高三英语期末强化训练(3)(120分钟150分)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: 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. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Dye the old jeans.B. Buy a pair of new jeans.C. Throw the old jeans away.2. What does the man want to do?A. Teach business.B. Open a store.C. Become a good runner.3. Where are the speakers?A. In a hospital.B. In a store.C. In a car.4. Why is the woman talking with the man?A. The man was late this morning.B. The man made a mistake on a report.C. The man didn’t write a report.5. What is the woman doing?A. Answering the telephone.B. Doing homework.C. Washing the dishes.第二节:听下面5段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后有2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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 man going to do in the evening?A. Study.B. Take an exam.C. Look for a job.7. What does the man think of his present job?A. He thinks it is too difficult.B. He is not satisfied with it.C. He can make a lot of money.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What caused the fire?A. A candle.B. A cigarette.C. A lighter.9. How many people got hurt in total?A. One.B. Two.C. Three.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why was the man late this morning?A. He missed his bus.B. He got stuck in traffic.C. He left his house thirty minutes late.11. How can people join a carpool?A. By signing up online.B. By meeting up at a special place.C. By calling a special phone number.12. How does the man want to get to work tomorrow?A. He will drive his own car.B. He will ride in the woman’s car.C. He will get a ride from a stranger.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why was the man invited to be on the program?A. To advertise his driving school.B. To talk about learning how to drive.C. To show his driving skills.14. How do most of the man’s customers know about him?A. Through friends.B. Through newspapers.C. Through the program.15. What does the man do first when training beginners?A. He talks to them quietly.B. He sits beside them.C. He gives them a few quiet moments.16. What do we know about the man?A. He charges lower prices than big schools.B. He always has to try hard to get customers.C. He has 10 years of driving experience.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When will workers start work in the new schedule?A. At 6:00 a.m.B. At 7:00 a.m.C. At 10:00 a.m.18. What is the main reason for the change?A. To save energy.B. To save transportation time.C. To give the workers longer holidays.19. Who might dislike the new schedule?A. Managers.B. Parents with young children.C. People who recently joined the company.20. How long will people work next week?A. More days each week than before.B. Less hours each week than before.C. Fewer days each week than before.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。
AWhen Nancy Lublin got $5,000 from her grandpa in 1996, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans .Instead, the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about helping low-income women get better jobs. "If a woman goes for a job interview poorly dressed, she won't get the job." Lublin says. “ but without a job, she can't a fford suitable clothes."So with the money Lublin founded "Dress for Success” and began collecting women's clothes which were still in good condition but which their owners no longer needed. "So many women have clothes lying around that they will never wear again," one of Lublin's assistants says "Nancy's idea is so simple and yet so important to women."Many women come to Lublin's office before going to a job interview. Here, they receive a suit, shoes and any other things they need. Since it was set up, more than 1,000 women have turned to "Dress for Success" for help. Many of them have won jobs. Some have round jobs after being out of work for many years. Jenny, a 32-year-old woman who was recently hired as a law-firm office manager , says, "I made a good impression because of “Dress for Success”21．What can we learn from the text?A. Low-income women can get jobs at "Dress for Success"B. Nancy's office gathers used clothes from womenC. Nancy's grandfather lent her the money to set up the office.D. Nancy set up "Dress for Success" to make money.22．"Dress for Success" attracts many women because they_______A. prefer buying clothes at a low priceB. like to wear different clothes.C. need to look smart when looking for a job.D. like the design of the dresses23．From what Jenny says, we know that ______.A . she got a lot of good ideas from NancyB. "Dress for Success" has a good business relation with her firm.C. clothes from Nancy's office helped to get her a job.D. she is working happily at her present job24．What would be a good title for the text?A. Nancy —A Successful Law Student.B. A Helping Hand for WomenC. Keep Your Old ClothesD. A Successful Clothing BusinessBAt present we will explain a very old saying that has had a great effect on rock-and-roll music. That saying is “A rolling stone gathers no moss（苔藓）”．It has several meanings. One meaning is that a person who never settles down in one place will not be successful. Another is that someone who is always moving, with no roots in one place, avoids responsibilities.This proverb was said to be first used in the 1500s. But in the 1960s, the expression “rolling stone” became famous in the world of rock-and-roll music. It became the name of a song, a rock group and a magazine.Experts say it all started with a song by the American singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. He was one of the country's top blues musicians until his death in 1983. His music influenced singers like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. In 1950, Muddy Waters recorded a song called “Rolling Stone”．