四川省眉山一中办学共同体2019届高三英语上学期期中试题

1、四川省眉山一中办学共同体2019 届高三英语上学期期中试题第 i 卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30 分）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（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. when does the conversation take place?a. at the beginning of a term. b.

2、at the end of a term. c. during a vacation.2. why can t the man drive the woman tomorrow? a. his car is being fixed.b. he has a doctors appointment.c. he will be working in a shop.3. what will the woman do?a. charge her cell phone.b. visit her mother.c. make acall.4. who will throw a party for the w

3、oman next sunday?a. the woman herself.b. the man.c. nancy.5. what does the woman mean?a. her mother is a housewife.b. only 10% of american mothers work.c. most american mothers work.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

4、 5 秒钟；听完后，各个小题将给出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、7 题。6. what are the speakers mainly talking about?a. a festival.b. a birthday party.c.aclassreunion.7. what does the woman decide to do?a. go to a party with the man.b. go on vacation.c.staywith her family.听第 7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。第 - 1 -页8. how does the

5、man feel?a. confident.b. nervous.c. excited.9. what does the man want to do next?a. continue talking with the woman.b. go to the bathroom.c.drinksome water.听第 8 段材料，回答第10 至 12 题。10. why does the girl want to have a car?a. to travel with her friends.b. to show off.c.tobeindependent.11. where does the

6、 girl study?a. in a middle school.b. in a high school.c.inauniversity.12. why doesn t the man buy his daughter a car now? a. he thinks his daughter is too young to drive.b. he can t afford another car.c. he wants his daughter to earn a car.听第 9 段材料，回答第13 至 16 题。13. with whom does the woman travel?a.

7、 she is alone.b. her family.c.herbusiness partner.14. what do the speakers have in common?a. they both live in new york.b. they are both traveling on business.c. they have both stayed in the hotel before.15. what is the man s favorite part of the hotel?a. the service.b. the breakfast.c. the faciliti

8、es.16. what does the woman imply about the hotel? a. the prices are reasonable.b. it doesn t seem like a nice hotel from the outside.c. the service didn t use to be anything special.听第 10 段材料，回答第17 至 20 题。17. what is the bookworm?a. a literary festival.b. a caf.c. a bookstore.18. who is peter hessle

9、r?a. a photographer.b. a public speaker.c. a writer.19. what was the speaker excited about? a. seeing someone give a speech.第 - 2 -页b. hearing a famous band play music.c. finding his favorite magazine.20. wha t was the speakers mistake?a. mistaking the place.b. mistaking the year.c.mistakingthe day.

10、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。athe following list includes some books that come highly recommended by millionsof readersand also a short summary of the highlights of each work.the go-giver, by bob burg and john david manni didnt even exp

11、ect that such a short book could make a huge difference in myway towardslife.itsimplyexplainscomplex laws thatdirectmankind,and concludesthat there is always truth in the opposite.dao de jing, by laozidao de jingisone of the finestbooks on philosophywrittenby laozi,an ancientchinese philosophy and p

12、oet. it is sincere, exciting and makes you think a lot. readitand get in touch withthe cleareducativeunderstandingsthatgiveyou enough tipsto pursue your life goal full of passion.the science of getting rich, by wallace d. wattlesi had my own misunderstandings of getting rich till i read this book. t

13、he book made a huge difference to my life after i discovered the secrets mentioned. read it and it teaches you how to become rich, not immediately, but step by step.the power of habit, by charles duhiggi never knew habits played such an important role in shaping our future untili read thisbook.itsay

14、s,you are what your habitsare,and alsosuggeststhe proventechniquestocreatenew habitsthatchange our lifestylesand eventuallyour lives.it is a must-read for everyone who wishes to form lifetime habits.the road less travelled, by scott pecksimply put, buy this book for the path towards understanding in

15、 a spiritual waythat strengthens your personal growth. this book never gives you easy solutions tothechallengesoflife.itsimplyispartoflifeandleavesyouwithbetterunderstanding to lead a fulfilled life.21. which book can help you chase your dream passionately?a. dao de jing.b. the go-giver.c. the road

16、less travelled.d. the science of getting rich.第 - 3 -页22. which of the following ideas may scott peck agree with?a. habits can shape our future.b. there is always truth in the opposite.c. difficulty is often part of personal growth.d. we should find easy solutions to challenges.23. what can we know

17、about the books mentioned above?a. they are all easily written.b. they are all popular books.c. all their writers are foreigners.d. all the books are about life goals.bmy daughterwas singingas she polishedthefurniture.i hadntaskedhertowipethe furniture. i never do. but while one brother is happiest

