浙江省东阳中学高三下学期入学考试(寒假作业检测)英语试题

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第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 1. What is the man doing?

A. Offering a suggestion. B. Starting an argument. C. Stopping a fight.

2. What does the man think of himself?

A. He deserves a free lunch. B. His salary is not high. C. He works hard. 3. When will the party be held?

A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday. 4. What do we know about the man?

A. He has worked with the woman for twelve years.

B. He thinks the prices in the store are too high. C. He has a slight hearing problem. 5. What will the man probably do today?

A. Have some guests over. B. Go shopping. C. Go to a post office. 第二节

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a drugstore. B. In the hospital. C. On the street. 7. What will the man do next?

A. Pick up something. B. Wait for someone. C. Go back home. 8. What does the woman think of the man?

A. He is impatient. B. He is clever. C. He is helpful 听第7段材料，回答第9至11邏。 9. Who is Dan the Bear?

A. A fisherman. B. A singer. C. A dolphin trainer. 10. How will the woman inform the security officers?

A. By putting up a notice. B. By telephone. C. By radio. 11. What will the woman do before going to the bar?

A. Go to the barber’s. B. Buy some clothes. C. Perform onstage. 听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。 12. Who are the speakers?

A. Students. B. Teachers. C. clerks.

13. How did the woman feel about her weekend?

A. It was exciting. B. It was satisfying. C. It was boring. 14. What did the man do on Saturday?

A. He played sports. B. He visited someone. C. He watched movies. 听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What did the woman put on the calendar?

A. The picture of the community. B. The schedule of community events. C. Interesting stories.

16. What is the man worried about?

A. Neighborhood safety. B. Shopping convenience. C. Schools in the community.

17. Why will there be a party?

A. To celebrate a festival. B. To welcome some new people. C. To celebrate a birthday.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What is true about Deep Springs College? A. It’s located in a college town.

B. Its library is often crowded with students. C. Its school buildings are ancient. 19. How many books are there in the library?

A. 70000. B. 17000. C. 9000. 20. What can students at Deep Springs do in their spare time? A. Take a walk in the mountains. B. Go to the cinema. C. Watch TV.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共10个小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）

A

Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route——through the boot(行李箱).

Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent, after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said, “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water

would come flooding in.”

Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.

Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”

It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up.”

His hands and arms cut and bruised，Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Trembling in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.

21. In which section of a newspaper can we read this article?

A. Book review B. News report C. Campus life D. Continued story 22.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 “Finally it gave” means that ______. A. luckily the door was torn away in the end broken

C. the lock came open after all his efforts last minute

23.It can be inferred from the passage that _______. A. the ditch was along a quiet country road B. the accident happened on a clear warm day

C. the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch D. Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended

B

For more than twenty years scientists have been seeking to understand the mystery of the “sixth sense” of direction. By trying out ideas and solving problems one by one, they are now getting closer to one answer. One funny idea is that animals might have a built-in compass.

D. the chance was lost at the B. at last the wrench went

Our earth itself is a big magnet(磁体). So a little magnetic needle that swings freely lines itself with the big earth magnet to point north and south. When people discovered that idea about a thousand years ago and invented the compass, it allowed sailors to navigate on ocean voyages, even under cloudy skies.

Actually the idea of the living compass came just from observing animals in nature. Many birds migrate twice a year between their summer homes and winter homes. Some of them fly for thousands of kilometers and mostly at night. Experiments have shown that some birds can recognize star patterns. But they can keep on course even under cloudy skies. How can they do that?

A common bird that does not migrate but is great at finding its way home is the homing pigeon. Not all pigeons can find their way home. Those that can are very good at it，and they have been widely studied.

One interesting experiment was to attach little magnets to the birds’ heads to block their magnetic sense——just as a loud radio can keep you from hearing a call to dinner. On sunny days, that did not fool the pigeons. Evidently they can use the sun to tell which way they are going. But on cloudy days, the pigeons with magnets could not find their way. It was as if the magnets had blocked their magnetic sense.

Similar experiments with the same kind of results were done with honeybees. These insects also seem to have a special sense of direction. 24. What is the best title for this passage?

A. A great invention——Compass B. “Six sense” of direction C. Methods of finding directions D. A built-in compass in animals 25. What contributes to the pigeon’s good sense of direction according to the passage? A. The invention of the compass. B. The existence of their living compass.

C. The recognition of star patterns. D. The disturbance of cloudy weather.

26. Further experiments might be conducted on_______.

A. sparrows B. seagulls C. dolphins D. strawberry

C

A hospital has been forced to ban Pokemon Go players from the site after a monster hub(妖怪枢纽站) was found in the A&E department. Royal Stoke University Hospital

discovered that its casualty unit(急诊室) is on the same spot as a Pokemon Go ‘gym’ —— where players can train their newly caught Nintendo creatures.