1、 第 - 1 - 页 共 18 页 - 1 - 20192020 学年度第一学期福州市高三期末质量检测 英语试题 (本试题卷共 10 页。全卷满分 150 分。考试用时 120 分钟。) 注意事项： 1.答题前，考生务必在试题卷答题卡规定的地方填写自己的准考证号、姓名。考生要认真核对 答题卡上粘贴的条形码的“准考证号、姓名”与考生本人准考证号、姓名是否一致。 2.回答选择题时， 选出每小题答案后， 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，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷 上无效。 3.考试结束，考生必须将答题卡交回。 第一部分 听力
2、(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。 1. What is Marys attitude toward her own decision? A. Firm. B. Ambiguous. C. Surprised. 2. Which train
3、will the woman take? A. The 6:15 one. B. The 6:45 one. C. The 8:15 one. 3. What will the boy clean? A. The window. B. The bottle. C. The car. 4. Where is the post office? A. Behind the park. B. On the left of the hotel. C. Across from the tourist information center. 5. What are the speakers mainly t
4、alking about? A. The girls classmate. B. Anns character. C. Nicks trousers. 第 - 2 - 页 共 18 页 - 2 - 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. How does the wom
5、an feel at first? A. Fairly relaxed. B. Quite confident. C. A bit worried. 7. What will the speakers do tonight? A. Give out invitations. B. Make more food. C. Throw a party. ! 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Bookseller and customer. B. Librarian and reader. C.
6、 Teacher and student. 9. What will the man do for the woman? A. Reserve the book. B. Check the database. C. Find the book on the shelf. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What do the speakers want to do on the weekend? A. Stay at home. B. Go to the beach. C. See a movie. 11. What will the weather be like a
7、ccording to the weather forecast? A. Warm. B. Cold. C. Hot. 12. What do the speakers think of the weather in California? A. It is changeable. B. It is predictable. C. It is comfortable. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. When does the conversation take place? A. On Wednesday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Monday. 1
8、4. What does the man usually do at about 4 oclock? A. Paint his house. B. Pick up his kids. C. Go to work. 15. What part of the mans body got hurt? A. His leg. B. His arm. C. His ankle. 16. What information will the man offer next? 第 - 3 - 页 共 18 页 - 3 - A. His phone number. B. His available time. C
9、. His full name. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What time does the speaker get to school? A. At about 7:30. B. At about 7:50. C. At about 8:00. 18. How is Pennys campus life ? A. Interesting. B. Cool. C. Busy. 19. Who is Ryan? A. The speakers friend. B. The speakers pet dog. C. The speakers favorite s
10、inger. 20. Why does the speaker like camping? A. She can make new friends. B. She can do varieties of activities. C. She can have hamburgers and chips. 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) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上 将该项涂黑。 A September is the month for fashion, with fo
11、ur international cities hosting Fashion Week. All eyes will turn to New York City, London, Milan and Paris this month to see which city puts on the best show. New York New York Fashion Week, or NYFW, kicks off on September 5th and runs for approximately eight days. NYFW is considered the most commer
12、cial and casual of the four. It is also the only event to allow some fashion school students to participate，bringing a fresh look to the runway. London London Fashion Week (LFW) comes on the heels of NYFW, staring on September 13th and running through September 17th. Once considered a minor player a
13、mong the Big Four, LFW can 第 - 4 - 页 共 18 页 - 4 - now command a list of big names as well as promising new designers. London fashion houses have a reputation for being very experimental and open to new ideas. Milan Fashion Week moves to Milan on September 17th. This beautiful Italian city is home to
14、 some of the biggest fashion houses and designers in the fashion world, including Armani and Prada. Milans fashion houses are known for offering glamorous(有魅力的), yet practical, options. Paris The chaotic month of fashion makes its way to France as Paris Fashion Week begins on September 23rd. Saving
15、the best for last, Paris never fails to offer some of the most exciting shows of the season. World-famous labels like Chanel and Dior try to outdo one another with their latest designs. The word that best describes Paris Fashion Week is “elegant“. 21. Which city is likely to attract the new designer
16、s? A. New York B. London C. Milan D. Paris 22. When does Milan Fashion Week probably end? A. September 19th B. September 20th C. September 21st D. September 22nd 23. What can we learn from the four fashion weeks? A. Each has its own characteristics. B. Each shows its biggest brand. C. Each offers pr
17、actical options. D. Each is open to school students. B Fire Capt. Kevin Lloyd arrived at the scene of a car accident in West Point, Utah, north of Salt Lake City. A pregnant woman and her screaming 2-year old daughter were trapped in the car. While his partner, Allen Hadley, was tending to the drive
