2018届贵州省贵阳市高三上学期期末考试英语试题.doc

2018届贵州省贵阳市高三上学期期末考试英语试题
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 makes the girl study harder?
A. To get a toy.
B. To work as a model.
C. To earn money for a car.
2. What does the man want to do?
A. Stop to ask for directions.
B. Drive to the tall building.
C. Write the correct address himself.
3. How much will the woman pay for the skirt?
A. $30. B. $70. C. $100.
4. What is the woman worried about at first?
A. The man’s memory.
B. The size of the house.
C. The cleanliness of the hotel.
5. What does the woman think of the man’s schedule?
A. Too relaxed. B. Too realistic. C. Too strict.
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. What is the conversation mainly about?
A. Sandra’s foot.
B. Cleaning the floor.
C. Housekeeping costs.
7. Who is Brenda?
A. Dave’s sister.
B. Sandra’s boss.
C. Dave’s house cleaner.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Why is the man surprised about Julie’s morning?
A. Julie didn’t leave him a note.
B. He thought Julie hated taking the bus,
C. He thought Julie hated getting up early.
9. What instrument does Julie play?
A. The saxophone. B. The flute. C. The drums.
10. What does Julie think of the band uniforms?
A. Ugly. B. Expensive. C. Hot.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why is Sammy anxious?
A. He was attacked by a dog.
B. He was bitten by a rabbit.
C. He was beaten by a stranger.
12. What time did the woman arrive?
A. At 6:30 p.m. B. At 7:00 p.m. C. At 7:30 p.m.
13. What do we know about the woman?
A. She likes to be early.
B. She had a rough day.
C. She doesn’t like football.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Why does the man think his bill was wrong?
A. He forgot he ordered a small plate.
B. He believed his waitress is dishonest.
C. He thought he ordered a cheaper main dish.
15. What does the man usually order?
A. Vegetables. B. Seafood. C. Meat
16. Who does the man want to talk to?
A. Jenny. B. The manager. C. The cook.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where are the students?
A. On the playground. B. In the cafeteria. C In the school hall.
18. Who is Bill Wyatt?
A. The school director.
B. A football coach.
C. A college student.
19. How can students find out about the lunch menu in advance?
A. From their parents.
B. From the school website.
C. From the posters in the dining hall.
20. What should students do with their cell phones during school?
A. Lock them inside the school gale.
B. Keep them with the school teachers.
C. Leave them inside the teaching buildings.
第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
第一节 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
In no particular order, here are some songs on the Music app of my phone:
On a Sunday Afternoon by Lighter Shade of Brown—A student of mine introduced this rap song lo me all the way back in the early 1990s, when 1 was teaching Spanish at a local university. The story in the song takes place not too far from where I live in Los Angeles. It’s a good “driving” song, nothing complicated or “deep”.
Say Something by A Great Big World—A more recent song about a couple losing contact with each other. The piano part is very little playing but beautiful.
American Pie by Don McLean—Another song from my youth in the 80s, very popular with almost every American of my generation. It retells some of the key events of the middle 20th century, a song of happy memories of the past and wanting to return to those better times.
The Weight by The Band—Another old song, originally made public in 1968, but one I didn’t hear until I was in high school more than 10 years later. I don’t understand the words to the song completely, but the feeling of the song is very comforting to me.
Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers—This Los Angeles group wrote a song that 1 used to listen to when I first moved to LA more than 25 years ago. I didn’t know anyone here when I first arrived. When I got bored, I used to drive up and down the major streets that cross the city from east to west, listening to this song about the “city of angel” being as “lonely as I am. (Don t worry! I have plenty of friends now.)
21. What does the underlined word “deep” probably mean?
A. with skill B. with comfort
C. with a normal meaning D. with a significant meaning
22. When did the author probably hear the Weight by The Band?
A. In 1968. B. In 1970.
C. in the 1980s. D. in the 1990s.
23. When the author first moved to LA, the first song he heard was .
A. Say Something B. American Pie
C. The Weight D. Under the Bridge
B
I’ve never been the kind of person to say, “it’s the thought that counts” when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when my kids gave me a present that blew me away.
For years now, I’ve been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and 1 raised our kids. But to me, this house is much more than just a building.
In I he front room, there’s a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines, marking the progress of my children’s growth.
Every growth stage is marked in grey, with each child’s name and the date they were measured. Of all the objects and all the memories, it’s this one thing in a home that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tears, but erasing that evidence of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress, right there for everyone to see.
Over the years, I’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, even though the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing.
So one day, while I was at work, my children decided to do something about it.
They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer whose work is about capturing (捕捉) the beautiful things in life, from clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ballgowns (舞会礼服).
She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, took photos of the hundreds of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints (手印), and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, transforming them into a beautiful history of my family.
Three weeks later, my children’s wonderful gift made its way to me—a life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.
24. The underlined phrase in Para. I “blew me away" probably means “ ”.
A. attracted me B. surprised me
C. accepted me D. refused me
25. What does the house really mean to the author?
A. A house. B. Buildings.
C. An object. D. Memories.
26. What surprised the friends I know after work?
A. Finding the wall repainted.
B. Erasing the fingerprints.
C. Greeting them by tears.
D. Leaving the wall unfinished
27. What is the best title for the text?
A. Gift Made with Love
B. Buildings Made by Children
C. A Very Wonderful Painting
D. A Family History
C
Nov. 21 is World Hello Day. It began back in the 1970s as part of an effort to make the world more peaceful. It was created by the United Nations just after the war between Israel and Egypt in 1973. The philosophy (理念) behind it is: Say “Hello” and stop war.
