赣州市十四县（市）2019届高三上学期期中联考
英语试卷
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。全卷满分150分，考
试时间120分钟。
第I卷（选择题共100分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节听下面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。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。
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1. What does Mrs. Jones do every day?
千年木A. Play tennis.
B. Work overtime.
C. Go jogging.
2. What does the apartment lack according to the man?
A. Laundry machines.
B. Decorations.
C. Bedroom furniture.
3. How many pages has the man written?
A. Two.
B. Eight.
C. Ten.
4. What will the woman probably do next?
A. Turn left.
B. Turn back.
C. Park the car.
5. Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a café.
B. At a gas station.
C. At a parking lot.
第二节听下面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。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. Why won’t the man take Flight F8008?
A. It’s not a direct flight.
B. It leaves too early in the morning.
C. The tickets are not available.
7. When will the man go to New York?
A. On Wednesday.
B. On Tuesday.
C. On Monday.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the woman’s attitude towards taking up golf?
A. Careful.
B. Negative.
C. Confident.
9. According to the woman, why is she considering the sport?
A. To feel young again.
B. To have more exerci.
C. To spend more time with her husband.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where does the man notice the red things first?
A. On the woman’s legs.
B. On the woman’s face.
C. On the woman’s arms.
11. What might cau the red things?
A. A plant.
B. Some food.
C. Oily skin.
12. What will the woman probably do next?
A. Go to the drugstore.
B. Eat something different.
C. Receive hospital treatment.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does the man want to get?
A. A crazy haircut.
B. A nail special.
C. A basic haircut.
14. When does the man get his hair cut?
A. At 3:30.
B. At around 3:00.
C. At about 4:00.
15. Where does the man live?
A. In New York.
B. In Los Angeles.
C. In Washington
D.C.
16. What does the man do for a living?
A. He works for a newspaper.
B. He works as a novelist.
C. He works for the government.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why was the postage rate high in the early times?
A. Many people were employed to put stamps on envelopes.
B. The post offices had to nd many people to collect the postage.
C. The post offices had to nd many people to deliver letters.
作文大全450字18. Who was Rowland Hill?
A. A schoolmaster.
B. A postman.
C. A government official.
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19. How can the post office prevent people from reusing the stamps?
A. By coloring them.
B. By putting als on them.
C. By collecting them back.
20. When did people first begin to u stamps?
A. In 1919.
B. In 1900.
C. In 1840.
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz said, “The art of the festival has been debad（下降）almost everywhere el, but not in Mexico.” Here are veral events that would have made him proud:
Morelia International Film Festival
The Morelia film fest really brings this colonial city to life in mid-October. Created as a platform for documentaries and fiction works, the programming offers an up-clo look at Mexican society as en through the eyes of a new generation of filmmakers. Fashionable bars and sidewalk cafes are buzzing with activity around the main square, where crowds gather nightly for open-air screenings and other cultural events.
Day of the Dead
合同到期公司不续签Each year on November 1st and 2nd, Mexico turns its thoughts to the departed during the Day of the Dead festivities, a colorful tradition deeply rooted in native culture. For Mexicans, death is more a cau for celebration than mourning, and that spirit has been kept very much alive in Pátzcuaro, the Día de Muertos mecca. Prepare yourlf to battle large crowds of the living.
Carnival in Veracruz &Mazatlán
Mexico hosts many carnival celebrations every year featuring exciting parades, dance performances, live music and of cour, big-time partying. The nine-day event in Veracruz, Mexico’s biggest carnival, usually kicks off in March, right around the same time when festivities get started on the Pacific coast in Mazatlán. You can shake your body with salsa music in Veracruz or the brass band sounds of Mazatlán.对电子商务的认识
La Morisma
An all-out war erupts on the streets of colonial Zacatecas, usually around late August. OK, well, it’s actually a mock battle with well over 2,000 participants re-enacting battles between the Christians and Moors in old Spain. The faux（假的）soldiers attack one another while accompanied on the streets by bands of musicians.
21. How do the Mexicans feel when the Day of the Dead comes?
A. Calm
B. Anxious
C. Scared
D. Happy
22. What can people enjoy in both Carnival in Veracruz &Mazatlán and La Morisma?
A. Exciting parades
B. Dance performances.
C. Live music.
D. A mock battle
23. What is the purpo of the text?
A. To tell something about a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
B. To introduce some famous Mexican festivals.
C. To advi readers to join in the Mexican events.
D. To criticize the bad customs of Mexican festivals.
B
One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surpri test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor handed out the question paper, with the text facing down as usual. Once he handed them all out, he asked his students to turn the page and begin. To everyone's surpri, there were no questions but a black dot in the center of the page. The professor eing the expression on everyone' face, told them the following, “I want you to write what you e there.”
The students were confud and got started on the inexplicable (令人不解的) task.
At the end of the class the professor took all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them with no exceptions, described the black dot, explained its林距离
position in the middle of the sheet, imagined what the black dot stood for and so on.
After all had been read, the classroom was silent. The professor began to explain, “I am not going to grade on you this time. I just wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focud on the black dot and the same happens in our lives. We have a white paper to obrve and enjoy, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is filled with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate—nature renewing itlf every day, our friends around us, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles we e every day…”
In fact, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots—the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the disappointment with a friend, etc. Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life. The dark spots are very small compared to everything we have in our lives, so enjoy each moment that life gives you.
24. Why did the students feel confud about the test?
A. The professor didn’t ask them to prepare for the test.
B. There was totally nothing on the question paper.
C. It was too hard for them to answer the questions.
D. They hadn't en such an unusual question paper before.
25. Which of the following is NOT mentioned on the students’ answer papers?
A. The meaning of the black dot.
B. The description of the black dot.
C. The white part of the paper.
D. The position of the black dot.
26. What is the professor’s purpo in giving this test?
A. To show the students how hard the life is.
B. To remind the students of the joys in life.
C. To let the students know their shortcomings.
D. To encourage the students to study harder.喊的英文
27. What does the underlined ntence in the last paragraph mean?
A. Don't pay attention to the hardship in life.
B. Remove the black spots out of our life.
C. Don't focus on others’ faults but yours.
D. Remember you can’t e all the things in life.
C
One of the questions surrounding climate change is how it might affect the food supply for a growing global population. A new study suggests that rearchers have been overlooking how two key human respons to climate—how much land people choo to farm, and the number of crops they plant—will affect food production in the future. The new study focud on the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an
