加载中…宁波市2011学年第一学期高三期末试卷英语
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宁波市2011学年第一学期高三期末试卷
英语
I卷（选择题部分：共80分）
第一部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）
从A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
1. More than 1 million people in southern California and northern Mexico were without electricity after _______ major power failure struck just before _______ afternoon rush hour.
2. If not _______, you’re allowed to return everything within 10 days for a full refund and no further duties.
3.
4.
5.
6. —What do they sell?
7.
8. In addition to the United States, other TPP(跨太平洋伙伴关系) participants _______ Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
9. Prince William of Wales married Miss Catherine Middleton on
April 29, 2011 at
10. In the past western women were wearing dresses they couldn’t breathe in, _______ walk in, run in, work in.
11. I _______ worry about my weekend—I always have my plans ready before it comes.
12. China's population of one and a third billion is currently the world's _______. India is second at 1.2 billion.
13. Some people thought babies were not able to learn things _______ they were five or six months old. Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life.
A. when
14. Sam _______ some knowledge of the computer just by watching others working on it.
15. East Coast fever kills _______ cattle in eastern and central Africa every year.
16. —What does he want?
17. Swimming is my favorite sport. There is ______ like swimming as a means of keeping fit.
A. nothing
18. On no account _______ tell him about our plans.
19. —I’m sure Harry will remember the meeting, but why not give him a ring just _______?
20. The National Education Department says that school safety has set off alarm bells with frequent reports of serious accidents _______ students got injured or killed.
第二节：完形填空（共20 小题；每小题1分；满分20分）
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从 21～40 各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her
trip to the United States. The woman
"I studied English
Her problem is
When things go wrong in a business, an employer may
get angry. He may
It is difficult to tell
Word expert James Rogers says the expression was
Now, this expression is heard
21. A. has visited
22. A. when
23. A. still
24. A. hard
25. A. of their own
26. A. deal with
27. A. Others
28. A. Such
29. A. cry
30. A. And
31. A. it get its
32. A. Any
33. A. orderly
34. A. when
35. A. players
36. A. Get down
37. A. common
38. A. requested
39. A. commonly
40. A. ever
第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分, 满分50分）
第一节：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, 并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
A
The bicycling craze came in when we were just about at the right age to enjoy it. At first even “safety” bicycles were too dangerous and improper for ladies to ride, and they had to have tricycles. My mother had (I believe) the first female tricycle in Cambridge; and I had a little one, and we used to go out for family rides, all together; my father in front on a bicycle, and my poor brother Charles standing miserable on the bar behind my mother. I found it very hard work, pounding(轰隆隆行进) away on my hard tyres; a glorious, but not a pleasurable pastime.
Then, one day at lunch, my father said he had just seen a new kind of tyre, filled up with air, and he thought it might be a success. And soon after that everyone had bicycles, ladies and all; and bicycling became the smart thing, and the lords and ladies had their pictures in the papers, riding along in the park, in straw hats.
My mother must have fallen off her bicycle pretty often, for I remember seeing the most appalling cuts and bruises(青肿) on her legs. But she never complained, and always kept these accidents to herself. However, the great Mrs. Phillips, our cook, always knew all about them; as indeed she knew practically everything that ever happened. She used to draw us into the servants’ hall to tell us privately: “Her Ladyship had a nasty fall yesterday; she cut both her knees and sprained her wrist. But don’t let her know I told you.” So we never dared say anything. Similar little accidents used to occur when, at the age of nearly seventy, she insisted on learning to drive a car. She never mastered the art of reversing(倒车), and was in every way an unconventional and terrifying driver. Mrs. Phillips used then to tell us: “Her Ladyship ran into the back of a milk-cart yesterday; but it wasn’t much hurt”; or “A policeman stopped her Ladyship because she was on the wrong side of the road; but she said she didn’t know what the white line on the road meant, so he explained and let her go on.” Mrs. Phillips must have had an excellent Intelligence Service at her command, for the stories were always true enough.
