1、西安中学高 2017 届高三第一学期单元练考英语试题本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。第卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 20 分）第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 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 man want to do?A. Take photos. B. Buy a camera. C. Help the woman.2. What are the sp
2、eakers talking about?A. A noisy night B. Their life in town C. A place of living.3. Where is the man now?A. On his way. B. In a restaurant. C. At home. 4. What will Celia do?A. Find a player. B. Watch a game. C. Play basketball. 5. What day is it when the conversation takes place? A. Saturday. B. Su
3、nday. C. Monday.第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 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 6、7 题。6. What is Sara going to do?A. Buy John a gift. B. Give John a surprise C. Invite John to France. 7. What does th
4、e man think of Saras plan?A. Funny. B. Exciting. C. Strange. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter?A. She has to give up her travel pan. B. She wants to visit another city.C. She needs to put off her test. 9. What does Diana want Peter to do?A. Help her with her study. B. Take a b
5、ook to her friend.C. Teach a geography lesson.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Why does the man call the woman?A. To tell her about her new job. B. To ask about her job program.C. To plan a meeting with her. 11. Who needs a new flat?A. Alex. B. Andrea. C. Miranda. 12. Where is the woman now?A. In Baltimor
6、e. B. In New York. C. In Avon. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant?A. Where the restaurant is. B. Whether the prices are low. C. How well the food is prepared.14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine?A. After he came back to Sweden.B. B
7、efore he went to the United States.C. As soon as he got his first job in 1982. 15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant?A. Talk to people in the street. B. Speak to taxi drivers. C. Ask hotel clerks.16. What do we know about Jan?A. He cooks for a restaurant.B. He travels a lot of his work.C. He
8、 prefers American food.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon?A. Its new building B. Its a small town C. Its public place18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon?A. Saturday nights B. Sunday afternoons C. Fridays and Saturdays.19. Which street is known f
9、or its food shops and markets?A. Via del Mar Street B. Fernado Street. C. Hermandes Street20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best?A. It has an old stone surface. B. It is named after a writer C .It has a famous university.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 30 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）阅读下列短文，从每小题后所
10、给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。AThe Only One Day White-water Trip ANYWHERE at the GRAND CANYON offered by River Runners!Experience the Colorado River the Hualapai Way!Since 1973, Hualapai River Runners has been conducting white-water rafting (漂流) journeys on the Colorado River. Our experienced
11、 guides expertly sail along the river and share the history of the Canyon and the Hualapai people with you.Visitors experience the excitement of whitewater rapids and then stop to enjoy the impressive beauty of Travertine Falls and a tasty lunch. No charge for children 2 years and under.One-Day Trip
12、Retail $249.00 + $79.00 (helicopter and round-trip ground transportation)White-water rafting tours begin in Peach Springs. Hualapai River Runners transports you to Diamond Creek, which is the starting point for the 37 mile rafting tour. Lunch is included and upon arrival at the rafting tour terminat
13、ion point (终点), fly out of the Grand Canyon by helicopter to Grand Canyon West.Two-Day TripRetail $549.00 + $79.00 (helicopter and round-trip ground transportation). Two-day rafting trips with one night on the Colorado River. All supplies and meals are included. Two days allows more time to explore
14、one of the Seven Wonders of the World.Tours Include: Round-trip transportation from Peach Springs to the starting point and from the termination points back to Peach Springs. Snack, drinks and lunch (vegetarian meals available upon request). Waterproof dry bags for storing your cameras, sunscreen, d
15、ry clothes, etc.The helicopter part of transportation is weather permitting. If the helicopter transportation is cancelled because of bad weather, the raft will continue an additional two hours to South Cove and a maximum $20.00 per customer will be given back.Special website booking rate 15% off ra
16、fting in June 2016. So book now!21. Where do white-water rafting tours start?A. Travertine Falls. B. The Grand Canyon. C. Grand Canyon West. D. Diamond Creek.22. Which of the following is TRUE about the trip?A. Hualapai River Runners provides dry clothes.B. You will get $20 back if you are not satis
17、fied.C. The trip is free of charge for children under 2.D. Online booking has a better offer all year round.23. It can be learned from the text that _.A. the guides can help you learn sailingB. the cost includes snack, drinks and lunchC. the helicopter transportation can save you three hours timeD.
