陕西省西安市八校(西安中学、西工大附中等)2019届高三第一次联考-英语.doc

西安市2019届高三八校（西安中学、西工大附中等）第一次联考
英语
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1.答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题纸上，认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号，并将条形码粘贴在答题纸上的指定位置上。
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3.请按照题号在各题的答题区域（黑色线框）内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。
4.保持纸面清洁，不折叠，不破损。
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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡19.15 B. ￡9.15 C. ￡9.18
答案是B
1. Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. In a library B. In a classroom C. In a bookstore
2. How much will the woman pay if she buys two skirts?
A. $19 B. $18 C. $20
3. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their friend Jane B. A radio program C. A weekend trip
4. What can we learn from this conversation?
A. The man will talk with the woman’s roommate
B. The woman does not get along well with her roommate
C. The woman does not get along well with the man
5. Why did the woman apologize?
A. She made a late delivery
B. She went to the wrong place
C. She couldn’t take the cake back
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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6. Whose CD is broken?
A. Jack’s B. Mum’s C. Kathy’s
7. What does the boy promise to do for the girl?
A. Buy her a new CD B. Do some cleaning C. Give her 10 dollars
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8. What was the woman doing before she went home?
A. Reviewing a report B. Rewriting a report C. Typing a report
9. Where did the woman have her dinner?
A. In her office B. At home C. In a restaurant
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. Why is the man at the shop?
A. To order a camera for his wife
B. To get a camera changed
C. To have a camera repaired
11. What colour does the man want?
A. Black B. Pink C. Orange
12. What will the man do afterwards?
A. Wait until further notice
B. Make a phone call
C. Come again the next day
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13. What would Joe probably do during the Thanksgiving holiday?
A. Stay at home B. Go to a play C. Visit Kinston
14. What is Ariel going to do in Toronto?
A. Meet her aunt B. Attend a party C. See a car show
15. Why is Ariel in a hurry to leave?
A. To call up Betty B. To buy some DVDs C. To pick up Daniel
16. What might be the relationship between the speakers?
A. Fellow workers B. Classmates C. Guide and tourist
听下面一段对话，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17. Where does Thomas Manning work?
A. In a museum
B. At a radio station
C. In the Guinness Company
18. Where did the idea of a book of records come from?
A. A bird-shooting trip B. A visit to Europe C. A television talk show
19. When did Sir Hugh’s first book of records appear?
A. In 1875 B. In 1955 C. In 1950
20. What are the two speakers going to talk about next?
A. More records of unusual facts
B. The founder of the company
C. The oldest person in the world
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
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Mapperton House &Gardens
Impressive valley gardens surrounded by wooded landscape.
Gardens open: Daily 11am---5pm except Saturdays, March to October included.
Booking through Tel: [phone] or
Bridport Museum
Local history museum detailing the town’s famous rope and net trade with additional changing temporary displays. We also have a year round Local History Gentre nearby where you can complete local and family history research.
Open: Monday-Saturday, April to October included.
Booking through Tel: [phone] or
Furleigh Estate Wine Tours
Vineyard and winery, producers of the UK’s most outstanding sparkling wine. Come and see how the 2019 Winemaker of the Year makes wine.
Open for sales: 11am-4pm Fridays and Saturdays, tours at 2 pm
Booking through Tel: [phone] or
Email:
Old Crown Court and Cells
Experience two hundred years of shocking crime and punishment. Location of Tolpuddle Martyrs’ trial. Tours of court room and cells on selected afternoons mid-July to end August.
Open: Monday-Friday, March to September included.
Booking through
For all the latest information about attractions including opening times, prices and also some great discounts and special offers, please go to .
21. Where can you learn about wine making?
A. At Mapperton House & Gardens B. At Old Crown Court and Cells
C. At Bridport Museum D. At Furleigh Estate
22. Which website should you visit if you want to get a good price?
A. B. .
C. D.
23. On what day of the week can you visit all the four places?
A. Monday B. Tuesday C. Friday D. Saturday
B
I can never forget the stamp incident which happened when I was a primary school pupil.
My best friend, Apple, was a stamp—collector. He tried every way to get stamps and spent every penny he had on them. Once he obtained a beautiful or precious stamp he would be more than happy. I was always his companion in his search for stamps.
　　One day Apple whispered to me mysteriously that he had found a most wonderful stamp on a letter addressed to our young arithmetic teacher, who was a very pretty and kind-hearted girl. Apple wanted that stamp badly the idea of stealing the letter occurred to him. I was frightened and begged him not to do that.
That evening Apple hurried to my home and showed me a letter. It was a man's handwriting. In the letter the man implored our teacher to forgive him and asked her to meet him at the gate of Central Park at eight that evening. If not, he’d take it that she would never forgive him, and it mean the end of their relationship.
　　"The teacher asked me if there was any letter for her this afternoon. You see, she knows I am a stamp-collector and always wander about the place where letters are delivered. When I said 'No', she looked rather sad," Apple told me. We were completely at a loss. Too frightened to go to the teacher, we decided to go to the meeting place ourselves.
At the park gate, we saw a tall young man with glasses, walking back and forth as if he was waiting for someone. I did not know how long we had been there. Finally, the man left, looking very worried and disappointed.
　　A few days later, Apple ran to me with stamps in his hand and tears in his eyes. He told me that these were from our teacher. She said that she once had a friend who was a stamp-collector too, but she had lost him forever, so the stamps she had collected for him were no longer useful.