41. Women did not ride bicycles at first because ______.
A. bicycling demanded too much hard work
B. bicycling was considered unsafe and unladylike
C. they preferred to ride tricycles
D. tricycles could carry young children as well
42. How did the writer feel about tricycles?
A. They were very hard to ride.
B. They were safer and more convenient for women.
C. They were not as fast as bicycles.
D. They were not proper for women to ride.
43. Cycling became popular when ______.
A.
the writer’s father popularised it
C.
noble people started enjoying it
44. The writer admired Mrs. Phillips because ______.
A. she was the best cook they had ever had
B. she was in command of all the servants
C. she could keep secrets
D. she had an outstanding ability to gather information
45. The writer’s mother always had car accidents because ______.
A.
she could not control the car
C.
she did not understand the road system
B
Before meeting with my friend Leticia from Honduras, Central America, I would ask her if she was arriving according to North American time or Latin American time. Smiling, she would answer, "A la hora Latina, of course." This meant that she would be late. The concept of time is very different for Latin Americans than for North Americans.
Life in the United States is fast-paced. There are fast food restaurants, overnight delivery services, shuttle services, instant cash machines, fast weight loss plans, and even instant minute rice. Keenly following such sayings as, "The early bird gets the worm," and, "First come, first served," North Americans even have their meals in an efficient manner. Microwaves help warm up their early breakfasts, noon lunches, and five-o'clock dinners.
"Time is money" for big businesses. Everyone follows set agendas（议事日程）. Minutes are taken at meetings that are precisely scheduled. North Americans take pride in juggling busy work schedules and still finding time to spend with family and friends.
Latin Americans stroll leisurely through life. They wander past open-air restaurants, across shaded patios tucked behind walls of Bougainvillea. In the cafes, the service is slow but courteous. Outside on the streets, people walk by, not for weight purposes, but to get somewhere. Buses arrive and depart on their own schedule, sometimes sooner or later than their printed times. And if you miss the bus, wait. One will come along eventually. Mid-morning breakfasts are homemade. Lunch is around three in the afternoon and dinner could be anytime after the arranged time. No one follows a set agenda, but business is accomplished at a gradual and comfortable pace. Watches are not followed precisely, and one barely ever hears the question, "What time is it?"
This cultural difference has proven to be a problem for many North Americans visiting Latin American countries and vice versa. For example, this problem has escalated on the issue of adoption. While in Honduras the summer of 1989, I translated for couples from the United States who were looking for children to adopt from Central America. All legal procedures were transacted between a lawyer from the U.S. and a Honduran lawyer. Legal matters on the North American end were handled almost immediately. The Honduran lawyer, however, was considerably slower with field work and paper work and was unable to give definite dates or times for the completion of the adoption. This created a cultural barrier and added to the confusion of the situation.
Without understanding these cultural differences, one could eventually feel offended. Having lived for five years in the Dominican Republic, I am able to understand the two concepts of time but am torn between them. People in the United States, while accomplishing much, need to live less by the clock and stroll through more of their days. Although Latin America can sometimes be very frustrating and remind us that, indeed, patience is a virtue, one should slow down long enough to enjoy life's simple pleasure. So whenever I am asked, "Why are you late?" I simply reply, "According to whose time?"
46. Which is probably North Americans’ behavior?
47.
If you invite a Latin American friend for a party at 8p.m., when
will he/she be likely to
48. That the writer gives an example of adoption is to show that ______.
49. What’s the writer’s opinion on North Americans’ and Latin Americans’ attitudes towards time?
50. What does the writer want to convey?
C
Going to school means learning new skills and facts in such subjects as reading, math, science, history, art or music. Teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both the teaching and learning processes.
Some researchers, such as Sian Beilock and Susan Levine, are trying to learn about learning. Beilock and Levine are psychologists at the University of Chicago. Psychologists study the ways people think and behave, and these researchers want to know how a person’s thoughts and behavior are related.
In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, Beilock and Levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: If a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math.
“If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” Levine told Science News. The study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident.
Just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learn—and teach. The subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone. Researchers use the word “anxiety” to describe such feelings: anxiety is uneasiness or worry. (Many people, for example, have anxiety about going to the dentist because they’re worried about pain.)
