山西古县、高县、离石三（县）区2017届高三上学期开学考试

英 语 卷

第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共70分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题）

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’s wrong with Henry?

A. He was in hospital.

B. He had a heart attack.

C. He was late for work.

2. How many American soldiers have been killed in wars?

A.320,000. B.400,000. C.200,000.

3. How is the man going to Pittsburgh?

A. By taxi. B. By train. C. By subway.

4. Where does the dialogue take place?

A. In a bookshop. B. In a library. C. In the reading room.

5. What does the woman mean?

A. She doesn’t like singing.

B. She has just downloaded some new songs from the Internet.

C. She can’t sing any songs.

第二节（共15小题）

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至8题。

6. What does the woman prefer?

A. A cheap hotel. B. A modern hotel. C. An expensive hotel.

7. Where is the hotel the woman prefers?

A. Next to a bank.

B. Opposite to a supermarket.

C. Next to a restaurant.

8. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. Near a bank. B. Near a hotel. C. In a restaurant.

听第7段材料,回答第9至11题。

9. Why is the mother leaving?

A. Because there is going to be a flood.

B. Because she is going to help?the flooded people.

C. Because she is going to look after the patients in the hospital.

10. What is the family like?

A. The family is full of care and love.

B. The boy’s father is too busy to ask for a leave.

C. The mother never cares for her son.

11. Who will pick the boy up after school when his mother leaves?

A. His father. B. His grandfather. C. No one.

听第8段材料,回答第12至14题。

12. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A job.? B. A job interviewee. C. An employee.

13. What does the woman think of Candy?

A. She was unconfident. B. She was impressive. C. She was nervous.

14. What worried the man most about Candy?

A. Her dress. ? ? B. Her speech. C. Her behavior.

听第9段材料,回答第15至17题。

15. When does the man decide to return?

A. On Saturday the 10th.

B. On Sunday the 11th.

C. On Friday the 10th.

16. How long will the flight take?

A. Two and a half hours. B. Three hours. C. Three and a half hours.

17. Who is the woman speaker?

A. A travel agent.????? B. An operator. C. A ticket collector.

听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。

18. What was done to find people’s ideas about the women’s?movement?

A.A question was asked of husbands.

B.A group was set up to interview people.

C.A survey was made to both men and women.

19. Who help most at home?

A. Danish husbands.??? B. British husbands. C. Italian husbands.

20. What can we learn from what the speaker said?

A. Housework should be shared between men and women.

B. More than 50% of Danish men help in the house.

C. Danish men are more afraid of their wives.

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30 分）

1~5.CBBAB 6~10.ABCBA 11~15.CBACB 16~20.CACAB

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)

阅读下面短文, 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）

Gene technology is a kind of science focusing on the research of human genes. It is also called biological engineering, which is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it’s a hot topic discussed by people.

The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only can these two diseases be cured completely, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span ban be prolonged.

Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English royal family being a good example, have hereditary?（遗传的）diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. Scientists just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.

Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to produce human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep, therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believed cloned babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have their babies in very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.

21. What does “these two killers” in the second paragraph refer to?

? A. Hereditary diseases and cancer.

? B. The two murderers who killed the cloned baby.

? C. The two diseases of cancer and heart disease.

? D. Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases.

22. What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?

? A. Gene technology can help people to give birth to a baby.

? B. Gene technology can be used to clone human babies.

? C. Gene technology can be used to treat hereditary diseases.

? D. Gene technology can solve all the problems of the English royal family.

23. In what way can gene technology help to treat hereditary diseases?

? A. Using gene technology, human babies can be cloned.

? B. Using gene technology, scientists find the wrong gene and correct it.

? C. Gene technology helps people with hereditary diseases to live longer.

? D. Doctors can cure cancer and heart disease with the help of technology.

21-23 CCB

（B）

Home to me means a sense of familiarity（熟悉）?and nostalgia(怀旧). It's fun to come home. It looks the same. It smells the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. Home is where we can remember pain, lives, and some other experiences; We parted here; My parents met here; I won three championships here.

?? ?If I close my eyes, I can still have a clear picture in mind of my first home. I walk in the door and see a brown sofa surrounding a low glass-top wooden table. To the right of the living room is my first bedroom. It's empty, but it's where my earliest memories are.

? ??There is the dining room table where I celebrated birthdays, and where I cried on Halloween----when I didn't want to wear the skirt my mother made for me. I always liked standing on that table because it made me feel tall and strong. If I sit at this table, I can see my favorite room in the house, my parents' room. It is simple: a brown wooden dresser lines the right side of the wall next to a television and a couple of photos of my grandparents on each side. Their bed is my safe zone. I can jump on it anytime - waking up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot wait until the morning.

??? I'm lucky because I know my first home still exists. It exists in my mind and heart, on a physical property(住宅) on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles. It is proof I lived, I grew and I learned.

??? Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go home. I know it's where I'll find my family, my dogs, and my belongings. I purposely leave the window open at night because I know I'll be blamed by Mom. But I don't mind, because I want to hear her say my name, which reminds me I'm home.

24. Why does the author call her parents' bed her "safe zone"(Paragraph 3)?

A. It is her favorite place to play.?

B. Her parents always play together with her there.

?C. Her grandparents' photos are lined on each side.

D. Her needs can be satisfied there.

25. What can be learned from the passage?

A. The old furniture is still in the author's fist bedroom.?

B. Many people of the author's age can still find their first physical homes

C. The author's favorite room in her first home is the dining room.?

D. The author can still visit her first physical mom in Los Angeles.?

26. Sometimes when she feels lost, the author will _______.

A.????try to bring back a sense of home B. lie down in bed to have a dream

C. ? Open the window at night??????????? D. go to Los Angeles to visit her mom

27. What is the author's purpose of writing this passage?

A. To describe the state of her family.?

B. To declare how much she loves her first house.?

C. To express how much she is attached to her home.?

D. To look back on her childhood.

24-27 DDAC

（C）

When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.

For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).

In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated (复杂的) .

My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.

I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.

Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have