福建省厦门双十中学2018-2019学年高三上期中考英语试题

厦门双十中学2019届高三上英语期中考试卷
第I卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）略
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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
It’s Fast! It’s Fun!
It’s a Hand-Held Electronic Pinball Game!
Feel the vibrations as your Rocket Ball glides through the universe, scoring points as it glances off Saturn’s rings or skids past Jupiter. Whenever a comet, asteroid or meteor takes a direct hit, your score will soar.
GETTING STARTED
1.Press ON/OFF to turn on power.
2.Press the clear plastic STAR ☆ button to control light, sound, and vibration.
Press STAR changes to What is activated?
Once Yellow Lights
Twice Blue Lights and sounds
Three Times Red Lights, sounds, and vibrations
Four Times Black NO lights, sounds, or vibrations
3.Press START/PAUSE two times to begin play.
NOTE: You can press START/PAUSE once at anytime
Then the word P-A-U-S-E scrolls (滚屏) across the screen until you press
START/PAUSE again to restart the game
4.Press SELECT to play Game One
Press SELECT two times to play Game Two
If you reach 5, 000 points before all three balls drop into the sun, you are a Rocket Ball Champ!
21.Which buttons directly control the movement of the Rocket Ball?
A. LAUNCH and FLIPPERS.
B. STAR and FLIPPERS.
C. START/PAUSE and FLIPPERS.
D. LAUNCH and SELECT.
22.The most action-packed variation would be _____________.
A. Game One with a blue star.
B. Game Two with a black star.
C. Game One with a yellow star,
D. Game Two with a red star.
23.Rocket Ball could best be described as a game of_______________.
A. space knowledge.
B. quick response
C. skill and strength
D. scientific knowledge
Very few of us become fluent in another language by studying it in high school. I went to university and then moved across the country, pursued a demanding career, married and raised children.
I made an effort to maintain the little bit of French that I learned in school, but eventually realized that this was pointless.
I was well aware that new languages are best learned when young, and that our abilities in that regard decline with age. However, just before my 50th birthday, I signed up for French classes. After I was tested to see which group I belonged in, I was placed at almost the introductory level. When I looked around at my first Saturday morning class, I was struck by how many of the students were learning French as a third, fourth, or even fifth language.
Contrary to my assumption that learning a new language was impossibly difficult, there were people who learned new languages as a matter of course. I found that it really was true that certain linguistic (语言的) abilities fade with age.
While I’d always thought of myself as a quick learner, that was no longer the case. I absorbed new vocabulary very slowly. What I learned one week seemed to slip away as soon as I learned the next skill. I looked up the same words and language structures over and over again.
Now, a couple of years in, I can listen to the news in French and catch 90 percent of it on the first try, read a novel if the language is not too difficult, and hold my end of conversation if it doesn’t go too fast.
Who knows what I might still accomplish?
I’ve learned so much beyond grammar and vocabulary.I’ve met people from around the world and all walks of life who have the courage to make fools of themselves in order to learn something new. I’ve been taught by patient and inspirational teachers from many concerns of the world, including France, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Africa.
Listening to the news as it is presented to the people of France, I have a renewed understanding of how something can look completely different from another perspective. I’ve learned that a language is not just a set of w ords, but a way of thinking. But most of all, I’ve learned that it really is never too late to learn something new.
24. When the author took her first French class, she _______________.
A. was ashamed that she was learning it at such an old age.
B. was afraid of being unable to learn it.
C. was curious about her teachers and classmates.
D. was encouraged by her classmates.
25. What was the biggest challenges for the author when learning French?
A. She found the language structure puzzling.
B. She often confused French with English.
C. She couldn’t learn things as quickly as before.
D. She made a fool of herself when having conversations in French.
26. After studying French for a few years, the author ______________.
A. became aware of different cultural perspectives.
B. became a fluent French speaker.
C. considered listening to news the best way to learn a language.
D. can teach others French vocabulary and grammar.
27. What message does the author want to convey with the article?
A. People’s abilities to learn language decline with age.
B. Age is not a problem for those who are determined to learn new things.
C. It is important to hang out with different kind of people.
D. Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning a language.
