2019届高三英语上学期期中试题 (VI).doc

2019届高三英语上学期期中试题 (VI)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. At the end of a term. C. During a vacation.2. Why cant 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 a call.4. Who will throw a party for the woman 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. A class reunion.7. What does the woman decide to do? A. Go to a party with the man.B. Go on vacation.C. Stay with her family.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How does the 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. Drink some 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. To be independent.11. Where does the girl study? A. In a middle school. B. In a high school. C. In a university.12. Why doesnt the man buy his daughter a car now? A. He thinks his daughter is too young to drive. B. He cant 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. She is alone. B. Her family. C. Her business partner.14. What do the speakers have in mon? 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 mans favorite part of the hotel? A. The service. B. The breakfast. C. The facilities.16. What does the woman imply about the hotel? A. The prices are reasonable. B. It doesnt seem like a nice hotel from the outside. C. The service didnt 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 Hessler? A. A photographer. B. A public speaker. C. A writer.19. What was the speaker excited about? A. Seeing someone give a speech. B. Hearing a famous band play music. C. Finding his favorite magazine.20. What was the speakers mistake? A. Mistaking the place.B. Mistaking the year.C. Mistaking the day.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。The following list includes some books that e highly remended by millions of readers and also a short summary of the highlights of each work.The Go-Giver, by Bob Burg and John David MannI didnt even expect that such a short book could make a huge difference in my way towards life. It simply explains plex laws that direct mankind, and concludes that there is always truth in the opposite.Dao De Jing, by LaoziDao De Jing is one of the finest books on philosophy written by Laozi, an ancient Chinese philosophy and poet. It is sincere, exciting and makes you think a lot. Read it and get in touch with the clear educative understandings that give you enough tips to 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. The book made a huge difference to my life after I discovered the secrets mentioned. Read it and it teaches you how to bee 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 until I read this book. It says, you are what your habits are, and also suggests the proven techniques to create new habits that change our lifestyles and eventually our 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 a spiritual way that strengthens your personal growth. This book never gives you easy solutions to the challenges of life. It simply is part of life and leaves you with better understanding 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 Less Travelled.D. The Science of Getting Rich.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 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 daughter was singing as she polished the furniture. I hadnt asked her to wipe the furniture. I never do. But while one brother is happiest with the puter, one with a football and one with a model car, her idea of happiness is a can of Spring Fresh and a cloth. Where have I gone wrong?Being a bit of a tomboy (假小子) myself, and not too hot on the household skills, I used to argue that the differences between men and women were all about upbringing and expectations. Nobody could have approached motherhood with a courageous determination that all children would be treated the same. Boys would be offered soft toys to hug while girls would play with cars and trains. I would raise the New Men and female engineers of the future.Ten years ago, as I gazed at my first-born in his cradle, I imagined the gentle soul he would be no guns or nasty aggression. The imagination sustained me until he was about two, when he proudly presented me with his first model a rifle. Later on, in the garden he and his brother began doing such heart-stopping things with sticks that in the end I bought 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 long ago, we were all nearly arrested when a most life-like gun in our luggage caused a security scare (恐慌) at Heathrow Airport.And what of my daughter? She plays all the boys game because she has to. Youll find her from time to time teetering (行走蹒跚) around the house in plastic high heels, with a handbag (pink) in one hand and a shotgun in the other and she can manage it when they need someone to make up the numbers for football. But her heart is not really in it. She would rather be drawing or writing or cutting out stars or polishing shells or dear heavens cleaning the bathroom.I finally faced up to the fact that boys and girls are simply born different. But I wont give up. Ill continue to try and treat them equally and expect the same of them. And by the time theyre all in their teens, I imagine theyll all be equally impossible to get to do anything. But right now, nature is wearing down nurture(训练). Equality is hard work.24. What could “a can of Spring Fresh” be? A. some drinksB. some washing-up liquid C. 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 weapons. C. The little girl is very keen to join in with her brothers games. D. The author started out determined to bring up all her children in the same way.27. Whats the best title for this passage? A. Nature or NurtureB. Boys or Girls C. Games or HouseworkD. How to raise childrenCWhenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there is a natural desire of us to capture and preserve itwhich means, in this day and age. that we are likely to reach for our phones to take a picture.Though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there are two big problems associated with taking pictures. Firstly, we are likely to be so busy taking pictures that we forget to look at the world whose beauty and interest encourage us to take a photograph in the first place. And secondly, because we feel the pictures are safely stored on our phones, we never get around to looking at them, so sure are we that well get around to them one day.The first person to notice the problems was an English art critic (评论家), John Ruskin. He was a keen traveller who realized that most tourists make a poor job of noticing or remembering the beautiful things they see. He argued that humans have a natural tendency to respond to beauty and desire to have it, but there are better and worse expressions of this desire. At worst, we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs. But, in Ruskins eyes, theres just one thing we should do attempting to draw the interesting things we see, regardless of whether we happen to have any talent for doing so.Ruskin said, “Drawing can teach us to see, to notice properly rather than gaze absent-mindedly. In the process of recreating with our own hand what lies before our eyes, we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.”Ruskin deplored the blindness and hurry of modem tourists, especially those who prided themselves on travelling around the whole Europe in a week by train, “No 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 slowly; 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 spot B. find it hard to learn skills of taking good pictures C. find a good way to keep things in their minds D. have a chance to meet the challenge of new technology29. According to Ruskin, what should travellers do to best express their appreciation and desire for something beautiful? A. To speak it out openly. B. To photograph it instantly. C. To purchase it directly. D. To paint it immediately.30. From the fourth paragraph, we can infer that Ruskin encourages us to be _. A. considerate and determined B. active and adventurous C. creative and thoughtful D. sensitive and ambitious3l. The underlined word “deplored” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “_”. A. appreciatedB. criticized C. 