高三年级英语科上学期期末考试
试卷
命题人 胡颖
第一卷（三部分，共115分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共五小题，每小题1、5分，满分7、5分）
听下面五段对话。每段对话后有一小题，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 will the two speakers do first?
A. Search for the new tie.
B. Fix the shelf
C. Paint the shelf.
2. When does the conversation take place?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday C. On Sunday
3. What did the man say the book is about?
A. Elephant hunting.
B. A hunter’s life
C. Wild animals in Africa
4. How do the cat and the dog get along?
A. In a friendly way.
B. They often fight against each other.
C. They don’t seem to like each other.
5. What does the man think about the price of the car?
A. Reasonable B. Too high. C. Unbelievable.
第二节（共15小题，每小题1、5分，满分22、5分）
听下面五段对话或独白。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段对话，回答6—7 题。
6. When did the man get his brother’s letter?
A. Last Monday B. Last Wednesday C. Last Friday
7. What did the man send to his brother inside the letter?
A. A phone B. Some money C. A postcard
8. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife B. Neighbors C. Friends.
听第7段材料，回答第9至10题。
9. Who is the woman?
A. A manager. B. A secretary C. A visitor to the company.
10. Which phone number should the man dial to get Mr. Smith?
A. B. C.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What kind of table does the man want to have?
A. A table far away from noise.
B. A table near the window.
C. A table for three.
12. What kind of soup is recommended to the man?
A. Tender meat soup.
B. Fresh fish soup.
C. Just some vegetable soup.
13. What pie does the man ask for?
A. A pie with vegetable in the middle.
B. A pie with chicken in it.
C. A pie with ice cream on top.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Why was Mr. Deen angry?
A. Mr. Powell came.
B. He missed meeting Mr. Powell.
C. Mr. Powell was late.
15. What did the man think he had done before he left?
A. He had put the card in his wallet.
B. He had lost the card.
C. He had given the card to the woman.
16. Where did Mr. Deen come from?
A. A station. B. A hospital C. A restaurant.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the speaker doing?
A. Reporting a football game.
B. Telling the story of a football fan.
C. Giving a special report about a football player.
18. How did the team feel about the next day’s game?
A. Worried B. Confident C. Excited.
19. What did Carlos say about the cup?
A. His team would try their best but there was little chance of winning.
B. His team would win the cup even if they lost the game.
C. He was not sure of winning the game.
20. Why did Carlos keep the name of starting players a secret?
A. He wanted every player to be fully prepared for the game.
B. He wanted to give the fans a surprise.
C. He hadn’t made the final decision about it.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节： 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21. Here are the first two volumes of ______ Shakespear’s works, ______ third one to come out ______ next month.
A. the …a…X B. X…a…X C. X…the …the D. X…the …X
22. Have you finished testing all the T V sets to be put on the market tomorrow?
Yes, completely. ______ is left.
A. None B. Nothing C. No one D. Not every one of them
23. In order ______ into space, a great force is needed to overcome the force of gravity.
A. that a satellite be launched B. for a satellite to be launched
C. to be launched a satellite D. that a satellite being launched
24. Did you mend that shirt last night?
You forget so easily. ______ it when you came in?
A. didn’t I mend B. Haven’t I mended
C. Am I not mending D. Wasn’t I mending
25. I don’t think this suitcase is large enough ______ all your things needed for traveling.
_____. It’s too small.
A. to hold…Yes B. to take…Yes C. to hold… No D. to include… No
26. I ______ my family doctor for his advice. But for his warning, I would have taken that medicine and _____ at ease with you now.
A. owe a lot to … would not be chatting B. thanked a lot to… could not have chatted
C. am thankful to… could hardly talk D. think highly of … would have been speaking
27. Realizing his boss would not _____ him a rise, he decided to quit the job.
A. possibly give B. capable of giving C. able to give D. probably give
28.“ You must be excited about being promoted to that new post.”
“______, but I’m afraid I can’t do well because of my lack of much experience.
A. Well, I ought to B. Never mind C. Certainly not D. It’s really my pleasure
29。Without ______ in the cupboard, she went to the supermarket for something to eat.
A. everything gone B. nothing left
C. anything remained D. anything left
30. He pointed out that no proper equipment ______ in the laboratory, so they had to change their plan.
A. was there B. there were C. there ought to be D. there was
31. They grew some tomatoes in one box which has plant food in the soil and some in another box _____.
A. which doesn’t B. where that doesn’t C. there isn’t D. where it doesn’t
32. Though American country music remains much the same as ______ it was several decades ago, singers have made dramatic changes about it.
A. what B. that C. X D. which
33. I don’t think it pays to buy a PC. for so much money. We _____ have to change it in a few years’ time for a bigger and more up-to-date one, I am afraid.
