【月考试卷】江苏省苏州市2018届高三上学期期初调研测试英语试卷Word版含答案

2017～2018学年第一学期高三期初调研试卷
英语2017.9
第I卷(选择题，共80分)
第一部分：听力理解(共两节，满分15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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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. How many children will the man most probably have?
A. 2.
B. 3.
C. 5.
2. What does the man wish for the future?
A. All his dreams will come true.
B. Science will develop much faster.
C. He will be able to do his job at home.
3. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Receptionist and guest.
B. Professor and student.
C. Customs officer and traveler.
4. How much should the woman pay for it?
A. $200.
B. $180.
C. $160.
5. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Set an alarm.
B. Go to bed early.
C. Turn down the music.
第二节(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
听下面4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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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. When did the woman start running?
A. In primary school.
B. In high school.
C. At university.
7. Where is the woman now?
A. In Boston.
B. In London.
C. In Berlin.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the man think of the French restaurant?
A. It’s too far away.
B. The price is too high.
C. The menu is too old.
9. Why does the man want to eat in?
A. He is tired of eating out.
B. He’s good at cooking.
C. He’s in a bad mood.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does the woman make the call?
A. To book a hotel room.
B. To ask about the room service.
C. To make changes to a reservation.
11. When will the woman arrive at the hotel?
A. On September 15.
B. On September 16.
C. On September 23.
12. How much will the woman pay for her room per night?
A. $179.
B. $199.
C. $219.
听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。

13. What is the talk mainly about?
A. The reason why people laugh.
B. The benefits of laughing.
C. Different funny things in life.
14. What does the speaker suggest people do?
A. Spend time with children and pets.
B. Tell jokes with their funny neighbors.
C. Watch funny movies a lot.
15. Why should people have “full belly laughs”?
A. To live longer.
B. To entertain others.
C. To make their belly smaller.
第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节单项选择(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

16. The success of “one country, two systems” in practice has been universally ______, and
this policy continues to go strong.
A. acknowledged
B. appreciated
C. accomplished
D. accompanied
17. According to the local law, no one ______ enter the building site without permission.
A. can
B. must
C. shall
D. dare
18. By making it possible for cancer to be detected early in people with no symptoms through
a simple blood test, we aim to greatly decrease cancer deaths by finding the disease at a
stage ______ it can be cured.
A. which
B. when
C. where
D. what
19. The auto factory ______ new profit records through technical innovation —10% growth
rate in the last two years and hopefully 15% this year.
A. set
B. has set
C. is setting
D. has been
setting
20. The variety of food at the restaurant is limited, but every meal can serve at least two
people and is under ¥10, so not only is it ______ but practical as well.
A. adaptable
B. adjustable
C. adoptable
D. affordable
21. Take the medicine right away! ______ it yesterday, you would be quite all right now.
A. Had you taken
B. Would you take
C. Should you take
D. Were you to take
22. One hundred and fifteen Chinese companies hit the newly released Fortune 500 list for 2017,
______ an increase for the 14th straight year, domestic website reported on Thursday.
A. to realize
B. realized
C. realizing
D. having
realized
23. Why do you turn to me for help ______ you can easily work out the problem independently?
A. until
B. when
C. after
D. unless
24. Premier Li Keqiang officially ______ the plan to develop the Bay Area in his government
work report delivered at the start of the National People’s Congress session in March.
A. laid out
B. laid off
C. laid down
D. laid up
25. ______ the efforts made by the police, a fantastic performance will be put on tomorrow.
A. In place of
B. In search of
C. In charge of
D. In praise of
26. The leaders of the BRICS countries Friday reached important ______ on building an open
world economy and improving global economic governance（管理）during their informal meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany.
A. consideration
B. consensus
C. commitment
D. confirmation
27.—What about going abroad for further study?
—Great, but I never expected ______ a chance for me before.
A. there to be
B. there being
C. it to be
D. it being
28. I had trouble telling Pedro he’d lost his job. I started ______ and talking about one door
closing and another door opening.
A. beating a dead horse
B. adding fuel to the fire
C. beating around the bush
D. opening Pandora’s box
29. Mary became ______ homesick and critical of the United States, so she fled from her
home in West Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.
A. completely
B. sincerely
C. approximately
D. increasingly
30. —Did you have butterflies in your stomach at the interview?
—______. That was my first job interview.
A. It depends
B. Not really
C. You bet
D. I mean it
第二节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，
并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Whenever Michael Carl, the fashion market director at Vanity Fair, goes out to dinner with friends, he plays something called the “phone stack” game: Everyone 31 their phones in the middle of the table; whoever looks at their device before the check arrives 32 the tab（账单）.
