福州市2017—2018学年第一学期高三期末考试
英语试卷
（在此卷上答题无效）
（考试时间：120分钟;试卷满分:150分） 注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需 改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本 试卷上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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。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 —遍。
1. Why doesn’t the man buy the shoes? A. He doesn't take enough money. B. His daughter won’t like them. C. He can’t afford them.
2. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The Changjiang River.
B. The second longest river in China. C. The longest river in the world. 3. Who keeps Cherry’s ruler now? A. Cooper. B. Catherine. C. John.
4. Which place will the woman go through first? A. Ragsdale. B. Pomona. C. Sun Village. 5. How does the woman sound? A. Confused.B. Worried.C. Angry.
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。 听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。 6. Where are the speakers?
A. At the counter. B. On the plane. C. At the airport. 7. When will the plane get to Paris? A. 10:00. B. 11:40. C. 10:40.
听下面一段对话,回答第8和第9两个小题。 8. What is the woman going to do? A. Paint the room herself.
B. Move to the Mission Inn Hotel. C. Ask her son to stay in another hotel.
9. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Mother and son. B. House owner and renter. C. Receptionist and customer.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。 10. What are the speakers talking about? A. The jewelry. B. A robbery. C. A fact.
11. Which of the following is marked?
A. The computer. B. The jewelry. C. The fridge.
12. What do we know about the woman’s husband? A. He has found some traces.
B. He is on the way back from Canada. C. He has no idea what has happened.
听下面一段对话,回答第13至第16四个小题。 13. Which course is the longest?
A. The cha-cha course. B. The tango course. C. The waltz course.
14. When will the woman be free on Tuesday?
A. From 10-00 to 12-00. B. From 3-30 to 5:30. C. From 4:00 to 6:00. 15. Where will the cha-cha course be taught?
A. In the covered playground. B. In the Music Room. C. In the School Hall.
16. Whose class does the man decide to have? A. June’s. B. Rose’s. C. Cathy’s.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。 17. Who is the speaker?
A. A tour guide. B. A visitor. C. An art lover.
18. What do we know about The Wild Duck? A. It was written by Shakespeare. B. It is played by Ibsen at the theatre.
C. People can watch it in the small theatre. 19. What can the visitors do on the third floor?
A. See paintings. B. Have snacks. C. Enjoy a show.
20. When should the visitors leave? A. Before 10*45. B. At about 11:15. C. Around 11:30.
A
Here are some professions Americans consider to be the most honest. Maybe the rest of us can learn from what these people do to establish good relationships with others. MEDICAL DOCTORS
Jack Jacoub Age： 44, Fountain Valley, California
I try to introduce myself in a pleasant way. I sit down； I don’t stand. I make good eye contact with the patient and his or her family. Communication skills are key, as well as showing understanding and availability. For a physician, the single most rewarding thing is when someone who has seen your work chooses you. ENGINEERS
Chrissy Keane Age： 41, Crofton, Maryland
I don’t know that being an engineer means you are automatically trustworthy.
However, I do think that most engineers like to follow rules and be organized. They tell you what they think, whether you want to hear it or not. Those are important elements in building trust.
POLICE OFFICERS
G. M. Cox Age： 64, Fort Worth, Texas
As a police officer, I have the best interests of the people I serve in my heart and in my actions and I’m going to treat everyone the same way. I always want to go up to people and speak to them with respect. Don’t talk down to them. You have to establish and maintain that trust. Be equal!
21. What does Jack Jacoub think important to do his job? A. Being communicative. B. Experience.
C. Self-introduction. D. Being open-minded. 22. How does G. M. Cox treat people in his job? A. Strictly. B. Cautiously. C. Equally. D. Actively. 23. What do they have in common?
A. they are warmhearted. B. They deserve trust. C. They follow rules. D. They are good organizers.
B
A Chinese high-tech company is building the world’s first small-sized unmanned cargo ship （货 船），showing that China is taking the lead in the unmanned surface vehicle industry.
On Wednesday, the Shenzhen-based Oceanalpha Co Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding with Wuhan University of Technology, the Chinese Classification Society and the Zhuhai municipal government to start a project that will result in the small-sized unmanned surface vehicle, or USV.
“It will be the first USV that is entirely developed with Chinese technology and guided by the Beidou navigation system,” said Sun Feng, vice-president of CCS. The vehicle will be put into commercial operation by 2019.
Such unmanned vehicles are expected to lower the number of human-error incidents at sea, reduce labor costs and cut emissions（排放）by using batteries instead of gas.
“ Over 70 to 80 percent of incidents that happened in the sea are man-made, and 40 percent of the entire running cost goes to human labor,” said Zhang Yunfei, founder of Oceanalpha.
“Using USVs can largely reduce the cost and incidents. Also, the vehicle body is much lighter, which enables it to be powered by batteries instead of gas, greatly cutting down the emission, he said.
