高三英语上学期期中试题3.docx

1、高三英语上学期期中试题3成都七中实验2014届高三上期半期考试英语试卷 说明: 1）本试卷共两卷, 第一卷和第二卷。第一卷的答案请涂在答题卡上, 第二卷的答案请写在答题卡上的规定位置。交卷时交答题卡。 2）试卷总分为150分, 考试时间为120分钟。 第一卷（选择题，共100分）第一部分 听力测试（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. What does the wo

2、man suggest the man do? A. Go to bed early. B. Stay up longer. C. Wake up now. 2. Who does the raincoat belong to? A. The man. B. The womans brother. C. The mans brother.3. What are the speakers doing?A. Walking to somewhere. B. Asking for directions. C. Waiting for the bus.4. Who might the man be?A

3、. A store owner. B. A farmer. C. An animal doctor.5. Whats the mans problem?A. He is annoyed by his reading. B. He is distracted by the noise. C. He has no time for shopping.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

4、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 does the man think of the subway?A. It is convenient. B. It is crowded. C. It is very complicated.7. How long is the subway in service in the womans country? A. 20 hours a day. B. 18 hours a day. C. 14 hours a day. 听第7段材料, 回答第8至第9题。8. Whats the relationship

5、 between the speakers? A. Friends. B. Colleagues. C. Neighbors.9. What does the man want to do? A. Sleep. B. Join the party. C. Listen to the music.听第8段材料, 回答第10至第12题。10. How does the boy recognize what the girl is doing? A. He saw one in college. B. His dad told him about it. C. He used to play wit

6、h one.11. Why is the man surprised about the thing the girl plays with? A. It takes a few days to learn. B. It will come back. B. C. No one else asked about it.12. Why does the girl suggest watching her first? A. It could be dangerous to play. B. It would be more interesting. C. She wants to show he

7、rself.听第9段材料，回答第13至第16题。13. Who is the gift for?A. The girls mother. B. The girls father. C. The mans father. 14. What is the brown wallet like?A. It has a beautiful design. B. It has no place to put pictures. C. It is more expensive than the black one.15. What does the girl decide to buy at last? A

8、. A black wallet. B. A brown wallet. C. A tie.16. How much does the girl pay in the end?A. 5 dollars. B. 10 dollars. C. 15 dollars.听第10段材料, 回答第17至第20题。17. What did Alma do at the age of six? A. She wrote an opera. B. She wrote a song. C. She sat through an opera.18. Where does Alma like to write mus

9、ic? A. In the park. B. In her garden. C. In her room.19. Where did the idea for The Sweeper of Dreams come from? A. A dream. B. A book. C. The English National Opera.20. What does Alma think of herself? A. She wants to be like Mozart. B. She is not famous. C. She wants to be herself.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分

10、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。ASingapore Swimming Lessons My son was a water phobic(恐惧症) but he recently won the swimming competition held by his school! Three years ago, my family and I were invited to a house warming party. My son, who didnt know how to

11、 swim, accidentally fell into the swimming pool while he was playing with the other kids around the pool side area. He looked at me and shouted for help continuously, scared to death. I felt so helpless as I wasnt able to swim as well. I decided to sign my son as well as myself up for private swimmi

12、ng lesson through Happy Fish Swim School. The instructor was patient and friendly and helped my son overcome his phobic of water. Now, my entire family is able to swim and we still head to the pool every week. From: Mrs Cheng (Bedok, Singapore)Our Swimming Instructor Our swimming lessons are conduct

13、ed by professional swimming instructors certified by Singapore Sport Council (SSC) and Singapore Swimming Teachers Association (SSTA). They are fully trained in CPR and Life-saving skills to ensure the safety of all students (that means you).Why Should You Learn Swimming with Happy Fish? We have a p

14、owerful teaching system to conduct ALL swimming lessons. This will save your time and unnecessary costs of learning from different instructors and ending up being on good! You may choose your preferred timing and location for your swimming lesson. Learn how to swim in spite of your busy schedule. We

