1、2017 届江西吉安市第三中学高三上学期期中考试英语试题第 I 卷 选择题（共 100 分）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）1. How much did the man pay?A20 yuan. B50 yuan.C40 yuan 2where does the conversation take place probably?A. In a restaurant. B. In a shop.C In a gym.3What should Amy do?A. Eat less. B. Take care of her te
2、eth.C. shop herseIf.4Who is the man?AThe house owner.BA building designerCA building worker5.What does the man have?A. Canadian dollars. B. American dollars.C British pounds.第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.what did the woman learn at university?ATennis. BSwimmingC Golf7.How ofen
3、 does the woman swim? A. 0nce a week. B. Five times a week.C. Three times a week.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。学校： 班级： 姓名： 学号：8Where is Joe from?AFrance. BEngland.CGermany.9. What will the boy do tomorrow?A. Show Joe around the city.B. Introduce Rose to Joe.C. Write an email to Joe.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. W
4、hat has the man been doing?A. Doing some reading.B Playing computer games.C. Writing some articles.11. What do people do while staring at the computer screen?A. Rest less. B. Blink less.C Exercise less.12. What is the best way to rest the eyes?A. Take a break . B. Drink some tea.C Use eye-drops.听第 9
5、 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Why did Jack quit his job?A. He didnt like it at all.B. He couldnt finish his work.C. He quarreled with his boss. 14. What happened to Jack at the meeting?A. He made a mistake. B. He was criticized.C. He didnt make a big deal.15.What does Jack think of his job? A. It has no fu
6、ture. B. It is challenging.C. It is boring.16. What does Mary advise Jack to do?A. Go travelling. B. Find another job.C. Improve himself.听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。17. Why will the school open the course about gaming?A. Its popular worldwide B. Its students favorite.C. It is a great career.18. What do
7、we know about the course?A. It offers easy games.B. It lasts for one year.C. It is five hours a week.19. What does the school focus on?A. Students teamwork . B. Students knowledge.C. Students health.20. What will students do in the course?A. Leam to fix the computer.B. Take physical education. C. Pl
8、ay ball games.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）阅读下列短文，从每题所给 A， B， C,，D 中，选出最佳答案 AIn the middle of the night, an escapee made a brave escape. After squeezing out of a tiny opening, he quietly slipped across the floor. Then he slid down a drainpipe（排水管） to freedom. This wasnt a well-p
9、lanned prison break. It was Inky, an octopus（章鱼） that escaped from the National Aquarium of New Zealand. He hasnt been seen since.Inky was given to the aquarium in 2014 by the fishermen who had caught him in the sea by accident. He impressed the staff “He figured out how to open the top off a jar,“
10、said Rob Yarrall, the aquariums manager.But one morning, workers arrived at the aquarium to find Inky missing from his tank. Only his tank mate, an octopus named Blotchy, remained. The watery tracks leading from the tank to the drainpipe showed where he had gone. Experts figured out that Inky had sq
11、ueezed through a small gap on top of his tank. He then slid more than 8 feet across the floor and slipped into a drainpipe about 6 inches wide. Finally, Inky slid down the 164-foot-long drainpipe and, most likely, retumed to his hometown.“Octopuses are fantastic escape artists,“ said Alex Harvey, an
12、.expert at the Marine Biological Association in England. “They have a complex brain and excellent eyesight, and research suggests they have an ability to learn and form mental maps.“ They can also squeeze through extremely small spaces even ones as tiny as coins - since they have no bones in their-b
13、odies.Inky is not the first octopus to make headlines. In 2009, an octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in Califomia took apart a valve(阀门) in her tankand aimed a tube out of the tank. It caused a huge flood. And in 2010, Paul, anoctopus in Germany, gained fame after appearing to correctly pick
14、 the winning teams in the seven Germanys World Cup soccer games.21. What can we learn about Inky in the first two paragraphs?A. It is strong. B. It is confident.C. It is patient. D. It is smart.22. Where is Inky most probably now?A. In the ocean. B. In a new tank.C. In the drainpipe. D. In the river
15、. It is smart.23. What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?A. Octopuses are better at escaping from tanks. B. Inkys escape was actually perfectly normal.C Octopuses can learn new things very quickly.D. The workers were surprised at Inkys escape.24. Why are other octopuses mentioned in the last pa
