陕西省高新一中2015届高三大练习(二)英语试题Word版含答案

高三大练习英语试题
第一部分：英语知识运用（共四节，满分55分）
第一节语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. frequent A. pretend B. recently C. relative D. require
2. spear A. heart B. wear C. early D. nearly
3. troop A. wooden B. foot C. boot D. book
4. refused A. furnished B. whispered C. asked D. practiced
5. change A. clinic B. anxious C. trunk D. uncle
第二节：情景对话（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白出的最佳选项。

选项
中有两项为多余选项。

( 涂卡时请注意E=AB F=AC G=AD) A: Hello！
B: Hi, Rosemary. This is Frank. How’re you doing?
A: Ok, but busy.
B:___6____
A: I wish I could, but I have a lot of homework. I’ll have to take a rain check.
B: Come on , take some time off.___7___. You’re going to turn into a bookworm.
A: Well, I have a lot to do. Don’t you have work to do?
B: I did, but I got it over with, so I can leave early ….___8___
A: Really? ___9___ Happy birthday!
B: Thanks. I wanted to celebrate it with you.
A: __10___ You talked me into it.
B: Great. You don’t know how glad I am that you changed your mind.
A.You’re always studying!
B.You are very lucky.
C.Can you make time to go to a movie this afternoon?
D.I didn’t know!
E.That’s just what I am thinking of.
F.Well, when you put it that way, how can I refuse?
G.Listen, it’s my birthday
第三节语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从每小题的ABCD四个选项中选出可以填入空白处地最佳选项。

11. _________ lectures on reading is said to be given by Mr. Smith next school year.
A. A lot of
B. A series of
C. A good many
D. A number of
12. Spring ___, we may look forward to better weather.
A. having come
B. has come
C. having been come
D. is coming
13. The tour will provide __ unique opportunity to stay with a British family for a week
in __ hope that you will better understand the life there.
A. a; /
B. an; /
C. a; the
D. an; the
14. — What do you think of their marriage?
—______, if I were Tim, I wouldn’t marry her.
A. Good enough
B. It’s hard to say
C. I have no idea
D. To be honest
15. —Did you often write to your family during the first year at university?
— No. I was so busy studying that I didn’t write to th em as often as I＿＿．
A. should have
B. should write
C. should do
D. wrote
16. Is ______ the third world seeks a fair chance to develop the topic you are writing on?
A. that
B. what
C. this
D. it
17.— How come your father can read books in German?
—Well, he on a project with some German engineers for 3 years when he was young.
A. had worked
B. would work
C. worked
D. has worked
18. May I know who you would like to have ____ you with the hard work?
A. to help
B. help
C. helping
D. helped
19.We won’t forget the financial crisis and the troubles ____ has caused to the people
all over the world.
A. which
B. this
C. it
D. what
20. One generation plants the trees under _______ shade another generation rests.
A. whose
B. his
C. its
D. which
21.An agreement has been signed to prevent the forest ______ all over the world.
A. cut down
B. cutting down
C. to cut down
D. being cut down
22. If the weather ___ tomorrow, we’ll go to the village to have a picnic.
A．cleans up B. clears up C．breaks up D．turns up
23. The papers are _________ to scholars and should be in a museum.
A. valueless
B. invaluable
C. expensive
D. worthless
24. Excuse me, do you have the time? My watch seems to ___ several minutes.
A．obtain B．get C．acquire D．gain
25. In my opinion, most doctors are ________, so we should be ________to them.
A. respective; respectful
B. respective; respectable
C. respectable; respectful
D. respectful; respectable
第四节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中（A、B、C和D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