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 team of international researchers looked into the damage caused by one of the pollutants that have the severest impact on health PM2.5.They found that Vitamin B supplement could effectively reduce the impact of the tiny particles (颗粒) on the human body, although they stressed that the research was in its early stages. According to the WHO, 92% of the worlds people are living in places where the PM2.5 level goes beyond the remended level. So its urgent to find a solution to the problem.According to this study, published in the PNAS, 10 volunteers were initially exposed to clean air and given a placebo(安慰剂) to check their baseline responses. The group then kept on taking placebos for four weeks before being exposed to heavily polluted air from downtown Toronto, where an estimated 1,000 cars passed every hour. The bad air was delivered to the volunteers through an oxygen type face mask. The experiment was then repeated, with each volunteer taking a Vitamin B supplement daily, made up of 2.5mg of folic acid, 50mg of Vitamin B6, and 1 mg of Vitamin B12.Vitamin B6 can be found in liver, chicken, nuts and other things, and Vitamin B12 in fish, meat, eggs, milk and some cereals. The researchers found that four weeks of Vitamin B supplements the damage of PM2.5 effects by 28-76%. The results emphasized how prevention at an individual 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 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 PM2.5. 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 paring vitamins.35. You may read the passage on a website about _. A. environmentB. medicine C. 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 observed in most Western restaurants and homes. 36 Many Westerners have no idea how to act at the Chinese dinner table. No forks or knives for them to use! The Chinese host makes great, sweeping arm movements that go over large sections of the table, passing over both food and friends alike. 37 However, it leaves many foreigners at a loss for what to do. In my childhood home, dinner was enjoyed with low voices, and the topics that we could discuss were very limited. 38 If I had to leave the table to use the toilet, I had to excuse myself without mentioning what it was that I was going to do. “May I be excused, please? I need to wash my hands. I would say. My mother would say, “Sure.” My father would often play a joke on me by saying,“ 39 ”As for eating, we did it quietly. No eating noises were allowed. Everything must be done as quietly as possible. If any sound was created by eating food or drinking, it would be considered as bad manners! 40 He is to sit up straight with the recessive hand (usually the left) in ones lap holding a napkin while the dominant hand (usually the right) holds the fork or spoon. The only time one is allowed to have both hands on the table is when he is 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 unfortable.C. Cant you think up a better excuse than that?D. Theyre pletely 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。Sleeping in ClassI can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had 41 most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just 42 my first class of the day, my eyelids were feeling 43 and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a 44 . A few minutes nap time before class wouldnt 45 , I thought. Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart 46 quickly trying to find the cause of the 47 . My young professor was looking back at me with a 48 , boyish smile on his face. He had 49 dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto Ms desk. “Good morning!” he said, still smiling, “Im glad to see everyone is 50 . Now lets get started.”For the next hour I wasnt sleepy at all. It wasnt from the shock of my professors textbook alarm 51 either. It was 52 from the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material e alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. I 53 the classroom not only wide awake, but a little 54 and a little better as well. I learned something far more important than not 55 in class that day, too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it 56 , and make it an 57 of your love. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. What a beautiful world we could 58 if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love. Dont sleepwalk your way through life then. 59 ! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is 60 short not to live it well.41. A. used up B. stayed upC. mixed upD. taken up42. A. before B. during C. after D. over43. A. lighter and lighter B. wider and wider C. smaller and smaller D. heavier and heavier44. A. pillow B. bed C. tool D. waste45. A. break B. shock C. hurt D. pass46 A. jumping B. striking C. moving D. beating47. A. accident B. lesson C. action D. noise48. A. sad B. evil C. naughty D. silly49. A. intentionally B. accidentally C. naturally D. obviously50. A. present B. awake C. sleepy D. attentive51. A. bomb B. instructions C. clock D. hit52. A. even B. instead C. still D. therefore53. A. left B. attended C. missed D. entered54. A. smarter B. stranger C. braver D. prettier55. A. talking B. learning C. fighting D. sleeping56. A. with effort B. with pressure C. with desire D. with joy57. A. aim B. expression C. acceptance D. offer58. A. describe B. create C. change D. ruin59. A. Cheer up B. Hurry up C. Wake up D. Look up60. A. so B. as C. too D. such第卷第二节（共10小题；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(不得超过三个)。答案写在答题卡上。Jiaguwen, or “oracle bone script”, the 61 (early) Chinese characters which can date back to the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) es on memes (表情包) and evolves itself as a new online language among the young generation. 62 (regard) as the primary form of modern Chinese characters, Jiaguwen is hard to understand and few people would imagine that they can use it to municate with others. Even worse, people begin to ignore 63 (it) great historic value. As 64 result, its an urge to work out how we can make Chinese ancient characters more accessible to peoples daily life. Luckily, a brilliant idea 65 (occur) to a designer graduating from the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University that he could follow the new trend to promote Chinese traditional culture, 66 could help more people develop the interest of the ancient characters.Now its good to know that Chinese netizens like his 6