2019高三英语下学期周考试题

2019高三英语下学期周考试题
第一节单项填空（共15小题）
请认真阅读下面各题, 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. If we want students to become effective in multicultural set tings, one thing is clear: there is no ________ for practice.
A. prescription
B. substitute
C. appetite
D. suspension
22. —
Tony ________ what I did annoying though he didn’t say anyth ing.
—So you think you will have to make an apology?
A. could find
B. should have found
C. might find
D. must have found
23. —What about watching a ballet show this evening?—Thanks for inviting me, but ballet isn’t really __________.
A. the apple of my eyes
B. my feet of clay
C. my cup of tea
D. the salt of the earth
24. Faced with the dilemma, the company committee _______ _ a public statement, appointing the capable man to be its ne w global chief financial officer.
A. pulled out
B. put out
C. reached out
D. drew out
25. More often than not, the enterprise around us are getting even richer, ________ recipe is don’t put all your eggs in one b asket.
A. of which
B. which
C. whose
D. of whom
26. In Beijing, more than 21,100 people ________ to donate th eir bodies by the end of 2017, as the city promoted a body do nation campaign from 1999.
A. have applied
B. had applied
C. would have applied
D. applied
27. During the negotiation to follow, it can be argued that shar es of foreign companies are overvalued ________ the return th ey offer.
A. in terms of
B. in memory of
C. in favor of
D. in charge of
28. That preserved historic village connected to downtown by
a highway is ________ many office workers spend their weeke nds.
A. what
B. how
C. where
D. why
29. ________ well for my job interview, I really had butterflies i n my stomach on my way to the company I had applied to. A. Having not prepared B. Not havi ng prepared
C. Not to have prepared
D. To have not prepared
30. The ordinary people all look at the intelligent man with ad miration because under no circumstances ________ to cope w ith emergencies.
A. he will fail
B. is he failing
C. he is failing
D. will he fail
31. ________ and open to various interpretations, the terms of the new proposal need improving based on the interests of bo th sides.
A. Accessible
B. Apparent
C. Ambiguous
D. Aggressive
32. I owe my current success to David, my best friend since c hildhood, without whom I have no idea where I ________ toda
y.
A. am
B. was
C. would have been
D. would be
33. —
Are you free now? I have something important to tell you.
—
OK, ________ you make it short. I will have to finish this report before noon.
A. now that
B. as soon as
C. every time
D. as long as
34. It is through years of research ________ scientists have di scovered the relationship between social media addiction and depression.
A. that
B. before
C. since
D. when
35. —Will it cost a lot to be an exchange student?
—
________, but you can apply for scholarship and student loan.
A. I would imagine so
B. You’ve got me there
C. By all means
D. I’m with you on that
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。

I was getting ready for bed when the telephone rang unexpect edly. My mind quickly ran __36__ the list of family members, b ut the voice on the other end of the line was only __37__ famili ar. “Lindy, this is Leslie,” she said. I didn’t know Leslie very w ell, so I was a little __38__ that she would be calling me at 11: 00 pm. I was afraid that it would be something really __39__ t o cause her to reach out to someone she __40__ knew. Howe ver, she asked me a most __41__ question. “Do you have any room for a turkey in your freezer?” she asked. “Sure,” I respo nded, feeling quite confused. My family was at the bottom of o ur food supply. “I will __42__ when I get to your house,” Leslie replied.
We quickly __43__ blue jeans from our nightclothes and prepa red to meet her outside __44__ the doorbell wouldn’t wake up our four children. Leslie and her husband came in a huge free zer truck. She explained that her husband serviced a small gr ocery store that had just lost its lease（租
约）. They had to __45__ all the freezers before midnight. Sh e thought it was a __46__ tojust throw all this food away so sh e began to go through her list of __47__, dropping off food to
anyone who she thought might be __48__ to take it. Ours was the last place they planned to stop and anything left would ha ve to be __49__.
Still not fully __50__ what had just occurred, I asked her, “Wh en will you be coming back for all this?” Leslie replied, “It is yo urs! We have been __51__ food since 5:00 pm and have __52 __ our list of contacts. Thanks a lot for helping us out.”
Leslie had no idea that we __53__ to buy groceries. By the tim e the freezer food finally __54__, buying groceries was no lon ger a problem. I admit that I’m still afraid of late night calls, as suming the worst, __55__ then I remember that summer night when an acquaintance called me to send me turkeys.
