苏州五中2020┄2021学年第一学期阶段性测试
高三英语
12
第I卷（选择题共85分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Who was badly hurt？
A. A taxi driver.
B. A truck driver.
C. A passer-by.
2. What is the weather like at the moment？
A. Rainy.
B. Cloudy.
C. Sunny.
3.Why does the woman prefer the brick house？
A. The yard is larger.
B. It is prettier.
C. It is bigger.
4. How does the woman suggest the man go to work？
A. By bus.
B. By car.
C. By subway.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about？
A. A tour experience.
B. A travel plan.
C. A happy family.
第二节（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the woman doing？
A. Offering help.
B. Asking the way.
C. Making an invitation.
7. Where is the bus station？
A. On Main Street.
B. On First Street.
C. On Park Street.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What was the woman’s major at university？
A. Arts.
B. Education.
C. English.
9. How many credit hours should the woman take in the Education Department？
A. 15.
B. 30.
C. 45.
10. What do we know about the woman？
A. She likes to read fiction.
B. She has got a Master’s degree.
C. She has strong English background.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers？
A. Husband and wife.
B. Co-workers.
C. Doctor and nurse.
12. What does the man want to do？
A. Go to college.
B. Pla y some games.
C. Work on some insurance business.
13. What is the woman’s attitude towards the man’s decision in the end？
A. Opposed.
B. Indifferent.
C. Supportive.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. How many people does the man introduce to the woman？
A. Four.
B. Five.
C. Six.
15. What do we know about Danny？
A. He is a security guard.
B. He is Helen’s assistant.
C. He is the man’s boss.
16. What does Ben look like？
A. He is a bit overweight.
B. He wears short brown hair.
C. He has a round face.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. At what time of the school term does the talk most probably take place？
A. At the end of it.
B. In the middle of it.
C. At the beginning of it.
18. What does today’s assignment require the students to do？
A. Figure out some unknown matter.
B. Become familiar with chemicals and gases.
C. Know about laboratory procedures and equipment.
19. Who will grade the students’ lab reports？
A. D r Gibbler.
B. Ivan Allen.
C. Dr Isaac.
20. Why does the speaker tell the story about Newton？
A. T o explain the illness of Newton.
B. To encourage students to learn from Newton.
C. T o emphasize the need for proper safety caution.
第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21．—________ with us another hour, I suppose, and we will finish the task perfectly.
—Will that do？ OK, let's have a go.
A．To stay B．Stay C．Staying D．Stayed
22．English is a language that many young people around the world ________ not speak perfectly but at least ________ understand.
A．may; can B．would; might C．will; must D．could; might
23．Students present insisted that the thief ______ in prison.
A. referred to be put
B. refer to be put
C. referred to put
D. was referred to put
24．It was in the garden of his old house ______ he grew up ______ he dug up a pot of gold.
A．that; that B．where; where C．that; where D．where; that
25．What I tell you is that it may snow, but ________ I will go to town.
A．somehow B．somewhat C．anyhow D．anywhere
26．The old woman _______ her sons and daughters _______ and see her from time to time.
A．suggested; to come B．hoped; to come
C．desired; coming D．desired; to come
27．—I didn't go to work yesterday because my car broke down.
—You ________ mine. I wasn't using it then.
A．could have borrowed B．should borrow
C．must have borrowed D．might borrow
28．—You've finished what you ________ to and I think the teacher will praise you for it.
—I think so.
A．will expect B．will be expected C．expected D．were expected
29．Expecting a whole day to relax, he ________ whether to read the newspaper or watch his favorite TV.
A．was thinking B．thinks C．had thought D．thought
30．Intellectuals should have the basic characteristics of having social ________ and public concern, and persevering the spiritual standpoint of "edge person.
A. eagerness
B. grace
C. a ppreciation
D. conscience
31．All these documents must be________the university you are applying for before December.
A. donated to
B. sent in
C. submitted to
D. handed in
32．He told me only when he grew up and became a father himself________how much his parents had loved him.
