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滦南一中2015～2016学年度第一学期高三年级期初考试

英 语 试 卷

注意事项：

1. 本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分，共12页。考试时间120分钟。

2. 答题前，考生务必正确填写答题纸卷头，并将自己的准考证号、考试科目用铅笔涂在答题卡上。

3. 第I卷所有题目均按题号填涂在答题卡相应位置， 第II卷在答题纸上作答；考试结束后，考生将答题纸和答题卡一并交回。

第I卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

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.What will the man probably do?

A.Help the woman paint her car. B.Buy the woman’s car. C.Get a new car.

2.Where does the conversation probably take place?

A.In a bookstore. B.In a classroom. C.In a library.

3.Why is the man leaving early?

A.He isn’t interested in the movie.

B.He wants to avoid a traffic jam.

C.He doesn’t know the way to the theater.

4.What is the man dissatisfied with about his job?

A. The salary. B.The hours. C.The location.

5.What does the woman imply?

A.The sweater looks terrible.

B.It’s cool in the lecture hall.

C.The weather is heavily polluted today.

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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6.Where is the paper for the printer?

A.On the bottom shelf. B.On the top shelf. C.On the floor.

7.What is the relationship between the speakers?

A.Salesman and customer. B.Boss and assistant. C.Colleagues.

听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。

8.Where does the northwest route end up?

A.A lake. B.A waterfall. C.A mountain.

9.Which is the shortest route?

A.The northwest route. B.The north route. C.The northeast route.

10.What will the man do after the trip?[:]

A.Meet a friend in the parking lot.

B.Have a meal with his friend.

C.Drive to town with the woman.

听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。

11.What does the woman ask the man to do?

A.Fix the washing machine. B.Read the newspaper. C.Turn off the light.

12.Why did the woman go to Mr.Smith’s?

A.To ask for help. B.To visit his house. C.To take care of his kid.

13.What did the man plan to do?

A.Buy some electric wires. B.Look for a good job. C.Repair the car.

听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。

14.Why didn’t many students enjoy living in the dorms?

A.They couldn’t get a sense of privacy at all.

B.The dorms were far from the campus.

C.They missed their families.

15.How long was the dining hall open every day?

A.3 hours. B.5 hours. C.6 hours.

16.What does the woman forget details about?

A.Laundry. B.Food. C.Social activities.

17.What are freshmen’s lives like in Berkeley?

A.Boring. B.Confusing. C.Colorful.

听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。

18.What is the survey about?

A.Hobbies. B.Ideal jobs. C.After-school activities.

19.Whom did the speaker ask questions?

A.Seniors. B.Teachers. C.Graduates.

20.How many answers are discussed in the passage?

A.3. B.4. C.5.

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

My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled (翻耕的) soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.

As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Dad pushing the tiller ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow corn, and our favorite — red tomatoes.

As I grew into a teenager, I didn’t get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer, he still took care of his garden.

But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded (侵入) his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be.

For the first few years after he died, I couldn’t even bear to look at anyone’s garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket (桶). Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.

21. Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?

A. He loved being in the garden with his father.

B. He wanted to be a garden-crazy like his father.

C. The garden was full of his favorite food.

D. The garden was just freshly tilled.

22. When all the kids started their own families, the author’s father ______.

A. stopped his gardening B. turned to other hobbies

C. focused on planting tomatoes D. devoted more to gardening

23. What happened to the garden when the author’s father was seriously ill?

A. The garden was almost deserted. B. There was a great harvest.

C. No plant grew in the garden at all. D. The author’s son took charge of the garden.

24. Why did the author start his garden with tomatoes?

A. His son liked the fields of tomatoes. B. He wanted to honor his father.

C. He only knew how to grow tomatoes. D. He thought tomatoes were easy to manage.

B

WASHINGTON — Laura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for foreign teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer.

It is not easy, even desperate.

“We have many children left to place — 40 out of 75,” said Straub, who works for a foreign exchange programme called LEC.

When foreign exchange programmes started 50 years ago, more families were accommodating. For one thing, more mothers stayed at home. But now, increasing numbers of women work outside the home. Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30, 000 teenagers who come from abroad every year to spend an academic year in the United States, as well as the thousands more who take part in summer programmes.

School systems in many parts of the U.S., unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students, have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept. At the same time, the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic(有异国情调的).

In search for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their requests to include everyone from young couples to the retired.

“We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25-year-old programme that sends about 30,000 teenagers on academic-year exchange programmes worldwide.

For elderly people, exchange students “keep us young—they really do”, said Jen Foster, who is hosting 16-year-old Nina Post from Denmark.

25. According to the text, why was it easier to find host families?

A．American school systems were better than now.

B．The government was happy because it could gain tax.

C．More mothers stayed home to look after children.

D．Foreign students paid hosting families a lot of money.

26. Viekie Weiner is the person who ______.

A. comes from Denmark B. works for ASSE

C.is 25 years old D. hosts foreign students.

27. To deal with the problem in recent years, exchange programmes have to ______.

A．extend the range of host families B．limit the number of the exchange students

C．borrow much money to pay for the costs D．make hosting foreign students more exotic

28. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A. Exchange Students Keep Old People Young. B. Different Ideas of Hosting Students.

C. Foreign-exchange Program Going on. D. U.S. Struggle to Find Host Families.

C

People aren’t walking any more — if they can figure out a way to avoid it.

I felt superior about this matter until?the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in any hurry, either, I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis.

It is an illness to which I had thought myself immune(免疫的), for I was raised in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time, we regarded 25 miles as good day’s walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as a sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced –and beat — a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Stature of Liberty.

Such exercises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well-known British physician, Sir Adolphe Abrhams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper exercise. A person who avoids exercise is more likely to have illnesses than one who exercises regularly. And walking is an ideal (理想的) form of exercise — the most familiar and natural of all.

It was Henry Thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. The man walking can learn the?trees, flower, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world. He cannot learn in a car.

The car is a convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. Many people don’t dare to approach nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. To them security is a steel river thundering on a concrete road. And much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.

I say that the green of forests is the mind’s best light. And none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.

29. What was life like when the author was young?

A. People used to climb the Statue of Liberty.

B. people often walked 25 miles a day.

C. People usually went around on foot.

D. people considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.

30. The author mentions Henry Thoreau to prove that ___