2015年朝阳区高三英语期末试题

北京市朝阳区2014—2015学年度高三年级第一学期期末统一考试第二部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）
21. His wife didn’t allow him _____ any drink or tobacco.
A. touching
B. to touch
C. touch
D. touched
22. We couldn’t find the hotel and it was getting dark, _____ we got out a map and studied it carefully.
A. so
B. and
C. but
D. or
23. —Jack, let’s go swimming.
—Sorry, I’m busy right now. I _____ for the exam tomorrow.
A. prepare
B. am preparing
C. have prepared
D. will prepare
33. Only after posting the postcard _____ I hadn’t put a stamp on it.
A. did I remember
B. had I remembered
C. I had remembered
D. I remembered
34. _____ for a signature photo if you see Justin Bieber backstage after the concert.
A. Ask
B. Asking
C. To ask
D. Asked
35. —I worked as hard as I could, but I still failed the exam.
—Hard work isn’t the whole story. You _____ the basic techniques of study.
A. must have mastered
B. would have mastered
C. should have mastered
D. might have mastered
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
A Disaster Makes a Strong Person
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still 36 the brightness of sunshine. It would be 37 to see again, but a 38 can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply me an that the 39 of them made me 40 the more what I had.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 41 his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never 42 . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the 43 to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to 44 against blindness.
The hardest 45 I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 46 that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I
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53 . It invited the 41. A.
50. A. held B. stuck C. bothered D. knocked
51. A. important B. specific C. common D. impossible
52. A. invented B. confirmed C. checked D. noticed
53. A. interest B. limitation C. experience D. responsibility
54. A. once B. unless C. because D. though
55. A. fail B. try C. act D. continue
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分）
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The Dangers at the Beach
British beaches look harmless, but there are hidden dangers.
Allergy
The lesser weever is the fish to look out for on
British beaches. It lies almost buried in the sand with just its mouth and
fin exposed, a trap for unlucky fishermen and beachgoers walking around
in the shallows. If you stand on a weever fish, it ’ll sting (刺) you badly.
The sting may cause heart attacks, and shock, though usually it just causes
pain, redness and
swelling.
Many people have an allergic reaction to the fish and may start to sweat, develop a faster heartbeat and feel sick as the poison gets further into the body. People who have been stung should take painkillers and if they develop an allergic reaction currents.
Pollution
A The Marine way onto beaches. standards.
A. Most beaches in the UK are fine.
B. There is no pollution on UK beaches.
C. Most beaches fail to meet European standards.
D. 10% of British beaches meet European standards.
B
Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was sleeping in his cowboy outfit (套装) yesterday at his family’s Fifth Ave. apartment when he shot up in bed screaming. A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake twisted around his left arm and had just bitten his little finger.
“The babysitter (a person tak ing care of children while their parents are away for a short time) was frightened to death,” said Teddy’s father, David Lasry, who, alon g with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the snake appeared about 4:00 pm. The horrified babysitter called 911 and the building’s doorman. The doorman and two cable TV workers helped take the
Lesser weever fin
snake off the boy’s arm and put it in a garbage bag. Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous. It wasn’t. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where policemen took the snake, found out it was a non-poisonous California king snake.
But how did it end up in Teddy’s bed?
A little detective work determined that the snake had escaped two weeks ago from its cage in the apartment of a doctor whose family lives four floors b elow the Lasrys. The apologetic owner said his son’s pet snake likely traveled up the water pipes and into his neighbor’s apartment.“It’s a very gentle, very harmless snake,” he said. “It’s handled by our family all the time.”
to have
C
A
al presence.
In 1898 a psychologist named Triplett made an interesting observation. In looking over speed records of bicycle racers, he noticed that better speed records were obtained when cyclists raced against each other than when they raced against the clock. This observation led Triplett to perform the first controlled laboratory experiment ever conducted in social psychology. He instructed children to turn a wheel as fast as possible for a certain period of time. Sometimes two children worked at the same time in the same room, each with his own wheel; at other times, they worked alone. The results confirmed his theory: Children worked faster in coaction, that is, when another child doing the same thing was present, than when they worked alone.
Soon after Triplett’s experiment on coaction, it was discovered that the mere presence of a passive audience rather than a coactor was enough to help performance. This was discovered accidentally in an experiment on muscular (肌肉的) effort and tiredness by Meumann in 1904, who found that subjects lifted a weight faster and farther whenever the psychologist was in the
room. Later experiments have confirmed this audience effect.