A. should B. might C. won’t D. can’t
34. How do you feel about the lecture tonight?
It couldn’t have been ______. I doubt if I will come to this lecture next time.
A. much disappointing B. any better C. more disappointing D. so worst
35. The lights in the dormitory _____ until all the students have turned back to their rooms.
A. are turning on B. have been turned on C. will be going on D. didn’t go out.
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1、5分，满分30分）
Computers have been taught to act and speak, and now the trick is to get them to listen ---- to understand spoken words. So far speech 36 system has been used by workers who need to enter data（数据） into a computer while their hands and eyes are 37 occupied.
The recognition of a limited vocabulary of single words from a single speaker is pretty much 38 problem. Some systems, however, have trouble 39 the noise of crumpling（揉） paper from the 40 of a human voice.
Speakers of independent systems that can recognize the same word 41 is spoken by many different people can be built by sampling（提供样品）how several people say the same words 42 storing several patterns for each word. But the 43 for errors are greater and the vocabulary must usually be 44 . Even more difficult is continuous speech. People 45 running words together and even changing some wounds when they speak, so the computer doesn’t know when one word ends and another 46 , making the process much less 47 . It was reported that it took an hour on the largest computer in 48 use to recognize one second of continuous speech.
Some attempts have been made to 49 continuous speech recognition by 50 the computer some rules of grammar to restrict（限制）which word can follow 51 other word. A device（装置）has been developed that has a 5,000-word vocabulary but 52 the speaker to 53 between words.
These devices, 54 at the moment, will represent the first applications（应用）of what is considered a 55 but extremely difficult technology.
36. A. producing B. acting C. recognizing D. teaching
37. A. other than B. rather than C. instead D. otherwise
38. A. a solved B. an impossible C. an unsolved D. an unpractical
39. A. preventing B. separating C. selecting D. telling
40. A. noise B. sound C. speech D. words
41. A. as B. when C. what D. which
42. A. as B. while C. and D. but
43. A. possibility B. chances C. mistakes D. fortunes
44. A. limited B. enlarged C. multiplied D. great
45. A. would B. feel like C. stick to D. are used to
46. A. heads B. starts C. ends D. concludes
47. A. easy B. uneasy C. difficult D. different
48. A. common B. continuous C. current D. past
49. A. clean B. make C. correct D. improve
50. A. storing B. saving C. giving D. suggesting
51 A. which B. the C. some D. still
52. A. takes B. requires C. orders D. requests
53. A. choose B. hesitate C. rest D. pause
54. A. however rapid B. no matter how slow C. though rough D. however
55. A. satisfactory B. costly C. promising D. far-fetched
第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
Children without access to computers at home may be educationally disadvantaged even if their classrooms are computer-equipped, a senior education expert had warned.
The Associate Dean of Education at the University of Western Sydney. Toni Downes, says the school system has failed to respond to the challenges of new technologies and this could increase the growing gap between children from technology-rich and technology-poor families.
“Unless careful thought is put into how children use computers, schools could be making the situation worse because the children with the confidence and skills put themselves forward and in an unregulated environment they dominate（支配）computing.” She says.
Downes says this doesn’t mean families have to buy their own computer but they should access the equipment through libraries or other public organizations, including schools.
She says one of the main difficulties for children without a home computer is finding time to explore the use of the computer on their own.
Unpublished figure from the Bureau of Statistics（统计局）shows that wealthy families are now more likely to be technology-rich, with computer ownership rising to 42 percent in households with an income of between $44,000 and $66,000.
Children aged between 5 and 17 years are the biggest users of home computers. The most popular use for home computers is playing games, followed by educational activities.
The head of the School of Educational Psychology, Measurement and Technology at the University of Sydney Professor Peter Cuttance, says students without access to computers at home would be disadvantaged.
“We are now moving into an environment where more advanced schools are making home-school access available,” he says. “Within the next five years large numbers of students will be accessing home work material via their home computer,”
“If they don’t have a computer at home, they don’t become computer literate in a basic sense, even if it’s just a simplistic way,”
56. The importance for children to have access to computers at home is ______.
A. schools don’t have enough computers for every students use.
B. the changing world and technology are well beyond school education
C. students without computer will become poorer and poorer
D. computer education in school is sometimes given wrongly
57. What Toni Downers says (in Paragraph 3) means____________.
A. schools usually don’t care about how to teach children in using computers
B. by using computers in schools the gap between poor children and rich ones becomes wider
C. only the children who have confidence in themselves can use computers
D. children with no computers at home will use computers less in an uncontrolled situation
58. We can infer from the text that _____.
A. most children use computers for games rather than learning their lessons
B. families with an income of $ 66,000 are the biggest users of computers
C. the richer you are, the more knowledge you will gain.
D. rich families own 42 percent of the country’s computers
59. What’s the main point of Professor Peter Cuttance’s words ?
A. Everything done by computers will become very simple.
B. Knowledge about computers will be more advanced
C. Home work for students will be mainly about computers
D. Computers will be an important way of accessing information.
B.