A．had he realized B．did he realize C．he had realized D．he realized
33．Life is ten percent________ you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
A．what B．how C．where D．when
34．The movie has won many awards, but________ say that they have a clear understanding of what the director wishes to express.
A．many B．few C．anybody D．nobody
35．Sorry for not having got what you wanted. She kept her mouth shut and just said _____.
A. that’s her feet o f clay
B. a little bird told her
C. she wanted to kill the fatted calf
D. she was the salt of the earth
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Before I turned 29, my parents moved to Queensland, where I arrived for a visit six months later. I 36 upon my mother with hugs, and for the first time in my life I said, “I love you, mom!” Then I gently 37 , expecting some kind of reciprocation. But it never came. Instead, she appeared 38 in horror.
When I was back at work, I overheard a workmate on a call to her mother and she concluded it with “I love you, Mum.” As 39 as that. Why wasn’t it like that in mine？Something had to be done about this 40 situation once and for all.
My 41 came the next Sunday during my weekly phone call to my mother. After we had shared our usual pleasantries and 42 , I took a deep breath and asked, “Do you love me, Mum？” After a short 43 , she replied, “I love you. Don’t be silly. Yo u know we never said things like that in my family.”
“Well, I want it to be said in ours. From now on I want to 44 our conversations with ‘I love you.’”
In May 2000 my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 45 to hospital, and I phoned every day to 46 her. One evening when I rang, a nurse answered the phone and regretfully informed me that my mother’s condition had rapidly worsened. She wasn’t expected to 47 it through the night.
Knowing I couldn’t get a flight in time, I asked the nurse to put the phone next t o my
mother’s ear so I could talk to her. “She’s 48 conscious,” the nurse replied. “It’s unlikely she’ll hear you.” But I didn’t care. I wanted to do it 49 .
50 she’d placed the phone by my mother’s ear, I started 51 and telling Mum over and over again that I loved her. At first, all I could hear was “Hmmmm”—but then, like a miracle, with a deep 52 she said, “Love you … love you, darling.” It was the last thing she said before drifting into 53 .
Although I was overwhelmed by her death, the surprising part was how well I 54 . Of course, losing a parent is extremely painful and I shed many tears, but receiving those lovely last words made it much more 55 . I had closure in the best possible way.
36. A. fell B. struck C. relied
D. depended
37. A. pushed off B. turned up C. pulled away D. looked on
38. A. deserted B. frozen C. guilty
D. clumsy
39. A. simple B. sacred C. apparent
D. original
40. A. stress B. crisis C. emergency
D. love
41. A. potential B. opportunity C. inspiration
D. choice
42. A. interests B. secrets C. expectations
D. updates
43. A. preparation B. friction C. hesitation D. identification
44. A. end B. start C. continue D. hold
45. A. permitted B. admitted C. allowed D. sentenced
46. A. check on B. attend to C. call on
D. see to
47. A. take B. face C. make
D. cool
48. A. entirely B. absolutely C. slightly D. barely
49. A. therefore B. otherwise C. anyway D. somehow
50. A. Before B. Once C. Unless
D. Since
51. A. whispering B. yelling C. screaming
D. sobbing
52. A. sigh B. conversation C. thought D. sleep
53. A. calmness B. unconsciousness C. hardness D.
sickness
54. A. prayed B. clarified C. coped
D. concluded
55. A. authentic B. arbitrary C. precise
D. bearable
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
（A）
Steve knew he’d been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he’d try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which he’d been adopted gave him his mother’s name：T allady. But online searches didn’t turn up any results about it, and Steve had to let it go.
In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe’s store where Steve, then 22, worked as a deliveryman. When he mentioned the coincidence to hi s boss, his boss said, “You mean Tallady, who works here？
Steve and Tallady, a cashier, had said hello to each other a few times at the store, but they’d never really talked. He hadn’t even known her name. Steve thought there was no possible way she was his mother though they shared the same name. For a few months, Steve avoided Tallady. “I wasn’t sure how to approach her,” he told a local reporter. Finally, the agency volunteered to arrange their reunion（团聚）.
