1、江 苏 省 常 州 市 武 进 区 2015 届 高 三 上 学 期期 中 考 试 英 语 试 卷注意事项： 1答卷前，考生在答题卡上务必用直径 0.5 毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚。2在试题卷上作答无效。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 20 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 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
2、话仅读一遍。例: How much is the shirt?A. 19. 15. B. 9. 18. C. 9. 15.答案是 C。1. When will Oliver go to bed?A. At 10:30 B. 10:50 C. 11:002. What can we learn about the man?A. He worked very carefully. B. He received a traffic ticket. C. He drove in heavy traffic.3. Whats the probable relationship between the t
3、wo speakers?A. Guest and receptionist B. Passenger and air hostess C. Customer and shop assistant4. What will the speakers probably do?A. Go back home B. Ask the way C. Buy a road map5. Why did Bill lose his job?A. He is always late for work.B. He is having some financial problem. C. He is not caref
4、ul enough with his work. 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 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 秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 7 题。6. Where is the woman?A. In her office B. At the airport C. At the restaurant7. What time will the
5、two speakers probably meet?A. At 11:00 a.m. B. At 11:30 a.m. C. At 2:00 p.m.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. How is the woman trying to lose weight now?A. By eating every other day. B. By drinking plenty of water. C. By eating orange-colored foods.9. What does the man think of the womans diets?A. Ridiculous.
6、 B. Balanced. C. Effective.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What is the woman?A. Travel agent B. Air hostess C. Hotel manager11. What will the man first do when he arrives?A. Rent a car B. Book a hotel C. Find the driver12. How long will the man stay in London?A. 3 days B. 4 days C. 5 days 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13
7、 至 16 题。13. Why does the woman smoke?A. Many girls smoke. B. Light cigarette isnt risky.C. She doesnt know its harm.14. What does the man think of tobacco companies?A. They spend much on commercials. B. They make great benefits.C. They are smart at marketing.15. What do tobacco commercials for women
8、 focus on?A. Cool image B. Social themes C. Slim figure16. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Stop smoking B. Be herself C. Find her voice听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. Who could the speaker most probably be?A. A police officer B. A college director. C. A person who saw the theft. 18. Why cant t
9、he clock be sold easily?A. It isnt valuable. B. It has an obvious mark. C. It doesnt work.19. How did the college get the antique glasses?A. They were given by a director.B. They were presented by Arnolfini.C. The college bought it from the market.20. Which stolen object worries the speaker most?A.
10、The TV and video recorder. B. A painting of the college. C. Examination papers.第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 35 分）第一节 单项填空（共 15 题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）请认真阅读下面各题, 从题中所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。21. Two-year-olds often scream until they _ their way.A. mind B. make C. get D. lose 22. If you _ do it, make su
11、re you keep the water wings handy in case you start to sink. A. shall B. may C. must D. can 23. -How would idioms go if they had been invented in the modern world?-We would more likely say “_” instead of “kill the fatted calf”.A. have feet of glass B. reap what you sow C. see words on the computer s
12、creen D. order out for pizza24. When disturbed, your mind becomes difficult to see. _ you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.A. Unless B. Until C. If D. Since25. It may take more time than expected to make the Lakers a championship again, but _ Kobe Bryant is back.A. at most B. at least C.