…
24. How did the author feel about Apple’s plan that day?
A. Excited B. Scared C. Anxious D. Regretful
25. Why did the man write to the author’s teacher?
A. To apologize to her B. To ask about the letter
C. To show his forgiveness D. To end their relationship
26. What happened to the teacher and the man at last?
A. They stopped collecting stamps B. They forgave Apple
C. They solved their problem D. They broke up
27. What could be the most appropriate ending paragraph for the text?
A. From then on, Apple never collected any more stamps; neither did I
B. From then on, Apple and I tried to avoid meeting that man at our school
C. From then on, the man would ask Apple to send messages to my teacher
D. From then on, my teacher would give to Apple the stamps on all her letters
C
Babbage, born in London in 1791, was a great mathematical genius. He was a natural inventor.
When he finished school, he went to study mathematics at Cambridge University. Later, he got a job teaching at the university. While working there, he designed his “first difference engine”. This was, basically, a hand-operated mechanical calculator.
He took nine years to build a part of the machine. This machine can make complex mathematical calculations. It’s a basic mechanical computer.
Babbage dreamed, however, of more complicated machines. In fact, he didn’t only dream; he began to design them. The result was a series of “analytical engines” which were in fact powerful computers!
His designs contained processors, control units, a memory, and an input/output system. These are the four essential parts of a modern mathematical computer!
Alas! His “second difference engine” couldn’t use electricity since this hadn’t yet become a usable source of power, so Babbage had to make do with mechanical systems. For this reason, the machine was big, complicated and expensive. Though Babbage produced complete plans for the machine, he couldn’t build it. It was too advanced for its age!
It was not until almost 160 years later that Babbage’s “second difference engine” was finally manufactured. The first working version of this machine was built by the Science Museum in London, for the Babbage bicentenary in 1991. A second machine was then built for an American high-tech millionaire, who put it in the Computer History Museum, in California.
Babbage’s analytical engines would have used “programs” like those used in the textile(纺织)industry to make complicated patterns, but they were never built. This brilliant mathematician really was too far ahead of his time!
28. Where did Babbage plan his “first difference engine”?
A. In London B. At high school C. At Cambridge D. In Science Museum
29. What do we know about his “second difference engine”?
A. It took him nine years to build it
B. It was far ahead of its time
C. Its deign came out in his dreams
D. Its power source was electricity
30. The “second difference engine” was built to work in 1991 ____________.
A. for an American millionaire
B. in memory of Babbage
C. to test its ability to use electricity
D. for textile industry to make patterns
31. What can we infer from the text?
A. Babbage’s engines didn’t run on programs
B. Textile patterns are produced with programs
C. Babbage can be seen as the father of computers
D. Babbage’s analytical engines were never built
D
When you’re out with a friend and take a photo of yourselves, do you know that you are also creating a work of art? Or that you are competing with Vincent van Gogh himself? Probably not. Your idea might be to show off your selfie(自拍照) on WeChat or QQ, but you probably don’t think of the Internet as a gallery or of yourself as an artist.
But the chief executive of London’s Saatchi Gallery, Nigel Hurst, thinks that the casual pictures we take of ourselves have something in common with self-portraits by the great masters. In support of the idea, the Saatchi Gallery has a new exhibition called From Selfie to Self-Expression.
It features well-known self-portraits from artists including Dutch painters Van Gogh (1853-1890) and Rembrandt (1606–1669). It also has selfies on show that have “quickly become icons of the digital era.” These include one taken by US celebrity(名人) Kim Kardashian and another of former US President Barack Obama with former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, according to the BBC.
The gallery is even encouraging visitors to add their own selfies to the show.
Hurst is perhaps not being 100 percent serious. He isn’t claiming that a snap you take of yourself in your favorite restaurant can be compared with a self-image painted by Van Gogh. But he does make a serious point. Once upon a time, it was only artists who could make images of themselves. They were the only ones, as Hurst told The Guardian, who “had the skills, materials and tools to create self-portraits.” Today, however, we “all have that [ability] through our smartphones.”
The popularity of the selfie rocketed after smartphones started to become widely used. In 2019, Oxford Dictionaries named “selfie” as its word of the year. As Pamela Rutledge, a professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine: “the cult (热潮)of the selfie celebrates regular people”.
32. What does the underlined word “features” in paragraph 3 most probably mean?
A. informs B. shows C. sells D. misses
33. Nigel Hurst’s attitude to the smartphone selfie is_______.
A. casual B. mixed C. favorable D. negative
34. Who shares opinions with Nigel Hurst?
A. Kim Kardashian B. Barack Obama
C. David Cameron D. Pamela Rutledge
35. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Selfies as Self-portraits B. Age of Smartphones
C. Age of Selfie Artists D. Selfies of Celebrities
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。
What will happen to you when you start reading more nonfiction books?
You’ll learn valuable life lessons. You could watch a show about Abraham Lincoln, or you could read his first-hand account in a biography. 36 Biographies offer glimpses(一瞥)into the success and failure of well-known people throughout history. Reading about the experiences of others can teach you valuable life lessons.
Your concentration will improve. 37 By making a habit concentrating, you’ll find it easier to be more present and more productive. Fifteen minutes reading or listening to nonfiction on your way to will put you in a more focused mindset upon arrival at the office.
___38 By exposing yourself to more nonfiction, your vocabulary will expand, giving you more words to work into everyday conversations. You’ll also pick up on the style of accomplished authors, helping you sharpen your own skills as a speaker.
Reading upgrades your brain. Reading nonfiction is a workout for your brain that not only improves memory and analytical skills but might help protect against neurological(神经系统的)disorders. 39 .
____40 Nonfiction is the gateway to knowledge a formal education often lacks. From history to business and religion to psychology, nonfiction lights up any number of areas, making you more intelligent and well-rounded.
A. Reading requires focus.
B. You’ll become brighter
C. Listening makes a merry trip
D. You will become more creative
E. You’ll become a better communicator
F. The latter will be a lot more