“Hey, Dad, are you going to come to my award ceremony tonight?” I __26__ asked my father. “I have to work late tonight. I dou b t if I’ll be able to __27__ it on time. I am just too busy right now,” he replied.
My mind could not __28__ the idea that he would be too busy working late. He was also too busy to __29__ my horse show, football games and the 15th birthday party. He always used the same __30__. Why had I even bothered ask? __31__, there was always a slight hope that tonight would be __32__.
As my mother and I arrived at school, two friends __33__ me. “ Jill, meet my dad. Dad, this is my friend Jill.” I shook the hand of a tall man.
Camera flashes lit up the room and claps filled the __34__ as students accepted their awards. My name was finally called, __35__ three others. I followed my classmates to the __36__. When I reached out my hand to shake the __37__, a big smile lit up her face. The blinding flash from my mother’s camera __38__ my eyes and I knew my dad wasn’t there. I walked back to m y seat __39__.
Back at home, seeing my dad’s car in the garage. I told myself he would not be __40__. But the strong smell of alcohol (酒精) hit me as soon as I __41__ inside, and I could feel my tears __42__. I followed the sound of his drunken words and saw him __43__ on the couch.
__44__ did Father lie to me? I threw my award on the floor, walked to my bedroom, and shut the door. Tears rolled down my face. I wondered if I would ever be more __45__ than his whisky bottle.
26.A. confidently B. eagerly C. proudly D. fearfully
27.A. reach B. keep C. take D. make
28.A. create B. support C. appreciate D. accept
29.A. watch B. avoid C. attend D. speed
30.A. excuse B. reply C. promise D. trick
31.A. Besides B. Thus C. Otherwise D. However
32.A. active B. formal C. different D. serious
33.A. recognized B. greeted C. encouraged D. showed
34.A. air B. audience C. school D. playground
35.A. apart from B. other than C. except for D. along with
36.A. stage B. position C. office D. exist
37.A. friend’s B. teacher’s C. mother’s D. father’s
38.A. fixed B. touched C. hurt D. inserted
39.A. successfully B. disappointedly C. delightedly D. hopefully
40.A. drunk B. woken C. forgiven D. hidden
41.A. stepped B. noticed C. examined D. glanced
42.A. getting off B. taking down C. building up D. turning around
43.A. seating B. lying C. putting D. carrying
44.A. How B. Where C. Why D. Whether
45.A. perfect B. comfortable C. fortunate D. important
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，从每小题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A
Back in 2001, Jason Katz realized he was in trouble．His fledgling(刚开始的)website, Paltalk, was trying to make money by giving away a free service and selling
advertising．
But suddenly advertising was drying up. So Katz started charging people for using his service．Guess what? Since 2004 he’s been making a profit．
It’s a mistake that a lot of bigger tech companies are making. Facebook，for example，has 250 million members，making it one of the biggest sites on the Internet．Facebook takes in somewhere between$300 million and$500 million a year from advertising, but it’s never made a profit，nor has Twitter. YouTube，the video site owned by Google，sells ads but runs at a loss．
Why not charge people for using these sites? If the service is so useful，surely people would pay. Meanwhile，the most obvious answer hangs right out there in the open：charge a fee to use the service! I'm not even close to being an eager member of Facebook，but I do consider it useful and l would gladly pay $5 per month.
So why don’t more websites do it? The idea, clearly, is that charging money would limit growth and be shortsighted; that there’s a bigger opportunity if membership remains free and everyone in the world can join．
Katz didn’t have this all planned out from the start. At first Palhalk was just a kind of fancy version of instant messaging—basically text plus voice. In 2001 Katz added video, and that’s where he started making money. You can trade instant messages for free on Paltalk with up to 10 people and see their video streams(视频流)．But if you want to visit chat rooms and see video streams from hundreds of people, you must pay$14.95 per month．
Katz still runs ads．The funny thing is th at if Katz hadn’t dared to charge fees back in 2001，he wouldn’t be in business today.That’s something the big guys might want to keep in mind．
46. Before 2001, Jason Katz’s earnings from his website mainly depended on____．
A. charging his users
B. selling advertising
C. providing high-quality services
D. attracting new users
47. In the opinion of the author，Facebook has never made a profit because__．
A．it lacks enough users B．its users are very poor
C．it can't make money from advertising D．it doesn’t charge its users
48. The author’s attitude towards Jason Katz’s way of running his website is___．
A．doubtful B．critical C. supportive D. negative
49. What does the underlined part “the big guys” in the last para graph refer to?
A．The advertisers． B. Instant messages．
C．The Internet users． D. The bigger tech companies．
B
Everyone knows that bad weather can depress you, but what about its effects on company profits? It’s difficult to sell ice-cream when it’s cold, or attract customers to a ski resort when there is no snow. So what precautions can these businesses take?
Companies often have insurance against negative changes in interest or foreign exchange rates. Insuring against bad weather is simply another form of risk management. In the USA, the market for this type of insurance is worth an estimated $9 billion a year.
Agriculture, energy and leisure are just three examples of industries that depend on the weather. The number of visitors to a theme park like Disneyland falls in a wet summer, and a mild winter reduces the demand for heating and affects the energy sector.
One advantage of this type of insurance is that it is easy to measure the weather. You can give detailed information about temperature, hours of sunshine, wind speed or inches of rainfall. For example, the London wine bar chain, Corney and Barrow, has a deal with Speedwell Weather Derivatives. Their open-air terraces(阳台)are an important attraction for customers in the summer months. Obviously this depends on dry, sunny weather. They receive a payout(支付)for every Thursday and Friday (the best drinking times in London’s business district) when the temperature does not rise about 24 degrees centigrade.
Commercial airfields have problems when there is a lot of wind. They can take out insurance against the average wind speed exceeding a certain level. This way they receive payment for loss of income on days when high winds stop them flying.
