at the airport.

25.How much should you pay if your child aged 12 travels alone on a connecting

flight by Frontier Airlines?

A．$50. B．$75. C．$120. D．$160.

26.Which of the following is recommended for unaccompanied children?

A．Booking them morning flights.

B．Giving them a large amount of cash.

C．Making them sit in the middle of the aircraft.

D．Dressing them in clothing with their names on it.

27.What can we learn from the passage?

A．Unaccompanied children can't fly on the last flight of the day.

B．Tell unaccompanied children only the name of the people who will pick them up.

C．Pay-as-you-go phones are provided at the airport for children without cell phones.

D．Parents can register children's travel plans with the U.S State Department

for free.

C

At five o’clock, people leave their office. The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time. They leave when t he clock tells them they’re done.

These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers. That may be a bad thing, particularly at work. New research shows on that clock-based work schedules hinder (阻碍) creativity.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hour s. For example: a meeting from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., research from 10 a.m. to noon, etc. On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish. They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar and Anne, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under “clock time” vs. “task time”. They f ound clock-timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives. Task-timers are happier and more creative, but less productive. They tend to enjoy the moment when something good is happening, and seize opportunities that come up.

The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture. Smart companies, they believes will try to bake more ta sk-based planning into their strategies. This might be a small change to the

way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time. While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity. It'll make the tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

28. What does the author think of time displayed everywhere？

A. It makes everybody time-conscious.

B. It clearly indicates the fast pace of modern life.

C. It is a convenience for work and life.

D. It may have a negative effect on creative work.

29. How do people usually go about their work according to the author?

A. They accomplish their tasks one by one.

B. They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

C. They set a time limit for each specific task.

D. They give priority to the most urgent task on hand.

30. What did the researchers find in their experiments about clock-timers?

A. They tend to be more productive.

B. They have more control over their lives.

C They always get their work done in time. D. They seize opportunities as they come up.

31. What do the researchers say about today's business culture?

A. It does not support the strategies adopted by smart companies.

B. It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers' lives,

C. It does not attach enough importance to task-based practice.

D. It aims to bring employees' potential and creativity into full play.

D

Your heart vs. Your mind

You watch a sad film and get caught up in your emotions. You cry your eyes out at the dramatic plots—you feel sad for the characters if they suffer, or happy for them when they are successful. It is only when the movie is over that you realize that what

you were watching is not real.

But why couldn’t you accept that when you were so absorbed in the movie? It was reported in Science Daily this week that scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, discovered that people simply cannot think emotionally and logically at the same time.

It has long been known that something different goes on in our brain when we use lo gic, rather than responding to something emotionally. Thinking logically is a step-by-step process, in which people make decisions through reasoning and find answers. When we think emotionally, we look at things from someone else’s point of view and try to feel their pain.

Now scientists have found that thinking logically and emotionally are like the two ends of a seesaw (跷跷板) when we’r e busy thinking emotionally, the part of the brain used for cold, hard analysis is prevented. And it’s also true the other way roun d.

To come to this conclusion, scientists gathered 45 people—men and women—to take brain scans as they solved different kinds of puzzles. Some of the puzzles were tough and involved math and physics and others were social problems th at required participants to put themselves in other people’s shoes.

Scientists found that when participants were doing a math problem, the region in their brain that is associated with logical thinking lit up, and when asked to make emotional decisions, the region for emotional thinking lit up. But the most interesting part is that when asked to solve problems that required both logical and emotional responses, the participants always used one of the regions at a time while the other one went dark.

“Emotional thinking and logical thinking are mutually (相互地) independent in the brain,” said Anthony Jack, leader of the study. “You don’t have to favor on e, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time.”

However, people sometimes ended up using the wrong one. This explains why some people are good at solving complex math problems but have poor social skills. And why even the smartest people get taken in by fake but touching stories.

32．Why does the author mention watching movies at the beginning of the article?

A．To tell us that the movies that we watch are not real.

B．To introduce the research findings from this experience.

C．To show that logical thinking is much more important.

D．To prove to us that the emotional thinking is powerful.

33．Through their recent tests, scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US

proved _____.

A．logical thinking works differently from emotional thinking

B．logical thinking is much more efficient than emotional thinking

C．logical thinking and emotional thinking take turns to function

D．logical thinking and emotional thinking could work together

34．The underlined expression in Paragraph 5 probably means ______.

A．put one’s foot in one’s mouth B．put on other people’s shoes

C．place oneself in others’ position D．stand on one’s own

feet

35．We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that ______.

A．people can freely switch between different types of thinking

B．adopting the wrong thinking method could have bad results

C．people could use both logical thinking and emotional thinking

D．people who think logically could easily be taken in by stories

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To control the nation’s growing problem with food wastage, the South Korean government has started a unique campaign—“Pay as You Trash”. 36 One is through an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) card—when users tap this card over a specially designed food waste bin, the lid will open. The waste is automatically weighed and recorded in the user’s account. The user needs to settle this bill every month.

The second billing method is through pre-paid garbage bags. 37 For instance, in Seoul, a 10-liter garbage bag costs around one dollar. 38 Residents (居民)throw food waste directly into bins and pay for it by purchasing bar