When T allady realized that the nice guy she’d been waving at was his son, she sobbed. She’d always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son talked for almost three hours at a nearby bar. She’d given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was 23. “I wasn’t ready to be a mother,” she told him. Married with two other children, Tallady says, “I have a complete family now.”
56. Steve gave up the on-line search for his birth mother in 2003 because _____.
A. the agency didn’t give him any help
B. there was no information about his mother
C. his mother didn’t turn up online
D. he missed the information about his mother
57. Why Steve avoided T allady for months？
A. Because she didn’t want to talk to him.
B. Because he wasn’t fully prepa red for the reunion.
C. Because she was very difficult to approach.
D. Because he didn’t think she was his birth mother.
58. The best title for the text is _____.
A. The Love of Mother
B. An Unexpected Meeting
C. The Power of the Internet
D. An Unusual Reunion
（B）
At a primary school in a small town in the cast of South Carolina, second-grade teachers Garneau and Lynne are convinced that separating elementary-age boys and girls produces immediate academic improvement in both genders（性别）.
David Chadwell, South Carolina's coordinator of single gender education says, “Boys and girlslearn, hear and respond to their surroundings differently. We can teach boys and girls based on what we now know.”
Male and female eyes are not organized in the same way, he explains. The composition of the male eye makes it sensitive to motion and direction.“Boys interpret the world as objects movingthrough space,”he says.
The male eye is also drawn to cooler color s like silver and black. It’s no accident boys tend to create pictures of moving objects instead of drawing the happy colorful family, like girls do in theirclass.
The female eye, on the other hand, is drawn to warmer colors like red, yellow and orange. To attract girls, Chadwell says, the teacher doesn't need to move as much as in boy's class. Using descriptive phrases and lots of colors in presentations or on the blackboard gets their attention.
Boys and girls also hear differently. “When someone speaks in a loud tone, girls interpret it as yelling," Chadwell says. “They think you're mad and can shut down.” Girls are more sensitive tosounds. He advises girls' teachers to watch the tone of their voices. Boys' teachers should sound moreforceful, even excited.
A boy's nervous system causes him to be more cautious when he is standing, moving, and the room temperature is around 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Stress in boys, he says, tends to increase blood flow to their brains, a process that helps them stay focused. Girls are more focused when seated in a warmer room around 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Girls a lso respond to stress differently. When exposed to threat and conflict, blood goes to their guts （肠道）,
leaving them feeling nervous or anxious.
These differences can b e applied in the classroom. Chadwell adds.“Single gender programs are about maximizing the learning."
59. Which of the following students is most likely to be focused？
A. A boy sitting in a warm room
B. A standing boy who is faced with stress
C. A girl standing in a cold room
D. A girl who is facing a lot of pressure
60. Which of the following is the best title of the passage？
A. Ways of teaching boys and ways of teaching girls
B. Boys and girls should be separated
C. How boys and girls learn differently
D. How to teach more effectively
61. Which of the following shows the organization of the passage？
（①=Paragraph 1，②=Paragraph 2 ③=Paragraph 3……⑧=Paragraph 8）
（C）
Being able to multitask-doing several things at the same time-is considered a welcome skill by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people aged from eight to eighteen, we should think again.
What we often see nowadays is that young people juggle an ever larger number of electronic devices（电子产品） as they study. While working, they also surf on the Internet, send out emails, answer the telephone and listen to music on their iPods. In a sense, they are spending a significant amount of time in fruitless efforts as they multitask.
Multitasking is even changing the relationship between family members. As young people give so much attention to their own worlds, they s eem to have no time to spend with the other people around them. They can no longer greet family members when they enter the house，nor can they eat at the family table.
Multitasking also affects young people's performance at university and in the workplace. When asked about their opinion of the effect of modern gadgets（器具） on their performance of tasks，many young people gave a positive response（反应）. However, the response from the worlds of education and business was not quite as positive. Educators feel that multitasking by children has a serious effect on later development of study skills. They believe that many college students now need help to improve their study skills. Similarly, employers feel that young people entering the job market need to be taught all over again, as modem gadgets have made it unnecessary for them to learn special skills to do their work.
