海淀区高三年级第一学期期中练习
英语 2006.11
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第I卷（三大题，共115分）
第一部分：听力理解（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。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听一遍。
1. What is the man?
A. A salesman. B. A teacher. C. A waiter.
2. When did the woman see the man’s elder sister?
A. Yesterday. B. Two days ago. C. Three days ago.
3. Where did the conversation probably take place?
A. In an office. B. In a reading room C. At home
4. How often does the restaurant offer its dinner specials?
A. Twice a day. B. Twice a week. C. Once a week.
5. What is the woman doing?
A. Offering to help. B. Asking for permission. C. Asking for help.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面6段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的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秒钟时间阅读每题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至 7题。
6. What kind of book does the girl want to read?
A. A book about animals. B. A book about business.
C. A book about cookies.
7. About what time of day is it in the conversation?
A. The late morning. B. The early afternoon.
C. In the evening.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A TV program. B. The way to Xiang Shan Park.
C. A sort of exercise
9. What will the man probably do?
A. Watch TV. B. Go to Xiang Shan Park. C. Take classes.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Friends. B. Relatives. C. Strangers.
11. How is the man feeling at the beginning of the conversation?
A. Angry. B. Excited. C. Helpless.
12. How often do the trains come?
A. About every five minutes. B. About every six minutes.
C. About every seven minutes.
听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。
13. Where are they planning to go in the morning?
A. To a zoo. B. To an art museum. C. To the seashore.
14. Why does the woman want to go shopping instead?
A. To buy new clothes. B. To meet her friend there.
C. To buy a gift for her friend.
15. What are they talking about?
A. A city guide. B. A shopping center. C. A travel plan.
听第10段材料，回答第16至17题。
16. What’s the store selling?
A. Eyeglasses. B. Video tapes. C. Make-ups.
17. What time does the store close on Saturdays?
A. 5:30 pm. B. 6:00 pm. C. 8:00 pm.
听第11段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. Where did Ted’s wife find the job message?
A. From the newspaper. B. From the television.
C. From the radio.
19. What was Ted asked to do in the job interview?
A. To give a speech. B. To take a test.
C. To answer some questions.
20. What can we learn from the story?
A. Ted is suitable for the job in the factory.
B. Ted has been taken as prisoner.
C. Ted will not get the job in the bank.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。
例：It is generally considered unwise to give child ＿ he or she wants.
A．however B．whatever C．whichever D. whenever
答案是B.
21. ---Have you heard of the North Korea’s nuclear test?
---Yes, ______ news came as _____ shock to me.
A. the; a B. the; the C. a; a D. a; the
22. — Sorry, but the CDs Secret Garden have been sold out.
— How I wish I had bought _____ earlier!
A. this B. that C. one D. it
23. There is something wrong with Jack’s MP3. He is going to get it ______.
A. fixed B. fixing C. to fix D. fix
24. --- I’ve studied it as a hobby. Could I make some suggestions?
--- _____
A. You will make it. B. Go right ahead.
C. Don’t mention it. D. Take it easy.
25. You’ve gone through all your money ? I ______ you were well-off.
A. think B. thought C. have thought D. am thinking
26. --- William, you _________the car.
---Sorry. I didn't see the red light.
A. should have stopped B. couldn’t have stopped
C. must have stopped D. needn’t have stopped
27. — Each of the students working hard at their lessons_____ the book.
— So have I.
A. is reading B. has read C. read D. reads
28. Early in the 1990s no one had any idea that J.K. Rowling had come up with the story of Harry Potter, _____ later became a best seller.
A. what B. which C. who D. whom
29. For holidays, many people visit those islands _____ the coast of Australia.
A. in B. on C. off D. of
30. ---How do you like the roast steak?
---It ______ good.
A. turns B. feels C. tastes D. keeps
31. I was now attracted by books. By the end of that summer, I _____ over twenty novels.
A. will have read B. have read C. had read D. has read
32. How long do you think _____ the computer company brings out a new product?
A. it will be before B. will it be until
C. will it be when D. it will be that
33. When moving to a new city, one often finds it not easy what to take and what to___.
A. leave behind B. pass away C. bring in D. get across
34. Hit by a hammer, my foot became ______.
A. 3 times the normal size B. as big as 3 times
C. the normal size 3 times D. 3 times bigger than
35. _____ exercise early in the morning has become part of his retired life.
