英语浙江省诸暨市牌头中学届高三上学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、英语浙江省诸暨市牌头中学届高三上学期期中考试英语试题2017学年第一学期期中考试高三年级英语试卷第I卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）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. How long will the play last? A. Forty-five minutes. B. Sixty minutes. C. Seventy-five minutes.2. Who does the

2、 man think is more beautiful? A. Lucy. B. Lily. C. Jolie. 3. What day is it today? A. Tuesday. B. Wednesday. C. Thursday. 4. What does the man mean? A. Mike has some extra money. B. The woman should get the bag. C. He cant lend the woman any money.5. What does the woman like to do best? A. Watch mov

3、ies. B. Go shopping. C. Read books.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2至4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和第7题。6. Where does the woman work? A. In Tokyo. B. In London. C. In Oxford.7. What are the speakers going to

4、 do together tomorrow? A. Visit Jane. B. Have dinner. C. See customers.听第7段材料，回答第8和第9题。8. What is the plan for the activity on Friday? A. A meeting followed by a lunch. B. A lunch followed by a lecture. C. A lecture followed by a meeting. 9. What time will Professor Smith finish his talk? A. At abou

5、t 1:45. B. At about 2:15. C. At about 2:45. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What will Mr. Smith do this afternoon? A. Clean the garden. B. Go to the cinema. C. Work on his work report. 11. Whats the weather like now? A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Snowy. 12. When will the speakers meet? A. Around three oclock. B. Aro

6、und four oclock. C. Around five oclock. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does the man say about the carpet? A. It has nice colors. B. Its easy to clean. C. Its in good condition. 14. What furniture is not included? A. The tables. B. The chairs. C. The beds. 15. How many bedrooms does the apartment have? A.

7、 One. B. Two. C. Three. 16. What does the woman decide to do in the end? A. Discuss with her friend. B. Bargain with the man. C. See another department downtown.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What do we know about the hotel? A. Its right in the center of the city. B. It has been decorated recently. C. It pro

8、vides low quality service. 18. Which is considered one of the best-equipped places in the area? A. The swimming pool. B. The tennis courts. C. The newly-opened gym.19. Which package allows guests to enjoy all hotels fitness equipment? A. The two-day one. B. The three-day one. C. The five-day one. 20

9、. How much does the five-day package cost per person per night? A. $52. B. $60. C. $75.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.A What would you do if cyberbullies(网络欺凌) were bashing your friends on Twitter? Kevin Curwick, an 18-year-old senior and footb

10、all captain at Osseo Senior High School in Osseo, Minnesota, started an anonymous Twitter page called OsseoNiceThings. Kevin uses it to tweet positive things about his schoolmates, singling them out or their strengths and talents.Now his page has thousands of followers, and similar “nice” pages have

11、 popped up at other schools. We spoke to Kevin about how he uses Twitter to combat cyberbullying.CHOICES: What made you decide to “tweet nice”? There was some nasty tweeting going on saying negative things about people at my school. So I created a nice page to help the kids who were being attacked,

12、as well as random people-just to give them a boost in confidence.CHOICES: How does it work? Do you get requests to mention certain people? People send me a direct message on Twitter, an I keep their message anomymous, so that people can look at it and think, “Wow, this could be anyone saying this ab

13、out me.”CHOICES: Have your tweets stopped the cyberbullying? By praising other people by chance and using social networking or social media to encourage a positive attitude, its made cyberbullying uncool. I think that a lot of people are looking for the positive, and when you give them that outlet,

14、all the attention is taken away from the bullies.CHOICES: Were you surprised by all the positive responses and celebrity retweets youve gotten? Oh gosh, yes! It developed a lot more than I expected. It was so cool to see how other schools now have their own “nice” pages. CHOICES: How can other kids

15、use social media for good? Perform random acts of kindness. Instead of looking through peoples pictures to tear them down, look at it in a different way. Praise people. Most importantly, if you dont have anything nice to say, just dont say anything at all. But praises are welcome all the time.21. It