36. A. into B. across C. throug
h D. after
37. A. vaguely
B. definitely
C. reasonably
D. hopefully
38. A. thrilled B. embarrassed C. surpri sed D. annoyed
39. A. creative B. impressive C. co mplex D. awful
40. A. normally B. barely C. precis
ely D. frequently
41. A. strange B. authentic C. fasc inating D. tough
42. A. pause B. explain C. ap preciate D. negotiate
43. A. hunted for B. put aside C. c hanged into D. took out
44. A. in that B. as if C. in ca se D. so that
45. A. empty B. replace C. fix
D. remove
46. A. success B. shame C. chan ce D. duty
47. A. merchants B. rescuers C. c ontacts D. clients
48. A. considerate B. generous C. willing D. conscious
49. A. deleted B. leaked C. swapp ed D. dumped
50. A. describing B. understanding
C. predicting
D. observing
51. A. submitting B. fetching C. co
nsuming D. delivering
52. A. packed B. exhausted C. ref reshed D. concluded
53. A. struggled B. managed
C. decided
D. tended
54. A. ran out B. went off C. br oke down D. caught on
55. A. for B. or C. and
D. but
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。

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New York City. Freelance
The KidPass blog is created by contributions from awesome fr eelance writers who work from home, and are excited to shar e their experiences and recommendations for kids’ activities a round New York City! KidPass is flexible, so it allows parents l ike us to spend more time with their kids and work from home or anywhere they like, while building a great resource of reco mmendations for other parents.
We are hiring freelance writers who can contribute articles to
our blog. We pay you for each article that we accept or appro ve starting at $20 for short articles and $100+ for longer articl es with original research, photos, and videos.
If you enjoy being a parent “in the know”, researching new kid s’ activities online, or going around your neighborhood to visit new kids’ centres, indoor play spaces, events, or classes, the n KidPass could be great for you!
About you:
*Possess a friendly, confident writing style.
*Work from wherever you want.
*Able to explore kid classes and activities in your neighborhoo d.
*Take photos and videos if you are interested in writing longer research pieces for us.
*Prompt in communication, responsible and able to meet dea dlines.
To apply, submit the following:
*Two writing samples that have not been published elsewhere and not been copied.
*For one sample, please include a list/ round-
up of five local kids’ classes for a certain age group in your ne ighborhood.
*For the second sample, please include a single review of one of the kids’ classes/activities and include pictures.
*Submit these by email and include a brief introduction to your self.
56. What do we know about the KidPass blog?
A. It has a lot to do with children’s activities.
B. It offers much advice on how to raise kids.
C. It teaches parents to design kids’ games online.
D. It encourages parents to accompany their kids more.
57. The passage mainly informs us of __________.
A. the history of the KidPass blog
B. the tips on writing good articles online
C. the importance of communicating with kids
D. the requirements of working as a freelance writer
B
Police around the world have for almost 100 years relied on li e detectors to help spot criminals. But there has long been mu ch skepticism in the scientific and legal communities about th e lie detector’s reliability. Hopefully, it could soon be no longer in use.
Researchers in Britain and the Netherlands have made a brea
kthrough, developing a more reliable method to help conduct i nterviews. Rather than just record changes in pulse, blood pre ssure, sweating and breathing, the new system involves monit oring full-
body motions to provide an indicator of signs of guilty feelings . There is a basic fact that liars tend to keep moving their han ds and feet and so an all-
body motion suit will pick this up. The suit contains 17 sensor s that record movement in 23 joints up to 120 times per secon d.
“The lie detector has been around since the 1920s and by me asuring physiological stress caused by anxiety, you can only get a success rate of about 60%.”, said Ross Anderson, profe ssor of security engineering at Cambridge University.
He said the new method, by contrast, achieved a reliability rati ng of over 70% and he was quite sure that they would be able to do better. In one of their experiments, the team has alread y achieved more than 80%.
The experiment involved 180 students and employees at Lan caster University, of which half were told to tell the truth and h alf to lie. They were each paid ￡7.50 for their participation in t he 70-minute experiment, involving two test.
Some were interviewed about a computer game “Never End” t
hat they played for seven minutes, while others lied about pla ying it having only been shown notes about it.
The second test involved a lost wallet containing ￡5. Some w ere asked to bring the wallet to a lost-and-
found box while others hid it and lied about it.
