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2018-2019学年高三年级第十六次双周考英语试题
出题人：赫伟玲 李庆国 审题人：夏燕茹 郑纪英
（本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
该部分分为第一、第二两节。注意：回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案转涂到答题卡上。 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秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例: How much is the shirt?
A.￡19.15. B.￡9.18. C.￡9.15. 答案是C。
1. How does the man like to begin his lecture? A. With an introduction.
B. With a smile. C. With a funny story.
C. Take a taxi and go
2. What will the woman probably do?
A. Wait for the airport bus. B. Go to the airport by taxi. home.
3. When will the man have a meeting?
A. In a minute. B. Tomorrow. C. In a couple of hours. 4. What is the man doing? A. Making a phone call.
B. Making a visit. C. Making an appointment.
C. A gas accident.
5. What might have happened? A. An earthquake. B. A fire.
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. Where does the man most probably live?
A. In the countryside. B. In a big city. C. In America.
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7. Why does the woman think that New York is the only place to live in? A. It has a large population.
B. It offers a colorful and exciting life. C. It’s not only interesting but also quiet. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where will the woman have her sailing holiday? A. In Italy.
B. In Sweden. C. In Norway.
9. How much will the woman pay for her sailing holiday? A. ￡ 450. B. ￡ 380. C. ￡ 370. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What are the two speakers talking about?
A. Air pollution. B. Transportation. C. Road connection. 11. Why does the man think laws of car use will be made? A. Because road traffic has to be controlled. B. Because there’ll be new ways of travelling. C. Because too many people enjoy air travel.
12. What does the woman think of travelling by train under the ocean? A. It is exciting.
B. It is frightening. C. It is unimaginable.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What does the man probably do? A. A ticket collector.
B. A jeweler. C. A policeman.
14. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. On a train. B. In the street. C. At the man’s office. 15. Why does the man stop the woman?
A. She stole something. B. She was too rude to him. C. She smoked in public places.
16. Where will the speakers probably go?
A. The police station. B. The train station. C. The woman’s office. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How long is the English Coffee Shop open to customers a day? A. For 24 hours.
B. For 8 hours. C. For 12 hours.
18. What can we learn about the radio station? A. It is owned by the English Coffee Shop.
B. It is on Montana at Seventh Street in Santa Monica. C. It sells advertising time.
19. What is the weather like in the morning? A. Cloudy.
B. Cold. C. Fine.
20. What can we learn about Santa Monica Beach?
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A. It’s used for parking cars. B. It’s a good place for surfing. C. It’s a good place for skating.
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
It is commonly believed that in medieval France, New Year was celebrated on 1 April. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, changing New Year to 1 January. With no modern communications, news travelled slowly and new ideas were often questioned. Many people did not hear of the change, some merely forgot, and others chose to ignore it. These people were called fools. Invitations to non-existent “New Year” parties were sent and other practical jokes were played. Over time playing tricks on 1 April became a tradition. The custom eventually spread to England and Scotland, and it was later transported across the Atlantic to the American colonies (殖民地) of the English and the French. April Fools’ Day has now developed into an international festival of fun, with different nationalities celebrating the day in special ways.
France and Italy
In France and Italy, if someone plays a trick on you, you are the “fish of April”. By the month of April fish have only just hatched and are therefore easy to catch. Children stick paper fish to their Friends’ backs and chocolate fish are found in the shops.
America and Britain
Today, Americans and the British play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on 1 April. A common trick is to point to a friend’s shoe and say “Your shoelace (鞋带) is untied.” When they look down, they are laughed at. Schoolchildren might tell a friend that school has been cancelled. Sometimes the media get involved. Once, a British short film was shown on April Fools’ Day about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from spaghetti trees!
Scotland
In Scotland, April Fools’ Day lasts for two days! The second day is called “Taily Day” and tricks on this day involve the bottom (or the “tail”, in informal speech). Often a sign saying ‘kick me’ is stuck onto someone’s back without them knowing. 21. In what condition would someone be called “fish of April” in France? A. When one is fooled. B. If one is fond of fish. C. When one fools others. D. If one prefers chocolate. 22. What was the purpose of the British short film? A. To help the audience. B. To trick the audience. C. To warn the audience. D. To inform the audience. 23. Where does April Fools’ Day last for more than one day?