A. Take B.Takes C. Taking D. Taken
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36 - 55各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I had applied for the nuclear submarine program, and Admiral Rickover interviewed me for the job. It was the first time I met Admiral Rickover, and we sat in a large room 36 ourselves for more than two hours, and he let me 37 any subjects I wished to 38 . Very carefully, I chose those about which I knew most at the time – current events, seamanship, music, literature, naval tactics, electronics, gunnery – and he began to ask me a series of questions of increasing 39 . In each instance, he soon 40 that I knew relatively 41 about the subjects I had chosen.
He always looked right 42 my eyes，and he never smiled. I was wet with cold 43 .
Finally, he asked me a question and I thought I could regain ___44__. He said, “How did you 45 in your class at Georgia Tech before 46 our Annapolis as a plebe (军校新生) ?” I had done very well, and I swelled my chest with pride and answered, “Sir, I stood fifty-ninth in a class of 820!” I sat back to wait for the 47 --- which never came. 48 , the question: “Did you do your best?” I started to say, “Yes, Sir,” but I remembered who this was, and 49 several of my times at the academy 50 I could have learned more about our supporters, our enemies, weapons strategy, and so forth. I was just human. I _51___my throat and finally said, “No, Sir. I didn’t always do my 52 .”
He looked at me for a long time, and then turned his chair around to 53 the interview. He asked one final question, which I have never been able to forget 54 to answer. He said, “Why not?” I sat there for a while, 55 , and then slowly left the room.
36. A. beside B. with C. for D. by
37. A. choose B. consider C. elect D. search
38. A. learn B. confirm C. discuss D. concern
39. A. humor B. interest C. difficulty D. ability
40. A. proved B. showed C. meant D. imagined
41. A. much B. anything C. little D. everything
42. A. for B. into C. back D. up
43. A. sweat B. air C. water D. weather
44. A. consideration B. permission C. self-confidence D. self-defence
45. A. stand B. deal C. behave D. go
46. A. leaving B. reaching C. choosing D. entering
47. A. celebrations B. expectations C. evaluations D. congratulations
48. A. Thus B. Instead C. However D. Therefore
49. A. recalled B. tried C. analyzed D. examined
50. A. cleared B. examined C. cleaned D. treated
51. A. where B. that C. when D. which
52. A. worst B. best C. fewest D. least
53. A. start B. continue C. interrupt D. end
54. A. so B. and C. or D. but
55. A. moved B. excited C. frightened D. shaken
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从56 - 75小题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Erik Weihenmayer was born with an eye
disorder. As a child his eyesight became worse and then, at the age of 13, he
lost his sight completely. However, he did not lose his determination to lead a
full and active life.
Erik became an adventurer. He took up parachuting, wrestling and scuba diving. He competed in long-distance biking, marathons and skiing. His favorite sport, though, is mountaineering.
As a young man, Erik started to climb mountains. He reached the summit of Mount McKinley in 1995 and then climbed the dangerous 1000-metre rock wall of El Capitan. Two years later, while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya with his girlfriend, they stopped for a time at 13,000 feet above sea level — in order to get married. In 1999, he climbed Aconcagua, the tallest mountain on South America. And then, on 25 May, 2001, at the age of 32, Erik successfully completed the greatest mountaineering challenge of all. He climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
Erik invented his own method for climbing mountains. He carries two long poles: one to lean on and the other to test the way ahead of him. The climber in front of him wears a bell to guide him. Erik is a good team member. He does his share of the jobs, such as setting up tents and building snow walls.
Although he could not enjoy the view, Erik felt the excitement of being on the summit of Everest. He hopes that his success will change how people think about the blind. “When people think about a blind person or blindness, now they will think about a person standing on top of the world.”
