扬大附中东部分校 2008-2009 学年度第一学期高三年级
第三次阶段性考试英语试题
(考试时间: 120 分钟 分值: 120 分)
命题人： 尹慕峰
审核人： 高宝珠
注意事项：
1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、试题科目用 2B 铅笔涂写在答题卡上。
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上。
第 I 卷（共 85 分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 20 分）
第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 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。
1. What is the man?
A. A worker. B. A driver. C. A teacher.
2. What is the man going to do this weekend?
A. Meet a friend of his. B. Go to Beijing. C. Hold a birthday party.
3. What did the woman buy her husband for Christmas?
A. A book. B. A watch. C. A record.
4. How does the woman feel?
A. Surprised. B. Light-hearted. C. Worried.
5. What does the man tell the woman?
A. She is mistaken. B. His dog likes chasing cats.
C. There is another cat that looks like hers.
第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 5 分，满分 15 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 至 8 题。
6. What is the woman going to do?
A. Buy a birthday gift for David.
B. Buy a pet for her husband. C. Buy some animals for the zoo.
7. How many kinds of animals are mentioned in the conversation?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.
8. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man likes keeping rabbits. B. The man built a zoo. C. The man doesn’t like
snakes.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 9 至 11 题。
9. How many goals did Jack’s team score?
A. 3. B. 2. C. 1.
10. What do we know about the woman?
A. She watched the game on TV. B. She knew about the game over the radio.
C. She watched the match at the stadium.
11. When is Jack’s next match?
A. On Friday this week. B. On Saturday this week. C. On Friday next week.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题。
12. What are the two speakers talking about?
A. A flight timetable. B. Hiring a taxi. C. The way to Union Street.
13. Where is the woman going on Saturday?
A. Garden Hotel. B. The airport. C. The railway station.
14. What time does the woman want to leave?
A. At 7:00 am. B. At 7:00 pm. C. At 5:00 pm.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至 17 题。
15. Who is the man going to meet tomorrow?
A. Dave. B. Tony. C. His girlfriend.
16. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Close friend. C. Boss and secretary.
17. Where are the two speakers going to have dinner?
A. In a restaurant. B. In the woman’s house. C. At the man’s home.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18. What is the topic of this passage?
A. China’s education. B. China’s history. C. China’s development.
19. How many school-age children have dropped out of school?
A. Over 2 million. B. Over 4 million. C. Over 12 million.
20. What is the biggest problem in helping the poor children?
A. Lacking love from society. B. Lacking money. C. Parents’ ignorance.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）
第一节：单项填空（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. A person who has _____ final say in an international company is usually _____ influential
one.
A. a; the B. the; an C. the; the D. a; an
22. West of our school lies our stadium, in all about 5000 people.
A. seating B. seated C. which sits D. sitting
23. ---Has Tom finished his job yet?
---I have no idea of it; he _____ it this morning.
A. did B. was doing C. has been doing D. had been doing
24. She didn’t recognize the man who hit her because she could only ______a dark shape
moving towards her.
A. make out B. turn out C. set out D. bring out
25. On stepping into the room this morning I was astonished to find the floor covered
with______ looked like tiny insects.
A. that B. something C. what D. anything
26. ---Did your father come back early last night?
---Yes. It was not yet eight o’clock ______ he arrived home.
A. before B. when C. that D. until
27. ---Ann looks hot and dry.
---So you if you had a high fever.
A. do B. are C. will D. would
28. Although this movie is based on past events, it is not _________ accurate．
A. currently B. perfectly C. historically D. extremely
29. The human body is composed of organs, each a definite job to do.
A. have B. to have C. has D. having
30. _____in a science competition, the three students were awarded scholarships totaling $ 21,
000.
A. To be judged the best B. Judged the best
C. Having judged the best D. Judging the best
31.—Do you still remember when we went to Nanjing?
---I can’t remember now but _____ sometime last summer?
A. might it be B. could it be
C. could it have been D. should it have been
32.- I’m in search of a man to do the job, _______ always trying his best and never giving up in
time of difficulty.
A. someone B. the one C. that D. who
33. ---Could we finish the project according to the schedule?
---I doubt that. The problem remains ________ we can get financial aid within this week.
A. that B. how C. if D. when
34.---You may find the key to the maths problem on page 107 .
---Ah, it’s so simple . I wonder why I of that .
A. hadn’t thought B. haven’t thought
C. didn’t think D. wasn’t thinking
35.—Excuse me, is the shop open around the clock?
--- _________. Only from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
A. I’m afraid not B.I’m not sure
C. Well, it depends D. That’s right
第二节：完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 l 分，满分 20 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 36－55 各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D）中，
选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Papaderos, what is the meaning of ___36___?” I asked the aging German professor of
Greek culture and history. The usual laughter ___37__, and people stirred（搅动）to go.
Papaderos __38__ his hand, stilled the room, and looked at me for a long time, asking with his
eyes if I was __39__ and seeing from my eyes that I was.
“I will answer your question.” Taking his ___40___ out of his hip pocket, he dished into a
leather billfold（钱包） and brought out a very small __41__ mirror, about the size of a quarter.
And what he said went like this:” When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor
and we lived in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the __42__ piece of a mirror. A
German motorcycle had been wrecked（破坏） in that place.
“I tried to find all the pieces and __43__ them together, but it was not possible, so I kept only
the largest piece.This one. And by __44__ it on a stone I made it round. And I began to play with
it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact __45__ I could reflect light into dark places where
the sin would __46__ shine --- in deep holes and crevices and dark clothes. It became a game for
me to get light into the most __47__ places I could find.
I kept the little mirror, and as I went about my grew up, I __48__ take it out in idle moments
and continue the __49__ of the game. As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not
__50__ a child’s game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life. I __51__ understand
that I am not the light or the source of light. But light-truth, understanding, knowledge --- is
there, and it will only __52__in many dark places if I reflect it.
“I am a fragment(碎片) of a mirror whose design and shape I do not know. __53__, with
what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world --- into the black places in the
__54__ of men--- and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do
likewise. This is what I AM __55__. This is the meaning of my life.
36.A. mirror B. life C. light D. study
37.A. followed B. continued C. appeared D. occurred
38.A. rose up B. made up C. showed up D. held up
39.A. funny B. ridiculous C. serious D. embarrassed
40.A. wallet B. money C. paper D. toy
41.A. sharp B. round C. expensive D. bright
42. A. crashed B. dotted C. separated D. broken
43. A. get B. put C. mix D. collect
44. A. cutting B. hitting C. scratching D. knowing
45. A. that B. what C. which D. whether
46. A. always B. usually C. sometimes D. never
47. A. remote B. inaccessible C. secret D. adventure
48. A. would B. could C. should D. might
49. A. knowledge B. competition C. strengths D. challenge
50. A. nearly B. hardly C. just D. only
51. A. went to B. came to C. referred to D. directed to
52. A. shine B. light C. appear D. exist
53. A. But B. Nevertheless C. Furthermore D. consequently
54. A. hearts B. eyes C. senses D. thoughts
55. A. for B. in C. through D. about
第三部分：阅读理解（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。
A.
After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, Earthquake had good news to
report: The damage and death toll could have been much worse.
More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar
intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed 25,000 victims.
Injuries and deaths were relatively less in Los Angeles because the quake occurred a 4:31
a.m. on a holiday, when traffic was light on the city’s high ways. In addition, changes made to
the construction codes Los Angeles during the last 20 years have strengthened the city’s
buildings and highways, making them more resistance to quakes.
Despite the good mews, civil engineers aren’t resting on their successes. Pinned to their
drawing boards are blueprints for improved quake-resistant buildings. The new designs should
offer even greater security to cities where earthquakes often take place.
In the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel
and wood, that bend without breaking. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and
insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground
vibrations. The most recent designs give buildings brains as well as concrete and steel supports.
