江苏省苏州中学2005～2006学年度第一学期期初考试高三英语

江苏省苏州中学2005～2006学年度第一学期期初考试高

三英语

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两卷，满分100分，考试时间90分钟。第Ⅰ卷将正确的选项填涂在答题卡的相应位置上，第Ⅱ卷直接做在答案专页上。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共80分）

一、听力部分（10%）

第一节（共5小题，每小题0.5分）

听下面五段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题后所给的ABC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 do we know about the speakers?

A、They are classmates.

B、They are workmates.

C、They are husband and wife.

2. What does the woman mean in this conversation?

A、She likes looking at the calendar.

B、She takes business trips very often.

C、She likes being on trips.

3. What do you think of the man in the conversation?

A、He is as dull as Jack.

B、He is a hard-working man.

C、He would like to go with Rose.

4. Who is going to water the flowers?

A、The man.

B、The woman.

C、Somebody else.

5. What happened to the man’s telephone?

A、The telephone was out of order.

B、The telephone was busy all the time.

C、The telephone was disconnected by the phone company.

第二节（共15小题，每小题0.5分）

听下面五段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几小题，从题中所给ABC的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，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒，听完后，各小题将给出5秒的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题：

6. What is the conversation mainly about?

A、How to read the instructions.

B、How to use the cell phone.

C、How to pay the phone bill.

7. How often should the woman recharge the batteries?

A、Every few days.

B、Every few weeks.

C、Every few months.

8. Why should the woman take care of the batteries?

A、It’s easily broken.

B、It’s easily recharged.

C、It’s easily paid.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题：

9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A、Wife and husband.

B、Friends.

C、Smoker and salesman.

10. Why does the woman want to quit smoking?

A、She is not herself.

B、She wants to put on weight.

C、She wants to buy new clothes.

11. What will the woman probably do then?

A、She will listen to the man.

B、She will stop smoking at once.

C、She will look for a part-time job.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题：

12. What was the woman probably doing?

A、Reading newspapers.

B、Looking for jobs.

C、Surfing the internet.

13. Why did the man dislike the first job?

A、Because it was to sell clothes and stuff.

B、Because the employee has to work on Saturdays and Sundays.

C、Because it was to sell children’s books.

14. What was the telephone number to get in touch with the employer?

A、789-3545

B、987-3554

C、798-3455

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题：

15. Where do you think the conversation probably took place?

A、In the Travel Tourism.

B、In the Hair Salon.

C、On the phone.

16. How many questions did the man ask in all?

A、4

B、5

C、6

17. Who had the man wanted to call according to the conversation?

A、A bank cleak.

B、A hairdresser.

C、A travel agent.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题：

18. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A、In a school.

B、In a library.

C、In a book store.

19. Who is the speaker speaking to?

A、Elementary school students.

B、A group of teachers.

C、A group of students.

20. Why should one join the club according to the speaker?

A、To learn biology.

B、To become a better student.

C、To help others.

二、单项选择（20%）

21. —Come in, please!

—Thanks. You have a nice place here.

A、Take it easy.

B、Make yourself at home.

C、Relax yourself.

D、Cheers!

22. At one point, the peace talks between the two countries seemed close to .

A、break away

B、break through

C、breaking down

D、breaking out

23. Sunset at Mount Huangshan is a beautiful scene, I’ll never forget.

A、one

B、it

C、what

D、that

24. －What do you think of Tom?

－He is kind, hard-working and intelligent; I can’t speak too highly of him.

A、as a result

B、in a word

C、on the contrary

D、by the way

25. writer and inventor was invited to the party the other day.

A、The, the

B、A, an

C、The, an

D、The, /

26. The old couple have been married for 50 years and never once with each other.

A、they had quarreled

B、had they quarreled

C、they have quarreled

D、have they quarreled

27. It has been announced that all the students put on masks before going to school

in case they are infected with SARS virus.

A、shall

B、will

C、need

D、may

28. The disabled need recognition and encouragement ridicule(嘲笑).

A、more than

B、rather than

C、other than

D、less than

29. Mary’s cellphone was left in a taxi accidentally, never again.

A、to find

B、to be found

C、finding

D、being found

30. We offered them our congratulations her passing the college entrance exams.

A、at

B、in

C、upon

D、as

31. －You are late again!

－Sorry, I would have come sooner, but I that you were waiting.

A、didn’t know

B、don’t know

C、hadn’t known

D、haven’t known

32. It is thing to enjoy watching someone playing football, but it is quite to

play football yourself.

A、a, another

B、one, other

C、one, another

D、a, other

33. Be reasonable, Ben! Why insist while she did?

A、on her doing the washing

B、that she should do the washing

C、her to do the washing

D、that she didn’t do the washing

34. Deliver the goods within six months? But that is not a(n) of the contract.

A、request

B、requirement

C、agreement

D、demand

35. The driver started to speed up to for the hour he had lost in the traffic jam.

A、keep up

B、take up

C、make up

D、catch up

36. I suppose we’ll have to, bad weather conditions, spend more than 500 days

undertaking the construction.

