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高三英语试卷 2018.04

1. Listening Comprehension Section A Short Conversations

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 a hotel C. At a police station. D. At a restaurant 2. A. At4:20 B. At4:40 C. At4:50. D. At4:30

3. A. Its price B. Its location C. Its comfort D. Its facilities 4. A Employer and employ B. Husband and wife

C. Teacher and student D. Patient and doctor 5. A. To cancel his trip. B. To go to bed early

C. To catch the later flight D. To ask for a morning call.

6. A. Cathy already knows about the exhibit. B. Cathy has to act in a play.

C. He did show her one of the signs. D. There will be an exhibit in the theatre. 7. A. The critic has a very funny comment on the musical

B The woman agrees with the mans opinion of the musical. C. The woman has a very positive comment on the musical.

D. The man and the woman differ in their opinion of the musical. 8. A. David never likes to play tennis. B. David's unable to play tennis with them.

C. David isn't a very good tennis player. D. David is in town for a game of tennis. 9. A. Satisfied. B. Impatient. C. Exhausted. D. Amused.

10. A. He wants to get a new job. B. He is asking the woman for help.

C. He has left the woman a good impression. D He enjoys letter writing.

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. She wanted to have a garden similar to their neighbour's.

B. Her husband would like to have a beautiful backyard. C. She was going to make the rented house her own home. D. The community required them to keep the backyard lovely. 12. A. By getting involved in doing voluntary work.

B. By picking up mails for their neighbours.

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C. By keeping an eye on their neighbours' children. D. By planting trees along the street with others.

13. A. Her husband volunteered to work in the neighbourhood.

B. They took on new responsibilities for their neighbours. C. She was planning to plant a new garden in the backyard. D. She enjoyed the relationship they built with the community.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. To find out what covers the Earth. B. To list all living things on Earth.

C. To work out the number of birds. D. To save the existing plants. 15. A. It is run by school students. B. It focuses on different types of grass.

C. It provides different levels of information. D. It allows non-scientists to review its data. 16. A. We may know just a small part of all the living creatures of Earth.

B. We have learnt most of the living creatures on Earth.

C. Only scientists can help to make the Encyclopedia of Life. D. It won't be long before scientists collect all the data they need.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. It is a club for people from different countries to socialize.

B. It is a club for British people to socialize in Washington.

C. It is a club for people from different countries to discuss business.

D. It is a club which arranges for people from different countries to do sports together. 18. A. Monday. B. Tuesday. C. Wednesday. D. Thursday. 19. A. She can study and practise German free of charge.

B. She can have a meal in a restaurant with anyone from different countries. C. She can communicate with all the sixty members at the moment. D. She doesn't need to pay for her first month in the club.

20. A No activity is organized by International Friends Club on Wednesday.

B. The woman came to America three months ago.

C. International Friends Club organizes sports events for its members.

D. If one wants to join in International Friends Club, he should fill in a form.

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.

Time to End Loneliness

US author Henry Rollins once wrote: \sunsets and makes night air smell better. Indeed, in the eyes of artists, loneliness never seems to go

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out of style. There are paintings that portray loneliness, songs that (21) (inspire) by loneliness, and many works of literature that center around this theme.

In the eyes of UK economist Rachel Reeves, however, loneliness is far from romantic. Instead, it's a \

On Jan 17, UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed politician Tracey Crouch as the country ’s very first \ (22) (deal) with the loneliness that the country's been feeling — a problem which, according to UK government research, is affecting more than 9 million people in the country, and (23) be more harmful to one's physical and mental health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Back in 2014, the UK was given the title of the \capital of Europe\ by The Telegraph. A survey carried out by the newspaper found that British people were (24) (likely) to get to know their neighbours or build strong relationships with people than those from other European countries.

But this doesn't mean it is the problem (25) (affect) Britons only. In fact, were all suffering from loneliness now more than ever, in spite of most of the world now being linked to the internet, (26) has enabled us to be more connected than ever.

(27) we need, according to Kim Leadbetter, sister of the late UK politician Jo Cox, is to have \

\ laptops. (28) busy we are, we need to press pause on that and actually sit down and speak to human beings,\But the first steps toward (29) (fight) this problem are to accept its existence and not be ashamed or frightened by it. After all, (30) loneliness, many beautiful paintings, songs, and literary works wouldn't even exist. Whether it is \experience of being human.

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. analyzing B. maintain C. designed D. covered E. capable F. figures G. recently H. weighing I. undoubtedly J. release K. posts Robots Writing Newspapers

Whether it's robots working as hotel receptionists or artificial intelligence creating poetry, it's becoming more and more common to read about technology doing the jobs of humans. And now, it seems that software is even 31 of writing news stories — such as the very one you're reading.

BBC News 32 reported that the Press Association(PA), a UK news service, has created a computer program that's competent to create articles that are almost impossible to tell apart from those written by human journalists. Called \ News, such software \ thousands of news stories written by humans. The PA's software is already so advanced that many UK newspapers and websites publish articles created by it.

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According to the Reuters Institute of Journalism, many publishers are using robo-journalism to 34 interesting information quickly, from election results to official 35 on social issues. For example, US news organization The Washington Post has its own robo-journalism software, Heliograf.

According to tech website Digiday, Heliograf \over 850 articles in 2017, as well as hundreds of social media 36 .So what does this mean for regular journalists? \naturally cautious about any technology that could replace human beings.\Fredrick Kunkle, a Washington Post reporter, told Wired. \the work that nobody else wants to do.\

Indeed, it appears that robo-journalism software is 37 to help humans, rather than take away their jobs.

\about, checking The Washington Post to see if that story is being 38 , and, if not, alerting editors or just writing the piece itself, Wired reporter Joe Keoha wrote.

However, Joshua Benton at Harvard university's Nieman Journalism Lab believes that while robo-journalism is 39 going to become more present in newsrooms, nothing can replace traditional human creativity.

\decades,\

\— carefully 40 information and presenting balanced, contextualized( 全景式的 ) stones— will be very hard for machines to master.\

III. Reading Comprehension Section A

Direction: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard41 : keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of personalities 42 longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by 43 the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100. The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing more 44 and less neurotic ( 神经质的 ) than other people, long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a(n) 45 life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: Those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough 46 to make it through tough times.

Interestingly, 47 , other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, 48 , were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being 49 to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your 50 as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should 51 to

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