（整理版高中英语）南汇第一学期高三英语期中考试

1、南汇 度第一学期高三英语期中考试试题总分值150分，考试时间120分钟第一卷共105分ilistening comprehension (30%)section a short conversationsdirections: in part a, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. at the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. the conversations and the questions

2、will be spoken only once. after you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to question you have heard.1ablueberrybapple piecchocolate cakedstrawberry2athe movie will not be shownbthey want to see the moviec

3、all the tickets were sold outdthe movie is famous3ato the schoolbto his homecto help the womandto the supermarket4aboringbentertainingctouchingdencouraging5ateacher and studentbhusband and wifecboss and secretarydmother and son6ain the restaurantbin the hotelcin the museumdin the theater7a7:30b7:45c

4、7:15d7:008ashe didnt catch the bus.bshe happened to meet a friend csomething prevented her from catching the bus.dher car broke down.9arick is the mans cousin.bthe man has graduated from technical school.cits hard to find a job.drick got a good job.10adrive on through the night.bcheck out of the mot

5、elccancel their motel reservation.dstop driving for the rest of the day.section b passagesdirections: in part b, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passage. the passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. when you hear

6、a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11aby busbby traincby cardby ship12athey saw the first kangaroo.bthey saw an australian tailed eagle.ctheyv

7、e never been here before.dthey saw a few wild horses.13awild horsesbkangaroosclarge birdsdsome dingoesquestions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14apolar bearsbpolar bears protectioncconference in southern englanddprotestors15a$175,000b$157,000c$1,750,000d$1,570,00016athree man-made

8、islands will be in dubai.bdubai will have the worlds tallest building.cdubai marina is foggy.dthe worlds biggest hotel is in dubai.diction c longer conversationsdirections: in part c, you will hear two longer conversations. the conversations will be read twice. after you hear each conversation, you

9、are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. write your answers on your answer sheet.blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.the woman doesnt like rosie when they eat out becauseshe is always 17 every restaurant offersgood food and good 18 the

10、 man suggests the woman invitesome of her other 19 rosie may listen to them becausethey are 20 complete the form. write one word for each answer.blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.how many times did clark lie to the man? 21 what did they find when clark said he had to study

11、?he found clark went out 2 .why did clark lie to the man?maybe because hes afraid of 23 .why neednt the man take it too seriously?because these are just 24 .complete the form. write no more than three words for each answer.iigrammar and vocabulary(25%)section adirections: beneath each of the followi

12、ng sentences there are four choices marked, a,b,c and d. choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.21shanghai is most beautiful city and we are excited that the world expo has been great success.aa; abthe; aca; thedthe; the26how do you find your new classmates?most of them are kind, but

13、 is go good to me as bruce.anonebno onecevery onedsome one27it has been amounted that candidates remain in their seats until all the papers have been collected.acanbshallcwilldmay28father made a promise i passed the exam he would buy me a bike.athatbifcwhetherdthat if29i climbed the stairs slowly wi

14、th a big suitcase, my father with two more.afollowedbwas followingcfollowingdhaving following30what caused the party to be put off? the invitations.atom delayed sendingbtoms delaying sendingctom delaying sendingdtom delayed to send31the countrys population small, and most of its population in the mo

15、untainous areas.aare; livesbare; livecis; livedis; lives32everyone agreed to the suggestion that the machine at once.ashould be repairedbbe repairedcmust be repaireddbe repaired33his house burnt down in a big fire. was the base on which it had stood.awhat remainedball that remainingcwhat was remaine

16、ddall what remained34a reward of $1,000 will be given to can provide any clues to the case which has been investigated by the police for nearly half a year.awhoeverbwhomevercanyonedwho35he to go to beijing today, but he postponed the trip when he heard that there would be a downpour at noon.awas int

17、endingbwould intendchad intendeddintended36it is not uncommon for there problems of communication between the old and the young.abeingbwould becbedto be37contemporary english is quite different from old english. there has never been a year the language was not changing.athatbwhencforduntil38to help

18、a friend solve the problem troubling him, .aa friend should be made known of his difficult situationba man should be equipped with the kind of knowledge requiredcnothing is better than offering of knowledge requireddkeeping ones promises is most important39not until all the fish died in the river ho

19、w specious the pollution was. adid the villagers realizebthat the villagers realizedcthe villagers did realizeddidnt the villagers realize40san diego's zoo and sea world are places where residents and visitors alike can enjoy r animals and plants in shows and exhibits, _ _ in part by san diego&#

20、39;s climate.amade it possible bmaking it possible cmaking possible dmade possiblesection bdirections; complete the following passage by using the words in the boxeach word can only be used oncenote that there is one word more than you needasurvey boff cbetter dcare econductedfdiffered gpersonal hpr

21、epared icontrast jdifferences,gan xiaolin, 18, only gets half a day _41_ school every week since the hubei student started senior high schoolevery day, he takes core 核心的 courses from 7:10 am to 10:30 pmsometimes, gan feels extremely stressed from the heavy workloadbut he hopes that his threeyears of

22、 hard work toward the college entrance examination will change his life for the _42_gan is a typical chinese student, as shown m a recently released surveythe new survey, which was _43_ by the china youth and children research center and other foreign institutions, polled调整 about 4,000 high school a

23、nd vocational school students in china, japan, the united states and south koreathe five biggest frustrations listed by all the young people were: an over-busy school life, an empty_44_ life, dissatisfaction with their appearance, a lack of time for exercise and friends, and no spare moneyalthough s

