浏阳一中2015年下学期高二第三次英语月考试卷
命题教师 沈艳 审题教师 蒋晶 2015.12
第一部分 听力 （共两节， 满分30分） 第一节
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. Who is the man looking for?
A. His brother. B. His teacher. C. His classmate. 2. What is difficult for the speakers?
A. Finding the professor’s office. B. Asking the professor for help. C. Solving the problem on their own.
3. Why can’t Henry go to the game with the woman?
A. He is sick. B. He is going out with someone else. C. He has to finish a paper. 4. What will the speakers do next?
A. Keep waiting for the bus. B. Take Bus No.10. C. Take a taxi. 5. What does the woman mean?
A. She will definitely come to the barbecue. B. She will have to miss the barbecue. C. She thinks the man is joking. 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，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. Why is the woman making the purchase?
A. For an interview. B. For a wedding. C. For a conference. 7. What does the woman think of the suit?
A. It’s a real bargain. B. It makes her look young. C. The price is still high. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. What will the woman do first on Saturday?
A. Attend a presentation. B. Go to a basketball game. C. Have a lunch meeting. 9. Who is Larry?
A. The woman’s son. B. A client from Malaysia. C. The woman’s co-worker. 10. How does the man sound in the end? A. Annoyed.
B.Satisfied.
C. Surprised.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. How will the woman travel to New York? A. By train. A. Traveling.
B. By car.
C. By bus.
12. What do Laura and the woman both like?
B. Music.
C. Sports.
13. What do we know about Laura?
A. She will go camping this Saturday. B. She was the woman’s classmate. C. She has just moved to a new place.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What does the woman do for a living?
A. She owns a hotel. B. She is a travel agent. C. She works for a website. 15. What is the disadvantage of beach resorts hotels?
A. They don’t offer good food. B. The price is too high. C. They’re hard to find. 16. Why did the woman make a complaint about the room in Canada?
A. The bed was a mess. B. The kitchen was very dirty. C. The bathroom was too small.
17. When did the hotel in Canada give the woman her money back?
A. After she stayed there for one night. B. Right when she asked for it. C. After she called the police. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What do we know about Golden Gate Park?
A. It is one and a half miles wide. B. It is far from the ocean. C. It is open year-round. 19. What can be found on the eastern side of the park?
A. A parking lot. B. A museum. C. A tea garden. 20. What does the speaker suggest doing in the Botanical Gardens? A. Taking a nap. B. Riding a bike. C. Having a picnic.
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。
A
Exploit your parking space
An unused parking space or garage can make money. If you live near a city center or an airport, you could make anything up to ￡200 or ￡300 a week. Put an advertisement for free on Letpark or Atmyhousepark. Rent（出租）a room
Spare room Not only will a lodger（房客）earn you an income, but also, thanks to the
government-backed “rent a room” program, you won’t have to pay any tax on the first ￡4500 you make per year. Try advertising your room on Roomspare or Roommateeasy. Make money during special events
Don’t want a full-time lodger? Then rent on a short-term basis. If you live in the capital, renting a room out during the Olympics or other big events could bring in money. Grashpadder can advertise your space. Live on set
Renting your home out as a “film set” could earn you hundreds of pounds a day, depending on the film production company and how long your home is needed. A quick search on the Internet will bring up dozens of online companies that allow you to register your home for free—but you will be charged if your home gets picked. Use your roof
You need the right kind of roof, but some energy companies pay the cost of fixing solar equipment (around ￡14,000), and let you use the energy produced for nothing. In return, they get paid for
unused energy fed back into the National Grid. However, you have to sign a 25-year agreement with the supplier, which could prevent you from changing the roof.
21. If you earn ￡5000 from renting a room in one year, the tax you need to pay will be based on ______.
A. ￡800 B. ￡500 C. ￡4500 D. ￡5000 22. If you want to use energy free, you have to_____.
A. sign an agreement with the government B. pay around ￡14,000 for the equipment C. sell the roof to some energy companies D. keep the roof unchanged for within 25 years 23. For whom the text most probably written？
A. Lodgers. B. Advertisers. C. House owners. D. Online companies
B
You're in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:
\And it's a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome.\
They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. It's nice and the price is right. You've never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes.
Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it.
Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that don't pay attention to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation ---- consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but they don't trust ads. So advertising agencies hire young actors to \adults go. Some people might call this practice deceptive (骗人的), but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. \Its effectiveness is decreasing.\However, one might ask what exactly is \sweater? Advertising executives would say it's no less real than an ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don' t know when a conversation you overhear is just a performance.
24. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could _____. A. get the sweater at a lower price B. decide on buying the sweater C. be admired by other shoppers D. be heard by people around 25. Lorenzo Bertolla is _____.
A. a very popular male singer B. an advertising agency C. the brand name of a sweater D. a clothing company in Rome 26. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. Traditional advertising will soon disappear in the market. B. The MTV generation tend to be more easily influenced by ads. C. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government.
D. Traditional advertising is becoming less effective because it's too direct. 27. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Two Attractive Shoppers B. Lorenzo Bertolla Sweaters C. Undercover Marketing D. Ways of Advertising
C
American culture is unique because it is formed and developed under certain conditions. The major factors contributing to the making of this new nation and the forming of a new culture are the hard environment, ethnic diversity (多样性；差异) and plural religion, which is quite different from other nations in the world. What is more, these elements are still influencing the American culture. The early immigrants（移民）who were English Puritans settled down in northeast part of America from 1607 to 1892. Frontiers were pushed further west. The frontiersmen looked for a land of rich resources and a land of promise, opportunity and freedom. Actually they looked for a better life. So individualism(个人主义), self-reliance, and equality of opportunity have perhaps been the values most closely associated with the frontier heritage（遗产）of America.
In history, people from different countries in the world rushed to America three times. They brought their own culture to America and later on, different cultures were mixed together. Thus the unique American culture was formed, a common cultural life with commonly shared values.
The fundamental American belief in individual freedom and the fight of individuals to practice their own religion is at the center of religious experience in the United States. The great diversity of ethnic backgrounds has produced religious pluralism(多元化); almost all of the religions of the world are now practiced in the United States.
Nowadays, we can see the continual influence of the three elements in the current American society. American family is typically parents and their unmarried children. Middle-aged and elderly people generally do not live with their married children. The people in America have a very strong desire to start a new life in a new place. Quite a number of people change residences every year. The average American moves fourteen times in his lifetime. 28. We can learn from this article that ________.
A. the population of the United States includes a large variety of ethnic groups B. the early immigrants brought about the unique American culture C. people in the world once rushed to America because of its unique culture
D. the American family members don't get along well with each other 29. What's the author's attitude towards American culture?
A. He is critical of it. B. He admires it very much. C. He just states the facts. D. He looks down upon it. 30．The last paragraph is about________. A．the family structure in American society
B．the influence of the three elements in the current American society C．the new life style of American family
D．the reason why American people like to change residences 31．What might be the most suitable title of this article?
A．The Immigrants in America B．Why American Culture Is Unique C．The Influence of American Culture D．Plural Religion and American Culture
D
Can you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age.
Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力) of some people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.
The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. One of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identify the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time.
Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Here's where the trick lies in. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles —making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles—so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle.
When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, they weren't fooled—they were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy(准确性) as before. Older children and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.
As children get older, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the orange circle in the middle. As a result, they're more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.
32. Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate_____________. A. children's and adults' eye-sight B. people's ability to see accurately C. children's and adults' brains D. the influence of people's age 33 When asked to find the larger circle,_____________.
A. children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of the time with no gray ones around B. only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones around C. children at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones around D. adults got it right most of the time with gray ones around 34. According to the passage, we can know that_____________. A. a smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white background B. an orange circle appears bigger than a gray one of the same size C. a circle surrounded by other circles looks bigger than its real size D. a circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size 35. Why are younger children not fooled?_____________. A. Because their brain can hardly notice related things together. B. Because older people are influenced by their experience.