邵阳县2017届高三第一次调研测试英语试卷
考生注意：
1.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。
2.请将各题的答案填涂在答题卡上。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5）
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. Why does the woman refuse to have more apple pie?
A. Because it's not delicious.
B. Because she wants to be slimmer.
C. Because she has hardly eaten anything.
2. What season is it now?
A.Summer. B. Spring. C. Winter.
3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Only the woman likes to read Chris Maine's book.
B. Only the man likes to read Chris Maine's book.
C. They both like to read Chris Maine's book.
4. What do we know from the conversation？
A. Both of the two speakers understand Peter well.
B. Peter uses too much American English.
C. One of the speakers is from America.
5. What is the man doing？
A. Asking for help. B. Asking for permission. C. Making suggestions.
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白，每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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
听下面一段话，回答第6题和第7题。
6. How old is Bob?
A. 15. B. 7. C. 17.
7. What is the woman's attitude to Bob's traveling on his own？
A. She is worried about it. B. She is against it. C. She is eager to stop it.
听下面一段话，回答第8题和第9题。
8. Where are the speakers？
A. In a factory. B. In a store. C. In a repair shop.
9. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The remote doesn't work because the man forgot to put batteries in it.
B. There are several problems with the DVD player bought by the man.
C. There is a problem with all the models made by this brand of the DVD player.
听下面一段话，回答第10至12题。
10．What is the most possible relationship between the man and the woman?
A. Man and wife B. Friends C. Colleagues
11. What do the man and the woman think of Mr. Hudson?
A. He is cheerful usually. B. He is always unhappy. C. He doesn't work hard.
12. What does Mr. Hudson probably worry about?
A. mother. B. His job. C. His son.
听下面一段话，回答第13至16题。
13. What's the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Boss and employee. B. Teacher and student. C. Classmates.
14. What is he going to do?
A. Hold a party for their friend，Jane.
B. Hold a party for the woman.
C. See Jane off to China
15. What is Jane going to do？
A. She's going to work in China.
B. She's going to study in China
C. She's going to have a visit in China
16. What's the woman's decision?
A. She doesn't want to attend the party.
B. She wants to attend the party.
C. She's not decided yet.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。
17. How many topics does the report cover?
A. 8. B. 18. C. 22.
18. What will China build up a system to promote by 2050？
A: Public security. B. Agriculture. C. New energy industry.
19. What will China further develop？
A. Technology. B. Science. C. Mineral resource.
20. What does Chinese Academy of Sciences consist of?
A. 11 regional branches. B. Over 100 institutes. C. Both A and B.
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。
A
More than great drinks, great rewards
Enjoy all the benefits and more with your membership to our Loyalty Program!
Whenever you pay with your membership account, you’ll earn a Star.
Collect more Stars, earn more rewards.
Three ways to join us
Buy a Starbucks Card handy to create an account.
Track your Stars online or through the mobile app, and we’ll send an email when you’ve earned a reward.
You can also join from your phone.
Download the Starbucks® App.
One of the most exciting benefits of being a member is using our mobile app to: pay for purchases; view your Stars and rewards; access iTunes® Pick of the Week; see current offers.
Or you can join with specially marked coffee purchased at the grocery store.
Enter your Starcode (limit 2 per day).
Look for the Starcode symbol on specially marked Starbucks® products where you buy groceries.
Three levels with increasingly greater rewards
To reach each level in our Loyalty Program, you need to collect more Stars. ( Remember, to earn a Star you must pay with a registered Starbucks Card. )
Welcome level
To earn your first rewards, just register a Starbucks Card.
Birthday drink or treat on us; birthday coupon (优惠券) for 15% off a purchase at StarbucksStore.com.
Green level
Collect 5 Stars within 12 months and you’ll be in the Green level.
What is included in the Welcome level plus
★Free in-store refills on hot or iced brewed coffee or tea
Gold level
Collect 30 Stars within 12 months and you’re at the Gold level.
What is included in the Green, level plus
★A free food or drink item after another 12 Stars earned
★Personalized Gold Card
21. Which of the following is a way you can apply for membership?
A. To update the Starbucks® App from the official website.
B. To buy a Starbucks Card over the phone.
C. To enter a Starcode from specially marked Starbucks® products.
D. To buy a drink at a Starbucks on weekends.
22. If you collect 40 stars within 12months, you can get the following rewards except ________.
A. You will have the Personalized Gold Card B. Free in-store refills on hot tea
C. birthday coupon for 15% off a purchase on its website D. a free food
23. What’s the author’s intention to write the passage?
A. to introduce the ways to join Starbucks
B. to inform people of the ways to collect more Stars
C. to tell people the rewards of being a member of Starbucks
D. to encourage people to be a member of Starbucks and collect Stars
B
Today, roller skating is easy and fun. But a long time ago, it wasn't easy at all. Before 1750, the idea of skating didn't exist. That changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin. Merlin's work was making musical instruments. In his spare time he liked to play the violin. Joseph Merlin was a man of ideas and dreams. People called him a dreamer.
One day Merlin received an invitation to attend a fancy dress ball. He was very pleased and a little excited. As the day of the party came near, Merlin began to think how to make a grand entrance at the party. He had an idea. He thought he would get a lot of attention if he could skate into the room.
