江西省赣州市第四中学2017届高三英语上学期期中试题无答案2018080902276.doc

赣州四中2016-2017学年第一学期期中考试高三英语试题时间：120分钟 总分：150分第I卷（三部分，共115分）第一部分：听力理解(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 boy looking for?A. A newspaper. B. A magazine. C. A copy machine.2. What size shirt does the woman want? A. S. B. M. C. L.3. When will the man probably take a vacation?A. On August 2nd. B. On August 31st. C. On July 28th.4. Whats the weather like today?A. It is very cold. B. It rains heavily. C. It snows heavily.5.What kind of cookies did John eat?A. Ice-cream cookies. B. Chocolate cookies. C. Butter cookies.第二节 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，并在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话或独白前，你将时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟； 听完后，各个小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白仅读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. How long hasnt the woman had a vacation?A. For three years. B. For four years. C. For five years.7. What will the woman do next?A. Make a travel plan. B. Take a vacation. C. Talk with her husband.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How many bands will play in the MTV Awards?A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.9. What can we learn about Karen Mok?A. She is very young. B. She works as a host. C. She can speak French.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Whats the relationship between Anna and Jean?A. Sisters. B. Classmates. C. Teacher and student11. What does Jean want to be in the future?A. An artist. B. A toilet cleaner. C. A scientist.12. How does the boy ask Anna to do?A. Help Jean with her study. B .Call to apologize to Jean. C. Do homework for Jean.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.When is the talk show?A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.14. What does a green invention mean?A. A green colored product. B. An environmentally-friendly invention. C. An invention invented by famous inventors.15. What can reusable water bottle be used to do?A. Reuse water. B. Reduce plastic waste. C. Save water.16. Which energy is the cleanest?A. The solar energy. B. The coal energy. C. The gas energy.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What did Lauren Castillo like to do as a kid?A. Draw pictures. B. Read in the library. C. Buy picture books.18. What can we know about her nana?A. She lived in the city. B. She liked travelling. C. She used to read books.19. What is the best part of her job?A. Telling stories to children. B. Choosing material for painting. C. Sharing her books with students.20. Where is Lauren Castillos studio?A. In front of her apartment. B. Next to her apartment. C. In her apartment.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分） 第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AOn Nov.18th,1908,three men went up in a balloon（气球）.They started early in London. The headman was Augusta Gaudron, and the other two men were Tannar and Maitland. They had a big balloon and they were ready for a long way.Soon they heard the sea. They were carrying the usual rope（绳子）,and it was hanging down from the basket of the balloon. At the end of the rope they had tied a metal box. This could hold water, or it could be empty. So they were able to change its weight（重量）.It was for use over the sea. They were also carrying some bags of sand.After the sun rose, the balloon went higher. It went up to 3,000 metres, and the air was very cold. The water in the balloon became ice. Snow fell past the men's basket, and they could see more snow on the ground. The men tried to throw out some more sand; but it was hard. They tried to break the icy sand with their knives, but it was not easy. The work was slow and they were still falling, so they had to drop some whole bags of sand. One of them fell on an icy lake and made a black hole in the ice.At last they pulled the box into the basket. It was still snowing; so theyclimbed to get away from the snow. They rose to 5,100 metres! Everything became icy. They were so cold that they decided to land. They came down in Polandheavily but safely. They had travelled 1,797 kilometers from London!21. Three men flew in balloon _.A. more than a century ago B. to another cityC. to visit Poland D. for nearly 1,800 kilometers 22. The metal box was used for _.A. carrying the bags of sand B. keeping drinking-waterC. changing weight D. carrying ropes of the basket 23. When the balloon went up higher, _.A. the temperature of the balloon began to fall B. They saw the sun go downC. They made a hole in the basket with their knivesD. They could see a black hole on the groundBSamuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata（奏鸣曲）by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable .They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesnt even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.Samuel cant understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me -I hear the notes and can bear them in mind-each and every note,” says Samuel.Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists cant play it. Samuel says confidently,” Its all about super memory-I guess I have that gift.”However, Samuels ability to remember things doesnt stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesnt know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies.24. What is special about Samuel Osmond? A. He has a gift for writing music.B. He can write down the note he hears.C.He can play the musical piece he hears.D. He is a top student at the law school25.What can we learn from Paragraph 2?A. Samuel chose law against the wish of his parents.B. Samuel planned to be a lawyer rather than a musician.C. Samuel thinks of himself as a man of great musical ability.D. Samuel studies law and music on the advice of his teachers.26.Everyone around Samuel was surprised because he _.A. could play the piano without reading musicB. played the guitar and the piano perfectlyC. received a good early education in musicD. could play the guitar better than his father27Which of the following is the best title of the passage?A. The Qualities of a MusicianB. The Story of a Musical TalentC. The Importance of Early EducationD. The Relationship between Memory and Music.CWhen other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”Liz wants moviegoers (who often see films) to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.28. In which order did the following things happen to Liz?a. Her mother died of AIDS.b. She worked at a petrol station.c. She got admitted into Harvard.d. The movie about her life was put on.e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.A a, b, c, e, d. B. b, a, e, c, d C. e, d, b, a, c D. b, e, a, d, c29. The main idea of the passage is _.A. how Liz managed to enter Harvard UniversityB. what a hard time Liz had in her childhoodC. why Liz loved her parents so muchD. how Liz struggled to change her life30. What actually made her go towards her goal?A. Willpower and determination. B. Envy and competitionC. Decisions and understanding. D. Love and respect for her parents.31. When she wrote “What drove me to live on.I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that _.A. she had little experience of social life B. she could hardly understand the societyC. she needed to travel more around the world D. she would do something for her own life DIt was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth (收费站). “Im paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me,” she said with a smile, handing over seven tickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, “Some lady up ahead already paid your fare.”It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friends refrigerator: “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down.Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. “I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why shed taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, “like a message from above.” Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much that he put it up on the classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didnt know where it came from or what it really meant.Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind for days.“Heres the idea,” Anne says. “Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly.” Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, “Kindness can build on itself as much as violence can.”The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!32. Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?A. She knew the car drivers well.B. .She hoped to please others.C. She wanted to show kindnessD. She had seven tickets.33. Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she .A. decided to write it on a warehouse wall B. wanted to know what it really meantC. thought it was beautifully written D. wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom34. Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?A. Kindness and violence can change the world.B. Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves. C. Kindness and violence can affect ones behavior.D. Kindness and violence can shape ones character.35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others. B. People should practice random kindness to those in need.C. People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet.D. People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.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。 Effective time management is the primary means to a less stressful life. High school, especially during your senior year, can be frustrating (令人沮丧的). This is the time of your life when you are preparing yourself for college and the real world. 36 Plan each day.Planning your day can help you accomplish more and feel more in control of your life. Write a to-do list, putting the most important tasks at the top. 37 Prioritize(按重要性排列) your weekly schedule as a student.Prioritizing tasks will ensure that you spend your time and energy on those that are truly important to you. 38 Friends will want to hang out with you on the weekends, but they will understand if you explain to them that you need to study or catch up on college-related work. 39 Keep a diary of everything you do for three days to determine how you are spending your time. Look for time that can be used more wisely. For example, if you take a bus to school, you