18、r, Lloyd couldnt get the frightened gird to calm down. He saw she was holding several bottles of nail polish, and then he had a better idea. He asked her if she wanted to paint his nails. Soon she entirely lit up. At the same time, Hadley showed up to check on the scene. Lloyd had calmed her down an
19、d was in the process of getting his fingers painted. Then Hadley just put his hand in there. The girl began to color his nails pink. By this time, she was not only calm, but she was also happy. The girls mother was not injured. She thanked them for helping her daughter feel better, and 第 - 5 - 页 共 1
20、8 页 - 5 - they all chuckled, looking at the firefighters nails, and took some photos. The firefighters brought the photos back to headquarters and showed them around. The department put them up on Facebook, and thousands of people responded, with many thanking the firefighters for going out of their
21、 way to calm down a frightened girl. Fire Chief Mark Becraft said he had been surprised at all the attention. He said he was proud of his firefighters, and added that he had known members of the department who had done many things that werent part of the job. After the fact, Lloyd and Hadley had a s
22、mall matter to tend to: the layers of polish on their nails. They bought a bottle of nail polish remover, and used almost all of it. 24. Why was the 2-year-old girl frightened? A. She was caught in an accident. B. Her mother was badly injured. C. Her nails were hurt by the bottles. D. She was afraid
23、 of seeing firefighters. 25. Which is closest in meaning to the underlined word “chuckled“ in Paragraph 4? A. Sighed. B. Shouted. C. Laughed. D. Hugged. 26. Which of the following can best describe the two firefighters? A. Knowledgeable. B. Comforting. C. Humorous. D. Courageous. 27. What is the pur
24、pose of the text? A. To ask us to learn to calm down in time of danger. B. To speak highly of the warm-hearted firefighters. C. To introduce the little girl who likes polishing nails. D. To praise the two firefighters who learn to decorate nails. C As you move out of your teens and into your 20s and
25、 30s, your musical tastes start to solidify and you likely quit keeping up with popular music. Now, research has found the average age at which your music library is unlikely to change: 33. The studys author reached this conclusion by analyzing data on U. S. Spotify users and comparing it to artist
26、popularity data from music intelligence company The Echo Nest. To determine the age at which we stop seeking out new tunes，the author gathered self-reported age data from Spotify and looked at users “Taste Profiles,“ which tracks how many times listeners 第 - 6 - 页 共 18 页 - 6 - have streamed individu
27、al artists. These artists were then: matched to their popularity rank on The Echo Nest. The average teen listens almost only to music among the Billboard, the 200 highest-ranking albums in the country, but this music represents a smaller part of their streaming as they age. In their teens, they list
28、en to a lot of the same music, over and over again. Frank T. McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College, explains thats the “mere exposure effect“ at work, and it basically means, the more were exposed to something, the more we like it. There are many reasons why a person may stop streaming
29、 the current top musical hits, and the author looked into one by identifying Spotify listeners with large amounts of childrens music and nursery rhymes in their libraries. In other words, when users may have become parents. But the study concludes with some good news for parents: “If youre getting o
30、lder and cant find yourself staying as relevant as you used to, have no fear -just wait for your kids to become teenagers, and youll get exposed to all the popular music of the day once again!“ 28. What happens after teens grow older? A. They quit listening to music. B. Their interest in music fades
31、. C. They change their music libraries. D. Their musical tastes become stable. 29. What is the way of the research? A. Interviews. B. Analyzing data. C. Observation. D. Tracking popularity. 30. How do teens develop their musical tastes? A. They listen to what they like repeatedly. B. They act like t
32、heir favorite popular stars. C. They experience different styles of music. D. They like high-ranking music worldwide. 31. Whats the good news for parents in the last paragraph? A. Parents will regain their faith in music. B. Parents will influence their teens in music. C. Parents will hear their fav
33、orite music again. D. Parents will enjoy the music for teens again. D 第 - 7 - 页 共 18 页 - 7 - They still bite, but new research shows lab-grown mosquitoes are fighting dengue fever a dangerous disease that they normally would spread. Dengue infections appear to be dropping fast in communities in Indo
