1、青海师大附中高三年级期中考试英语试卷命题人：高三英语备课组 审题人：高三英语备课组第I 卷第一部分 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 mean?A. She is going out next week. B. She needs the car for her family.C. She invites the man to an outing.
2、2. How does Jack feel these days?A. Excited. B. Worried. C. Touched.3. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Mother and son. B. Doctor and patient. C. Teacher and student. 4. What will the speakers probably do this weekend?A. See a movie. B. Buy a refrigerator. C. Eat out in town.5. When
3、will the next train for Chicago leave?A. At 08:30. B. At 10:30. C. At 11:30.第二节 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 5 秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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。听下面一段对话,回答第 6 和第 7 题。6. Where are the speakers?A. At home. B. At school. C. At the zoo. 7. W
4、hat does the woman ask her son to do?A. Prepare breakfast. B. Wash the dishes. C. Tidy up his room.听下面一段对话,回答第 8 至第 10 题。8. Who is Molly?A. A patient. B. A nurse. C. A mother.9. What does Doctor Laver ask Molly to do?A. Comfort the baby. B. Wash the baby. C. Dress the baby.10. How is Doctor Laver to
5、wards Molly?A. Grateful. B. Generous. C. Encouraging.听下面一段对话,回答第 11 至第 13 题。11. Who is Janet?A. Dons neighbour. B. Dons assistant. C. Dons mother.12. What happens to Don?A. He is ill. B. He gets lost. C. He misses a call.13. What will Professor Webster do for Don?A. Give the students some homework.B
6、. Return the exam papers to students.C. Find someone else to teach the class.听下面一段对话,回答第 14 至第 17 题。14. Why does the woman need the job?A. To learn to start a business.B. To gain some work experience.C. To support herself through college.15. Where exactly will the woman work if she gets the job?A. A
7、t the cashiers desk. B. In the managers office. C. Between the shop shelves.16. How is the womans performance at school?A. Poor. B. Average. C. Excellent.17. What will be the womans working hours if she gets the job?A. 8:30 am-6:10 pm. B. 9:00 am-6:00 pm. C. 8:30 am-10:00 pm.听下面一段独白,回答第 18 至 20 题。 1
8、8. How many tube lines are there in London?A. 12. B. 25. C. 34.19. How are different lines marked on the tube map?A. By shape. B. By colour. C. By number.20. What should you do if you find yourself going in the wrong direction?A. Ask the train driver for help. B. Get out of the tube at once. C. Get
9、off at the next station.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。A Are you good with money? I learnt to be careful with it during my childhood.My father would give me some pocket money and tell me it should last for a whole week.So,I learnt I h
10、ad to save some if I didnt want to run out of cash quickly.No surprise there：my dad was an accountant!Its never too early to become money savvy (会理财).Thats what British personal finances expert Martin Lewis thinks.He was part of a successful campaign to include financial education on the school curr
11、iculum in England.It will be embedded(植入 )in maths and citizenship education.This includes children from 5 to 16 years old.Lewis says：“We desperately need to break the cycle of financial illiteracy(无知)in the UKone of the causes of our current economic crisis and a huge contributor to continued misse
12、lling epidemics (违规销售).”Being careful with money pays off.Banks in Britain recently found themselves having to pay a large number of people who were persuaded to spend money and buy insurance policies they didnt need.Many wasted their money on investments which were not for them.Few have the patienc
13、e to read the small print.The British saytake care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.It means you have to watch your daily expenses and not just the big purchases in your life such as houses.Martin Lewis has made millions from his website which advises people to be thrifty(节
14、俭) and refuses any suggestion that he is mean.The expert says in an interview with the English newspaper the Daily Express：“the better you are with your cash,the better your life can be.People think I am telling them to stop spending money but I am simply telling them to spend it wisely.”21.The fina
15、ncial education in England aims to_.A.help children make money B.deal with the current economic crisisC.educate children to become money savvy D.avoid continued misselling epidemics22.Whats the financial problem of some people in Britain?A.They invest money blindly and unwisely. B.They neglect big p
16、urchases.C.They have no patience to spend money. D.They watch their daily expenses.23.What does the author mainly tell us?A.Financial illiteracy is the cause of economic crisis.B.Take care of money and life will be better.C.Financial education must be included in schoo1.D.People should learn to be t
17、hrifty and mean.BChildren who read for pleasure at the age of 10 have far higher vocabulary scores by the age of 42.Researchers at the Institute of Education(IOE)have found that the most crazy childhood readers score far higher on vocabulary tests 30 years later.The new study suggests that children
18、who read for pleasure carry the intellectual(智力的)benefits with them far into adulthood.“The long-term influence of reading for pleasure on vocabulary that we have identified may be because the frequent childhood readers continued to read throughout their twenties and thirties,”says lead author Profe
19、ssor Alice Sullivan at the IOE.Researchers followed 9,400 British people from the age of 10 up to 42.Their vocabulary was tested using a simple quiz which asked participants to match up words to the most similar meaning.Those who had regularly read for pleasure at 10 scored 67 percent in the age 42
20、vocabulary test,while infrequent childhood readers scored only 51 percent.The IOE study also found that what people chose to read as adults mattered as much as how often they read.The greatest improvements between ages 16 and 42 were made by readers of elegant fictions such as Booker Prize winning n
21、ovels.And they found that readers of quality newspapers,including online versions,made more progress in vocabulary throughout their lives than those who read tabloids.In addition,generally speaking,the adult readers who especially read broadsheets(宽 幅 印 刷 品 )scored 76 percent on the assessment compa
22、red to 57 percent amongst those who didnt.24.Why did frequent childhood readers have higher vocabulary scores?A.Because they are born intelligent. B.Because they formed the consistent reading habit.C.Because they were crazy about pleasure. D.Because they had a comfortable childhood.25.What may not a
23、ffect the adult readers vocabulary scores?A.The contents of reading. B.The designs of the page.C.Versions online or not. D.The frequency of reading.26.What does the underlined word “tabloids” mean in the text?A.Newspapers of low quality. B.Newspapers of high quality.C.Elegant fictions. D.Large vocab
24、ulary.27.What does the text mainly tell us?A.Intelligence has a great influence on vocabulary.B.Reading materials matter much for children.C.Broadsheet newspapers are best for boosting vocabulary.D.Children who read for pleasure have larger vocabulary as adults.CHave you ever wondered what you would
