高三英语试题.doc

高三英语试题
考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
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 did the man do?
A. He started the phone. B. He broke the buttons. C. He fixed the screen.
2. What will the speakers buy at the store?
A. Bread. B. Meat. C. Chips.
3. How much did the woman pay for the refrigerator?
A. $800. B. $300. C. $150.
4. Where does the man most likely live?
A. In Canada. B. In New York. C. In California.
5. Why did the woman’s plants die, according to the man?
A. From not enough water. B. From not enough sun. C. From not enough plant food.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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、7题。
6. According to the man, who discovered America?
A. The Spanish. B. Columbus. C. The Native Americans.
7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Friends.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Why does the woman want to go home?
A. She isn’t feeling well.
B. She needs to get something to eat.
C. She doesn’t want to attend the meeting.
9. What will the man do for the woman?
A. Drive her somewhere. B. Work on her project for her. C. Ask for a sick leave for her.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. How does the woman know the man ate the cookie?
A. She saw him on the video camera. B. Another customer told her. C. She saw him in person.
11. Why did the man lie?
A. He didn’t want to pay.
B. He thought the cookie tasted bad.
C. He thought the cookie was too expensive.
12. What happened at the end of the conversation?
A. The man paid for the cookie.
B. The woman called the police.
C. The speakers went to the back of the store.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What event are the speakers attending?
A. A dinner party. B. A wedding. C. An anniversary celebration.
14. What does the woman want most right now?
A. To dance. B. To eat something. C. To change her clothes.
15. What did the man eat when he first arrived?
A. Some cheese. B. Fish and rice. C. Some cake.
16. According to the woman, what probably cost a lot of money?
A. The flowers. B. Jennie’s clothes. C. Matt’s tie.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. According to the speaker, what is Jen like?
A. Strict but loving. B. New and talented. C. Friendly and funny.
18. Which award did Luisa win?
A. Best Hairdresser. B. Employee of the Year. C. Best Customer Service.
19. How long has Dina worked in the salon?
A. Three months. B. Two years. C. Seven years.
20. What is true about the awards?
A. The awards have different prizes.
B. The winners will get extra vacation days.
C. A total of $1200 was given out.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Four books that will inspire you to travel the world
There’s truly nothing like travel when it comes to gaining perspective and exposing yourself to other cultures. To get you in the adventuring mood, we asked Amazon Senior Editor Chris Schlep to help us come up with a list of books that transport readers to another time and place. Below, see his list of four books that will inspire you to travel around the world.
ITALY: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
This book by the popular author Jess Walters tells a love story that begins on the Italian Coast in the early 60s and eventually appears on the screen in Hollywood. As the settings shift from Italy to Edinburgh to Los Angeles, you will find yourself longing to go as well. Buy it on Amazon. Price: $28.90
SEATTLE: Where You’d Go, Bernadette? by Maria Sample
Maria Sample’s first novel is not exactly a love story to Seattle, but if you read it, you just might want to come here to see if people are really as self-involved as the characters in her book. What really shines through is the strange storytelling and the laughs. Buy it on Amazon. Price: $26.60.
ENGLAND: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
You can’t travel to Thomas Cromwell’s England without a time machine, but reading Hilary Mantel’s prize-winning novel is the next best thing. It will make you long to see the ancient buildings and green grass of the English countryside, much of which is still there. Buy it on Amazon. Price: $ 25.10
NANTUCKET: Here’s to Us by Eli Hildebrand
Eli Hildebrand has built a writing career out of writing about her hometown island of Nantucket. Her latest is Here’s to Us, which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a great beach read. Buy it on Amazon. Price: $ 30.80
21. Whose book has been made into a film according to the text?
A. Hilary Mantel’s. B. Jess Walter’s. C. Maria Semple’s. D. Elin Hilderbrand’s.
22. What is the feature of Where You’d Go, Bernadette?
A. Its low price. B. Its characters. C. Its storyline and humor. D. Its content about love.
23. What does the book Wolf Hall inspire you to do?
A. Go to beach. B. Know about the foreign culture.
C. Appreciate the English countryside. D. Experience the joy and sadness of the self-involved.

