1、2018 届河北省故城县高级中学高三 12 月月考英语试题2017 年 12月考试时间:120 分钟 总分：150 分第一部分 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涂到答题卡上。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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15 B. 9.18 C.
2、 9.15答案是 C1. What is the man looking for?A. His pen B. His book C. His phone2. What does Carols father ask her to do?A. Talk with her friends B. Go out with him C. Put on warm clothes3. How many members are there in Alices group now?A. Two B. Four C. Six4. What are the speakers talking about?A. Ways
3、 of cooking B. Healthy food for kids C. Kids helping in the kitchen5. What is the woman?A. Shes a shop assistant B. Shes a receptionist C. Shes a secretary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，各小题给出 5 秒钟的作答时
4、间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. Why does the man sound surprised?A. Lily rejected a job offerB. Lily was absent from schoolC. Lily turned down a scholarship7. What has Lily decided to do?A. Travel to Dubai B. Stay with her mom C. Start a business听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8.What is the probable relati
5、onship between the speakers?A. Colleagues B. Relatives C. Classmates9. What is Sabrinas sister doing?A. Touring in Africa B. Teaching in a village C. Working in a company10. How can Sabrina reach her sister now?A. By phone B. By email C. By letter听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. What does Maria think of t
6、he soup?A. Tasteless B. Just fine C. Thick12. What does Karl say can be added to the soup?A. Salt B. Onions C. Pepper13. Where are the speakers?A. At home B. At a restaurant C. At a friends house听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。 14. When will someone come to check the hot water?A. This afternoon B. Tomorrow C
7、. At the weekend15. How did the students know about the flat?A. From a friend B. From a newspaper C. From a house agency16. What will the woman do to settle the problem about the fridge?A. Pay the students for the new oneB. Get someone to fix the old oneC. Order one on the Internet听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至
8、 20 题。17. Who is the speaker?A. an invited guest B. A news reporter C. A radio host18. In what way has the speaker changed?A. He speaks faster B. He becomes heavier C. He cooks more often19. What is different for the speaker to get used to?A. The food B. The weather C. The language20. What does the
9、speaker think of the French people?A. A bit cold B. Generous C. Easy-going第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 35 分）第一节 （共 10 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。AWhen I was in fourth grade, I worked part-time as a paperboy. Mrs. Stanley was one of my customers. Shed watch me coming do
10、wn her street, and by the time Id biked up to her doorstep, thered be a cold drink waiting. Id sit and drink while she talked.I told my father how Mrs. Stanley talked as if Mr. Stanley were still alive. Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, a
11、nd maybe shed work it out of her system. So thats what I did, and it turned out Dad was right. After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery(墓地).I finally quit delivering newspapers and didnt see Mrs. Stanley for several years. Then we crossed paths at a church fund-rais
12、er(募捐活动). She was spooning mashed potatoes and looking happy. Four years before, shed had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with. Now she had friends. Her husband was gone, but life went on.I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named Edna with three kids. She asks me
13、how Im doing. When I dont say “find,” she sticks around to hear my problems. Shes lived in the city most of her life, but she knows about community. Community isnt so much a place as it is a state of mind. You find it whenever people ask how youre doing because they care, and not because theyre gett
14、ing paid to do so. Sometimes its good to just smile, nod your head and listen.21. Why did soda go up the authors nose one time?A. He was talking fast B. He was shockedC. He was in a hurry D. He was absent-minded22. Why did the author sit and listen to Mrs. Stanley according to paragraph 3?A. He enjo
15、yed the drink B. He wanted to be helpfulC. He took the chance to rest D. He tried to please his dad23. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “work it out of her system”?A. recover from her sadness B. move out of the neighborhoodC. turn to her old friends D. speak out about her pas
16、t24. What does the author think people in a community should do?A. Open up to others B. Depend on each otherC. Pay for others help D. Care about one anotherBIts surprising how much simple movements of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more po
17、werful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(领悟).So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? Were all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending o
18、n the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive (认知的)performance or is it just a feeling?Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on peoples powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn though to
19、have close attention to detail.What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who werent. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test( one way of measuring attention). The researchers call the effect “enclothed cog
20、nition,” suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many different ways.This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insig
21、htful? Does a chefs hat make the resultant food taste better?From now on I will only be editing articles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown.(学位服).25. What is the main idea of the t
22、ext?A. Body movements change the way people thinkB. How people dress has an influence on their feelingsC. What people wear can affect their cognitive performanceD. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes26. Adam and Galinskys experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers
23、_.A. insights B. movements C. attention D. appearance27. How does the author sound in the last paragraph?A. Academic B. Humorous C. Formal D. HopefulCLAS VEGAS It was different in the light of day.There was no pop, pop, pop of gunfire, no screams. Just a quiet lot of cars abandoned by those, like Ka
24、ssidy Owen, who escaped with their lives.“Its strange to hear the silence,” Owen said, “because all I remember was the noise.” The 22-year-old was one of dozens of concertgoers who returned to the scene of the Route 91 Harvest festival on Wednesday morning to fetch the vehicles they left behind as t
25、hey fled from a gunman raining down bullets from high above in the tower of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino across the street. Survivors of the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday needed their cars to move on with their lives to get back to work, to school, home. It was the first time the
26、y were returning to a scene that would forever change them, when joy and celebration and music turned into killing and horror.Before they could move forward, they had to go back to the place where they thought they were going to die.Owen had run to her car to hide and had tried to drive away, but sh
27、e couldnt. People were running, bodies dropped to the ground, and cars bottlenecked in the parking lot. During a brief pause after more than 10 minutes of gunfire, she worried the lights of her SUV made everyone inside a shining target.“Theyre shooting again!” her best friends brother screamed. “Tur
28、n off the car!”Thats when she got out and fled.“I just remember shutting the door and running,” Owen said. Now, nearly three days later, she was back, sitting in the drivers seat of her SUV. Her eyes were swollen and red. This was a long way from over.“You just keep hearing the gunshots in your head
29、,” Owen said.28. Why did Kassidy Owen return to the scene of terror?A. To get back her car for daily life. B. To show sympathy to the victims.C. To search for her missing friends. D. To look into the cause of the shooting. 29. Where was the gunman when the mass shooting happened?A. Behind a car. B.