No one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo. But a new study suggests they used a little rock ‘n’ roll. Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled then across the sand, the scientists say.
“Technically, I think what they’re proposing is possible,” physicist Daniel Bonn said.
People have long puzzled over how the Egyptians moved such huge rocks. And there’s no obvious answer. On average, each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck. The Egyptians somehow moved the stone blocks to the pyramid site from about one kilometer away.
The most popular view is that Egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths. Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds (滑板). Then they would have dragged them along paths. To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle. Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.
Evidence from the sand supports this idea. Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.
However, physicist Joseph West thinks there might have been a simpler way, who led the new study. West said, “I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped with pyramid construction. I thought, ‘Why don’t they just try rolling the things?’ “A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized. That, he notes, should make a block of stone “a lot easier to roll than a square”.
So he tried it.
He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block. That action turned the block into somewhat a wheel. Then they placed the block on the ground.
They wrapped one end of a rope around the block and pulled. The researchers found they could easily roll the block along different kinds of paths. They calculated that rolling the block required about as much force as moving it along a slippery (滑的) path.
West hasn’t tested his idea on larger blocks, but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding. At least, workers wouldn’t have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.
28. It’s widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by ______.
A. rolling them on roads
B. pushing them over the sand
C. dragging them on some poles
D. sliding them on smooth paths
29. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A. Rolling the blocks with poles attached.
B. Rolling the blocks on wooden wheels.
C. Rolling poles to move the blocks.
D. Rolling the blocks with fat.
30. Why is rolling better than sliding according to West?
A. Because more force is needed for sliding.
B. Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle.
C. Because sliding on smooth road is more dangerous.
D. Because less preparation on path is needed for rolling.
31. What is the text mainly about?
A. An experiment on ways of moving blocks to the pyramid site.
B. An application of the method of moving blocks to the pyramid site.
C. An argument about different methods of moving blocks to the pyramid site.
D. An introduction to a possible new way of moving blocks to the pyramid site.
When it comes to gift-giving, not only must the gift give attempt to infer the recipient’s(接受者) tastes, needs, desires, and reactions, the gift selection may also be affected by the information which it would appear to convey about the giver and the give-recipient relationship. The ancient practice of gift-giving is still common and important in modern cultures. For instance, Lowes and Willis (1971) mention a series of British Gallup Polls from 1963-1967, in which it was found that over 90 percent of the adult population did some Christmas gift-giving each year.
Gift-giving has been treated from a variety of related theoretical aspects. A famous theoretical analysis of the gift-giving process is an essay by French anthropologists-sociologist Marcell Mauss (1923). Based on his examination of gift-giving, Mauss concluded that gift-giving is a self-perpetuating(不停的) system of reciprocity. More specifically, Mauss summarized three types of obligations (义务): the obligation to give; the obligation to receive; the obligation to repay.
The obligation to give may be based on moral or religious necessities, with the need to recognize and keep a status hierarchy(等级制度) or the need to establish or keep peaceful relations. Receiving is seen as similarly obligatory. Mauss noted however that there is a certain tension created in receiving a gift since acceptance is an implied recognition of dependence on the giver. This tension may then be reduced by meeting the third obligation, the obligation to pay. Failure to repay or failure to repay adequately results in a loss of status and self-esteem. Adequate or overly adequate repayment, on the other hand, creates an obligation to repay on the part of the original giver, and the cycle is reinitiated.
Schwartz (1967) noted that beyond the functions served the general process of gift exchange, the characteristics of the gift itself also act as a powerful statement of the giver’s perception(洞察力) of the recipient. He also suggested that acceptance of a particular gift constitutes an acknowledgement and acceptance of the identity that the gift is seen to imply. Among children this may led to lasting changes in self-perceptions, but probably gifts have less influence on the self-concept of an adult.
There can be little doubt that gift-giving is a common experience in human life and consumer behavior.