B
At 23, my career got going. I was midway through a master’s degree and had been hired as a part-time reporter for a finance website. I got a great one-month review and my boss asked if I was interested in staying with the company after graduation.
However, balancing graduate studies with work was challenging. To deal with it, I checked my real self at my office door. I came in to work, greeted my colleagues and listened more than I contributed in each morning meeting. The small team I worked with often seemed busy, so rather than giving ideas that might get turned down, I stayed back.
After four months, my boss called me into his office. The meeting was going well until he told me that despite the great work I had produced, the team had held a meeting and decided, “We don’t think it’s the right fit.”
I must have looked confused. “You’re ambitious, intelligent and will be very successful,” my boss said. “But you haven’t made enough of an effort to join the team. You lost the enthusiasm you showed in your interview. That won’t work long term, and if I could give you one piece of advice, it would be to let your guard down. Don’t leave before you leave.”
I couldn’t believe that performing well at my job wasn’t enough to keep it. But I knew my boss was right. They knew when they hired me that I had no experience in finance reporting, yet they took a chance on me. In meetings I usually contributed last, after I had heard everyone else’s suggestions. I did it to show that I was a listener, but also to hide my fears. They had liked the person who walked into the interview, and they didn’t respect me when I hid that person from them. I learned the hard way that this isn’t the way to achieve your goals.
24. The writer was offered a job at the company after graduation because .
A. she had a master’s degree in finance B. she impressed her boss in her first month
C. she had good experience in finance reporting D. she had expressed great interest in the company
25. What did the boss mean by saying “We don’t think it’s the right fit”?
A. The writer was not suitable for the job.
B. The writer was not intelligent enough for the job.
C. The writer didn’t get along well with her colleagues.
D. The work the writer has produced had been unsatisfactory.
26. During her next four months at the company, the writer ________.
A. performed well enough to earn the team’s respect
B. felt it impossible to balance her graduate studies with work
C. was a good listener and contributed a lot during meetings
D. was afraid to offer her ideas because of her lack of confidence
27. What message does the writer intend to convey in the article?
A. Expertise and experience are greatly valued in the workplace.
B. We should not shy away from sharing our ideas when we work in a team.
C. It’s unwise to show too much of themselves when they take part in teamwork.
D. We should first learn to be a good listener in order to be a good communicator.

C
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1,248,000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs” — a loose term given to everything from thrown away prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also defend found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper (雨刷) an angry note intended for someone else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What was the cowboy in Prince’s Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
28. The first paragraph of the passage is used to .
A. remind readers of found photographs B. advise reader to start a new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa D. show readers the value of found photographs
29. The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to .
A. the readers B. the editors
C. the found photographs D. the self-published magazines
30. By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that .
A. memory of the past is very important to people B. found photographs allow people to think freely
C. the back-story of found photographs is puzzling D. the real value of found photographs is questionable
31. The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as .
A. critical B. doubtful C. optimistic D. indifferent

D
It turns out that the famous saying “All roads lead to Rome” can help us in many different ways. It seems it can also describe medical treatment.
A total of 21 scientists from different countries, including Switzerland, Germany and China, successfully helped two monkeys — both with one leg unable to move — to walk again. And their idea is that there is more than one way to get to a destination; there is always a detour.
To understand what they have done, you first need to know that the reason we are able to move our legs is because our brains send out signals — or orders — to our legs, through the spinal cord (脊髓). But the two monkeys in the experiment had injuries to their spines, which meant that even though their legs were fine, they were useless because their communication with the brain had been cut off.
Instead of trying to repair the monkeys’ spinal cords like doctors normally do, scientists thought differently — they built a new pathway for the communication to go through.
For the study, which was published in the journal Nature on Nov. 9, scientists put electrodes (电极) in the part of the monkey’s brain that controls leg movement. The electrodes can send the signals from the monkey’s brain to a computer, which “translates” the signals to orders that legs can “understand”. The orders are then sent to another set of electrodes in the spine, below the injured part. It’s like scientists have built an invisible “bridge” to allow the monkey’s brain and legs to “talk” to each other again.
The technology was tested on rats for ten years before it moved on to experimenting on monkeys for another seven years. And that gives scientists more confidence that they might also work on humans.
32. The two monkeys in the experiment couldn’t walk because ________.
A. their legs had been injured B. broken bones made their legs useless
C. their brains were no longer sending signals D. their brains’ signals couldn’t be sent to their legs
33. What does the underlined word “detour” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Experimenting on monkeys after working on rats.
B. Avoiding the spinal cords when solving the problem.
C. Sending signals using a computer instead of the brain.
D. Using electrodes to fix the spinal cords in the experiment.
34. How long have the scientists been researching the technology?
A. For 7 years. B. For 10 years. C. For 17 years. D. For 21 years.
35. What do the scientists mainly want to achieve through the experiment?
A. To get the brain to control an injured body.
B. To find different ways to cure the two monkeys.
C. To successfully apply the technology to humans.
D. To promote the development of new medical treatments.

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。
Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. ___36___. When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these:
• Imagine a scene in your head
• Understand clearly what the writer is trying to say
• Agree or disagree with the writer
There are also many advantages associated with reading, including:
___37___
You will usually meet with new words when you read. If there are too many new words for you, then the level is too high and you should read something simpler. But if there are, say, a maximum of five new words per page, you will learn this vocabulary easily. You may not even need to use a pocket dictionary because you can guess the meaning from the rest of the text. ___38___.
A model for writing
When you read, it gives you