北京市海淀区高三上学期期末练习
英语
共150分。考试时间1。
第一部分：略
第二部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）
从每题所给的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. –Hurry up! There’s a bus coming!
–Why run? There will be _____ one in two or three minutes. A. another B. other C. the other D. any other 22. –The constant noise around here _______ me crazy! –Calm down. It’s no use complaining.
A. drove B. drives C．is driving D. had driven
23. It puzzles him why people here are so interested in what his job is. He_____ that question frequently. A. has asked B. gets asked C. is asking D. was asked 24. – Sunny had to give a speech in front of 500 people yesterday. –Whew! That’s a big audience. She _______ have been nervous. A. must B. would C. might D. could 25. –I like your new shoes!
–Thanks. I had to try on almost a dozen pairs ____I decided to get them. A. as B. when C. after D. before 26. _____ under the tree was a charming girl aged about seventeen and eighteen. A. Sat B. Sitting C. To sit D. Sit
27. There were several messages from people, most of _____I didn't know, on my answering machine when I got
home.
A. those B. which C. whom D. them 28. Madonna _________many albums and will probably make many more. A. records B. recorded C. had recorded D. has recorded 29. Education is ______ remains when we have forgotten all we have been taught. A. whether B. how C. that D. what
30. –Tom is very upset. I wish I _______ him the disappointing news. –I told you not to, but you wouldn’t listen.
A. didn’t tell B. hadn’t told C. haven’t told D. wouldn’t tell 31. The movie was so terrifying that she kept her eyes _______ through most of it. A. covering B. covered C. having covered D. being covered
32. ______ the little boy knows so much about nature really surprises his teachers and classmates. A. How B. Why C. That D. What
33. According to some studies, EQ is _____ important, if not more important than IQ. A. so B. very C. even D. as
34. While studying, fix your mind on what is really important, or you will _____remembering nothing. A. end up B. take up C. lead to D. stick to
35. Scientists have created the world’s smallest “snowman”, _____about a fifth of the width of a human hair. A. measuring B. measures C. measured D. to measure 第二节 完形填空（共；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Meg, we need to talk.” “Sure thing, Dad.”
“I have been to the 36 several times over the last few days, and well, Meg, I have a brain cancer.” “Okay.” “Just okay?” “Yep, just okay.”
It was the second half of my senior year, that 37 in a girl’s life when all the really big exciting events
are happening. My final performance, my eighteenth birthday and my graduation, all 38 my mind in just two short months.
By my final performance Dad couldn't really give his full 39 on it, but he was there. He bravely sat through my birthday dinner, and he 40 to get out of the hospital for my graduation. 41 those months, we both were caring about the same thing—me. His doctor said that by 42 on all my future events, it kept my dad 43 longer. Nine days after my high school graduation, my father died.
For the next two weeks after his 44 , I didn’t leave my room. Finally, my mom came in, opened my blinds and gave me a letter.
It was from my father’s doctor. He wrote about how my father 45 him to change his life and the way he worked. “… He was not 46 a patient to me. He 47 more for the people around him than he did his own 48 . I have never met someone who put everyone else first. He was the type of person I 49 to be.”
I was 50 . I came to know what I should do.
Days later, I got a job as a summer camp counselor. I 51 everything I had to these little kids, and slowly they helped to heal me without even 52 what they were doing. Their innocence had helped me 53 some of mine.
