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1、2015-2016学年第一学期期中考试高三英语试题 注意事项：1. 本试卷分第卷和第卷两部分, 满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。考试结束后, 将答题卷和答题卡一并交回。2. 答题前, 考生务必用0.5毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、座号、准考证号填写在答题卡和试卷规定的位置上。3. 第卷每小题选出答案后, 用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案标号。第卷必须用0.5毫米黑色签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应的位置；如需改动,先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新的答案。第I卷（选择题 共100分）第一部分：听力(共两节, 满分30分

2、)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。第一节听下面 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. How much longer will the woman wait for the bus at most from now on? A. 45 minutesB. 30 minutes.C. 15 minutes.2. What will they do first? A. Searc

3、h for a penB. Fix the bookshelf. C. Paint the bookshelf.3. What do we know from the conversation? A. The man lost his keys. B. The man didnt want to enter the room. C. The man couldnt open the door.4. What is the man doing? A. Waiting for a man.B. Calling a taxi.C. Driving a taxi.5. What does the wo

4、man suggest the man take? A. A sweater and boots B. A sweater and medicines. C. A raincoat and a sweater.第二节（共15小题：每小题15分，满分225分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话和独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话和独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题将给出 5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话和独白读两遍。6. Why has the woman been exercising recently? A. To

5、 keep fitB. To train for a race.C. To lose weight.7. How does the woman feel after running? A. TiredB. EnergeticC. Sick.听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。8. Which of the speakers things is gone? A. The televisionB. The mans coat.C. The radio.9. Where do they lose the things? A. In the taxiB. At home.C. In the company

6、.10. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife.B. Waiter and customer. C. Boss and clerk.听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。11. Where are the speakers talking to each other? A. On the Internet B. In a computer store. C. Somewhere in front of a computer.12. How much will the man pay for the pl

7、ayer? A. $1,500B. $1,100C. $40013. What can we learn from this conversation? A. Most people prefer shopping in the stores because of the low prices. B. People can only use credit cards while shopping on the Internet. C. Shopping on the Internet is easier than that in the stores.听第9段材料,回答第l4至l6题。14.

8、What is the woman? A. A college student. B. A laid-off worker.C. A computer lover.15. What is she worrying about? A. Her exam results. B. How to find a job. C. How to send emails.16. What does the man advise her to do? A. Go to the companies in person. B. Try on the Internet. C. Send out more applic

9、ations.听第10段材料,回答17至20题。17. What is the speaker probably? A. An air hostess. B. A woman clerk.C. A flight engineer.18. What is the flight number? A. 6157. B. 7156.C. 7517.19. What should we do in case of emergency according to the speaker? A. Fasten the seat belt. B. Turn off mobile phones. C. Use o

10、xygen masks.20. When does the speaker give the talk? A. Before a flight. B. During a flight. C. After a flight.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 Visitor Oyster cards are electronic smartcards that come fully charged with credit. Whether yo

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16、icket machines in Tube, DLR, London Overground and some National Rail stations. Around 4,000 Oyster Ticket Stops found in newsagents and small shops across London. TFL Visitor and Travel Information Centers. Tube and London Overground station ticket offices. Emirates Air Line terminals.21. When can

17、you use your Visitor Oyster Card?A. After you become a regular visitor. B. Only when you end your journey.C. Once you arrive in London. D. Before you leave home.22. What can we learn about the Visitor Oyster card? A. It can reach you before your journey to London. B. It requires you to pay as much a

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19、 offices. BCleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy theyre given after all. Choices can be hard.I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. Id never seen or heard of anything that grew that

20、fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and Id been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldnt work since most start-ups dont

21、, and I wasnt sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, Id been a garage inventor. Id always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant b

22、oss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didnt al

23、ready have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didnt think Id regret trying and failing. And I suspect

24、ed I would always be haunted by a decision not to try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and Im proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.24. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?A. His dream o

25、f being an inventor. B. The support of his wife.C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet. D. Millions of exciting titles. 25. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him. B. He would be very ex

26、cited if he tried it out. C. He would be always having a doubt if he didnt try. D. The decision not to try the online bookstore would terrify him.26. We can know from the passage that _.A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the authorB. the author wanted someone else to try the ideaC. the au

27、thor might not regret if he failed the ideaD. the author might go back to his boss if he failed27. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Cleverness and Kindness B. The Starting of AmazonC. Following My Passion D. We Are What We Choose CParents and kids today dress alike,

28、listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when MR. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teen

29、ager.I would never have said to my mom, Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?”says Ballmer. There was just a complete gap in taste. Music was not the only distance. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectation: earlier generations of parents and children often

30、appeared to move in separate orbits. Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families: Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent-child activities, from shopping

31、to sports, involve feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood. No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, To my mother, my best friend. But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “Theres still a lot of strictness and author

32、ity on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening, says Kerne, a psychology professor, at Lebanon Valley College. In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see

33、 the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic（民主） process that encourages everyone to have a say.“My parents were on the before side of that change, but todays parents, the 40-year-olds were on the after side, explains Mr. Ballmer. Its not

34、 something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.28. Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing? A. Parents help their children develop interests i

35、n more activities.B. Parents put more trust in their childrens abilities.C. Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.D. Parents share more interests with their children.29. The change in todays parent-child relationship is _.A. more confusion among parentsB. new equality between parents an

36、d childrenC. less respect for parents from childrenD. more strictness and authority on the part of parents30. By saying todays parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the after side, the author means that todays parents _. A. follow the trend o f the changeB. can set a limit to the changeC. fail to take

37、the change seriouslyD. have little difficulty adjusting to the change 31. The purpose of the passage is to _.A. describe the difficulties todays parents have met withB. discuss the development of the parent-child relationship C. suggest the ways to handle the parent-child relationship D. compare tod

38、ays parent-child relationship with that in the past DBoys schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and musicFar from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity(男子气概)，the absence of girls gives boys

39、the chance to develop without pressure to be consistent to a stereotype(传统观念)，a US study saysBoys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their abilities to express their emotions，rather than feeling they had to obey t

40、he “boy code” of hiding their emotions to be a “real man”The findings of the study are against the received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls Tony Little，headmaster of Eton，warned that boys were being ignored by the British education system because it had become too focused on g

41、irlsHe criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girlsThe research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skillsBut in single-sex schools tea

42、chers can adjust lessons to boys learning style，letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom，wrote the studys author, Abigail James of the University of Virginia Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with “boy-focused” approaches

43、 such as themes and characters that appeal to themBecause boys generally have sharper vision，learn best through touch, and are physically more active，they need to be given “hands-on” lessons where they are allowed to walk around“Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine (女性的) and prefer

44、 the modern type in which violence and sexism(性别歧视) are major themes.” James wroteSingle-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel they had to give in to a stereotype that men should be “masterful and in charge” in relationships“In mixed schools boys feel pressed to act like men be

45、fore they understand themselves well enough to know what that means.” the study reported.32The author believes that a single-sex school would _ A. force boys to hide their emotions to be “real men”B. help to form masculine aggressiveness in boysC. encourage boys to express their emotions more freely

46、D. naturally place emphasis on the traditional image of a man to boys33It is commonly believed that in a mixed school boys _ A. perform relatively better B. grow up more healthilyC. behave more responsibly D. receive a better education34What does Tony Little say about the British education system?A. It fails more boys than girls academicallyB. It focuses more on mixed school educationC. It fails