1、 福建省厦门市2011届高三（上）期末质量检查英 语 试 题本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项： 1答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上，请按照题号在各题的答题区域（黑色线框）内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。 3选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号；非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的黑色中性（签字）笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。 4保持答题卡卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一卷（选择题共1 1
2、5分）第一部分：听力（共两节，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（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秒钟的时问来同答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1Where does the conversation most probably take place?AAt a clinic. BAt a food shop. CAt a restaurant.2Why cant th
3、e woman go to see the movie?AShed rather stay at homeBShell take an exam on FridayCShell be busy with her studies3What probable relation is the woman to the man?AHis secretaryBHis boss CHis customer4What do we learn from the conversation?AThe weather is getting cold nowBThe woman is sensitive to wea
4、ther changesCThe man didnt expect it to be cold so quickly5How does the man feel about the interview?AHe is confident BHe is worried CHe is bored第二节 （共15小题；每题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，每小题将给出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
5、、7题。6Where does the woman want to go?ATo Xiamen BTo Shanghai CTo Nanjing7What is the price of a single ticket from Xiamen to Shanghai?A 43 yuan. B357 yuan C400 yuan听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8What is the womans problem?AShe reads slowBShe cant read onlineCShe wants to know the end of the book9What is the woman
6、 likely to do next?ATake an online courseBBuy a book on fast readingCAsk some teachers for help10What can we learn about the man?AHe used to be a fast readerBHe has set up the great websiteCHe has offered a useful suggestion听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11What is the man actually working as in the office now?AA
7、typist BA reporter C A technician12Why cant the man turn to his manager for help?AHe is not allowed to BHe is too shy to talkCThe manager is too busy13What does the woman advise the man to do?AOpen a computer centreBLeave and find a new jobCGo on working in the centre听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14Where is the
8、conversation most probably taking place?AIn a college bookstoreBIn the student buildingCIn the classroom15Which class are the two speakers taking together?AChemistry BEnglish CAmerican History16What do we know about Professor Smith?AHer students like herBShes the author of American HistoryCShe lives
9、 in the same building as the two speakers听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17When does the broadcasting take place?AIn the morning BIn the afternoon CIn the evening18What does the speaker think is the best show?AMovie Stars BThe News CThe Childrens Room19When does the show Nighttime start?A9: 30 pm BI 1:30 am C11:3
10、0 pm20From which channel can people learn about the world?AChannel 3 BChannel 6 CChannel 9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，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。21Where can we go for our winter vacation?_: Shanghai, Beijing, wherever you likeAYou got it BYou name it CYou made
11、 it DYou deserve it22Many countries are increasing their use of natural gas, wind and other forms of_Apower Bforce Cenergy Dstrength23Do you know _ the 2011 Xiamen International Marathon was held?On January 2Awhen it was that Bwhen was it that Cwhat it was that Dwhat was it that24_ with any common s
12、ense can tell the difference between the twoAWho BWhoever CAnyone DThat25Jane, Peter has got a well-paid job in a foreign companyYou mean he is _ than he used to beAbadly off Bwell off Cworse off Dbetter off26Without Sir Tim, the father of the www, keeping up with the latest _ so convenientAwould be
13、 Bwouldnt be Cwould have been Dwouldnt have been27You all like your English teacher?Yeah, she devotes herself_ to teaching and it earns her a good reputationAoriginally Bextremely Cobviously Dentirely28He was admitted into Beijing University and years of his hard work _ eventuallyApaid off Bwere pai
14、d off Chad paid off Dhad been paid off29Children should be instructed to put things _ they belong in their early childhoodAwhere Bin which Cto which Dwhat30The boy was too young to write, but he sent his father a letter and told him what had happened drawing picturesAwith Bin Cto Dby31Hearing the do
15、g barking fiercely, away .Athe thief fledBwas the thief fleeingCthe thief was fleeingDfled the thief32Does your Dad quit smoking, Jenny?Yes, but he for almost ten years.AsmokedBwas smokingChas smokedDhad smoked33Catherine intended to make fun of others, only .AfoolingBbeing fooledCto be fooledDto fo
