1、2019-2020 学年度上学期高三年级学年度上学期高三年级期中期中考试考试 英语试卷英语试卷 本试卷共 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。 第一部分第一部分 听力（共两节，满分听力（共两节，满分 20 分）分） 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。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. Where does the man want to go? A. A railway station. B. A post office
2、. C. The seaside. 2. What happened to the woman? A. She woke up late. B. She got to work late. C. She went to sleep late. 3. What is the woman doing now? A. Baking cookies. B. Making a list. C. Shopping for groceries. 4. How does the woman feel about the zoo? A. Sad. B. Impressed. C. Disappointed. 5
3、. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Young people lose their jobs easily. B. Young people are too quick in making decisions. C. Young people seldom stay long in the same job. 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几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个 选项中选出最佳选项。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；
4、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. When will the man start his new job? A. Tomorrow. B. Next week. C. Next month. 7. Why is the man paying for the womans lunch? A. She helped him a lot. B. It is his turn to pay. C. He wants to congratulate her. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。 8. What is
5、 Annas chemistry grade now? A. B. B. B+. C. D. 9. When does Annas study group meet? A. After school. B. On the weekends. C. During lunch hour. 10. Who is Anna speaking to? A. A study group member. B. Her teacher. C. Her father. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。 11. How old was Jonathans mother when she starte
6、d doing laundry? A. 8 years old. B. 10 years old. C. 16 years old. 12. Which temperature will Jonathan use for now? A. Hot. B. Cold. C. Warm. 13. What is the “light” spin cycle used for? A. Jeans and towels. B. Most of Jonathans clothes. C. Sheets and pillow cases. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。 14. Which
7、decorations are on the sofa? A. The Christmas ones. B. The Halloween ones. C. The Thanksgiving ones. 15. What did the man use to get the box out? A. A pole. B. A chair. C. A ladder. 16. Where might the conversation take place? A. In the basement. B. In the bedroom. C. In the living room. 听第 10 段材料，回
8、答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What does the Golden Rule ask people to do? A. Develop personal rules. B. Respect their families and ancestors. C. Treat others as they wish to be treated. 18. Which is a teaching of Confucius? A. Governments should be moral. B. Husbands should respect wives. C. People should memor
9、ize rules of behavior. 19. How did Confucius teach lessons? A. Through arguments. B. Through reasoning. C. Through personal examples. 20. What does the speaker say about Confucius influence? A. He used to be even more important. B. He has influenced many cultures. C. He has little effect on people t
10、oday. 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解阅读理解(共两节，满分共两节，满分 40 分分) 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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Rain beat against the window, matching my mood. I should have known that my new job at the hospital was too good to be true. Throughout the day, rumors (传言) warned that the newest employ
11、ee from each department would be laid off. I was the newest one in the training department. My boss appeared. “You probably know were cutting back,” he said. “Administration wants us to offer outplacement classes to help those employees find other jobs, showing them how to act in an interview, for e
12、xample.” “Fine,” I answered unwillingly, not knowing what else to say. I decided to go home early that day. In the hall, I met the lady who brought us cookies every Friday. She was a little woman with gray hair. Only her head and the top of her green apron were visible over the cart (小车) loaded with
13、 cleaning supplies. At least she had a job! At the final meeting, laid-off workers formed a line at the door. A colleague whispered, “I cant believe our Cookie Lady is being laid off. Well miss her as much as well miss her cookies.” When the colleague spoke to her in Spanish, I knew my classes would
14、 be useless for her and I realized how much better off was than this poor woman. I decided to do something for her. I wrote to a newspaper expressing how I felt about the unselfishness of the Cookie Lady who needed a job. A few days later, my article appeared in the newspaper and the Cookie Lady was
15、 allowed to stay in her position. On the same day, I received a letter, which seemed so unlikely that I read it twice. “An editor of a local magazine likes your piece and wants you to call her next time youre looking for work ” 21. How did the author feel on that rainy day? A. Nervous. B. Excited. C
16、. Awkward. D. Proud. 22. What was the author asked to do? A. Take care of patients. B. Leave earlier that day. C. Resign from the hospital. D. Help the laid-off workers. 23. How did the author help the Cookie Lady? A. He offered her a high-paid job. B. He gave her advice on job hunting. C. He made h
17、er story known to others. D. He taught her how to pass an interview. 24. What does the story tell us? A. Good deeds have their rewards. B. A friend in need is a friend indeed. C. Little people can make a big difference. D. Love brings more joy to people than work does. B At your next meeting, wait f
18、or a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts. Among English speakers, chances are that it will be a second or two at most. But while this pattern may be universal, our awareness of silence differs dramatically across cultures. What one culture considers a confusing or awkward paus
19、e may be seen by others as a valuable moment of reflection and sign of respect for what the last speaker has said. Research in Dutch and also in English found that when a silence in conversation stretches to four seconds, people start to feel uneasy. In contrast, a separate study of business meeting
20、s found that Japanese people are happy with silences of 8.2 seconds nearly twice as long as in Americans meetings. In Japan, it is recognized that the best communication is when you dont speak at all. Its already a failure to understand each other by speaking because youre repairing that failure by
21、using words. In the US, it may originate from the history of colonial (殖民地) America as a crossroads of many different races. When you have a complex of difference, its hard to establish common understanding unless you talk and theres understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engage
22、d to establish a common life. This applies also to some extent to London. In contrast, when theres more homogeneity, perhaps its easier for some kinds of silence to appear. For example, among your closest friends and family its easier to sit in silence than with people youre less well acquainted wit
23、h. 25. Which of the following people might have the longest silence in conversation? A. The Dutch. B. Americans. C. The English. D. The Japanese. 26. What might the Japanese agree with in a conversation? A. Speaking more gives the upper hand. B. Speak out what you have in your mind. C. Great minds t
24、hink alike without words. D. The shorter talking silence, the better. 27. What can we learn from the text? A. A four second silence in conversation is universal. B. Its hard for Americans to reach a common agreement. C. English speakers are more talkative than Japanese speakers. D. The closer we and