62. What does the underlined word “juggle” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean？
A. Want to buy
B. T ake the place of.
C. Use at the same time
D. Seek for information from.
63. In Paragraph 3, the author points out that
A. familymembers do not eat at the family table
B. family member do not greet each other
C. young people live happily in their families
D. young people seldom talk with their family members
64. The author develops the passage mainly by_
A. providing typical examples
B. following the natural time order
C. comparing opinions from different fields
D. presenting a cause and analyzing its effects
（D）
“OK,” I said to my daughter as she bent over her afternoon bow l of rice. "What's going on with you and your friend J.？" J. is the leader of a group of third-graders at her camp, a position Lucy herself occupied the previous summer. Now she's the one on the outs, and every day at snack tune, she tells me all about it, while I offer the unhelpful advice all summer long.
“She's fond of giving orders,” Lucy complained. "She's turning everyone aga inst me. She's mean. And she's fat.""Excuse me." I said, struggling for calm. "What did you just said？""She's fat." Lucy mumbled（含糊地说）."We're going upstairs." I said, my voice cold. "We're going to discuss this." And up we went.
I'd spent the nine years since her birth getting ready for this day, the day we'd have the conversation about this terrible word. I knew exactly what to say to the girl on the receiving
end of the teasing, but in all of my imaginings, it never once occurred to me that my daughter would be the one who used the F word-Fat.
My daughter sat on her bed, and I sat beside her. "How would you feel if' someone made fun of you for something that wasn’t your fault？" I begin. "She could stop eating so much," Lucy mumbled, mouthing the simple advice a thousand doctors have given overweight women for years.
"It's not always that easy," I said. "Everyone's different in terms of how they treat food." Lucylooked at me, waiting for me to go on. I opened my mouth, then closed it. Should I tell her that, in teasing a woman's weight, she's joined the long tradition of critics？ Should I tell her I didn't cry when someone posted my picture and commented, "I’m sorry, but aren’t authors who write books marketed to young women supposed to be pretty？"
Does she need to know that 1ife isn’t fair？ I feel her eyes on me, waiting for an answer I don't have. Words are my tools. Stories are my job. It's possible she'll remember what I say forever, and I have no idea what to say.
So I tell her the only thing I can come up with that is absolutely true. I say to my daughter, "I love you, and there is nothing you could ever do to make me not love you. But I’m disappointed in you right now. There are plenty of reasons for not liking someone. What she looks like isn't one of them.”
Lucy nods, tears on her checks. "I won't say that again." she tells me, and I pull her close, pressing my nose against her hair. As we sit there together, I pray for her to be smart and strong. I pray for her to find friends, work she loves, a partner who loves her. And still, always, I pray that she will never struggle as I've struggled, that weight will never be her cross to bear.
She may not be able to use the word in our home, but I can use in my head. I pray that she will never get fat.
65. The underlined sentence in Paragraph I indicates that Lucy_ .
A. often makes fun of her friend J.
B. has begun to compete with her friend J.
C. gels along well with her friend J.
D. has turned against her friend J.
66. Why does the author want to discuss with Lucy？
A. Because she wants to offer some other helpful advice.
B. Because she is really shocked at Lucy's rudeness.
C. Because she has prepared the conversation for nine years.
D. Because she decides to tell Lucy a similar story of her own.
67. What does the author want to tell her daughter？
A. It is not easy to take the doctors' advice to eat less.
B. People shouldn't complain because life is unfair.
C. People shouldn't be blamed for their appearance.
D. She herself was once laughed at for her appearance.
68. It can be inferred from the passage that.
A. the author is a fat but good-looking woman.
B. the author earns a living by writing stories.
C. the author will stop loving her daughter for what she said.
D. the author's daughter agreed with her from the very beginning.
69. We can learn from the last paragraph that.
A. the author hopes her daughter will never have weight trouble
B. a mother's prayer will shape her daughter's attitude towards life
C. the author allows her daughter to use the F word in her head
D. Lucy was deeply moved by her mother's prayer.
70.The author's attitude towards her daughter can he best described as.
