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固原一中2016-2017学年第二学期高三英语能力提升测试题
2017- 4 -19
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II 卷 （非选择题）
第I卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5个小题；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。
1. Why doesn’t the man want the first T-shirt？
A. It’s too expensive. B. It’s too big. C. It’s too small.
2. What will Nancy do tonight?
A. See a movie. B. Stay at home. C. Go shopping.
3. How will the woman travel to Beijing?
A. By air. B. By train. C. By car.
4.When should the man return the books?
A. By December 30th. B. By December 13th. C. By December 3rd
5. What do we know about the boy?
A. His room is always messy.
B. He’s asked to clean up the room later.[:]
C. He wants to go on a picnic first.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听第6段材料，回答6、7题。
6. How much will the man pay?
A. ＄2.50. B. ＄5.00. C. ＄7.85.
7. What will the woman give to the man next?
A. Some envelopes. B. His change. C. Some airmail stickers.[:]
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What did the guy take when he climbed up the skyscraper?
A. Cups. B. Ropes. C. Wires.
9. What happened when he got to the top of the building?
A. He was arrested. B. He was applauded. C. He was fined.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the woman planning to do?
A. Visit the Art Museum. B. Meet her friend. C. Go shopping.
11. What time is it now?
A. Around 4:30 p.m. B. Around 5:15 p.m. C. Around 5:30 p.m.
12. Why does the man suggest the woman take a taxi downtown?
A. It’s the easiest way. B. It’s the cheapest. C. There’re no buses going there.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Robert’s plans after graduation.
B. The good news from the woman’s father.
C. The woman’s plans for work.
14. What is the man’s major probably in university?
A. Electronics. B. Engineering. C. Computer.
15. who owns a construction company?
A. The man’s father . B. The woman’s uncle C. The man’s uncle’s friend
16. How long will the man stay in Austin?
A. For one year. B. For two years. C. For four days.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the talk mainly about?
A. An unusual experience. B. A special kind of animal. C. Fun activities
18. What did the family do first when they got to the park?
A. They put up their tent. B. They went exploring. C. They had a rest.
19.What was Tom’s suggestion?
A. Waiting patiently for the bear to come out.
B. Putting some honey outside the tent.
C. Shouting at the bear to drive him away.
20. Where did they sleep that night?
A. In the tent. B. In the car. C. In a hotel.
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑
A
As a boy, Charles Robert Darwin(达尔文) collected anything that caught his interest: insects, coins and interesting stones. He was not very clever, but Darwin was good at doing the things that interested him.
His father was a doctor, so Darwin was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and was planned to follow a medical career. But Charles found the lectures boring. Then his father sent him to Cambridge University to study to be a priest. While at Cambridge, Darwin’s interest in zoology and geography grew. Later he got a letter from Robert FitzRoy who was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship, the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended(推荐). That voyage was the start of Darwin’s great life.
As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth. He began to observe everything. After he was home, he set to work, getting his collection in order. His first great work The Zoology of the Beagle was well received, but he was slow to make public his ideas on the origin of life.
Later Darwin and Wallace, another naturalist who had the same opinions as Darwin, produced a paper together. Darwin’s great book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” 《物种起源》) appeared. It attracted a storm. People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea! Although most scientists agreed that Darwin was right, the Church was still so strong that Darwin never received any honors for his work.
Afterwards, he published another great work, The Descent of Man. His health grew worse, but he still worked. “When I have to give up observation, I shall die,” he said. He was still working on 17, April, 1882. He was dead two days later.
21. Darwin’s father sent him to Edinburgh to _____.
A. make him like natural history B. make him become a doctor
C. let him change his hobbies D. have him give up his collection
22. According to the passage, Charles Darwin’s whole life was changed by _____.
A. his study at Cambridge University
B. his collection of coins
C. the naturalists at Cambridge
D. the voyage of the Beagle23.What can we infer from the text ?.
A. Charles Darwin was good at collecting
B. FitzRoy made a voyage around the world
C. Means of Natural Selection arose argument over the world .
D. The Zoology of the Beagle wasn’t well received
B
Sleep deprivation(缺失)is an important hidden factor in lowering the achievement of school pupils, according to researchers carrying out international education tests.
It is a particular problem in richer countries with sleep experts linking it to the use of mobile phones and computers in bedroom late at night. Sleep deprivation is such a serious problem that lessons have to be dragged down to a lower level to suit sleep-deprived learners, the study found. The international comparison, carried out by Boston College, found the United States to have the highest number of sleep-deprived students, with 73% of 9- and 10-year-olds and 80% of 13- and 14-year-olds identified by their teachers as being negatively affected. In literacy(读写能力) tests there were 76% of 9- and 10-year-olds lacking sleep. This was much higher than the international average of 47% of primary pupils needing more sleep and 57% among the secondary age group.
Other countries with the most sleep-deprived youngsters were New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Australia, England, Ireland and France. High-performing Finland is also among the most lacking in sleep. Countries with the best records for getting enough
sleep include Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Japan and Malta. “I think we underestimate the impact of sleep. Our data show that across countries internationally, on average, children who have more sleep achieve higer in maths, science and reading. That is exactly what our data show,” says Chad Minnich of the TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center.
“It’s the same link for children who are lacking basic nutrition,” says Mr Minnich, based at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. “If you are unable to concentrate, to attend mentally, you are unable to achieve at your best level, because your mind and body are in need of something more basic. Sleep is a fundamental need for all children. If teachers report such large proportions of children suffering from lack of sleep, it’s having a significant impact. But worse than that, teachers are having to adjust their instruction based on those children who are suffering from a lack of sleep. The children who are suffering from a lack of sleep are driving down instruction.”That means that even the children who are getting enough sleep are still suffering from this sleep-related lowering.