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16、l to your designed location at your preferred timing to conduct swimming lessons just for you. Hurry! Just us for the fun in the water today!21. A letter from Mrs Cheng is used to _. A. show the necessity for the children to learn swimming B. advise parents to take good care of their children C. war

17、n people to be careful when learning to swim D. show the importance of finding a good instructor22. What is stressed in the paragraph “Our Swimming Instructor”? A. The training time B. Their training methods C. The swimming lessons D. Their professional team23. According to the text, the groups swim

18、ming lessons _. A. are organized at personal swimming pool. B. can help you make new friends. C. are only provided at the appointed places and time. D. are expensive for ordinary people to afford.B Every morning on the way to school, I see the same people I always see: the old lady walking the dog,

19、the man at the newsstand, the skipping twins on their way to the bus stop. I dont know any of their names. In a strange way, I consider them as my friends. Every day, I smile at them, and they smile at me. At school, I like all the subjects. I have friends I have known as long as I can remember. Its

20、 as comfortable as being at home. Today at breakfast my parents announce that were going to move because my father has gotten a promotion. On my way to school I look at everything as if seeing it for the first time. The old lady waves at me; her dog wags its tail and gives a tiny bark. The man at th

21、e newsstand greets me. The skipping twins run past me to the bus stop. I feel like a different person, a stranger. For the first time ever, my school day is not comfortable. Going home from this day is a relief. Every day, my parents tell me something about the town that will become our new home. Th

22、ere is a statue honoring heroes, an annual strawberry festival and the mayor used to be a pro-football player. There are oak trees in our new neighborhood, just like the one in our yard. On the day before we move, I walk in the same direction as I would if I were going to school. When I see the old

23、lady, I tell her good-bye. The man at the newsstand shakes my hand, too. The twins wave as they board the bus. I walk home slowly. The moves are carrying boxes while my parents are loading suitcases into our car. Soon our house will be empty. But not for long; I know that somewhere there are parents

24、 telling their children about a town filled with oak trees, a place where you can get the best milkshake in the world, a place where, if youre lucky, you might see the same people everyday. 24. What can learn from paragraph one? A. The author is a boy of few words. B. The author walks the dog every

25、morning. C. The author gets used to the life he is living. D. There are few people in the authors neighborhood. 25. The authors parents tell him something about the new town every day to _. A. let him forget all his old friends B. make him decide whether to move C. remind him to say goodbye to his c

26、lassmates D. help him stop worrying about the new home 26. Why does the author take a walk on the day before the family moves? A. to say goodbye to what has been familiar to him. B. to visit the statue in the middle of the town. C. to see if the same people are still in the same places. D. to be awa

27、y from home when the movers come. 27. The author describes the same people three different times to show that _. A. his life is boring because nothing ever changes B. he feels at home in this town because nothing ever changes C. the new town the family is moving to will have similar people to meet D

28、. the new children who move to his house will become comfortable in it C How to describe the rising philosophy of the day? Id say it is data-ism. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data. This ability seems to carry with it certain cultural assumptionsthat everything that can be measur

29、ed should be measured; that data is a transparent and reliable lens(镜头) that allows us to filter(过滤) out emotionalism and ideology(意识形态); that data will help us do remarkable thingslike foretell the future. At the outset let me celebrate two things data does really well . First, its really good at e

30、xposing when our intuitive（直觉的）view of reality is wrong . For example, nearly every person who runs for political office has an intuitive sense that they can powerfully influence their odds(概率) of winning the election if they can just raise and spend more money. But this is largely wrong. After the

31、2006 election, Sean Trende constructed a graph comparing the incumbent（在任的）campaign spending advantages with their eventual victory. There was barely any relationship between more spending and a bigger victory . Likewise, many teachers have an intuitive sense that different students have different learning styles: some are verbal and some are visual, some focus on details and some on whole. Teachers imagine they will improve outcomes if they tailor their presentations to each student. But theres no evidence to support this either. Second, data can clarify patterns