“Overall, we correctly classified 82.2% of the interviewees as either being truthful or dishonest.”, the report said.
But the use of all-
body suits is expensive — they cost about ￡30,000 — and c an be uncomfortable, so Anderson and his colleagues are no w looking at low-cost alternatives.
58. The researchers used the all-
body motion suit to ________.
A. discover people’s joint problems
B. record people’s changes in their health
C. help find out interviewees’ mental activities
D. prevent liars from moving their hands and feet
59. What is the main disadvantage of the lie detector?
A. It has a low success rate
B. It is very unc omfortable
C. It is too complex to use
D. It costs a lot of money
60. How does Anderson feel about the new method?
A. Confused
B. Confident
C. Doubtful
D. Disappointed
C
Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was the n known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synth esizing（合
成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant reco rding many phrases, each spoken many times, with different e motional emphases（重
音） and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to cover all possible pronunciations. Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of record ed speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marke d with a precise pitch（音
高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adj usted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new s onic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice ba nking, and permits novel uses to be developed.
This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users sel ect the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness wi th which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silb
ert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ulti mate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text l icenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, f or example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone i n order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing th em spoken by a toy using mum’s voice.
More troubling, when tested against voice-
biometrics software like that used by many banks to block una uthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voic es tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s develop ers, thinks systems that rely on voice-
ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.
Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sa mple belonged to a person whose real speech they had just li stened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cl oned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than cha nce). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert w itness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous pote ntial value for disinformation”.
As might be expected, countermeasures to recognize such de
ception（欺
骗） are being developed. Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms（算法） that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where sli ces of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-
editing software suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-
cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technolog y may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a worl d which makes it easy to put authentic-
sounding words into the mouths of opponents — be they colle agues or heads of state.
61. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about ________.
A. significant elements influencing voice cloning
B. possible applications of voice cloning in reality
C. complexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voice
D. differences between traditional and existing voice banking
62. What’s Hasbro’s attitude towards Vivo Test’s new app?
A. Optimistic.
B. Conservative.
C. Unconcerned.
D. Subjective.
63. The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleag ues shows that volunteers .
A. identified cloned speech in about 45 seconds
B. preferred a real speech to a voice sample
C. proved only a little harder to fool than software
D. found it hard to use the software to record their voices
64. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Investments should be increased to advance voice clonin g.
B. Long-
term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voic e cloning.
C. Disagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cl oning are getting serious.
D. Problems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the effo rts that have been made.
D
It is that time of the year again. Up and down the country, tho usands of students stay in the library, attempting to cram（死记硬
背） the information necessary to get through finals. I am one
of them — a Cambridge finalist, attempting to deal with the O xbridge stress in the only way I know: caffeine hits and reclusi on（隐遁生
活）. Whether you love or hate Oxbridge, the fact that these t wo universities provide unique learning environments is some thing of a double-
edged sword. On the one hand, students have access to som e of the best education in the world; on the other hand, the pr essure that comes with this can prove damaging to them and can’t be swept under the carpet for they have to face it eventu ally.
Many Cambridge students find themselves trapped in a press ure of expectation, whether this comes from their supervisors or tutors, their director of studies or even from themselves. Th e drive towards achievement is either the key to success or to possible serious personal issues, as Mark Phippen, head of t he University of Cambridge’s Counseling Service said, “There are plenty of perfectionists in Cambridge, but it can work two ways: it can push them to accomplish and to achieve, or it can get out of hand, disabling them.”
Many students say that they can’t handle it any more while wo
rking in certain libraries which are filled with other students ha rd at work. The competition and paranoia（多
疑） are more common than what we realize or question: you can feel as if you are being judged for how much time you spe nd on Facebook or YouTube, or how little time you spend rea ding.
Too many students feel almost frustrated by the pressure to a chieve but feel unable to speak about it. As everyone seems t o be coping, they must also pretend to cope too. The only thin g students have: tutors and supervisors regularly encourage s tudents to avoid extracurricular activities, urging them to focus on their studies to such an extent that many find it hard to ha ndle it. One current Cambridge tutor has been known for chec king up on the activities of students involved in extracurricular theatre by searching for them on the website, w hich details who is involved in certain plays each term — just i n case it affects the student’s work output.
