届陕西省西安市长安区第五中学高三上学期期中考试英语试题Word文件下载.docx

1、C. She went to sleep late.3. What is the woman doing now?A. Baking cookies. B. Making a list. C. Shopping for groceries.4. How does the woman feel about the zoo?A. Sad. B. Impressed. C. Disappointed.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Young people lose their jobs easily. B. Young peopl

2、e are too quick in making decisions. C. Young people seldom stay long in the same job.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。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 will the man start his new job?A. Tomorrow. B. Next week. C. N

3、ext month.7. Why is the man paying for the womans lunch?A. She helped him a lot. B. It is his turn to pay. C. He wants to congratulate her.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What is Annas chemistry grade now?A. B. B. B+. C. D.9. When does Annas study group meet?A. After school. B. On the weekends. C. During lunch h

4、our.10. Who is Anna speaking to?A. A study group member. B. Her teacher. C. Her father.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. How old was Jonathans mother when she started doing laundry?A. 8 years old. B. 10 years old. C. 16 years old.12. Which temperature will Jonathan use for now?A. Hot. B. Cold. C. Warm.13. What i

5、s the “light” spin cycle used for? A. Jeans and towels.B. Most of Jonathans clothes. C. Sheets and pillow cases.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. Which decorations are on the sofa? A. The Christmas ones. B. The Halloween ones. C. The Thanksgiving ones.15. What did the man use to get the box out? A. A pole. B. A

6、chair. C. A ladder.16. Where might the conversation take place? A. In the basement.B. In the bedroom.C. In the living room.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What does the Golden Rule ask people to do? A. Develop personal rules. B. Respect their families and ancestors. C. Treat others as they wish to be treated.

7、18. Which is a teaching of Confucius? A. Governments should be moral. B. Husbands should respect wives. C. People should memorize rules of behavior.19. How did Confucius teach lessons? A. Through arguments. B. Through reasoning. C. Through personal examples.20. What does the speaker say about Confuc

8、ius influence? A. He used to be even more important. B. He has influenced many cultures. C. He has little effect on people today.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ARain beat against the window, matching my mood. I should have known that my new job at the hos

9、pital was too good to be true. Throughout the day, rumors （传言） warned that the newest employee from each department would be laid off. I was the newest one in the training department. My boss appeared. “You probably know were cutting back,” he said. “Administration wants us to offer outplacement cla

10、sses to help those employees find other jobs, showing them how to act in an interview, for example.” “Fine,” I answered unwillingly, not knowing what else to say.I decided to go home early that day. In the hall, I met the lady who brought us cookies every Friday. She was a little woman with gray hai

11、r. Only her head and the top of her green apron were visible over the cart （小车） loaded with cleaning supplies. At least she had a job! At the final meeting, laid-off workers formed a line at the door. A colleague whispered, “I cant believe our Cookie Lady is being laid off. Well miss her as much as

12、well miss her cookies.” When the colleague spoke to her in Spanish, I knew my classes would be useless for her and I realized how much better off was than this poor woman.I decided to do something for her. I wrote to a newspaper expressing how I felt about the unselfishness of the Cookie Lady who ne

13、eded a job. A few days later, my article appeared in the newspaper and the Cookie Lady was allowed to stay in her position. On the same day, I received a letter, which seemed so unlikely that I read it twice. “An editor of a local magazine likes your piece and wants you to call her next time youre l

14、ooking for work ”21. How did the author feel on that rainy day?A. Nervous. B. Excited. C. Awkward. D. Proud.22. What was the author asked to do?A. Take care of patients. B. Leave earlier that day.C. Resign from the hospital. D. Help the laid-off workers.23. How did the author help the Cookie Lady?A.

15、 He offered her a high-paid job. B. He gave her advice on job hunting.C. He made her story known to others. D. He taught her how to pass an interview.24. What does the story tell us?A. Good deeds have their rewards.B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.C. Little people can make a big difference.D.

16、Love brings more joy to people than work does.BAt your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.Among English speakers, chances are that it will be a second or two at most. But while this pattern may be universal, our awareness of silence differs dramatical

17、ly across cultures.What one culture considers a confusing or awkward pause may be seen by others as a valuable moment of reflection and sign of respect for what the last speaker has said. Research in Dutch and also in English found that when a silence in conversation stretches to four seconds, peopl

18、e start to feel uneasy. In contrast, a separate study of business meetings found that Japanese people are happy with silences of 8.2 seconds nearly twice as long as in Americans meetings. In Japan, it is recognized that the best communication is when you dont speak at all. Its already a failure to u

19、nderstand each other by speaking because youre repairing that failure by using words. In the US, it may originate from the history of colonial （殖民地） America as a crossroads of many different races. When you have a complex of difference, its hard to establish common understanding unless you talk and

20、theres understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engaged to establish a common life. This applies also to some extent to London. In contrast, when theres more homogeneity, perhaps its easier for some kinds of silence to appear. For example, among your closest friends and family its

21、 easier to sit in silence than with people youre less well acquainted with.25. Which of the following people might have the longest silence in conversation? A. The Dutch. B. Americans. C. The English. D. The Japanese.26. What might the Japanese agree with in a conversation? A. Speaking more gives th

22、e upper hand. B. Speak out what you have in your mind. C. Great minds think alike without words. D. The shorter talking silence, the better.27. What can we learn from the text? A. A four second silence in conversation is universal. B. Its hard for Americans to reach a common agreement. C. English sp

23、eakers are more talkative than Japanese speakers. D. The closer we and our family are, the easier the silence appears.28. What does the underlined word “homogeneity” in the last paragraph mean? A. Similarity. B. Contradiction. C. Diversity. D. Misunderstanding.C Next month, Im traveling to a remote

24、area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala one of the local languages to have a conversation. I wasnt sure how I was going to manage this until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary Im going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the app Im using. It feels just like a game.“People oft

25、en stop learning things because they feel theyre not making progress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “Were trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something youd want to do instead of watching TV.”Memri

26、se gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you practice the words, you “water your plants”. When the app believes that you have really remembered a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on （登录），the app sends you

27、 emails that remind you to “water your plants”.The app uses two principles about learning. The first is that people remember things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memoriz

28、ed motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created I imagined an old engine in a motel （汽车旅馆） room.The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them againlater, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because its the kind of

29、 app you only use for five or ten minutes a day.Ive learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this wont make me a fluent speaker, but I hope Ill be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my Vocabulary!29. What does Ed Cooke make an effort

30、 to do with Memrise?A. Create memorable experiences.B. Make progress with hard work.C. Master languages through games.D. Combine study with entertainment.30. What do the underlined words “water your plants” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Learning new words.B. Being a Memrise user.C. Logging on to the app.D. Taking care of your garden.31. How does Memrise work?A. By linking different mems together.B. By putting knowledge into practice.C. By offering human translation services.D. By applying an associative memory approach.32. What is the authors attitude towards Memrise?A. Posi