In some countries there is a problem with this type of insurance. The climate is very changeable and weather information isn’t very reliable. This makes it more difficult to assess the risks. On the other hand, it gives people something to talk about!
50. What may Speedwell Weather Derivatives be?
A. A building.
B. A weather station.
C.A wine production company.
D. An insurance company.
51. Why does the bar chain receive a payout sometimes for Thursday and Friday?
A. Because they have fewer guests on those days.
B. Because the rent is higher in the summer months.
C. Because their business is always booming on those days.
D. Because they have insured against the bad weather on those days.
52. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How bad weather affects company profits.
B. How companies prevent economic loss by insuring against bad weather.
C. Why insurance against bad weather is necessary for companies in the USA.
D. What insurance companies can do for industries that depend on the weather.
C
Plants grow faster if you talk to them and the effect is even better if you’re a woman. Researchers at Royal Horticultural(园艺的)Society carried out an experiment to find that the voice of a woman gardener makes plants grow faster.
The experiment lasted a month and by the end of the study scientists managed to discover that tomato plants grew up two inches taller when women gardeners talked to them instead of male.
Sarah Darwin was the one making the plants registered the best growth. Her voice was more “inspiring” for plants than those of nine other gardeners when they read a passage from The Origin of Species．The great-great-grand daughter of the famous botanist(植物学家) Charles Darwin found that her plant grew about two inches taller than the plant of the best male gardener．
Colin Crosbie，Garden Superintendent at RHS,said that the findings cannot yet be
explained. He assumes that women have a greater range of pitch and tone which might have a certain effect on the sound waves that reach the plant.“Sound waves are an environmental effect just like rain or light, said Mr Crosbie．
The study began in April at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey. Scientists started with open auditions for the people who were asked to record passages from John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids，Shakespeare’s A Midsummer's Night Dream and Darwin’s The Origin of Species．
Afterwards researchers selected a number of different voices and played them to10 tomato plants during a period of a month. Each plant had headphones connected to it．Through the headphones the sound waves could hit the plants．Scientists decided to leave two plants in silence，thus to be positive that the experiment is fair. It was discovered that plants that “listened” to female voices in average grew taller by an inch in comparison to plants that heard male voices．
Miss Darwin said, “I think it is an honor to have a voice that can make tomatoes grow，and especially fitting because for a number of years I have been studying wild tomatoes from the Galapagos Islands at the Natural History Museum in London.”
53. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Plants enjoying men’s voices more than women’s．
B. A botanical experiment in a museum．
C. Strange phenomenon at Royal Horticultural Society．
D. Voice’s influence on plant growing．
54. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．Plants need sound as well as rain and light．
B．Sound is basic for the plant to grow．
C．Sound has a good effect as rain or light does．‘
D．Plants can’t live without sound，rain or light．
55．What can we learn from the passage?
A．The experiment ended in May．
B．Scientists can explain the findings clearly．
C．The finding is of great importance to human beings．
D．Plants enjoy listening to the passages from masterpieces．
56. We can infer from the passage that Sarah Darwin is most likely a(an)——．
A．botanist B．gardener C．astronomer D environmentalist
D
When next year’s crop of high school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, who’ll become Oxford’s vice-chancellor---a position equivalent (equal) to university president in America.
Hamilton isn’t the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hire from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many businesses, it’s gone global. Yet the talent flow isn’t universal. High-level personnel tend to head in
only one direction: outward from America.
The chief reason is that American schools don’t tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university’s budg et. “We didn’t do any global consideration,”says Patricia Hayes, the board’s chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year old Colorado businessman and political activist who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents：fund-raising. Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing, since US schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.
Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators, and has made hiring committees hungry for Americans.
In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had oversee(监督) “a major strengthening of Yale’s financial position.”
Of course, fund-raising isn’t the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.
57. What is the chief consideration of American universities when hiring top-level
administrators?
A. Their political correctness.
B. Their ability to raise funds.
C. Their fame in academic circles.
D. Their administrative experience.
58. What do we learn about European universities from the passage?
A. The tuitions they charge have been rising considerably.
B. Their operation is under strict government supervision.
C. They are strengthening their position by globalization.
D. Most of their money comes from the government.
59. Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard as its vice-chancellor chiefly
because _____.
A. she was known to be good at raising money
B. she could help strengthen its ties with Yale
C. she knew how to attract students overseas
D. she had improv ed Yale’s academic status
60. In what way do top-level administrators from abroad contribute to university
development?
A. They can enhance the university’s image.
B. They will bring with them international faculty.
C. They will view a lot of things from a new perspective.
D. They can set up new academic disciplines.
第二节：（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从A-F 的选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。