It appears that coaction and audience effects in humans are caused by the person’s concerns about competition and the evaluation of performance that others will make. We learn as we grow up that others praise or criticize, reward or punish our performances, and this raises our drive level when we perform before others. Thus, even the early studies of coaction found that if all elements（要素）of competition are removed, coaction effects are greatly reduced. Similarly, audience effects are a function of the subject’s interpretation of how much he is being evaluated.
63. Why does the writer mention “the TV ad” in Paragraph 1?
A. To explain the importance.
B. To make a comparison.
C. To start a new topic.
D. To give an example.
64. According to the passage, Triplett’s experiment of 1898 _____.
D
becoming a I’
thought control. So, for example, many children will say: “What happens if it goes wrong?” We work hard to change this so that the sentence reads: “What happens if it goes right?” One word difference, but a world away when thinking about challenges.
We try to help children deal more effectively with life using a three-step approach. Firstly, it is important to set realistic and achievable goals. Then it is a matter of finding out what factors (因素) are helping children to achieve these goals and what factors are working against this. The final step is to discover which of these factors can be controlled, or at least influenced, and what factors the child is in reality stuck with. Redirecting children’s energies to movable obstacles (障碍) can produce huge life changes.
However, I think that for most of us we have become stress averse (反对的) and overreact to it. It has always been there, and it has always been the case that some people enjoy it, some need help to deal with it and some people’s lives are ruined by it.
Showing our children that stress can be faced with and beaten offers them a way forward. The more a fear is avoided, the bigger it gets.
67. From the passage, we know the writer believes _____.
A. education needs challenges
B. education should always be fun
C. children should avoid facing challenges
D. the more challenges, the better for the children
68. The writer disagreed with some educationalists because _____.
suitable it.
or types of
nonverbal
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contact (接触). In the US, people make eye contact when they talk to others. 74 In many Asian and African cultures, however, children are taught to lower their eyes when talking to their elders, or those of higher rank, as a way to show respect.
Certain gestures made with the hands can have very different meanings depending on the country you are in. Crossing your middle finger over your forefinger is the sign for good luck in many western countries. 75 Also, in some Asian countries, moving your hands a lot while talking, or ‘talking with your hands’, is considered unsuitable.
Behavior that is acceptable and non-offensive in one culture can be highly offensive in another. When visiting a foreign country, be aware of some of the basic differences, as this will help to ensure a more enjoyable trip.
A. Nonverbal taboos usually relate to body language.
B. In Vietnam and Argentina, however, it is a rude gesture.
C. In spite of what some people may think, taboos are not universal.
D. Cancer is a taboo subject and people are frightened to talk openly about it.
E. Learn a country’s customs so that you don’t hurt the local people unconsciously.
F. They might think that someone who is speaking or laughing loudly is rude or aggressive.
G. If a person avoids eye contact, others might think they are being dishonest or unconfident.
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，35分）
第一节(15分)
假设你是李华，旅行期间要路过英国多佛(Dover)，想在朋友Bob家借宿一晚。

请用
英语给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括以下几方面：
1
2.
3.
注意：1.
2.
3.
Dear Bob,
Li Hua
第二节
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第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
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三、One possible version:
Dear Bob,
How are you? I hope everything is going well with you.
Could I ask you a favor? I’m going to France next Saturday, February 21st, and am catching an early boat from Dover. Could I stay in your house on that Friday night so that I can set out early the next morning? I’ll bring a sleeping bag with me. Also, it’d be great to see you and catch up on all your news.
Do hope it won’t bring you too much trouble. I’ll give you a ring at the weekend.
Best wishes,
Li Hua
三、One possible version:
It was extremely cold last Monday morning. While I was walking on my way to school, I noticed two street cleaners sweeping the street in the fierce wind. Seeing them working so hard on such a cold morning, I was moved and made up my mind to do something for them.
After arriving at school, I discussed with some classmates what we could do. Some suggested helping with the cleaning while others advised getting some hot porridge to keep them warm. Finally we all agreed on the latter.
The next day, we got up early and prepared porridge at home. When we handed the cleaners the hot porridge and expressed our appreciation for their hard work, they looked a little surprised at first. And then they took the porridge and。