1、1高 2015 级高三上学期第一学段考试英语试题第一部分：听力（共两节，共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分。 ）第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）1.What will the woman do next?A. Turn down the radio B. Close the window C. Go to bed2. Who will probably get the stamps?A. The woman B. The mans classmate C. The womans sister3. Why cant the woman go with
2、the man ?A. Shes a little tired B. Shes going to listen to music C. Shes going to the library.4. When will the man arrive home?A. At 10:00 B. At 11:00 C. At 12:005. Where does the conversation take place?A. At home B. In a travel agency C. In a hotel第二节（共 15 小题，每小题 1.5 分；满分 22.5 分）听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7
3、 两个小题。6. What does the woman ask the man to send?A. A report. B. An e-mail. C. A letter.7. For whom will the man reserve the room in the Garden Hotel?A. For the woman. B. For Mr. Benson. C. For Mr. Black.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8. Where is the hotel located?A. Out of the city. B. Near the harbor. C.
4、 In the center of the city.9. When will the speakers meet?A. On Friday. B. On Sunday. C. On Saturday.听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。10. Whats the conversation about?A. Buying a flat. B. Renting a flat. C. Visiting a flat.11. How many bedrooms are there in this flat?A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.12. When can
5、the woman move in?A. Right now. B. In two weeks. C. In October.听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。13. Whats the man looking for？A. A monument. B. A pub. C. A hall.14. Whats the Mond?A. A road. B. A hill. C. A monument.15. How will the man get there probably?A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot.216. What do you
6、think of the woman?A. She is helpful. B. She is impatient. C. She is rude.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17.Why is Lily sitting in the trolley(手推车)?A. She is too heavy for her mother to carry.B. Her mother wants to talk to Mrs. Bell.C. Her mother has bought too many things.18. Whats Lily doing when Mrs.
7、Bell and Mrs. Young are talking?A. She hides a bottle of wine in Mrs. Youngs handbag.B. She is playing with a bottle of whisky.C. She is playing with the things her mother has bought.19. What can we learn from the speech?A. Mrs. Bell steals a bottle of whisky.B. The detective finds the whisky in Mrs
8、. Bells handbag.C. Mrs. Young asks her daughter to steal a bottle of whisky.20. What does the speech tell us?A. Lily is a shy girl.B. Mrs. Bell is a forgetful person.C. People sometimes can hardly explain themselves.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）A Jimmy is an automo
9、tive mechanic, but he lost his job a few months ago. He has good heart, but always feared applying for a new job.One day, he gathered up all his strength and decided to attend a job interview. His appointment was at 10 am and it was already 8:30. While waiting for a bus to the office where he was su
10、pposed to be interviewed, he saw an elderly man wildly kicking the tyre of his car. Obviously there was something wrong with the car. Jimmy immediately went up to lend him a hand. When Jimmy finished working on the car, the old man asked him how much he should pay for the service. Jimmy said there w
11、as no need to pay him; he just helped someone in need, and he had to rush for an interview. Then the old man said, “Well, I could take you to the office for your interview. Its the least I could do. Please. I insist.” Jimmy agreed.Upon arrival, Jimmy found a long line of applications waiting to be i
12、nterviewed. Jimmy still had some grease (油腻物) on him after the car repair, but he did not have much time to wash it off or have a change of shirt. One by one, the applicants left the interviewers office with disappointed look on their faces. Finally his name was called. The interviewer was sitting o
13、n a large chair facing the office window. Rocking the chair back and forth, he asked, “Do you really need to be interviewed?” Jimmys heart sank. “With the way I look now, how could I possibly pass this interview?” he thought to himself.3Then the interviewer turned the chair and to Jimmys surprise, i
14、t was the old man he helped earlier in the morning. It turned out he was the General Manager of the company.“Sorry I had to keep you waiting, but I was pretty sure I made the right decision to have you as part of our workforce before you even stepped into the office. I just know youd be a trustworth
15、y worker. Congratulations!” Jimmy sat down and they shared a cup of well-deserved coffee as he landed himself a new job.21. Why did Jimmy apply for a new job?A. He was out of work B. He was bored with his job C. He wanted a higher position D. He hoped to find a better boss22. What did Jimmy see on t
16、he way to the interview?A. A friends car had a flat tyre B. a wild man was pushing a carC. a terrible accident happened D. an old mans car broke down23. Why did the old man offer Jimmy a ride?A. He was also to be interviewed B. He needed a traveling companionC. He always helped people in need D. He
17、was thankful to Jimmy24. How did Jimmy feel on hearing the interviewers question?A. He was sorry for the other applicantsB. There was no hope for him to get the job C. He regretted helping the old man D. The interviewer was very rudeBBelow is a selection from a popular science book.If blood is red,
18、why are veins (静脉) blue?Actually, veins are not blue at all. They are more of a clear, yellowish color. Although blood looks red when its outside the body, when its sitting in a vein near the surface of the skin, its more of a dark reddish purple color. At the right depth, these blood-filled veins r
19、eflect less red light than the surrounding skin, making them look blue by comparison.Which works harder, your heart or your brain?That kind of depends on whether youre busy thinking or busy exercising. Your heart works up to three times harder during exercise, and shifts enough blood over a lifetime
20、 to fill a supertanker（超级油轮）. But, in the long run, your brain probably tips it, because even when youre sitting still your brain is using twice as much energy as your heart, and it takes four to five times as much blood to feed it.Why do teeth fall out, and why dont they grow back in grown-ups?Baby
21、 (or “milk”) teeth do not last long; they fall out to make bigger room for bigger, stronger adult teeth later on. Adult teeth fall out when they become damaged, decayed（腐烂）and infected by bacteria. Once this second set of teeth has grown in, youre done. When theyre gone, they are gone. This is 4beca
22、use nature figures youre set for life, and what controls regrowth of your teeth switches off.Do old people shrink（收缩）as they age?Yes and no. Many people do get shorter as they age. But, when they do, it isnt because theyre shrinking all over. They simply lose height as their spine (脊柱) becomes short
23、er and more curved due to disuse and the effect of gravity (重力). Many (but not all) men and women do lose height as they get older. Men lose an average of 3-4 cm in height as they age, while women may lose 5 cm or more. If you live to be 200 years old, would you keep shrinking till you were, like 60
24、 cm tall, like a little boy again? No, because old people dont really shrink! It is not that they are growing backwardstheir legs, arms and backbones getting shorter. When they do get shorter, its because the spine has shortened a little. Or, more often, become more bent and curved.Why does spinning
25、 make you dizzy)?Because your brain gets confused between what youre seeing and what youre feeling.25. What is the color of blood in a vein near the surface of the skin?A. Blue B. Light yellow C. Red D. Dark reddish purple26. Why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age?A. Because their
26、 spine is in active use.B. Because they are more easily affected by gravity.C. Because they keep growing backwards.D. Because their spine becomes more bent.27. Which of the following statements about our brain is true?A. In the long run, our brain probably works harder than our heart.B. When our bra
27、in senses the spinning, we will feel dizzy.C. The brains of the other mammals are as complex as those of humans.D. Our feelings and emotions come from the most developed area in our brain.28. What is the main purpose of the selection?A. To give advice on how to stay healthy.B. To provide information
28、 about our body.C. To challenge new findings in medical research.D. To report the latest discoveries in medical science.CLONDON - A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake(假冒的) bomb detectors(探测器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadnt cared about potentially deadly cons
29、equences.It is believed that James McCormick got about $77.8 million from the sales of his detectors - which were based on a kind of golf ball finder - to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.McCormick, 57, was convicted(判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey
30、 court in London.5“Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people,“ Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. “you have neither regret
31、, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt.“The detectors, sold for up to $42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science“ and were of no use.McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to
32、 the police in Kenya, the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.“I never had any bad results from customers,“ he said.29. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?A. He sold bombs. B. He caused death of people.C. He made detectors. D. He cheated in business.3
33、0. According to the judge, what McCormick had done _.A. increased the cost of safeguardingB. lowered peoples guard against dangerC. changed peoples idea of social securityD. caused innocent people to commit crimes31. Which of the following is true of the detectors?A. They have not been sold to Afric
34、a.B. They have caused many serious problems.C. They can find dangerous objects in water.D. They dont function on the basis of science.32. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _.A. sold the equipment at a low priceB. was well-known in most countriesC. did not think he had committed the
35、crimeD. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the textD.“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been refe
36、rring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a perso
37、n, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.6Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from whi
38、ch comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a flaw in a
39、computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two pre
40、vious nights discovering a bug in his invented record player.”33. We learn from Paragraph 1 that _.A.Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bugB.George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bugC.the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth centuryD.b
41、oth Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century34. What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?A. Explanation. B. Finding. C. Origin. D. Fault.35. The passage is mainly concerned with_.A. the misunderstanding of the word bug B. the development of the word b
42、ugC. the public views of the word bug D. the special characteristics of the word bug第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）根据对话情景和内容，从对话后的选项中选出能入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。ForgiveTo forgive is a virtue, but no one has ever said it is easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of
43、your hate. However, forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. People who forgive show less sadness, anger and stress and more hopefulness, according to a recent research._36_ Try the following steps:Calm yourself. _37_ You can take a couple of
44、 breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love.Dont wait for an apology. Many times the person who hurt you does not intend to apologize. They may have wanted to hurt you or they just dont see things the same way. _38_Keep in mind that forgi
45、veness does not necessarily mean becoming friends again with the person who upset you.7Take the control away from your offender(冒犯者). Rethinking about your hurt gives power to the person who causes you pain. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindnes
46、s around you._39_ If you understand your offender, you may realize that he or she was acting out of unawareness, fear, and even love. You may want to write a letter to yourself from your offenders point of view.Dont forget to forgive yourself. _40_ But it can rob you of your self-confidence if you d
47、ont do it.A. Why should you forgive? B. How should you start to forgive?C. Recognize the benefits of forgiveness.D. Try to see things from your offenders angle.E. For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge.F. To make your anger die away, try a simple stress-management technique.G
48、. If you wait for people to apologize, you could be waiting an awfully long time.第三部分 英语知识运用（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） My father left for our native place on Thursday. In fact, he had never traveled by _41_ before, so I just took this opportunity to let him _42_ his first fligh
49、t. _43_ being asked to book a ticket by train, I got him a ticket on Jet Airways. The moment I handed over the ticket to him, he was surprised. The _44_ was very apparent on his face as we waited for the time of the _45_. Just like a schoolboy, he was _46_ himself on that day, using the trolley (手推车) for his luggage and asking
