1、2018 届山东省邹城市第一中学高三上学期期中考试 英语第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转写到答题卡上。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. How many times was the man late?A. Four times. B. Twenty-two times. C. T
2、wice.2. What does the man mean?A. Hed like to come along. B. He knows the way to the river. C. The weather is quite hot.3. Where do you think they were talking?A. In a post office. B. In a shop. C. In a book store.4. What time does the next train leave the station?A. At 9:05. B. At 8:30. C. At 8:40.
3、5. What are the two speakers talking about?A. Some way of life in America. B. The high labor costs in America.C. The living conditions in America.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 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白
4、读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. What is the bad result of using computers? A. Many people are out of work. B. People hate to work in companies.C. People become much lazier than before.7. What does the woman think we should do?A. Make people do more work. B. Keep pace with the times.C. Work at home.听第 7 段材
5、料，回答第 8-10 题。8. Why cant the man smoke in the offices?A. There are many people in the offices. B. The woman hates smoking.C. They are non-smoking areas.9. Where can the man smoke?A. At the door of the office. B. In the entrance hall. C. In the corridor.10. What is the probable relationship between t
6、he speakers?A. New workmates. B. Friends.C. Shop assistant and customers.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11-13 题。11. What are they going to do tomorrow?A. Go swimming. B. Go shopping. C. Go skating.12. What will the weather be like tomorrow?A. Fine. B. Warm. C. They have no idea.13. When will the man ring her?A. Next
7、morning. B. That morning. C. That evening.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。14. Why does the man love San Juan so much?A. The weather is perfect. B. The beach is very beautiful.C. There is a big swimming pool.15. How far is the beach from the womans school?A. Two blocks. B. Two miles. C. An hours drive.16. Whe
8、re else does the woman advise the mail to go?A. An island. B. The mountains. C. The rain forest.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. How many people died in the accident?A. Four. B. Over ten. C. More than thirty.18. How many people were on the bus?A. Forty-two. B. Forty-seven. C. Forty-nine.19. What were the
9、 students doing when the accident happened?A. Sleeping. B. Enjoying music. C. Preparing for a concert20. What else can we learn from the news?A. School had to be closed on Friday. B. Some of the injured are still under treatment.C. The accident was caused by careless driving. 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 分）第
10、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。AWhether you have a piece of land or a few pots on a balcony, plant a family garden: Youll all live healthier! Gardening is an easy activity to share and youll harvest benefits along with your fresh vegetables, colorful flow
11、ers, and aromatic herbs. Even better, you dont have to wait for your plants to bloom to see those benefits.When parents and kids work together to plant and care for a garden, they can all enjoy these benefits:Physical activity: Gardening and yard work are mild exercise, which we all need every day (
12、for at least 30 minutes). While tending your family garden doesnt require the intense activity of running or playing singles tennis, its still beneficial to your health. For one thing, research shows that once you start gardening, you usually continue for more than 30 minutes. And gardening combines
13、 delicate skill strengthening and stretching.Lower stress, better mood: Gardening is excellent stress relief for good reasons: enjoying fresh air and sunlight, performance of relaxing tasks, and even contact with harmless bacteria in the soil that helps release serotonin (血清素) in the brain.Outdoor t
14、ime: Children prefer spending a lot of time indoors, which can negatively affect their behavior and health. A family garden gets them outside enjoying and experiencing the natural world.21. What does the author think of gardening?A. Too strong work B. Proper exercise C. Time waste D. Special skills
15、required 23. Which of the following isnt the reason for gardening to relieve stress?A. Keeping ones brain fit. B. Enjoying fresh air.C. Getting farm experience D. Performing simple and easy act23. What can be learned from the passage?A. Those who have plants on a balcony dont need a garden.B. Some b
16、acteria help to build up ones brain.C. Gardening helps to drive cars.D. Bad behavior results from staying indoors too long.BI remember that it was a fall morning when the orchestra teachers came into Miss Newells third-grade classroom. “You have hands for the viola (中提琴),” Miss Ciano told me. I was
17、excited because my hands were finally good for something. I told my parents I wanted to play, and naturally, they agreed.Since I first touched the viola, I havent been able to put it down. Ignoring the difficulty, I am pulled closer to it each day.Classical music is truly my best friend. It is the t
18、rusted friend of every man, woman and child. Various feelings are expressed in classical music. I discovered that when I was eleven and played a Bach cello concerto (大提琴协奏曲) in a competition, the first movement was joyful, but the second movement was mysterious and full of pain. From that piece, I l
19、earned that music expressed not only feelings, but also sudden mood changes. By listening to classical music, I know that someone else share these feelings. Since I am lucky enough to be able to play classical music, I am comforted when I am upset. It gives me a way to escape from my problems for a
20、short period. Classical music can express my joy, sadness and anger.Now look at that fall day and think how gullible I was for believing that anyone, even music teachers, could tell if hands were perfect for a certain instrument. Im certain they told me I had “viola hands” not because they were fort
21、une-teller, but because there was a lack of violists in our district. Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it will become your friend for life.24. Whats the authors purpose in writing the first two paragraphs?A. To int
22、roduce an interesting musical class.B. To show the importance of proper guide.C. To offer the evidence of her gift for music.D. To tell the power of support from parents and teachers.25. According to the passage, in what way does classical music help the author?A. Developing social skills. B. Broade
23、ning life experience.C. Promoting menial health. D. Building close relationship.26. Which of the words has the similar meaning to “gullible” in the last paragraph?A. firmly opposed B. easily trickedC. greatly affected D. secretly hidden27. Which could be the best title for the passage?A. Lifetime dr
24、eam, great effort B. Happy childhood, unforgotten experienceC. Special event, sweet memory D. Classical music, endless passionCA national study led by a Michigan State University scholar finds that the course students take have powerful effects on the friendships they make.The findings, published in
25、 the American Journal of Sociology, indicate the patterns of course-taking are different in each high school. In one school, for example, friendships may form among students taking woodshop, Spanish or European history, while in another it may be among students taking agricultural business managemen
26、t, advanced accounting and calculus (微积分学).“People generally want to think that kids are choosing their friends by joining groups such as the football club and they do the same al every school,” said Kenneth Frank, professor in MSUs College of Education.” But our argument is that the opportunities a
27、n adolescent has to choose friends are guided by the courses the adolescent takes and the other students who take the courses with them. Moreover, the pattern of opportunities differs from school to school.”Students were more likely to make friends in small classes. Friendships were more likely to b
28、e created in Latin and woodshop, for example, than in a large physical education class that is required of everyone in a particular grade.The findings means a lot to school administrators as well. “Schools that simply offer classes without thought for mixing up high- and low-achieving students run t
29、he risk of driving them apart socially and academically,” Frank said. To prevent this, he said schools could better highlight the value of certain academic subjects, such as math, and also group students together so the low-achievers have high-achievers in their classes potentially throughout high s
30、chool. “This would give the students in the lower group encouragement or make others who could be there as a marker to help them move along.”28. According to Kenneth Frank, people generally consider that .A. teenage friendships are decided by their similar interestB. kids are more likely to make fri
31、ends with well-known players.C. different stories about teenage friendships happen in every school.D. those enthusiasts about football are the most popular among teenagers.29. What will Kenneth Franks group probably agree with?A. What course a student takes will totally determine his friendship.B. S
32、tudents who take the same course can easily develop friendships.C. Whether a teenage friendship can last is affected by the other students.D. Patterns of course-taking are the same in every high school.30. Whats the advantage of students in small classes?A. They can focus more on how to be as cool a
33、s possible.B. They are more likely to be affected by others, appearances.C. They can make friends regardless of understanding of each other.D. They can make friends more easily than in large ones.31. Which of the following is NOT the purpose of Kenneth Frank s advice?A. To stop low-achieving student
