湖南省益阳市箴言中学2017届高三英语下学期期中（11月）试题
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第一部分：听力（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 plan to major in? A.Art. B.Science. C.Economics.
2.How does the woman suggest the man get to the hotel? A.On foot. B.By taxi. C.By bus. 3.What do we know about John? A.He retired a year ago.
B.He hasn't decided whether to retire. C.He worked in the marketing department.
4.What is the relationship between the speakers?
A.Fellow students. B.Parent and kid. C.Teacher and student. 5.What does the man offer to do for the woman? A.Hand in her report. B.Give her some material. C.Proof the report for her. 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。 听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。 6.Why does the woman come to the store?
A.To buy a book. B.To borrow textbooks. C.To return some books. 7.What should the woman do first?
A.Bring her book card. B.Make a late payment. C.Check her mail. 听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8.Why doesn't the woman want to go to Chicago?
A.For the high cost. B.For the limited time. C.For the long distance.
9.Which city will the speakers visit?
A.Washington. B.Boston. C.New York. 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10.What does the woman say about the conference this year? A.There were more people.
B.It was a success on the whole.
C.The organization could have been better.
11.How many delegates were there in the conference last year?
A.18. B.30. C.42.
12.What disappointed the delegates?
A.The conference rooms. B.The restaurant. C.The hotel rooms.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。 13.For whom does the woman book rooms?
A.Tourists. B.Her co-workers. C.Her classmates. 14.How many rooms does the woman want? A.7. B.9. C.12.
15.When does the conversation take place?
A.On January 8th. B.On January 5th. C.On January 3rd. 16.Why will the woman get a discount? A.She is a regular guest.
B.She makes reservations for a group. C.She has a membership card of the hotel. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。 17.Where does the speaker give this talk? A.At New York's Central Park. B.At Ocean Beach Park. C.At Golden Gate Park.
18. When are cars forbidden in the park on Sundays? A.In winter. B.In summer. C.In autumn. 19.What is located on the eastern side of the park? A.An indoor garden. B.A tea house. C.A theater.
20.How does the speaker describe the Japanese Tea Garden? A.It is good for a picnic. B.It is peaceful and relaxing.
C.It is a great place for exhibits. 第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分） 第一节 阅读选择题
A
Xinhua News Agency is seeking native speakers to fill the positions of copy editors in six languages—English ,Spanish, French, Russian Portuguese and Arabic—and English-language news anchors in several departments. Applicants with a background in journalism are preferred. Qualified candidates will be offered a competitive salary and benefits package that includes social insurance and paid holidays.
Monthly salary: Minimum,22,000RMB(3,667
U.S.dollars). For real top talent, the salary is negotiable.
Qualifications:
1. Native speakers under the age of 60;
2.Minimum 3 years of experience in news reporting, and/or editi
ng and/or presenting; experi-ence in well-known media or network is preferred.
3. A keen interest in china;
4. Good health, able to work overtime and under deadline pressure;
5. Responsible, committed and a team player;
6. Knowledge of words processing, computers and the internet.. Responsibilities:
1. Ensure quality, professional journalistic writing;
2. Work closely and supportively with Chinese editors and reporters;
3. Rewrite news headlines, edit content and check facts;
4. Provide training for Chinese colleagues in writing news in foreign languages;
5. Other duties for English- language news anchors: Dub(配音)the news exactly; do anchoring or conduct interviews as an assistant or expert in a Xinhua TV crew.
Applicants should download and fill in “Foreign Experts Candidate Application Form” and send the form ,with a cover letter and a resume, to xhszp@qq.com. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
21.To get the position, an applicant must________ A. have a background in journalism B. have the ability to do tasks independently C. have once worked in famous media or network D. have some knowledge of operating a computer 22.What Should a copy editor do?
A. Cooperating with Chinese editors B. Dubbing the news correctly. C. Collecting news stories D. Getting trained to write Chinese news.
23. What type of writing does this passage belong to?
A. A news report. B. a job ad C. a poster. D. A notice .
B
Canada is said to be one of the Earth's most beautiful countries. Even though Canada is pretty on the outside, it has an ugly truth hidden behind its beauty. Canada has many environmental problems that can greatly affect the people and the wildlife of the region.
