长春外国语学校2015-2016学年高三上学期模拟试题(二)
英语试卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
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. When is Mary’s flight expected to arrive in London?
A. At about 7:30. B. At about 6:00. C. At about 5:30. 2. What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. Cook dinner. B. Buy food. C. Have a rest. 3. Where will the man probably do tennis practice? A. In a gym. B. In a park. C. In a garden. 4. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
A. Some tickets. B. A festival. C. A music hall. 5. How does the woman feel about the man? A. Angry. B. Envious. C. Pleased.
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 are the speakers talking about?
A. A hotel. B. A TV program. C. A trip. 7. What will the speakers do next?
A. Arrange the luggage. B. Go back home. C. Cook a meal. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Why does the man want to wear the hat? A. He’ll attend a party. B. He doesn’t have a hat. C. He wants to look cool.
9. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Brother and sister. B. Mother and son. C. Husband and wife. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Why does the man come to Africa?
A. To do business. B. To go on holiday. C. To publish books. 11. How will the man get to the university? A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot. 12. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a hotel. B. In a bookstore. C. In a company. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What does Sarah do?
A. A weather forecaster. B. A college student. C. A club owner. 14. Why did Sarah watch weather forecasts on TV when she was young? A. To read weather maps.
B. To find good weather for traveling.
C. To answer her science teacher’s questions. 15. What did Sarah’s mother do to help her?
A. She explained the weather charts patiently. B. She recorded the weather every day. C. She bought a computer for her.
16. What did the weather club members do?
A. They set up equipment to study the weather. B. They produced a book about the weather. C. They kept a daily weather diary.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Who is Playtime Online designed for?
A. 4-6-years-olds. B. 5-10-years-olds. C. 12-16-years-olds. 18. What is Moving UP aimed at?
A. Designing games for children to learn skills.
B. Developing children’s skills at math and language. C. Promoting the development of teachers’ qualities. 19. How can Net Aware help teenagers? A. By recommending safe websites.
B. By teaching them to use the Internet properly.
C. By getting them to realize the danger of the Internet. 20. Why do school students love Test Doctors? A. It offers tips on improving health. B. It has useful suggestions for exams. C. It presents lectures by specialists.
第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，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 I’m not so sure I like my friends any more.I used to like them—to be honest.We’d have lunch，talk on the phone or exchange emails，and they all seemed normal enough.But then came Facebook，and I was introduced to a sad fact：many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.
Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via Facebook.No longer hidden，they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials—unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities.
Take Fred.If you were to have lunch with him，you’d find him warm，and self-effacing(谦逊的)．Read his Facebook and you’ll realize he’s an unbearable，food-obsessed boring
man.He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man—and then write about it.
Take Andy.You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere，but now he’s a CEO without a company to run.So he plays Mafia Wars on Facebook.He’s doing well—level 731.Thanks to Facebook，I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day.Andy，you’ve run four companies—and this is how you spend your downtime？What happened to golf？What happened to getting another job? Take Liz.She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it.And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find，so I get to read his thoughts twice，once on Facebook and once on Twitter.
In real life，I don’t see these sides of people.Face to face，my friends show me their best.They’re nice，smart people.But face to Facebook，my friends are like a blind date which goes horribly wrong.
I’m left with a dilemma.Who is my real friend？Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine mad woman on Facebook？Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standards? 21．What’s Andy probably busy in doing now? A．He’s running his company. B．He’s playing golf all day. C．He’s looking for another job. D．He’s playing computer games.
22．The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to “ ”． A．a dilemma B．my real friend C．Facebook
D．Twitter
23．The text is developed mainly by . A．giving examples B．following the time order C．listing figures D．raising questions
B
The speaker，a teacher from a community college，addressed a sympathetic audience.Heads nodded in agreement when he said，“High school English teachers are not doing their jobs.”He described the inadequacies of his students，all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level.I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established.
My topic is not standards nor its decline．What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer
young；he has been teaching for sixteen years，and is able to think and speak like a mature adult. My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable.It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction.Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century，it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies．But since then，English teachers have been under constant attack. The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea.As their own command of the language improves，they notice that young people do not have this same ability.Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years，they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect.To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate.
Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today’s young people，it naturally follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.Otherwise，young people would not have a poor command of English. 24．In the author’s opinion，the speaker . A．gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students B．had exaggerated the language problems of the students
C．was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their jobs D．could think and speak intelligently
25．The author’s attitude towards the speaker’s remarks is . A．neutral B．positive C．critical D．compromising
26．It can be concluded from the passage that . A．it is justifiable to include English as a school subject
B．the author disagrees with the speaker over the standard of English at Grade 9 level C．English language teaching is by no means an easy job D．language improvement needs time and effort
C
Sunny countries are often poor.A shame，then，that solar power is still quite expensive.Eight19，a British company by Cambridge University，has，however，invented a novel way to get round this.In return for a deposit of around 10 it is supplying poor Kenyan families with a solar cell able to generate 2.5 watts of electricity，a battery that can deliver a three amp(安培) current to store this electricity，and a lamp whose bulb is a light-emitting diode(二极管)．The firm thinks that this system，once the battery is fully charged，is enough to light two small rooms and to power a mobile-phone charger for seven hours.Then，next day，it can be put outside and charged back up
again.
The trick is that，to be able to use the electricity，the system’s keeper must buy a scratch card—for as little as a dollar—on which is printed a reference number.The keeper sends this reference，plus the serial number of the household solar unit，by SMS to Eight19.The company’s server will respond automatically with an access code to the unit.
Users may consider that they are paying an hourly rate for their electricity.In fact，they are paying off the cost of the unit.After buying around 80 worth of scratch cards—which Eight19 expects would take the average family around 18 months—the user will own it.He will then have the option of continuing to use it for nothing，or of trading it in for a bigger one，perhaps driven by a 10-watt solar cell.
In that case，he would go then through the same process again，paying off the additional cost of the upgraded kit at a slightly higher rate.Users would therefore increase their electricity supply steadily and affordably.
According to Eight19’s figures，this looks like a good deal for customers.The firm believes the average energy-starved Kenyan spends around 10 a month on oil—enough to fuel a couple of smoky lamps—plus 2 on charging his mobile phone in the market-place.Regular users of one of Eight19’s basic solar units will spend around half that，before owning it completely.Meanwhile，as the cost of solar technology falls，it should get even cheaper.
27．The underlined word “get round” in the first paragraph can be replaced by “ ”． A．make use of B．come up with C．look into D．deal with
28．What should the user do when the electricity in the battery is used up? A．Buy a scratch card. B．Recharge it outside. C．Buy another solar cell. D．Return it to the company.
29．How much would users pay for the cell and scratch cards before they own a 2.5-watt solar cell?
A．Around 10. B．Around 80. C．Around 90. D．Around 180.
30．It can be inferred from the last paragraph that . A．Kenyan families would find it difficult to afford the solar cell B．using the solar cell would help Kenyan families save money C．few Kenyan families use mobile phones for lack of electricity D．the company will make a great profit from selling solar cells