XX中学高三下学期期中考试英语试题及答案.doc

1、20132014学年度第二学期高三期中考试英 语 试 题 本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分, 共150分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项：1答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。2每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。第I卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）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。

2、每段对话仅读一遍。1. What is the woman probably doing?A. Waiting for her plane. B. Seeing the man off. C. Complaining to the man.2. What does the woman want to buy?A. Beach blankets. B. Some pictures. C. Some film.3. Why does the man apologise to the woman?A. He ordered the wrong table. B. He called her by m

3、istake.C. He went to the wrong address.4. What does the man think is wrong with the plant?A. It needs to be watered at present.B. It should be moved into a large pot.C. It is not getting enough sunshine.5. What is the man concerned about?A. The time to fix the problem.B. The problem of the car.C. Th

4、e way to get home.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。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. Where are the speakers? A. In the mans office. B. In a restaurant. C. In the womans house.7. What is the man complaining

5、 about? A. The low salary. B. The heavy work. C. The new boss.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How much should the man pay in total?A.115. B.120. C.125. 9. What does the woman advise the man to do? A. Think it over before having the pants shortened. B. Have a professional tailor his pants. C. Use a plastic bag to

6、put his pants in.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why doesnt the woman take the direct flight?A. She wants to visit Chicago.B. Its much more expensive.C. Its time is too early.11. When does the womans flight leave?A. On Saturday afternoon. B. On Sunday morning. C. On Sunday evening.12. What is the probable rela

7、tionship between the speakers?A. Customer and travel agent.B. Manager and secretary.C. Guide and tourist.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. When will the woman present?A. On September 7. B. On September 8. C. On September 9.14. What did Rachel and Sam ask about?A. The time of the meeting.B. The information on the

8、 hotel.C. The change of the schedule.15. How will the man get everyone to know the details of the meeting?A. By phone. B. By e-mail. C. By letter.16. What will the woman do in the morning?A. Write several reports. B. Meet Rachel and Sam. C. Prepare her lunch.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Where was Jean Duna

9、nt from?A. Italy. B. Australia. C. Switzerland.18. Why was the Red Cross started at first?A. To help the wounded in the war.B. To provide food for the poor. C. To fight against the war.19. What do we know about the red cross? A. It can be used to represent the first aid stations B. It can only refer

10、 to the international organisation. C. It is an official symbol of hospital and medical treatment.20. What will Mr John Francis talk about next? A. Something about First Aid. B. The law about the Red Cross. C. The Red Cross organisation in Australia.第二部分： 阅读理解 （共两节， 满分40分）第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列

11、短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 ATaking exams in a large group setting can be stressful for students and for the staff members who are watching over them. When classrooms are crowded and desks are close together, cheating might be tempting. One university in Thailand came up with an anti-cheating ha

12、t that makes it almost impossible for students to see other students papers. A photo of the students wearing the anti-cheating hats made its way to the Internet, and the university was criticized for making students wear those ridiculous looking homemade hats. The hats were made by stapling two piec

13、es of paper onto a headband, one to each side of the head. After being criticized, senior academic staff at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, released a statement saying that the hats idea came from students. They said that in a bid to prevent cheating they asked the students for ideas on h

14、ow to prevent cheating in the upcoming exam, which was being taken by almost one hundred students. Students came up with different ideas, and then the paper hat idea was selected by them as the most fit. The university claims that no one was forced to use the hat, but they all chose to do so. “When

15、wearing the hat during the exam, students felt more relaxed,” Nattadon Rungruangkitkrai, a lecturer at the university said. “It was not meant to indicate that Kasetsart students often cheat on exams. I apologize if the photo makes other people look at my students in a negative way,” Rungruangkitkrai

16、 added.21. Why was the university criticized on the Internet?A. Wearing the anti-cheating hat made students look ridiculous.B. The homemade anti-cheating hat looked too simple.C. Wearing the anti-cheating hats couldnt prevent students from cheating in the exam.D. The university forced students to we

17、ar the anti-cheating hat. 22. Whats most of the Kasetsart University students attitude towards the cheating hat? A. Skeptical B. Supportive C. Objective D. Negative 23. It can be inferred from the passage that_A. its useless wearing the anti-cheating hat in the exam.B. Kasetsart students are often c

18、aught cheating in the exam.C. wearing the anti-cheating hat is effective to some degree.D. some students are forced to wear the anti-cheating hat.BItaly is one country where beauty is prized more than any other virtue. That is, except in the small town of Piobbico, the self-declared World Capital of

19、 Ugly People. The road sign at the edge of the town even warns visitors that they are entering the ugly zone. People who consider themselves ugly have been gathering in Piobbico since the 1960s. Thats when Ugly Club president Telesforo Lacobelli established a dating agency for women who believed the

20、y were too ugly to attract husbands. Lacobelli believes that he is ugly himself because he has a short nose in a country where long or large noses have always been considered beautiful. People from around the world travel to Piobbico to tell their sad stories of ugliness. During the annual Festival

21、of the Ugly, which occurs on the first Sunday of every September, hundreds of people gather in Piobbicos town square to elect the president of the Ugly Club. Lacobelli wins the election every year. The Ugly Club has over 20, 000 members. They carry ID cards that grade their ugliness from bearable to

22、 extreme. A prize is awarded to Ugly Club members who qualify as extremely ugly. The Ugly Club president insists that ugliness is a virtue. Since beautiful people get a lot of attention for their beauty alone, they have to work hard to prove their other virtues. Ugly people, on the other hand, are g

23、enuine and do not have to prove anything to anybody, according to Lacobelli. Lacobelli is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere. He believes that the uglier one is, the better life can be. Though the club enjoys making fun of beauty, especially beauty contests, Lacobelli has a serious side as we

24、ll. He believes that too many people suffer from financial and emotional pressures because they dont meet societys standards of beauty. The fact that beautiful people are more successful in the workforce is a problem that Lacobelli has attempted to bring forward to the Italian public and government.

25、 24.Piobbico is rather special in that . A. it is a very small town B. it is home to ugly peopleC. it receives no visitors D. it is the capital of Italy25. Why is Lacobelli elected the president of the Ugly Club every year?A. Because he is the ugliest person in the whole world. B. Because his ugline

26、ss is always graded as bearable. C. Because he is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere. D. Because he has won the members trust and admiration. 26. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Ugly people are most respected in Italy. B. The Festival of the Ugly is held every two y

27、ears. C. Ugly people are unfairly treated in society. D. The uglier one is, the better life he or she lives.27.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. The Ugly Capital of the WorldB. The Ugliest Person of the WorldC. Festival of the UglyD. Beauty Contests Should be Banned C

28、Teaching is more than leadership. Some of the teachers time and effort is directed toward instruction, some toward evaluation. But it is the teacher as a group leader who creates an effective organizational structure and good working environment so that instruction and evaluation activities can take

29、 place. A group that is totally disorganized, unclear about its goals, or constantly fighting among its members will not be a good learning group. The leadership pattern includes helping to form and maintain a positive learning environment so that instruction and evaluation activities can take place

30、. On the first day of class, the teacher faces a room filled with individuals. Perhaps a few closely united groups and friendships already exist. But there is no sense of group unity, no set of rules for conduct in the group, no feeling of belonging. If teachers are successful leaders, they will hel

31、p students develop a system of relationships that encourages working together.Standards and rules must be set to keep order, make sure of justice and protect individual rights, but do not contradict school policy. What happens when one student hurts anothers individual rights? Without clear regulati

32、ons agreeable to the students and teachers, the classroom can become chaotic. Students may break rules they did not know existed. If standards are set without participation from the class, students may spend a great deal of creative energy in destroying the class environment or finding ways to break

33、 rules.No matter how skillful the teacher is in uniting students and creating a positive atmosphere, the task is never complete. Regular maintenance is necessary. Conflicts arise. The needs of individual members change. A new kind of learning task requires a new organizational structure. Sometimes o

34、utside pressures such as holidays, upcoming tests or sport competitions, or family troubles cause stress in the classroom. One task for the teacher is to recreate a positive environment by helping students deal with conflict, change, and stress. 28. The underlined word “maintain” in Para.1 probably

35、means_.A. keepB. buildC. recreateD. evaluate29. According to the author, the teacher should _. A. free students from outside pressures B. set the standards and rules on his ownC. be responsible for a well-organized classD. focus more on instruction and evaluation30. From the passage we can learn tha

36、t _.A. rules cannot be changed once theyre formedB. outside pressures can not cause tension among studentsC. if the teacher well unites his students, he then will finish his taskD. if rules are not acceptable both to students and teachers, the classroom can be a mess31. What is the authors main purp

37、ose of writing the passage?A. To provide information for teaching.B. To show the importance of teaching a class.C. To study the teachers behavior in the classroom.D. To compare the teachers behavior with the students in class.DIf your preschoolers turn up their noses at carrots or celery, a small re

38、ward like a sticker(贴画) for taking even a taste may help get them to eat previously disliked foods, a UK study said. Though it might seem obvious that a reward could encourage young children to eat their vegetables, the idea is actually controversial, researchers wrote in the American Journal of Cli

39、nical Nutrition. Thats because some studies have shown that rewards can backfire and cause children to lose interest in foods they already liked, said Jane Wardle, a researcher at University College London who worked on the study. Verbal praise, such as “Brilliant! Youre a great vegetable taster”, d

40、id not work as well. The study found that when parents gave their small children a sticker each time they took a “tiny taste” of a disliked vegetable, it gradually changed their attitudes. The children were also willing to eat more of the vegetableseither carrots, celery, cucumber, red pepper, cabba

41、ge or sugar snap peasin laboratory taste tests, the study said. Researchers randomly assigned (分派) 173 families to one of these groups. In one, parents used stickers to reward their children each time they took a tiny sample of a disliked vegetable. A second group of parents used verbal praise. The

42、third group, where Parents used no special vegetable-promoting methods, served as a “control”. Parents in the reward groups offered their children a taste of the “target” vegetable every day for 12 days. Soon after, children in the sticker group were giving higher ratings to the vegetablesand were w

43、illing to eat more in the research lab, going from an average of 5 grams at the start to about 10 grams after the 12-day experience. The turnaround(转机) also seemed to last, with preschoolers in the sticker group still willing to eat more of the once-disliked vegetable three months later. Why didnt t

44、he verbal praise work? Wardle said the parents words may have seemed “insincere” to their children. 32. The purpose of writing the passage is . A. to show the procedure of an experiment on childrens dietB. to introduce a practical method of making children eat vegetables C. to explain why children h

45、ate to eat vegetablesD. to present a proper way of verbal praise to parents33. The underlined word “backfire” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_”. A. shoot from behind the back B. make a fire in the backyardC. produce an unexpected result D. achieve what was planned34. Which of the following statement

46、s is true according to the passage?A. Most children are born to dislike carrots or celery. B. Children in the sticker group will never lose interest in eating vegetables.C. Oral praise works quite well in encouraging children to eat vegetables. D. It remains a question whether rewarding is a good wa

47、y to get children to eat vegetables. 35. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. Children like rewards, not verbal praise. B. Parents should give up verbal praise.C. Children are difficult to inspire. D. Parents should praise their children in a sincere tone. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10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。The Importance of Accessibility AwarenessAt a recent Teen Leadership of Jewish Family Services meeting, pe