Early this year, Oceanalpha launched an unmanned guard vehicle, which has already been adopted for military（军队的）use. 24. What is the passage mainly about ?
A. A Chinese high-tech company. B. A breakthrough in ocean research. C. A Chinese-foreign joint project. D. An advancement in a water vehicle.
25. What do we know about the unmanned USV?
A. It is invented by a Chinese engineer. B. It is a result of many-sided efforts. C. Its running cost goes to human labor. D. It has been put into mass-production.
26. What can be inferred from Zhang Yunfei’s words? A. USVs will have fewer crew members. B. It takes more human labor to run USVs. C. There will be no accidents by using USVs. D. The change of power reduces the emission. 27. What field will the USV be used in?
A. Business. B. Military. C. Education. D. Science.
C
A new study suggests that tiny oi^anisms living underground may store most of the carbon in Swedish forest floors. That’s a good thing for the environment: If the carbon remains hidden in the soil, then it’s not escaping into the atmosphere. There, it could contribute to global warming.
These organisms, called mycorrhizal fungi （菌根真菌），grow on tree roots. They provide trees with nutrients in exchange for their sugars, which contain carbon.
Scientists had long believed that most of the carbon sits above ground. But the new study suggests most carbon is trapped in the soil. Carbon is a building block of every living organism, from people and fish to bacteria and trees. Trees are masters at stashing carbon. They breathe in carbon dioxide from the air. They use the carbon to grow branches, leaves and roots. But the element moves around. If a tree falls down and rots — or is cut down and burned — its carbon goes back into the air as carbon dioxide. Too much of the gas in the air can foster global warming.
In cold northern forests, like those in Sweden, fallen leaves and branches take a long time to rot. That means the carbon in those materials can stay put for a long time.
To learn more about what a tree does with its carbon, ecologists at the Swedish University collected soil from 30 forested Swedish islands. Tliey then measured the amount and age of the carbon in the samples. The scientists found that deeper, fungi-filled soils contained more carbon than soils from the surface of the forest floor.
When the scientists dated the carbon in the samples, they got a surprise: They found “ young” carbon in deeper soils. The researchers had expected to find young carbon only in soils closer to the surface of the forest floor. The only explanation, they say：The young carbon came from the underground fungi that swallow carbon-containing sugars from tree roots.
With the new findings, scientists may better understand soil’s role in storing carbon. That information could help improve forecasts for global warning.
28. How do fungi grow?
A. They consume carbon dioxide. B. They digest fallen tree branches. C. They absorb nutrients from the soil. D. They obtain sugars from tree roots. 29. What does the underlined word “stashing” in Para. 3 mean? A. Storing. B. Reducing. C. Transforming. D. Producing. 30. Why were the scientists surprised at the findings?
A. Young carbon was found in the surface of the forest floor. B. The findings could not be explained scientifically. C. The findings proved their previous ideas wrong.
D. It is hard to find young carbon in the underground fungi. 31. Which of the following can be the best tide for the text? A. Fungi In Cold Northern Forests B. Fungi As Carbon Keepers C. Fungi On the Roots of Trees D. Fungi In the Deep Soil
D
Smile, you’re on body cam
As camera technology gets smaller and cheaper, it isn’t hard to imagine a future where we’re all filming everything all the time, in every direction.
Would that be a good thing? There are some obvious potential upsides. If people know they are on camera, especially when at work or using public services, they are surely less likely to misbehave. Another upside is that it would be harder to get away with crimes or to escape from blame for accidents.
Body-cam data could also create a legal minefield. Arguments over the truth and interpretation of police footage（影像）have already surfaced. Eventually, events not caught on camera could be treated as if they didn’t happen. Alternatively, footage could be faked or doctored to avoid blame or do wrong to others.
Of course, some people think that if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. But most people have done something embarrassing, or even illegal, that they regret and would prefer hadn’t been caught on film. People already remove their social media feeds or avoid doing anything wrong in public—for fear of damaging their reputation.
The always-on-camera world could even threaten some of the qualities that make us human. We are natural persons who enjoy talking about other people’s private lives and while those might not be desirable behaviours, they oil the wheels of our social interactions. Once people assume they are being filmed, they are likely to keep silent.
The argument in relation to body-cam ownership is a bit like that for guns： once you go past a critical threshold（临界阐值），almost everyone will feel they need one as an insurance policy. We are nowhere near that point yet—but we should think hard about whether we really want to say lights, body cam, action.
32. What does the underlined word “upsides” in Para. 2 refer to? A. Advantages. B. Rules. C. Shortcomings. D. Dangers. 33. Why do people argue about police footage? A. Police footage can show the truth.
B. Events caught on footage are treated unfairly. C. Police footage could be changed on purpose. D. Footage should not be filmed by police.