高三英语上学期期中试题21

华中师大一附中20162017学年度第一学期期中检测高三年级英语试题时间：120分钟 满分：150分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15B. 9.18C. 9.15 答案是C1. What will the man do today? A. Take part in Steves party.B. Visit Mary.C. Have a picnic.2. Why does Emma come here? A. To attend Professor Austins lecture. B. To ask for help. C. To hand in her paper.3. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Have fun on the beach.B. Throw away the garbage.C. Do community work .4. What is the woman going to do right now? A. Borrow some books.B. Revise history.C. Take an exam.5. What do we know about the womans parents house in Florida? A. Its near the beach.B. Its their own house.C. It has a swimming pool.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5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出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. When does the party start?A. 7:15pm.B. 7:30pm.C. 7:45pm.7. What does the man want to know?A. The parking lot of the restaurant.B. The location of the restaurant.C. The traffic condition.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What has the woman been complaining about her job?A. Unfriendly colleagues.B. Overtime work.C. Not having salary on time.9. Whats the mans advice?A. Changing a department.B. Taking the new job.C. Looking for a new job.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How does the man feel? A. Calm.B. Scared. C. Annoyed.11. Whats the woman worrying about? A. She hasnt got a life jacket on.B. The boat will sink.C. Her family are in danger.12. Where will the speakers go? A. To the shore.B. To a lifeboat. C. To an island.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How does Jo teach English? A. Through TV.B. Through the Internet.C. Through the radio.14. Where has Jo stayed for three years? A. In Greece.B. In the UK.C. In Australia.15. What changed Jos plan in London? A. She was attracted by local cultures. B. She was welcomed by her friends. C. She got a good job.16. What can we know about Jo? A. She is having a job interview.B. She grew up in Australia.C. She likes making friends.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Whom did Peggy Ford write letters to? A. Her family.B. The government.C. Some soldiers.18. What did Fords children do with these letters after her death? A. Sent them to the government.B. Donated them to a museum.C. Showed them to a news station.19. Where can you see the filmed story about Peggy Ford? A. On the Internet. B. In the cinema. C. On TV.20. When did one woman write to her husband more than 200 letters? A. During World War I.B. During World War II.C. During the Vietnam War.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。 ABritish Women Writers in different periods of timeThe English RenaissanceThe English Renaissance began in the later part of the fifteenth century and lasted until the 1660s. Among the most famous women writers of this period is Aphra Behn, who is seen as the first professional woman writer in English. She wrote a number of plays that dealt with topics such as racism and slavery. A good example is Oroonoko published in 1688. Aphra Behns works include also the plays The Amourous Prince, The Town Fop, The Dutch Lover and her only tragedy, Abdelazer. The neoclassical periodAmong the well-known women in Bristish literature during the neoclassical period, from 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century, is Anne Finch. She wrote poetry and tried to express all that she saw and experienced. Two other women are recognized for their contribution to neoclassical British literature: Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Mary Astell was a philosopher and a feminist writer. She is best known now for her theories on the education of women.The Romantic periodJane Austen is one of the most famous women writers that worked during the Romantic period (1798-1832). Her works include several novels, most of which focus on marriage as a way for young women to secure social standing and economic security. Her most famous novels are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. Another famous woman writer from the English Romanticism is Mary Shelley. She is the author of Frankenstein, History of Six Weeks Tour and The Last Man. The Victorian periodThe Victorian period, between the 1830s and 1900, was the time when the Bronte sisters, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell lived and wrote. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte produced many British literary classics. Charlottes novels include Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette and The Professor. Mary Anne Evans adopted the male pen name George as she wanted to set herself apart from the feminine genre of cookbooks and domestic moral tales. Her most famous novel is The Mill on the Floss published in 1860. 21. According to the passage, Aphra Behn was famous for _.A. novels B. poetry C. plays D. cookbooks22. In which period can readers find books about racial discrimination written by momen?A. In the English Renaissance. B. In the neoclassical period. C. In the Romantic period. D. In the Victorian period.23. According to the passage, why did Mary Anne Evans publish her stories under the name of George Eliot? A. Women were forbidden to write novels then. B. Her works would be different. C. It helped promote her works. D. It sounded more popular.24. If a reader is interested in womens education, whose works can be the best choice? A. Anne Finchs. B. Mary Astells. C. Mary Wortley Montagus. D. Mary Shelleys.BThe Greatest Navigational JourneyIn 1787 Captain Bligh was given command of “The Bounty”, a three-year-old merchant ship. His mission was to transport breadfruit plants from the island of Tahiti to the West Indies. We know the popular story of this voyage and the rebellion, in which Bligh has been presented as hard, violent and thoroughly unpleasant captain. However, there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that this picture is far from being true. He seems to have been unusually thoughtful about the health and welfare of his men. For example he made sure that his crew got exercise, insisted on cleanliness on his ship, and adopted the practice of giving them a drink which