贵州省凯里市第一中学2017届高三上学期期末考试英语试题

凯里一中2017高三英语期末试题
第I卷
第一部分听力（共20小题，每小题1.5分.共30分）
第一节听下面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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

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. What will the speakers do together?
A. Celebrate a birthday.
B. Get something to eat.
C. Study for an exam.
2. Where did the man live as a child?
A. In Chile.
B. In Argentina.
C. In Columbia.
3. Why is the woman upset?
A. The flower shop is closed.
B. She received the wrong delivery.
C. Her delivery hasn’t been ready in time.
4. How much tax should the man pay per night?
A. $5.
B. $10t.
C. $15.
5. What is the man doing now?
A. Exchanging numbers with his classmate.
B. Asking about the homework.
C. Borrowing a pen.
第二节听下面5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有5 秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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. What does the man say about the sports center?
A. It is very close to a bus stop.
B. He played table tennis there last week.
C. The swimming pool is a little bit small.
7. When will the speakers meet next week?
A. On Friday.
B. On Thursday.
C. On Wednesday., 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题
8. According to the woman, how many injuries has the man gotten?
A. 3.
B. 4.
C. 6.
9. What does the man think of himself?
A. He easily gets injured.
B. He is young and strong.
C. He’s getting old.
10. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man is in his twenties.
B. The man takes his injuries very seriously.
C. The woman is worried about the man’s health.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. How does the woman feel about Johns Hopkins’ decision?
A. Unrealistic .
B. Upset.
C. Pleased.
12. What usually happened to the pigs after the experiments?
A. They were killed.
B. They were set free.
C. They were sent back to the laboratory.
13. What is the man’s attitude towards the issue?
A. He wants Johns Hopkins to reconsider.
B. He hopes other schools will do the same thing.
C. He thinks medical students are getting a poor education.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14.Why did the woman bring her car in?
A. She needs new tires.
B. It has been having engine problems.
C. She’s already driven her car 50,000 miles.
15. What does the man imply?
A. He’s had a lot of problems with his car.
B. The woman’s car is very dirty.
C. His kids are also messy.
16. What will the woman do next?
A. Take her car home.
B. Head to the waiting room.
C. Give the man her keys.
17. Where are speakers?
A. At a car wash.
B. In a car factory.
C. In a parking lot.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. According to the announcement, where can class information be found?
A. At the library itself.
B. On the library’s website.
C. From National Library Week workers.
19. What does the library offer?
A. Computers to borrow.
B. Dogs to read to.
C. Money for student loans.
20. Who is likely making this announcement?
A. A librarian.
B. A teacher.
C.A small business owner.
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。