30、In the parking lot. C. On the stage. D. In a tall building. 30. Why did Owen keep hearing the gunshots in her head?A. Because she had escaped being caught.B. Because she wanted to find the gunman.C. Because she couldnt rid herself of those terrible scenes. D. Because she had saved others lives by tu
31、rning off the car. 31. Where is the text probably taken from? A. A story book. B. A newspaper. C. A guide book. D. A research report.DEven for a certified teacher with a degree and teaching certificate from Florida, a certain embarrassment exists. The two words “English teacher” dont clearly show wh
32、o I am. Let me explain: When I go back to the US, I meet all my old friends. Some are stressed, exhausted and generally unhappy. They are stuck in jobs they dont love that they do only to pay the bills. Even the ones making good money dont even have the time to spend it and enjoy themselves. If I we
33、re in the US and I was working as a teacher, accountant, lawyer or so on, then that would be my job more or less for the next 30 to 40 years. I might have other talents, but I would be limited in being able to explore them. In China the system is fluid for everyone: Chinese and expats（侨民）. I know ma
34、ny friends, both Chinese and expats, who changed careers because they wanted something new and it didnt require going back to university four more years. All it required was motivation and a calculated risk. One of the best things about living in China for me is that I can explore different career c
35、hoices and actually find one that I truly love. Lets face it people change over the years: Your likes, your abilities and even the things that make you happy are constantly changing. Why shouldnt your jobs and the opportunities also change with you?When people ask me if I love my job, my answer is Y
36、ES. In China I have had many jobs: actor, model, salesman and teacher at various stages during my seven years here. And no one told me “You cant do that.” There was no self-limiting. In China, if you have the motivation to work hard and the drive to succeed then opportunities present themselves arou
37、nd every corner. 32. Why the term “English teacher” couldnt explain the authors role in China clearly?A. Because he has taken many different jobs in China. B. Because he has no choice but to be an English teacher.C. Because the purpose of his teaching is to make good money. D. Because therere too ma
38、ny jobs for him to choose from. 33. Why are some of the authors old friends generally unhappy?A. Because they have no chance to work in China as teachers.B. Because its even harder for them to earn money in the US now. C. Because they have no ability to explore their other talents.D. Because they ca
39、nt get away from the work they dont enjoy. 34. What does the underlined word “fluid” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Strict. B. Fixed. C. Changeable. D. Exciting. 35. What does the author think of China?A. A country without motivations. B. A land of opportunity.C. A nation full of foreigners. D. A place shor
40、t of jobs. 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。People often say you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and thats actually quite true. 36 After all, making a good first impression is all about making others feel good when spending time with themThe
41、following tips will help you make a positive impression every time Dress appropriately37 That means dressing up or putting on nice, clean, situation-appropriate clothes for social situationsIt isnt difficult and it doesnt have to cost you much, either Be aware of your body languageWords express very
42、 little of what you sayBody language can tell someone a lot about your mood and confidence level 38 Eye contact is an easy way to make others feel comfortable, important and specialNervous body language can make others uncomfortable and anxiousTry to be aware of your body language when communicating
43、 with others Respect the opinions of othersNot everyone will have the same opinion with you, and friendly disagreements can be a gateway to a great conversation. Respect other peoples right to have their own opinionRespect the opinions of others even if you disagree with them 39 40 People love talki
44、ng about themselves, but generally, you want to be careful of taking over the conversation By listening carefully to what others are saying, you are not only making them feel important, but you can gather cues you need to keep the conversation going and bridge to new topicsABe a careful listener.BSh
45、ow an interest in every person you meet.CSmile especially when first meeting someone. DMake sure you look nice whenever you meet someone new.EMeeting new people and starting conversations is often challenging.FOthers will want to be with you and help you make a good impression.GDont force others to
46、believe what you believe or to see things only as you see them.第三部分：语言运用（共两节，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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。Two years ago，I donated my kidney(肾)to my brother.I considered it a complete life-changing experience，not only for the
47、two of us （41） for the entire family.We ended up （42） from surgery(外科手术)at a friends home in Baton Rouge， LAHis （43） to us was unforgettable.We had received so many （44）.We had gotten food donation from so many people who （45） us something beyond physical comfort.Now my brother is back on his feet and is living life （46） normal.Last April，he （47） to give back to the community(社区)by （48） money for the Medical Association through cycli