A、considering

B、allowed for

C、including

D、linked with

37. Native Americans from the southeastern part of is now the United States

believed that the universe in which they lived was made up of three worlds.

A、that

B、which

C、where

D、what

38. Smoking too much may lung cancer and cause other diseases.

A、devote to

B、attend to

C、contribute to

D、come to

39. As your spoken English gets better, so your written English.

A、will

B、does

C、is

D、has

40. The doctors said it would be months he was fit for work.

A、that

B、when

C、since

D、before

三、完形填空（20%）

Once a circle missed a wedge(楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. It was incomplete and 41 could roll only very slowly. While rolling, it 42 the flowers along the way, chatted with worms and enjoyed the 43 .

One day the circle found a piece that fit 44 . It was so happy! Now it could be 45 with nothing missing. It fixed the missing piece in itself and began to roll. 46 it was a perfect circle, it could rool very fast, too fast to 47 the flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how 48 the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, 49 its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

The lesson of the story, I 50 , was that in some strange 51 we are more whole when

we are missing something. The man who has everything is 52 a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to desire, to hope, to nourish his 53 with the dream of something 54 .

When we accept that 55 is part of human being, and when we can continue rolling 56 life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only 57 to.

If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, 58 enough to share in another’s happiness, and wise enough to know 59 is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that 60 living creature will ever know.

41. A、yet B、otherwise C、however D、therefore

42. A、admired B、found C、searched D、planted

43. A、picture B、sunshine C、sky D、weather

44. A、smoothly B、deeply C、sharply D、perfectly

45. A、round B、good C、whole D、beautiful

46. A、For B、Now that C、Though D、Even if

47. A、notice B、see C、smell D、watch

48. A、wonderful B、colorful C、different D、strange

49. A、lay B、hid C、left D、fixed

50. A、advised B、expected C、wondered D、suggested

51. A、sense B、idea C、look D、opinion

52. A、in some way B、in the way C、this way D、by the way

53. A、heart B、soul C、body D、brain

54. A、happier B、better C、lost D、missing

55. A、imperfection B、wholeness C、disadvantage D、usefulness

56. A、in B、through C、for D、about

57. A、want B、tend C、wish D、like

58. A、joyful B、clever C、friendly D、generous

59. A、that B、it C、where D、there

60. A、no B、the other C、any other D、no other

四、阅读理解（30%）

A

Maggie was very glad that James was not a frequent visitor to the house. So far as the children were concerned, they had a mystery about him that stirred their imagination. He stirred Maggie’s anger, however, so that she often said to her husband, “It’s a mercy that brother of yours doesn’t come oftener.”

In fact James came once a year, unexpectedly, around eight o’clock in the evening, and he stayed for six hours of close discussion with his brother. His arrival was a signal to children that their bedtime would be delayed. Not that he ever spoke to them or played with them. He ignored them, as if he was unable to see children, at least until the time came for him to go. Indeed, after his first greeting and a careless kiss, James took no notice of Maggie either, except to abb, “You’ll be getting on with the supper, Maggie.” Such was his regard for her.

Maggie paid him back in her own way. She kept the children up, the four of them, to keep her company, she said, but of course they sang and made a noise and broke the endless sound of Jame’s voice. Very late, they dropped off to sleep in their chairs. Then, when James was about to go, Maggie woke them up and so more or less forced him to part with four shillings before he left. That gave her some satisfaction, for James, though rich, was mean. He always went home by the last train, just after two o’clock.

Maggie’s children secretly stared at their uncle. They could not forget that he had, in their mother’s words, “lost two wives and taken a third”. They wondered about those two unfortunate, lost ladies. They asked each other what their fate had been, and if neither could ever be found again. James never brought his third wife with him nor ever mentioned her. The children decided that he must be so frightened of losing her that he never allowed her outside the door.

61. Maggie never prepared anything special for James because .

A、he was a man difficult to please

B、she never knew when he was coming

C、she was too busy looking after her children

D、he never stayed long enough for a meal

62. What do you know about James’ behavior?

A、He was a kind man, with love for the family.

B、He was generous, especially towards his brother.

C、He was anxious to please the family, especially the kids.

D、He was rude to his sister-in-law.

63. The children did n ot realize that two of Jame’s wives .

A、were dead

B、suffered from loss of memory

C、had run away from him

D、might reappear one day

B

Throughout history, people have been interested in knowing how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages, the language of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.

There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago.

Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. In time some even die out completely. About 1,000 years ago English was a little-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.

If a language has a large number of speakers or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China cannot understand speakers from other parts.