16、ol34Many children, parents are away working in big cities, should be taken good care of.AtheirBwhoseCof whomDwith whose35The government spokesman has to his words before responding to reporters.ApassBweighCcoverDexpress第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从3655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
17、上涂黑。You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long timeThen the 36 rings, you say hello, and the drama startsThe person on the other 37 has a depressing （令人沮丧的） tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how 38 his morn
18、ing is and that there is nothing to look forward toAre you 39 in a wonderful mood? Impossible!Communicating with negative people can wash out your 40 It may not change what you think, but doing this long enough with them will make you 41 depressed for a moment or a long timeLife brings ups and downs
19、, but some people 42 the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offerThey only feel glad when they make others feel 43 No wonder they can hardly win others pity or respectWhen you 44 with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted 45 the dagger （匕首） o
20、f a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that brings you 46 Sometimes we have no 47 but to communicate with negative peopleThis could be a co-worker, or a relativeIn this case, 48 what needs to be said as little as possibleSometimes it feels good to 49 your anger back to the neg
21、ative person, 50 all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they wont feel 51 of themselvesabout thatNegativity often 52 happiness without even being realizedThe negative words of another at the start of the day can attach to you throughout the 53 of your day, which makes you feel
22、 bad and 54 your happinessLife is too 55 to feel negativeStay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible36AbellBdoor CtelephoneDvoice37AwayBcorner CpartDend38AterribleBcheerful CamazingDexciting39AalmostBstill CneverDever40AbeliefBrelief CsadnessDhappiness41AlookBremain CfeelDSound42Aare stuc
23、k inBare accused of Care pleased with Dare concerned about43AgladBbad CsorryDcontent44AquarrelBfight CworkDcommunicate45ASinceBBefore CWhenDAfter46AdownBup CinDout47AneedBchoice CchanceDhope48AdescribeBsay CmindDwrite49Afind outBmake out Clet outDtry out50AbutBor CforDand51AashamedBafraid CtiredDpro
24、ud52AaffectsBgains CbuysDdecides53AlengthBrest CbeginningDmiddle54AsharesBhides CsellsDsteals55AlongBshort CeasyDuncertain第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40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。AA group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor
25、Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking and cheap, some exquisite and expensive-tel
26、ling them to help themselves to the coffeeWhen all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap onesWhile it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the sour
27、ce of your problems and stressBe assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffeeIn most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drinkWhat all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cupsAnd then you began eyeing each
28、others cupsNow consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cupsThey are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we liveSometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the cof
29、fee God has provided usGod brews the coffee, not the cupsEnjoy your coffee!The happiest people dont have the best of everythingThey just make the best of everythingLive simplyLove generouslyCare deeplySpeak kindlyLeave the rest to God56What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 3 refer to?Athe or
30、dinary-looking cup Bthe nice-looking cupCthe coffee of good quality Dthe coffee of poor quality57Why did the professor offer his students coffee with varieties of cups?ATo give his students many more choicesBTo teach his students how to enjoy coffeeCTo show the students his collection of cups DTo te
31、ll his students the right attitude to life58According to the professor, the happiest people are the ones who _Aget the best type of coffee cups Bmake the best of what they haveChave a wide range of coffee cups Dcare about social status and wealth59The best title for the passage would be _AGods Coffe
32、e BThe Pressure of LifeCThe Happiest People DProfessors Coffee CupsBA new study done by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario （HEQCO） shows that it doesnt make much of a difference that parents reward their children with cash for their better marks.Many parents have offered cash to their c
33、hildren in the hope that it would improve marks and possibly raise their childrens interest in achieving higher marksThe study, conducted by researchers from the University of Toronto （UT） and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology （MIT） to learn more about the potential for financial encourageme