Problems arise when the pressure produces mental health iss ues. Problems have been brought to attention in articles prim arily from Oxford’s Cherwell and Cambridge’s The Tab. The a ttention has made the Cambridge University Student Union se
t up Students Deserve Better — a campaign to handle compla ints about supervisors and tutors lacking the ability to provide proper spiritual support. “When I told my supervisor about my problems with anxiety and therefore about my worries surroun ding the workload she was suggesting, she said that I would p robably feel less anxious once the work was done,” a finalist s tudent called Jane said. “It shouldn’t be an accepted response in one of the world’s best universities. Their responses only w orsened any feelings I had concerning my final year.”
Phippen said, “At this point the exams seem like the most imp ortant thing in the world. However, two years down the line yo u’ll realize that the exams you did at university aren’t very imp ortant at all, as what then becomes more important is what yo u have done within those two years afterwards. Finalist exam s can become depressing for students studying at any univers ity. All you must remember is that you are not alone and you a re good enough, and that a few years down the line, your abili ty to recount the plots of Euripides’ nineteen plays will no long er matter.So why worry?”
65. The underlined part “be swept under the carpet” in Paragr aph 1 is closest in meaning to “________”.
A. be covered up
B. be dealt with
C. be given up
D. be figured out
66. What’s Mark Ph ippen’s attitude towards the pressure put on the students at Oxbridge?
A. Critical.
B. Doubtful.
C. Objective.
D. Ambiguous.
67. What can we know from Paragraph 4?
A. Extracurricular activities fail to appeal to most students.
B. Some tutors and supervisors push their students too hard.
C. There is a lack of communication between students and t heir supervisors.
D. Some students don’t speak about the pressure because t hey think they can handle it.
68. What Jane said in Paragraph 5 suggests that she _______ _.
A. didn’t get her problems across to her supervisor
B. had expected better spiritual guidance from her tutors
C. was dissatisfied with her supervisor’s delayed responses
D. was glad that Students Deserve Better was set up to help students like her
69. In the last paragraph, Mark Phippen aims to ________.
A. guarantee the equality of exams
B. stress the imp
ortance of exams
C. ease students’ pressure from exams
D. encourage students to perform better in exams
70. Which of the following would be the best title for this pass age?
A. Oxbridge pressure: the key to students’ achievements
B. Oxbridge finals: the toughest exams in the country
C. Oxbridge graduates: the strongest competitors in the job market
D. Oxbridge success: the result of teacher-
student interaction
第四部分任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下列短文, 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：每个空格只填1个单词。

Extreme sports are becoming increasingly popular. In fact, act ivities such as mountain biking, snowboarding and skateboard ing continue to attract larger numbers of people every year. At the same time, a decline has been noted, for years on end, in other outside activities that are considered to be more traditio nal, including basketball. This is most likely linked to several f
actors, ranging from the increased adrenaline（肾上腺
素） all the way to the positive mental and physical health asp ects of participating in an extreme sport.
Extreme sports can push you to your physical and mental limit s. Individuals who regularly perform feats（超群的技
艺） such as going bungee jumping actually change the chem ical makeup of their mind. When this happens, you become m ore capable of staying calm and centered in stressful situation s. In other words, extreme sports can make the rest of your lif e easy to manage. Besides, those who participate in extreme sports are able to turn their fears into positive experiences. Th ere probably aren’t too many people in the world who won’t fe el fearful the first time they go bungee jumping. But seeing tha t you manage to do them will help you reduce your fear respo nse.
We all do certain movements during the day; however, you’ve probably felt sore after doing something that isn’t on your typi cal daily schedule. This is because you have asked your mus cles to move in an unusual way when you are working out. Alt hough this can cause soreness, it can also be good for your o verall physical fitness. When you embrace an extreme sport, you will build up different muscles of your body, and this will b e a positive thing for your health.
Extreme sports task you with overcoming difficult physical cha llenges. If you can complete these challenges, your rewards will be much more than merely physical. Studies have found a strong link between extreme sports and a higher level of self-confidence. This makes sense when you consider the fact tha t accomplishing a task so physically daunting（使人畏缩
的） is something that you should feel proud of. The self-confidence increase can have a positive impact on every asp ect of your life, which makes extreme sports a good idea for e veryone who is physically capable of meeting the great challe nges.
However, before you begin any extreme sport, ensure you’re physically and mentally capable of performing the necessary t asks. Once you’re ready to begin, you’ll be able to choose fro m a long list of adventurous sports that are certain to get your adrenaline flowing.
