河北省保定市高三11月摸底考試英語試題及答案

1、保定市2 0 1 5年11月高三摸底考試英語試題第i卷第一部分 聽力（共兩節(jié)，滿分3 0分） 做題時(shí)，先將答案標(biāo)在試卷上。錄音內(nèi)容結(jié)束后，你將有兩分鐘的時(shí)間將試卷上的答案轉(zhuǎn)涂到答題卡上。第一節(jié)（共5小題每小題1.5分滿分，7.5分） 聽下面5段對(duì)話。每段對(duì)話后有一個(gè)小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對(duì)話后，你都有1 0秒鐘的時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對(duì)話僅讀一遍。 1. where does the conversation probably take place? a. at a restaurant b. at the bus s

2、tation c. at a car rental agency. 2.what does yang yang plan to do next week? amake a model plane b. enter a competition. c. receive a prize 3.w hat will the woman probably do? a. leave her bicycle outside. b. put her bicycle into the garage.c. work harder than ever.4. what is the man most probably?

3、 a. an actor b.a writer. c.a book-seller,5. how is janet feeling now? a. disappointed. b. confused. c. stressed.第二節(jié)（共15小題；每小題1.5分，滿分2 2.5分r 聽下面5段對(duì)話或獨(dú)自。每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白后有幾個(gè)小題，從題中所給的a、b.c三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白前，你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題給出5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間，每段對(duì)話讀兩遍。聽第6段對(duì)話，回答第6、7題。6.how long did michael stay in

4、china? a. two days. b. one week. c. two weeks.7. where did michael go last year? a. india. b. australia . c. russia.聽第7段對(duì)話，回答第8-9題。8. what is the woman going to do? a. rent out her room. b. reserve a room. c. repair her room. 9. why are the prices for the two rooms different? a. the rooms are differ

5、ent in size. b. the rooms have different views. c. the rooms are of different shapes.聽第8段材料，回答第1 0至12題。10. why was bill unhappy about the game? a. some players played poorly. b. the scores were too close. cit lasted too long.11.who cheered for the tigers? a. steve. b. bill. c. eric.12.what do you kn

6、ow about the woman? a. she knows bill well. b. she owns a restaurant. c. she dislikes football. 13. what would joe probably do during the thanksgiving ? a. go to a play. b. stay at home. c. visit kingston. 14. what is ariel going to do in toronto? a. attend a party. b. meet her aunt. c. see a car sh

7、ow. 15, why is ariel leaving hurriedly? a. to call up betty. b. to buy some dvds. c to pick up daniel. 16. what might be the relationship between the speakers? a. classmates. b. fellow workers. c. guide and tourist 聽第10段材料,回答第 17至 20題. 17. what is the talk mainly about? a. the history of the school.

8、 b. the courses for the term, c. the plan for the day. 18. where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students? a. in the school hall. b. in the science labs c. in the classrooms. l9. what can students do in the practical areas? a. take science courses. b. enjoy good meals. c. attend wo

9、rkshops 20.when are the visitors expected to ask questions? a. during the lunch hour. b. after the welcome speech.c. before the tour of the labs. 第二部分：閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分） 第一節(jié)（共1 5小題：每小題2分，滿分30分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（a.b.c和d）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡 上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。a knowing how much her own children loved presents at christm

10、as, ann sutton always tried to seek help for one or two poor families. with a social worker mother, the sutton children. had inherited（繼承）her commitment to service, and knew never to take their good fortune at christmas for granted. this year, kinzie, her seven-year-old daughter was thrilled that sa

11、nta claus would make a special visit to a 22-year-old mother named ashley who worked in a factory raising her 12-month-old son by herself. the phone rang on sunday. a representative from a local organization was calling to say that the aid ann had requested for ashley had fallen through. no santa cl

12、aus, no presents, nothing. ann saw the cheer fade away from her childrens faces at the news. without a word, kinzie ran into her bedroom. she returned, her face set with determination. opening up her piggy bank, she put all the coins onto the table: $3.30. everything she had. “mom, she told ann, “i

13、know its not much. but maybe this will buy a present for the baby.” at a breakfast meeting the next day, ann told her coworkers about her daughter story. to her surprise, staff members began to open their purses. and empty their pockets to help kinzie . on christmas eve, ann drove through the pourin

14、g rain to the small trailer where the ashleys lived. then she began to unload the gifts from the car, handing them to ashley one by one. ashley was very moved. reflecting on a little girls generosity, ashley says shell one day be able to do something similar for someone else in need. kinzie could ha