32. What does the author want to stress by mentioning the example in Paragraph 1?
A. The anxiety between gift-givers and receivers.
B. The recent increase in gift-giving around Christmas time.
C. The common practice of gift-giving on special occasions.
D. The differences in gift-giving between ancient and modern times.
33. What can conclude that Mauss suggests a self-perpetuating system of reciprocity _________?
A. requires equal participation in a relationship.
B. functions as a form of showing different status.
C. shows an increasing amount of pressure on gift-giving.
D. is a form of communication between gift-givers and recipients.
34. What does the underlined word “reinitiated” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Started again.
B. Prevented again.
C. Examined again.
D. Explained again.
35. How would Schwartz describe the gift-exchange process?
A. Stressful.
B. Symbolic.
C. Accidental.
D. Discouraging.
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人空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Why do we read poetry? First obvious one: because we enjoy it. 36 But that’s not why this is here.
Many of us read poetry simply because we often feel depressed and hopelessly lost, and in poetry we see how beautiful and strange everything is. 37
There are many different kinds of poems. They are not all calming. Some poems make me anxious, angry, scared, and sad, which is why I value them. 38 I want the sweet and the bitter. Often, I read poetry when I’m already relaxed. In fact, I read more when I’m not stressed out.
Here are the main reasons I respond to poetry, as far as I can tell. 39 Usually. this is done by setting up a rhythm and then violating it or almost violating it. And then returning to Lt again. This satisfies my desire for order and also my desire for testing boundaries:
Poetry plays with language and often slams words together in surprising ways. which is thrilling the way food can be when the chef has paired ingredients you never thought would taste good together but somehow do.
40 Words mean two or three things at once and lots of suggestions are packed between the lines. This is intellectually inspiring and it allows me to read the same poem over and over always finding new things in it And, of course, there’s the subject matter. It interests me just as it would if the same subject was explored in a story or essay. Not all poems interest me in this way, but then not all stories and essays do, either.
A. Many poems are dense.
B. So in that way poetry calms our anxiety.
C. As a reader, I want a full meal, no just dessert.
D. Another reason is to appreciate the suggestions offered.
E. The only other reason seems to be academic purpose.
F. The best part about poetry is that they are flexible in length.
G. Metrical (格律的) poems are about setting up rules and then bending them.
第II卷
第三部分英语知识运用（共三节，满分55分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Steve, a 12-year-old boy, had been falling since first grade. He generally went 41 …until he joined Miss white’s class.
“You all did pretty well,” she told the42 as she went over the test results, “43 one boy, and it breaks my hearts to tell you this, but…” She hesitated, looking at Steve.
“The44 boy in the s eventh grade is failing my class.” Steve45 his eyes and carefully examined his fingertips.
After that, Steve refused to do his 44 . Miss White was very 47 and tried to encourage him to study.“Give yourself a 48 ! Don’t give up on your life!” Miss White told him, yet it didn’t49 .
Then one day, she said, “Steve! Please! I care about you!”
50 , Steve got it. Someone cared about him.
He spent the whole afternoon thinking about what he should do. Arriving at his house after school, feeling determined, he headed to his bedroom to 51 .
Monday morning, Miss White gave a 52 on the weekend homework, Steve 53 through the test, and was the first to hand his paper. Miss White looked it over in total 54 .The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just 55 his first test.
From that moment, nothing was the same for Steve. He discovered that not only could he learn, but he was 56 it.
After high school, Steve joined the Navy. during his naval career, he 57 many young people who might not have be lieved in themselves if he hadn’t believed in them first.
Miss White saved one boy who 58 changing many lives.
You see, it’s simple, really. A(n) 59 can take place within the heart of one boy, all because of one teacher, who 60 .
