精品杭州市十八中届高三英语上学期周末检测卷十五.docx

1、精品杭州市十八中届高三英语上学期周末检测卷十五浙江省杭州市十八中20182019上学期高三英语周末检测卷十五第 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.Why doesnt the woman learn drawing?A. Shes poor at draw

2、ing. B. Shes too lazy. C. She lacks time.2. Whats the time now in New York?A. 5 p.m. B. 11 a.m. C. 6 p.m.3. What does the man come for?A. To say goodbye. B. To visit his friend. C. To invite the woman.4. Where does the talk take place?A. At the womans house. B. At the mans house. C. In a local resta

3、urant.5. What will the man do next? A. Start to take exercise. B. Do as he always does. C. Change his working time.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. What

4、happened to the man and the woman?A. They lost their tickets.B. They missed their flight. C. They left the wallet home.7. Why did the man go to the Flight Information Desk? A. To buy their tickets.B. To ask for information. C. To get their tickets back.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What is the ride board us

5、ed for?A. Giving information. B. Offering advice. C. Making schedules.9. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Rides on campus.B. Sharing rides.C. Cheaper vacations.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What excuse did the woman give for driving so fast?A. She just got married.B. She wasnt aware of it

6、.C. She forgot to see the sign.11. At what speed was the woman driving per hour?A.75 miles. B. 85 miles. C. 55 miles.12. What did the police officer intend to do at first?A. Offer the woman a gift. B. Give the woman a ticket.C. Forbid the woman to leave. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Why does the man a

7、sk about the quickest way to the airport? A. The traffic could be heavy. B. His flight is taking off soon. C. He has only 25 minutes left.14. How is the man going to pay his bill?A. In cash. B. With mobile wallets. C. By credit card.15. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Pay the bar bill.B. He

8、lp with his bags.C. Give notice about the shuttle.16. What favor does the woman ask of the man?A. Comment online.B. Visit the hotel again.C. Recommend the hotel to others.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is the speaker talking about?A. His experiences. B. His opportunities. C. His hobbies.18. Why do

9、es the speaker want to relive the 1960s?A. He cant afford lots of things. B. He doesnt have many chances.C. He wants to enjoy life as he did.19. What was the most popular thing to do at that time?A. Meeting people. B. Wearing long hair. C. Enjoying good food.20. How does the speaker sound about his

10、old days?A. Amused. B. Excited. C. Worried.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ALike it or not, people tend to give labels to singers Adele, pop; Taylor Swift, country; Eminem, rap; Pharrell Williams, hip-hop. But that rule doesnt seem to apply t

11、o Bruno Mars. The 32-year-old US singer is, in the eyes of The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica, one of the most versatile and accessible singers. After hearing the musician display a wide variety of music styles ranging from pop to hip-hop to rock, Caramanica said “there is nowhere Mars doesnt

12、belong.” Mars won six awards at the American Music Awards on Nov 19, including artist of the year and favorite male artist. And unlike many of todays popular singers, Mars didnt get to where he is through a talent show or the internet. After he left his hometown of Hawaii for Los Angeles, California

13、, to pursue(追逐) his dreams at 17, Mars was “rejected and rejected and rejected for years”, as he told the Mercury News. Before he was able to appear on stage, he had to prove himself by producing and writing songs for others. So what does Mars owe his success to? “Spending thousands of hours in a st

14、udio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training myself to sing,” he said in an interview on US TV show 60 minutes last year. “I dont really know if thats a good thing or a bad thing as no one knows what to categorize my voice or my music, I just know that Im a fan

15、of all different kinds of music styles. Youre supposed to be free doing music and thats how I feel. So when we get in the studio- whether its a hip-hop song, or a big ballad- I want to do it all,” he said. However, it seems that Mars forgot to mention one thing: his amazing talent.21. What does the

16、underlined sentence in Paragraph1 probably mean? A. Mars is given a label to rock music.B. Mars music doesnt belong to any style.C. Mars music isnt accepted by the public.D. Mars can display various music styles.22. Mars spent a lot of time doing many things except .A. producing and writing songsB.