16、 can be inferred that the text may be _ . A. an advertisement B. a play script C. an interview D. a personal diary22. How did Kevin Curwick deal with others messages? A. With an intention to keep a record. B. In order to keep it a secret. C. With the purpose of spreading in public. D. Without making

17、 a name known to all.23. Kevin advised other kids to use social media_. A. to offer as many praises as possible B. to look through others pictures C. to say something at least D. to create Twitter pageBCyclingorevenwalkingincityareascanbea little dangerous, thanks to the fact that one is sharing the

18、 road with vehicles that are increasingly getting larger and heaviver. A recent study proves that of the1.27millionpeoplethatdie in road traffic crashes each year, about half are walkers, motorcyclists and cyclists. Now there may be a solution that could provide at least some help to protect this he

19、lpless group-an airbag! Ifyouareworriedthatthissafetymeasurewillinvolve you taking around a heavy package or worse still, wrapping yourself inside an ugly plastic bag, the bag is fitted not on the human , but on theoutsideofthevehicle.And,whilethereare several versions of the idea in the works, the

20、one most recently unveiled by Dutch car company TNO, seemstobethemost advanced and ready to go into production.In the works since 2011, the airbag covers only the lower part of the windshield. This will provide the much needed buffer between the persons head and the pane of glass he/she would otherw

21、ise meet.The chainofeventsleadingtoanairbagcausearequite simple-a camera fitted beneath the rear-view mirror monitors the vehicles closeness to a walker or cyclist. Any contact with either one of them sets off the sensors in the cars bumper and quickly blows up the airbag. In addition to that the se

22、nsors also set off the cars automatic brake, reducing the chances of an even worse injury.In tests conductedusingamodel, thesuccessofnotgetting injured after being hit by a cartravelingatabout40km/hwas about 50-50! While not perfect, it will still result in reducing thenumberofdeathsbyahugeamount.Wi

23、thTNOreadytolicenseitstechnologytocarmakers and many more companies trying to developsimilarconcepts, we would not be surprised if outer airbags become a standard feature in every car pretty soon! 24. Whydoestheairbagcoverthelowerpartofthewindshield?A. Toprotectthewindshieldfrombeingdestroyed.B. Tom

24、akethevehiclelookbeautiful.C. Toreducetheweightofwalkers.D. Topreventpeoplesheadcrashingontheglass.25. Thefourthparagraphismainlyabout_.A. howtheairbagworksB. wheretheairbagisfixedC. whytheairbagissafeD.whattheairbagismadeupof26. Thewriter thinks theairbagofTNO_.A. perfect B. pactical C. expensive D

25、.useless27. Whatisthemainideaofthepassage?A. Airbagsareanewstandardfeatureincars. B. Airbagsaremuchsaferfordriversnow.C. Airbagsaresafeforwalkersandcyclists.D. Airbagsareasolutiontohighercaraccidentrates.CWheneversomethinglooksinterestingorbeautiful,theresanaturaldesireforustocaptureand preserveit-w

26、hich means,inthisdayandage,thatwearelikelytoreachforour 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 inter

27、est encourages 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 look at them, so sure are we that well get around to them one day.The first person to notice the problem was the English art critic, John rusk

28、in. He was a keen traveler 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 worse, we get i

29、nto buying souveniors or taking photographs. But in Ruskins eyes, theres just one thing we should do - attempting to draw the interesting thingswesee, regardlessofwhetherwe happen to have any talent for doing so. Ruskinsaid,Drawingcanteachustosee: tonotice properly rather than gaze absent-mindedly.

30、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 whereweacquireadeepunderstandingofits parts.” Ruskindeploredtheblindnessandhurryofmodern tourists, especially those who prided themselves on travellin

31、g around the whole Europe in a week by train , “ No changing of places at a hundred mile 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, no