Called smart buildings, the structures respond like living organisms to an earthquake’s vibrations.
When the ground shakes and the building tips forward, the computer would force the building to
shift in the opposite direction.
The new smart structures could be very expensive to build. However, they would save many
lives and would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes.
56. One reason why the loss of lives in the Los Angeles earthquake was comparatively low is
that _____.
A. new computers had been installed in the buildings.
B. it occurred in the residential areas rather than on the highways.
C. large numbers of Los Angles residents had gone for a holiday.
D. improvements had been made in the construction of buildings and highways.
57. The smart buildings discussed in the passage _____.
A. would cause serious financial problems
B. would be worthwhile though costly.
C. would increase the complexity of architectural design.
D. can reduce the ground vibrations caused by earthquakes.
58. It can inferred from the passage that in minimizing the damage caused by earthquakes
attention should be focused on _____.
A. the increasing use of rubber and steel in capital construction.
B. the development of flexible building materials
C. the reduction of the impact of ground vibrations.
D. early forecasts of earthquakes.
59. The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to _____.
A. compare the consequences of the earthquakes that occurred in the U.S.
B. encourage civil engineers to make more extensive use of computers.
C. outline the history of the development of quake-resistant building materials.
D. report new developments in constructing quake-resistant buildings.
B
A few days ago I asked my son’s governess (女家庭教师) Julia to come into my study. “Be
seated, Julia,” I said, “Let’s settle our accounts, I guess you most likely need some money, but
maybe you’re too polite to mention it. Now then, we agree on thirty dollars a month …”
“Forty.”
“No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you’ve been here
two months, so …”
“Two months and five days.”
“Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming
to you. Take off nine Sundays … you know you didn’t work with Tom on Sundays, you only
took walks And three holidays …” Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but
not a word.
“Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no
lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave
you permission not to work after lunch, Twelve and seven-nineteen. Take nineteen off … that
leaves. Hmm … forty one dollars. Correct?”
Julia’s left eye reddened with tears. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew her
nose, but still not a word.
“Around New Year’s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost
more, it was a treasure of the family, but forget it. Then, due to your neglect, Tom climbed a tree
and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also duo to your carelessness, the maid stole Dick’s shoes.
You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The
tenth of January I gave ten dollars.”
“You didn’t.” sobbed Julia.
“But I made a note of it.”
“Well … if you say so.”
“Take twenty seven from forty one --- that leaves fourteen.”
Her eyes were filled with tears. Poor girl!
“Only once was I given any money,” she whispered, her voice trembling, “and that was by
your wife. Three dollars, nothing more.”
“Really” You see now, and I didn’t know that! Take three form fourteen --- leaves eleven.
Here’s your money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is!”
I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
“Merci (法语：谢谢) ，”she whispered.
I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. “For what, this
‘merci’?” I asked.
“For the money.”
“But you know I’ve cheated you --- robbed you! I have actually stolen from you! Why this
‘merci’?”
“In my other places they didn’t give me anything at all.”
“They didn’t give you anything” No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just
to teach you … I am going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope … Is
it really possible to be so spineless (懦弱)？Why didn’t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it
possible in this world to be without teeth and claws --- to be such a fool?”
Embarrassed, she smiled. And I could read her expression, “It is possible.”
I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and gave her the eighty dollars. She murmured her
little “merci” several times and went out. I looked after her and thought, “How easy it is to
crush the weak in this world!”
60. While talking to Julia, the writer expected her _____.
A. to make a protest B. to show gratitude
C. to be obedient D. to give an explanation
61. What kind of person was Julia according to the passage?
A. She became angry in face of injustice
B. She was always reedy to accept injustice.
C. She was too shy to express her anger.
D. She was reluctant to express herself.
62. At the end of the story, the writer said, “ How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!” to
show ____.