13、 at best D. at worst26. -A mix of Jacks and Jills makes a tough job a breeze. -Uh-huh, that might be _ boys and girls have a good chance of becoming study partners.A. how B. what C. that D. why 27. Children are not the people women enjoy most being with, _ after friends, relatives and spouses.A. sco
14、ring B. ranking C. towering D. intending28. For Dylan OBriens acting _, getting a job was a different story. He just walked into his interview with two online links on a piece of paper.A. career B. profession C. employment D. business29. Activities of the Science Festival _ model planes and model ro
15、ckets are flown over the school grounds include the Inventions Show and the Essay Competition.A. when B. which C. whose D. where30. This was just the first stage of the robot design challenge, the finals _ for 2015.A. will be set B. being set C. set D. having set31. Surprisingly, he picked up this v
16、aluable antique at a stand for next to _.A. none B. nothing C. something D. anything32. Ive already spent two days trying to _ the pile of paperwork I missed when I was home with flu. A. carry back to B. carry on with C. catch out with D. catch up on 33. We went to the supermarket. Next _ washing an
17、d cutting up. Then we cooked.A. was coming B. would come C. came D. had come34. A Zimbabwean may have left his mark in the Guinness Book of Records by giving the longest lecture _ last week.A. even B. once C. never D. ever 35. -Beware the price of beauty. Using hair dye too often increases the risk
18、of some kinds of cancer.-Oh, _. That was true back in the 1970s.A. come on B. go ahead C. all right D. no problem第二节: 完形填空(共 20 小题; 每小题 1 分, 满分 20 分)请认真阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。We must think anew - and act anew. Abraham LincolnWhen Abraham Lincoln wrote these words, he wa
19、s facing the greatest crisis: the Civil War. He knew that 36 measures were not enough. “The dogmas (教条) of the 37 past,” he wrote, “are inadequate to the stormy present. We must think anew, and act anew.”New thought, new action - how simple it sounds and how 38 it is! Most of us tend to be39 by old
20、habits of thought. When crisis threatens, it is all too easy to react as we did before.But great 40 awaits men and women who can change the pattern of their thinking to meet new challenges. I have 41 of this in my own experience. When I first left college, I had no 42 of becoming a psychiatrist(精神病医
21、生). I taught drama in university. But two years later, 43 my life, I decided that, much 44 I enjoyed teaching, what I really wanted to be was a doctor.The 45 to “act anew” was not easy. I knew I could hardly hope to become a(n) 46 psychiatrist before I was forty. My friends advised strongly against
22、such an extreme step. I took it 47 . I have never regretted it.Today, many of the people who come to me for help are suffering from a kind of 48 caused by blindly sticking to old patterns of thinking and acting. They cant adapt to 49 conditions. They find it so difficult to 50 that sometimes they br
23、eak.Quite often, in my 51 to help such people, I quote these words of Lincoln. When problems annoy us, I tell them - when there is 52 no solution - we must not act rigidly. We must not 53 our difficulties from old, habitual points of view. We must think anew, and with it will come the 54 and the con
24、fidence to act anew.A great American told us this. We should remember his words and try to live 55 them.36. A. immediate B. ordinary C. effective D. temporary37. A. quiet B. dark C. glorious D. recent 38. A. impossible B. difficult C. exciting D. interesting39. A. attracted B. covered C. ignored D.
25、restricted 40. A. reward B. promotion C. responsibility D. trouble41. A. notice B. enough C. proof D. memory42. A. sense B. chance C. knowledge D. intention43. A. enjoying B. reviewing C. spending D. restarting44. A. as B. since C. for D. unless45. A. promise B. chance C. desire D. decision 46. A. l
26、ittle-known B. privileged C. established D. ambitious47. A. moreover B. anyway C. instead D. therefore48. A. rigidity B. foolishness C. sickness D. gravity49. A. pressing B. existing C. changing D. appealing50. A. insist B. pass C. bend D. flee51. A. beliefs B. requests C. wishes D. efforts52. A. se
27、emingly B. surprisingly C. partly D. originally53. A. take on B. look at C. deal with D. see to 54. A. interest B. reason C. passion D. power55. A. in B. by C. on D. for第三部分：阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AMovies About TeachersFront of the Class
28、Brad Cohens story stars as a young boy whose mother helped doctors to realize that he had Tourette syndrome(妥瑞症). With his mothers help and the support of his school principal, Brad eventually becomes an award-winning teacher. Thanks to his mother never giving up, Brad is a success story and shares
29、his success with everyone around him. Mona Lisa Smile Katherine, takes a position teaching “History of Art” in a conservative womens college.She wants to make a difference and influence upon the next generation of women. Discovering that the girls have memorized everything from the textbook, she enc
30、ourages spirited classroom discussions about topics such as what the Mona Lisas smile means. This brings her into conflict with College President who warns Katherine to stick to the textbook if she wants to keep the job Good Will Hunting After MIT professor Lambeau challenges students with a math pr
