2016屆高三第一次段考英語(yǔ)試題卷

1、肥東一中2016屆高三第一次階段考試英 語(yǔ) 本試卷分為第卷和第II卷兩部分。滿分150分，考試時(shí)間120分鐘。 第卷第一部分 聽(tīng)力（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）第一節(jié)（共5小題；每小題1.5分，滿分7.5分）聽(tīng)下面5段對(duì)話，每段對(duì)話后有一個(gè)小題。從題中所給的A、B、C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽(tīng)完每段對(duì)話后，你都有10秒鐘的時(shí)間來(lái)回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對(duì)話僅讀一遍。1. What does Tom plan to do next week?A. To make a robot.B. To surprise the woman.C. To enter a competiti

2、on.2. What is the woman?A. A waitress.B. A tour guide.C. A saleswoman.3. What is the womans problem?A. She got on the wrong train.B. She forgot her seat number.C. She lost her train ticket.4. Why has the man stopped exercising? A. He is busy moving house. B. He lives far away from the gym. C. He dis

3、likes going to the gym alone.5. How is Janet probably feeling now?A. Disappointed.B. Stressed.C. Confused.第二節(jié) （共15小題；每小題1.5分，滿分22.5分）聽(tīng)下面5段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白。每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白后有幾個(gè)小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽(tīng)每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白前，你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽(tīng)完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白讀兩遍。聽(tīng)第6段材料，回答第6、7題。6. How long is the woman going to

4、stay at the hotel?A. Two nights.B. Three nights.C. Four nights.7. Why are the prices for the two rooms different? A. The rooms are different in size. B. The rooms have different views. C. The rooms are of different shapes.聽(tīng)第7段材料，回答第8、9題。8. How did the man come to the place?A. On foot.B. By car.C. By

5、 train.9. Why is the man here? A. To have an interview. B. To discuss traffic problems. C. To share his work experience.聽(tīng)第8段材料，回答第10至12題。10. Where are the speakers?A. In a bank.B. On a lake.C. At a hotel.11. Why does Davids father want to spend Christmas in the countryside? A. He can enjoy the lake

6、view. B. He can be freed from housework. C. He can have some peace and quiet.12. Why is David unhappy? A. He isnt allowed to skate. B. He cant attend the party. C. He has to cook for his parents.聽(tīng)第9段材料，回答第13至16題。13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Salesperson and customer.B

7、. Homeowner and cleaner. C. Husband and wife.14. What kind of apartment do the speakers prefer?A. One with two bedrooms.B. One without furniture.C. One near a market.15. How much rent should one pay for the one-bedroom apartment?A. $ 350.B. $ 400.C. $ 415.16. Where is the apartment the speakers woul

8、d like to see?A. On Lake Street.B. On Market Street.C. On South Street.聽(tīng)第10段材料，回答第17至20題。17. What percentage of the worlds tea exports go to Britain?A. Almost 15%.B. About 30%.C. Over 40%.18. Why do tea tasters taste tea with milk? A. Tea with milk is healthy. B. Tea tastes much better with milk. C.

9、 Most British people drink tea that way.19. Who suggests a price for each tea?A. Tea tasters.B. Tea exporters.C. Tea companies.20. What is the speaker talking about? A. The life of tea tasters. B. Afternoon tea in Britain. C. The London Tea Trade Centre.第二部分 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）第一節(jié) （共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）閱讀下

10、列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。AFood festivals around the worldStilton Cheese RollingMay Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2,000 English villagers of Stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans. Teams of four, dressed in a variety

11、of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course. On the way, they must not kick or throw their cheese, or go into their competitors lane. Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably

12、 the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones). All the competitors arc served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.Fiery Foods Festival The Hottest Festival on EarthEvery year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They come from as

13、 far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a common addiction food that is not just spicy ,but hot enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water. Their destination is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival which is held over a period of three days every March.

14、You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper officially the hottest pepper in the world or any one of the thousands of products that are on show. But one things for sure if you dont like the feeling of a burning tongue, this festival isnt for you!La Tomatina The World's Biggest Food

15、 FightOn the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts La Tomatina the worlds largest food fight. A week-long celebration leads up to an exciting tomato battle as the highlight of the weeks events. The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes official fight-

16、starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. Then everyone heads down to the river to make friends again and for a

17、much-needed wash!21. In the Stilton cheese rolling competition, competitors on each team must _.A. kick or throw their cheeseB. wear various formal clothesC. roll a wooden cheese in their own laneD. use a real cheese weighing about four kilos22. Where is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival held?A. In Au

18、stralia.B. In the Caribbean.C. In New Mexico.D. In China.23. The celebration of La Tomatina lasts _.A. three days B. seven daysC. less than three daysD. more than seven days24. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ

19、Festival. B. More than 10,000 Chinese take pail in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival. C. The chief prize for the Stilton cheese rolling competition is beer or port wine. D. An exciting tomato battle takes place at the beginning of La Tomatina.BPassenger pigeons (旅鴿)once flew over much of the United St

20、ates in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群) so large that they the sky for hours.It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, they were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the to

21、tal bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.Sadly the abundance of passenger

22、pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taki

23、ng hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans need for wood, which scattered (驅(qū)散) the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north,

24、 where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirme

25、d wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time , a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.25. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger

26、pigeons _. A. were the biggest bird in the world B. lived mainly in the south of America C. were the largest bird population in the US D. did great harm to the natural environment26. The underlined word “undoing” probably refers to the pigeons_.A. ruinB. escapeC. liberationD. evolution27. What was t