A. his understanding of Julia’s anxiety
B. his worry about Julia’s future
C. his concern on the living condition of working-class people
D. his sympathy for the mental state of those exploited
63. From the text, we can see the writer is ____.
A. aggressive B. cruel C. kind D. strict
C
Google Works Miracles
Google (www.google.com) is a daily miracle to millions of people, If the Internet had only
this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. It is the most
popular search engine on the wed with a 54 percent market share, ahead of Yahoo! You type
almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it had come
up with hundreds of references. It knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.
Yahoo! Becomes giant
Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) was the first wonder of the wed, and in many respects, it still is. It
started in January 1994 when two California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David filo,
started compiling a detabase of links, mainly for their personal use. But well before the end of
the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today. In the past seven years, Yahoo
had grown rapidly, partly through a long string of buys. Yahoo now offers almost everything you
could want: emails, instant messages, chats, clubs, photo albums, and a lot more.
EBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell
eBay (www.ebay.com), which deals with online trading and shopping services worldwide. It
has, for instance, opened up a global marketplace in which people from Beijing, San Francisco,
or Moscow can bid against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London. The
company’s online service permits sellers to list items that is available online seven days a week.
Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience
Amazon (www.amazon.com) started out as online bookstore, constantly putting up new book
titles it offered for sale. In the late 1990s, Amazon and more than four million titles after adding
CDs, videos, DVDs and games. It continued to add new lines of business including toys,
computer software, electronics. Like MP3 players, power toll, home improvement products and
online sales, For regular users, Amazon has made itself the shortest possible path between
wanting and buying.
64. What is Google used mainly for?
A. Commanding the gateway B. Searching for information
C. Storing reference books D. Providing extra space
65.What goods did Amazon sell when it started its business?
A. Videos and games B. Different books
C. Power tools D. MP3 players
66.Which of the following i8s true?
A. Buying and selling can only be done through Amazon.
B. If you feed in something unclear, Google will refuse to do the searching
C. Yahoo owns more market shares than any other companies on the web.
D. EBay company’s online service is always there for its users.
D
People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current
issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more
severe and had a stronger effect on their health.
From this, researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are
regular. Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and
how well you will cope with them.
The research team interviewed a national sample of 1, 031 adults daily for eight days about
their stress level and health. People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent
of the study days, people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and
people with college degrees reported stress 44 percent of the time.
“Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have
downward turns in their health.” leading researcher Dr. Joseph Grzywacz of Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement. “The downward turns in health
were connected with daily stressors (紧张刺激物), and the effect of daily stressors on their
health is much more damaging for the less advantaged. ”
“If something happens every day, maybe it’s not seen as a stressor.” Grzywacz says.
“Maybe it is just life.”
67.Stress level is closely related to .
A. family size B. social position C. body weight D. work experience
68.Which group reported the biggest number of stressful days?
A. People without any education. B. People without high school degrees.
C. People with high school degrees. D. People with college degrees.
69.The less advantaged people are, the greater .
A. the effect of stress on their health is B. the effect of education on their health is
C. the level of their education is D. the degree of their health concern is
70.Less-educated people report fewer days of stress possibly because .
A. they don’t want to tell truth B. they don’t want to face the truth
C. stress is too common a factor in their life D. heir stress is much greater
第二卷(共 35 分)
第四部分 任务型阅读 (共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)
阅读下面的短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：
每空一词。
Earthquakes have threatened man since the day he first walked on the earth. Few things
strike fear in our shared minds as when the ground beneath our very feet suddenly erupts into
violent motion, raising mountains and flattening buildings in an instant. Fear of earthquakes is
practically universal.
For fire and rescue professionals who know better through hard experience and
observation, one of the most disturbing factors about earthquakes is the general reaction of the
public, the media, and even some emergency professionals who exclaim ‘miracle’ every time
people survive after being trapped for several days in collapsed buildings after disastrous
earthquakes.
Naturally, the average person may see large buildings collapsed into piles of broken stones
and bricks, often with layers of floors pancaked down upon one another, and automatically
assume that no one could have survived. This is why the rescue of trapped victims from such
buildings---sometimes many days later---is almost universally characterized as ‘miraculous’.