25、 our family are, the easier the silence appears. 28. What does the underlined word “homogeneity” in the last paragraph mean? A. Similarity. B. Contradiction. C. Diversity. D. Misunderstanding. C Next month, Im traveling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala one of t
26、he local languages to have a conversation. I wasnt sure how I was going to manage this until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary Im going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the app Im using. It feels just like a game. “People often stop learning things because they feel theyre not making progres
27、s or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “Were trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something youd want to do instead of watching TV.” Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which
28、you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you practice the words, you “water your plants”. When the app believes that you have really remembered a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on (登录)，the app sends you emails that remind you to “water your plants”. The app uses two p
29、rinciples about learning. The first is that people remember things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created I
30、 imagined an old engine in a motel (汽车旅馆) room. The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them again later, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because its the kind of app you only use for five or ten minutes a day. Ive learnt hun
31、dreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this wont make me a fluent speaker, but I hope Ill be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my Vocabulary! 29. What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise? A. Create memorable experiences. B. Make
32、 progress with hard work. C. Master languages through games. D. Combine study with entertainment. 30. What do the underlined words “water your plants” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. Learning new words. B. Being a Memrise user. C. Logging on to the app. D. Taking care of your garden. 31. How does Memris
33、e work? A. By linking different mems together. B. By putting knowledge into practice. C. By offering human translation services. D. By applying an associative memory approach. 32. What is the authors attitude towards Memrise? A. Positive. B. Doubtful. C. Uncaring. D. Disapproving. D Shopping for and
34、 choosing clothes is challenging enough. But imagine if you were unable to use your arms to do anything, or used a wheelchair. The conditions are reality for four people who became the “customers” of 15 students at Parsons School of Design at the New School this year. The students spent their spring
35、 term creating clothing to fit their customers unique requirements as part of a class run by Open Style Lab, a nonprofit organization whose aim is to design functional and fashionable clothing for people with disabilities. “Disability overlaps (关联、 一致) with aging and universal design,” said Grace Ju
36、n, the director of the program. “We need to see it as part of our life cycle. Its something that we need to not only see from a human rights standpoint but also for its economic value.” “Im always looking at me being the problem and the clothing as being OK,” said Kieran Kern, who gets around in a w
37、heelchair. When Ms. Kern approached Open Style Lab, she was looking for a coat that would be easy to put on with the limitations of a weaker body. Her team came up with a design with a circular rod (杆) that runs through the collar and allows Ms. Kern to swing the coat across her back with one hand.
38、“The idea of having a coat that sees the parts that make me as just parts and not as a problem that I need to solve was really liberating in an identity sense,” Ms. Kern said. “Because generally, when you have a different body, you dont really see yourself.” “I think the challenges the students face
39、d throughout the course had a lot to do with the exchange of ideas,” Ms. Jun said. “They were able to understand that no two people with a disability are alike. Being able to design uniquely means you have to have a collaborative (合作) process. Were designing with each other, not for.” 33. What does
40、the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. Aging. B. Disability. C. Design. D. The program. 34. What did the students find challenging according to Ms. Jun? A. Creativity in fashion design. B. Interpersonal communication. C. Making clothing part of a wearer. D. Meeting the needs of the dis
41、abled. 35. What would be the best title for the text? A. Open Style Lab B. A new fashion industry C. Disability is no longer a problem D. Designs that do more than meet the eye 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。 Spreading smiles at Birchwood When Ava McCarver was
42、in kindergarten, her class visited a nursing home (疗 养院). Ava learned that many of the residents (住户) there receive few visitors. 36 “I asked my mom if I could visit them,” she says. Soon, Ava and her mom became volunteers at Birchwood Health Care Center. That was six years ago. 37 She enjoys hangin
43、g out with Mary, Shirley and other residents during her twice-monthly visits. “I paint their nails, and I talk to a lot of them,” she says. Sometimes she helps lead craft (手工艺) projects. Other times they play card games. “Its good for the residents to see little kids,” Ava says. “That makes them rea
44、lly happy.” 38 She has raised money for the nursing home by making refrigerator decorations and selling them at a craft fair. She has also collected used puzzles from garage sales and donated them to Birchwood. Ava wrote a book called The Squirrel Family. In the book, two squirrels raise a family an
45、d eventually move into a place called Birchwood where they live happily. 39 Ten stores in her city agreed to display the books, along with a can to collect money. Avas project raised about $750. Birchwood used that money to buy furniture for the residents. Ava says she enjoyed the look of “pure joy”
46、 on a residents face after a hug from her. Thats why she started visiting Birchwood to bring happiness to others. 40 “Its really fun,” she says. “They have good stories, and I enjoy my time there.” A. She decided to take action. B. But she has gained happiness for herself, too. C. Since then, Ava ha
47、s made many friends at Birchwood. D. Ava used her book to raise money for the nursing home. E. Birchwood needs more volunteers for its craft project. F. Ava has found some creative ways to help her friends at Birchwood. G. Avas book has achieved a great success and earned a large amount of money for
48、 her. 第三部分第三部分 语言知识运用（共三节，满分语言知识运用（共三节，满分 55 分）分） 第一节（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面的短文，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。 Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated 41 and a faded photo of a wom
49、an holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was 42 it, it meant the author had died. Tears were welling up in Drapers eyes. These were a 43 womans last words to her child. He had to 44 Bethany. “Whoever it is will 45 this,” he thought. “You wouldnt 46 a letter like that.” He supposed if the 47 ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought
