高2016届高三第一学期期中考试

英语试题

（本试卷分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，共12页。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。）

注意事项：

1、答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。

2、答选择题时，必须用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案的标号。

3、答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。

4、所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。

5、考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

第I卷（共115分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，请先将答案划在试题卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试题卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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 Alice ask the man to do?

A. Borrow some magazines for her. B. Return some magazines to the library.

C. Give some magazines back to her.

2. Why does the woman put off her husband’s appointment?

A. He is ill. B. He is busy. C. He is out.

3. What is the woman doing?

A. Asking for a favor. B. Giving advice. C. Offering help.

4. How many students are there in the speaker’s class?

A.18 B. 20 C. 21

5. Where is the man going?[:]

A. To the Rockefeller Center.

B. To the City Hall.

C. To the Empire State Building.

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2—4 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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题，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7题。

6. Which bus goes to River Drive?

A. No.16. B. No.14. C. No.6.

7. What will the woman ask the bus driver?

A. Where to change buses. B. The ticket price.

C. How to get some change.[:]

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At home. B. At the doctor’s. C. At the restaurant.

9. Why does the man feel stressful?

A. He found it difficult to sleep.

B. He struck his head on a cupboard door.

C. He is going to attend an important examination.

10. How did the woman deal with the problem of the man?

A. She did nothing.

B. She gave him some suggestions.

C. She advised him to come back again.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Where will the speakers put the ads?

A. On the Internet. B. In a magazine. C. On TV.

12. When will the ads be posted?

A. From Monday to Friday. B. On Saturdays and Sundays.

C. From Friday through Monday.

13. What does the man think of the woman’s idea?

A. It’s funny.

B. It’s excellent.

C. It needs improving.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What kind of chopsticks are often used by ordinary Chinese people?

A. Wood or bamboo ones.? B. Jade ones.? C. Plastic ones.

15. Why did ancient kings and emperors use silver chopsticks?

A. To show their wealth.

B. To show their power.

C. To see if their food was poisoned.

16. What do Chinese people think knives and forks suggest?

A. Violence. B. High quality life. C. Gentleness.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where does the speaker most probably make the speech?

A. At a family get-together. B. At a reception. C. In a class.

18. What is Mr. Brown?

A. An assistant manager. B. A clothing businessman.

C. A government official.

19. When did the speaker start to do business with Mr. Brown?

A. In 1998. B. In 1989. C. In 1988.

20. Why are Mr. Brown and his party coming to England?

A. To visit some business partners.

B. To pay an informal visit to some cities.

C. To seek new opportunities for cooperation.

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

Lots of people buy books and products from Amazon, an online seller. They order and pay over the Internet and the books are shipped through the mail or a delivery service like FedEx.

One day, people could?get?their Amazon deliveries from an “unmanned aerial vehicle” — a tiny flying vehicle that looks like a toy helicopter. And instead of waiting days to get?the parcel,?it could be at the buyer’s home in?half an hour or less. The company is working on a fleet of tiny vehicles they call “Prime Air”. The vehicles?are also known as “octocopters”. On their website, Amazon says, “one day, Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today.”

The U.S.’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working on safety regulations for unmanned flying vehicles like the Prime Air copters(飞机). Those regulations will make sure the copters are able to fly safely where they need to go. Once the FAA has put its rules in place, which could be as early as 2015, Amazon will be ready with its fleet of tiny flyers. The process could take as many as five years.

The new delivery service would likely be available only in the United States at first. The copters the company is testing now can handle packages up to five pounds (2.3 kg) and they have a range of 10 miles (16 kilometres).

Other companies are also looking at using unmanned flying vehicles to deliver their products. For instance, Domino’s Pizza in the UK released a video showing a “DomiCopter,” delivering a pizza. That video may have been a?publicity stunt(噱头). In?any case,?just like Prime Air’s octocopters, the DomiCopters don’t have clearance to take off just yet.

21. For what purpose does Amazon want to use the Prime Air?

A. To remind people to order online.

B. To check the delivery service.

C. To shorten the delivery period.

D. To predict the sales volumes.

22. What does Paragraph Four mainly tell us about the new delivery method?

A. Its safety.

B. Its appearance.

C. Its moving speed.

D. Its delivery ability.

23. What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

A. The delivery service in the world is making great progress.

B. The new vehicles would be put into immediate production.

C. The designer will promote his new product to other countries.

D. The similar delivery vehicles in other places worked out to be well.

B

When Luke went to university he thought he would be?starting a new journey in life and getting?his own place. In the UK, it’s common to?fly the nest?at a fairly young age. Many choose a?flatshare; others make plans to get on?the property ladder.

But the current economic situation forced Luke back to his mum’s house at the age of 27. And he’s not alone: a quarter of young adults in the UK now live with their parents. The Office for National Statistics said more than 3.3 million adults between the ages of 20 and 34 were living with their parents in 2013.

Lack of jobs and the high cost of renting accommodation made Luke change his plans. He’s?frustrated: “There’s something very difficult about being an adult living in an environment where you’re still a child,” he says. “It limits me socially; sometimes I feel it limits me professionally.”

Indeed, many young people have no choice but to stay at ‘the hotel of Mum and Dad’.

Krissy had to return home after a year away and now lives in rather?cramped?conditions, sharing the family’s three-bedroom house with her siblings. She says they end up?getting on each other’s nerves?when it’s time to use the bathroom in the morning.

Of course,?residing?with your parents is not unusual in some countries. Economic conditions, culture, or family traditions mean many young people stay at home until they?get married. Even then, it can be too expensive to rent or buy a house and the married couple continue to live at one of their parents’ homes.

But some parents seem to enjoy having their kids back at home. Janice’s daughters are part of what’s being called ‘the?boomerang?generation’. She says: “I get to share their lives with them, and I’ve got to know them all as adults. We have the sort of conversations that good friends do.” So for some it’s?a win-win situation —?spending time with your families, and saving money.

24. How is the passage developed?

A. By listing figures.

B. By offering examples.

C. By analyzing causes.

D. By making comparisons.

25. We can learn from the passage that________.

A. All the parents enjoy living with their children

B. Living with parents is common in some countries

C. The author approves of children’s living with parents

D. Janice belongs to a group called “the boomerang generation”

26. What does the underlined sentence mean in the fifth paragraph?

A. They shout at each other angrily.

B. They get on very well with each other.

C. They finally make each other annoyed.

D. They are unwilling to sharing with each other.

27. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To persuade children into living on their own after getting married.

B. To show the present situation of young people living with their parents.

C. To compare the advantages and disadvantages of living with parents.

D. To solve the problems young adults may face after going to university.

C

Don’t we all know a “Happy Meal” when we see one—the famous boxed meal that includes a hamburger, a kid—sized portion of fries, a drink and so on, served with a toy that’s extremely popular with children who love to collect them?

But collectors of these little toys will soon be in for a surprise. For the book lovers though, there is some good news. McDonalds will replace toys with books. However, each of these books will mainly pass on nutritional messages.

Do you know that McDonalds has been marketing the boxed kid’s meal since 1979? Happy Meals are extremely popular with kids, especially for its collectible toys, when you consider that over 1.3 billion of these packages are sold each year! These packages have been very controversial. Health supporters believe that drawing kids to these meals with toys is a clever way of promoting unhealthy food choices. They see it as an advertising strategy of “catching its customers young”—a move that has paid off very well for the fast food company.

Child development experts say that food habits get formed in children by age six and continue through to their adult life. Fatty and sugary foods such as those served in McDonalds’ Happy Meals are believed to play a big role in growing health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Public health care costs have gone up and untold amounts of other health pr