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本文题目：高三英语下册期中质量检测考试题

第I卷 (共85分)

第一部分：(共两节，满分20分)

第一节

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。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. When will Mr Brown have to be at the airport?

A. By 8:30. B. By 9:30. C. By 10:30.

2. Where is the man originally from?

A. Boston. B. New York. C. Los Angeles.

3. What do we know about the man?

A. He likes his job.

B. He won’t give up his job.

C. He has a large family to support.

4. What are the speakers doing?

A. Checking the modern furniture.

B. Bargaining about the rent of the room.

C. Talking about the expense of electricity.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A present. B. A person. C. A plan.

第二节

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。每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟;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。

第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. How often will the girl attend African Music?

A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week.

7. What else is the girl going to take this term?

A. Basic Spanish. B. Business classes. C.Spanish Composition.

第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What does the woman think of the traffic?

A. Orderly. B. Terrible. C. Just so-so.

9. What made the woman angry the other day?

A. She waited an hour for a bus.

B. She didn’t get on a bus at rush hour.

C. She had waited long when three buses arrived together.

10. How does Tony Berelli get to work?

A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By subway.

第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What does the woman say about the restaurant?

A. It is very old.

B. The fish there is fresh.

C. The beef there is delicious.

12. What do we know about the restaurant?

A. It serves roast dinners on Sundays.

B. It doesn’t serve vegetarian dishes.

C. It opens from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Sundays.

13. What will a man do next?

A. Book a table. B. Check the menu. C. Call the woman’s sister.

第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Why does the man want to sell the computer?

A. He thinks its memory is small.

B. He doesn’t like its colour.

C. He has just bought a new one.

15. What will be sold with the computer together?

A. Headphones. B. A mouse. C. A bag.

16. How much does the man want to sell the computer for?

A. £500. B. £480. C. £425.

17. What do we know about the computer?

A. It has 160GB memory.

B. It is white and silver.

C. It is a desktop.

第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What community is Regional Special about today?

A. Indian. B. African. C. American.

19. What programme will be on at 10:15 p.m.?

A. The News. B. High Society. C.Sports programme.

20. What will be talked about in the health programme?

A. The ways to keep fit.

B. The food to keep fit.

C. The dangers involved in keeping fit.

第二部分：知识运用(共两节，满分90分)

第一节：单项填空(共40小题;每小题1分，满分40分)

21. What lessons China can draw from ___ global financial crisis has become ____ hot topic among us students.

A. a; the B. /; a C. the; a D. /; the

22. ____ there are _______ of 5 emperors, their wives and other royal family members.

A. Buried, the remaining B. Buried, the remains

C. Burying, the remaining D. Burying, the remains

23. We may find that learning a foreign language does not have to be ______ learning our mother tongue, but can in fact be as easy.

A. twice harder as B. as twice hard as

C. twice as hard as D. as twice hard

24. The word “media” basically refers to _______ we commonly call newspapers, magazines, radios and televisions.

A. which B. that C. what D. where

25. I always have so many things to ______ when I come back to the company after a trip abroad.

A. attend to B. add to C. contribute to D. appeal to

26. The maple leaf is Canada’s national ____.

A. symbol B. sign C. sigh D. design

27. --- Can I use the telephone on the table, sir?

--- Under no circumstances _______ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.

A. anyone is allowed B. nobody is allowed

C. is anyone allowed D. is nobody allowed

28. --- I don’t want to move to that city. It is heavily polluted.

--- Pollution is common. The city here is __________.

A. not less clean B. no clean C. no less clean D. no cleaner

29. Misunderstandings _______from lack of social communication ,unless ______properly.may lead to serious problems.

A. arisen; handling B. arising; handled C. arising ; handled D. risen; handling

30. Helping others is a habit, you can develop even at an early age.

A. it B. that C. what D. one

31. Mr. Lee, who as a carpenter for over 10 years, is now a very famous statesman in this country.

A. has worked B. had worked C. worked D. works

32. ---Time flies! The fantastic holiday is over. We’ll have to part.