prevented scurvy every day.When Captain Bligh arrived in Tahiti, it became clear that it would be some months before the breadfruit trees were ready to be taken to the West Indies. Instead of going off right away, he gave his crew extended shore leave. This may have been a mistake as many were unhappy about leaving when the time came. Finally, on the return journey the rebellion took place. The ship was under the command of the rebels and Captain Bligh had to leave in a small boat. Captain Blighs achievement was to get to dry land successfully. It is one of the supreme examples of seamanship. Apart from Bligh there were 18 members of his crew sailing in an open boat about 23 feet long and 7 feet wide. They took with them 25 gallons of water, 150 pounds of bread and 30 pounds of pork. They had no guns or other weapons. The boat was so low in the water that it seemed likely to sink at any time. On one occasion Captain Bligh tried to land on an island to get more water. He and his men were attacked by hostile natives and one of the crew was killed. At this point Bligh decided to sail directly to the Dutch settlement on the island of Timor without stopping. The distance was about 4,000 miles. The voyage took about 42 days and he had no advanced navigational equipment. However, his skill and commitment proved equal to the task and amazingly no one else died. It was truly a remarkable achievement. 25. What is the popularly held view of Captain Bligh according to Paragraph 1? A. He was skilful. B. He was thoughtful. C. He was determined. D. He was unpleasant.26. It may have been a mistake that Bligh gave his crew extended shore leave because it caused _. A. the lack of drink B. the death of the tress C. the unhappiness about leaving D. the challenges facing the small boat 27. What problem did Bligh and his 18 men face after the rebellion ? A. The threat from the rebels.B. Conflicts with local people. C. Attacks from marine animals. D. The possible sinking of the boat.28. What made Blighs 4000-mile voyage successful? A. The rebels abuse.B. His great seamanship. C. The crews decision. D. Modern navigational equipment.CBEIJING - The launch of a new manned space mission brings China closer to the establishment of a permanent space station, international experts say.Chinese taikonauts, Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, were blasted off into space onboard Shenzhou-11 at 7:30 am Monday and will spend 30 days in the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-2.The launch marks a key step toward Chinas plan to eventually operate a permanent space station, The successful launch of the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft is another step forward to put China among leading players in space technology, said Alexander Zheleznyakov, a Russian expert on history of space flights. Chinas experimental space lab will help provide solutions for spacecraft of different functions to approach and anchor, and for a long-term operation of life support system, said Zheleznyakov. Shenzhou-11 is scheduled to anchor on Wednesday with Tiangong-2, which is part of Chinas plan to build a permanent space station by 2022.China can now test technologies for cargo spacecraft anchoring, life support system operation and water recycling to ensure a long-term continuous operation of its space station in the future with less dependence on renewal from the Earth, he said. If all goes well, China will launch the unpiloted Tianzhou-1 cargo ship next spring to autonomously tie up with Tiangong-2. Tianzhou-1 will be capable of automatically transferring rocket fuels, a vital requirement for space station grouping and maintenance, according to a report by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).That will further their anchoring abilities needed for the larger space station, Johnson Freese was quoted.Tiangong-2 is supposed to be able to stay in orbit for two years or longer, so thats taking them (Chinese) really close to 2019 or so. I think this will be their last big technology test phase before going to their large space station, said Freese.29. Why did China launch Shenzhou-11 into space? A. To improve its launching ability.B. To show off its space progress. C. To set up a permanent space station.D. To replace the space lab Tiankong-2. 30. Which of the following is designed to automatically transfer rocket fuels ? A. Shenzhou-11.B. Tiangong-2. C. Shenzhou-1.D. Tianzhou-1. 31. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “blasted off” in last paragraph? A. sent up B. gave away C. swept off D. carried awayDJoseph Francis Charles Rock (18841962) was an Austrian-American explorer, botanist, and anthropologist(人类学家). For more than 25 years, he travelled extensively through Tibet and Yunnan, Gansu, and Sichuan provinces in China before finally leaving in 1949.In 1924, Harvard sent Joseph Francis Rock on a treasure hunt through Chinas southwestern provincesthe Wild West of their day. But gold and silver werent his task : Rock, a distinguished botanist, sought only to fill his bags with all the seeds, saplings, and shrubs he could find. During his three-year expedition, he collected 20,000 specimens for the Arnold Arboretum(阿诺德植物园).Botany, though, was just one of Rocks strengths. As an ethnologist(民族学者), he took hundreds of photographs of the Naxi, a tribe in Yunnan province, recording their now-lost way of life for both Harvard and National Geographic, and took notes for an eventual 500-page dictionary of their language. His hand-drawn map of his travels through Chinas “Cho-Ni” territory, in the Harvard Map Collection, includes more than a thousand rivers, towns, and mountains indicated in both English and Chinese, and was so well made that the U.S. government used it to plan aerial missions in World War II.Scientist, linguist, cartographer, photographer, writerRock was not a wallflower in any sense. Arrogant and self-possessed, he would walk into a village or warlords place “as if he owned the place,” said Lisa Pearson, the Arboretums head librarian.In declaring his successful return under the headline “Seeking Strange Flowers, in the Far Reaches of the World,” the Boston Evening Transcript ran a large photo of the daring explorer wearing in a