英语福建省厦门市大同中学届高三下学期模拟考试.docx

1、英语福建省厦门市大同中学届高三下学期模拟考试福建省厦门市大同中学2018届高三下学期模拟考试英语试题（考试时间：120分钟试卷满分：150分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节 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 woman think of the movie?A. Its amusing. B. Its exciting. C. Its disappointing.2. How will Susa

2、n spend most of her time in France?A. Traveling around.B. Studying at a school.C. Looking after her aunt.3. What are the speakers talking about?A. Going out. B. Ordering drinks. C. Preparing for a party.4. Where are the speakers?A. In a classroom. B. In a library. C. In a bookstore.5. What is the ma

3、n going to do?A. Go on the Internet. B. Make a phone call. C. Take a train trip.第二节听下面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 is the woman looking for?A. An information office. B. A police station. C. A

4、shoe repair shop.7. What is the Town Guide according to the man?A. A brochure. B. A newspaper. C. A map.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does the man say about the restaurant?A. Its the biggest one around.B. It offers many tasty dishes.C. Its famous for its seafood.9. What will the woman probably order?A. Fri

5、ed fish. B. Roast chicken. C. Beef steak.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where will Mr. White be at 11 oclock?A. At the office. B. At the airport. C. At the restaurant11. What will Mr. White probably do at one in the afternoon?A. Receive a guest. B. Have a meeting. C. Read a report.12. When will Miss Wilson se

6、e Mr. White?A. At lunch time. B. Late in the afternoon. C. The next morning.听第9段材料，问答第13至16题。13. Why is Bill going to Germany?A. To work on a project B. To study German. C. To start a new company.14. What did the woman dislike about Germany?A. The weather. B. The food. C. The schools.15. What does B

7、ill hope to do about his family?A. Bring them to Germany.B. Leave them in England.C. Visit them in a few months.16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Fellow-travelers. B. Colleagues. C. Classmates.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When did it rain last time in Juarez?A. Three days ago. B

8、. A month ago. C. A year ago.18. What season is it now in Juarez?A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Autumn.19. What are the elderly advised to do?A. Take a walk in the afternoon.B. Keep their homes cool.C. Drink plenty of water.20. What is the speaker doing?A. Hosting a radio program.B. Conducting a seminar.C

9、. Forecasting the weather.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） ASometimes we start a day with the previous day still in mind We think about the mistakes we made in the previous day, how things went wrong, and how we felt bad about it. No wonder it becomes difficult to focus on the current day.

10、Here are some steps on how to start your new day fresh:1. Take time to evaluate your dayAt the end of a day, take some time to think about it. The purpose of this thinking time is not to regret how bad your day was, how things went wrong, or how people treated you badly. This wont do you any good. I

11、nstead, the purpose of this thinking time is to extract（吸取）lessons which you can bring to the following day.2. Make a commitment to apply the lessonsAfter you extract the lessons, you should make a commitment to apply them. To do so, find some actionable things you can do to apply the lessons. Next,

12、 remind yourself to do them. You may write them down if you want to.3. “Close” your dayAfter you have spent the time to think about the day and extract the lessons, make a decision to “close” the day. You are done with it; dont think about it anymore.4. Bring only the lessons to the next day and not

13、hing else After you “dose” a day, you should not bring anything out of it to the next day except for the lessons you extract. Focus on applying the lessons to the present. This way you will be able to start your day fresh without the burden of yesterday. 21. What will happen if we think too much abo

14、ut the past?A. There will be a disaster. B. There will be good results.C. We wont have a peaceful mind. D. We surely wont finish todays task.22. When should we draw lessons from the past mistakes?A. At the end of a day. B. When we make mistakes.C. At the beginning of a day. D. When we regret making

15、the mistakes.23. Why should we extract lessons from the past day?A. To set them down. B. To consider them again.C. To make a better decision. D. To apply them for future use.BFor years, my time spent in the shower could have got me a mention in Guinness World Records as the shortest time taken to ba

16、the. I hurried up during this process.One day, however, while at a party, I heard an artist friend telling everybody that his idea came while he was having a shower. “What about you?” he asked, “Dont you get your creative thoughts from the same place?”“Im in and out in a hurry,” I told him proudly.