17、playing different chordsC. joining in the talent showD. training to sing by himself23. What does the text mainly tell us?A. The popularities of Mars music.B. The Awards Mars got in music.C. The secrets of Mars success in musicD. The reasons for Mars becoming a singer.B Its easy to think that the glo

18、bes vast oceans would be effective barriers to the movement of land animals. An elephant cant swim across the pacific, after all, but it turns out that plenty of plants and animals have unintentionally floated across oceans from one continent to another. Now comes evidence that tiny, trapdoor spider

19、s made such a journey millions of years ago.Moggridgea rainbowi spiders can be found on Kangaroo Island, Which sits off the south coast of Australia. These spiders build a silk- lined burrow(地洞) in the ground, notes Sophie Harrison , a biologist in Australia. The burrow and trapdoor provide these sp

20、iders with shelter and protection. It also provides them an out-of-sight spot from which to wait for approaching preys.There is evidence, though, that the ancestors of them might have travelled millions of meters to get to Australia- from Africa. That isnt as unlikely as it might at first seem, Aust

21、ralia used to be connected to other continents, long ago, as part of a supercontinent called Gondwana. And humans have been known to transport species all over the planet. But theres a third option. The spiders might have rafted long distance across the sea.To figure out which story was most likely

22、true. Harrison and her colleagues looked at the spiders genes. They looked at the genes in seven Moggridgea rainbowi spiders from Kangaroo, and five species of Moggridgea spiders from South Africa. The Australian and African spiders split off from a common ancestor some 2 million to 16 millions year

23、s ago, the genes showed.If a large swatch of land washes into the sea, filled with arachnids, the spiders may be able to hide themselves throughout the journey .Plus, they can “hold their breath” and survive on stored oxygen during periods of temporary flooding, the researchers note.24. What is the

24、common belief about land animals according to the text?A. They are sensitive to natural disastersB. They are unlikely to move across oceans.C. They cant make a long ocean voyage.D. They float across oceans accidentally. 25. How did the researchers conclude Australian and African spiders are from a c

25、ommon ancestor?A. By making changes to their genes. B. By observing their living habits.C. By comparing the genes of the two.D. By studying their physical characteristics.26. According to the passage, we can infer that 。A. the spiders traveled globally to hide themselvesB. the spiders became more ad

26、aptive when travelingC. the spiders crossed an ocean to Australia for survivalD. The spiders crossed an ocean to become Australians naturallyCFeb 14, 2018Valentines Day, is supposed to be filled with love and happiness. But for students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida, US, this ye

27、ar, it ended up as a nightmare. A mass shooting occurred at the school that day, with at least 17 people dead and several others wounded, according to NBC News. This makes it the deadliest school shooting in the US since 20 children and six adults died in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Sch

28、ool, Connecticut, in 2012, according to Time magazine. Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student of the school who had been dismissed for breaking school rules, admitted to carrying out the shootings. The weapon that he used was a rifle(步枪), which he had bought completely legally. This raised awareness of

29、a serious issue, that “most Americans can buy a rifle before they can buy their first beer”, wrote HuffPost. While Americans have to turn 21 to buy alcohol legally, they can buy a gun, including a rifle, at the age of 18 in most states, according to the Guardian. “It is absolutely striking that a yo

30、ung adult who is not legally able to buy alcohol can just walk into a gun store and, provided they pass a background check, can buy a very high-powered and, in some cases, military-style weapon,” Lindsay Nichols, from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, told the Guardian. The low age re

31、quirement for buying long-range guns can be traced back decades, when hunting was very popular among young people in the US, according to the Associated Press. “Young men would have valid reasons for hunting, and they could even have a gun for self defense, but it was primarily for recreation,” Adam

32、 Winkler, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, US, told HuffPost. Now, this latest mass shooting in the US has brought back debates over gun control in the country. On Feb 19, many students protested in front of the White House in Washington, calling for more to be done about gun control. The US government is now consideri