31、oblem on a hallway blackboard, Will, the rebellious 20-year-old MIT cleaner leaves the correct solution.As Will has problems with the police, Lambeau offers an out. He also contacts a therapist(治疗师) as his instructor. Both are equally stubborn, but Will is finally forced to deal with his past and hi
32、s future.Les Choristes Clement Mathieu works as an inspector in a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, most of whom have severe punishments for their faults by the cruel director Rachin.Clement decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir and identify the musical potential of the rebel
33、Pierre Morhange. With his methods, Clement changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own. 56. Which of the following films does NOT deal with problematic students?A. Front of the Class B. Mona Lisa SmileC. Good Will Hunting D. Les Choristes57. All the films conveys a message that
34、 _.A. Education begins at the mothers knee.B. All that glitters is not gold. C. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.D. A teacher can never tell where his influence stops.BIsamu Akasaki of Meijo University, Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University and Shuji Nakamura of the University of C
35、alifornia, Santa Barbara, share the 2014 Nobel physics prize for the invention of the blue light-emitting diode(LED).The light of candles and lamps gave way to the incandescent bulb (白炽灯) in the 19th century, but such bulbs still waste a great deal of electrical energy as heat. An LED uses semicondu
36、ctors to transform electricity into light with almost perfect efficiency. In an LED, light is produced when negative electrons combine with positive “holes” in very thin layers of semiconductors. Red LEDs came first, in the early 1960s. Green ones took until the end of that decade. But blue, the thi
37、rd primary colour needed to be able to generate white light, was difficult to find. Scientists failed for decades in their attempts to create blue LEDs. These were extremely important though if white LED lighting was ever to become a reality: only blue light - which has the highest visible frequenci
38、es - can be transformed into white light.The stumbling block was that no one had a way to grow a material called gallium nitride. In 1986, Akasaki and Amano cracked the problem by growing the material on sapphire coated with aluminium nitride. Six years and countless failed experiments later, they r
39、evealed their first LED that gave off bright blue light. Nakamura, meanwhile, grew the first layer of gallium nitride at a low temperature, and adding further layers at higher temperatures. In 1992, Nakamura made another major breakthrough that showed how to change gallium nitride layers to carry th
40、e positive holes needed to make blue LEDs work.White LED lights have great benefits on mankind. Unlike some energy-efficient lightbulbs, they come on instantly. They can survive 11 years of continuous use. The three scientists went on to join forces to build a blue laser, which had at its heart a bl
41、ue LED the size of a grain of sand. Because blue light has such a short wavelength, it can store far more information than other colours, quickly leading to the development of Blue-ray discs.Frances Saunders, president of the UK Institute of Physics, said: “This is physics research that is having a
42、direct impact on the grandest of scales (规模), helping protect our environment, as well as turning up in our everyday electronic gadgets (设备).”58. Paragraph 2 is mainly about _.A. when the three LEDs were invented B. how blue LEDs were invented C. why blue LEDs are so important D. how the three LEDs
43、work59. What is the key material in making blue LEDs?A. Gallium nitride B. Sapphire C. aluminium nitride D. temperature60. According to the passage, blue LEDs have the striking features except _.A. improved efficiency B. increased storage C. longer lasting in use D. good value for moneyC“Daddyll kil
44、l you.”“No, he wont. The worst hell do, hell give me hell again, and then send me to that goddam military school. And I wont even be around then.”“I suppose you failed in every single subject again.”“No, I didnt,” I said. “I passed English.” “Oh, why did you drop out of school?” “Oh, God, Phoebe. It
45、 was one of the worst schools I ever went to. It was full of phonies. And mean guys. And even the couple of nice teachers were phonies, too. There was this one old guy, Mr. Spencer. When the headmaster, came in the history class and sat down in the back of the room, hed interrupt what old Spencer wa
46、s saying to crack a lot of dull jokes. But Spencerd practically kill himself smiling, like as if Thurmer was a goddam prince or something.” “You dont like anything thats happening.”“Sure I do.”“Name one thing.”“I like Allie,” I said. “And I like doing what Im doing right now. Sitting here with you,
47、and talking, and ”“All right, name something else. Like a lawyer or something.”“Lawyers are all right, I guess - but it doesnt appeal to me,” I said. “I mean theyre all right if they go around saving innocent guys lives, but you dont do that kind of thing if youre a lawyer. All you do is make a lot
48、of money and play golf and buy cars and drink Martinis. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys lives, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over?”“Daddyll kill you.” she said.I wasnt listening, though. I was thinking about something crazy. “You know what Id like to be?” I said. “I mean if I had my goddam choice?”“What? Stop swearing.”“I keep picturing all the