The fact is most people don’t expect survivors after the first day.
But to the trained eye of firefighters and members of urban search and rescue teams, it
should be assumed that many collapsed buildings will be honeycombed with vacant spaces. The
evidence to support this view is indisputable(无可争议的): in Mexico City, many people alive,
including babies in a collapsed hospital, were rescued alive after more than a week of being
trapped. Following the 1988 Armenia quake survivors were rescued after nine days. One man
lived after being helped out with a broken ankle and dehydration(脱水) following thirteen days
of
being trapped in a hotel collapsed by the 1992 Philippines quake.
The lesson here is this: After a disastrous earthquake, decision-makers should be cautioned
against stopping or delaying search and rescue operations until all vacant spaces have been
checked, until the selective debris(残骸) removal stage of collapse rescue has been completed,
and until all hope of survival has passed.
Title :Long Term Survival in Collapsed Buildings after (71)__________
(72)__________
feeling about
earthquakes
Few things strike fear in our shared minds as earthquakes.
Knowledge of
surviving earthquakes
The public, the media, and even some emergency professionals
are not (73)______ of people’s survival after being (74)______for
several days.
Average people don’t have much (75)______ of a person living
through the earthquake, thinking it as a (76)______.
The (77)______ fire fighters and rescue members assume it
possible for people to remain (78)______after a long-time trap, which
has been proved by two earthquakes in Mexico and Armenia.
The (79)_______ to be
learned
Decision makers should be (80)______ about whether to
continue or stop rescue work.
第五部分 书面表达（满分 25 分）
为了进一步改善民生，构建和谐社会，政府将就人们所关心的、与人们利益相关的问
题采取一系列措施。请根据以下表格内容，写一篇英语短文，并简要谈谈自己的想法。
涉及的方面 采取的措施
就 业
1、提供更多的就业机会
2、鼓励人们自主创业
3、提供培训和及时帮助
教 育 1、加大资金投放
2、全面实行九年制义务教育
社会保障 让更多的人享有养老金、医疗保险等
环 保 防治污染
你的想法 ……
注意：1、行文应连贯流畅, 内容要充实完整, 可适当发挥;
2、词数: 150 左右。（开头已经给出，不计入总词数）
3、卷面占 3 分
参考词汇：
民生: the people’s livelihood 义务教育: compulsory education 养老金: pension
To build a harmonious society, the government is taking a series of measures.________
__________ __________
参考答案
第一部分：听力（共 20 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
1—10 CABCA ABCAC 11—20 CBBAB BCAAB
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 35 分）
第一节：单项填空（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
21-25：BABAC 26-30：BDCDB 31-35：CABCA
第二节：完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
36-40：BADCA 41-45：BDBCA 46-50：DBADC 51-55：BABAD
第三部分：阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
56-59 DBCD 60-63 ABDC 64-66ABA 67-70 BDAC
第四部分：写作(共两节，满分 35 分)
第一节 任务型阅读(共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)
71. Earthquakes 72. Universal/Common 73. confident 74. trapped 75. expectation
76. miracle 77. trained 78. alive 79. lesson 80. cautious/careful
第二节 书面表达(满分 25 分)
One Possible Version:
To build a harmonious society, the government is taking a series of measures. As is known
to all, increased efforts to improve the people’s livelihood will start with the most realistic
problems, which people are concerned about most and are most directly related to people’s
interests.
To promote employment, the government will provide more opportunities, and encourage
people to start their own businesses. Training for jobs and timely help will also be provided for
jobless families. Besides, the government will increase investment in education, and meanwhile
the nine-year compulsory education will be carried out all over the country. Much to people’s
delight, the government will try its best to improve the social security system, with more
residents to be covered by pension and medical insurance. What’s more, more efforts will be
made to stop pollution, so people can enjoy clean water and fresh air.
Personally, if all these measures are to be taken effectively, people will enjoy a happier
life.
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