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高三英语试卷 （201904）
考生注意：
1. 考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。
2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答題必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题
纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。
3. 答題前，务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码貼在指定位置上，
在答題纸反面清楚地填写姓名。 I. Listening Comprehension Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. At an airport.
B. In an office.
C. At a police station.
D. At a travel agency.
2. A. Down jackets are now on sale. B. She can’t wait for the winter to arrive. C. It’s hard to know how severe the winter will be. D. She needs a warm jacket.
3. A. Learning to drive. C. Buying a car.
4. A. Eric won’t eat vegetable without meat. C. Some meat will solve Eric’s problem.
B. Buying the insurance. D. Taking a plane.
B. Eric likes both vegetable and meat. D. Eric is short of vegetable.
5. A. He is invasive B. He is heroic. C. He is life-threatening. D. He is awkward.
6. A. Reviews of the comedy are negative.
B. The reaction to the comedy is varied.
C. The review of the newspaper is one-sided. D. Media are prejudiced against the comedy.
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7. A. Deliver the package in person. B. Pick up the package at the post office. C. Ask to have the package delivered to his home. D. Find out the opening hours of the post office.
8. A. It hasn’t been graded. C. The committee is discussing it.
B. It received a low grade. D. The woman hasn’t handed it in.
9. A. He has been to Seattle many times. B. He has chaired a lot of conferences. C. He holds a high position in his company.
D. He lived in Seattle for many years.
10. A. It is too late for the man to go to the theatre.
B. People have already been standing in line for two hours. C. The man must wait for two hours to buy the ticket. D. The man can buy a special ticket before the drama starts.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked questions on each of them. The passages and conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. They are gardeners. C. They run a guesthouse. 12. A. Five hours. C. Twelve hours. 13. A. They have deeper roots. C. They have wider leaves.
B. They sell vegetables. D. They are scientists.
B. Eight hours. D. Fourteen hours.
B. They don’t need sunshine. D. They have bigger flowers.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news. 14. A. It is produced in small quantities. C. It is served mainly in McDonald’s.
B. It is sold at a lower price. D. It is grown from cows alone.
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15. A. The land and the water system have been polluted seriously. B. Not enough meat has been produced to meet people’s needs. C. Much land has been used up for animals and their food. D. It has consumed fewer and fewer natural resources.
16. A. Steaks and hamburgers. C. The food crisis in the future.
B. Animal rights. D. Lab-grown meat.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. He is an Englishman living in Sweden. B. He prefers hot weather to cold weather. C. He visits London nearly every winter. D. He likes Sweden better than England.
18. A. The long night. C. The gloomy winter.
B. The bad weather. D.The cold houses.
19. A. Delightful. B. Refreshing. C. Painful. D.Depressing.
20. A. They work hard and play hard. B. They often stay up late reading. C. They like to go camping in summer. D. They try to earn more and spend more.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
How to Make the Most of Your Lunch Hour
Should you grab a bite at your desk or eat with your colleagues? That depends on what’s on your agenda for the rest of the day.
Lunch hours (21) ______ (get) shorter and shorter and even disappearing in some parts of today’s working world. With fewer employees (22) _______(ask) to accomplish more in a day, many Americans treat lunch not as a break but as just another task to squeeze into an already over-booked day.
But do quick meals at the desk actually improve productivity over more leisurely meals? The researchers only studied 32 employees, so the findings are debatable. But when they assigned one group to eat at their desks and another to dine with a colleague at a restaurant, they found those who ate lunch together showed a decline (23) _______their performance on tests that
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measured concentration, memory and the ability to catch errors and read emotions in facial expressions following lunch than before lunch. Both groups ate the same meals, but those who ate alone were only given 20 minutes to consume their food, (24) _______the paired participants were allowed one hour in the restaurant. Those who ate alone did not have as large a drop in their cognitive processing as those who ate in the restaurant.
What was responsible for the change? There were too many variables at play to determine which had the strongest influence on cognitive control-- was it the companionship, or was it the restaurant environment (25) _______other diners were present, music was played and the meal was served by wait staff, or was it the longer time to enjoy the meal?
(26) _______ factor was responsible, the group that took a restaurant lunch break came back more relaxed, say the authors, and that likely affected their cognitive sharpness. Sharing a meal outside the office with a friend appears to have a (27) ______ (calm) effect, and while it reduces intellectual skills, it may develop social harmony and teamwork, which (28) _______be an important feature of some work tasks.
But don’t feel sorry for the lone lunchers. It turns out (29) ______since they were able to maintain their cognitive skills following the meal, they might be in a better position (30) ______ (think) creatively for projects that require more innovative solutions or approaches. Section B
Direction: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. involving B. distinguish C. adapted D. tailored E. medium F. gains G. partially H. amazing I. definitely J. steer K. implications
Genes That Make You Smarter
The contributions genes make to intelligence increase as children grow older. This goes against the idea most people hold that as we age, environmental influences gradually overpower the genetic legacy（遗产）we are born with and may have (31)______ for education.
“People assume the genetic influence goes down with age because the environmental differences between people pile up in life,”says Robert Plomin. “What we found was quite (32) ______ and goes in the other direction.”
Previous studies have shown variations in intelligence are (33) ______ due to genetics. To find out whether this genetic contribution varies with age, Plomin’s team gathered data from six separate studies carried out in 4 countries, (34) ______ a total of 11000 pairs of twins. The researchers tested twins on reasoning, arithmetics etc. to measure a quantity called “G”. Each study also included both identical twins, with the same genes, and fraternal twins（异卵双生）, sharing about half their genes, making it possible to (35)______ the contributions of genes and environment to their G scores.
Plomin’s team calculated in childhood, genes account for about 41 percent of the variation in intelligence. In adolescence, this rose to 55 percent; by young adolescence, it was 66 percent.
No one (36) ______ knows why the influence from genes should increase with age, but Plomin suggests that as children get older, they become better at handling their environment to
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