---No need to feel blue. _____________

A. Envy has no holidays. B. A single flower does not make a spring.

C. All that glitters is not gold. D. All good things come to an end.

33. The company was _______ willing to provide the graduates with what they needed, ______ made them excited.

A. more than; which B. less than; it

C. no more than; that D. not more than; what

34. The microcomputer is _______ ten thousand dollars, but it is _______of being bought.

A. worth; worth B. worthy; worthy

C. worth; worthy D. worthy; worth

35. Colors like red _______ a sense of energy and strength.

A. exchange B. convey C. transform D. transfer

第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的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。

As an engineering student, I had a degree and three good job offers. I can’t help trembling when I hear about studies that show that women are at a __36 when it comes to math. However, I discovered: just because a subject is 37 to learn, it does not __38_ you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to get good at it. _39 you do, there’s a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.

In eighth grade I took algebra(代数学). On one test I got only 36 percent of the __40 answers. I failed the next one, too. I started to _41_ that maybe I’m just not good at this. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who didn’t take my bad grades as a judgment of my _42 _, but 43 as an indication that I should study more. He _ 44 me aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me _45 the tests, and I pulled my grade up to an A.

I studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of fear while sitting below the buzzing fluorescent lights in the 46 library on Saturday afternoons, when I __47 _that the estrogen (雌性激素) in my body was 48_ me from understanding thermodynamics (热力学). But the _49 _ in my classes had to work just as hard, and I knew that I couldn’t _50 to lose confidence in myself. I didn’t want to choose between my femininity(女性)and a good career. _51 __ I reminded myself that those 52 _, the ones that say that math comes more naturally to men, are faulty.

Here’s a secret: math and science don’t go _53 to most people. No one was __54 born knowing calculus. A woman can learn anything a man can, but first she needs to know that she can do it, and that takes a leap of 55 . It also helps to have selective hearing.

36. A. difficulty B. disadvantage C. trouble D. discomfort

37. A. enjoyable B. humorous C. simple D. difficult

38. A. sign B. state C. mean D. exhibit

39. A. Once B. Where C. Although D. Until

40. A. wrong B. complete C. correct D. missing

41. A. think B. suggest C. choose D. decide

42. A. activities B. possibilities C. characteristics D. abilities

43. A. extremely B. simply C. slightly D. normally

44. A. pulled B. led C. knocked D. pushed

45. A. design B. attend C. desert D. retake

46. A. chemistry B. engineering C. biology D. geography

47. A. worried B. excited C. disturbed D. astonished

48. A. protecting B. awaking C. preventing D. attempting

49. A. girls B. boys C. students D. professors

50. A. afford B. encourage C. persuade D. manage

51. A. Also B. But C. Furthermore D. So

52. A. studies B. explorations C. performances D. experiments

53. A. actively B. easily C. actually D. gradually

54. A. never B. ever C. even D. often

55. A. honesty B. knowledge C. reality D. faith

第三部分：阅读理解(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。

A

Temperature is measured by means of a thermometer (温度计). One general form of thermometer depends upon the fact that most solids and liquids expand as their temperature rises. There are one or two exceptions. There is, for instance, a kind of steel called invar (from “invariable”) which does not change its dimensions as temperature changes; it is valuable for making pendulums (钟摆), since, if the length of a pendulum changes, its time of vibration changes. It is also used for making very accurate measuring scales. In both cases, then, changes of atmospheric temperature have no effect if invar is used.

Another exception is that very odd liquid, water, which has many strange properties (特性). As water gets colder it contracts (收缩), which is ordinary behavior, until it reaches the temperature of 30℃. above freezing point. After that, as it gets colder, it expands. This is fortunate---for considering the freezing of a pond. As the water on top gets colder, it shrinks; and so, volume for volume, it becomes heavier and sinks. This goes on until all the pond is at 30℃, but after that, as the water becomes colder it expands. Therefore the colder water stays on top and freezes, covering the pond with ice. If the water went on contracting down to the freezing point, the pond would become a solid block of ice in the end. This would not worry people who live in hot climates, but it would be very serious for those who live in cold climates, especially for those who want to break the ice and catch fish which live in the cold water beneath.