16、ragraph?A. They are becoming very popular.B. The media has made Inky famous. C. They have more tricks than expected. D. Humans show great interest in them.BWhile the term “island“ is linked to beaches and sunshine, therere some islands youll find covered by clouds mystery. The Isola La Gaiola Off th
17、e coast of Naples , Italy, youll find the beautiful Isola La Gaiola. Yet, if you say hello here, you will hardly get an answer, as this island is completely deserted now because of a curse（诅咒） dating back to the 1920s. The people who once owned the island all died mysteriously.Easter IslandThe name
18、“Easter Island“ was given by the islands first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who found it on Easter Sunday in 1722. Land on Easter Island, and you will instantly be impressed by the sight of giant sculptures known as the moai The origins and purpose of these sculptur
19、es remain a mystery to date.The Island of the DollsHow do you feel when you see thousands of dolls hanging on trees? This island once belonged to a farmer named Santana. In 1950, he saw a little girl drown in a local canal. Later, he found a doll which he thought belonged to the girl. He hung it on
20、a tree. Then he began hanging more dolls. Since his death, his cousin Anastasio has lived on the island and run it as a tourist attraction. Now, are you brave enough to visit the island?Surtsey Island. In 1963, an undersea volcano erupted, which reached the surface and began forming this island. The
21、 volcanic activity continued till 1967, and a 2.7 km2 piece of land was formed. However, it reduced to only l.4 km2 in 2002. Insects, birds, plants, and even seals can now be seen on this newly formed island.25. What is special about the Isola La Gaiola?A. It is believed to be cursed. B. You cant sa
22、y hello on it.C. It is off the coast of Naples. D. You will die after visiting it.26. How do visitors probably feel when theyre on the Island ofthe Dolls?A. Excited. B. Puzzled. C. Frightened. D. Worried.27. Which island is the youngest one?A. The Island of the Dolls. B. Easter Island.C. Surtsey Isl
23、and. D. The Isola La Gaiola.28. What can we conclude about the islands mentioned in the text?A. Theyre combinations of nature and humans.B. Theyre famous for wonderful stories.C. They have beautiful beaches and sunshine.D. Theyre mysterious and unusualCOn May 22, over 100,000 Peruvians are expected
24、to arrive at a site in the Andean highlands near the peak of Ausungate. They may have traveled hundreds of miles to get there. At an altitude of 16,500 feet, theyll camp out, sing, dance and pray（祈祷） at the religious festival. Its called Qoyllur Riti, which means “snow star“ in the local language. T
25、he festival itself is a combination of Peruvian and Catholic traditions. It marks the start of the harvest season.There was a time of conflicts between Peru and Spain, which ruled Peru from the 16th century until the 1820s. They once had conflicts. But in the case of the festival, the two cultures,
26、Spanish and Peruvian, became connected.The mountains here are considered sacred(神圣的）by local people. For many years, each province represented at the festival carves out heavy blocks of ice from the glacier - a symbolof water and life - to bring back to their communities (团体).But things have changed
27、.“We cant take ice down from the glacier anymore,“ says Walter Mamami, a participant from the Canchis province. “The glacier is getting smaller due to climate change. We now stop at the foot of the glacier.“We prayed that the glacier wouldnt disappear,“ Jaime Rios Farfan said after he returned from
28、the main ceremony at the foot of the glacier held at sunrise.“At the celebrations in the past years, each community had its own area in the snowfields where it could carry out its ceremonies and prayers. If the glacier continues to decrease, it will threaten the peaceful coexistence between the comm
29、unities,“ says Javier Felix, speaking of possible conflicts between those communities that might still have a sacred area on the glacier and those that dont.29. According to the text, the celebration of Qoyllur Riti is to show .A. The glacier is getting smaller.B. It is time to harvest crops.C. Spai
30、n and Peru are friendly to each other now.D. Peruvian and Catholic traditions are combined.30. What is one of the traditions of Qoyllur Riti?A. Admiring the sacred mountains.B. Praying the glacier wont disappear.C. Stopping at the foot of the glacier and camping.D. Cutting ice from the glacier and b
31、ringing it back. 31. What can we learn from Javier Felixs words?A. The glacier is important to local people. B. The glacier is really very rare nowadays.C. The communities are unfriendly to each other.D. The communities try to expand their areas. DA company called Mars is trying to help people get r
32、id of unhealthy habits. Mars, which owns food brands like Dolmio and Uncle Bens, announced a planto label certain foods - for now, mostly pasta sauces - that are high in sugar, salt, and fat as “occasional“ foods.“As these products are not intended to be eaten daily, Mars will provide guidance for c
