2013-2014学年第二学期高三期中测试卷学科：英语测试时间： 120分钟满分： 150第I卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
1．What is the man doing now?A．Watching TV.B．Playing a game.C．Preparing for an exam.2．Why hasn’t Adam come yet?A．He was absorbed in his work.B．He quarreled with the woman.C．He wasn’t informed of the meeting time.3．Where does the conversation take place?A．At the man’s house.B．At a bank.C．At a university.4．How many students are there in the speakers’ class?A．18.B．21.C．20.5．What are the speakers talking about?A．A workmate.B．A classmate.C．A neighbour.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6．What is beside the computer center?A．The sports center.B．The classroom building.C．The library.7．Where will the speakers go next?A．To the library.B．To the sports center.C．To the computer center.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8．Why doesn’t the man want to watch the World Cup Final?A．He isn’t good at football.B．He won’t have time.C．His TV doesn’t work.9．What does the woman like?A．Football. B．Golf. C．Horse riding.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
、10．Why is the man unwilling to go to Florida?A．It’s too boring. B．It’s too expensive. C．It’s too crowded.11．What did the speakers do last year?A．They travelled around Sky Valley Resort.B．They attended a New Year’s Eve party.C．They went skiing.12．How does the woman feel in the end?A．Annoyed.B．Pleased.C．Excited.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13．What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A．Neighbors.B．Workmates.C．Policewoman and victim.14．What is the purpose of the woman’s visit to the man?A．To borrow his telephone.B．To get information about a theft.C．To ask him to call the police.15．What happened last night?A．The woman’s house was broken into.B．The window of the woman’s house was smashed（打碎）.C．The woman’s car was broken into.16．What did the woman do last night?A．She worked late.B．She bought a CD player.C．She went to a party.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．What is the speaker mainly talking about?A. Doxey’s theory.B. The development of tourism.C. The influence of social factors on tourism.18．Why do people in the host area welcome the tourists in the first stage?A．They benefit from them.B．They are curious.C．They learn from them.19．What influences relationships between tourists and host people in the second stage?A．Commercial factors.B．Political factors. C．Social factors.20．What does the government do in the fourth stage?A．They protect the host area.B．They set more restrictions.C．They provide public services.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
AI once met a well-known botanist at a dinner party. I had never talked with a botanist before, and I found him fascinating. I sat there absorbed and listened while he spoke of unusual plants and his experiments (he even told me astonishing facts about the simple potato). I had a small indoor garden of my own ---and he was good enough to tell me how to solve some of my problems.As I said, we were at a dinner party. There must have been a dozen other guests, but I broke an important rule of politeness. I ignored everyone else and talked for hours to the botanist.Midnight came, I said good night to everyone and departed. The botanist then turned to our host and said many nice things about me, including that I was a “most interesting conversationalist.”An interesting conversationalist? I had said hardly anything at all. I couldn’t have said anything if I had wanted to without changing the subject, for I didn’t know any more about plants than I knew about sharks. But I had done this one thing: I had listened carefully. I listened because I was really interested. And he felt it. Naturally that pleased him. That kind of listening is one of the best ways to show respect to others, and it makes them feel great too. “Few human beings,” wrote Jack Woodford in Strangers in Love, “can resist the sweet effect of rapt attention.” I went even further than that. I was “sincere in my admiration and generous in my praise.”I told him that I had been hugely entertained and instructed. I had. I told him I wished I had his knowledge. I told him that I should love to wander the fields with him. What’s more, it was all true.And so I had him thinking of me as a good conversationalist when, in reality, I had been merely a good listener and had encouraged him to talk.21. Which of the following does the writer describe as a rule of politeness at dinner parties?A. Avoiding discussions about politics and religion.B. Listening carefully to what another guest says.C. Arriving and leaving at the appropriate time.D. Giving attention to all those in attendance.22. The underlined expression “rapt attention” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to_______.A. full understandingB. strong interestC. great uncertaintyD. little curiosity23. According to the writer, which of the following is an important characteristic of a good conversationalist?A. Listening attentively and encouraging the other side to continue.B. Encouraging the other side by sharing his/her own opinions.C. Promising a future meeting for more communication.D. Expressing respect by nodding his/her head.24. What is the purpose of the passage?A. To prove the writer is an interesting conversationalist.B. To share an interesting experience at a dinner party.C. To explain what makes a good conversationalist.D. To show that botanists can be really talkative.BA dog-lover has invented a high-tech way of feeding his pet by Twitter（推特，国外流行社交网络，类似于微博）. Computer expert Nat Morris, 30, has designed a system to give his pet a “tweet treat” by sending him a Twitter message.His dog Toby gets some delicious dog biscuits from a computer-controlled food machine whenever Nat sends a message to “@feedtoby”.Nat often works away from home and isn’t always able to feed Toby by hand. But his new invention allows Nat to feed his dog from anywhere in the world.Nat said, “Toby absolutely loves it. At first he didn’t know what was going on. Now he sits underneath the machine, wagging his tail and waiting for the treats to drop.”Nat fills the food machine with small pieces of dog biscuits, but not too many in case four-year-old Toby gets too many messages. And Nat has even equipped his house with an online camera so he can see Toby enjoying the food at his home.But one problem is that friends and family have been so amazed with the “Tweet treat” machine that they have started to send tweets to Toby too. So Nat has had to restrict feeding time to make sure Toby doesn’t turn into Tubby。