56. Invar is valuable for making pendulums because _______.

A. it can hardly change its shape or size as temperature changes.

B. it will change its dimensions without the change of temperature.

C. its time of vibration doesn’t change if its length changes.

D. its time of vibration does change if its length changes.

57. As water gets colder after reaching the temperature of 30℃. it will _______.

A. contract B. shrink C. expand D. freeze

58. Which of the following statements is true, according to this passage?

A. Only invar can be used to make a thermometer.

B. Only water can be used to make a thermometer.

C. Both invar and water can be used to make a thermometer.

D. Neither invar nor water can be used to make a thermometer.

59. The best title of this passage is most likely to be _____.

A. Temperature Measurement B. Two Exceptions

C. Uses of Invar D. Properties of Water

B

I was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking for somewhere to make a phone call. My car had broken down outside the town and I wanted to contact the AA. Low grey clouds were gathering across the sky and there was a cold damp wind blowing off the sea which nearly threw me off my feet every time I crossed one of the side streets. It had rained in the night and water was dripping from the bare trees that lined the street. I was glad that I was wearing a thick coat.

There was no sign of a call box, nor was there anyone at that early hour whom I could ask. I had thought I might find a shop open selling the Sunday papers or a milkman doing his rounds, but the town was completely dead. The only living thing I saw was a thin frightened cat outside a small restaurant.

Then suddenly I found what I was looking for. There was a small post office, and almost hidden from sight in a dark narrow street next to it was the town’s only public call box, which badly needed a coat of paint. I hurried forward, but stopped in astonishment when I saw through the dirty glass that there was a man inside. He was fat, and was wearing a cheap blue plastic raincoat. I could not see his face and he did not even raise his head at the sound of my footsteps.

Discreetly(谨慎地), I remained standing a few feet away and lit a cigarette to wait my turn. It was when I threw the dead match on the ground that I noticed something bright red trickling from under the call box door.

60. At what time was the story set?

A. An early winter morning. B. A cold winter afternoon.

C. An early summer morning. D. A windy summer afternoon.

61. Which of the following words best describe the writer’s impression of the town?

A. Cold and frightening. B. Dirty and crowded.

C. Empty and dead. D. Unusual and unpleasant.

62. Why didn’t the man raise his head when the writer came near?

A. He was annoyed at being seen by the writer.

B. He was angry at being disturbed by the writer.

C. He was probably fast asleep.

D. He was probably murdered.

C

Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full – blown. Quite the opposite, just as the cook has to undergo a particular training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose---school work, matters of business, or purely social communication.

You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.

There are still some faraway places in the world where you might find a public scribe(文书) to do your business or social writing for you, for money. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.

We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to papers. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figures must be extremely large. What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writes will be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” files or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.

63. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because .

A. both are enjoyable B. both are hard to learn

C. both are necessary to life D. both take a long time to prepare

64. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. Writing skills are less important than experience.

B. A good writer should have his own way of writing.

C. A good writer should learn to write all kinds of articles.

D. The more efforts one makes, the more money one can earn.

65. The author thinks that the most important reason for us to practice writing skills is .

A. to earn our living B. to attract others to read

C. to do daily reports easily D. to become good secretaries

66. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to .

A. comment and blame B. introduce and describe

C. explain and persuade D. interest and inform

D

I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.

I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am about to relate I think real names of people and places are just as well, or better avoided.

I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going to tell.

Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner's son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the still greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm.

Patents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise could believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go about looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow's natural interest in his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay.

67. The writer preferred to be called ________.

A. a German B. an Englishman

C. both a German and an Englishman

D. neither a German nor an Englishman

68. Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer?

A. Talented B. Modest C. Reliable D. Wise

69. The head of the company where the writer works is ________.

A. Schmidt B. Moritz C. Wilhelm’s father D. Gerhardt

70. The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a ready-loaded gun in the hotel, because ________.