25、 look like if you were an Asian, Middle Eastern, black, white or Indian person? By stepping into the Human Race Machine, you can find out.When you sit inside it, the machine creates a digital image （数字影像） of your face.After pushing certain buttons, the machine uses various photos of people of a cert
26、ain ethnic group mixed with your own facial features.From this, it can come up with an image showing how you would look as a member of a different race.The machine is part of a traveling retrospective （回顾展） called “ Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson.” Burson is a famous American photogra
27、pher and inventor.The show of 100 photos and multimedia works was on view at the Grey ArtGallery in New York on April 20.“ It is a strange feeling, just like stepping into someone elses skin.” Said Hathy Zajchenko, a museum visitor from Pennsylvania, US.As soon as she sat down, she tried out a range
28、 of ethnic groups.“ The Middle Eastern image worked pretty well for me,” she said with a smile.According to Burson, the machine is a prayer for unity.It is about seeing through differences to find the things we all share in common.Burson added the database （资料库） of Middle Eastern faces, both Arab an
29、d Jewish, after the terrorist attacks （恐怖袭击） on September 11.“ I have always wanted to allow people to see differently.I am a photographer.I am recording the unseen, because what we can not see is so much more interesting than what we can see,” Burson said.For those who missed the show, the Human Ra
30、ce machine will be on view at the New York Hall of Science in the Queens district full-time as of June.28.The Human Race Machine can _ .A.let people step into someone elses skinB.create a digital image of your face and change itC.turn your pray into realityD.tell you what you would look like if you
31、were a member of another ethnic group29.The phrase “ come up with” in the first paragraph means _.A.produce B.get nearer C.come out D.change30.The sentence “ The machine is a pray for unity” means _ .A.the Human Race machine can unite the facial feather of a different ethnic group with your ownB.one
32、 can pray before the machineC.the machine shows that no matter what race people are , there are some things we all have in commonD.if you want, the machine can change your face31.Burson added the database of Middle Eastern faces after the September 11 attack because _.A.she wanted to show people wha
33、t terrorists look likeB.she wanted to let people see the foreign peopleC.she wanted to be famous as a photographerD.she wanted to record what people can not seeDMen are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity （名人） chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a r
34、eport from Oxford University.The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.According to the research by Pr
35、of.Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.Prof.Gershuny said, “The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend.There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is a
36、nother 40 years probably to come.”Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutesa great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals （men using cooking skill
37、s to impress friends） ”, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.“I was married in 1974.When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was we
38、aring an apron when I opened the door.He laughed,” said Prof.Gershuny.“That would never happen now.”Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table.Prof.Gershuny pointed out that the family mea
39、l was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a tablewith many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members.“The family meal has changed a lot, and few of us eatas I did when I was a childat least two meals a day together as a family.But it has sur
40、vived in a different format.” 32.What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?A.The development of sexual equality campaign. B.The improvement of cooks status.C.The change of females view on cooking. D. The influence of popular female chefs.33.What does the author
41、 think about the time men and women spend on cooking?A.Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.B.It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.C.There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.D.Women spend much less time on cooking tha
42、n before.34.How did Prof.Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?A.It is very different from what it used to be.B.It is beneficial to the stability of the family.C.It shouldnt be advocated in modern times. D.It has become a thing of the past.35.Which is the best title for the passage?A
43、.The Changes of Family Meals B.Equality between Men and WomenC.Cooking into a New Trend for Men D.Cookinga Thing of the Past for Women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。选项中有两项为多余选项。If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite-meal and stay quiet after that? 36 . But it
44、never lets you know, because, you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars.So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow.When mind loses its freedom to grow.creativity sets a full stop.This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next?“, “Why cant
45、 I think?“37 . Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood.Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to take help from reading.Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to expla
46、in something to you. 38 . Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas.If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things, which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. 39 Within no time you can s
47、tart talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words.So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading. 40 . Go and get a book!A.Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary.B.Reading can help you make more f
48、riends, too.C.The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.D.Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry.E.Why not do some reading while you are hungry?F.Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading.G.Now what are you waiting for?第三部分 语言知识运用 （共两节,满分 45 分）第
49、一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分,满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A 、B、C和D）中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。The professor stood before his class of 30 senior biology students,about to pass out the final exam.“I have been privileged to be your 41 this semester,and I know how hard you have all worked to 42 for this test.I also know most of you are 43 to medical school next fall,”he said to them.“I am well aware of how much 44 you are under to keep your GPAs up,and because I know you are all 45 of understanding this mate
