2019学年第二学期“山水联盟”返校考试
高三年级英语学科 试题
第I卷
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 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。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 ask the man to do? A. To repeat what he said. 2. Where are the speakers? A. At office.
B. At a restaurant.
C. At a grocery store.
B. To call her back soon.
C. To stop listening to music.
3. What kind of homework does the man give his students? A. Reading.
B. Using the Internet.
C. Interviewing someone.
4. How does the woman feel about Mrs. Dunkirk? A. She is tough.
B. She is humorous.
C. She gives good advice.
5. Why doesn’t the man want to go to book club tonight? A. He is running late.
B. He didn’t read the book.
C. He usually misses them.
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。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 are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Eating.
B. Driving.
C. Family.
7. Where are the speakers going? A. To the beach.
B. To the man’s house.
C. To a car repair shop.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What day is it today? A. Friday.
B. Saturday. C. Sunday.
第 1 页 共 15 页
9. How will the woman deal with the sink until Monday? A. She will fix it herself. B. She will put a basin under it. C. She will wait for the man. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What did the man do last weekend? A. He went ice-skating. B. He played hockey. C. He went to the movies.
11. What do the speakers decide to do this weekend? A. Visit the girl’s father. B. Watch a hockey game.
C. Join a professional hockey team.
12. What’s the relationship between the speakers? A. Friends.
B. Coach and player. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How does the man probably sound in the beginning? A. A bit angry.
B. Very excited.
14. How many people will go to Shanghai? A. Only one.
B. Two.
15. What is the man worried about? A. The environment on the train. B. The cost of the business trip. C. The public transportation in Shanghai. 16. What does the man want to do at the end? A. Leave early.
B. Reserve a hotel room. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. When will the reunion take place? A. In January.
B. In March.
第 2 页 共 15 页
C. Brother and sister.
C. A little surprised.
C. Three.
C. Talk to his assistant.C. In June.
18. If you attended with a guest, how much would you pay in total? A. $10.
B. $20.
C. $40.
19. Where is the reunion taking place? A. In the front office.
B. In the cafeteria.
C. In the parking lot.
20. If you call Rob Jones, what are you most likely to do? A. Volunteer.
B. Attend the reunion.
C. Call to pay for parking.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Sandy, a young Chinese Singaporean, is fluent in English and Mandarin, the official “mother tongue” of Chinese Singaporeans. Her grandmother spoke little of either.
Their language barrier was the product of decades of linguistic(语言的) engineering. English has been the language of teaching in nearly all schools since 1987, to promote Singapore’s global competitive advantage. But, depending on ethnicity(种族特点), pupils study a second language—typically Mandarin, Malay or Tamil. In the case of Mandarin, its acquisition has been promoted by the government’s annual “Speak Mandarin Campaign”, started in 1979.
So dialects — Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka — were disparaged. In the early 1980s television and radio programming in these languages almost disappeared. By the campaign’s own standard, the success is striking. The use of Chinese dialects at home has fallen down from 76% of Chinese households in 1980 to 16% in 2015. Over the same period, the use of Mandarin rose, from 13% of Chinese households to 46%.
In 2015, the 50th anniversary of the nation’s founding was accompanied by an rush of sentimentality over Singapore’s roots. These days officials are a bit readier to tolerate Singapore’s linguistic variety. Meanwhile, younger Singaporeans are embracing former mother tongues. Ski Yeo and Eugene Lee were motivated to found LearnDialect.sg upon seeing an elderly Cantonese-speaker in a nursing home struggle to communicate that she was cold. Health workers have signed up to their courses, while others want to say the right things at family gatherings over the lunar new year. 21. What can we know about the Speak Mandarin Campaign? A. It made Mandarin an official language in 1987. B. Mandarin was greatly strengthened as a result of it. C. It was held every other year since 1979.
D. It makes no difference to young people in Singapore.
22. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “disparaged” in the third paragraph?
第 3 页 共 15 页
A. Strengthened. B. Praised. C. Undervalued. D. Well-understood.
23. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. Young people lack communication with their family.
B. Health workers are faced with difficulties due to language barrier. C. The officials object to the variety of languages.
D. The younger generation of Singapore attach importance to Mandarin.
B
The giant panda is beloved of conservationists. It is one of the most recognisable large animals in the world. But it is also evolutionarily odd. It is a type of bear but it is a herbivore(食草动物). It is ironic, then, that this icon of the natural world might actually be an accidental consequence of human activity. Yet this is a convincing interpretation of results just published in a paper in Current Biology, by Wei Fuwen of the Institute of Zoology, in Beijing.
Pandas are not merely herbivores, they are monovores—merely eating bamboo only. Dr Wei wondered when this transition to monovory happened. The answer was, far more recently than anyone had expected.
Dr Wei studied carbon and nitrogen isotopes(同位素) in the bones of a dozen ancestral pandas, dating from between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, and compared them with those of modern pandas. The study shows that the ancient pandas lived in more varied environments and had broader diets. What is more, they were not yet the obligate(专性的) bamboo feeders which they are today, and they were making subtropical zones and open land their home, rather than living merely in bamboo forests. The question is, what made them change?
There is one obvious possible cause: the spread of man. Organised states clearly existed by about 5,000 years ago. Growing human populations could easily have displaced the ancestors of modern pandas to fringe areas where there was little to eat but bamboo. And if bamboo is all there is to eat, then those that prefer to eat it will be at an evolutionary advantage. The modern, bamboo-eating panda—symbol of animals under pressure from man—may thus have been made the way it is by precisely such human pressures.
24. How did Dr. Wei conduct research into the transition of pandas? A. Studying the diets of pandas. B. Calculating the number of pandas. C. Studying the structure of genes of pandas.
D. Analyzing the isotopic composition of pandas’ bones and teeth.
25. What may lead to the change of pandas’ broad diets to eating bamboo only? A. The change of their genes.
B. The intended invasion of other herbivores. C. The unintentional expansion of human activity.
第 4 页 共 15 页
相关推荐：
loading