56. When was Erik born?
A. In 1968. B. In 1995.
C. In 1967. D. In 1969.
57. What was unusual about his wedding?
A. He got married at the summit of Mount McKinley.
B. He got married when climbing Mount Everest.
C. His wedding was held after he prepared a lot.
D. His wedding was held at 13,000 feet above sea level.
58. What is Erik’s special method for climbing a mountain?
A. He takes his girlfriend with him.
B. He does his share of the jobs.
C. He uses two long poles to help himself.
D. He keeps a good team around him.
59. Which of the following shows the right order of what happened?
a. He topped Mount Mckinly.
b. He became blind.
c. He challenged Mount Everest.
d. He reached the peak of Kilimanjaro.
e. He climbed the rock wall of El Capitan.
A. b, e, d, c, a B. b, a, e, d, c C. a, b, e, d, c D. b, d, a, c, e
B (124)
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60. If you happen to be the 200th customer, you will _____.
A. be able to buy it at a low price B. be the luckiest one online
C. try it free of charge D. change your diet
61. Lipitor®, Zocor®, Crestor® are _____________________.
A. diseases B. side effects C. medicines D. cholesterol
63 Where can you most probably read this passage?
A. In a travel guide book. B. On a university bulletin board.
C. In a health magazine. D. In a doctor’s prescription.
C
It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.
I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary’, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!
Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we’d fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.
Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite presumably coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun. I wasn't really sure people said this, but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.
A few years ago I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like ‘I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we're meeting’. They couldn't say it to me, though; I refused to have one. So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message (either spoken or written) for them on their phone. Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile. I haven't heard that verb yet, but I'm sure I will soon. Perhaps I'll start using it myself! (416)
63. “I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means _____ .
A. it was a firm arrangement
B. it was an uncertain arrangement
C. the arrangement should be written as a diary
D. he prefers a pencil to a pen
64. A website address can be easily found if it has been ______ on computer.
A. emailed B. messaged C. favorited D. texted
65. Which of the following nouns has not been used as a verb yet?
A. message B. page C. email D. mobile
66. The best title for this passage is _________.
A. New Verbs from Old Nouns
B. The Development of the English Language
C. New Technology Invents New Words
D. Technology and Language
D
To many web-building spiders, most of whom
are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means
of communicating, capturing prey（猎物）,
meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web
is like a man cast away on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and
destined to starve to death.
So important is the web to an orb-web spider’s survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）, it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands（线）. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.
The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and re-uses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day’s web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down.
Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider’s highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate (无脊椎动物). If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finished building a normal web. One spider will even finish building the incomplete web of another. (280)
67. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?
A. Secrets of Spiders’ Adaptability B. Importance of Webs to Spiders
C. Secrets of the Spiders’ Life D. Spiders’ Highly Preprogrammed Brain
68. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry.
B. One web-building spider usually conducts one web.
C. Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs.
D. Web-building spiders have good eyesight.
69. A spider conducts a wider-meshed web when __________.
A. it is 16 days old
B. it is getting weaker
C. it has fewer strands
D. it hunts for food
70. A spider’s ability to finish an incomplete web proves that _______.
A. it has a highly preprogrammed brain
B. it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silk
C. the web is everything for a spider
D. it is able to rebuild a destroyed web
(E)
High school dropouts (辍学者) earn an average of $9,000 less per year than graduates. Now a new study dispels a common belief why they quit. It’s much more basic than flunking out（不及格）.
Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can’t cut it. They are lazy, and perhaps not too bright. So researchers were surprised when they asked more than 450 kids who quit school about why they left.
“The vast majority actually had passing grades and they were confident that they could have graduated from high school.” John Bridgeland, the executive researcher said. About 1 million teens leave school each year. Only about half of African-American and Hispanic ( 美籍西班牙的) students will receive a diploma (证书), and actually all dropouts come to regret their decision. So, if failing grades don’t explain why these kids quit, what does? Again, John Bridgeland: “The most dependable finding was that they were bored.” “They found classes uninteresting; they weren’t inspired or motivated. They didn’t see any direct connection between what they were learning in the classroom to their own lives, or to their career aspirations.”
The study found that most teens who do drop out wait until they turn sixteen, which happens to be the age at which most states allow students to quit. In the US, only one state, New Mexico, has a law requiring teenagers to stay in high school until they graduate. Only four states: California, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, plus the District of Columbia, require school attendance until age 18, no exceptions. Jeffrey Garin, another researcher, says raising the compulsory (义务的) attendance age may be one way to keep more kids in school.