24、ome of the teenage problems were y-niversai, there were big _ _45_ between the students when it came to the time they spent on sehoolworkfor example, chinese students spent the most time at school and on homeworknearly 80 percent of them spent at least eight hours a week in school, and 567 percent s

25、pent two or more hours on their homeworkby_46_, only about 25 percent of us students, 20,5 percent of japanese students, and 15 percent of korean students had more than two hours of homework each nightthe responses from the chinese students also _47_ significantly from their peers 同龄人in the other th

26、ree countries when asked about their life goalsonly 167 percent of chinese students said that they didn't _48_ much about their future, while the figure for that category was 724 percent for us students, 591 percent for the japanese and 582 percent for the south koreansthe _4-9_ found that chine

27、se students were more motivated than the other students to work hard for a better lifeiiireading comprehension 37%section adirections: for each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked a, b, c and dfill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the contextwhat

28、 is the purpose of the world games? what's the difference between the world games and the olympic games?_50 _the olympic games, the world games have a rather _51_ historyin 1981, the first world games were held in santa clarasince then, in the year following the olympics, some of the world's

29、 best athletes _52_ in their common search for _53_ at the world gamesthere are usually 25 to 35 _54_ at the world games, the events at the world games are not part of the olympics or ones were part of the olympic gamesmany events at the world games _55_ as olympic events, like weightlifting and bad

30、mintonthey got their start as events at the world games _56_ being moved into the olympicsjust like the olympics, the world games also have _57_ competitionsthese competitions get the sport the chance to be seen and the chance to become medal eventsthe world games are _58_ tied to the olympic games

31、because the international olympic committee is the sponsor of the international world games associationthe international olympic committee has decided that the number of olympic participants is _59_ 10,500the new policy means that no world games competitions will be _60_ the olympics any time soon t

32、his year, the world games were held in taiwansome events, like softball, _61_ be olympic sports but were dropped and now are _62_ for the world gamesthe world games look like a perfect supplement and _63_ ground for future olympic gamesso next time you get a chance to watch the world games, you may

33、want to pay attention as it could be the future, or maybe even _64_50aas for bbut for cbecause of dcompared with51aearly byoung clong dancient52aunite blie cresult dparticipate53afame bexcellence cwealth dknowledge54agames bsports cevents dmatches55aend up bstart on cbreak off dcome up56aafter bsinc

34、e cbefore dunless57ainternational bintense cfair dexhibition58aloosely bsomewhat cclosely dpartly59aamounted to blimited to cadded to dreduced to60amoved into bengaged in cheld in destablished in61ahad to bseemed to chappened to dused to62agood bavailable chelpful dconvenient63acompeting bplaying ct

35、raining dcamping64afocus btruth chope dhistorysection bdirections: read the following four passageseach passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statementsfor each of them there are four choices marked a, b, c and dchoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the

36、 passage you have just readathe temperature of the sun is over 5000 degrees fahrenheit at the surface, but it rises to perhaps more than 16 million degrees at the centerthe sun is so much hotter than die earth that matter can exist only as a gas, except at the corein the core of the sun, the pressur

37、es are so great against the gases that, despite the high temperature, there may be a small solid corehowever, no one really knows, since the center of the sun can never be directly observedsolar astronomers do know that the sun is divided into five layers or zonesstarting at the outside and going do

38、wn into the sun, the zones are the corona, chromosphere, photosphere, convection zone and finally the corethe first three zones are regarded as the sun's atmospherebut since the sun has no solid surface, it is hard to tell where the atmosphere ends and the mainbody of the sun beginsthe sun's

39、 outermost layer begins about 10000 miles above the visible surface and goes outward for mllions of milesthis is the only part of the sun that can be seen during an eclipse日食 such as the one in february 1979at any other time, the corona can be seen only when special instruments are used on cameras a

40、nd telescopes to shut out the glare of the sun's raysthe corona is a brilliant, pearly white, filmy light, about as bright as the full moonits beautiful rays are a sensational sight during an eclipsethe corona's rays flash out in a brilliant fan that has wispy spikelike一束束穗状 rays near the su

41、n's north and south polesthe corona is thickest at the sun's equatorthe corona rays are made up of gases streaming outward at tremendous speeds sad reaching a temperature of more than 2 million degrees fahrenheitthe rays of gas thin out as they reach the space around the planetsby the time t

42、he sun's corona rays reach the earth, they are weak and invisible65matter on the aim can exist only in fee form of gas because of the sun's _ asize bage clocation dtemperature66all of the following are parts of the sun's atmosphere except the _ acorona bchromosphere cphotosphere dcore67a

43、ccording to the passage, as the corona ra5,'s reach -die plaasts, they become _ ahotter bclearer cthinner dstronger68which of 'die following do the paragraphs following the passage most likely discuss? athe remaining layers of the sun bthe evolution of the sun to its present form cthe eclips

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54、 to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy(认知心理疗法) in gothenburg suggests a link between the attitudes of women abused by their parents and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. it says girls who identified with cinderella, rapunzel and beauty in beauty and

55、the beast were more likely to say in destructive relationships as adults.the theory was developed by susan darker smith, a psychotherapist at the university of derby. she interviewed 67 female abuse survivors and found that 61 put up with severe abuse because they believed they could change their partners with patience, composition and love. the same view was taken by male