A
In Japan, hikikomori is a word used to describe the young people who hide away. ” They want to go out in the world, they want to make friends, but they can’t,” says Tamaki Saito, a doctor who has been studying the social problem since the early 1990s.
Although it’s hard to tell the exact number of today’s hikikomori, it actually remains very high.
A 2010 study for the Japanese Cabinet Office reported it was 700,000. Since sufferers are always hidden away, Saito himself places the number higher, at around one million. And the age of hikikomori seems to have risen over the last twenty years. Before it was twenty-one----now it is thirty-two.
What first caused a boy to hide away from society might be slight---poor grades or a broken heart, for example---but it can also become a source of suffering. And powerful social forces can strongly keep him staying in his bedroom.
One such force is sekentei, a person’s reputation in the neig hborhood and the difficulty he or
she has in impressing others. The longer hikikomori remain apart from society, the more they realize their social failure. They lose whatever confidence they had and the possibility of leaving home.
Andy Furlong, an expert at the University of Glasgow, connects the increase in the number of hikikomori with the rapid economic growth in the 1980s and the slowdown in the 1990s. It was at this point that the conveyor belt (传送带)of good school grades leading to good university places leading to jobs-for-life broke down. The Japanese youth at the time were faced with the reality of short-term and part-time work.
And it came with the loss of respect. Those who change their jobs frequently are called “freeters”---a mixture of t he word “freelance” and the German word for “worker”, arbeiter. In public discussion, freeters are often connected with “neets”--- a word made up from the first letters of “not in education, employment or training”. Neets, freeters and hikikomori are often used to describe the good-for-nothing young people.
Needless to say, what matters most is how to get those who hide away to return to society. Tamaki Saito’s approach is to begin with “reorganizing” the relationship between these patients and their parents.
21. What can we learn about hikikomori?
A. They are very popular in Japan.
B. Most young people are hikikomori.
C. There are 700,000 hikikomori in Japan.
D. They are cut off from the outside world.
22. What influence does sekentei have on hikikomori?
A. It opens up a wider world for them.
B. It stops them from leaving home.
C. It offers them social knowledge.
D. It helps them impress others.
23. According to Furlong, why did more Japanese youth hide away?
A. because they disliked social activities
B. because they didn’t perform well at school
C. because they had little interest in hard work
D. because they couldn’t find good, regular jobs
24. In Japan, freeters and neets .
A. don’t want to work at all
B. refer to full-time workers
C. are not accepted by society
D. dislike working with others
25. In the next part, what would the author most probably discuss?
A. how to help hikikomori out
B. why Saito studies hikikomori
C. why there are many hikikomori
D. how to get along with hikikomori
B
A man pulls into the parking lot, turns off the engine, and sits for a minute feeling anxious about the next two hours. An important client(客户) has invited him to an open house in celebration of their new downtown office. He hate s these things. He doesn’t know what to say. He doesn’t know anyone except the client, and he always feels like he’s trying not to look lost. He sinks deeper into the seat, making a tough decision about when to leave.
Casual conversation happens at least a dozen times a day. Yet for some of us, many occasions that involve small talk don’t ever get any easier, and may even increase anxiety and cause some people to feel on edge about social events, business lunches, and chance meetings with neighbors. Unfortunately, as we are suffering our own discomfort, our neighbors, friends, and workmates generally consider us distant, cold and proud.
If your conversations disappear almost as soon as they’ve begun, or if you’re an unwilling participant at social and business get-togethers, you’ll need some skills. Just get involved in a meaningful dialogue, try your best to introduce an interesting topic when there’s a silence, and develop business friendships whenever and wherever possible.
Small talk isn’t the lowly stepc hild of real conversation. Without it, you rarely get to the real conversation. Small talk is the icebreaker that clears the way for a deeper conversation. People who excel at small talk are experts at making others feel included, valued, and comfortable. And that goes a long way toward furthering a business relationship, or making a friend.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that all those other people you see who are smiling and happily chatting come by it naturally. Sure, some are natural-born talkers, but most have had to work at it. They’ve practiced, attended courses and read books. You don’t think so? Believe me, I know. I used to be a single-minded, unsociable engineer---no one has worse skills than I once did. I have become an expert by learning some ski lls and then practicing them. It’s that simple.
26. According to Paragraph 2, those who are poor at casual conversation .
A. are sometimes considered unfriendly
B. believe small talk is a waste of time
C. have few chances to meet strangers
D. feel comfortable when they are with neighbors
27. What does the author stress in Paragraph 4?
A. The important functions of small talk.
B. The difficulties of starting a deep conversation.