“We leave at dawn and head out overland by jeep towards Base One. We’ll get as far as we can before carrying on foot,” Mark explained. The others sat and listened. Sarah, particularly, as a “casualty of events”, wouldn’t have known what to say or suggest even if she’d been asked. But Harry had a lot to say.
“We’ll never make it,” he protested. “We’ll still be crossing the desert when they catch up with us. They’ll know where we’re heading for and they’ll simply follow us and kill us out there in the desert with no one to see. They seem to know every move we make or are going to make.”
Mark said nothing, but spread his hands out as if to say “Well, what do we do then?” “We wouldn’t be in this mess now,” Harry went on, almost ignoring Mark’s gesture, “if we hadn’t stopped to rescue Sarah.” (He glanced at her briefly.) “But since we did, we must get on –but not across the desert. There’s the sand, and deep ravines（沟壑）which are almost invisible until you’re right on them—and then the heat. You have to be used to going out there, and none of us is. This is no “morning at leisure” on some pleasant holiday, you know! If we went north instead and made for the river,…”
He broke off and looked around at the others, feeling somehow that his argument was pointless. No one said anything.
“Good,” said Mark, looking around with authority, and returned to checking their stores.
A beautiful sunrise was about to burst over the horizon as the jeep headed out towards Base One.
60. It seems clear form the passage that the group of people were ______.
A. being trained B. being hunted C. on holiday D. on a trip
61. Mark’s plan was that they should _____
A. drive across the desert
B. make for the river on foot
C. set off before dawn and leave Sarah.
D. drive as far as possible, and then walk
62. Harry felt certain that _______.
A. they would escape B. they had a traitor
C. their situation was all Sarah’s fault D. they could hide in the desert
63. Why did Harry think that they should make for the river?
A. The journey would be more pleasant B. A river trip would be much safer
C. the desert heat would kill them D. he knew the road leading north
64. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. none of them liked Harry B. Mark was the leader in the action
C. they wanted to see the sunrise. D. they had no other choice but to wait.
C
Many educators believe that homework is most effective for children in first through third grades when it does not go beyond 20 minutes each school day. From fourth through sixth grades, many educators suggest from 20 to 40 minutes. For students in 7th through 9th-grade, generally, up to 2 hours a school day is suitable. Ninety minutes to 2 2/1 hours per night are proper for grades 10 through 12. Amounts that vary from these guidelines are fine for some students.
A common mistake, particularly among beginning teachers, is to assign too much homework. It can be hard to stop doing so if parents push for more homework and suppose that the best teachers assign the most homework. (This is not necessarily the case.) Most often, however, a math teacher can tell after checking five algebraic equations（代数方程）whether students have mastered the necessary concepts.
As Ms. Bennett explains, “Homework should not be overburdening. If there’s too much, it becomes drudgery. We need to keep (student’s) attention –keep them inspired and wanting to do the homework. Otherwise, it’s no good.”
Teachers also need to coordinate（协调）their homework assignments with those of other teachers so that students aren’t getting four assignments on a Tuesday night, but no assignment on a Wednesday night. This coordination most often requires leadership and support from the principal or other administrators.
Finally, teachers need to keep watchful to how long students take to complete assignment. It is natural in a class full of varied students for some to take longer than others. Moreover, it is fine that some students do take longer, since research shows that students with low test scores who spend considerable time on homework get grades as good as students with more ability who spend less time. If an assignment takes too long, however, this may signal that a student needs more instruction to complete it successfully.
65. Which of the following assignment is not proper according to most educators?
A. At least 2 hours’ homework for a ninth-grade student.
B. Half an hours’ homework for fifth-grade pupil.
C. 15 minutes’ homework for a second-grade pupil.
D. About 2 hours’ homework for a tenth-grade student.
66. In the writer’s opinion,____.
A. the more homework a teacher assigns, the better he is
B. a good teacher is one who cares more for his student’s health than their studies
C. whether a teacher is good or not depends on the amount of homework he assigns
D. a good teacher knows how much practice his students need for certain knowledge
67. The word “drudgery” in the third paragraph most probably means.”______”.
A. hard boring work B. unnecessary work
C. meaningless work D. important but uninteresting work
68. The principal or other administrators are necessary ______.
A. in helping the teachers know what homework they should assign.
B. in helping each teacher assign homework at the right time
C. to ensure that the students have the proper amount of homework each day
D. to make sure that the students will finish all the homework every day.
D
SEATLE, WASHINGTON. More than 100 people ---young and old –stand up and clap their hands for “a great lady who always loved America.” A senator（参议员）shakes her hand and tells her she is a very important American citizen. But the tiny old woman sits quietly at a table, unable to hear any of the nice things everyone is saying about her.
