1、 - 1 - 20182018- -20192019 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 2020 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 statio
2、n. B. A post office. 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.
3、 C. Disappointed. 5. 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
4、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. When will the man start his new job? A. Tomorrow. B. Next week. C. Next month. - 2 - 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
5、，回答第 8 至 10 题。 8. What is 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 Jonatha
6、ns mother when she started 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，
7、回答第 14 至 16 题。 14. Which 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? - 3 - 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.
8、In the living room. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 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 respec
9、t wives. C. People should memorize 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. H
10、e has little effect on people today. 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 4040 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 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, ru
11、mors (传言) warned that the newest employee from each department would be laid off. I was the newest one in the training department. - 4 - 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, s
12、howing them how to act in an interview, for example.” “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 apro
13、n were visible over the cart (小车) loaded with 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 spo
14、ke to her in Spanish, I knew my classes would 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 appe
15、ared in the newspaper and the Cookie Lady was 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 fee
16、l on that rainy day? A. Nervous. B. Excited. C. 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. H
17、e gave her advice on job hunting. C. He made her story known to others. D. He taught her how to pass an interview. 24. What does the story tell us? - 5 - 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 p
18、eople than work does. B B At your next meeting, wait for 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.
19、What one culture considers a confusing or awkward pause 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 une
20、asy. In contrast, a separate study of business meetings 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 othe
21、r by speaking because youre repairing that failure by 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 understandab
22、ly a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engaged 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 s
23、ilence than with people youre less well acquainted with. 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? - 6 - A. Speaking more gives the upper han
24、d. B. Speak out what you have in your mind. C. Great minds think 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 our family are, the easier the silence appears. 28. What does the underlined word “homogeneity” in the last paragraph mean? A. Si