34、s from falling behind academically.B. To encourage low-achieving students to work hard and move along.C. To prevent .low-achieving students from socializing with the others too much.D. To prevent distinguishing high-achieving students from low-achieving ones.DWhat makes you grow? While rolling many
35、ideas around in my head lo write this piece. I narrowed my focus a bit and chose: family and sense of purpose.My family keeps me excited to be alive-beginning the day with a morning kiss from the man I love. He is there to listen and guide, to laugh and sigh, to explore and relax, and to make each d
36、ay meaningful. Together we have three delightful children. Even though they have caused various gray hairs over the years, they have also provided love and laughter.Friends fall into the family category (范畴) as well. Although they are not cut of the same cloth, they are part of the same quilt. True
37、friends are often as giving .and maybe even more giving as family. Even though our friends enter our life later than our family, strong relation exists. In fact, sometimes friends know us better than family.The second drive is a sense of purpose. While impossible to describe, it is very easy to pict
38、ure as we think of even thing of value that touches us. A purpose may be a happy family, home life, and so on. Actually in most cases it is a combination of all these as they affect our lives deeply.Purpose is new, fresh, exciting and always changing. Youre taking up the same job each day except som
39、etimes challenged. I always wanted to be a teacher, for example, and I chose junior high French. However, over the years my tasks changed so that I had various opportunities to teach K-12 and beyond in a wide range of subjects, levels and school districts. I remained in the same profession for more
40、than 40 years but never in the same setting.32. What did the author do before writing the article?A. She chose her own family as the main topic for writing.B. She studied many families in detail for some ideas.C. She took some concerned drives into consideration.D. She had a quick mind in writing.33
41、. Whats the authors attitude to her marriage?A. Curious. B. Puzzled. C. Pessimistic. D. Satisfied.34. What is the closest meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?A. Though not born into a family, friends are considered life mates.B. Friends wear different clothes but sleep on the same bed.
42、C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.D. Blood is thicker than water.35. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A. Everyone has his own purpose. B. Purpose needs to be flexible.C. Teachers must be knowledgeable. D. Teaching is very difficult in America.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
43、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。 Reasons why you should travel while youre youngI have been very lucky to travel around the world while still young. According to my experiences, I advise every young person to get out of his hometown and see whats out there. Here are three ways that traveling has changed
44、 me forever.Traveling changes the way you connect with the worldI grew up in a small town. 1 . When you travel to other countries and see the amazing beauty of sunsets over seas, monkeys swinging through rainforests, you realize the world is-full of more beauty than you are able to see in a lifetime
45、. But, you still want to try.Traveling changes the way you connect with othersEveryone in my hometown looked and acted basically the same. 2 . I realized that my life could be enriched by developing friendships with people who didnt look or act like me. Far from my hometown, I developed friendships
46、with people who were nothing like me, but were exactly what I needed. 3 .Traveling helps develop your interest in education4 . Just reading the stories in books seemed so boring to me. However, when I visited the Palace of Versailles in France and walked in the halls of the Louvre. I couldnt help bu
47、t have interest in history. 5 .A. Traveling taught me, not to fear.B. Traveling makes history come alive.C. Sadly, I never liked history in school.D. When I traveled, I learned a lot about other cultures.E. It also taught me the importance of communication skills.F. The older I become, the more 1 re
48、alize I actually know very little about life.G. If I hadnt the chance to travel, I would have a different time imagining much else outside my hometown.第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分 45 分） 第一节 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。Angela a 28-year-old Canadia
49、n, was driving to visit friends in another city 800 kilometres away. Her kids, 5-year-old Lexi and 10-week-old Peter, were fed and the car was 41 with all the necessities for a road trip: toys, milk powder and snacks.The long journey had begun to 42 Peter, who started to cry. Angela inserted a nursery rhyme CD into the stereo and hoped it would help 43 him down. The soft music had a 44 effect. In no time, both children became 45 . Angelas eyes 46 too, for just a few seconds.When Lexi suddenly woke up, she found it was
