1、龙海二中龙海二中 2020 届届高三上学期期初考试高三上学期期初考试 英语试卷英语试卷 （考试时间：120 分钟；满分：150 分） 第一部分第一部分 听力（共两节，满分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案 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。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。 例：How much is the shirt?
2、 A.19.15. B.9.18. C.9.15. 答案是 C。 1. Why does the woman fail to go to the party? A. Shes been invited to a rock concert. B. She wants to meet her friends. C. She has to write a report. 2. What did the woman go to London for? A. A tour. B. A vacation. C. A business trip. 3. What does the man ask the w
3、oman to have? A. Orange juice. B. Some biscuits. C. A hamburger. 4. What do you know about the woman? A. She is annoyed about something. B. She is worried about the man. C. She is satisfied with everything. 5. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a cafe. B. On a plane. C. In a hospital. 第二节
4、（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。毎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。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、7 题。 6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Manager and assistant. B. Headmaster and teacher. C. Interviewer and a
5、pplicant. 7. What is the strength of the woman? A. Being creative. B. Being cooperative. C. Being competitive. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. Why is the man permitted to see the doctor right away? A. He has an appointment. B. He knows the doctor well. C. He is an emergency case. 9. How will the man probably
6、 pay for his treatment? A. In cash. B. By Alipay. C. By check. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What is the conversation about? A. Renting a car. B. Selling a car. C. Advertising a car. 11. Which brand of car does the man finally get? A. Hyundai Accent. B. Buick Excelle. C. Toyota Corolla. 12. What does
7、the man do before driving the car away? A. Have an examination of it. B. Mark his name on the form. C. Get a spare key. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. Who has a piano class? A. David. B. Eric. C. Alice. 14. Why does Eric make the phone call? A. To ask about the fashion show at the fair. B. To invite th
8、e mans sister to the fair. C. To offer information about the fair. 15. When are Eric and Macy going to the fair? A. 18th October. B. 20th October. C. 22nd October. 16. What is the Halloween fair intended for? A. Charity. B. Friendship. C. Entertainment. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What does the spe
9、aker think of the weekend? A. Its beneficial. B. Its exciting. C. Its interesting. 18. Why was the speaker anxious at first? A. He went to bed too late. B. He was addicted to the screen. C. He was always thinking of texting messages. 19. How long was the speaker free from his phone at the camp? A. O
10、ne day. B. Two days. C. Three days. 20. What does the speaker mainly talk about? A. A healthy lifestyle. B. A busy weekend. C. A free village life. 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A My neighbor Orlando is a paramedic (急救医士).
11、He and his wife are some of the nicest people I have ever met. A few years back we started this sort of “favor war”, where one of us would do something for the other, such as shoveling (铲) their driveway or helping them build a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor. Ye
12、sterday morning there was maybe 2 or 3 feet of snow on the ground and I remembered he shoveled my driveway for me last snowfall. So I took out my shovel and took care of both our sidewalks and driveways because it was my turn to do a favor back. It took a while but I finished and got into my car for
13、 work. What I didnt realize was that Orlando had to work that day too. Fast forward to this morning I got a knock on my door. It was him. He immediately shook my hand and informed me that because I shoveled his driveway and sidewalk for him, he was able to get to work earlier. As soon as he started
14、his shift, a call came through that a young boy was in a medical emergency. Luckily he and his partner were only about 2 minutes away, but the next closest ambulance was in 10 minutes. This kid did not have 10 minutes. He barely had 2 minutes. Because my neighbor got to work sooner, the young boy go
15、t to live his life. This isnt a humble brag (吹牛). This is to inform others that even the smallest favors can have the biggest impacts. It wasnt too much of trouble to shovel his driveway for him, but because I did, the young kid got to see his family again, go back to school again, talk to his frien
16、ds again and live his life. 21. What can we know about the writer and Orlando? A. They once had a conflict. B. They signed a favorable agreement. C. They favor shoveling snow together. D. They are always ready to help each other. 22. Who saved the boy before it was too late? A. The writer. B. The bo