Merlin tried different ways to make himself roll. Finally, he decided to put two wheels under each shoe. These were the first roller skates. Merlin was very proud of his invention and dreamed of arriving at the party on wheels while playing the violin.
On the night of the party Merlin rolled into the room playing his violin. Everyone was astonished to see him. There was just one problem. Merlin had no way to stop his roller skates. He rolled on and on. Suddenly, he ran into a huge mirror that was hanging on the wall. Down fell the mirror, breaking to pieces. Nobody forgot Merlin's grand entrance for a long time!
24 The text is mainly about_________.
A. a strange man
B. an unusual party
C. how roller skating began
D. how people enjoyed themselves in the 18th century
25. People thought Merlin was a dreamer because he________.
A. often gave others surprises B. was full of imagination
C. invented the roller skates D. was a gifted musician
26. Merlin put wheels under his shoes in order to_______.
A. impress the party guests B. arrive at the party sooner
C. test his invention D. show his skill in walking on wheels
27. What is the main point the writer is trying to make in the last paragraph?
A．Roller skating was dangerous and harmful.
B．The party guests thought Merlin was a fool.
C．Merlin succeeded beyond expectation.
D．Merlin got himself into trouble.
C
Excused from recycling because you live in a high rise with a rubbish chute(垃圾滑槽)You won’t be long. Miami’s Mark Shantzis has made it simple for those living in tall buildings to use the chute and recycle too.
In Shantzis’s Hi-Rise Recycling System, a chute leads to a pie-shaped container with six boxes that can turn around when operated. The system, which fits in the same space as the chute and container now in use, enables glass, plastic, paper, metal and other rubbish to go into separate boxes.
The system is controlled from a board fixed next to the chute door. The board has a button for each class of recycling materials (as well as for unrecyclables). At the press of a button, a microcomputer locks all other chute doors and sets the recycling container turning until the right box comes under the chute. The computer also counts the loads and gives a signal by phone when the box is full. And a particular piece of equipment breaks up the non-recyclables.
Sorting recyclables before they are collected saves the use of expensive materials recovery equipment which otherwise has to do the sorting. Such equipment often makes recycled materials very expensive, so expensive that tons of recyclables remain wasted. Shantzis believes his system could help recycled materials become more cost-effective.
28. The purpose in writing this text is ______.
A. to introduce a recycling system for high rises
B. to encourage people to recycle their rubbish
C. to describe the use of computer technology in recycling
D. to explain the need for rubbish collection in high rises
29. When he says, “You won’t be long.”, the writer means that ______.
A. you’ll soon be living in a cleaner building
B. rubbish chutes will become out of date before long
C. it won’t be long before you have to recycle your rubbish
D. you won’t wait long for your turn to recycle rubbish
30. Before dropping rubbish into the chute you have to ______.
A. lock the other floors’ chute doors
B. press the correct button
C. check if the container is full
D. break up the rubbish
31. The biggest advantage of this new system is that ______.
A. it makes better use of the existing recovery equipment
B. it reduces the cost of recycling
C. it saves time and space
D. it saves money for people living in high rises
D
Americans wear black for mourning while Chinese wear white. Westerners think of dragons as monsters while Chinese honor them as symbols of God. Chinese civilization has often shown such polarities (截然对立，两极化) with the West, as though each stands at extreme ends of a global string. Now in the University of California, Berkeley, a psychologist has discovered deeper polarities between Chinese and American cultures—polarities that go to the heart of how we reason and discover truth.
His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem to be contentious and Chinese cultures so passive, when compared to each other. More importantly, the research opens the way for the people of the East and the West to learn from each other in fundamental way. “The Chinese could learn much from Western methods for determining scientific truth,” said Peng Kaiping, a former Beijing scholar, who is now a UC Berkeley assistant professor of psychology, “and Americans could benefit greatly from the Chinese tolerance(容忍)for accepting contradictions(矛盾)in social and personal life,” he said.
“Americans have a terrible need to find out who is right in an argument.” said Peng, “The problem is that at the interpersonal level you really don’t need to find the truth, or maybe there isn’t any.” “Chinese people,” said Peng, “are far more content to think that both sides have advantages and disadvantages because they have a holistic (整体的) awareness that life is full of contradictions.” “They do far less blaming of the individual than Americans do.” he added.
In studies of interpersonal argument, for example, when subjects were asked to deal with contradictory information stemming from conflicts between a mother and a daughter or a student and a school, Peng found that Americans were “non-compromising, blaming one side—usually the mother—for the causes of the problems, demanding changes from one side to get a solution and offering no compromise(和解)” in dealing with the conflict(冲突). Compared to this angry, the Chinese were paragons (模范) of compromise, finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the middle.
32. In Paragraph 1, the author sets examples in order to __________.
A. show the differences between Chinese and Americans
B. show the differences between Chinese culture and American culture
C. find the reason for the differences
D. generalize the main idea of the passage
33. The underlined word “contentious” in Paragraph 2 probably means _________.
A. conservative B. optimistic
C. objective D. argumentative
34. Compared with Americans, Chinese are ________.
A. likely to find the truth in life
B. unwilling to admit their own failure
C. unwilling to have a general idea of things
D. likely to know advantages and disadvantages of things
35. The studies show that _________.
A. an American treats his or her mother badly
B. ideas of treating the old are different
C. characters of Chinese and Americans are different
D. conflicts of Americans and Chinese are different
