执信中学2018届高三上学期期中英语考试(英语试题PDF版)

2017-2018学年度第一学期高三级英语科中段考试试卷2017-11-2本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共18页，满分为150分。

考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：1、答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和学号填写在答题卡和答卷密封线内相应的位置上，用2B铅笔将自己的学号填涂在答题卡上。

2、选择题每小题选出答案后，有2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。

3、非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔在答卷纸上作答，答案必须写在答卷纸各题目指定区域内的相应位置上，超出指定区域的答案无效；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。

不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4、考生必须保持答题卡的整洁和平整。

I 卷(共85分)一、听力：请根据录音和所给中文，用英语写出三个问题和回答五个问题。

（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）1.Now please listen to the dialogue.2.Now please ask the speaker three questions.请听完对话后，根据下面中文提示请你用英语提出三个问题（请把英语问题写在答卷1-3的横线上）(1)他们不让你做什么事呢？（2）他们限制你周末的活动吗？（3）你觉得你父母为什么对你这么严格？3. Now please get ready to answer five questions in English. Y ou’re allowed 10 seconds to prepare the answer.（请把英语回答写在答卷4-8的横线上）选择题部分(满分77分)二、单项选择（共14小题；每小题0.5分，满分7分）1. You’d better ________ some money for future use.A. set asideB. set aboutC. set downD. set back2. I don’t think that your lecture ________ the audience, for they appeared quite puzzled.A. got close toB. got down toC. got away withD. got across to3. We didn’t plan our art exhibition like that but it ________ very well.A. tried outB. went onC. worked outD. carried on4. ________, we are better off and live a more convenient life.A. With the economy develops fastB. With the economy developing fastC. As the economy developing fastD. As the economy develop fast5. -- Hey, Mary. Is the film ________?-- Hi, Tom. I think the film is ________.A. worth seeing; worthwhile to be seenB. worthy to be seen; worthwhile to seeC. worthwhile to see; worth seeingD. worth seeing; worthy of being seen6. The coat ________ thin but ________.A. has worn; has dried easyB. is worn; is dried easyC. wears; dries easilyD. wears; dries easy7. ________ from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many animals and plants not found in any other country in the world.A. SeparatingB. SeparatedC. Having separatedD. Being separated8. -- I am afraid I can’t help you with your project. I ________ a model thesedays.-- It doesn’t matter. I will finish it by myself.A. makeB. will be makingC. have madeD. am making9. One-third of the area ________ covered with green trees. About 70% of the trees ________ been planted.A. is; haveB. are; haveC. is; hasD. are; has10. The old castle requires ________ after ________ by the storm.A. to be restored; hitB. being restored; being hitC. restoring; being hitD. having been restored; hit11. You needn’t have been in that hurry. The flight to Wuhan ________ due tothe foggy weather.A. cancelledB. was cancellingC. had cancelledD. was cancelled12. -- Do you have Betty’s phone number?-- Yes. Otherwise, I ________ able to reach her yesterday.A. hadn’t beenB. wouldn’t have beenC. weren’tD. wouldn’t be13. We would rather our daughter ________ at home with us, but it is herchoice, and she is not a child any longer.A. stayedB. stayB. has stayed D. would stay14. Many Chinese brands, ________ their reputation over centuries, are facingnew challenges from the modern market.A. developingB. being developedC. having developedD. developed三、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，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