Brandon Holley, the former editor of Lucky magazine, had trouble 33 her mobile phone when she got home from work. So about six months ago, she 34 putting her phone into a milk tin the moment she walked in. It remains there until after dinner. And Mare Jacobs, the fashion designer, didn’t 35 to sleep close to a beeping gadget. So he 36 digital devices from his bedroom — a house rule he 37 with audiences during a recent screening of Disconnect, a film that shows how technology has alienated（使疏远）people from one another.
As smart phones 38 to make their way into our lives, and wearable devices like Google Glass39 to destroy our personal space even further, overtaxed users are carving out their own device-free zones. Whether it’s a phy sical 40 (no ipads at the dinner table) or a conceptual one (turn off devices by 11 p.m.), users say these disconnecting 41 are improving their relationships.
“Disconnect ing is a luxury that we all 42 ,” said Lesley M. M. Blume, a New York writer who keeps her phone away from the dinner table at home. “The expectation that we must always be 43 to employers, colleagues and family creates a real problem in trying to 44 private time. But that private time is more important than ever.”
A popular method for disconnecting is to choose a box for your cellphone, like the milk tin that Ms. Holley uses. “45 my phone is buzzing or lighting up, it’s still a distraction, so it 46 in the box.” said Ms. Holley. Others choose new 47 . “No scree ns after 11 p.m.” said Ari. Melber, a TV host. “Now evenings are more 48 and I am sleeping better.” he added.
Sleep is a big factor, which is why some 49 to leave their phones out of their bedrooms. “I don’t want to sleep next to something full of photos and emails.”said Peter Som, a fashion designer, who keeps his phone plugged in in the living room overnight. “It 50 is a head-clearer and distinguishes daytime and sleep time.”
31. A. piles B. allocates C. arranges D. places
32. A. picks up B. pays off C. picks on D. pays back
33. A. examining B. ignoring C. missing D. finding
34. A. stopped B. forgot C. began D. suggested
35. A. hate B. want C. expect D. refuse
36. A. banned B. lost C. collected D. adjusted
37. A. talked B. agreed C. provided D. shared
38. A. intend B. choose C. continue D. happen
39. A. defend B. threaten C. improve D. occupy
40. A. barrier B. suffering C. issue D. drawback
41. A. techniques B. performances C. manners D. achievements
42. A. learn B. consider C. accept D. need
43. A. dependable B. available C. convenient D. appealing
44. A. figure out B. save up C. set aside D. take up
45. A. Unless B. If C. Until D. Although
46. A. goes B. fills C. buries D. lays
47. A. games B. orders C. steps D. rules
48. A. flexible B. urgent C. relaxing D. upsetting
49. A. admit B. prefer C. refuse D. permit
50. A. definitely B. rarely C. finally D. originally 第三部分：阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
Jeremy Baras remembers the first time he ever saw a pop-up restaurant. The 26-year-old entrepreneur was on vacation in England four years ago and had to look up at the London Eye Ferries wheel to see it. Hanging above him was a capsule（航天舱）full of diners who were served a new course each time a revolution was made. “I thought that was the coolest thing ever”, he says. Baras, who founded in 2012 to promote the idea of pop-up restaurants in the USA, has been studying them ever since.
Pop-ups, which have been around since at least the early 2000s, are open anywhere from a few hours to several months, but their defining feature is that they are temporary. They may be only a tiny part of the $709 billion U.S. restaurant industry, but pop-ups have gotten a boost in recent years as a lower-cost, lower-risk way for entrepreneurs to test the waters. Some restaurant owners see them as a way to renew interest in existing locations. And some struggling cities, like Oakland, California, have turned to them to help revitalize local economies impacted by the recession（衰退）.
The concept has been especially popular with up-and-coming chefs who want to test-drive as a menu conc ept without investing a fortune in a permanent space. “Your cooks and chefs are really talented, but they’re stuck in the back of somebody else’s kitchen cooking somebody else’s
menu,” says Zach Kupperman, chief businessman officer and co-founder of Dinner Lab.
Chefs in Dinner Lab cook in the middle of space, give a brief introduction about the menu and themselves — and then bravely listen to diner feedback afterward. Pop-ups’ temporary nature also allows restaurateurs to charge a deposit to make sure the diners will show up.
Of course, trends in the food industry come and go quickly, and there is no guarantee that diners won’t tire of the concept. Some entrepreneurs have resorted to even weirder locations — in a former limestone mine, say, or at the top of a crane —to keep customers interested. “It’s not quite part of the mainstream economy yet.”says Baras.
