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1、试卷类型：A卷 河北冀州中学 2014-2015学年高三年级期中考试英语试题 考试时间：120分钟 出题人：姚黎明第一部分 听力第一节听下面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. How does the man usually get to his office? A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot.2. What does the man mean? A. Hell pick the woman up. B.
2、He cant help the woman. C. Hell go to the engineering building.3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Neighbors.4. What does the man ask the woman to do? A. Buy him some cigarettes. B. Give him some change. C. Lend him some money. 5. What is the w
3、oman doing? A. Apologizing. B. Complaining. C. Expressing thanks. 第二节听下面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，各个小题将给出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 kind of exercise does Michael do every day? A. Walking. B. Cycling. C. Fishing. 7. What i
4、s the most important thing about doing exercise? A. Keeping safe. B. Choosing suitable activities. C. Doing it regularly.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why does the boy still want to be a boy? A. To be a better boy. B. To be different. C. To have more experience.9. What do we know about the girl? A. She hates li
5、ving an unpredictable life. B. She likes challenges. C. She dislikes the boy.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. When will the woman go home? A. In two weeks. B. Tomorrow. C. Still uncertain.11. Whats the doctors suggestion for her? A. Take the medicine every day.B. Have medical checks regularly.C. Avoid any physi
6、cal exercise.12. How soon will the woman get well completely? A. In a few days. B. In quite a long time. C. As soon as she is out of the hospital.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why will the woman visit her daughter? A. Her daughter is ill. B. Her daughter gave birth to a baby. C. She misses her daughter.14. W
7、hen was the man in New York? A. About a month ago. B. About a year ago. C. About a week ago.15. What do we know about the womans husband? A. He loved traveling. B. He is traveling with the woman. C. He is in China now. 16. Who is traveling with the man? A. His colleagues. B. None. C. His wife and a
8、friend.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What was Mr. Perkins like? A. He tried to be better than others. B. He tried to be the same as others. C. He was always different from others.18. Where did he go the day after he bought his new car? A. His friends house. B. His office. C. The country.19. How did he find
9、his car? A. By trying his key in every car. B. By checking the plate number.C. By waiting until all other cars had left.20. When did he leave the car-park? A. Around 7:00 p.m. B. Around 5:00 p.m. C. Around 6:00 p.m. 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，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。AOn a sunny
10、 day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search for a football. Once theyd rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the bo
11、at caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for it and the boat was out of control.Tim knew it would soon be swallowed by the waves.Everything went quiet in my head, Tim recalls . I was trying to figure out how to s
12、wim to the boys in a straight line.Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water. Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress. At one point, I considered turning back, he says. I wondered if I was putting my life at risk. After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough t
13、o yell to the boys, Take down the umbrella!Christian made much effort to take down the umbrella. Then Tim was able to catch up and climb aboard the boat. He took over rowing, but the waves were almost too strong for him.Lets aim for the pier (码头), Jack said. Tim turned the boat toward it. Soon after
14、ward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink. Can you guys swim? he cried. A little bit, the boys said.Once they were in the water, Tim decided it would be safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs. T
15、im swam toward land as water washed over the boys faces.“Are we almost there? they asked again and again. Yes, Tim told them each time.21. After 30minutes, they reached the pier. Why did the two boys go to the sea?A. To go boat rowing.B. To swim in the open water.C. To get back their football.D. To
16、test the umbrella as a sail.22. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. The beach. B. The wind.C. The boat. D. The water.23. Why did Tim raise his head regularly? A.To check his distance from the boys. B.To consider turning back or not. C.To take in enough fresh air. D.To ask
17、the boys to take down the umbrella.24. How did the two boys finally reach the pier? A. They were carried to the pier by Tim on his back. B. They swam to the pier all by themselves. C. They were washed to the pier by the waves. D. They were dragged to the pier by Tim.BWelcome to Arundel Castle which
18、is situated in West Sussex, England. The castle has a history of nearly 1000 years and has welcomed visitorstravelingfromallovertheworld. Arundel Castle also plays a starring role in many films.The GardensThe White Garden is planted with soft white Iceberg Roses, and Snow White Lilies.The Rose Garde
19、n is newly planted with lovely old-fashioned English roses that are at their very best in June and July.The Organic Kitchen Garden produces a wide range of seasonal fruit and vegetables, pears, cherries and apples.The Castle Shop In the Castle Shop, you will discover a wide and interesting range of
20、gift ideas for everyone. It offers gifts and souvenirs designed to appeal to all tastes and pockets. Foods, china, books, and stationery (文具)are all available. Many are sold in this Castle Shop only. At Arundel Castle we pride ourselves on supporting local suppliers and actively encourage environmen
21、tally friendly products.The Arundel Festival 2014 Saturday 16th to Monday 25th August The annual Arundel Festival gets bigger and better every year. It is one of the most amazing, diverse and easily accessible arts festivals in the UK, offering a mix of visual arts, music, theatre and street enterta
22、inment.Parking Coaches and mini-buses can drop off at the main Castle entrance in Mill Road and park in the main town car park that is opposite the Castle entrance. Please inform us when making your booking of how many parking permits are required.25. When visiting the castle, you can_.A. get old-fa