17、ys parents. C. Orlando and his wife. D. Orlando and his partner. 23. What does the writer intend to tell us? A. Never ask for trouble. B. No favor is too small. C. One cannot always be lucky. D. Dont lose heart in an emergency. B TRAIL SAFE! is a unique safety training program designed specifically
18、for National Park Service (NPS) Trail Volunteers, but is useful to everyone! Its based upon NPS Operational Leadership Training, where the human factor of safety is explored. TRAIL SAFE! captures (捕捉) the core learning objectives of the 16-hour Operational Leadership course while allowing volunteers
19、 to learn from their own homes online. The TRAIL SAFE! series includes eight video lessons, each ranging in length from 18 to 40 minutes long. Watch them over the course of multiple days, or “binge watch” the entire series in three hoursits up to youbut please watch them in order from Lesson 1 throu
20、gh Lesson 8. After viewing the lessons, send your training verification (验证) emails to register your participation. When you have viewed and registered for all eight individual lessons, each participant will receive a TRAIL SAFE! pin and a SPE/GAR card in the mail for use in the field. Thank you for
21、 helping to make Sleeping Bear Dunes one of the safest work environments for NPS Trail Volunteers like yourself. Ready to start? Click on this link to access all TRAIL SAFE! videos: https:/www.nps.gov/iatr/trail-safe.htm If you require Audio Descriptive versions of TRAIL SAFE!, the link to those vid
22、eos is also available on the Ice Age Trail site. Record your participation In order to receive credits for your participation, please fill in your answers to the following questions and email to: Matthew_mohrmannps.gov. Which video lesson did you just complete viewing? Name of the Trail where you vo
23、lunteer. Your name and full mailing address, so we may send your course completion materials to you. Names and addresses of others if you are viewing this lesson in a group setting. Optional: Please let us know any comments or suggestions you have about this lesson. Upon registering your completion
24、for the entire eight lesson series, youll receive your TRAIL SAFE! pin and risk assessment card via mail. 24. What is the aim of TRAIL SAFE!? A. To develop volunteers operational leadership. B. To offer links to the websites for learning. C. To provide credits for viewing. D. To pass the risk assess
25、ment. 25. How long does it take the participants to watch the eight videos at a time? A. 18 minutes. B. 40 minutes. C. 3 hours. D. 16 hours. 26. What should the participants do to get a SPE/GAR card? A. Watch and register for all the series. B. Give some comments on the lessons. C. Send and receive
26、training mails. D. Answer all of the questions. 27. What can be inferred about the job of NPS Trail Volunteers? A. It is popular with everyone. B. It can be dangerous. C. It shall be completed online. D. It needs NPS working experience. C AUSTRALIAN adults want to see “life skills” introduced into s
27、chool curriculums, including money management, job preparation and domestic tasks. New research from Monash University showed Aussie adults also widely supported the inclusion of technology, coding and artificial intelligence subjects to student curriculums to prepare them for future jobs. Co-author
28、 Professor Neil Selwyn, from Monashs new Education Futures think tank, said the survey results of more than 2,000 Australians had taken himself and Dr Deana Leahy by surprise. “The life skillsI wasnt expecting that at all,” he said. Those quizzed were asked to rate the value of a list of subjects al
29、ready in the curriculum, but were also given an open space to write what they think should be included. Prof. Selwyn said people called for schools to teach financial skills, budgeting, cooking and doing taxes. “You could argue that these are things people should be learning themselves, or learning
30、from their families,” Prof. Selwyn said. “But weve got to be thinking forward in terms of the skills people will need for jobs and their ways of living.” One respondent said schools should introduce a “contemporary life skills” subject: “A compulsory 1-hour a week class on skills needed that parents
31、 seem continually unable to teach their kids.” Suggestions for the class included resume writing, filing tax returns and health claims. Another respondent called for students to be taught “general life skills as unfortunately not enough kids will have parents to actually be bothered to educate them
32、or simply parents dont know themselves”. Of the subjects, maths was the highest ranked (75.5 percent), followed closely by English (74.8 percent). And while science was the third highest ranked subject (46.2 percent), it was more strongly supported by those who earned higher wages and were universit
33、y educated compared to lower income earners. Aspects of school life considered least important were students having fun, learning about things that interested them and being given the opportunity to be creative. 28. Why did the adults suggest adding “life skills” to school curriculums? A. To vary sc
