1、高三上学期开学检测英语试题含答案II2019-2020年高三上学期开学检测英语试题含答案(II)第一部分 听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30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卡上。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 impressed the man about the new theater? A. The ticket price. B. The so
2、und. C. The seats.2. What are the speakers going to do tonight? A. Go out for pizza. B. Listen to a lecture. C.Work in the garden.3. Why has the man been staying at home? A. He is out of work. B. He works at home. C. Hes been sick.4. How many students had planned to take the exam? A. 15. B. 25. C. 5
3、0.5. What does the man think of the cheese?A. It has gone bad. B .It smells better than it tastes. C. It is delicious. 第二节 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 relationship between the tw
4、o speakers？ A Husband and wife. B Boss and secretary. CFriends7 How long does the man stay at the college every day？ A. 9 hours. B. 7 hours. C. 5 hours. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Why does the man come to Africa? A. To do business. B. To go on holiday. C. To publish books.9. How will the man get to the univ
5、ersity? A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot.10. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a hotel. B. In a bookstore. C. In a company. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. What is surprising to the woman? A. Her teams score in the game. B. The mans graduation plan. C. Her friends attendance of the game. 12. What
6、 does the man hope will happen next year? A. Hell do well in his exams. B. Hell graduate on time. C. His team will make it to the finals. 13. What can we know about the woman? A. She will travel with Dave and Billy. B. She will graduate this spring. C. She will take summer classes. 听第9段材料. 回答第14至17题
7、。14. Who is Playtime Online designed for? A. 4-6-years-olds. B. 5-10-years-olds. C. 12-16-years-olds.15. What is Moving UP aimed at? A. Designing games for children to learn skills. B. Developing childrens skills at math and language. C. Promoting the development of teachers qualities.16. How can Ne
8、t Aware help teenagers? A. By recommending safe websites. B. By teaching them to use the Internet properly. C. By getting them to realize the danger of the Internet.17 Why do school students love Test Doctors? A. It offers tips on improving health. B. It has useful suggestions for exams. C. It prese
9、nts lectures by specialists. 听第10段材料。回答第18至20题。l8. What does the speaker suggest people do at the beginning of the week? A. Stay indoors. B. Put their summer clothes away. C. Get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. 19. When should the storm be over? A. By Tuesday evening. B. By Friday morning. C. B
10、y next Monday. 20. What usually happens in September and October? A. There are a lot of storms. B. The weather gets hot again. C. It is always quite cool. 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。AImagine there is a bank that puts $ 86, 400 in your a
11、ccount ( 账户 )each morning. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank writes off( 注销)the balance that you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Take out every cent, of course !Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it puts in 86, 400 seconds.
12、Every evening it writes off, as it is lost. There is no balance or overdraft 透支) . If you fail to use the days savings, the lost is yours. There is no going back. There is no taking from tomorrow. You must make good use of it so as to get more in health, happiness and success!The clock is running. M
13、ake the most of today. To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade; To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature(早产) baby; To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper; To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers
14、who are waiting to meet; To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train; To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided(避免)an accident.Make good use of every moment that you have. Remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a myste
15、ry. Today is a gift. Thats why its called The Present.21. The underlined word balance in paragraph 1 means_.A. 余款 B贷款 C平衡D提款22. What is special about the TIME bank we each have?A. We can store time in it whenever we like.B. Someone puts $ 86, 400 in it every day.C. The time in it will surely get los
16、t if you dont use it.D. Someone helps you spend your time every night. 23. What can be the best title of the passage?A. The Bank of Money B. The clock is runningC. The value of one hour D. The Bank of Time BThe worlds premier spelling bee ended Thursday in the USfor a second year in a row after an i