(A)The value-packed, all-inclusive sight-seeingpackage that combines the best of Sydney’sharbour, city, bay and beach highlights.A SydneyPass gives you unlimited and flexible travel on the Explorer Buses: the ‘red’ Sydney Explorer shows you around our exciting city sights while the ‘blue’ Bondi Explorer visits Sydney Harbour bays and famous beaches. Take to the water on one of three magnificent daily harbour cruises (游船). You can also travel free on regular Sydney Buses, Sydney Ferries or CityRail services (limited area), so you can go to every corner of this beautiful city.Imagine browsing at Darling Harbour, sampling the famous seafood at Watsons Bay or enjoying the city lights on an evening ferry cruise. The possibilities and plans are endless with a SydneyPass. Wherever you decide to go, remember that bookings are not required on any of our services so tickets are treated on a first in, first seated basis.SydneyPasses are available for 3, 5 or 7 days for use over a 7-calendar-day period. With a 3 or 5-day pass you choose on which days out of the 7 you want to use it. All SydneyPasses include a free Airport Express inward trip before starting your 3, 5 or 7 days, and the return trip is valid (有效的) for 2 months from the first day your ticket was used.*A child is defined as anyone from the ages of 4 years to under 16 years. Children under 4 years travel free.**A family is defined as 2 adults and any number of children from 4 to under 16 years of age from the same family.15. A SydneyPass doesn’t offer unlimited rides on ________.A. the Explorer BusesB. the harbour cruisesC. regular Sydney BusesD. CityRail services16. With a SydneyPass, a traveller can ________.A. save fares from and to the airportB. take the Sydney Explorer to beachesC. enjoy the famous seafood for freeD. reserve seats easily in a restaurant17. If 5-day tickets were to be recommended to a mother who travelled withher colleague and her children, aged 3, 6 and 10, what would the lowest cost be?A. $225.B. $240.C. $360.D. $420.（B）We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.“You could win prizes,’’ our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the wor ds on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster.”We studied the board critically. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. I’m going to spend mine on candies, one hopeful would announce, while another practiced looking serious, wise and rich.Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewer’s attention to it. Some of us would wander past the good students’ desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick of the sort they seemed especially fond of, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then always —always —rewarding the same old winners.I believe I drew a sailboat, but I can’t say that with any certainty. I madeit. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen, and then I turned it in.Minutes passed.No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and I probably never would have thought about that poster again.I was still sitting at my desk, thinking, What poster?when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in it and everyone in the class applauded for me.18. What was the teacher’s requirement for the poster?A. It must appear in time.B. It must be done in class.C. It must be done on a construction sheet.D. It must include the words on the blackboard.19. The underlined phrase in paragraph 3 most probably means ________.A. formed an idea forB. made an outline forC. made some space forD. chose some colors for20. After seeing the good students’ designs, some students ________.A. loved their own designs moreB. thought they had a fair chanceC. put their own designs in a cornerD. thought they would not win the prize21. We can infer from the passage that the author ________.A. enjoyed grown-up tricks very muchB. loved poster competitions very muchC. felt surprised to win the competitionD. became wise and rich after the competition（C）As a public school superintendent (督导), I believe the best way to prepare students for colleges and careers is to focus on providing instructional programs and opportunities that help them become good thinkers. To do this, teachers and actually everyone else in a community, should play a role as a “cognitive coach” to student s, helping develop good thinkers among our youth.The best way for you to become a cognitive coach is to seek out and engage school children and adolescents in meaningful conversations. The objective here is to get kids talking about what they think, how they feel, and what they believe whenever and wherever you may find them. It may be in a classroom. It may be at the grocery store. It may be at a basketball game. It doesn’t matter where as long as you engage students in a topical conversation and, hopefully, even a debate. Mainly, you want to encourage students to voice their opinion about things. Get them to take a position on “this thing, or that thing,” and ask them to support their position with evidence. Curiously enough, the simple process of engaging students in real life conversations and debates will serve to strengthen what they have learned in the classroom, and help them create their own knowledge about a subject or a topic.Learning indicates that a student has been introduced to material, understands the material, and can recall the information. Knowledge, on the other hand, goes beyond recall and includes information processing, application to other situations, consideration of meaning, and contrasting with other concepts. Naturally, the topic of conversation you engage in with one of your learners will differ from student to student, and in the level of complexity based on a child’s age and developmental level. Even a kindergartener has an opinion about things that are going on in his or her life. Engaging in conversation with any members of your learning community in ways that get at what they have learned and what they know will help them develop higher order reasoning skills.A student’s synthetic thinking (综合思维) process occurs when a respected adult asks a question, particularly a question that requires reflection.I think all adults in a community have a responsibility to help children with this process, with the goal of producing independent thinkers.22. According to the writer, what most helps develop students’ thinking?A. Expanding one’s knowledge.B. Making evidence-based arguments.C. Learning from respected adults.D. Attending instructional programs.23. Which is the best question raised by a cognitive coach?A. What have you learnt recently?B. Will you pay by the credit card?C. Where are you going this weekend?D. How do you like this basketball team?24. The writer mentions a kindergartener in Paragraph 3 in order to ________.A. emphasize the importance of being a good thinkerB. explain the necessity of choosing proper conversation topicsC. suggest that education should start at an early ageD. prove that even children have their own ways of thinking25. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To state an education idea.B. To assess a teaching approach.C. To introduce a learning method.D. To compare different education methods.（D）While it may be unlikely for a computer to write a best seller, a technology expert has created a computer program that writes its own fiction stories with minimal user input. The program, called MEXICA, is the first to generate original stories based on computerized representations of emotions and tensions between characters.An Internet survey was carried out to see the popularity of the computer-generated stories, other computerized stories and stories written solely by a human. The result was that readers ranked MEXICA stories highest for flow and coherence, structure, content, suspense and overall quality. Rafael Pérezy Pérez, the creator of MEXICA, explained that a story might begin with something as basic as, “The enemy wounded the knight. The pri ncess cured the knight. The knight killed the enemy. The knight rewarded the princess. Theend.”The program reads characters as variables (变量) and assigns a numerical value, between a continuum (连续体) from -3 to +3, to emotional connections that are defined as either amorous (多情的) or non-amorous. The numerical value is equivalent to the degree of emotion, with -3 being intense hate and +3 being intense love. The program also understands story tension, such as linking the word “wounded” with tension. This to o is assigned a numerical value.Once these clusters of emotional links and tensions are established, the program begins what is called an “engagement reflection cycle”. Basically this involves searching a database of story actions and other happenings, which are called “atoms”, and determines the best match for the characters and contexts for that moment.The process repeats itself again and again until the system can no longer make any matches. At this point, the computer analyzes the story for coherence and “interestingness”. The program views a story as interesting when tension levels increase and fall throughout the piece. If the program finds that the story is boring or incoherent in places, it will replace or insert atoms until a version is thought to be satisfactory.26. What can we know about MEXICA from the passage?A. It is a computer program that can write fiction stories on its own.B. It is a computer program created by Rafael Pérezy Pérez.C. It is blamed for low quality among many other descriptors.D. The stories it has written is not very popular among readers.27. What is basically needed for MEXICA to start to write a story?A. The beginning and the end of the story should be provided.B. The background of the story needs to be keyed in.C. The human operator should come up with a simple storyline.D. Emotions and tensions between characters should be determined.28. How does the computer system describe the characters in its story?A. Characters in the story are given different numerical values.B. Characters are developed according to the tension preset.C. Characters are designed by using the language MEXICA can understand.D. Each character is valued for its value in the construction of the story.29. The article is most probably taken from ________.A. an introduction to a novelB. an instruction manualC. a science and technology reportD. an Internet survey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项。