23、shioned English roses as giftsB. buy eco-friendly products in the Castle ShopC. get seasonal fruit and vegetables for freeD. see how the local gifts are being made26. How long does the Arundel Festival last this year?A. 10 daysB. One weekC. 16 daysD. One month27. Where can you park the coach?A. In M
24、ill RoadB. Inside the CastleC. In the main town car park D. At the main Castle entranceCLondon taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll(调查).The survey by travel website found London taxis, despite being
25、 the most expensive, beat rivals across the globe to head the list for the third consecutive years, scoring a total of 59 percent in votes on several categories by travelers.London taxi drivers were voted both friendliest and most knowledgeable. Drivers in the English capital must pass a rigorous ex
26、amination called The Knowledge to earn their taxi license.New Yorks yellow taxis came second in the list, scoring 27 percent which was up 10 percentage points from last year even though Manhattans cab drivers tied with Parisian taxi drivers as the rudest. Travelers said New York had the most availab
27、le taxis.Cabbies in Rome were voted the worst drivers in the world with almost one in 10 travelers thinking the Italian capital had the worlds worst taxi drivers when it came to the quality of driving.“Travelling by taxi is one of the first experiences that many travelers have upon arrival in a new
28、city. In fact, the research found that cabs are by far the most popular method of travelling from the airport to their hotel,” a spokesman for said in a statement. The global poll scored city based taxis for their levels of cleanliness, value, quality of driving, knowledge of the area, friendliness
29、, safety and availability.Rounding out the top five were Tokyo with a total score of 26 percent, Berlin with 17 percent, and Bangkok famed for its tuk-tuks scoring 14 percent. Madrids taxis were ranked sixth in the poll, followed by Copenhagen and Dublin with 11 percent and Frankfurt and Paris with
30、10 percent. Taxis in Sydney fell short of the top 10, scoring badly in the areas of value for money, availability and knowledge of the area.The survey for , part of the Expedia group, was conducted among over 1,900 travelers between May 11-28 this year.28. What does the underlined word “rigorous” in
31、 the third paragraph mean?A. official B. lawful C. strict D. important29. The writer introduced the result of the survey by _. A. listing the ranks of the taxi service of the European cities B. listing the ranks of the taxi service of the cities concerned C. different kinds of reading forms and famo
32、us travel websites D. interviewing the taxi drivers and travelers of the cities30. Romes taxi drivers lack _. A. driving skills B. good manners C. the sense of cleanliness D. the sense of safety31. What does the writer tell us in the article? A. The global taxi drivers should be trained strictly. B.
33、 The global taxi drivers should be given an exam. C. The global taxi drivers have different driving skills.D. The global big cities taxis service is scored by a travel website.D Its hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just
34、 appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29, she still didnt seek the spotlight（聚光灯）when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times. In Munros eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the ever
35、yday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the villagefox forming, trees filled in the Ontario wilderness, poor country alcohol and long last illnesses. Above all, she t
36、alks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune. She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of he
37、r storytelling have made her stories inviting. Runaway, one of Munros representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla,
38、 trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life, There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart
39、. Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct 10, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”. 32. We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro_Adidnt get
40、 on well with the mediaBwas surprised at winning the Nobel PrizeCdidnt value the title of Women of the YearDremained modest though very successful33. What makes Alice Munros stories fascinating according to the text?AThe complicated plotsBHer writing techniquesCThe humorous languageDHer rich imagina
41、tion34. In her representative work Runaway, Carla_Aleads a happy life with ClarkBis a faithful wife to her husbandCtries to run away from her husbandDloses all hopes for a better life35. What is the text mainly about?AAlice Munro and her hometownBThe awards Alice Munro wonCAlice Munros literary life
42、DAlice Munro and her writing style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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 How to test bestIts back to school, which means its back to tests. Which might also mean its back to being majorly stressed out . 36 Here are some simple ways to prepare thoroughly for tests
43、. Schedule study time. Trying to do all studying the night before a test makes it impossible to master all the material. 37 Instead, prepare for a test by scheduling study time each day for several days before. Use your time wisely. 38 Also, make sure you have all the supplies you need to study so y
44、ou dont lose focus. While studying, be sure to make regular short breaks. Get a snack, take a bathroom break or play a quick computer game when it feels as if your brain is about to explode. 39 Studying with a parent or friends can help you understand the material better and to learn from one anothe
45、r. Have every person or pair take a part of the material, and come up with questions to quiz the group. Keep the group small. Have everyone take turns as the group leader, who will assign the material, and make sure that conversation stays on what is being studied.Dont forget last-minute preparation
46、. Have your sharpened pencils and other things in your bag ready the night before the test. Its important to get a good nights sleep and then eating a healthy breakfast the next morning. 40 Also, studying all the way up until test time can only create more anxiety. Stop studying an hour beforehand.A
47、. This way, both your mind and body are fully prepared. B. It doesnt have to be this way. C. Stay cool before the test.D. Before studying , clear your desk so you can concentrate. E. Form a study group. F. It will also make you tired and stressed on the day of the test.G. This will help you store important information.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；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各