Asano Kanzaki is the woman’s name. This evening she becomes a citizen, 81 years after coming to the United States. Those 81 years have been filled with hard work and life in a prison camp during the World War II. Those years have also been filled with raising a family with honor in a new country.
Mrs. Kanzaki came to Seattle in September 1917. She married Kenichiro Kanzaki just a few months before she left Japan. At that time, Japanese could not become citizens. They could not own houses or live in some neighborhoods.
On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day Kenichiro was taken to prison. , because he was in the Japanese army when he was younger. A few months later, Asano and her five children joined Kenichiro in a prison camp in Idaho. By then, the Kenichiro boys were young men. “American is your country, and you must fight for it,” their father told them.
Akira, the oldest, volunteered（自愿参加）for the U.S. Army because of the honor he felt for his family and his country. He was killed in Italy in November 1944. After the war, Asano and her family went back to Seattle. For the first time, Japanese who had come to the U.S. could become citizens if they took classes. She and her husband were working so hard that they did not have time for the class. As time passed, the children married husbands and wives from different cultures. They were an all-American family.
Jenichiro died in 1968, and Asano moved to a small house. After her one hundredth birthday, she made a big decision. “There is not much time left. I need to become an American citizen.” Why now, after so many years? Her youngest son, Hitoshi, said, “Family has always been important to my mother. She comes from a culture that tells you that you must bring honor to your family. Her citizenship brings great honor to her and her family name.”
69. What happened when the U.S. and Japan were fighting World War II?
A. The Kanzaki family went back to Seattle.
B. Many Japanese people were sent to prison camps.
C. Kanzaki’s sons all volunteered for the U.S. Army.
D. The Kanzaki family were living in Idaho.
70. Which of the followings can best explain the reason why Mrs. Kanzaki wanted to become a citizen?
A. Her husband told her to. B. She was persuaded by the U.S. government.
C. She wanted to honor her family. D. Her children wanted her to.
71. The best title for the newspaper report is “_______”.
A. 100-Year-Old Woman Becomes U.S. Citizen
B. Asano Janzaki –the Pride of America
C. Citizenship is an Honor For Americans
D. A Story About A Japanese Family in the U.S.
E
Opinion polls（民意测验）are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the employment more widely.
But we need to go further. We must ask some questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim at production and work?
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed（翻转）.This seems a discouraging thought, but, in fact, it could offer a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the Enclosure（圈地运动）of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving（剥夺）them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s home. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their places of employment until, in the end, many people’s work lost all connection with their home life and the places in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
72. We may infer from the passage that _______.
A. the final jobs were not suited to the people who were self-respecting
B. a poor agricultural age would come to an end
C. the effort to create jobs for all is practical
D. men will probably do the unpaid work
73. The author used the Enclosure of the 17th and 18th centuries to show _____.
A. the industrial age was much more advanced than agricultural age
B. it was one of the changing patterns of work
C. the industrial age provided people a better living for themselves.
D. its importance in the industrial age.
74. What does the passage suggest?
A. We should offer women more chances to set them free from heavy housework
B. Only by sharing all the employment can we make the world believe in justice
C. As modern industry develops, people will find more chances of being employed.
D. We should now reexamine our thinking and admit being employed is not the only kind of work
75. We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. university students will take work as jobs
B. the society will offer more jobs for people
C. the end of industrial age will be better
D. women’s social position will be raised
第II卷 ( 共35分)
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
We American are wasteful people, not used to 76.
save. The early settlers began this pattern, for 77.
nature’s resources were very plentiful that no one 78.
even imagined a shortage. Within a few years 79.
the first Virginia settlement, for an example, pioneers
80.
burned down their houses when they are ready 81.
move west. They wanted to have the nails for 82.
future use. No one never gave a thought to the 83.
priceless hardwoods went up in smoke. 84.
We destroy many things that other people save. 85.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
根据下面图表，以“Fire Causes” 为标题，写一篇议论文（120字左右），要点包括：
1． 火灾原因
2． 各类火灾比例
3． 火灾给人们的启示。
提示：Defective insulation: 绝缘不良
(2002年中国火灾事故发生原因图表（graph）)
试题答案
I. Listening
1-5: BABCC 6-10: AACBB 11-15: ACCBC
16-20: CCBBA
II. Multiple Choice
21-25: DABDC 26-30: AAADA 31-35: AABCC
III. Cloze
36-40: CDADB 41-45: ACBAD 46-50: BACDC
51-55: ABDCC
IV. Reading Comprehension
56-60: BDADB 61-65: DCCBA 66-70: DACBC
71-75: ADBDC
V. Proof-reading
76: American--Americans 77: save--saving 78: very--so
79: 第一个a--the 80: an去掉
81:are--were 82: ^move--to 83:never--ever
84: ^went--that 85: right