选项
The ACT is offered nationally several times a year, between September and June. However, it's not offered at every test center on each test date. If you need to take the ACT on a day other than Saturday because of religious reasons, you’ll want to be especially attentive in selecting a test date because the non-Saturday dates are less 62. One of the first things you should find out, then, is where the ACT is being offered in your area. A quick and easy way to get that information is by accessing ACT's website at . Or your high school guidance counselor （辅导员） should be able to give you that information. It's also printed in the booklet Registering for the ACT , which is available free from your school counselor. Often, 63. One important decision you need to make is whether you should take the ACT during your junior or your senior year in high school. A number of factors will affect this decision. First, you should find out when colleges you're interested in need to have your test scores. Is there a special program or scholarship for which you want to apply? If so, is there a deadline by which you need to have test scores submitted to the college or agency? Score reports are normally mailed about 3-7 weeks after the test date. Just be sure you're doing everything, including taking the ACT, early 64. Another consideration in deciding when to take the ACT is where you stand in your high school coursework. If you're in a college-prep program and taking a lot of courses in English, mathematics, and science in your sophomore and junior years, it may be wise for you to take the ACT in your junior year, while those subjects are still fresh in your memory. If, on the other hand, you're studying material covered on the ACT during your senior year, it's reasonable to assume that your performance on the 65. Perhaps you'll decide to take the ACT more than once, hoping to improve your score. In that case, it's probably better to take the exam in your junior year to allow time for a second try. There are several advantages to taking the ACT in your junior
year: (i) You probably will have completed much of the coursework corresponding(相应) to the material covered on the ACT. (ii)You'll have your ACT scores and other information in time to help make decisions about your final year of high school coursework. (iii) You'll have your ACT scores and information from colleges in time to make decisions about visiting campuses or contacting schools.
第三部分：写作（共三节，满分55分）
第一节：单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
66. He left his own country for ______(政治的) reason.
67. It’s no use ____ （遗憾）what you have done.
68. All languages change and develop when _(文化) meet and communicate with each
other.
69.You’ll start to learn a______(高等) mathematics when you go to college.
70. Different ______(庆祝活动)will be held on the National Day.
71. Do you know how the Four Great Inventions were ___(使传入)into Europe from China.
72. The disagreement has placed him in something of a ____（进退两难）.
73. One of the points of ____(参照) was the moving ship itself.
74. ___(使人吃惊地)，some school leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.
75. Though South Korea also celebrates the Spring Festival, its form________(不同)
from ours
第二节：短文改错
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误，涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（ \ ）划掉。