34、nesia, Vietnam, Brazil and Australia that are filled with the specially grown mosquitoes. Researchers first injected (注射) mosquito eggs with Wolbachia bacteria thats common in insects and harmless to people in a lab. Infected females then pass the bacteria on through their eggs. Releasing enough Wol
35、bachia carriers, both the females that bite and the males that dont, allows mating(交配) to spread the bacteria through a local mosquito population. Rather than using chemicals to wipe out pests, “this is really about transforming the mosquito,“ said Cameron Simmons of the nonprofit World Mosquito Pro
36、gram, which is conducting the research. The first success came from Australia. Mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia were released in parts of North Queensland starting in 2011, and gradually spread through the local mosquito population. Dengue is spread when a mosquito bites someone who is infected, and th
37、en bites another person, but somehow Wolbachia blocks that - and local spread has nearly disappeared in those North Queensland communities, Simmons said. The studies are continuing in other countries. But the findings, presented at a meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,
38、 suggest its possible to turn at least some mosquitoes from a public health threat into annoying biters. The work marks “exciting progress,“ said Michigan State University professor Zhiyong Xi, who wasnt involved with the project but has long studied how Wolbachia can turn mosquitoes against themsel
39、ves. More research is needed, specialists cautioned. “The results are pretty exciting-strong levels of reductions-but there clearly are going to be things to be learned from the areas where the reductions are not 88 great,“ said Penn State University professor Elizabeth McGraw. 32. What can we learn
40、 about the lab grown mosquitoes? A. They lose the ability to bite people. B. They become harmful to human beings. C. They carry dangerous Wolbachia bacteria. D. They spread Wolbachia bacteria by mating. 33. What does the underlined word “that” refer to in Paragraph 4? A. The bite from a mosquito. B.
41、 The local community. 第 - 8 - 页 共 18 页 - 8 - C. The spread of Dengue. D. The infected person. 34. What do the last two paragraphs suggest? A. This research proves a complete success. B. Scientists agree on this research. C. There is still room for improvement. D. Mosquitoes turn themselves against h
42、armful ones. 35. What is the best title for the text? A. Bacteria-infected Mosquitoes Bite Deadly Dengue B. Transform Mosquitoes into Annoying Biters C. Fight against Mosquitoes with Wolbachia D. Harmless Mosquitoes Are on Their Way 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
43、选项。 Being scared is not always a treat. When a balloon pops, we may jump. 36 . How does the body triggered(激发) these reactions? When we encounter something were not familiar with, our brain and body start making changes to help prepare us for the unknown. These changes are part of the bodys “threat,
44、“ “stress,“ or “fight-or flight“ response. This response is triggered by the five senses, which are always sending information to the brain. 37 , the brain sounds a danger alarm. It releases chemicals into the bloodstream, and those chemicals act on different parts of the body. Once the body is aler
45、t(警觉的)，the brain decides whether or not the danger is real. 38 . It urges a person to hide, run away, or defend oneself. Faster heartbeat and breathing send more blood and oxygen to the muscles so theyre ready when theyre needed. Stress chemicals can make a person more alert. Our memories also help
46、protect us. We keep a close eye on babies because they dont understand what might hurt them. As babies grow, they learn whats unsafe, and their brains store those memories. 39 . Experiences can lead to long-lasting fears that may stop a person from trying new things. Were born with the ability to fe
47、el fear, but a lot of what were afraid of is learned. A long-lasting fear can mean youve had a bad experience, and your brain doesnt want you to have it again. Many people have beaten their own fears. Heres one method. 40 , they learn the facts about anything that seems scary. Knowledge can help a p
48、erson feel less afraid. 第 - 9 - 页 共 18 页 - 9 - A. Instead of listening to their imagination B. When they signal something unexpected C. Our heart beats harder, and we breathe faster D. Then their brains use fear to warm them of dangers E. Its good to have a healthy sense of whats dangerous F. Fear i
49、s a tool that the brain uses to keep the body safe G. Memories are an important factor in fear-lasting experiences 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) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出可以填入空白处的 最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Ethan Katz enjoys playing with his dogs, McFly and Brooklyn, and often helps his grandma feed and 41 her five dogs. For his ninth birt