C. The advantages of small talk over real conversation.
D. The differences between small talk and real conversation.
28. In the last paragraph, the author mentions his own experience to .
A. show a good method of improving social skills
B. prove some people are born brilliant speakers
C. show his achievements in social activities
D. prove conversation skills can be acquired
C
What does family mean to you？Could you capture it in a photograph? If so, our great new competition is for you! All you have to do is take a picture that sums up your sense of family life. The competition will be judged by the RD( Reader’s Digest) team and award –winning photographer Barry Marsden. To get your creative juices flowing, here are two of our regular photographers’ tips for taking great pictures.
Pal Hansen
The most important thing is to carry a camera around with you at all times. Use manual(手动的) settings as much as possible. Now that everything is digital, I’d also say, “Shoot as much as possible,” because it doesn’t cost anything.
Michelle McCarron
Kids find wonder in the simplest things, so as a photographer it helps to be ready for those moments. The connection across generations is sometimes best captured in a photograph. Frame your subject well. Get close to the action, or your subject, and choose your angle carefully. A slightly odd angle can make a photo different.
How To Enter
● Take a clear photo with either a phone or digital camera. Send it to rdphotocomp@ by 5pm, August 30. Please include a brief explanation of who’s in the entry(参赛作品).
● There are two categories----one for adults and one for under—18s.
● In the adult category, the winner will receive$ 500. The under-18 winner will receive$250 of high-street vouchers（代金券）for a store of their choice.
Rules:
Please make sure that pictures are not published before.
If you are under 16, you must ask your parent’s permission to enter this competition.
We will use entries in all print and electronic media. We cannot return your entry.
Entry is not open to employees of Vivat Direct Ltd( trading as Reader’s Digest) and all other persons associated with this competition, their immediate families, and relatives living in an employee’s household. The judges’ decision is final.
29. What do we know about the photo competition?
A. It is designed for readers of RD.
B. Entries must be about family.
C. Photos must be taken by a camera.
D. Pal Hansen is one of its judges.
30. To take part in the competition, one should .
A. be 18 years old or above
B. send in his entry in August
C. ask his family’s permission
D. give a description of his entry
31. According to the text, winners of the competition will .
A. each win $500
B. get their entries back
C. see their pictures published
D. be offered some vouchers
D
The human population of Sri Lanka is now believed to be over 20 million. As a result, large areas of trees are being turned into farmland, highways are being built over centuries—old elephant migration(迁徙) routes, and elephants are being driven out of their habitats. This change causes turmoil, resulting in an increased number of uncontrollable events between elephants and humans.
The good news is that there is one place called the Elephant Transit Home(ETH) in Udawalawe National Park, the main purpose of which is to protect and care for baby elephants that are found injured or living without their mothers in the wild. A day at the ETH begins early in the morning when the baby elephants are given their first feeding of milk. During the course of the day, each baby will drink an average of 13 gallons of milk. Older elephant are fed mostly coconut leaves as well as other native plants. Then the elephants are set free to wander in the park, eating growing grass and forming a herd.
The ETH spends almost $125,000 each year on powdered milk for these baby animals. To help
pay for food and medical supplies, the ETH has a foster（领养）parent program. Anyone, even schoolchildren, can help a lot by giving money to care for a baby elephant. While some foster parents are too faraway to visit the baby elephant being cared for at the ETH, local schoolchildren play an important part in the program. Foster parents can name their elephants, take photographs
of them, and even help send them back into the wild.
Now visitors are not encouraged to get close to the elephants. The goal of the ETH is for the elephants to return to the wild in the end. It usually takes three years for a baby elephant to be sent back into its natural habitat. The elephants are often set free together with other animals with whom they have close relationships. This program helps them return to the wild as members of a herd that will communicate with each other and take care of each other.
32. What does the underlined word ”turmoil” most p robably refer to?
A. a lack of order
B. a sense of well-being
C. a condition of illness
D. a feeling of loneliness
33. As a foster parent in the ETH , you may .
A. give the elephant you care for a name
B. visit the baby elephants anytime you want
C. take photographs of elephants twice a month
D. visit Udawalawe National Park free of charge
34. The last paragraph mainly deals with .
A. the cost of raising a young elephant
B. the life of the baby elephants in the ETH
C. the future of the elephants in the ETH
D. the requirements of being a foster parent
35. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Migration Habits of Asian Elephants
B. V olunteer with Elephants in Sri Lanka
C. Traveling in Udawalawe National Park
D. The Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka
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选项。