64. The first paragraph mainly tells us that .

A、most people in the world speak Chinese

B、there are thousands of languages in the world today

C、man has much knowledge about languages

D、some people know several languages

65. Most European and Indian languages .

A、will soon die out completely

B、were once a relative of English

C、are no longer spoken

D、come from the same family

66. seems to have changed a lot.

A、Chinese

B、English

C、Spanish

D、German

67. The word “dialect” in the last paragraph means .

A、a special language spoken by Chinese

B、the sign used by the Chinese people in a special area

C、the difference between the old and today’s Chinese

D、the form of a language used in one part of the country

C

The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness. People believe that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold, and it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.

During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.

In the Second World Was prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.

At the Common Cold Research Unit England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be dipped with

cold water, and them stood about dripping wet in wind. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.

In the cold we have nothing to do with catching colds. Why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.

No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and painkillers such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms(症状).

68. Besides the experiments in England, the writer offered more examples to support

his argument.

A、3

B、4

C、5

D、6

69. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?

A、The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.

B、Colds are not caused by cold.

C、People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.

D、A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.

70. Arctic explorers may catch colds when .

A、they are working in the inolated arctic regions

B、they are writing reports in terribly cold weather

C、they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions

D、they are coming into touch again with the outside world

71. V olunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit .

A、suffered a lot

B、never caught colds

C、often caught colds

D、became very strong

D

Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes into touch with them. Their values－this can’t be repeated too often－are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important for them. The social

services form time to time find themselves faced with a flat with going-bad food covered with dust on the table, and an old person lying alone on bed, taking no notice of anything. Is it doing harm to personal freedom to ask them to go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers are the ones who clean up the dust, thinking we are in danger of carrying this idea of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old.

Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car: it needs more care as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. Never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. At what point should you stop treating the old body? Is it right to try to push off death by using drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that there is little hope? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel sure to have a try on the belief that while there’s life, there’s hope.

When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun.

72. From Paragraph 1, we can infer that .

A、very old people enjoy living with their relatives

B、very old people are able to keep their rooms clean

C、social services could have nothing to do with very old people

D、very old people prefer to live alone so that they can have more personal freedom

73. Some social workers think that .

A、one should not take risks of dealing with old people

B、old people should have the idea of cleaning their rooms

C、personal freedom is more important than health and safety

D、health and safety are more important than personal freedom

74. The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to .

A、whether age is happy or unpleasant

B、the conclusion you have come to

C、one’s money or one’s health

D、your talk to the old people

75. The author thinks that .

A、the opinion that we should try every possible means to save old people is doubtful

B、medical decisions for the old people should be left to the doctors

C、old people can enjoy a happy life only if they are very rich

D、it is always right to treat old people and push off death

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共20分）

五、单词（10%）

76. She never (参与) in any of our discussions, does she?

77. William Shakespeare is regarded as a writer of (杰出) in English literature.

78. Children under sixteen are not (合法) allowed to buy cigarettes.

79. The production this year is 10 percent above (平均).

80. A number of (潜在的) buyers have expressed interest in the company.

81. In front of the hotel stands a m to all the people killed in the war.

82. The resort is easily a by road, rail and air.

83. I’m s on this maths problem. Could you give me some help?

84. Such a careless mistake might lead to a disastrous c .

85. The President entered the hall, a by his bodyguards.

六、短文改错（10%）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误，对标有题号的每一行做出判断；如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一条横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

I went to the Shouxi Lake this morning. On the gate I 86.

happened to meet some American tourists. I greeted them with 87. English and we began talking. I got to knowing that they were 88. college students travel in China. I showed them to the White 89. Pagoda(白搭), the Five-pavilion Bridge(五亭桥) and the

Twenty-four Bridge. We enjoyed the beautiful sceneries 90. around the lake. Then we go boating on the Shouxi Lake. 91. We all had wonderful time there. After we came out of the 92. Park, I helped them do some shopping. They had thanked 93. me, and then we said goodbye to each other. I was very 94. glad to have a chance to practise our spoken English. 95.

江苏省苏州中学2005—2006学年度第一学期期初考试

高三英语答案

一、听力

1-5 . AC BAC 6-10 . B BABA 11-15. AC BCC

16-20. BCAC C

二、单选

21-25. BCABD 26-30 .DA B BC 3l-35. ACDBC

36-40 ADCAD

三、完型

41-45. DA BDC 46-50. BACCD 51-55. AA B BA

56-60. BCDDD

四、阅读

61-63. B DA 64-67.CDB D 68-71 BCDA

72-75. DDAA

三、单词

76．participates 77. distinction 78. legally 79. average 80. potential

81. monument 82 .accessible 83 .stuck 84. consequence 85．accompanied 六．改错

86．On→At 87. with→in 88. knowin g→know89. travel—traveling

90 .scenerie s→scenery 91. go→went 92 had 后加a 93.去had

94 √95. ou r→my