15、ve used that money for herself, but she gave it away, ashley says. shes the type of kid id like my son to grow up to be. 21. according to the text, ann sutton . a. only cares about poor children b. has possessed a good fortune c. is warm-hearted and ready to help others d. is a single mother with a

16、12-month-old boy . 22. when hearing the aid had fallen through, kinzie a. was not sad but cheerfu1 b. put all her coins away immediately c. told her mother to ask the coworkers for help d. decided to buy a present for the baby with all her allowance 23. from the text we can learn that . a. ann would

17、 act as santa claus to hand out the christmas presents b. the sutton children always got lots of presents at christmas c. kinzies generosity influenced others and they clici something similar d. ashley was moved and promised to return the money 24. what does the text mainly talk about? a. how a warm

18、-hearted mother shows her love to a poor family. b. how a mother and her young daughter helped a poor family. c. many people make contributions to those in need. d. what happened to a poor family on christmas eve. b giving back fair way the westborough high school golf team had taken the official ph

19、otos with the state prize, the other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. and then westborough instructor greg rota noticed something wrong on one of the score cards. a 9 had been recorded as a 7. they were not the state prize winner; wobum high hadwon. none one have known, said wobums

20、 instructor, bob doran. for rota, it wasnt a difficult decision: the prize wasnt ours to take:? coin stars college students are lazy. but they also wan t to help, says university of pennsyivania graduate. dan hork. so she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coi

21、ns, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. her change for change effort has collected$40,000 for charities, which were decided upon by students . never forgotten a school in massachusetts received a $ 9. 5 million. check from jacques lebermuth. but it took officials seve

22、ral days of digging to discover his connection. to the school, records showed the lebermuth came from belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. when his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. lebermuth became a trader, owned shares of at&t and lived off the earnings unt

23、il he died , at age 89 25. what did greg rota probably do in the end? a. returned the prize to the organizer, b. apologized to wobum high school. c. took photos of the state prize. d. had a meeting with doran 26. greg rotas decision shows that he was . a. polite b. honest c. careful d. friendly 27.

24、the underlined word change in the second paragraph means , . a. idea b. decision c. cups d. coins 28. jacques lebermuth gave the money to the school because . a. the school asked for it b. he had no need for that much money c. the school had helped him in the past d. he wanted to be remembered by th

25、e students c we all know what a brain is. a doctor will tell you that the brain is the organ ofthe body in the head. it controls our bodys functions, movements, emotions andthoughts. but a brain can mean so much more. a brain can also simply be a smart person, if a person is called brainy, she is sm

26、artand intelligent. if a family has many children but one of them is super smart, you could say, shes the brains in the family. and if you are the brains behind something you.are responsible for developing or organizing something. for example, bill gates is thebrains behind microsoft brain trust is

27、a group of experts who give advice. word experts say the phrasebrain trust became popular when franklin d. roosevelt first ran for president in 1932, several professors gave him advice on social and political issues facing the u. s. these professors were called his brain trust. these ways we use the

28、 word brain all make sense. but other ways we use theword are not so easy to understand. for example, to understand the next brainexpression, you first need to know the word“drain. as a verb to drain means to,remove something by letting it flow away. so a brain drain may sound like a diseasewhere th

29、e brain flows out the ears. but, brain drain is when a countrys most educatedpeople leave their countries to live in another. the brains are,sort of,draining out of thecountry. however,if people are responsible for a great idea,you could say they brainstormedit. here,brainstorm is not an act of weat

30、her. it is a process of thinking creatively abouta complex topic. for example, business leaders may use brainstorming to create newproducts, and government leaders may brainstorm to solve problems. if people are brainwashed, it does not mean their brains are nice and clean. tobrainwash means to make

31、 someone accept new beliefs by using repeated pressure in aforceful or tricky way. keep in mind that brainwash is never used in a positive way.29. according to the text, if youre the ceo of bai du you can be called a. the brains behind bai du b. bai dus brain trust c. the brain drain of bai du d. th

32、e organ of bai du30. why did roosevelt successfully win the election? a. because he was smart at giving advice. b. because word experts were popular. c. because he got his brain trust. d. because he was the brains behind america.31. which of the following expression is always used in a negative way?

