厦门外国语学校2017届高三适应性考试
英语试题
(时间:120 分钟;满分:150分)
第I卷
第一部分 听力(共两节,满分30分)
第一节(共5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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. When did the speaers last see each other? A. Fifteen years ago.
B. Five years ago.
C. One year ago.
2. What does the man wish for the future? A. All his dreams will come true. B. Science will develop much faster. C. He will be able to do his job from home. 3. What will the woman do net? A. Bring the man a salad.
B. Tae away the man’s soda.
C. Give the man some cheese.
4. What is the relationship between the speaers? A. They are friends.
B. They are cousins.
C. They are brother and sister.
5. What does the woman tell the man to do? A. Prepare for landing. B. Tae his headphones out.
C. Put his chair bac in fifteen minutes.
第二节 (共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5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 did the man lie to do? A. Hie.
B. Swim.
7. What does the woman suggest in the end? A. The man should go more camping. B. Life could be fun without social media. C. Family activities are very important. 听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。 8. Why was the man worried? A. His mother has been ill. B. He lost his wallet.
C. A policeman was in front of the shopping mall. 9. What will the man have to do in the end? A. Pay the fine.
B. Go to the hospital.
听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。 10. What does the boy want to eat? A. Peanut butter.
B. Yoghurt.
11. What does the boy imply about carrot cae? A. It’s low in sugar.
B. It contains some healthy ingredients. C. It’s not as delicious as other types of cae. 12. How does the boy probably feel in the end? A. Surprised.
B. Jealous.
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。 13. What job is the man interviewing for? A. A job at a school.
B. A job at a radio station.
14. What does the man thin of sending emails?
C. Tae photographs.
C. Repair his car.
C. Cooies.
C. Angry.
C. A job at a TV station.
A. He has done that his whole life. B. He has no confidence in it. 15. What does the job involve according to the woman? A. A lot of traffic. morning.
16. Who is one of the man’s references? A. Someone he used to teach. B. Someone he used to wor with.
C. Someone he went to graduate school with. 听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。 17. When are laundry places usually closed? A. At si o’cloc in the morning. B. At eleven o’cloc in the morning. C. At seven o’cloc at night.
18. How many washers might a larger laundry place have? A. 48.
B. 24.
B. Meeting the fans.
C. He is rather good at it.
C. Getting up early in the
C. 12.
19. According to the tal, what do people often do while waiting in the laundry place? A. Chat with the employee. the sun.
20. Who met their husband at a laundry place? A. The speaer’s sister.
B. The speaer’s friend.
C. The speaer.
B. Eat some food.
C. Put their clothes out in
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。
A
May Day, the first day of May, is celebrated as a spring festival in many countries. It mars the
approach of summer.
The English developed their May Day festivals from the Roman festival called Floralia. In the festival
of Floralia, the Romans gathered flowers to honor the goddess of spring. Flora. In the Middle Ages, May
Day became the favorite holiday of many English villages. People gathered flowers to decorate their homes and churches, sang spring songs and chose a ing and a queen of May. Villagers danced around a tall pole fied upright in the ground, called a maypole, each holding the end of a ribbon attached to the top of the pole. They tied the ribbons around the pole until it was covered with bright colors. They collected dew (露水) on May Day morning and washed their faces with it because they believed that the dew on the day had the magic power to regain youth.
Nowadays in Britain people no longer attach great importance to the day, but in some towns and
villages people still celebrate it by choosing the May Queen and dancing around the maypole. May Queen is a girl selected as being the most beautiful on May Day. She is usually crowned with flowers and often driven in procession through the street. In the United States, the day has never been celebrated with the same enthusiasm as in Britain.
But in many American towns and cities, children celebrate the day with dancing and singing. They
often gather flowers in handmade paper basets and hang them on the doornobs of homes of friends' and neighbors' on May Day morning. At May Day parties, children select May Queens, dance around the maypole, and sing May Day songs.
21. What do we now about the May Day in Britain in the Middle Ages? A. People wore bright colours.
B. People celebrated it with enthusiasm.
C. People presented flowers to the goddess of spring. D. People stayed at home instead of going to churches. 22. Why did people wash their faces with dew on May Day? A. To bring good luc. C. To get magic power.
B. To become prettier. D. To get young again.
23. Paragraph 3 is mainly developed______. A. by comparison
B. by space
C. by process B
Halloween is a holiday full of trics and treats and all things frightening and fun. But what happens when you trade your sweets for a scare? The result is always healthier than candy.
D. by classification
Being frightened can be good for you. Thin about your favorite scary boos or movies. You are scared but you just can’t resist reading or watching them. Being frightened maes your brain flood with healthy chemical substances that ecite your mood and release feelings of great ecitement.
When you’re frightened, your body also produces a chemical called oytocin, which helps people bond with one another. So, if you’re at a haunted(闹鬼的) house with some pals, that eperience can help solidify your friendship. “Watch people waling out of a haunted house, and you’ll see lots of smiles and high fives,” says Dr. Margee err, a sociologist who studies fear.
There is also some evidence that being scared can help a person manage stressful situations. Things lie giving a presentation in front of your class or performing in a school play can mae us fearful and anious. But these eperiences help build a sort of endurance to fear that maes us more confident. “You become more comfortable with the physical eperience of fear, and so you’re better able to wor through it during tense situations,” err eplains.
Though some haunting may be healthy, it’s important to remember that people eperience fear in different ways. What may be fun for one person could be too scary for another. And err notes that ids younger than si and or seven can’t separate real and mae-believe, so seeing something frightening could have lasting, negative effects.
24. Why does the author mention “Halloween” in Paragraph 1? A. To mae a suggestion. C. To offer an instruction.
B. To introduce a topic.
D. To present a report.
25. What does the underlined words “high fives” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Putting hands up to give in.
B. Waving hands to say goodbye. D. Folding palms together to epress thans.
C. Hitting palms together to show happiness. 26. How is the tet developed? A. By analying reasons. C. By maing comparisons.
B. By providing statistics.
D. By giving eamples.
27. What can we learn from the tet? A. We’ll feel worried if we’re scared. C. Fearfulness controls our confidence.
B. Being frightened helps people stay closer. D. Being scared can be good for everyone.
福建省厦门外国语学校2017届高三适应性考试 英语
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