51. What does the underlined part “a revolution was made” in Paragraph One possibly mean?
A. Chefs designed creative dishes.
B. Diners tasted food in a new and creative way.
C. The capsule containing diners made a circle.
D. Great changes were made in the food industry.
52. Perspective chefs are drawn to pop-ups due to the fact that ________.
A. pop-ups are becoming increasingly popular with diners worldwide
B. they have the desire to explore a safer way to make a living
C. their investment in pop-ups will bring them a long-lasting fortune
D. pop-ups provide a changeable test field for talented chefs’ creativity
53. The writer’s purpose of writing the passenger is ________.
A. to appeal to people to dine out in pop-up restaurants
B. to give a brief introduction of pop-up restaurants
C. to warn business owners of the appearance of pop-up restaurants
D. to foresee the future of pop-up restaurants’ development
B
The pills we take to treat anxiety may affect the behavior of fish, new research in the journal Science suggests.
Swedish researchers found a common drug in rivers downstream of wastewater treatment plants. It is a drug for treating anxiety, called oxazepam. It is accumulating in fish and makes them bolder. Wastewater treatment plants are not designed to get rid of drugs. As a result, the drugs end up in wildlife, reaching harmful levels.
“It’s something we don’t think about very often, but there are a lot of similarities between fish and humans. So some of our responses to drugs can be seen in fish as well,” said Karen Kidd. She is a biologist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. The mood-altering drugs get into waterways when people taking the prescriptions throw unused pills into the waste stream.
The researchers let perch（鲈鱼）swim in lab tanks with concentrations similar to those found downstream from wastewater treatment plants. “The perch preferred to swim alone rather than in large group s. They were more likely to explore their environment,” said Micael Jonsson of Umeå University in Sweden, who helped lead the research.
Johs son said, “This adventurous behavior required more energy. And they ate more plankton（浮游生物）, or tiny algae-eating animals, to guarantee enough energy for their activities. This could reduce the population of plankton.” The result could be more algae（水藻）. On the other hand, the new behavior could lead to the opposite effect. If perch make themselves closer to their natural enemies, they are likely to be eaten by them.
None of the scientists is suggesting that people should give up these drugs. They just want to reduce the effects of the medicines on the environment. They recommend wastewater treatment plants should be redesigned to get rid of these medicines. But Kidd said that would be too expensive for some communities.
Bryan Brooks, director of the Environmental Health Science Program at Baylor University, said drugs could also be designed to break down more quickly in the environment. And the government could continue to run recycling programs where people drop off their unused drugs at government locations. Brooks said he’s particularly concerned about drug effects on aquatic（水生的）environments, like the Trinity River south of Dallas and the South Platte River near Denver, where the majority of the flow comes from treated wastewater. In the developing world, he said, the problem may be even worse, because of careless wastewater treatment and industrial regulations.
54. W hich of the following best describes oxazepam’s effect on fish?
A. It causes fish to be more daring.
B. It makes fish much stronger.
C. It has little influence on fish.
D. It helps treat a fish disease.
55. What will happen if perch become adventurous?
A. They will eat more algae.
B. There will be less plankton.
C. They will need more oxazepam.
D. Their natural enemies will be stronger.
56. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. More wastewater treatment plants are needed
B. Fish in wastewater become more adventurous
C. Drugs for treating mental diseases end up in wildlife
D. Anxiety drugs found in rivers change the behavior of fish
C
Culture can affect not just language and customs, but also how people
experience the world on surprisingly basic levels.
Researchers, with the help of brain scans, have uncovered shocking differences in perception （感知）between Westerners and Asians, what they see when they look at a city street, for example, or even how they perceive a simple line in a square, according to findings published in a leading science journal.
In western countries, culture makes people think of themselves as highly independent individuals. When looking at scenes, Westerners tend to focus more on central objects than on their surroundings. East Asian cultures, however, emphasize inter-dependence. When Easterners look at a scene, they tend to focus on surroundings as well as the object.
Using an experiment involving two tasks, Dr Hedden asked subjects to look at a line simply to estimate its length, a task that is played to American strengths. In another, they estimated the line’s length relative to the size of a square, an easier task for the Asians.
The level of brain activity, by tracking blood flow, was then measured by Brain Scanners. The experiment found that although there was no difference in performance, and the tasks were very easy, the levels of activity in the subjects’ brains were different. For the Americans, areas linked to attention lit up more, when they worked on the task they tended to find more difficult —estimating the line’s size relative to the square. For the Asians, the attention areas lit up more during the harder task also — estimating the line’s length without comparing it to the square. The findings are a reflection of more than ten years of previous experimental research into East-West differences.
