陕西省西安市长安区第五中学届高三上学期期中考试英语试题 含答案.docx

1、陕西省西安市长安区第五中学届高三上学期期中考试英语试题 含答案2018-2019学年度上学期高三年级期中考试英语试卷本试卷共150分，考试时间120分钟。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）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。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. Where does the man want to go?A. A railway station. B. A post office. C. The seaside.2. What happe

2、ned to the woman?A. She woke up late. B. She got to work late. C. She went to sleep late.3. What is the woman doing now?A. Baking cookies. B. Making a list. C. Shopping for groceries.4. How does the woman feel about the zoo?A. Sad. B. Impressed. C. Disappointed.5. What are the speakers mainly talkin

3、g about? A. Young people lose their jobs easily. B. Young people are too quick in making decisions. C. Young people seldom stay long in the same job.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；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. When

4、 will the man start his new job?A. Tomorrow. B. Next week. C. Next month.7. Why is the man paying for the womans lunch?A. She helped him a lot. B. It is his turn to pay. C. He wants to congratulate her.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What is Annas chemistry grade now?A. B. B. B+. C. D.9. When does Annas study gr

5、oup meet?A. After school. B. On the weekends. C. During lunch hour.10. Who is Anna speaking to?A. A study group member. B. Her teacher. C. Her father.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. How old was Jonathans mother when she started doing laundry?A. 8 years old. B. 10 years old. C. 16 years old.12. Which temperatur

6、e will Jonathan use for now?A. Hot. B. Cold. C. Warm.13. What is the “light” spin cycle used for? A. Jeans and towels.B. Most of Jonathans clothes. C. Sheets and pillow cases.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. Which decorations are on the sofa? A. The Christmas ones. B. The Halloween ones. C. The Thanksgiving one

7、s.15. What did the man use to get the box out? A. A pole. B. A chair. C. A ladder.16. Where might the conversation take place? A. In the basement.B. In the bedroom.C. In the living room.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What does the Golden Rule ask people to do? A. Develop personal rules. B. Respect their fami

8、lies and ancestors. C. Treat others as they wish to be treated.18. Which is a teaching of Confucius? A. Governments should be moral. B. Husbands should respect wives. C. People should memorize rules of behavior.19. How did Confucius teach lessons? A. Through arguments. B. Through reasoning. C. Throu

9、gh personal examples.20. What does the speaker say about Confucius influence? A. He used to be even more important. B. He has influenced many cultures. C. He has little effect on people today.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ARain beat against the window, m

10、atching my mood. I should have known that my new job at the hospital was too good to be true. Throughout the day, rumors (传言) warned that the newest employee from each department would be laid off. I was the newest one in the training department. My boss appeared. “You probably know were cutting bac

11、k,” he said. “Administration wants us to offer outplacement classes to help those employees find other jobs, showing them how to act in an interview, for example.” “Fine,” I answered unwillingly, not knowing what else to say.I decided to go home early that day. In the hall, I met the lady who brough

12、t us cookies every Friday. She was a little woman with gray hair. Only her head and the top of her green apron were visible over the cart (小车) loaded with cleaning supplies. At least she had a job! At the final meeting, laid-off workers formed a line at the door. A colleague whispered, “I cant belie

13、ve our Cookie Lady is being laid off. Well miss her as much as well miss her cookies.” When the colleague spoke to her in Spanish, I knew my classes would be useless for her and I realized how much better off was than this poor woman.I decided to do something for her. I wrote to a newspaper expressi

14、ng how I felt about the unselfishness of the Cookie Lady who needed a job. A few days later, my article appeared in the newspaper and the Cookie Lady was allowed to stay in her position. On the same day, I received a letter, which seemed so unlikely that I read it twice. “An editor of a local magazi

15、ne likes your piece and wants you to call her next time youre looking for work ”21. How did the author feel on that rainy day?A. Nervous. B. Excited. C. Awkward. D. Proud.22. What was the author asked to do?A. Take care of patients. B. Leave earlier that day.C. Resign from the hospital. D. Help the

16、laid-off workers.23. How did the author help the Cookie Lady?A. He offered her a high-paid job. B. He gave her advice on job hunting.C. He made her story known to others. D. He taught her how to pass an interview.24. What does the story tell us?A. Good deeds have their rewards.B. A friend in need is

17、 a friend indeed.C. Little people can make a big difference.D. Love brings more joy to people than work does.BAt your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.Among English speakers, chances are that it will be a second or two at most. But while this patter

18、n may be universal, our awareness of silence differs dramatically across cultures.What one culture considers a confusing or awkward pause may be seen by others as a valuable moment of reflection and sign of respect for what the last speaker has said. Research in Dutch and also in English found that

19、when a silence in conversation stretches to four seconds, people start to feel uneasy. In contrast, a separate study of business meetings found that Japanese people are happy with silences of 8.2 seconds nearly twice as long as in Americans meetings. In Japan, it is recognized that the best communic

20、ation is when you dont speak at all. Its already a failure to understand each other by speaking because youre repairing that failure by using words. In the US, it may originate from the history of colonial (殖民地) America as a crossroads of many different races. When you have a complex of difference,

21、its hard to establish common understanding unless you talk and theres understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engaged to establish a common life. This applies also to some extent to London. In contrast, when theres more homogeneity, perhaps its easier for some kinds of silence to

22、 appear. For example, among your closest friends and family its easier to sit in silence than with people youre less well acquainted with.25. Which of the following people might have the longest silence in conversation? A. The Dutch. B. Americans. C. The English. D. The Japanese.26. What might the J

23、apanese agree with in a conversation? A. Speaking more gives the upper hand. B. Speak out what you have in your mind. C. Great minds think alike without words. D. The shorter talking silence, the better.27. What can we learn from the text? A. A four second silence in conversation is universal. B. It

24、s hard for Americans to reach a common agreement. C. English speakers are more talkative than Japanese speakers. D. The closer we and our family are, the easier the silence appears.28. What does the underlined word “homogeneity” in the last paragraph mean? A. Similarity. B. Contradiction. C. Diversi

25、ty. D. Misunderstanding.C Next month, Im traveling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala one of the local languages to have a conversation. I wasnt sure how I was going to manage this until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary Im going to need. Thanks to M

26、emrise, the app Im using. It feels just like a game.“People often stop learning things because they feel theyre not making progress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “Were trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun

27、 and is something youd want to do instead of watching TV.”Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you practice the words, you “water your plants”. When the app believes that you have really remembered a word, it moves the word to yo

28、ur “garden”. And if you forget to log on (登录)，the app sends you emails that remind you to “water your plants”.The app uses two principles about learning. The first is that people remember things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, b

29、ut it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created I imagined an old engine in a motel (汽车旅馆) room.The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them againlater, leaving time between study

30、 sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because its the kind of app you only use for five or ten minutes a day.Ive learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this wont make me a fluent speaker, but I hope Ill be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to g

31、o and water my Vocabulary!29. What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise?A. Create memorable experiences.B. Make progress with hard work.C. Master languages through games.D. Combine study with entertainment.30. What do the underlined words “water your plants” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Lea

32、rning new words.B. Being a Memrise user.C. Logging on to the app.D. Taking care of your garden.31. How does Memrise work?A. By linking different mems together.B. By putting knowledge into practice.C. By offering human translation services.D. By applying an associative memory approach.32. What is the authors attitude towards Memrise?A