2017年福建省普通高中毕业班质量检查英语试题

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，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个小题。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. Who is the guy over there?
A. David’s friend.  B. Emily’s workmate.  C. Lyn’s colleague.
2. When are the speakers having the talk?
A. In the hospital.  B. In the street.   C. In the post office.
3. When will the man come back from Sydney?
A. Wednesday.   B. Thursday.    C. Friday.
4. What are the speakers going to do this weekend?
A. Go to the cinema. B. Pick out a movie.  C. Talk about the news.
5. How much will the woman finally pay?
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。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，每小题将给出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6-8题。
6. When arc the speakers going for a drink?
A. After work.    B. Next week.   C. Before lunch.
7. What attracts the speakers to the new cafe?
A. Good service.   B. Delicious food.  C. Nice environment.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Waiter and guest.  B. Driver and passenger.  C. Manager and driver.
9. How will the woman get to the airport?
A. By underground.   B. By bus.    C. By taxi.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the man most likely to be?
A. An ambassador.   B. A reporter.    C. A policeman.
11. Where was the passport lost?
A. In the shop.    B. On the way home.  C. At home.
12. What will the woman do in the end?
A. Go back to the shop.  B. Get in touch with the Embassy. C. Look for her passport at home.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers going to Bremen for?
A. To do some sightseeing. B. To taste local food.   C. To visit a friend.
14. What are the speakers discussing?
A. Where they are now.  B. Why they’ve got lost.   C. How they can find the right way.
15. Where will the speakers finally go for help?
A. To a farm house.   B. To a gas station.    C. To a restaurant.
16. Which country do the speakers probably come from?
A. England.    B. Germany.     C. France.
听第10段材料，回答第17至题。
17. Who will pay less than $2 for a visit to the Sea Life Center?
A. A grown-up.   B. A child.     C. A school group member.
18. What must they do if a group of visitors need a special guided tour?
A. Make an appointment on arrival.
B. Call the Sea Life Center ahead of time.
C. Inform the information desk in advance.
19. What attracts tourists most in the Sea Life Center?
A. The fish show.B. The feeding time.C. The big glass tube
20. Who is the speaker?
A. A leader of a tour group.   B. A guide of the Sea Life Center.  C. A receptionist at the formation desk.
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
After four silent years, the 27 -year-old British singer Adele Adkins has finally introduced herself to the world again with Hello, the opening song from her third album 25, which will come out on Nov. 20.
Although Adele is a very successful singer now, music wasn’t always what she saw herself doing. At age 10, when she saw her grandmother’s pain over the death of Adele’s grandfather, she pictured herself as a heart surgeon.
“I wanted to fix people’s hearts,”she told the UK music website i-D, remembering the childhood interest she’d had in biology classes until she found out that her real talent was for singing.
Adele didn’t; go to medical school, but many would agree that she still has healing (治愈) powers. Her songs find the kind of memory every listener holds somewhere in their heart. This kind of feeling is what people have always liked in Adele,” said The Telegraph. “She writes a pop diary，sharing the simple secrets of her heart.”
Most successful pop stars make albums at a fast pace, but not Adele. After her second album 21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, she made it clear with her label that she would spend “four or five years” making her next album. She told magazine. “I won’t come out with new music until it’s better than 27.”
Instead of seeking fame, Adele remained silent and moved to the countryside. In her free time, she loved to watch TV series Teen Mom, American Horror Story, and The Walking Dead.
Living life as normally as possible is important to the singer’s art. “Nobody wants to listen to a record from someone who’ s not living in the real world,”Adele told i-D.“So I live a low-key life for my fans.”
21. What does die text mainly tell us?
A. The popularity of Adele’s album 25.    B. The healing powers of Adele’s music.
C. The secrets of Adele’s success in music.   D. TV reason Adele’s becoming a singer.
22. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Adele wasn’t interested in music.    B. Adele wasn’t good at music at first.
C. Music wasn’t very important in Adele’s life.  D. Music wasn’t all Adele wanted to be devoted to.
23. Why doesn’t Adele want to make albums at a fast pace?
A. To live a low-key life.      B. To win the Grammy Award.
C. To guarantee the quality of her music.   D. To share the secrets of her heart as a musician.
24. What can we know about Adele?
A. Her album Hello will come out on Nov. 20.  B. She has kept a diary since childhood.
C. She moved to the countryside before 2012.  D. Her works are based on real life.
B
Many managers believe that overworking is an evidence of devotion from their employees’ side. Still few others regard this custom as a threat to the worked work-life balance, which may negatively influence the level of productivity and efficiency.
Employees at Amsterdam design studio Heldergroen won’t be putting in much overtime. Not in the office, at any rate. because everyday at 6：00 pm, their desks, tables and other work surfaces, with their computers attached, are lifted to the ceiling by steel cables (绳索) normally used to move heavy props (道具) in theatrical productions. If you leave a half-eaten sandwich on your desk, you’ve out of luck.
“Once the chairs and other workplace paraphernalia are cleared away, the space is free for evening and weekend use as a dance floor, yoga studio... or anything else you can think of-the floor is actually you,” director Sander Veenendaal said.
In a way, the office space itself is working overtime for Heldergroen, bringing about lots of publicity and carrying an enlightened (有启发的)  message of career-life balance far and wide. “We think that doing activities like this makes it easier for people to work here,” says Veenendaal. “You know when it is time to relax or do something else that inspires you.”
That sounds awesome. There’s just one catch.  In the morning, the desks reappear and everybody has to go back to work.
25. What can we learn about the employees at Heldergroen?
A. They are unwilling to work late.    B. They are persuaded to leave the office earlier.
C. They are persuaded to leave the office earlier.  D. They are to put away their computers after work.
26. What Hoes the underlined word “paraphernalia” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Props.    B. Food.    C. Equipment.   D. Cables.
27. What does the author think of the Heldergroen’s office design?
A. Creative.   B. Inconvenient.  C. Ordinary.   D. Strange.
C
Crime fighters could have a new tool at hand. Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique to identify human hair. Their test is quicker than DNA analysis techniques currently used by law enforcement.
DNA testing is commonly used for identification because DNA is unique to each individual (个体).However, environmental and chemical processes can degrade DNA, limiting its usefulness over time. Protein (蛋白质)in hair，on the other hand, is more stable than DNA but can also have variations (变异体）that may be unique to the individual.
“Our analysis process can be used universally,” says Ms. Huang. “One of our samples (样本) even included dyed hair and the test was 100 per cent accurate. The test was able to distinguish East Asians, Caucasians and South Asians.”
Dr. Beauchemin says she has got in touch with law enforcement agencies about using the new technology- She is also planning to collect more hair samples and continue her research with a goal of finding where exactly in the world hair samples from, to look for more races and determine specific age.
“We are in a very similar place with protein-based identification to where DNA testing was during the early days of development,” said chemist Brad Hart. “Thus method will be a game-hanger, and while we’ve made a lot of progress toward improving it, there are steps to go before this new technique is able to reach its full potential.”