安徽省蚌埠市届高三英语上学期期中试题 精品.docx

1、安徽省蚌埠市届高三英语上学期期中试题 精品蚌埠市2015-2016学年度第一学期期中考试高三英语试卷第I卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10称钟的时间来回答有关小题如阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.答案是 C。1. What

2、 does the woman want to do?A. Buy a map. B. Find a place. C. Get an address.2. What will the man do for the woman?A. Give her a ride.B. Repair her car.C. Pick up her aunt.3. Who might Mr. Peterson be?A. A new professor.B. A department head.C. A company director.4. What does the man think of the book

3、?A. Very interesting.B. Quite difficult.C. Too simple.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. Clothes.B. Weather.C. News.第二节（共15小题；每小题15分，满分225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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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至7题。6. Why is Harry unw

4、illing to join the woman?A. He wants to watch TV. . B.He has a pain in his knee. C. He is too lazy.7. What will the woman probably do next?A. Stay at home. B. Take Harry to hospital. C. Do some exercise.听第7段材料，回答第8 、9题。8. When will the man be home from work?A. At 6:15. B. At 5:45. C. At 6:50.9. Wher

5、e will the speakers go ?A. The Green House Cinema. B. The New State Cinema . C. The UME Cinema. 听第 8段材料,回答第 10至 12题。10. How will the speaker go to New York?A. By taxi. B. By air. C. By bus.11. Why are the speakers making the trip?A. For business.B. For shopping.C. For holiday.12. What is the probabl

6、e relationship between the speakers?A. Driver and passenger B. Husband and wife.C. Fellow workers.听第 9段材料,回答第 13至 16题。13. Where does this conversation probably take place?A. In an office. B. In a restaurant. C. In a classroom.14. What does John do now?A. Hes a trainer. B. Hes a tour guide. C. Hes a

7、college student.15. How much can a new person earn for the first year?A. $ 12,000. B.$10,500. C. $ 15,000.16. How many people will the woman hire?A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city?A. Ten years.B. One year.C. Eighteen years.18. What is the sp

8、eakers opinion on public transport?A. Its comfortable. B. Its time-saving. C. Its cheap.19. What is good about living in a small town?A. Its healthier. B. Its safer. C. Its more convenient.20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?A. Colourful B.Busy. C. Quiet.第二部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）第一节

9、（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 ，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。 A The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites , even dar

10、es school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter t

11、he challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue, Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honor at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also pres

12、ent prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch（早午餐） will be served.Between March 10th and March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics o

13、f the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at :http:/ cambridgesciencefestival.org.21. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?A. Cambridge locals. B.School students. C. CSF winners. D. MIT artists.22. When

14、will the prize-giving ceremony be held?A. On February 8th. B. On March 10th.C. On April 21st. D. On March 15th 23. What type of writing is this text?A .An exhibition guide. B. An art show review.C. An official report. D. An announcement. BPassenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United State

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

16、 total 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 passen

17、ger 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,

18、taking 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 (驱散) the flocks and forced the birds to go farther n

19、orth, 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 co

20、nfirmed wi 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, 1914.24. In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passe

21、nger pigeons_.A. were the biggest bird in the worldB. lived mainly in the south of AmericaC. were the largest bird population in the USD. did great harm to the natural environment25. The underlined word “ undoing” probably refers to the pigeons _.A. ruin B. escape C. liberation D. evolution26. What

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

23、l lion tamer（驯兽师）in peoples mind is an entertainer holding a whip( 鞭) at a chair. The whip gets all of the attention, but its mostly for show. In reality, it the chair that does the important work. When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of the lions face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs o

24、f the chair at the same time. With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next. When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.How often do you find yourself in the same position as the lion? Ho

25、w often do you have something you want to achieve (e.g. lose weight., start a business, travel more)only to end up confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress?This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is been the people who

26、 want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information. The end result is that we feel like we cant focus or that were focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.It doesnt have to be that way

27、. Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: All you need to do is focus on one thing,. You just need to get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people. If you have somewhere you want to go, something you want to accomplish, someone

28、you want to becometake immediate action. If youre clear about where you want to go, the rest of the world will either help you get there or get out of the way.28. Why does the lion tamer use a chair? A. To show off his skills. B. To trick the lion. C. To get ready for a fight. D. To entertain the au

29、dience.29. In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?A. They hold on to the wrong things. B. They feel puzzled over choices. C. They find it hard to make changes. D. They have to do something for show30. What is the authors attitude towards the expert mentioned in Paragraph3?A. Doubt

30、ful. B. Tolerant. C. Respectful. D. Supportive.31. When the world is “ waving a chair in your face”, youre advised to _A. wait for a better chance B. break your old habitsC. ask for clear guidance D. make a quick decisionD.As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spani

31、sh, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In an effort to prevent language lo

32、ss, scholars from a number of organizations -UNESCO and National Geographic among themhave for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect. Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethno