安徽省合肥市第八中学2016届高三英语上学期第一次段考试试卷.doc

合肥八中2015-2016学年高三第一次段考英语试卷 考试说明：1.试卷结构：分第卷和第卷；试卷分值:150分。考试时间120分钟。2.所有答案均要答在答题卷上，否则无效。考试结束后只交答题卷。第卷第一部分 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 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 man want to do? A. Buy the supplies right now. B. Visit the bookstore in the afternoon. C. Choose the same class with the woman.2 What does Gloria probably look like now? A. Strong with dark skin. B. Athletic with bright hair. C. Unhealthy with dark hair.3 What does the woman mean? A. The man will soon have time to practise. B. The man shouldnt give the performance. C. The vacation will be put off.4 What will the man do tomorrow? A. Go to a concert. B. Attend a party. C. Meet Janet.5 Which postcard will the woman send to her sister? A. The city postcard. B. The lake postcard. C. The forest postcard.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 What are the speakers talking about? A. How much money to pay. B. How to use an ATM machine. C. Where to find an ATM machine.7 What does the woman want to do? A. Open an account. B. Withdraw some money. C. Check her savings account.8 What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Workmates. B. Classmates. C. Mother and son.听第 7 段材料，回答第 9 至 11 题。9 How soon is the man expected to meet Mark? A. In 15 minutes. B. In 30 minutes. C. In 45 minutes.10 Where is Mark now? A. At the main entrance. B. In a café. C. At the platform.11 How will the man go to the station? A. By car. B. On foot. C. By subway.听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题。12 How did the woman feel at first? A. Angry. B. Sorry. C. Puzzled.13 Where is the man? A. At the bus station. B. Outside the cinema. C. In the shopping center.14 What is the woman going to do next? A. Enter the cinema. B. Do some shopping. C. Go home.听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至 17 题。15 Where is the hotel? A. In France. B. In Italy. C. In Switzerland.16 What do we know about the hotel? A. It used to be a farmhouse. B. It has welcomed its first visitor. C. It has no windows and no doors now.17 How much does the man share the budget? A. 140,000 euros. B. 280,000 euros. C. 560,000 euros.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18 Where are under-eleven matches held? A. In the sports field. B. In the secret garden. C. In the village football field.19 Why was the play equipment removed? A. It blocked the entrance to the secret garden. B. It didnt meet some regulations. C. It was replaced with a tree house.20 What can be found in the secret garden? A. Dogs. B. Cats. C. Fish.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 A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better. A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend. No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.21. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _.A. repeated without any changeB. treated as a jokeC. made some changes by the parentD. set in the present22. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _.A. makes them less fearfulB. develops their power of memoryC. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid ofD. encourages them not to have strange beliefs23. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _.A. they are full of imaginationB. they just make up the stories which are far from the truthC. they are not interestingD. they make teachers of history difficult to teachBHockerills Suggestion Caught between the rising cost of university tuition in England and the falling percentage of applicants offered places, one British school is giving its students some surprising advice. By any measure HockerilI is one of the most successful schools in Britain. Named last month as one of the governments flagship academies, its students regularly come at or near the top of exam results for the entire country, outperforming such famous names as Eton or Harrow. But unlike those private schools, where fees can exceed 28, 000 or 45, 000 a year, Hockerill, in the Hertfordshire town, is a state comprehensive, which charges no tuition fees and is forbidden from selecting its students on the basis of academic ability. And while a third of Hockerills 830 students are boarders, they are chosen on the basis of need rather than ability to pay. So when the schools principal heard of government plans to raise university tuition fees in England to 9, 000 a year, he decided to make use of the schools international focus. urging his students to apply to universities abroad and hiring a counselor（顾问）to help the students who want to apply to universities in countries whose fees are cheaper. “If you can get into a university in France and pay about 180 a year for an education at one of the best institutions in the world, why would you pay 9, 000 a year in Britain?” the principal asked. Pupils at Hockerill are offered a choice of seven foreign languages：French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese or Mandarin. History and geography classes are taught exclusively in French or German. But with English rapidly becoming the international language of education, even less linguistically flexible students soon find that going abroad can save them money while enhancing the quality of their education. “Our students can get to Maastricht in Holland by train more quickly than they can get to Lees from London,” the principal said. Just over the border from Germany and Belgium, Maastricht University offers a highly regarded undergraduate program taught in English. Tuition fees are about 1, 430, a year. Germany and France offer even greater savings. 24. What is Hockerills suggestion to its students? A. Learning foreign languages. B. Picking courses on their basic needs. C. Applying for less famous universities. D. Receiving further education outside of UK. 25. We can learn from the passage that Hockerill _. A. admits students based on their academic performance B. provides dormitories to the students in need C. collects less money than private schools D. hires counselors for every student26. Whats Hockerills principles attitude towards governments tuition plan? A. Neutral. B. Supportive. C. Indifferent. D. Negative. 27. Students choosing Maastricht in Holland will benefit from the followings EXCEPT A. education quality B. convenient location C. flexible program plans D. lessons taught in EnglishC I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way. Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he should concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didnt even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting frustrated (挫败的), but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and more accurate when he stood up. Could he be more absorbed while standing up? This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to lead to success. This child would have the willpower to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life.Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality qualities, and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids best cheerleaders, guiding them and helping them find their ways. I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesnt mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being personal and unique. It makes us free and happy and thats just the way I want my kids to live their own life.28. Time and again the author got his son seated in order to make him_. A. keep attentive B. go polite C. stay relaxed D. work fast29. The underlined word “it” (in the first paragraph) probably refers to_. A. his failure in keeping his son under control B. his sons doing better while standing up C. his own experience as a school boy D. his disappointment with his active child 30. By this passage, the author attempts to tell other parents to_. A. correct their kids manners from the early ages B. guarantee their children s freedom at home C. develop a good relationship with their children D. respect and trust their kids ways of behaviors 31. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? A. Parental help with teens study B. Adult influence on teens growth C. Kids success in their own styles D. Friendship between generationsD “To be or not to be”. Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be-to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying, “I think, therefore I am.”But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said, “To be is to be in relations.” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity （强度） of our relations. Unfortunately, we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But other than our regular occupation, how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned-poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs-you are dead.On the contrary, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest-even more, a new accomplishment-you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in different kinds of subjects can remain unhappy. The real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts with new friends, and new ideas and thoughts, too. Where your thoughts are, there will be your life also. If your thoughts are limited only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to your narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow restricted life. But if you are interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interested people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are always away from immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.To be or not to be - to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let us widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let us live.32. What does the author mainly want to do by this passage? A. Put forward an idea B. Argue against an idea C. Introduce some famous sayings D. Explain some famous sayings33. What does the underlined word “pessimist” most probably mean? A. Somebody who is always interested in making new friends B. Somebody who always expects the worst to happen C. Somebody who always lives in a world of passion and imagination D. Somebody who likes to live a rich and abundant life34. Which of the following behaviors is most probably NOT encouraged by the author? A. Thinking more than your own business B. Listening to fine music C. Reading good novels D. Caring only about your physical welfare 35. What is the main idea of the passage? A. To be or not to be, that is a question B. I think, therefore I am C. To be is to be in relations D. A man dies as often as he loses a friend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。The MississippiThe Mississippi is a great river whose relationship with man goes way back beyond its discovery in the 16th century. The River Indians used it as a highway and as a source of