1、龙海二中2020届高三上学期期初考试 英语试卷（考试时间：120分钟；满分：150分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30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?A.19.15. B.9.18. C.9.15.答案是C。1. Why does the woman fail to g
2、o 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 woman to have?A. Orange juice. B. Some biscuits. C. A hamburger.4. What
3、 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（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
4、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 applicant.7. What is the strength of the woman?A. Being creative. B. Being cooperative. C. Being compet
5、itive.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 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
6、?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 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
7、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 the 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 Octob
8、er. 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 speaker 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.
9、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. One 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 阅读理解（共两节，
10、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). 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) thei
11、r driveway or helping them build a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor.Yesterday 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 d
12、riveways because it was my turn to do a favor back. It took a while but I finished and got into my car for 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
13、 I shoveled his driveway and sidewalk for him, he was able to get to work earlier. As soon as he started 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 d
14、id not have 10 minutes. He barely had 2 minutes. Because my neighbor got to work sooner, the young boy got 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,
15、but because I did, the young kid got to see his family again, go back to school again, talk to his friends 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 alw
16、ays ready to help each other.22. Who saved the boy before it was too late?A. The writer. B. The boys 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 h
17、eart in an emergency.BTRAIL SAFE!is a unique safety training program designed specifically for National Park Service (NPS) Trail Volunteers, but is useful to everyone! Its based upon NPS Operational Leadership Training, where thehuman factorof safety is explored. TRAIL SAFE! captures (捕捉) the core l
18、earning objectives of the 16-hour Operational Leadership course while allowing volunteers to learn from their own homes online.TheTRAIL 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 entir
19、e series in three hoursits up to youbut please watch them in order from Lesson 1 through 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 receiv
20、e aTRAIL SAFE!pin and a SPE/GAR card in the mail for use in the field. Thank you for 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 allTRAIL SAFE!videos: https:/www.nps.gov/iatr/trail-safe.ht
21、mIf you require Audio Descriptive versions ofTRAIL SAFE!, the link to those videos is also available on the Ice Age Trail site.Record your participationIn order to receive credits for your participation, please fill in your answers to the following questions and email to: Matthew_mohrmannps.gov. Whi
22、ch video lesson did you just complete viewing?Name of the Trail where you volunteer.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
23、suggestions you have about this lesson.Upon registering your completion 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 le
24、arning.C. To provide credits for viewing.D. To pass the risk assessment.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 seri
25、es.B. Give some comments on the lessons.C. Send and receive 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. CAUSTRA
26、LIAN adults want to see “life skills” introduced into school 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
27、 curriculums to prepare them for future jobs.Co-author 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
28、 were asked to rate the value of a list of subjects already 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 thi
29、ngs people should be learning themselves, or learning 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 compul
30、sory 1-hour a week class on skills needed that parents 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
31、 have parents to actually be bothered to educate them 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 support
32、ed by those who earned higher wages and were university 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 addi
33、ng “life skills” to school curriculums? A. To vary school 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. Inte
34、resting. D. Impractical.30. What does Paragraph 3 focus 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 sk
35、ills involve resume writing.C. Students interests have been greatly promoted.D. The parents quizzed think highly of school life DIf 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
36、and subtraction (减法)using colors in the place 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 achie
37、ved by famously brainy animals such as chimpanzees and African grey parrots.Building on previous research that says the social insects can count to four andunderstand the concept of zero, researchers wanted to test the limits of what their tiny brains can do.Scientists trained 14 bees to link the co
38、lors blue and yellow to addition and subtraction, 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 ot
39、her end had one less blue shape); if the 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
40、the test.The bees got the right answer 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
41、exciting. If a brain about 20,000 times 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 tea
42、ch them maths. B. To test the power 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 contribut
43、ions to? A. Language acquisition. B. Arithmetic learning. C. Protection of animals. D. Development of AI. 35. What can bethe besttitle 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
44、文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。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 differe
45、nt time and heads 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 t
46、he racers line up 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 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 cyc