18、with the computer, onewith a football and one with a model car, her idea of happiness is a can of springfresh and a cloth. where have i gone wrong?being a bitofa tomboy ( 假小子 )myself,and nottoohoton thehouseholdskills,i used to argue that the differences between men and women were all about upbringi

19、ngandexpectations.nobodycouldhave approached motherhood with acourageousdeterminationthatallchildren wouldbe treatedthesame. boys would be offeredsofttoys to hug while girls would play with cars and trains. i would raise the new menand female engineers of the future.ten years ago, as i gazed at my f

20、irst-born in his cradle, i imagined the gentlesoul he would be no guns or nasty aggression. the imagination sustained me untilhe was abouttwo,when he proudlypresentedme withhisfirstmodel a rifle.lateron,inthe garden he and hisbrotherbegan doing such heart-stoppingthingswithsticksthat in the end i bo

21、ught them a couple of plastic swords.we went downhill fast. a decade and three more sons after those early children,we now house an arsenal (军械库 ) of swords, rifles, water pistols, bows and arrows,hatchets, daggers and tanks that would be the envy of the british army. not so longago, we were all nea

22、rly arrested when a most life-like gun in our luggage caused asecurity scare (恐慌 ) at heathrow airport.and whatofmy daughter?she playsallthe boys game because she hasto.youllfindher fromtimeto time teetering( 行走蹒跚 ) around the house in plastichighheels,with a handbag (pink) in one hand and a shotgun

23、 in the other and she can manage itwhen they need someone to make up thenumbers forfootball.but herheart isnotreallyin it.she wouldratherbe drawingorwritingorcuttingoutstars or polishingshellsor dear heavens cleaning the bathroom.i finally faced up to the fact that boys and girls are simply born dif

24、ferent.but i won t give up. ill continue to try and treat them equally and expect thesame of them. and by the time they re all in their teens, i imagine they ll allbe equally impossible to get to do anything. but right now, nature is wearing downnurture( 训练 ). equality is hard work.第 - 4 -页24. what

25、could“ a can of spring fresh” be?a. some drinksb. some washing-up liquidc. some soft toyd. some shampoo25. how many children does the author have?a. 3b. 4c. 5d. 626. which of the following statements is true?a. the author likes doing the housework.b. the author has never allowed her sons to have toy

26、 weapons.c. the little girl is very keen to join in with her brothers games.d.the authorstartedout determinedto bringup allher childreninthe same way.27. what s the best title for this passage?a. nature or nurtureb. boys or girlsc. games or houseworkd. how to raise childrencwhenever something looks

27、interesting or beautiful, there is a natural desire ofus to capture and preserve it which means, in this day and age. that we are likelyto reach for our phones to take a picture.though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there are two big problemsassociatedwithtakingpictures.firstly,we are like

28、lyto be so busy takingpicturesthat we forget to look at the world whose beauty and interest encourage us to takea photographin the firstplace.and secondly,because we feelthe picturesare safelystored on our phones, we never get around to looking at them, so sure are we thatwell get around to them one

29、 day.the first person tonotice the problemswas an english art critic (评论家 ),johnruskin. he was a keen traveller who realized that most tourists make a poor job ofnoticing or remembering the beautiful things they see. he argued that humans havea natural tendency to respond to beauty and desire to hav

30、e it, but there are betterand worse expressionsof thisdesire.at worst,we get intobuyingsouvenirsor takingphotographs.but,in ruskinseyes,theresjustone thingwe shoulddo attemptingto draw the interesting things we see, regardless of whether we happen to have anytalent for doing so.ruskin said,“drawing

31、can teach us to see, to notice properly rather than gazeabsent-mindedly.in theprocess of recreating with our own handwhat lies beforeoureyes, we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to onewhere we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.”ruskin deplored the blindness a

32、nd hurry of modem tourists, especially those whoprided themselves on travelling around the whole europe in a week by train,“no第 - 5 -页changing of places at a hundred miles an hour will make us stronger, happier, or wiser. there was always more in the world than men could see, if they ever walked slo

33、wly; they will see it no better for going fast. the really precious things are thoughts and sights, not pace. ”28. according to paragraph 2, when taking pictures, people tend to _.a. forget to appreciate something attractive on the spotb. find it hard to learn skills of taking good picturesc. find a

34、 good way to keep things in their mindsd. have a chance to meet the challenge of new technology29. accordingto ruskin,what shouldtravellersdo to bestexpresstheirappreciationand desire forsomething beautiful?a. to speak it out openly.b. to photograph it instantly.c. to purchase it directly.d. to pain