34、nt as motivation for improved marks, involved first and second year students receiving financial aid in 2008-2009 at the University of Toronto ScarboroughThe top students participating in the study who said they were very concerned about having enough money to complete their degrees were to receive
35、$100 for getting a grade of 70 per cent for each one-semester course, plus $20 for every percentage point beyond thatIt was imaginable that a student could earn as much as $700 for achieving 100 percent in a courseHarvey Weingarten, president and CEO of HEQCO said, In its efforts to help disadvantag
36、ed students by exploring the idea of paying them to attend school, the Toronto District School Board （TDSB） is asking the same question many other districts are asking about how to improve student participation and performanceOur study and others to date indicate that this practice has little effect
37、 if any in those situations where it has been testedThe authors of the study suggest that ineffective study habits may be a barrier to academic achievement and that the real problem may be more a lack of academic preparation than a lack of effort or motivationThey note that the availability of peer
38、（同伴） advising does not appear tohave helped greatlyThey conclude that other potential avenues to improving performance, or other approaches of teaching, are needed at the high school and postsecondary levels60If a student gets a grade of 85% in a course, he will get _A$100 B$300 C$400 D$70061The und
39、erlined words this practice in Paragraph 5 refer to _Aimproving student participationBseeking help from different districtsCpaying disadvantaged students to attend schoolDtesting student performance in the same district62The real problem with student participation and performance is most probably a
40、lack of_Apeer advising Beffort or motivationCteaching methods Dacademic preparation63The word avenues underlined in the last paragraph most probably means _Astreets in a town or city Bwide straight roadsCways of achieving something Dbroad paths between treess64What is mainly discussed in the passage
41、?AMany parents have offered cash to their childrenBMany first and second year students receive financial aidCIneffective study habits lead to poor academic achievementDRewarding students with cash for good grades has little effectC65How many vacancies are available according to this ad?A2 B4 C6 D866
42、The duty of the engineers to be employed is _Aselling current digital compression equipmentBproducing equipment for TV and data broadcastingCproviding SNG Up-link Operations service deliveryDmanaging SIS Live for Mobile Satellite Communication67If you want to apply for the vacancies, you are require
43、d to _Ahave some related work experienceBhave a BTEC in Electronic EngineeringChold a clean C 1category license for 2 yearsDlive beyond 45 minutes of the appointed baseDThere used to be four common life phases （阶段） : childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old ageNow, there are at least six: childhood
44、, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old ageOf the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthoodThey see that people in this age bracket are delaying marriageTheyre delaying having childrenTheyre delayi
45、ng permanent employmentPeople who were born before 1964 tend to define adulthood by certain achievements ?moving away from home, becoming financially independent, getting married and starting a familyIn 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds had achieved these thingsBy 2000, fewer than 40 percent
46、of 30-year-olds had done the sameYet with a little imagination its possible even for baby boomers （生育高峰期的人） to understand what its like to be in the middle of the odyssey yearsIts possible to see that thisperiod is a sensible response to modern conditionsTwo of the American best social scientists ha
47、ve been trying to understand this new life periodThrough their work, youcan see uncertainty that now characterizes this stageYoung people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Robert Wuthnow of Princeton observes, but then graduate into a world of uncertaintyOld success recipes dont apply, new s
48、ystems have not been established and everything seems to give way to a less permanent version of itselfDating gives way to Facebook and hooking upNewspaper reading gives way to bloggingFor example, in 1970, 49 percent of adults in their 20s read a daily paper; now its at 21 percentThe job market is
49、changeableGraduating seniors dont find corporations offering them jobs that will guide them all the way to retirementInstead they find a vast menu of information economy options, few of which they have heard of or prepared for68Which is the correct order of the following life phases?achildhood badol