33、 a. brain trust b. brain drain c. brainstorm d. brainwash d mars( 火星) appears to be flowing with small streams of salty water, at least in the summer, scientists reported monday. it suggests that. it would be possible for there to be life today on mars, nasas science mission chief, john grunsfeld, s

34、aid at a newsconference on september 28, 2015. the streams are about 12 to 15 feet wide and 300 feet or more long, scientists said. what were dealing with is wet soil. thin layers of wet soil, not standing water, saidaifred mcewen of the university of arizona at tueson ! the principal scientist for

35、themars reconnaissance orbiters high-resolution imaging experiment. because liquid water is essential to life, the findings could have major implicationsfor the possibility of martian life. the researchers said further exploration is needed to determine whether microscopic life exists on the planet.

36、 the presence of liquid water could also make life easier for astronauts visiting orliving on mars. water could be used for drinking and for creating oxygen and rocket fuel. nasas goal is to send humans there in the 2030s. the evidence of flowing water consists largely of dark, narrow streaks(條痕) on

37、the surface that tend to appear and grow during the warmest martian months and fadethe rest of the year. mars is extremely cold even in summer, and the streaks are in places where thetemperature is as low as minus 10 degrees fahrenheit. but salt can lower the freezing point of water and melt ice. th

38、e source(源頭) of the water is a mystery. scientists noted it could be melting ice. it could be an underground aquifer, which is rock or sand that can hold water. it is possibly water vapor from the thin martian atmosphere, or it may be a combination michael meyer, lead scientist for nasas mars explor

39、ation program, said the only definitive way for now to determine whether theres life on mars is to collect rocks and soil for analysis on earth - something a u. s. lander set for lift-off in 2020 will do.32.what would be the best title for the text? a streams of water spotted on mars b. astronauts w

40、ill land on mars c. nasas mars exploration program d. a breakthrough in the exploration of mars33. according to john grunsfeld, there seems to be on mars. a. salty water b. standing water c. rocket fuel d. human beings34.scientists are uncertain about the of the water on mars. a. state b. source c.

41、temperature d. taste35. what matters to the existence of liquid water on mars? a. the distance from the sun. b. the favorable climate. c. the gravity of the earth dthe salt in it 第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10-分） 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為 多余選項(xiàng)。 winter begins in the north on december 22nd.people and

42、animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the colder months, sqzeirrels, for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. 3 6 they examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the american state of indiana. the scientists wanted to know how these difference

43、s could affect the growth of black walnut(黑胡桃）trees.37 the black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests. rob swihart of purdue university did the study with jake goheen, a former purdue student nowat the university of new mexico. the two researchers estimate that several times a

44、s many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels.gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. 38 so some nuts remain in the ground. conditions are right for them to develop

45、and grow the following spring. red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. 3 9 but professor swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century. the researchers say red sq

46、uirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. they say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade（涌入）indiana. 40 a. gray squirrels are native to indiana. b. but they seldom remember where they buried every nut. c. red squirrels bury nut

47、s in a different way. d. the black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. e. jake goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause. f. scientists are worried that they will drive away the gray squirrels. g. well, scientists have been busy gathering information

48、 about what the squirrels do with the food they collect. 第三部分：英語知識(shí)運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分4 5分） 第一節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題：每小題1.5分，滿分3 0分） 閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（a.bc和d）中，選出可以填人空白 處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 the easy way out isnt always the easiest. i learned that lesson when i decided to treat doug, my husband of one month, to a speci

49、al meal. i 41 to make homemade bread. knowing the bread would take time, i 42 it as soon as doug left for work. as l was not 4 3 in cooking, i thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so i 44 .everything. as doug loved oranges, i also opened a can of orange and 45 it all into the bowl

50、. soon there was a sticky dough（面團(tuán)）covered with 46 yellowish marks. realizing i was 47 ，i put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so 1 wouldnt have to 48 doug laughing at my work. i went on preparing the rest of the 49 ,and when doug got home, we sat down to cornish chicken with rice. he tried to e

51、njoy the meal but seemed 50 . twice he got up and went outside, saying he heard a 51 the third time he left, i went to the window to see what he was doing. i saw doug standing about three feet from the 52 ,holding the lid up with a stick and looking 53 .when i came out of the house, he dropped the s

52、tick and explained that there was something 54 in our rubbish bin. picking up the stick again, he held the lid up. enough for me to see. i felt 55 .but i stepped. closer and looked harder. without 56 it was my work. the hot 57 had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast（酵母)made the surface. 58 and sigh as though it were bre