33、onsumers on the foods packages and on its website regarding how often these meal offerings should beconsumed within a balanced diet,“ wrote Marspresident, Fiona Dawson.According to the company, the “occasional“ label is used for foods that it suggests should only be eaten once a week. The other 95 p
34、ercent of its products will carry a label showing them as “everyday“ foods. As the BBC noted, the U.K.-based National Obesity Forum (NOF) offered some compliments to the plan, calling it “hugely beneficial“ and “very imaginative“.The plan means thatMars admits some of its products are terrible. Howe
35、ver, it also comes at a time when govemment bodies are seeking to define or classify the relative unhealthiness of certain foods and when companies might see an advantage in getting out ahead of potentialregulations.Last month, a first-in-the-nation regulation went into effect in New York City that
36、requires restaurants to label saltier menu items at chain restaurantsthat contain more than the daily s uggested sodium（钠）intake.Its unclear whether other companies will follow Mars lead or whether these new labels will have any real impact. A number of studies have seriousl questioned whether New Y
37、ork Citys calorie（卡路里） counts will change consumer behaviour.One result of the decision is that Mars gets to determine the language in an increasingly sharpening public debate on public health. Mars also gets to decide how its measures are carried out. Curiously absent from mention in Mars new plan
38、is the companys praised chocolate division, which produces Starbursts, M&Ms, and Snickers.32. What does Mars tell people by labeling some of its foods “occasional“?A. The amounts of sugar, salt and fat they provide.B. The different ingredients they contain.C. The times they can be eaten a week.D. Th
39、e foods that can be eaten so as to keep healthy.33. What does the underlined word “compliments“ in the third paragraph mean?A. Help. B. Requirements.C. Suggestions. D. Praise.34. What does the example of restaurants in New York prove?A. Americans want to know the calories in food.B. The govemment is
40、 taking unhealthy food seriously.C. More sodium is contained in restaurants foods.D. Foods at restaurants are terrible for customers.35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. Getting rid of unhealthy habits.B. Mars is to classify its products.C. Mars: A food company in America
41、.D. Everyday food and occasional food.第二节（共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余的 。 The first year of college is one of the best periods of life, but it can also be a challenging thing. These pieces of advice will help you live through the first year in college.Manage your ti
42、meYour future success depends on the way you spend your free time. At college, its necessary to find time for studies and forhaving fun. One of the best ways to manage your time during the first year is to make a schedule. 36 I always tried to set priorities in my studies and paid more attention to
43、my subjects.Dont be afraid to leave your comfort zone37 . The new circle of contacts made me hesitate to step outside my comfort zone. But finally I overcame my fears and inner constraint( 拘束）. There are many wonderful people who can give you valuable advice and support if you cannot make up your mi
44、nd to do something.Dont be afraid to ask for helpTheres a big amount of information youve got to know. You might understand how to register for classes, what the names of your professors are or how to do one or another task in a proper way. 38 They can give you a hand, if you do not know something.
45、Moreover, many professors, teachers and other college members can answer your questions.Look for opportunities39 . Plus, you can get acquainted with people who will help you start a successful career. When I was a freshman student, I had a chance to take a 4-week course in Europe. Also many of my fr
46、iends worked as volunteers at local hospitals.40 Many students complain about the lack of literature and about the high prices of textbooks. Why not use what are offered by the college youre studying at? There are many databases, labs and libraries, which can help you expand your mind. If you have s
47、ome difficulties, you can get valuable information using e-books that are available through the college account.A. It will help you succeed and reach all your goalsB. College has a range of student programs, competitions and part-time campus jobsC. Form a good study habitD. You will get the reputation of a successful student and become knowledgeableE. College is full of students who are former freshmenF. When I was a first-year student, I was a bit shy and I treated