In one study, for instance, researchers offered people a choice among five pens; four red and one green. Easterners were more likely to choose a red pen while Westerners were more likely to choose the green one.
Culture is not affecting how you see the world, but how you choose to understand and internalize（使内化）it.
But such habits can be changed. Some psychological studies suggest that when an Easterner goes to the West or vice versa, habits of thought and perception also begin to change. Such research gives us clues on how our brain works and is hopeful for us to develop programs to improve our memory, memory techniques and enhance and accelerate our learning skills.
57. According to the passage, Chinese people are most likely to ________.
A. more emphasize independent thinking
B. always focus more on their surroundings
C. focus on the context as well as the object
D. think of Westerners as highly independent units
58. We know from the passage that people’s brains will be more active when ________.
A. the task is much easier
B. the blood flow is tracked
C. people begin to choose colors
D. the task is more difficult
59. What does Dr Hedden's experiment in Paragraph 4-5 indicate?
A. Culture has a great impact on the way people talk and behave.
B. Easterners and Westerners perceive the world differently.
C. People's perception of the world can be changed.
D. Americans are better at calculating than the Asians.
60. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. Easterners prefer collectivism to individualism
B. East Asian cultures lay more emphasis on independence
C. it took over ten years to find out how to improve our brainpower
D. Americans will change their habits of perception when they’re in Britain
D
My grandmother Rosalind Einhorn was born exactly fifty-two years before I was, on August 28, 1917. Like many poor Jewish families in New York City, hers lived in a small, crowded apartment close to their relatives. Her parents, aunts and uncles addressed her male cousins by their given names, but she and her sister were referred to only as “Girlie”.
During the Depression, my grandmother was pulled out of Morris High School to help support the household by sewing fabric flowers onto undergarments that her mother could resell for a tiny profit. No one in the community would have considered taking a boy out of school. A boy’s education was the family’s hope to move up the financial and social ladder. Education for girls, however, was less significant both financially, since they were unlikely to contribute to the family’s income, and culturally, since boys were expected to study the Torah while girls were expected to run a “proper home”. Luckily for my grandmother, a local teacher insisted that her parents put her back into school. She went on not only to finish high school but to graduate from U.C. Berkeley.
After college, “Girlie” worked selling pocketbooks and accessories at David’s Fifth Avenue. When she left her job to marry my grandfather, David’s had to hire four people to replace her. Years later, when my grandfather’s paint business was struggling, she jumped in and took some of the hard steps he was unwilling to take, helping to save the family from financial ruin. She displayed her business ability again in her forties. After being diagnosed
（诊断）with breast cancer, she beat it and then devoted herself to raising money for the clinic that treated her by selling some watches. Girlie ended up with a profit that Apple would envy.
I have never met anyone with more energy and determination than my grandmother.
When my grandmother had children of her own — my mother and her two brothers —she emphasized education for all of them. My mother attended the University of Pennsylvania. When she graduated in 1965 with a degree in French literature, she surveyed a workforce that she believed consisted of two career options for women: teaching or nursing. She chose teaching. She began a Ph. D. programme, got married, and then dropped out when she became pregnant with me. It was thought to be a sign of weakness if a husband needed his wife’s help to support their family, so my mother became a stay-at-home parent and an active volunteer. The centuries-old division of labor stood.
Even though I grew up in a traditional home, my parents had the same expectations
for me, my sister, and my brother. All the three of us were encouraged to do well in school, do equal routine tasks, and participate in after-school activities. We were all supposed to be athletic too. My brother and sister joined sports teams, but I was the kid who got picked last
in gym, despite my athletic shortcomings. I was raised to believe that girls could do anything boys could do and that all career paths were open to me.
When I arrived at college in the fall of 1987, my classmates of both genders seemed equally focused on academics. I don’t remember thinking about my future career differently from the male students. I also don’t remember any conversations about someday balancing work and children. My friends and I assumed that we would have both. Men and women competed openly and aggressively with one another in classes, activities，and job interviews. Just two generations removed from my grandmother, the playing field seemed to be level.
But more than twenty years after my college graduation, the world has not evolved nearly as much as I believed it would. Almost all of my male classmates work in professional settings. Some of my female classmates work full-time or part-time outside the home and just as many are stay-at-home mothers and volunteers like my mom. This mirrors the national trend. In comparison to their male counterparts（相同能力者）, highly trained women are scaling back and dropping out of the workforce in high numbers.