“As these dropouts look back, they realize they’ve made a mistake. And anything that sort of gives these people an extra push to stick it out and see it through to the end, is probably helpful measure.”
New Hampshire may be the next state to raise its school attendance age to 18. But critics say that forcing alienated students to stay in school misses the point --- the need for reform. It’s been called for to reinvent high school education to make it more challenging and relevant, and to ensure that kids who do stick it out receive a diploma that actually means something. (401)
71. Most high school students drop out of school because ________.
A. they have failing grades B. they take no interest in classes
B. they are discriminated against D. they are lazy and not intelligent
72. According to the passage, which state has a law requiring school attendance until they graduate?
A. New Hampshire B. Utah C. New Mexico D. The District of Columbia
73. The underlined words “stick it out” probably means “__________”.
A. complete schooling B. solve the problem
C. love having classes D. believe in themselves
74. In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to _____________.
A. analyze the reason why students quit school
B. suggest raising the compulsory attendance age
C. raise awareness of reforming high school education
D. wish to make laws to guarantee no dropouts
75. From the passage, we can infer the following EXCEPT that __________.
A. the grades of most dropouts at school were acceptable
B. about 500,000 high school dropouts are black and Spanish
C. classes don’t appeal to dropouts
D. on average dropouts cannot get good jobs
第II卷（共35分）
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 情景作文（满分20分）
你的澳大利亚笔友Tom发来电子邮件, 向你询问国家体育馆“鸟巢”的有关信息。请你根据下列提示给Tom回一封电子邮件，简单介绍“鸟巢”。
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| 地 点 | 北京北部 |
| 建筑面积 | 5.8万平方米，可容纳9万多名观众 | |
| 开工/竣工时间 | 2003年12月--2007年 | |
| 外 观 | 犹如用树枝搭成的“鸟巢” | |
| 功能/用途 | 奥运会期间可举办田径、足球比赛 | |
| 奥运会后将用于各类大型活动 | ||
| Kofi Annan 的评价 | “鸟巢”将成为奥运历史上一个令人难以置信的标志性建筑 |
注意：1. 词数不少于60。
2. 短文的开头已为你写好。
3. 短文须包括表中所提供的要点，但可适当增减情节，以使行文连贯。
提示词语：田径track and field events 观众：spectators
Dear Tom,
In your last e-mail, you showed a great interest in our National Stadium --- the Bird’s Nest. Now I’d like to introduce it to you.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming
第二节 开放作文（满分15分）
请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
While traveling in Shanghai, Li Ming had his wallet stolen. He lost almost everything except a five-yuan note. How could he get back home in Beijing? Please think of at least TWO solutions to help him get back to Beijing.
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Dear Tom,
In your last e-mail, you showed a great interest in our National Stadium — the Bird’s Nest. Now I’d like to introduce it to you.
The Bird’s Nest is located on North Fourth Ring Road in Beijing, and covers an area of 58,000 square meters, with a seating capacity of about 90 thousand. Its construction was started in December 2003 and will be completed in 2007. It looks just like a bird’s nest made of tree branches. During the Olympic Games, we will host the track and field events and soccer matches there. After the Games it will be used for large-scale events.
The Bird’s Nest is thought highly of by officials and experts all over the world. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan gives the thumbs-up to its design and thinks that it will be an incredible symbolism in the history of the global Games.
Wish that my introduction satisfies you.
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming
开放作文：（15分）
根据下面英文提示写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
While traveling in Shanghai, Li Ming had his wallet stolen. He lost almost everything except a five-yuan note. How could he get home in Beijing? Please think of at least TWO solutions to help him get back to Beijing.
First Li Ming could call his parents. Maybe some of their friends live in Shanghai. His parents’ friends would lend him some money and buy a train ticket for him, so he could get back Beijing.
If the first idea failed to work, Li Ming could go to the police station and ask the police to give him a hand. They might be kind enough to lend him some money, and his parents could refund it later. Or he could stay at a hotel for one or two days, waiting for his parents to send him some money.