Writing a Short Story
Writing a short story is a popular hobby for a lot of people. 36 Writing a good story is not easy but it is certainly worth the effort. Here are some steps you should take to write a good story.
Step 1:Every story starts with an idea. Start by thinking about the things that you enjoy.
37 Other ideas can come from thinking about subjects that you’d like to know more
about.
Step 2: Once you have an idea, you can then decide who your main characters are going to
be. Consider having both a hero and a villain(恶棍) in your story. This will help to keep your
readers interested.
Step 3: 38 Most writers plan their stories by creating an outline. It should describe the
main events that happen. This will help anyone who reads the story to follow its events.
Step 4:Now that you have your outline, it is time to start writing. Follow your outline, and
write your story. At this point, your story does not have to be perfect. 39
Step 5: The story you have written is your first draft. The next step is to read through it and
revise it. After your self-revision, it’s time to get some advice about your story.
40 Finally, you should now have a well-written story.
A.You will go back and improve it later.
B.Before you start, you need to plan your story.
C.It is also an excellent way to express creative thoughts.
D.Your story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
E.These are excellent subjects to base your stories on.
F.Keep working on your story until it is the best you can make it.
G.Have others read your story so they can make suggestions for improvements.
第II卷
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）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。

A few weeks ago I started taking a weekly art class. It’s been great for me to connect to my
creativity in a structured way. I have 41 so much about my creative process and I’ve only
been in the class for 3 weeks! I can’t 42to see what else I can learn over the next couple of
months.
This week in class the focus was portraits. The 43 had us put a big blob(滴) of red paint in the middle of our paper, which was used to 44 the shape of the model’s head. She told us
to use black and white paint to 45 where light and shadow were hitting the model. We had 15
minutes to 46 the painting. The idea of this exercise was to work 47 and not get bogged down（困住）by thinking about each brushstroke（一笔）.
We did three of these 15—minute 48 over the course of the class. Each time, mid-way through, I was convinced I was doing a 49 job and I should start over. However,
50 tearing my paper up, I breathed through the discomfort and 51 each painting. And guess what?! A face 52 on the paper. I started each painting with a big blob of paint in the middle of the 53 and over the course of 15 minutes somehow I created a(n) 54 . In a way, it was magical.
It got me thinking. When I’m in the middle of a practice process, I sometimes feel 55 . Everything feels muddy and uncertain. It’s a very56 time, often filled with self-doubt. In fact it’s57 that in the middle of a creation we are uncomfortable-----you could
58 say that it’s natural or unavoidable. You will59 it. Believe that you won’t stay there forever. 60 uncomfortable, that “in-between place” is simply a par t of the creative process. If you keep on, you will succeed finally.
41. A. planned B. talked C. learned D. seen
42. A. expect B. wait C. help D. afford
43. A. instructor B. leader C. boss D. assistant
44. A. express B. create C. describe D. find
45. A. prove B. point C. explain D. show
46. A. observe B. imitate C. complete D. imagine
47. A. quickly B. independently C. properly D. quietly
48. A. activities B. paintings C. tests D. breaks
49. A. terrible B. wonderful C. boring D. difficult
50. A. in case of B. because of C. in terms of D. instead of
51. A. displayed B. cleaned C. finished D. copied
52. A. remained B. appeared C. cleared D. softened
53. A. room B. day C. way D. paper
54. A. chance B. design C. portrait D. example
55. A. amazed B. embarrassed C. happy D. lost
56. A. uncomfortable B. funny C. wrong D. long
57. A. simple B. right C. exact D. normal
58. A. just B. often C. even D. ever
59. A. go over B. get across C. go for D. get through
60. A. When B. Though C. Since D. If
第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone has seen plants growing, but have you ever thought 61. they get their food? In the seventeenth century, 62 European scientist called Van Helmot asked this question. Like most people, he thought plants get their food from soil. However, he decided to test the theory with 63 (experiment).
First, he dried some soil, put it into a pot and weighed it. Next, he weighed a small tree, planted in in the pot and added rain water. Then, he watered it 64 (regular) with rain water.
After five years, he removed the tree from the pot and weighed it again. He found that the tree had gained a huge amount of weight. When he weighed the soil, 65 , it was almost exactly the same as it had been five years ago . So he drew the conclusion that the tree grew by drinking water. Though it turned 66 to be wrong, he showed the importance of the use of 67 (science) evidence to support ideas.
We now know that plants and trees make their 68 food. Their leaves, when 69 (expose) to the air and sun, are like factories which can change the energy from the sun into chemical energy. During this process, oxygen and sugar 70 (produce). The oxygen is released back into the air, and the sugar is used by the plant as food
第四部分写作
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，请你修改你同桌系的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

It was a hot afternoon. My friend and I decide to have an adventure in her basement,
where we found some paint in bright colors. We gathered all the brush we could find and moved all the materials to my yard. There on the road in the front of my house, we painted big stripes of colors. Stripe by stripe, our colors turned in a beautiful rainbow.
The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped down as I recognized it. It pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look on my mother face, I could tell how deep trouble I was in..
My mother walked towards me and ordered me clean my art up. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement. Though many years have passed, but I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I guess we all need some sort of rainbow to brighten our lives and to keep our dreams color.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是外教Daniel James,，学生会主席Li Hua 代表学校邀请你在２０１７年９月１日的开学典礼上做个讲话，你接受了邀请并且回信对讲话内容作了简要的安排，主要内容要求如下。

１．感谢学校提供这个教学职位及自己的打算。

２．良好的英语学习习惯、方法的介绍，并阐明英语在现实生活中的重要性。

３．号召全校师生学习一定量的英语。

注意：1. 词数1２0词左右；
2. 可适当增加细节使文章连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Li Hua,
A lot of sincere thanks for
Looking forward to meeting you all soon. All the best wishes!
Yours,
Daniel James
参考答案一：听力
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二：阅读理解
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三：完型填空
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四：语法填空
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五：改错
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六：作文
参考范文
Dear Li Hua,
A lot of thanks for your inviting me to attend the Opening Ceremony of our school and make a speech there. Surely I’ll come and the following are what I will say.
In the first place, I appreciate the chance that I am offered the job by our school. I think I’ll do my be st to teach my students well and spare no efforts to help them. Secondly, to learn English well, one has to develop a good habit of study and try to use English as often as possible. As everybody knows, practice makes perfect. In addition, as English is more and more widely used in the world, the importance of it needs no explanation of mine. Therefore, everybody, including both the teachers and the students, needs to learn it. It is really worth our learning.
Now I feel I can’t wait to enjoy the chance to make the speech.
Looking forward to meeting you all soon. All the best wishes!
Yours,
Daniel James。