A. indifferent but patient
B. loving but strict
C. satisfied and friendly
D. unsatisfied and angry
第Ⅱ卷（非选择题两部分共35分）
第四部分任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
Could your cellphone give you cancer？ Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, powerlines and wi-fi could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumors.
For example, Camilla Rees, 48, a former investment banker in the US, moved out of her apartment in San Francisco because of the radiation coming from next door. Rees told the Los Angeles Times that when her neighbors moved in and installed a wi-fi router she lost her ability to think clearly. “I would wake up dizzy in the morning. I’d fall to the floor. I had to leave to escape that nightmare,” she said. Since then, she’s been on a campaign against low-level electromagnetic fields, or EMFs（低频电磁场）.
And she’s not alone. Millions of people say they suffer f rom headaches, depression, nausea and rashes when they’re too close to cellphones or other sources of EMFs.
Although the World Health Organization has officially declared that EMFs seem to pose little threat, governments are still concerned. In fact, last April, the European Parliament called for countries to take steps to reduce exposure to EMFs. The city of San Francisco and the state of Maine are currently considering requiring cancer-warning labels on cellphones.
If these fears are reasonable, then perhaps we should all be worried about the amount of time we spend talking on our phones or plugging into wi-fi hotpots.
Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties. David Carpenter, a professor of environmental health sciences at the Universit y at Albany, in New York, thinks there’s a greater than 95% chance that power lines can cause childhood leukemia. Also there’s a greater than 90% cha nce that cellphones can cause brain tumors.
But others believe these concerns are unreasonable paranoia （猜疑）. Dr. Martha Linet, the head of radiation epidemiology at the US National Cancer Institute, has looked at the same research as Carpenter but has reached a different conclusion. “I don’t support warning labels for cellphones,” said Linet. “We don’t have the evidence that there’s much danger.”
Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness —so weak that it might not exist at all. A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer, in 13 countries outside the US, has been underw ay for several years. It’s funded in part by the European Union, in part by a cellphone industry group.
According to Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the US, the magnetic waves aren’t nearly powerful enough to break apa rt DNA, which is now known threats, such as UV rays and X-rays, cause cancer.
Perhaps it’s just psychological. Some experts find that the electro-sensitivity syndrome seems to be similar to chemical sensitivity syndrome, which is a condition that’s conside red to be psychological.
Whether EMFs are harmful or not, a break in the countryside, without the cellphone, would probably be good for all of us.
Title：Could cellphones give you cancer？
Key points Supporting details
Cellphones are （71）● S ome people think it （72）______ for cellphones to cause cancer.
______ to use ● Camilla Rees got ill after his neighbor installed a wi-fi router.
● Millions of people have（73） _______ problems as Camilla.
● Some evidence supports people’s anxieties.
Cellphones are safe
to use ● Some believe that these concerns are just paranoia.
● So far, studies show that there isn’t much （74）______ between EMFs and illness.
● Robert Park thinks that the magnetic waves aren’t powerful enough to （75）_______ DNA.
● It’s just for ps ychological （76）_______ that people feel ill when they use cellphones.
Attitudes and （77）______● Some governments are （78）_______ about the safety of cellphones or EMFs.
● The author thinks that we should（79）_______ the chance of talking on the phone or spend more time in the（80）_____ areas without cellphones.
第五部分书面表达（满分25分）
请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
The rise of selfie （自拍）photography in some of the world’s most beautiful, and dangerous, places is causing a range of interventions （干预措施）aimed at fig hting risk-taking that has resulted in a string of shocking deaths worldwide.
The act of taking a picture of oneself with a mobile phone, placing the subject centre-stage, has exploded in popularity in recent years, with everyone from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to U.S. President Barack Obama joining in.
But the selfie has also inspired a lot of risk-taking and offensive public behavior, pushing the boundaries of safety and behavior, whether by hanging from a skyscraper or posing with
live explosives.
Several governments and regulatory bodies have now begun treating the selfie as a serious threat to public safety, leading them to launch public education campaigns reminding people of those against smoking and excessive drinking.
【写作内容】
1. 用约30个单词写出上文概要；
2. 你对此现象所持的观点；
3. 用2—3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
【评分标准】
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