A. Italy. B. France. C. America. D. Scotland.
B
I have never been a fan of the phrase, “No pains, no gains.” I prefer the alternative version, “No pains, no pains!” When it comes to exercise, for example, I learned years ago that pushing through pain was more likely to lay me up with an aching back than to
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leave me feeling strong and healthy.
But there are times when stressful situations actually do lead to greater happiness. A new study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies found that people who pursue (追求) goals that are tough to achieve feel more stress in the moment, but greater happiness in the aftermath particularly if they feel connected to others along the way.
The researchers concluded that happiness increases when people develop greater competence in something and greater competence only comes when people keep on working through the stress-inducing phase of trying, fighting, and trying again to learn and grow. If the psychological needs to be autonomous or self-directed, and to be connected to others are met, the momentary stresses will be less acute, and the resulting happiness will be more lasting.
This idea reminds me of another often quoted phrase, which I have heard in reference to challenging tasks, such as exercise —“Fill-in-the-blank-stressful-task is the worst thing to do, but the greatest thing to have done.” In other words, suffering from the stress of an exercise class that leaves us feeling sweat-drenched shouldn’t lead us to walk away from exercising. And if we can pass those stressful moments with a friend, colleague or family member who is trustworthy and supportive, all will be better.
As I travel my positive path, I’m certainly not seeking out stress. But life will offer me plenty of it, whether I ask for it or not. My task is to choose wisely when and how to face it head-on, knowing that happiness awaits on the other side. 24. What makes the author prefer “No pains, no pains”?
A. His terrible fear of pain. B. His deep love of exercise. C. His great desire for health. D. His past experience of pain. 25. What results in people’s happiness according to the new study?
A. Their tolerance for stress. B. The connection with others. C. Their ability to deal with stress. D. The achievement of their goals. 26. What does the author think of challenging tasks?
A. They are acute and lasting. B. They are tiring and boring.
C. They are stressful but rewarding. D. They are interesting but unhelpful.
27. How does the author treat stress in his life?
A. Seek it out purposefully. B. Handle it wisely.
C. Ask for help bravely. D. Wait until it disappears.
C
Fashions have a lot of rules. Most of them, however, are just wrong. But there’s one rule that goes beyond tradition and into the field of scientific study of the brain: Black garments are slimming. It all comes down to how your visual system processes the light. The below holes in each square are the same in size, yet the white hole looks bigger than the black hole.
In the 1500s, Galileo Galilei noticed that some of the planets looked larger when viewed with the naked eye (肉眼) than they did when viewed through a telescope,
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making the white light of Venus (金星) appear eight to ten times larger than Jupiter (木星) in the night sky. He knew something strange must be going on with his vision to cause this illusion, but he wasn’t sure what it was. Luckily, scientists never stopped wondering, and in 2014, they figured it out.
Our visual system operates via two main channels: “on” neurons (神经元) that are sensitive to light things and “off” neurons that are sensitive to dark things. When it came to the dark “off” neurons, the researchers found that they responded predictably to dark shapes on a light background — the greater the contrast between the two, the more active these neurons were. But the light “on” neurons behaved unpredictably. Even with the same amount of contrast, light objects on a dark background caused a greater response in these neurons.
This makes some sense, evolutionarily speaking. In the dark of night, you’d want to be able to take in every bit of light you can get, so a visual system that enlarges light objects on a dark background could be very useful. However, it’s not that hard to see dark objects in the light of day. It has some effects in the colors of your clothes and in the appearance of the planets — the brighter appearance of Venus in the night sky makes it look bigger than the darker Jupiter.
28. What did Galileo Galilei believe according to Paragraph 2? A. The neurons led to the difference.
B. There was something wrong with his telescope. C. The difference was caused by his visual illusion. D. Things were bigger when seen through telescopes. 29. What do we know about the “off” neurons? A. They are sensitive to light objects. B. Their behavior can’t be predicted.
C. They behave differently from person to person.
D. Their activeness improves with the contrast of colors. 30. What does the author think of the phenomenon? A. It makes people feel puzzled. B. It brings great harm to people. C. It is more common among youths. D. It is beneficial to people’s evolution. 31. What is the text mainly about?
A. Why we look thinner when in black. B. What visual illusions bring to people. C. How we are affected by the fashion rules. D. Whether people’s visual system is different.
D
El Nino, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fisherman who noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Nino sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.
The weather effects, both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countries gain more from powerful Nino, on balance, than they lose. A study found that a strong Nino
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