The new study found that when a teacher has anxiety about math, that feeling can influence how her female students feel about math. The study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first- and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the Midwest. The students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores.
The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed that a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers: To find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math.
Boys, on average, were unaffected by a teacher’s anxiety. On average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. Plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at math—and all of these girls had been taught by female teachers who had math anxiety.
According to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. Plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, Levine said.
This study was small, and it’s often difficult to see large patterns in small studies, David Geary told Science News. Geary, a psychologist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, studies how children learn math. “This is an interesting study, but the results need to be interpreted as preliminary and in need of replication with a larger sample,” Geary said. That means that the results are just showing something that might be happening, but more studies should be done. If more studies find the same trend as this one, then it’s possible that a teacher’s anxiety over math really is affecting her female students.
51. Sian Beilock and Susan Levine carried out the new research in order to ______.
B. study students’ ways of learning math
C. prove women teachers are unfit to teach math
D. find better teaching methods for teachers
52. The underlined part in paragraph 4 most probably means that girls may ______.
C. have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers
53. In the study, what were the teachers required to do?
54. What is the finding of the new study?
55. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
D
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose dreams are never fulfilled. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.
When I left a 20-year career to become a writer, I had no prospect(前途) at all. What I did have was my friend George who found me at my home—a storage room which was cold and had no bathroom. Immediately I bought a used typewriter and felt like a real writer.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t received a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I barely made enough to eat. Then one day I got a call that changed my life. It wasn’t an agent or editor offering a big contract. It was the opposite—a call persuading me to give up my dream. On the phone was an old acquaintance. He had once lent me money. “When am I going to get the $15, Alex?” he asked.
“Next time I make a sale.”
“I have a better idea,” he said. “We need a new public-information assistant, and we’re paying $6,000 a year. If you want it, you can have it.”
Six thousand a year! That was real money in 1960. I could get a nice apartment, a used car, pay off debts and maybe save a little something. As the dollars were dancing in my head, something cleared my senses. I had dreamed of being a writer-- full time. And that’s what I was going to be. “Thanks, but no,” I heard myself saying. “I’m going to stick it out and write.”
Afterward, as I paced around my little room, I started to feel like a fool. Reaching into my cupboard, I pulled out all that was there: two cans of sardines(沙丁鱼). Putting my hands into my pockets, I came up with 18 cents. I took the cans and coins and jammed them into a paper bag. There Alex, I said to myself. There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far.
I wish I could say things started getting better right away. But they didn’t. Thank goodness I had George to help me over the rough spots.
Through him I met other struggling artists, like Joe Delaney, a painter. Often Joe lacked food money, so he’d visit a neighborhood butcher(肉贩) who would give him big bones with little meat. That’s all Joe needed to make down-home soup. Another village neighbor was a handsome young singer who ran a struggling restaurant. His name was Harry Belafonte. People like Delaney and Belafonte became role models for me. I learned that you had to make sacrifices and live creatively to keep working at your dreams.
As I absorbed the lesson, I gradually began to sell my articles. I was writing about what many people were talking about then: civil rights, black Americans and Africa. Soon, like birds flying south, my thoughts were drawn back to my childhood. One day at lunch with editors of Reader’s Digest, I said that I had a dream to trace my family’s history to the first African brought to these shores in chains. I left that lunch with a contract that would help support my research and writing for nine years.
Yet in 1970, Roots was published. Instantly I had the kind of fame and success that few writers ever experience. For the first time I had money; the phone rang all the time with new friends and new deals. I packed up and moved to Los Angeles, where I could help in the making of the Roots TV mini-series. I was blinded by the light of my success.
Then one day, while unpacking, I came across a box filled with things I had owned years. Inside was a brown paper bag.
I opened it, and there were two sardine cans and 18 cents. Suddenly the past came flooding in. I could picture myself once again writing in that cold, one-room apartment. And I said to myself: The things in this bag are part of my roots, too. I can’t ever forget that.
