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1、1 2018-2019 学年下学期高三期中考试卷学年下学期高三期中考试卷 英英 语语 注注意意事事项项： 1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题 卡上的指定位置。用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型A 后的方框涂黑。 2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试 题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 3.非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡 上的非答题区域均无效。 4.考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。 第第卷卷 第第一一部部分分 听听力力（共
2、共两两节节，满满分分 3 30 0 分分）( (略略) ) 第第二二部部分分 阅阅读读理理解解（共共两两节节，满满分分4 40 0 分分） 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 Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had
3、 “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate. In high school, with the encouragement of
4、one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher w
5、ho helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the universitys Writers Workshop, however, she felt lonelya Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “creative voice”
6、. “It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I 2 knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didnt think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! Thats when I decided I would write abo
7、ut something my classmates couldnt write about.” Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book talks about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child
8、. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a childrens book, and a short-story collection. 21. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood? A. She had seven bro
9、thers. B. She felt herself a nobody. C. She was too shy to go to school. D. She did not have any good teachers. 22. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _. A. run away from her family B. develop her writing style C. make a lot of friends D. search for a husband 23. According to Cisneros, w
10、hat was the key factor in her success? A. Her feeling of being different. B. Her training in the Workshop. C. Her childhood experience. D. Her early years in college. 24. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street? A. It is quite popular among students. B. It is a book of poetry written by Cis
11、neros. C. It wasnt a success as it was written in Spanish. D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine. B Microsoft has developed a new smart phone app that interprets eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease to communicate with others from a phon
12、e. 3 The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphones camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements in real time and convert(改变) them into letters, words and sentences. For people suffering from ALS(渐冻症), also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to
13、 communicate. “Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS or other motor impairments are expensive, not robust under sunlight, and require frequent re-calibration and substantial, relatively immobile setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology. “To
14、mitigate the drawbackswe created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, robust, portable and easy to learn.” The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the sm
15、artphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate. The sticker shows four grids(方格) of letters, which each correspond to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids the letters they want belong to.
16、The artificial intelligence algorithm(程序) is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say. 25. What does the underlined word “mitigate” in paragraph 5 probably mean? A. IgnoreB. destroy C. IncreaseD. reduce 26. The passage mainly tells us _. A. The advantages of Gaze Speak over the Current eye-tracking input systems. B. Smartphone App helps ALS suffers speak with their eyes movement. C. The sticker plays an important role in Gaze Speak. D.