18、the Grand Canyon is well-known for its history24. What is the purpose of the text? A. To explain how to make a rafting trip.B. To explore the Hualapai culture.C. To attract people to the sights.D. To introduce the history of the Colorado RiverBA warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best c
19、hoice for those wanting a good nights sleep. But now a study has found it really does help people nod offif it is milked from a cow at night. Researchers have discovered that “night milk” contains more melatonin（褪黑激素）, which has been proven to help people feel sleepy and reduce anxiety. The study, b
20、y researchers from Seoul，South Korea， involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night. Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during dayti
21、me, according to the study published in The Journal of Medicinal Food. Night milk quickened the start of sleep and caused the mice to sleep longer. While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those wh
22、o are struggling to fall asleep at night.Previous studies have also indicated that milk can be excellent for helping sleep because of the calcium content, which helps people to relax. Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending skimmed milk as the best choice before bed
23、 as it is the least fattening. The more fat you take in before bedtime, the greater burden you will put on your body at night. 25. According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk_.A. started sleep more easily B. were more anxiousC. were less active D. woke up later26. Which of the following is
24、 true of melatonin according to the text?A. Its been tested on mice for ten years B. It can make people more energeticC. It exists in milk in great amount D. Its used in sleeping drugs27. What can be the best title for the text?A. Night Milk and Sleep B. Fat Sugar and HealthC. An Experiment on Mice
25、D. Milk Drinking and Health28. How does the author support the theme of the text?A. By giving examples. B. By stating arguments.C. By explaining statistical data. D. By providing research results.COn one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York fr
26、iends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table. “Hey, arent you from Mississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “Im from Mississippi too.” Without a second thought, the
27、woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair. “They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty said. “I didnt know what my New York friends were thinking.” Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up t
28、o leave, it was pouring outside. Weltys new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion. “My friends said: Now we believe your
29、stories,” Welty added. “And I said: Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with this explanation. “I dont make them up,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years.
30、 “I dont have to.” Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Weltys people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has
31、 now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.29. What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?A. Two strangers joined her. B. Her childhood friends came in.C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner. D. Some people held
32、 a party there.30. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Weltys_.A. readers B. parties C. friends D. stories31. What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction?A. They live in big cities. B. They are mostly women.C. They come from real life. D. They are pleasure seekers.DNot s
33、o long ago, most people didnt know who Shelly Ann Francis Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another American teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then e
34、ighteen-year-old Shelly Ann as a track meet(田径运动会) and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time was not exactly impressive, but even so, he seemed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had ignored. He decided to offer Shelly Ann a place in
35、 his very strict training seasons. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few year later at Jamaicas Olympic games in early 2008, Shelly Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaicas unchallenged queen of the sprint（短跑） “Where did she come from?” asked an astonis
36、hed sprinting world, concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly Ann was to prove that she was not. At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did i
37、t again at the World Championship in Briton, becoming world champion. Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She grew up in one of Jamaicas toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, a really violent and overpopulated place. Sometimes her
38、family didnt have enough to eat. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she couldnt afford shoes. Her mother Maxime had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maximes early entry in to the adult w
39、orld with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouses poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all thos
40、e long, hard hours of work finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.But Shelly-Anns victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Be
41、ijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighboring streets stopped. “I have so much fire burning for my country,” Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to l
42、ay down their weapons. As Muhammad Ali puts it, “Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth. 32. Why did Stephen Francis decide to coach Shel
43、ly-Ann?A. He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble. B. He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses. C. She had big problems maintaining her performance. D. She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets. 33. What did the sprinting world think of Shelly-Ann befo
44、re the 2008 Olympic Games? A. She would become a promising star. B. She badly needed to set higher goals. C. Her sprinting career would not last long. D. Her talent for sprinting was known to all. 34. What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track? A. Her success and lessons in her caree
45、r. B. Her interest in Shelly-Anns quick profit. C. Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty. D. Her early entrance into the sprinting world. 35. By mentioning Muhammad Alis words, the author intends to tell us that_. A. players should be highly inspired by coaches B. great athletes need to concentr
46、ate on patience C. hard work is necessary in ones achievements D. motivation allows great athletes to be on the top 第二节（共 5 小题; 每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。Where would you most like to go on vacation? Paris? London? The Amazon Rainforest? Each of these destinations
47、is attractive. 36 As a new word, staycation refers to people staying at home during their vacation time, and going sightseeing around their hometown.Staycations have become really popular recently, as a way of having an enjoyable vacation, without spending too much money. There are shortcomings to e
48、very positive thing, however._37 You also might prevent yourself from enjoying things to the fullest, as the atmosphere might be the same as any other time._38 It means you wont be available for work or other activities.What can you do to make your staycation fun?1. Go to a nearby town, or to a fancy hotel in your hometown and stay overnight. Treat yourself to room service and any other fun things the hotel has to offer.2. 39 You would have done it on a vacation, right? Treat yourself to this, at least for one da