第五部分书面表达（满分25分）
81. 认真阅读下面有关“不同年龄达到不同能力巅峰”的研究结果，并根据要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

1. 用约30个词概述上面图表和文本的主要内容
2. 用约120个词发表你的观点，内容包括：
⑴.谈谈“不同年龄达到不同能力巅峰”这一研究发现的意义（至少两点）
⑵.结合自身实际，说说如何在现阶段把握你的优势。

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2019高三英语下学期周考试题
第一节单项填空（共15小题）
请认真阅读下面各题, 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. If we want students to become effective in multicultural settings, one thing is clear: there i s no ________ for practice.
A. prescription
B. substitute
C. appetite
D. suspension
22. —Tony ________ what I did annoying though he didn’t say anything.
—So you think you will have to make an apology?
A. could find
B. should have found
C. might find
D. must have found
23. —What about watching a ballet show this evening?
—Thanks for inviting me, but ballet isn’t really __________.
A. the apple of my eyes
B. my feet of clay
C. my cup of tea
D. the salt of the earth
24. Faced with the dilemma, the company committee ________ a public statement, appointin
g the capable man to be its new global chief financial officer.
A. pulled out
B. put out
C. reached out
D. drew out
25. More often than not, the enterprise around us are getting even richer, ________ recipe is don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
A. of which
B. which
C. whose
D. of whom
26. In Beijing, more than 21,100 people ________ to donate their bodies by the end of 2017, as the city promoted a body donation campaign from 1999.
A. have applied
B. had applied
C. would have applied
D. applied
27. During the negotiation to follow, it can be argued that shares of foreign companies are ov ervalued ________ the return they offer.
A. in terms of
B. in memory of
C. in favor of
D. in charge of
28. That preserved historic village connected to downtown by a highway is ________ many of fice workers spend their weekends.
A. what
B. how
C. where
D. why
29. ________ well for my job interview, I really had butterflies in my stomach on my way to the company I had applied to.
A. Having not prepared
B. Not having prepared
C. Not to have prepared
D. To have not prepared
30. The ordinary people all look at the intelligent man with admiration because under no circu mstances ________ to cope with emergencies.
A. he will fail
B. is he failing
C. he is failing
D. will he fail
31. ________ and open to various interpretations, the terms of the new proposal need improvi ng based on the interests of both sides.
A. Accessible
B. Apparent
C. Ambiguous
D. Aggressive
32. I owe my current success to David, my best friend since childhood, without whom I have no idea where I ________ today.
A. am
B. was
C. would have been
D. would be
33. —Are you free now? I have something important to tell you.
—OK, ________ you make it short. I will have to finish this report before noon.
A. now that
B. as soon as
C. every time
D. as long as
34. It is through years of research ________ scientists have discovered the relationship betwe en social media addiction and depression.
A. that
B. before
C. since
D. when
35. —Will it cost a lot to be an exchange student?
—________, but you can apply for scholarship and student loan.
A. I would imagine so
B. You’ve got me there
C. By all means
D. I’m with you on that
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。

I was getting ready for bed when the telephone rang unexpectedly. My mind quickly ran __36 __ the list of family members, but the voice on the other end of the line was only __37__ famili ar. “Lindy, this is Leslie,” she said. I didn’t know Leslie very well, so I was a little __38__ that s he would be calling me at 11:00 pm. I was afraid that it would be something really __39__ to cause her to reach out to someone she __40__ knew. However, she asked me a most __41_ _ question. “Do you have any room for a turkey in your freezer?” she asked. “Sure,” I respon ded, feeling quite confused. My family was at the bottom of our food supply. “I will __42__ wh en I get to your house,” Leslie replied.
We quickly __43__ blue jeans from our nightclothes and prepared to meet her outside __44__ the doorbell wouldn’t wake up our four children. Leslie and her husband came in a huge free zer truck. She explained that her husband serviced a small grocery store that had just lost its lease（租
约）. They had to __45__ all the freezers before midnight. She thought it was a __46__ tojust throw all this food away so she began to go through her list of __47__, dropping off food to an yone who she thought might be __48__ to take it. Ours was the last place they planned to sto p and anything left would have to be __49__.
Still not fully __50__ what had just occurred, I asked her, “When will you be coming back for a ll this?” Leslie replied, “It is yours! We have been __51__ food since 5:00 pm and have __52_ _ our list of contacts. Thanks a lot for helping us out.”。