修改：在错误的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，从第11处起不计分。

When I first went to Hong Kong, I had no idea about Chinese tea-drinking and found myself catch in a very awkward situation. I visited Chinese family and was immediately given a cup of tea. I was not thirsty and I did not particular like that type of tea, but out of politeness I finished the cup. The more I drink, the more I was given. I kept insisting that I did not want much more, the host took no notice. He drank about twelve cups of tea this afternoon! The host can have thought I was very greedy, but I did not know that how to avoid getting more tea poured.
第三节：书面表达（满分30分）
假如你是某英文报的小记者,近几年，某些旅行社组织中学生在寒暑假期间赴著名大学旅游，人们对此褒贬不一。

针对这一现象,请写一篇短文，反映现象，参与讨论。

注意：1.要点如下：
（1）介绍问题；（2）人们对此不同的看法；（3）表明自己的观点。

2. 字数：不少于100
3. 参考词汇：旅行社travel agency 校园campus
高三大练习英语试题答卷
单词拼写
66. 67. 68. 69.
75. 71. 72. 73.
74. 70.
短文改错
When I first went to Hong Kong, I had no idea about Chinese tea-drinking and
found
myself catch in a very awkward situation. I visited Chinese family and was immediately given a cup of tea. I was not thirsty and I did not particular like that type of tea, but out of politeness I finished the cup. The more I drink, the more I was given. I kept insisting that I did not want much more, the host took no notice. He drank about twelve cups of tea this afternoon! The host can have thought I was very greedy, but I did not know that how to avoid getting more tea poured.
书面表达
In recent years, various tourism agencies
高三大练习英语试题参考答案
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26-30 BDDCA 31-35 DCBAD 36-40 ABCBA 41-45 ACBCD
46-49 BDCD 50-52 DDB 53–56 DCAA 57-60 BDAC
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66.political 67. regretting 68. cultures 69. advanced 70. celebrations
71. introduced 72. dilemma 73. reference 74. Surprisingly 75. differs
When I first went to Hong Kong, I had no idea about Chinese tea-drinking and found myself caught in a very awkward situation. I visited ∧a Chinese family and was immediately given a cup of tea. I was not thirsty and I did not particularly like that type
of tea, but out of politeness I finished the cup. The more I drank, the more I was given. I kept insisting that I did not want any more, ∧but the host took no notice. I drank about twelve cups of tea that afternoon! The host must / could have thought I was very greedy, but I did not know that how to avoid getting more tea poured.
书面表达
One possible version：
In recent years, various tourism agencies organize high school students to visit campuses of famous universities around the country during their summer and winter holidays. People’s opinion vary a lot over this issue.
On the one hand, many people, including some students , hold the opinion that university tours provide them with precious opportunities to see and experience university life. And this experience might inspire them to work harder to fulfill their dreams.
On the other hand, some other people think that it is no use just walking around a university. This kind of understanding is only skin-deep and it can be nothing but a waste of money and time.
In my opinion, since tourism will inevitably affect the normal life of the university students who stay on campus to study during the holidays, such tours make little sense to me.。