27、he main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?A. To seek pleasure.B. To make money.C. To save other birds. D. To protect crops.28. What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?A. It was unfair.B. It was strict.C. It was ignored by the public.D. It was declared too late.CIf humans were tr

28、uly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal (夜間活動(dòng)的) species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the suns light. This is a basic evolution

29、ary fact, even though most of us dont think of ourselves as diurnal beings. Yet its the only way to explain what weve done to the night: Weve engineered it to receive us by filling it with light. The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects

30、 scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. -designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and completely changes the light levels 一and light rhythms to which m

31、any forms of life, including, ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world , some aspect or life is affected . In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze (霾) that mirrors our fear of the dark. Weve grown so used to

32、 this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit nigh 一 dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadow on Earth 一 is wholly beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.Weve lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further form the truth. Among mammals alone,

33、 the number of nocturnal species is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet (磁鐵). The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being “captured” by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platfo

34、rms. Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times righter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint including most other creatures, w

35、e do need darkness. Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.Living in a glare of our making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night. In a very real sense ligh

36、t pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way the edge of our galaxy 一arching overhead.29. What does “it”(Paragraph 1) most probably refer to?A. The sky.B. The

37、moon.C. The night.D. The planet.30. The writer mentions birds and frogs to _ . A. show how light pollution affects animals B. provide examples of animal protection C. compare the living habits of both species D. explain why the number of certain species has declined31. It is implied in the last para

38、graph that _. A. light pollution dose harm to the eyesight of animals B. light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages C. human beings cannot go to the outer space D. human beings should reflect on their position in the universe32. What might be the best title for the passage?A. The Magi

39、c Light.B. The Orange Haze.C. The Rhythms of Nature.D. The Disappearing Night.DTravis is the manager of G&G where he is responsible for forty employees and profits (利潤(rùn)) of over $2 million per year. Hes never late to work. He does not get upset on the job. When one of his employees started crying

40、 after a customer screamed at her, Travis took her away. “Your working uniform is your shelter,” he told her. “Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you. You will always be as strong as you want to be.”Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began

41、 on his first day and continues throughout an employees occupation. The training has, Travis says, changed his life. G&G has taught him how to live, how to focus, how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions (情緒). Most importantly, it taught him willpower.At the center of that educ

42、ation is an extreme focus on an all-important habit: willpower. Dozens of cases show that willpower is the single most important habit for a persons success.And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. “Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control arent working hard

43、 but thats because theyve made it automatic,” Angela Duckworth, one of the University of Pennsylvania researchers said. “Their willpower occurs without them having to think about it.” The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train employees on self-control. Managers wrot

44、e workbooks that serve as guides to how to make willpower a habit in workers lives. Those courses are, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.33. We learn from Paragraph 2 that employe

45、es in G&G must .A. learn to give lecturesB. design a working uniformC. attend education programsD. develop a common hobby34. Willpower will become a habit when employees can .A. focus on the profitsB. benefit from the jobC. control their feelings wellD. protect themselves well35. What can we inf

46、er from the passage? A. G&G has grown into a large company. B. G&G may become more successful in the future. C. G&G will spend half its profits training employees. D. G&G has to produce more workbooks for managers.第二節(jié) （共5小題，每小題2分，滿分10分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。Kids he

47、alth: Four steps for fighting stressEverybody gets stressed time to time. 36 Some ways of dealing with stress一like screaming or hitting someone一dont solve much. But other ways, like talking to someone you trust, can lead you to solving your problem or at least feeling better.Try taking these four st

48、eps. the next time you are stressed:(1) Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. Talk to a trusted adult, such as a parent or other relatives. 37 They might have had similar problems, such as dealing with a test, or the death of a beloved pet. (2) Dont take it out

49、 on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset they take it out on themselves. Oh, dear, thats good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Dont take it out on yourself. 38 (3) Try to solve the problem. After youre calm and you have support from adults and friends, its tim

50、e to get down to business. 39 Even if you cant solve it all, you can solve a piece of it. (4) Be positive. Most stress is temporary (暫時(shí)的). Remember stress does go away, especially when you figure out the problem and start working on solving it. These steps arent magic, but they do work. And if you c

51、an stay positive as you make your way through a tough time, youll help yourself feel better even faster. 40 A. Then, find a way to calm down.B. And dont forget about your friends.C. You need to figure out what the problem is.D. Ah, it feels so good when the stress is gone.E. Different people feel st

52、ress in different ways.F. Notice your friends feelings and find a way to help them.G. Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation.第三部分 英語(yǔ)知識(shí)運(yùn)用 （共兩節(jié)，滿分45分）第一節(jié) 完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。When our restaurant business failed, we headed north i

53、n a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “fresh start”.At the 41 of Palo Duro Canyon (峽谷) State Park, I 42 a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a 43 , permanent campsite in the park, and 44 , the hosts served as a link between the parks guests and the rangers (護(hù)林人). It was

54、 the perfect solution: a rent-free place to reorganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an 45 for the following day.The park was 46 , so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼬) walking toward our table. We 47

55、 climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to 48 our camp.Having survived that night, we were 49 that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our 50 and gave us a beautiful campsite. That evening, 51 , we lea

56、rned about the canyon 52 . They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently, and we lay 53 in the dark until the winds died away. 54 the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and 55 the little money my wife 56 by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful 57 . For a time after our business 58 I thought I might lose my family as well. Living in the tiny