woolly coat and fox-skin hat. “In discussing his heroism including hair-raising escapes from death either from mountain slides, snow slides and robber armies, he waves the idea away as if it is of no importance.”The Arboretum and Rock parted ways after 1927, mainly because his trip cost Harvard a fortuneabout $900,000 in todays dollars. Fortunately, many of his specimens, many of his amazing photos, and his great stories remain.32.What is the passage mainly about? A. Rocks service for the U.S government. B. Rocks cooperation with Harvard. C. Rocks work as a botanist. D. Rocks exploration in Southwest China.33.What contribution did Rock make to the USA besides collecting new plants and specimens? A. He traveled through some uncivilized places in China. B. His hand-drawn map was used in WWII. C. He showed heroism by escaping difficulties. D. He made headlines in Boston Evening News. 34. How did Rock respond when people mentioned his heroic deeds? A. Excitedly. B. Proudly. C. Calmly. D. Nervously. 35. What caused Rock to stop work for The Arboretum? A. The vast expense. B. The dangerous journey. C. The challenging tasks. D. The unknown world.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。 Speaking to Develop Self-confidence Overcoming stage fright Most people are nervous about public speaking. 36 If you know that your topic is interesting, and that your material is well organized, you have already reduced a major worry. Facial expressions37 During your speech try to change your facial expressions to convey the emotions that you feel. Throughout your speech you need to use expressive facial expressions. Eye contact When you speak, you should look your audience straight in the eye. The idea is to give the impression that you are talking to each individual in your audience. If you have a large audience, try to look at people in the middle of the room, then slowly look to the right side of the room, then to the left side, then back to the center of the room. 38 This will give the audience the idea that you are not interested in your topic or in them.39 Enthusiasm is being lively and showing your own personal concern for your subject and your audience. If you are truly interested in your topic, your delivery is certain to be enthusiastic and lively.Varying speaking rateYour words should not be too fast or too slow. If you speak too slowly you will bore your audience. If you speak too rapidly you will be difficult to understand. Adapt your rate to the content of your speech. For example, if you are explaining complex information, slow down. 40 A. If you are nervous , take a few steps to your right or left while speaking.B. Smiling before you start your speech shows that you are not nervous.C. The best way to cope with nervousness is to be really well prepared.D. If you are happy or enthusiastic, you should speed up.E. Dont look at the floor, the ceiling or out the window.F. Speaking with enthusiasmG. Inspiring your audience 第三部分: 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分45分）第一节: 完形填空（共20 小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。My first lesson is at a meeting. As we settle around the table I hear Meg, who is 41 a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for 42 my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” “Dont mention it,” Judith says, “It was nothing.”Knowing how 43 Judiths schedule is, with her work, kids and aging parents, I find her driving Megs children to lessons unbelievably 44 . I am about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, enters the room 45 . She apologizes for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who are over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I say, 46 how busy she is, how she doesnt like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she says, waving her hand, “It was nothing.” 47 , I can still tell the 48 in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.Seeing their 49 to help others selflessly, I start thinking about the concept of “nothing”, this peaceful and generous way of living- had it really been nothing or are they simply saying that? It 50 to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend 51 a speech she was going to deliver. I 52 her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more 53 . After the fifth try, she finally 54 it. She hugged me with 55 , saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing. Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesnt 56 mean sacrifice and hard work. The 57 is finding something we love to do and finding someone who 58 that something. Our generosity can benefit others 59 ourselves. Once you have a good 60 of it, its nothing. And its really something.41. A. recovering fromB. adapting toC. going throughD. rejoicing in42. A. guiding B. fetchingC. drivingD. dragging43. A. common B. tightC. strange D. practical44. A. ridiculousB. eccentricC. tiresomeD. generous45. A. hastilyB. angrily C. disappointedlyD. unexpectedly46. A. ignoring B. knowingC. forgettingD. predicting47. A. MoreoverB. ThereforeC. OtherwiseD. Somehow48. A. pleasureB. sadnessC. surpriseD. regret49. A. progressB. ambitionC. promise D. willingness50. A. refers B. appearsC. occursD. seems 51. A. prepare forB. put upC. give awayD. deal with52. A. beggedB. invitedC. recommendedD. sponsored53. A. confusingB. sensibleC. sensitiveD. typical54. A. gotB. meantC. caughtD. made55. A. concernB. worry C. gratitude D. apology56. A. normallyB. accidentally C. necessarily D. possibly57. A. treatB. trickC. plotD. plan58. A. needsB. admires C. lovesD. defends59. A. on account ofB. as well asC. except forD. regardless of60. A. orderB. glimpseC. impressionD. command第 II 卷注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节 满分45分）第二节 (共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（ 1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。A 14-year-old Chinese boy overcame two of humankinds most dreaded fearsgetting stuck in an elevator and getting homework 61_(do), in a single night 62_(owe) to his calm-witted character.Sun Yixiao was on his way up on Tuesday evening after school, 63_ the lift suddenly came to a stop. A moment of panic followed before the 64_(teenage) could find a way out.Sun said he tried to open