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1、届 高三上学期期中考试英语试题 word版2017学年第一学期期中考试卷高三 英语第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 7.5 分）听下面 5 段对话，每段对话有一道小题，从每题所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，听完每段对话后， 你将有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听一遍。1. What will the man probably do with the computer?A. Fix it himself. B .Find another computer. C .Turn to someone else f

2、or help.2. What does the man probably smell?A. Bread. B A .cake. C. Cupcakes.3 Why is the woman upset?A. The next-door neighbors are being noisy.B. She has a project due next week.C. She thinks the man is being loud.4. How much over the speed limit was the woman going?A. The miles per hour. B. Twent

3、y-five miles per hour. C. Forty miles per hour.5. What has Mary been like at work?A. Shes been acting sad. B. Shes been pretty lazy. C. Shes been difficult to work with.2-1-c-n-j-y第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 22.5 分） 听下面 4 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的 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 5 秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将

4、给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 7 题。6. What are the speakers discussing?A. A piece of artwork. B. A house in Hollywood. C. The current demand for art.7. According to the woman, why should the man accept her offer?A. It will help his career. B. Its what he had asked for.C. Its the best cho

5、ice in the long term.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. How is the electricity formed?A. When bits of ice fill up a cloud.B. When pieces of ice crash into each other.C. When raindrops freeze before falling to the ground.9. How hot is the sun?A. About 10,000 degrees.B. Around 18,000 degrees.C. About 60,000 deg

6、rees.10. What usually happened to people after being struck by lightning?A. They die B. They are alive but injured C. They are completely fine听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 12 题。11. How does the man feel?A. Sad. B. Surprised. C. Disappointed.12. What might the man do?A. Show the woman the tickets. B. Pay for the

7、 tickets. C .Watch a game.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What makes Kopi Luwak different?A. Its grown on the ground. B. Its made with blackberries. C. Its made with the help of an animal.14. What does the man think of the coffee?A. Its delicious. B. Its disgusting. C. Its just like regular coffee.15. Wh

8、ere was the coffee purchaesd?A. In the U.S. B. In Indonesia. C. In the Philippines.16. What id the womans reaction to the price?A. She is impressed. B. She thinks its funny. C. She cant believe it.听第 10段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What was the credit card fee for small businesses a decade ago?A. Between 4%

9、 and 5% of the total amount.B. Between 3.5% and 4% of the total amount. C. Between 2.5% and 3% of the total amount.18. What was the first service that Square offered?A. A credit card reader for smart phones. B. Large equipment for market sellers.C. Data analysis tools for big businesses.19. What hap

10、pened in 2014?A. Square processed payments for free. B. Square started giving business advice.C. Square became a public company.20. What does Square also own?A. First data. B. Twitter. C. A food delivery service.第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分35分）（共10小题; 每题2.5分，满分25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。A My 17-yea

11、r-old daughter went off to college and having her away from home brought back memories of watchingPeter Panwhen she was little. In the classic TV production, one scene in particular impressed me: when Mrs. Darling puts her children into bed. As she turns off the last of the night lights, she takes o

12、ne last look at the bedroom and says, “Dear night lights, protect my sleeping children.” As a mother, I know how much she loves her children. It has been several weeks since we took our daughter to college and she seems to be adjusting well after a short period of homesickness. For us, though, its a

13、nother story. Like most parents, I love checking in on my children at night. But now shes gone, and I find night times the hardest. I miss her most at night. In my neighborhood, most of the parents whose kids are off to college are dealing with similarmelancholy. My husband is filled with anxiety. O

14、ne friend talked about getting this sick feeling in her stomach as she prepared for the college drop-off. We complained that many of us were too busy to truly enjoy being with our children while we had them. For us moms, seeingToy Story 3only made the sadness worse as we watched the character Andy,

15、who is the same age as our kids, say goodbye to his childhood as he prepares to leave for college. And its not just “first-time” parents like me. Two moms who have kids already well into college said the separation didnt get any easier. “You feel like something has been taken away from inside you,”

16、said one of them. I imagine things will get easier with time, especially as I see my daughter adjust to college life. Meanwhile, as I keep my cell phone close to me in bed and text my daughter goodnight and sweet dreams every night, I like to think that messages serve as a night light that keeps her

17、 safe.21. The writer was deeply impressed by the scene inPeter Panbecause _. A. the scene showed a mothers deep love for her childrenB. the scene was very exciting and interestingC. the scene taught her and her daughter a good lessonD. she watched the scene with her daughter22.What is the underlined

18、 word “melancholy” in Paragraph 3 similar in meaning toA. Happiness. B. Anger.C. Excitement.D. Sadness.23. According to the last paragraph, why did the writer keep her cell phone close to her in bedA. To say good night to her daughter. B. To wait for her daughters calls. C. To call her daughter any

19、time. D. To wait for her daughters messages. B Below is a selection from a science report.Even facts “forgotten” by people during a busy day may be got back again if this is followed by a good nights sleep. Researchers from the University of Chicago asked volunteers to remember simple words. Many fo

20、und their memories letting them down towards the end of the day, but the following morning, those who had slept well could remember much more. Researchers, writing in the journal Nature, said the brain could “rescue” lost memories during the night. When the brain is first asked to remember something

21、, that memory is laid down in an “unstable” state, which means it is possible that it could be lost. At some point, the brain consolidates (强化) those which are thought important into a “stable”, more permanent state. However, the Chicago researchers suggested that it was possible for a “stable” memo

22、ry to be made “unstable” again. This would mean that memories could be slightly changed and then be kept in a new order again in the face of new experiences. The 12 volunteers who were tested in the experiment were asked to listen to words created through a speech synthesizer (语音合成器) which were purp

23、osely difficult to understand. At the very beginning, the written version of the word was available, but afterwards the volunteers were asked to identify the word just depending on the sound they heard. Tests showed that the ability to remember the right word tended to weaken as the day ended. Howev

24、er, when the volunteers were retested after a good nights sleep, they were able to recall some words that they had “forgotten” the previous evening. Dr Daniel, one of the study authors, said: “Sleep strengthens memories, protecting them against later interference (干扰) or decay (衰减).”“Sleep also appe

25、ars to recover or restore memories.” He said: “If the function of memory is reduced by decay, sleep might actively recover what has been lost.” Dr Karim Nader, from the Department of Psychology in McGill University in Montreal, said: “Memory research is experiencing a transformation - no longer is m

26、emory thought to be a hardware of the brain, instead it seems to be a process of storage and re-storage. Sleep helps some memories fully grown up and also removes unimportant memories.” 24. What can be kept in ones memory more permanently? A. Something first remembered by the brain. B. Something con

27、sidered important by the brain. C. Something reviewed by the brain during the night. D. Something appearing in the brain last.25. Which of the following is the correct order of what the volunteers did in the experiment?a. distinguished words simply by their sounds.b. recalled the words they had hear

28、d at different times of the day.c. recalled the words they had heard the next morning.d. distinguished words by their sounds and their written version.A. abcd B. dacb C. bdca D. dabc26. From the report we can learn that _. A. memory differs from person to person. B. good memory happens in the early

29、morning.21世纪*教育网 C. sleep affects memory. D. memory fails at the end of a day.C In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A ma

30、n is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, “No, thanks. Ive got a good horse under me.” The city planners decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasnt enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water leve

31、l. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the citys streets by as much as 12 feet. This of course cr

32、eated a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, orhoistthe entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly eas