A British rock group is said to have taken its name from Muddy Waters' song. The Rolling Stones performed for the first time in 1962.The group's members called themselves “the world's greatest rock-and-roll band”．In 1965, Bob Dylan released （发行）his song “Like a Rolling Stone”．It is one of his best known and most influential works.It is an angry song about a woman who was once rich and successful. But now she is on her own, “with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone”. In 1967, a young man named Jann Wenner started a magazine and he named it “Rolling Stone”. The magazine reported on rock music and the popular culture that the music created. By 1971, “Rolling Stone” had become the leading rock music and counterculture publication. It is still popular today.25．All of them are musicians except ________．A．Jann Wenner B．Muddy WatersC．Elvis Presley D．Bob Dylan26．Which person can be described as a rolling stone according to the proverb?A．A person who has a successful career.B．A person who always changes his jobs.C．A person who is out of work.D．A person who has no family.27．Who first used “rolling stone” as a name for music?A．Elvis Presley. B．Jann Wenner.C．Muddy Waters. D．Bob Dylan.C“Eat local.” It’s one way to reduce human effect on the planet. E ating local means to try to buy and consume foods that are grown in places close to home. However, most of the food sold at supermarkets is not locally grown or produced. Trucks and planes deliver these foods from hundreds or thousands of miles away. During the transportation, greenhouse gases are produced, causing global warming. So the shorter the distance your foods must travel, the less the harm is done to the environment.But how do you get local food if you live in a large city, hundreds of miles away from farms？Environmental health scientist Dickson Despommier and his students came up with the idea of a “vertical(垂直的) farm”.A vertical farm is a glass-walled structure that could be built as tall as a skyscraper. Since the garden is built upwards, rather than outwards, it requires much less space than an ordinary farm. The world is quickly running out of room for ordinary farming. Vertical farms could be a key to this situation. Despommier imagines a 30-storybuilding with a greenhouse on every floor. The walls of the building would be clear, to allow crops to get as much sunlight as possible. Depending on a city’s water resources, Despommier thinks hydroponic(水培) farming is another method for the vertical farm which needs no soil to grow plants.Despommier says the hydroponic greenhouses would use a system that would use a city’s waste water and fill it with nutrition to make the crops grow. If this method work s, it would provide food to a city and save millions of tons of water.The idea of a vertical farm has attracted the attention of government officials around the world. Scott Stringer, a government official from New York City, thinks the city is suitable f or the vertical farming. “Obviously we don’t have much land left for us,” Stringer said, “But the sky is unlimited in Manhattan.”Despommier admits that there is still a lot of work to do to make vertical farms a reality. “But I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way.” he says.28. Why are people advised to eat local?A. Because it means convenience to people.B. Because it can help people save a lot of money.C. Because local food has more nutrition.D. Because it is environmentally friendly.29. Which is one of the vertical farm’s benefits when compared with ordinary farming?A. It produces healthier food.B. It does less harm to the cities.C. It consumes more energy of the city.D. It needs less space of the city.30. By sayin g “the sky is unlimited in Manhattan”, Stringer means ________.A. people can make full use of vertical space of ManhattanB. there is a limit for using empty land in ManhattanC. the height of buildings in Manhattan is limitedD. Manhattan has a great potential for development31. What can we learn about the vertical farming in the passage?A. In a vertical farm, soil may not be needed to grow plants.B. It has solved the problem of the food shortage in a big way.C. It is a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor.D. Crops are mainly grown in the rainwater in a vertical farm.DPeople have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painter thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by puttingpicture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip (连环漫画) stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.32.Ancient people in France and Spain painted pictures on walls of caves probably because ______.A. they loved animalsB. they enjoyed seeing picturesC. they preferred painting pictures to telling storiesD. they thought pictures helpful33.From this passage we know that ______.A. the Egyptian signs made a particular alphabet come into beingB. the Roman alphabet was developed from Egyptian alphabetC. Egypt is well-known for their comic-strip storiesD. people in other parts of the world copied their writing system from the Egyptians34.In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______.A. should be made comprehensibleB. are of much use in our lifeC. should be made interestingD. are disappearing from our life35.The possible title of this article may be ______.A. Pictures and WritingB. The Best Way of WritingC. Home of the Comic-Strip StoriesD. The Earliest Language in the World第二节(共5小题; 每小题2分, 满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