50、escence cadulthood dold age eodyssey factive retirementAa-b-c-d-e-fBa-b-e-c-f-dCa-b-e-d-f-c Da-b-c-e-d-f69By 2000, most of the 30-year-olds _Awere financially dependentBgot well-prepared for the employmentCgot married early and started their familyDpreferred blog writing to newspaper reading70We can
51、 learn from Paragraph 5 that young people ?Afavor the world full of changes Bgrew up in unstable childhoodsCfeel uneasy about the present situation Dmay refer to the experience of their seniors71The passage is probably followed by a paragraph about the ?Aconcerns about active retirement phaseBreason
52、s for the birth of the odyssey phaseCinfluences of the odyssey phase on the societyDsituations of active retirement in other countriesEFour previously plentiful species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported Monday in a study confirming that the agricultura
53、lly important bees are being affected worldwideThey documented a 96 percent fall in the numbers of the four species, and said their geographic range had shrunk by as much as 87 percentWe provide strong evidence that multiple Bombus species have experienced sharp population declines at the national l
54、evel, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calling the findings alarmingThese are one of the most important pollinators （传粉者） of native plants, Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, Urbana, who led the study, said in a telephone interviewIn recent
55、years, experts have documented a disappearance of bumblebees in what is widely called habitat （栖息地） loss, blamed on many factors including parasites, fungi, stress, pesticidesand virusesBut most studies have focused on honeybeesBumblebees are also important pollinators, Cameron said, but are far les
56、s studied Bumblebees pollinate tomatoes, blueberries and cranberries, she notedThey land on a flower and they have this behavior called buzz pollination that enables them to cause pollen （花粉） to fly off the flowerThis is the way to pollinate tomatoes, Cameron said - although smaller beescan have the
57、 same effect if enough gather on a single flowerCamerons team did a three-year study of 382 sites in 40 states and also looked at more than 73,000 museum recordsWe show that the four species have dropped by up to 96 percent and that their surveyed geographic ranges have shrunk by 23 percent to 87 pe
58、rcent, they wroteWhile no crops are in immediate danger, the results show that experts need to pay attention, Cameron saidPollinators such as bees and bats often have specific tongue lengths and pollination behaviors that have changed along with the species of plants they pollinateBumblebees can fly
59、 in colder weather than other species, and are key to pollinating native species in very cold areas, Cameron saidThis is a wake-up call that bumblebee species are dropping not only in Europe, not only in Asia, but also in North America she said72Bumblebee is an insect _Awhich feeds on tomatoes Bwhic
60、h is as big as a honeybeeCwhose tongue is as long as a bats Dwhich promotes the growth of tomatoes73Why do bumblebees gradually disappear?APeople are killing them BScientists have ignored themCHoney bees have replaced bumblebeesDBumblebees habitat is being destroyed74Which of the following plants is
61、 native to America?ATomatoes and pears BCranberries and orangesCBlueberries and grapes DTomatoes and blueberries75It can be concluded from the passage that _Amore attention will be paid to bumblebee study in AmericaBbumblebees will not be affected by the plants they pollinateCgreat loss has been fou
62、nd in crops with bumblebees dying outDmore bumblebees will soon be found pollinating plants across America第二卷（非选择题 共35分）注意事项：用0.5毫米黑色签字笔在答题卡上作答。在试卷上作答，答案无效。第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。Dear Mark,
63、How are you getting along in hospital? Its a pity you cantgo _ the lessons with usWe will take the English 76_final exam next _（星期四）, which is also the last day 77_of the exam week_ is different about the exam is that 78_it c_ of two parts, that is, answering five questions 79_and writing a composit
64、ionWe are s_ to review our 80_ _mid-term exam papers, textbooks and class _（笔记） to 81_prepare for itThe grade of the school year includes _ 82_parts, with the final exam _ up 55%, the mid-term 25% 83_and the research work 20%Please feel f_ to contact me 84_if you still have a_ unclearI hope youll re
65、cover soon 85_and get a good grade in the examYours truly,Li Ming第二节 书面表达（满分25分）自2010年9月起，厦门开始实行高二年级周六禁止补课的规定。某英文报社为此向全市高二学生征文。假如你是李华，请将你对此事的想法以及周末安排撰稿给报社。注意：1文中不能出现考生的具体信息；2请根据下图提示，选择其中一个观点；3词数：130左右：开头已给出，不计入总词数。Dear editor,This letter is in response to the ban on classes for seniors at weekends in Xiamen.