34、hool curriculums. B. To enrich students school life. C. To prepare students for future work and life. D. To save parents the trouble of educating kids. 29. What did Prof. Selwyn think of the adults suggestions? A. Reasonable. B. Ridiculous. C. Interesting. D. Impractical. 30. What does Paragraph 3 f
35、ocus on? A. Differences of school subjects. B. Reasons for the school survey. C. Opinions from the surveyed. D. Investigations of the respondents. 31. What can we know from the text? A. The present curriculums are to adults taste. B. Contemporary life skills involve resume writing. C. Students inter
36、ests have been greatly promoted. D. The parents quizzed think highly of school life D If maths is the language of the universe, bees may have just uttered their first words. New research suggests these busybodies of the insect world are capable of addition and subtraction (减 法)using colors in the pl
37、ace of plus and minus symbols. In the animal kingdom, the ability to countor at least distinguish between differing quantitiesisnt unusual: It has been seen in frogs, spiders, and even fish. But solving equations (方程式) using symbols is rare, so far only achieved by famously brainy animals such as ch
38、impanzees and African grey parrots. Building on previous research that says the social insects can count to four and understand the concept of zero, researchers wanted to test the limits of what their tiny brains can do. Scientists trained 14 bees to link the colors blue and yellow to addition and s
39、ubtraction, respectively. They placed the bees at the entrance of a Y-shaped maze (迷宫), where they were shown several shapes in either yellow or blue. If the shapes were blue, bees got a reward if they went to the end of the maze with one more blue shape (the other end had one less blue shape); if t
40、he shapes were yellow, they got a reward if they went to the end of the maze with one less yellow shape. The testing worked the same way: Bees that “subtracted” one shape when they saw yellow, or “added” one shape when they saw blue were considered to have aced the test. The bees got the right answe
41、r 63% to 72% of the time, depending on the type of equation and the direction of the right answermuch better than random guesses would allowthe researchers report today in Science Advances. Though the results came from just 14 bees, researchers say the advance is exciting. If a brain about 20,000 ti
42、mes smaller than ours can perform maths using symbols, it could pave the way to novel approaches in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Just dont ask the bees to do your homework anytime soon. 32. Why do the scientists conduct the research? A. To teach them maths. B. To test the power
43、 of tiny brains. C. To explain the meaning of colors. D. To get access to machine learning. 33. What does the underlined word “aced” in Paragraph 5 probably mean? A. Given up. B. Entered for. C. Got through. D. Checked over. 34. What might the research make contributions to? A. Language acquisition.
44、 B. Arithmetic learning. C. Protection of animals. D. Development of AI. 35. What can be the best title for the text? A. Bees “Like” Counting B. Bees “Tell” Colors Apart C. Bees “Perform” Maths Using Shapes D. Bees “Get” Addition and Subtraction 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
45、佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余 选项。 Some people put their bicycles away once they learn how to drive a car. For many people, bicycling is not just an easy way of getting around town but also an exciting sport. 36 . One kind of race is the time trial. Each racer leaves the starting line at a different time and heads
46、hard for the finish line. The cyclist who covers the distance in the shortest amount of time wins the race. 37 , because the bicycles are spread out and are not likely to run into each other. Another kind of race is more difficult. A few city blocks are closed to traffic. Then all the racers line up
47、 in a tight pack and begin racing at the same time. 38 . The race requires more than speed. It also requires skillful handling of the bicycle as it runs at full speed around other bicycles. The racer who completes all the laps first is the winner. 39 . Racers have to cover anywhere from 35 miles to
48、almost 3,000 miles. The race course may be a straight stretch of road or a long series of roads across the country. The prize goes to the first person who crosses the finish line. Between races cyclists stay in condition by doing exercise that builds their strength so that they can keep riding for l
49、ong periods of time. 40 , they often join bicycling groups and become licensed racers. Then they can enter special races all over the country. If youre a cyclist, keep practicing. You could become a star. A. As cyclists become more experienced B. A time trial is a very safe race for beginners C. Serious cyclists often arran