61. Why were the writer’s grandma and her sister s called “Girli e”?
A. They had not yet got their given names.
B. They were highly valued by their elders.
C. They shared apparent similarities in many ways.
D. They were regarded as less important than boys.
62. What conclusion can we draw about the writer’s grandmother?
A. She was an extraordinarily able and tough woman.
B. She was full of ideas for solving various problems.
C. She benefited greatly from her family background.
D. She had special ways of teaching her own children.
63. What mig ht people think when the writer’s mother gave up her job?
A. Her freedom of choice ought to be well respected.
B. Her job should be taken over by a younger person.
C. It was a real shame about her losing that good job.
D. It was quite normal for a woman like her to do so.
64. From the description of the writer’s own life, we can see ________.
A. great expectations in the students’ minds
B. seeming social progress in certain aspects
C. innocent friendship between boys and girls
D. positive attitudes to work and competitions
65. By writing the passage the writer intends to reveal ________.
A. the necessity of women’s education
B. the importance of women’s liberation
C. the existence of gender discrimination
D. the lives of three generations of women
第II卷(非选择题，共40分)
第四部分：词汇检测(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
请认真阅读下列各个小题，并根据上下文语境和所给首字母的提示，写出下列各句空格
中的单词，注意保持语义和形式的一致。

请将答案的完整形式
．．．．．．．写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

66. —Jane is being scolded by our boss for her being late.
— Oh, poor girl. She should have been p ▲for such an important meeting.
67. —That’s funny. I am forced to log off the Glory of King when I am playing.
—Oh, the Tencent Company has issued a ban, which f ▲any child under 12 from playing the game more than one hour.
68. —What a pity! Although the young man jumped into the cold water b ▲to save the
drowning child, the child still died.
—Well, we still think of the young man as our hero.
69. —What c ▲should be used for assessing a student’s ability?
—It is complicated to say, but obviously, the college entrance examination should not be the only standard.
70. —The building project will be f ▲only by public donation.
—But it is really a big challenge to collect such a big sum of money.
第五部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下面的短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：请将答案写在答题卷上相应题号的横线上，每个空格只填一个单词。

When was the last time you read a book or a magazine article? Do your everyday reading habits centre around updates on the Internet? In case you are one of innumerable individuals who don’t make a habit of reading consistently you may be passing up a great opportunity: Reading has a noteworthy number of advantages and only a couple of advantages of reading are recorded below.
Everything you read fills your head with new bits of information and you never know when it might be useful to you. The more knowledge you have, the better- equipped you are to overcome any challenge you’ll ever face. Additionally, here’s a bit of food for thought：Should you ever find yourself in terrible circumstances, remember that although you might lose everything else — your job, your possessions, your money, even your health —knowledge can never be taken from you.
At the same time, the more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll surely make their way into your everyday vocabulary. Being able to express your ideas clearly in words is of great help in any profession and knowing that you can speak to
higher-ranking people with self-confidence can be a great encouragement to your self-esteem （自尊）. It could even aid in your career as those who are well-read, well-spoken, and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly (and more often) than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific breakthroughs, and global events. Reading books is also vital for learning new languages, as non-native speakers gain exposure to words used in context, which will improve their own speaking and writing fluency.
When you read a book, you have to remember a lot of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history as well as the various plots that weave their way through every story. That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are wonderful things and can remember these things with relative ease. Amazingly enough, whenever you remember something new, new synapses are formed and existing ones are strengthened. How cool that is!
No matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story. A well-written novel can transport you to other realms（领域）while an interesting article will distract you and keep you in the present moment , letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.
第六部分：书面表达(满分25分)
请认真阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Grinding an iron rod into a needle
Li Bai was a great poet in the Tang Dynasty of China.
It is said that in his childhood, he was very fond of playing and afraid of difficulties, and made slow progress in his studies. One day, on his way home after school, he walked by a creek and saw an old woman grinding（磨碎）a very, very thick iron rod. Being curious, he went to the old woman and asked, “Old grandma, why are you grinding this iron rod?” The old woman replied, “To make a needle.” At this moment, Li Bai felt more curious and asked again, “How can you grind such a thick iron rod into a needle?”“Yes, I can. I certainly can,” the old woman said. “If one works with constant effort, one can grind an iron rod into a needle.”Hearing what the old woman said, Li Bai was enlightened. Since then, Li Bai studied hard and made rapid progress. Eventually he became a famous poet.
写作内容：
1. 用约30个单词概括上文主要内容；
2. 用约120个单词，以“坚持不懈”发表你的观点，
内容包括：故事给你的启示；
以你或他人的经历举例说明“坚持不懈”的作用或意义。