高三年级英语周考试卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30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. How does the woman usually go to work?A. By bike.B. By bus.C. By taxi.2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Medicine.B. A doctor.C. An advertisement.3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Doctor and patient.B. Teacher and student.C. Policeman and driver.4. What is the woman going to do?A. Buy a gift for the man.B. Attend a birthday party.C. Choose shoes for herself.5. Why must the man go to the bank?A. He wants to save some money.B. He needs some money for a trip.C. He has to get traveler’s cheques there.听第6段材料，回答6至8题。

6. In which field has the man got a master degree?A. Medicine.B. Biochemistry.C. Nuclear physics.7. What does the man think of physics?A. It’s more interesting than chemistry.B. It’s less interesting than chemistry.C. It’s as interesting as chemistry.8. What is the man going to do after he leaves school?A. He is going to learn biochemistry.B. He plans to be a doctor.C. He hasn’t had a decision.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Wife and husband.B. Employer and employee.C. Landlady and renter.10. What does the woman want the man to do when he goes out?A. Boil the kettle.B. Shut the window.C. Close the drawers.11. What do we know about the woman?A. She is very careful.B. She is warm-heartedC. She is absent-minded.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What do the two speakers most probably do?A. Employees.B. Students.C. Teachers.13. What does the man think of the film?A. Good.B. Bad.C. Just so-so.14. What happened to the couple in the end?A. They bought a house of their own.B. They had to work even harder.C. They continued to live with the wife’s father.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What makes the man feel bored?A. The job.B. The life.C. The TV programs.16. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Have a rest.B. Have a holiday.C. Change a job.17. What does the man mean?A. He wants a new job.B. He wants holidays.C. Hewants a different life.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. How often does the speaker go to her hometown?A. Once a year.B. Once a month.C. Once a week.19. What will the speaker bring to the family get-together?A. Chips and dip.B. Nothing.C. Cookies and cakes.20. What do the family members often do during the family get-together?A. Have formal dinner parties.B. Do a lot of talking.C. Cater(提供饮食).第二部分：阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)ATaking a trip to Philadelphia can be rewarding experience or absolute disasters---it all depends on pre-trip homework. To make planning easier, Huffington Post Travel Series recommends attractions for those planning Philadelphia family vacations.The Philadelphia Museum of ArtLocated on 26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Philadelphia Museum of Art features more than 225, 000 pieces in its vast collection, dating back to the first century A.D. Guests can discover modern art exhibits, clothing collections gathered throughout time and classic posters. Audio tours are also available.Price: adults, $ 16; children 12 to 17, $ 12; children 11 and under, free.The Please Touch MuseumThe Please Touch Museum on 4231 Avenue of the Republic offers kids the chance to explore, discover and learn in a fun environment. The museum features six interactive zones where kids and parents are encouraged to play and learn about science, the environment and more. Exhibits include Flight Fantasy, where kids learn about flying machines, and River Adventures, which teaches kids about science, nature and weather.Price: adults, $15; children under the age of 1, freeThe Philadelphia ZooThe Philadelphia Zoo sits on a 42-acre Victorian garden. The zoo features 1,300 animals, including a number of rare and endangered species. While visiting the zoo families can see big cats, zebras, giraffes, endangered turtle species and penguins. The zoo also includes rides for kids, such as a Rainforest Carousel and Camel Safari.Price: Adults, $ 18; children 2 to 12, $15; children younger than 2, free.The Franklin InstituteThe Franklin Institute is Philadelphia’s major science museum, and one of the oldest in the United States. The museum offers guests the chance to experience flight simulator(模拟器)and sky bikes. The first floor offers a large Kid Science exhibit, where children discover science through a fictional journey. The second floor features air shows.Price: Adults, $ 12; children 4 to 11, $12.21. The Please Touch Museum differs from the others mainly because _______.A. it boasts a number of rare and endangered speciesB. it has a large collection of clothingC. it combines learning with pleasureD. it includes a large kid science exhibit22.Teenagers interested in aircraft will most likely to visit both_______.A. the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Please Touch MuseumB. the Please Touch Museum and the Franklin InstituteC. the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin InstituteD. the Philadelphia Zoo and the Please Touch Museum23. Which group does the Travel Series mainly target?A. Families with kidsB. Newly-married couplesC. Individual visitorsD. Museum loversBNothing could stop Dad. After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family. He planted vegetables, fruit trees and even kept bees for honey.And every week he cleaned Old Man McColgin's chicken house in exchange for manure(肥料). The Smell really burned the inside of your nose. When we complained about the terrible smell, Dad said the stronger the manure, the healthier the crops, and he was right. For example, just one of his cantaloupes filled the entire house with its sweet smell, and the taste was even sweeter.As the vegetables started coming in, Dad threw himself into cooking. One day, armed with a basket of vegetables, he announced he was going to make stew(炖菜).Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots. For about half an hour, the pressure built and the vegetables cooked. Finally, Dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam. If we thought Dad's pile of chicken manure was bad, this was 10 times worse. When Dad took off the lid, the smell nearly knocked us out.Dad carried the pot out and we opened doors and windows to air out the house. Just how bad was it? The neighbors came out of their houses to see if we had a gas leak!Determined, Dad filled our plates with steaming stew and passed them around .It didn’t look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell, it didn’t offend the nose so much, either I took a taste. It would never win a prize in a cooking competition, but it was surprisingly edible, and we drank up every last drop of soup.24. Why did Dad clean Old Man McColgin’s chicken house regularly?A. To earn some money for the family.B. To get rid of the terrible smell.C. To collect manure for his crops.D. To set a good example to us.25. What can we infer about Dad’s stew?A. It tastes quite delicious.B. It contains honey and vegetables.C. It looks very wonderful.D. It is popular among the neighbors.26. What does the underlined word “offend” in the last paragraph mean?A. To attractB. To shutC. To airD. To upset27. What can we learn about Dad from the text?A. He is an experienced cook.B. He has a positive attitude to life.C. He is a troublesome father.D. He suffers a lot from his disabilityCChildren’s lives have changed greatly over the last 50 years. But do the y have a happier childhood than you or I did?It’s difficult to look back on one’s own childhood without some element of nostalgia(怀旧的). I have four brothers and sisters, and my memories are all about being with them, playing board games on the living room floor, or spending days in the street with the other neighborhood children, racing up and down on our bikes, or exploring the nearby woods. My parents scarcely appear in these memories, except as providers either of meals or of severe blame after some particularly risky adventure.These days, in the UK at least, the nature of childhood has changed dramatically. Firstly, families are smaller. It is common for both parents to work outside the home and there is the feeling that there just isn’t time to bring up a large family, or that no one could possibly afford to have more than one child. As a result, today’s boys and girls spend much of their time alone. Another major change is that youngsters today tend to spend a huge amount of their free time at home, inside. This is due to the fact that parents worry far more than they used to about real or imagined dangers, so they wouldn’t dream o f letting their children play outside by themselves.Finally, the kind of toys children have and the way they play is totally different. Computer and video games have replaced the board games and more interesting activities of my childhood. The irony(啼笑皆非的事情) is that so many ways of playing games are called “interactive”. The fact that you can play electronic games on your own further increases the sense of loneliness felt by many young people today.Do these changes mean that children today have a less relaxing childhood than I had? I personally believe that they do, but perhaps every generation feels exactly the same.28. What is the purpose of the direct question given in the first paragraph?A. To get people’s attention and lead in the topic.B. To gather people’s opinions on childhood.C. To show who the passage is written for.D. To compare the childhood lives of two generations.29. Which is NOT a reason for the changes?A. Families are smaller today.B. It’s too dangerous to play outsi de.C. Parents worried too much about their children.D. Toys can be played by children alone at home.30. What has the writer focused on in the fourth paragraph?A. Young people today shouldn’t play electronic games.B. Some games that young people play today aren’t really good.C. Computer and video games have replaced the board games.D. Board games are much more interesting than computer games.31. The writer’s attitude towards the childhood changing is ________ .A. approvingB. unconcernedC. objectiveD. optimisticDA new pollen (花粉) study showed that drought was responsible for the extinction of civilizations more than 3,000 years ago during the Bronze Age.The reason behind why the civilizations in and around modern-day Israel suddenly broke down more than 3,000 years ago has remained a mystery up until now.A new pollen study by Tel Aviv University researchers finally solved this Bronze Age mystery.Prof. Israel Finkelstein showed that owing to serious climate changes, the entire world of the Bronze Age crumbled in a short period of time. The discovery was made on the basis of a high-resolution analysis of pollen grains taken from sediments (沉淀物) beneath the Sea of Galilee and the western shore of the Dead Sea.Prof. Finkelstein received support from the European Research Council to conduct research aimed at reconstructing ancient Israel. Researchers of the part of the project that dealt with climate change extracted (提取) about 60 feet of samples of gray muddy sediment from the center of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. They had to drill through 1,000 feet of water and into 65 feet of the lake bed and were able to recover evidence dating over the past 9,000 years.“Pollen is the most enduring organic material in nature,” explained Dr. Dafna Langgut, a pollen researcher who carried out the actual work of sampling. “These grains tell us about the plants that grew near the lake in the past and therefore prove the climatic conditions in the region.”Researchers noted a sharp decrease in Mediterranean trees like oaks and pines in the Late Bronze Age. According to study experts, this could be because of repeated periods of drought. The droughts may have resulted in long famines(饥荒), forcing people to migrate from north to south.32. The underl ined word “crumbled” in Paragraph 3 means _____.A. settledB. disappearedC. establishedD. changed33. Prof. Finkelstein conducted the new pollen study to _____.A. earn some moneyB. discover the ancient civilizationsC. learn more about local plantsD. recreate ancient Israel34. By conducting the study, scientists found _____.A. Mediterranean trees were rare in the Early Bronze AgeB. climate change was to blame for the lost civilizationC. people in the Late Bronze Age starved to deathD. droughts were rare during the Bronze Age35. The text is most probably taken from _____.A. a newspaper reportB. a history textbookC. a travel magazineD. an agricultural book根据短文内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。