41. A. unchallenged B. unaccompanied C. unnoticed D. unpunished
42. A. class B. staff C. colleagues D. parents
43. A. in addition to B. except for C. instead of D. regardless of
44. A. laziest B. richest C. happiest D. smartest
4s. A. opened B. closed C. raised D. dropped
46. A. research B. homework C. projects D. presentations
47. A. impressed B. surprised C. anxious D. embarrassed
48. A. chance B. break C. choice D. reward
49. A. stop B. work C. matter D. happen
50. A. Luckily B. Gradually C. Naturally D. Suddenly
51. A. study B. sleep C. cry D. play
52. A. question B. lesson C. quiz D. review
53. A. hurried B. lived C. broke D. saw
54. A. fear B. shock C. relief D. anger
55. A. attended B. designed C. passed D. failed
56. A. ready for B. responsible for C. tired of D. good at
57. A. persuaded B. taught C. met D. inspired
58. A. look up B. gave up C. ended up D. took up
59. A. problem B. change C. recovery D. improvement
60. A. cares B. believes C. understands D. remembers
第二节单句语法填空（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
61. I’m deeply impressed by the great changes that ______ (take) place in the school over the past decade.
62. ______ (addict)to computer games can do harm to you both mentally and physically.
63. I ______ (drive) down to London when I suddenly found that I was on the wrong road.
64. There is a not pinned to the door______ (say) when the shop will open again.
65. His temper has been ______ (change) this week, so don’t annoy him.
66. After suffering from a massive Typhoon Meranti and ______ (reduce) to great injuries, Xiamen suffered a lot.
67. He is easily ______ (courage) by difficulties and obstacles.
68. We ______ (burden) with academic stress now.
69.Though the heat is u (难耐的), the volunteers were still working on the post.
70. Her parents made s (牺牲) so that she could have a good education.
第三节短文语法填空(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As an old English say ing goes, “honesty is the best policy.” It is more than 71 old cliché (陈词滥调), but a good way to live your life. First, honesty is the 72 (easy) choice that we can make. When people get caught in lies, it always costs them something. Many relationships are destroyed by lies.Second, honesty gives us much73(free). Many people believe that being honest limits them in life, but that is not true. Sooner or later those dishonest people74(pay) a price for their acts; on the contrary, when we are honest, we are75(true) free.
If there were two people standing before you, a person 76a record of being honest and a person who is known to be dishonest, who would you be more likely 77(believe)? I’m sure most people would side with the honest person. 78 we live in the truth or we live in lies. Truth sets us free and lies leave us in nothing 79more troubles. Honesty is a choice that we make each day. The choice is 80 (you). What will you choose?
第四部分:写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅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（∧），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限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起）不计分。

I liked cycling very much. At age of twelve, my father bought me a bike as a birthday gifts and taught me how to ride. Every time my father took him out for practice, my little brother would come along. One day, we were practicing while suddenly my brother screamed to help. When we rushed to him, we saw a snake wind around a frog tightly. I beg my father to save the frog. Immediate he picked it up a long stick, trying to drive the snake away. About two minutes later, the frog was set loose, what made us so happy.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是李华，你班的美国交换生Tom结束了在你校一年的学习，即将回国。

你和你的同学打算于12月30日下午在班上为他开一个欢送会（farewellparty），特写信邀请他参加。

要点包括：
1. 感谢Tom的帮助；
2. 欢送会的时间和地点；
2. 注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,
Yours,
Li Hua
厦门双十中学2019届高三英语月考测试（一）参考答案
听力理解:
1-5: BCCAB 6-10: CABCC 11-15: BACBB 16-20: AACBC
阅读：
21-24: ADB 25-27: DCAB 28-31: CADD 32-35: CDAB 36-40: EBCGA
完型：
41-45: CABDD 46-50: BCABD 51-55: ACABC 56-60: DDCBA
单句填空：
61. have taken 62. Being addicted 63. was driving 64. saying 65. changeable
66. being reduced 67. discouraged 68. are burdened 69. unbearable 70. sacrifices
语篇填空：
71.an 72. easiest 73. freedom 74. will pay 75. truly
76. with 77. to believe 78. Either 79. but 80. yours
改错：
作文：
Dear Tom,
How time flies! It’s one year since you came to study Chinese in our school. In the past year, you have helped us a lot, without which we couldn’t have made great progress in English. During this year, we have learned lot of cultures your country that cannot be found in the book.
Before you leave, many classmates and I intend to hold a farewell party for you, hoping that you can remember the wonderful time we spent together. By the way the party will be held in our classroom on the afternoon of July 10th.
May you have a pleasant journey home and welcome to China again.
We are looking forward to your coming.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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