Canada has many natural resources. But if not treated properly, they'll be destroyed or used up. This is happening to the Great Lakes. Shared by Canada and the US, the Great lakes are used for fishing and producing electricity. In the 1970s, the Great Lakes were used as a waste dumping （倾倒）place for factories. To put a stop to the illegal dumping, the two countries both signed the Great Lakes Water
Quality Agreement, which makes sure no animals or people are harmed by the polluted and dangerous water and also reduces the amount of human waste that is dumped in that area. Almost 2 million Canadian citizens make their living by mining. However , mining can destroy an area’s environment. The rock and soil from mining are just dumped in any place that is available. This can lead to an increase in sulfur dioxide（二氧化硫）, causing acid rain and killing plants and animals.
Another natural resource is the wood which is used for many different types of paper. But the resource is being overused. The country is losing the benefits of the forest, such as oxygen, and animals are losing their foods or homes. Clear-cutting （清场伐木）has left many places barren. The loss of animal habitat is also very serious.
All countries should learn from Canada's mistakes and take some measures to help improve the environment.
24. What's the ugly truth in Canada?
A. It has many environmental problems. B. Nearly all resources are being used up.
C. Waste can be seen everywhere D. Many plants and animals are dying out.
25. Why was the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed?
A. To produce more electricity. B. To introduce more fish in the lakes.
C. To stop factories dumping waste into the area. D. To prevent animals from being killed.
26. What does the underlined word “barren” in paragraph 4 most probably mean? A. Full of water. B. Lacking warmth. C. Without any dirt. D. No trees on Land 27. What's the author’s purpose of writing this text? A. To show what has happened to the Great Lakes. B. To tell us some of natural resources of Canada, C. To call on people to protect the environment.
D. To tell us Canada is more beautiful than we thought
C
Mr. Lee speaks six languages and his company, Flitto now has more than five million users around the world, and enjoys revenues（收益）of about $2.1 million a year.
Unlike most professional translation companies, it doesn't directly employ translators. Instead, Flitto invites members of the public who knows more than one language to offer their services via
its website and mobile phone app. Today it has one million translators in 170 countries, who offer translations between 17 different languages.
Due to his father's job with an international company, Mr. Lee spent most of his childhood living overseas. he was born in Kuwait, where he spent his first four years, before the family then moved to the UK. After three years in the UK, the family
relocated again, this time to the US, before moving to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia 24 months later. Educated in international schools, he was quick to pick up an English, French and Arabic, the first three languages. Mr. Lee added to his native Korean. After seven years in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Lee’s family moved back to South Korea where he finished high school, and then went to the country’s famous Korea university.
It was at college that friends of his started to ask him to help them translate their homework into English, which was required as part of their courses. “So friends would say to me, ‘Simon, if you translate this homework into English, I'm going to buy you dinner,’” he says.
“And more and more friends were asking me to do that, so I didn't have enough time. ”Realizing the business potential of translation services, Mr. Lee started getting other multilingual friends to help out, and thus his idea for setting up a firm was born.
28. What do most professional translation firms generally do? A. They ask foreign language teachers for help. B. They hire someone to do translation technically. C. They find native speakers of the target language. D. They operate with other translation institutions.
29. From the third paragraph, we may learn that Mr. Lee ________ A. benefited a lot from his overseas experience. B. had a hard life and felt lonely when young. C. learned a lot of languages from his parents. D. lived in the US longer than in the UK
30. How does Mr. Lee come up with the idea of founding a company? A. It is simply out of his interest in translation. B. It is inspired by helping friends with translation. C. It occurs to him after his research into the market. D. It is learned from his father who owns a global firm. 31. Which of the following words can best describe Mr. Lee?
A. Devoted and considerate. B. Determined and intelligent. C. Persistent and optimistic. D. Helpful and creative.
D
With more and more people having a longer life in the world, people are eager to know what to do and what not to do.
It is well known that women live longer on average than men—and some researchers claim this is because they are better at visiting their doctor and voicing any concerns about their health, rather than sticking their heads in the sand.
Not smoking, not being overweight and taking sufficient exercise keep your heart and blood vessels healthy for longer— and all that is good for your brain, too.
One popular theory about aging concerns the damage caused to the tissues in our bodies, by “free radicals（自由基）”. Our immune system makes these free radicals ineffective using antioxidant （抗氧化剂） nutrients such as vitamins A and C, and the theory is that a diet high in such “antioxidant” will help you hold back the years. In fact, though there is no doubt among scientists that free radicals harm
湖南省益阳市箴言中学2017届高三英语下学期期中（11月）试题