I sent them out to be framed(镶框) in plastic. I keep that clear plastic case where I can see it every day. I can see it now above my office desk, along with prizes Roots won for me. I’d be hard pressed to say which means the most to me. But only one reminds me of the courage and persistence(坚持) it takes to stay the course.
56. According to the author, “there’s a big difference between ‘being a writer’ and writing” (Para.1) and the latter means ______.
B. spending hours at the typewriter writing
D. mistaking “writing” for wealth and fame
57. Which of the following opinions would the author agree?
58. The author took the examples of Joe Delaney and Harry Belafonte to show that ______.
59. What put the author in the spotlight of fame?
60. When the author rediscovered his sardine cans and eighteen cents years later, ______.
D. he had them framed because they won him a lot of awards
第二节：下面文章中有5处（第61～65题）需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
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A. New teachers’ opinions of involving parents B. An argument over an assignment C. A conflict between assumption and reality D. Difficulties in sharing goals E. The best way to score high F. Proper ways of parental involvement |
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An Iowa high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the “C” her child received on an assignment. “The parent argued every point in the essay,” recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so disappointed about the grade. “It became apparent that she’d written it. ”
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In a survey, 90% of new teachers agreed that involving parents in their children’s education is a priority at their school, but only 25% described their experience working with parents as “very satisfying”. When asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31％ of them quoted involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice. 73％ of new teachers said too many parents treat schools and teachers as enemies.
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At a time when competition is rising and resources are limited, when battles over testing force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels slip into the parent-teacher conference, it’s harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.
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Everyone says the parent-teacher conference should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build partnership. But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety and panic.
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When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn’t necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related.
II卷（非选择题部分：共40分）
第三部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在下面加上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
Senior three student will face a problem after they pass by the college entrance examination. Should I choose a good major and a good university? Some students preferred to consider majors first so that they can learn what they are interested. It will also make it possibly for them to take their favorite jobs in the future. However, those who think differently believes that the environment is important to one’s development. They think that students graduate from key universities are often more likely to find a good job. In my opinion, the best choice is to choose a good major at a good university. But if we can obtain both, the first thing to consider is a good major, because no matter where we study, we can still achieve a lot in the certain field if we try our best.
第二节：书面表达（满分30分）
假设你们学校最近就你们所在的城市是否应该发展旅游业(tourism)作为研究性课程的内容进行课题讨论，请你根据下面所给出的要点提示，写一个在讨论会上的英语发言稿。发言稿中应包括：
1. 旅游业给当地经济发展和人民生活带来的好处；
2. 旅游业过快发展的弊端；
3. 提出建议。
注意：字数120字左右。
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宁波市2011学年度第一学期期末试卷
高三英语参考答案
第一部分
第一节（10分，每小题0.5分）
1-5 BCADD
第二节（20分，每小题1分）
21-25 BDACA
第二部分
第一节（40分，每小题2分）
41-45 BABDA
第二节（10分，每小题2分）
61-65 BADCF
第三部分
第一节（10分，每小题1分）
Senior three student will face a problem after they pass by the college entrance examination.
Should I choose a good major and a good university? Some students preferred to consider majors first
so that they can learn what they are interested/\. It will also make it possibly for them to take their
favorite jobs in the future. However, those who think differently believes that the environment is
important to one’s development. They think that students graduate from key universities are often
more likely to find a good job. In my opinion, the best choice is to choose a good major at a good
university. But if we can obtain both, the first thing to consider is a good major, because no matter
where we study, we can still achieve a lot in the certain field if we try our best.
第二节（30分）
One possible version: [126 words]
Nowadays, there is a widespread concern over developing tourism. In fact, tourism can benefit us a lot. It will help the city's economy and people's life will improve greatly. We will have nice parks, the first-class roads and grand buildings. We will get lots of chances to communicate with tourists from all over the world.
But every coin has two sides. Without proper planning, tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people will move from their early jobs to those concerning tourism. Local industry will suffer. Too many tourists can crowd public places and cause some pollution.
I think it necessary to develop tourism, but first of all we should have a proper plan so that it can be developed steadily and efficiently.
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