That summer 54 parts of the life my father led in his last few days. I had learned the 55 lesson my father was teaching me—in order to lead a fulfilling life, you must learn how to give of yourself to others. 36. A. doctor 37. A. time
B. baker
C. teacher D. lawyer C. story
D. thing
D. influenced
B. goal
38. A. sharpened B. changed
B. presentation B. intended
C. occupied
39. A. congratulation 40. A. failed 41. A. Since
C. description D. concentration C. decided
D. fought D. With D. counting D. calm
D. funeral
B. After C. During
42. A. depending 43. A. alive 44. A. recovery
B. focusing B. active
C. insisting C. awake
B. treatment
C. ceremony
45. A. forced 46. A. even
B. inspired B. just
C. persuaded
D. begged D. yet D. praised
C. always
C. prepared C. pain C. desire
47. A. cared 48. A. benefit 49. A. continue
B. paid
B. effort
D. value
D. agree D. touched D. contributed
B. manage
50. A. disappointed B. surprised 51. A. forgave B. promised 52. A. realizing 53. A. maintain 54. A. indicated 55. A. lively
B. believing B. prove
C. determined C. abandoned
C. guessing D. suspecting C. rediscover C. followed
D. believe D. performed D. painful
B. mirrored B. final
C. interesting
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分） 第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Several years ago, Jim Turner heard a program on the radio for the N.C. Children’s Hospital and decided he could use his love of origami art to help the hospital raise money for much-needed programs.
So at the age of 13, Turner began making origami greeting cards and selling them to florists and stationery stores to benefit the hospital. His
origami
fundraising program, known as Heartbeats for Kids, has since raised more than $ 2,500 for the hospital. “The first cards I made had a heart in them and
you could remove the heart from the card and make it beat,” Turner says, explaining how he came up with the name for the fundraiser.
Now a 17-year-old high school junior, Turner has less time to devote to card-making, because origami is labor intensive and each card can take up to 30 minutes to design. But Turner still enjoys origami art and has created original designs that have been selected for exhibits that tour the country and world.
Turner is an interesting mixture of engineer, artist and philanthropist. His mother, Peggy Turner, says folding origami is a combination of math and art that has helped her son develop his spatial visualization of 3-D objects. Turner is also involved in community service at school and at his church. He was named a Distinguished Finalist this year for the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards for his community service activities, including the Heartbeats for Kids project. In the process of his volunteer efforts, Turner also managed to be one of the only 381 youths in the country to earn the top score of 2,400 on his SAT.
Making and selling the greeting cards has taught Turner about managing a small business. “I learned you need to have somebody who will support you,” he says. “Businesses I sell to have been very nice to me.”
The cards benefit not only the hospital, but also the people who buy the cards or get the cards. Turner sees it as a way to bring people together.
56. Turner’s original purpose of making and selling his cards was to _______. A. show his love for origami art
B. collect money for the hospital D. bring more people together
C. learn how to manage a business
57. From Paragraph 3, we can learn that card making _________. A. needs physical and mental work C. takes up a lot of Turner’s time
B. is well worth admiring
D. is difficult to learn
58. What does the writer tell us about Turner? A. He has already become a successful businessman. B. He spends a lot of his time working for his church. C. He designs a heart in each card that has been made.
D. He does well in both his lessons and community service. 59. The passage is mainly about ________.
A. a kid who makes a difference B. origami art that helps earn money C. making and selling greeting cards D. getting involved in community service
B
Dear Dad，
Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father’s Day cards. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you. Yet as I selected and read, it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really want to say to you.
You’ll soon be 84 years old, Dad, and you and I will have had 55 Father’s Days together. I haven’t always been with you on Father’s Day but I’ve always been with you in my heart.
You know, Dad, there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap. You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other.
The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear（档位）when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the '54 Chevy whether you liked it or not. The police officer who sent me home after you reported the Chevy stolen didn’t have much tolerance for a stubborn 16 year old, while you were so tolerant about it, Dad, and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.
Our relationship greatly improved when I married a man you liked, and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left. Somewhere along the line, the generation gap disappeared. I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together, rather like a fine wine.
But the strangest thing happened last week. I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car. It didn’t immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car. It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere. Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.
I guess what I’m trying to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Honoring a father on Father’s Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking. It’s about loving someone more than words can say，and it’s wishing that it never had to end.
I love you, Dad.
Love,
Jenny
60. How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the police?