35、t it immediately.30. from the fourth paragraph, we can infer that ruskin encourages us to be _.a. considerate and determinedb. active and adventurousc. creative and thoughtfuld. sensitive and ambitious3l. the underlined word“deplored ” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to“_”.a. appreciated

36、b. criticizedc. favouredd. ignoreddvitamin b could help reduce the effects of the dangerous type of air pollution,according to a new study published on monday. in the first study of its kind, a teamof international researchers looked into the damage caused by one of the pollutantsthat have the sever

37、est impact on health pm2.5.they found that vitamin b supplement could effectively reduce the impact of thetiny particles (颗粒 ) on the human body, although they stressed that the researchwas in its early stages. according to the who, 92% of the worlds people are livingin places where the pm2.5 level

38、goes beyond the recommended level. so its urgentto find a solution to the problem.according to this study, published in the pnas, 10 volunteers were initiallyexposed to clean air and given a placebo(安慰剂 ) to check their baseline responses.the group thenkepton takingplacebosforfourweeks beforebeing e

39、xposed to heavilypollutedairfrom downtown toronto,where an estimated1,000 carspassed everyhour.the bad air was delivered to the volunteers through an oxygen type face mask. theexperimentwas then repeated,witheach volunteertakinga vitaminb supplementdaily,第 - 6 -页made up of 2.5mg of folic acid, 50mg

40、of vitamin b6, and 1 mg of vitamin b12.vitamin b6 can be found in liver, chicken, nuts and other things, and vitaminb12 in fish,meat, eggs, milkand some cereals.the researchersfound thatfourweeksofvitaminb supplementsthedamage ofpm2.5 effectsby28-76%.the resultsemphasized how prevention at an indivi

41、dual level could be used to fight against the damage of pm2.5, the researchers said.32. whats the newly discovered effect of vitamin b in paragraph 1?a. it can be used to replace other vitamins in our daily life.b. it can help lower the air pollution level in the open air.c. it can reduce the impact

42、 of pm2.5 on human bodies.d. it can get rid of the pollutants remaining in our body.33. what can be learned from the second paragraph?a. further study about the effect of vitamin b needs to be done.b. vitamin b is the most important to humans health.c. the tiny particles in the air are made up of pm

43、2.5.d. 92% of the worlds people are affected by pm2.5.34. how did researchers draw the new conclusion about vitamin b?a. by referring to a journal.b. by performing experiments.c. by interviewing scientists.d. by comparing vitamins.35. you may read the passage on a website about _.a. environmentb. me

44、dicinec. educationd. health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 rules about how to talk, eat and sit, which are highly limited, are observedin most western restaurants and homes.36many westerners have no idea how toactat thechinese dinnertable.no forksor knivesforthem

45、touse! the chinesehostmakes great,sweeping arm movements thatgo over largesectionsof the table,passingover both food and friendsalike.37however,itleavesmany foreignersat a lossfor what to do.in my childhood home, dinner was enjoyed with low voices, and the topics thatwe could discuss were very limit

46、ed.38if i had to leave the table to use thetoilet, i had to excuse myself without mentioning what it was that i was going todo. “may i be excused,please?i need to wash my hands.i would say.my mother would第 - 7 -页say,“sure. ” my father would often play a joke on me by saying,“39”as foreating,we didit

47、quietly.no eatingnoiseswere allowed.everythingmustbe done as quietly as possible. if any sound was created by eating food or drinking,it would be considered as bad manners!40he is to sit up straight with the recessive hand (usually the left) inoneslap holdinga napkinwhilethe dominanthand (usuallythe

48、 right)holdsthe forkor spoon. the only time one is allowed to have both hands on the table is when heis using a knife to cut something.a. how one sits at the table is also prescribed(规定 ).b. we were not allowed to talk about anything that made listeners uncomfortable.c. cant you think up a better ex

49、cuse than that?d. they re completely different from what we find here in china.e. your hands dont look dirty!f. the scene is fantastic.g. in general they were all strictly forbidden topics.第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45 分）第节完形填空（共20 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的a、 b、c 和 d 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

50、。sleeping in classi can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. i was a college freshmanand had41most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. now just42 myfirstclass of the day,my eyelids were feeling 43 andmy head was driftingdown to my desk to make my textbook a 44. a few min

51、utes nap time before classwouldnt45, i thought.boom! iliftedmy head immediatelyand my eyesopened wider thansaucers.i lookedaround withmy heart46 quicklytryingto findthe cause of the47 .my youngprofessorwas lookingback atme witha 48,boyish smileon hisface. he had 49droppedthepileof textbooks he was carryingontoms desk. “good morning! ” he said,still smiling,“i m glad to see everyone is50 . nowlet