沈阳二中2014——2015学年度上学期期中考试高三（ 15 届）英语试题

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说明：1.测试时间：120分钟 总分：150分

2.客观题涂在答题纸上，主观题答在答题纸的相应位置上

第Ⅰ卷

注意事项：

1. 答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2. 选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上所对应题目的答案标号框涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分 听力（共两节, 满分30分）

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。

1. What does the woman want the man to do?

A. Turn off the radio right away. B. Go to bed right away.

C. Turn down the radio.

2. How old was the man’s father when he was born?

A. 49. B. 50. C. 51.

3. What will the woman probably do next?

A. Ask where she can smoke. B. Apologize to the man’s wife.

C. Go to smoke in the smoking area.

4. How will Jim get there?

A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car.

5. What is the woman doing?

A. Asking the man for help. B. Inviting the man to drink coffee.

C. Complaining to the man about her car.

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、7题。

6. What does the woman want to be?

A. A doctor. B. A TV hostess. C. A writer.

7. What does the man think of writing?

A. Boring. B. Tiring. C. Interesting.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why doesn’t the man go out for lunch?

A. He doesn’t feel like eating. B. He has already cooked some food.

C. He prefers eating much for supper.

9. Where will the woman have lunch?

A. At home. B. In a restaurant.

C. At Mrs. Smith’s home.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How do the speakers think of the place?

A. Amazing. B. A bit disappointing.

C. Very terrible.

11. What happened to the three children?

A. They got hurt. B. They died in a lake.

C. They disappeared.

12. What will the speakers probably do while fishing?

A. Read a book. B. Read some news.

C. Listen to some music.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why does the woman want to go to the fashion store?

A. There will be new clothes. B. Her friends will go there.

C. Clothes there will be cheaper.

14. How long will the woman wait tomorrow morning?

A. For half an hour. B. For an hour.

C. For one and a half hours.

15. What’s the man’s plan for tomorrow morning?

A. To attend a lecture. B. To go shopping.

C. To give a lecture.

16. What makes the man worried?

A. That the woman may be sick. B. That he will be late for his destination.

C. That the woman doesn’t listen to him.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What newspaper does the speaker love best?

A. The New York Times. B. The Wall Street Journal.

C. USA Today.

18. What can we know about USA Today?

A. It sells at a high price. B. It was first published in 1982.

C. It doesn’t publish on the weekend.

19. What columns of The New York Times does the speaker really love reading?

A. News and Opinions. B. Opinions and Business.

C. Arts and Sports.

20. How many Pulitzer Prizes has the Los Angeles Times won?

A. 33. B. 39. C. 108.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（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(耕作机) 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 with cancer, he still took care of his garden.

But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded 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. 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 wanted to be a garden-crazy like his father.

B. He loved being in the garden with 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. devoted more to gardening

D. focused on planting tomatoes

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

A. There was a great harvest.

B. The garden was almost deserted.

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. He wanted to honor his father.

B. His son liked the fields of tomatoes.

C. He only knew how to grow tomatoes.

D. He thought tomatoes were easy to manage.

B

Here are the comments on CRI (China Radio International) given by people from different countries on the Internet.

People

Comments



Yingtian Hu

Guangzhou, China

This is the first time that I participate in CRI. And I like it very much. I hope its website will become the most excellent one with the foreign languages. And I choose the important news which I think has a great influence on our society and our lives. In the end, I hope that more and more persons join in CRI and make it perfect!



SujanParajuli,

Select city, Nepal

I am both a regular listener of CRI and visitor of its wonderful Website. First of all, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to CRI for its great efforts to keep the listeners up-to-date during the year 2008. We, the listeners, are greatly grateful to CRI for its praise-worthy efforts to quench the thirst of its dear listeners. During the Year 2008, I found all of your programs quite interesting, informative and educational. Once again, thanks a lot for offering lots of information, news, entertainment and many items which have indeed broaden the horizons of our knowledge and understanding as well.



Ibrahim

Rustamov,

Tajikistan

With CRI, I was impressed by China’s rapid development in all spheres. But I felt so sorry to get to know about the snowstorms in China and Wenchuan earthquake. CRI and CCTV play a great role in introducing China to the world! Kudos! My friends and I wish CRI all the best!



Mike Thatcher,

London

My family and I are all keen on Chinese Culture, especially the beautiful Chinese folk music. Various interesting programs by CRI just open a window for us foreigners, through which we can know more about China and have a better understanding of the Chinese culture. Best wishes to CRI! Best wishes to China!





25. Which of the following benefits of CRI is NOT mentioned above?

A. CRI helps to keep its listeners up-to-date.

B. CRI helps its listeners to better understand China.

C. CRI helps its listeners to practice and improve foreign languages.

D. CRI helps its listeners broaden their knowledge with its rich contents.

26. The underlined phrase “quench the thirst” refers to _____.

A. satisfy one’s need B. supply drinks

C. take care of D. keep in touch with

27. What can be concluded from the four comments?

A. CRI has a great influence on our society and lives.

B. Wonderful though CRI is, there are still many weaknesses.

C. CRI plays an important role in introducing the world to China.

D. CRI has made great efforts to make itself better and gained popularity.

C

The extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only

one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles like the termite mound(白蚁堆).

Architect Mick Pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the Eastgate Building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. The building—the country’s largest commercial and shopping mall—uses less than 10% of the energy of a traditional building of its size. The Eastgate’s owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning plant didn’t have to be imported.

The mall is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium(天井) open to the air. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents(通风口). As it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys.

During summer’s cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the empty floors. By day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building to circulate（流通） the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. For winter days, there are small heaters in the vents.

This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little dampness and rapid temperature swings （摆幅）—days as warm as 31℃ commonly drop to 14℃ at night. “You couldn’t do this in New York, with its fantastically hot summers and fantastically cold winters,” Pearce said.

The engineering firm of Ove Arup&Partners monitors daily temperatures. It is found that the temperature of the building has generally stayed between 23℃ and 25℃, with the exception of the annual hot period just before the summer rains in October and three days in November