17、n-tense lo-round showdown between two young competitors to deal with some of the English languagesmost obscure（生僻的）words. Vanya hlvaShankar，13，and Gokul Venkatachalam，14，together raised the gold trophy（奖杯）in the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee Shivashankar，the sister of 2009 champion Kavya Shivas
18、hankar，initially gathered confidence as shewent easily through such words as cytopoiesis，bouquetiere and thamakauVenkatachalam，a basketballfan，also managed such tongue-twisters as poblacion，caudillismo and nixtamal But as their eight fellow finalists failed one by one，the tension grew until they sto
19、od alone on stageWhen Shivashankar，in the fourteenth round，correctly spelled scherenschnitte，the German一derived（源自德语的）word for artistic paper cutting, official bee pronouncer Jacques Bailly, broke the news toVenkatachalam The contest，Bailly said，was about to run out of words，and if Venkatachalam spe
20、lled his next wordcorrectly，he and his rival（对手）would be declared joint winners一a repeat of last years surprise The winning word came so easily to the eighth-grader from the branch StLouis，Missouri suburb ofChesterfield that he skipped the bee contestants routine of asking for the words origin，meani
21、ng andusage in a sentence “N一u一n一a一t一a一k，”the devoted LeBron James fan said，spelling the Inuit-derived word for an icy island as easily as if he was spelling d一。-g or c-a-t Asked afterwards what went through his mind upon hearing the word，Venkatachalam frankly re-plied：“Me and Vanya are going to be
22、champions”24 How many contestants took part in the final？ A. Only two. B. Four. C. Eight. D. Ten.25 It can be inferred from the passage that A last years spelling bee also ended in a tie B Kavya Shivashankar was last years champion C the spelling bee is held every two years D the pronouncer decides
23、the contest result26 The underlined word“the eighth-grader” refers to A. Vanya Shivashankar B. Gokul Venkatachalam C. Kavya Shivashankar D. Jacques Bailly27 Joint winners of the contest were made because A Vanya and Gokul were equal to each other B it was previously planned by the organizer C produc
24、ers and sponsors made the final decision D theres no more word prepared for contestants to spellCA deal has been signed to turn by-products from a Scottish distillery（酿酒厂）into fuel for cars.In what is declared to be a world first, the Tullibardine distillery in Perthshire has linked up with a spin-o
25、ut company from Napier University in Edinburgh. They plan to use bacteria to feed on the leftovers from the whisky（威士忌酒）making process. This will produce butanol which can be used to fuel vehicles.More than 90% of the stuff that comes out of a whisky distillery is not whisky. It is leftovers like dr
26、aff and pot ales（酒糟） both produced in the early stages of the process. They are high in sugar and are currently used for things like fertiliser and cattle feed. Napier Universitys Biofuel Research Centre (BfRC) has already shown that the right bacteria can feed on those by-products to produce butano
27、la direct replacement for vehicle fuel. Now the spin-out company, Celtic Renewables, and independent whisky producer Tullibardine have signed an agreement. Together they will apply the process to thousands of tons of the distillerys leftovers.Professor Martin Tangney, founder of Celtic Renewables, s
28、aid Our partnership with Tullibardine is an important step in the development of a business which combines two important Scottish industries whisky and renewables. This project shows that creative use of existing technologies can utilize resources on our doorstep to benefit both the environment and
29、the economy.Douglas Ross, managing director of Tullibardine, which spends 250,000 disposing of its by-products every year, said We are delighted to be partnering Celtic Renewables in this creative business, the obvious benefits of which are environmental. It takes a cost to us and turns it into some
30、thing that has social as well as commercial value.The project is being supported by a grant（拨款） from the Scottish governments Zero Waste Scotland initiative. Celtic Renewables said it eventually aimed to build a processing plant in Scotland, with the hope of building an industry that could be worth
31、60m a year.28. According to the passage, _will be used to take the place of petrol. A. whisky B. whisky leftovers C. butanol D. draff and pot ales29. How do people deal with whisky leftovers at present? A. They throw them away. B. They use them to feed people. C. They use them to feed bacteria. D. They use them for crops or cattle.30. What does the underlined word “utilize” in the fourth paragraph probably mean? A. make use of. B. get rid of. C. use up. D. find out.31. Which of the following categories does this passage belong to? a. Health b. Science c. Food d. Nat