It sounds like a fine idea, but most of us know that simply saying “Hello” won’t bring about world peace. Still, on a smaller range, the simple act of saying hello to someone can make a lot of difference.
This might not be obvious. After all, it’s such a casual thing and requires so little effort. You raise your head to someone as you pass by them in the school corridor (走廊), say “Hello’ then it’s over.
Although we might not realize it, a small thing like a greeting can mean a lot to a person. Many people are lonely because they’re shy. They find it difficult to communicate with people, even though they want lo. It leads to them feeling cut off.
On this basis, maybe it’s a good idea, not just on Nov. 21, but every day, to remember to say “Hello” to as many people as we can. The stranger who hears your greeting may secretly smile in their heart. You might even make their day.
Greeting other people is the easiest way to be polite. Politeness is the way we individual humans link up with the rest of the human world outside of our circles of family and friends. Politeness is one of the aspects of culture that make us a society rather than just many individuals living in the same space.
No one said it better than the French author Joseph Joubert: “Politeness is the flower of humanity’’. A “Hello” to a stranger is a small thing, and often neglected (忽视), but through it we can make the world better for another person.
28. What is World Hello Day intended for?
A. Philosophy. B. Peace. C. Politeness. D. War.
29. What has an effect on people most?
A. Raising heads to others.
B. Doing something casually.
C. Meeting in the school corridor,
D. The simple act of saying hello.
30. Why does someone feel lonely?
A. They are unwilling to communicate with others.
B. They are too shy to communicate with others.
C. They are very fond of living alone.
D. They don’t like doing things as others do.
31. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. We should neglect a small thing.
B. Saying hello lo others is powerful.
C. The flowers make the world better.
D. No one is better than Joseph Joubert.
D
A new library in Tianjin—Tianjin Binhai Public Library—recently became an online hit. The Daily Mail described it as the “world’s ultimate (终极的) library”, while the word “breathtaking” was the choice of Newsweek magazine. One look at the library and you’ll see why. With its futuristic (未来主义) design and walls loaded with books, it’s the dream library of every book lover.
But as the surprise continues, there’s a burning question lying in the back of our minds: When physical bookstores are closing down one by one, what makes libraries safe from the wave of digitalization (数码化)? And do we really still need libraries now that we’ve got the Internet in our hands?
Reporter Ian Clark has the answer. “Libraries are not declining in importance—people are simply changing the way they use them,” he wrote on the Guardian website.
What Clark means is that libraries have shifted from simply being storehouses of books to a medium to help “bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots” according to website Libraries Are Essential. Since not everyone can afford a smartphone, a tablet or an Internet connection, and not everyone has the know-how to search the Internet correctly and efficiently, it’s public libraries that make sure that these resources and technologies are available to a larger group of people.
“Nobody is trying to sell you anything in the library. There is no pressure to buy and there is no judgment of your choices/’ Anne Goulding, a professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, wrote on the Newsroom website. “There are few other spaces that you can just ‘be’ without somebody questioning your presence or your motivation.”
32. What cause book-lovers to like Tianjin Binhai Public Library?
A. Breathtaking magazines.
B. World’s ultimate buildings.
C. Design and book walls.
D. Digitalization.
33. Where does the text most probably come from?
A. A fiction. B. A tour guide.
C. A newspaper D. A book.
34. Why are physical libraries necessary to exist?
A. Everyone has a phone with them.
B. Some people are still used to the old ways.
C. More and more people use computers.
D. People can buy what they want there.
35. What does the text mainly talk about?
A. Libraries living on in digital age.
B. internet libraries nowadays.
C. Physical libraries in the past.
D. People’s dream libraries.
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。
Reading is an interesting and useful thing. You can read a novel or a poem. But do you know how to read? Here’s some advice for you.
Define your purpose for reading. Before you start reading, ask yourself why are you reading this book. 36 . Being specific and clear about your reading purpose not only helps you to eliminate books that you don’t need to read. It also reminds you why reading the book is important to you as you are reading it. 37 .
38 . Whether you are reading fiction or nonfiction, it’s important to enjoy what you read. Your friends may recommend books that they love, but those books might not necessarily be the ones you enjoy.
Give up books that you don’t enjoy. You may have selected books that are aligned with (与……一致) your purpose. 39 . But as you are reading them, there may still be some books that you won’t enjoy reading. Whenever you realize that you aren’t enjoying the book you are reading, give it up. Remember reading shouldn’t be a chore (杂事).
Give yourself a deadline to complete each book. Before you read each book, ask yourself when you need to complete this book. When you don’t set a deadline to complete your book, there isn’t a sense of urgency. 40 , you tend to procrastinate (拖延).
A. When something is urgent
B. When something isn’t urgent
C. Because reading is very important
D. Read only what you are attracted to
E. You may have selected books that you are attracted to
F. Most people read for two main reasons—pleasure or knowledge
G. This motivates you to keep reading and complete the book faster
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小1.5分；满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项小涂黑。
There was a little, but always strange girl. Everything was bad for her. She wished to meet an enchantress (女巫) that would turn her life a 41 tale.
One day an enchantress came and said that one of her wishes would 42 . The girl became very happy at first, but then she started to think that she had a lot of wishes and all of them were 43 for her. She could not 44 just one. Then the 45 enchantress that she would help her realize one wish every day. The girl became 46 —now all her dreams will become realities.
From that day on, she was waiting every morning with joy and 47 . Then as days passed, the dreams became real ones.... But soon the little girl realized that 48 of the wishes d give her joy and happiness which she 49 for. Many wishes brought her disappointment, and some 50 a pain. Almost every dream was an empty little girl’s caprice (任性). Though being 51 , she suddenly found that she did not 52 this. Soon she started to 53 dreams. Sh