17、“I have no time to waste!”“What a pity,” he said. “Thats the place where you need to slow down; plenty of great thoughts come from there!” I tried it out. I slowed down the whole process, started enjoying the warm water, taking a little longer to soap myself and even spending more time just enjoying

18、 the process, and realized how much I had missed in hurrying up all these years.A woman told me how much stress her friend was suffering from and how she sought to convince her that she needed to find ways to relax. She gave her a videotape on stress management and relaxation techniques, and encoura

19、ged her to watch it right away. Fifteen minutes later, her friend handed back the tape. “It was good,” she said,” but I dont need it.”“But its a 70 - minute video,” the woman replied, “You couldnt have watched the whole thing.”“Yes, I did,” her friend said. “I put it in fast - forward!” A major soci

20、al problem of the 21st century is Hurry Sickness. We hurry through work. We swallow fast food. We complain that we dont have enough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look back in amazement and comment, “My god, how the years flew by!” Then we realize the heavy price we have p

21、aid for traveling fast.Symptoms of Hurry Sickness include stress and anxiety, bad relationships, lowered work performance and even disease. Some people dont survive it. Whats the cure? Slow down, for life is so short and precious that we must live it well.24. What was the advantage of taking a showe

22、r in the eyes of the artist friend?A. Time was saved. B. Nothing was missed.C. Great ideas flew away. D. Creative thoughts came.25. What was the trouble with the womans friend?A. She felt stressed. B. She found the tape useless.C. She found no way to relax. D. She watched the tape too fast.26. What

23、are the major trouble people face in the 21st century in the writers eyes?A. People run fast to work. B. Everything is done in a hurry.C. People dont have enough time. D. Time flies without being noticed.27. How can the problem be settled? A. By pacing down. B. By learning to survive.C. By developin

24、g friendship. D. By performing good work.CIt could have been any of us, but it happened to be me. I received a brief 18-months of undivided attention and love as the only child, before three more appeared. The second was a severe blow. No doubt, learning the need to share was important, but I had ta

25、sted the life of an only child.Then came years of requests to look after the siblings（兄弟姐妹）, being urged that, You should be setting a better example, “Again and again the others got away with doing wrong but I didnt. We each played our roles; the second one who later skipped school to meet boys; th

26、e ever so attractive third, the boy who could do no wrong; and finally the surprise appearance of the fourth, seemed certain to be spoiled even now. So that left me: the reasonable, quiet one who got the grades, did the housework and became a chameleon（变色龙）skilled at reading a situation and being wh

27、at was needed.Then eventually came the chance to be the first to leave and experience life on the outside, not defined（定义）as the eldest. The moment I had waited for. But now, many years later, being the eldest matters again. Its down to me; it seems, to take the lead in caring for our parents, AH th

28、e time I was made to learn about sharing; however, when it comes to responsibility, it no longer seems to apply. The others are too busy, too far away, or too unconcerned. So dutifully I travel many times across the country for hours to provide care and support. Requests to my siblings to help out m

29、ore fall on deaf ears. To me, the dutiful first born, it feels like the right and only thing to do; to be there for our parents as they were for us. Sadly, that feeling isnt shared by the second, third or fourth.28. How does the author comment on the four children in the second paragraph?A. Angrily

30、and Bitterly. B. Angrily and proudly.C. Bitterly and humorously. D. Humorously and proudly.29. How did the author develop his social skills?A. Through hard work. B. With the parents help.C. At the parents request. D. In practice for effectiveness.30. What does the underlined word “it” in the last pa

31、ragraph refers to?A. To care for the old. B. To help the young.C. To live outside alone. D. To travel nationwide.31. What can we learn from the text?A. The writer hates to be the eldest. B. The writer feels proud of his role.C. The writer is satisfied with his attempt.D. The writer is regretful about the siblings.DThe Maltese Islands are rich in Neolithic (新石器时代的) sites. Ggantija in Gozo, Tarxien, and the Hagar Qim/Mnajdra Complex here on Maltas south coast are perhaps the most well-known. These piles of stones are some of the ea