2015-2016学年度第一学期十一校联考 高三英语试卷 (150分)
第I卷(103分)
I. Listening Comprehension(30分)
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. Two hours. B. Half an hour. C. An hour. D. An hour and a half. 2. A. She doesn’t like either one. C. She doesn’t agree with the man. 3. A. A teacher.
B. It’s a difficult decision.
D. It’s unimportant which one to choose. C. A dentist.
D. A bank clerk.
B. A shop assistant.
4. A. She had a new computer. C. She was busy in her office. B. She watched the volleyball match online. D. She was uninterested in the match. B. She will have coffee later.
D. She often has coffee before the discussion.
5. A. She doesn’t need any break while typing. C. She doesn’t like to have the discussion.
6. A. She will go out for running. B. She needs ￡1 at the moment.
C. She will go to the supermarket with the man. D. She needs some sugar.
7. A. She changed the reservation. C. She had an hour to go to the airport. 8. A. Stay in the garden. C. Watch TV.
B. She was late for the flight. D. She misunderstood the man. B. Join the man.
D. Do some housework. B. He learns painting.
D. He paints for the school.
B. She wonders where to pick up her card. D. The library is out of service today.
9. A. He writes for the school. C. He teaches art.
10. A. She hasn’t handed in her photo yet. C. The photo studio was closed. Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. The topics are too broad. C. The topics aren’t original. B. The topic papers are too long.
D. The topic papers aren’t in the textbook style.
12. A. To give students suggestions on what topic to choose. B. To help students to make proper revisions in their outlines.
C. To set a final date when students must hand in the research papers. D. To remind students of what they must include in the papers. 13. A. The outlines can be written in students’ favourite style. B. The outline papers must cover at least six pages.
C. Students must make clear their points at the beginning of their outlines. D. Students must hand in their final outlines before the conference. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. At age one.
B. At age two.
C. At age five.
D. At age seven.
15. A. She is the first in her family to act in movies. B. She used to appear in many romantic tragedies. C. She once gave up acting for a long time.
D. She is now an actress, a director and a producer. 16. A. Her films.
B. Her career.
C. Her company.
D. Her childhood.
Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer. Name: How many rooms: How many nights: Way of payment: Reservation Form Hamilton 17 Company Three (one double and two 18 ) Four, from 19 30th till November 5th By bank 20
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. What did the woman watch last night? What did the woman say about insects? Why are mosquitoes mentioned? How do mosquitoes respond to insecticide?
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A(16分)
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the
A program that was on 21 Channel last night. They are the 22 on earth. To illustrate that insects are 23 . They change 24
given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(A)
Strange things happen when you travel …
The Johnson family expected to see some whales when they rented a boat to sail around the Australian coast. But they didn’t expect a 30-foot humpback whale to leap out of the ocean onto their boat. Amazingly, no one was seriously hurt, not even (25) whale.
If you think that’s unbelievable, how about the story of Roger Lausier? Aged four, he had wandered away from his mother on Salem beach, Massachusetts and (26) (save) from drowning by a woman called Alice Blaise. After nine years, Roger was on the same beach when he saw a man fall overboard. Roger saved his life. The man turned out to be Alice Blaise’s husband.
Some of the most unbelievable travel stories, it seems, are about a pet. Charlie, a cat who decided to take a nap inside the engine of his neighbour’s car and was found after (27) (drive) 160 miles away. Luckily for him, he was completely unhurt.
What about the things people lose and find when they are travelling? Rings top the list. In Hawaii, Ken Da Vico, who is a professional diver, claims (28) (find) about fifteen wedding rings a year in the sea. He returns many of them to their owners. (29) a fish eats the ring, there is still hope. There are many reports (30) rings are found years later inside the stomachs of sharks, and other kinds of fish.
(B)
The World’s Best Restaurant
One day, my colleague and I went to visit a factory in Marinjab. As we drove back along the long road, (31) of us were hungry and tired. Our only hope was of finding a small roadside café to have some weak tea and a little sugar.
Just then we came to a village made of small huts with flat roofs. Outside one of the many huts (32) (be) a sign, “ghahvehkhaneh” (café) so we went in. It was cool inside, and the owner came in from the back and greeted us. “Good afternoon,” he said, (33) perfect English. “My name is Hosseini. We do not usually get any foreigners here. It will be a pleasure and an honour to prepare a meal for you.”
A pale-faced lady appeared with a tablecloth, and some knives and forks, shortly followed by Mr Hosseini himself, (34) (carry) a couple of bowls of soup. (35) (make) with spinach and yoghurt, it was the most delicious soup I have ever eaten. Soon, the next courses arrived. We ate in silence, and finished with Turkish coffee. We asked Mr Hosseini how much it (36) (cost), and I can tell you it was astonishingly cheap.
I told a lot of friends about the meal I had, but no one believed me. “How (37) you get such a meal A few months (38) (late), I returned on exactly the same route with this engineer friend. We reached in such a remote place?” an English engineer friend asked me.
the village but there was no sign of the café. It seemed (39) the building had never existed. We drove away disappointed. Naturally, my companion laughed at me. “You have a wonderful imagination,” he said. I don’t have any explanation. I only know that I definitely had a meal in this village, in a café (40) , ever since, I have called “the world’s best restaurant”.
Section B(10分)
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. allowed G. fictional
B. broadcast H. figures C. checked I. remote D. complaints E. degrade J. series K. unpleasant F. entertain
Reality TV began in the early 1980s, when a Japanese television company made a programme, Endurance. Starting with thousands of contestants in the first show, the programme presenters made them do really difficult and 41 things in every episode (集). The presenters made fun of the contestants, too. Viewing 42 in Japan were enormous. In another reality TV programme, Survivor, sixteen people are taken to a(n) 43 island and made to stay there for more than a month. They have to find their own food or go hungry. The producers let the contestants take one luxury item each. Every three days, one contestant must leave the island and the last person wins ￡1 million. It’s not just adults who take part in these shows. A television 44 in Britain in 2003, That’ll teach ‘em, took 30 teenagers and put them in a(n) 45 King’s school, where they lived for one month and received 1950s-style tuition. The pupils were made to wear thick 1950s school uniforms (including a school hat) during the hot summer and they had to do a long run every day. “They made us have cold showers and we had to have our hands 46 every day to see if they were clean,” says one pupil. “We couldn’t take anything from our modern lives into the school.” Although there was no prize money in this programme, the teenagers learned a lot from the experience. In 2004, there was a programme in Britain where contestants were not 47 to sleep for seven days to try to win ￡97,000 prize money. The winner was 19-year-old Clare Southern. However, this programme had many 48 from viewers. But where will it stop? Programmes like this are 49 all over the world. But there are people who think that these programmes 50 both the contestants and the viewers, and feel that contestants are often made to do dangerous things to make good television.
III. Reading Comprehension Section A(15分)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Think of three historical figures. What do you know about them? Where did you get your information from? The chances are that you either read it somewhere or someone who read it somewhere told you about it. Did you ever 51 who wrote down these facts? How can you be sure that they are 52 ? The thing is, many historical “facts” are not like what you know about them.
Let’s think about the 53 of America. What’s the first name that comes to mind? More than likely it’s Christopher Columbus. But is it the case? He had 54 to reach Asia and that’s where he thought he was when he came to America. But there were many people there before him. The first ones were 55 the Native Americans, thousands of years before 1492. Even the Vikings had made a number of expeditions, with Leif Eriksson landing there in around 1000 A.D. Perhaps Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, was the discoverer of America. 56 , unlike Columbus before him, he was the first fifteen-century explorer to realize where he was, or rather, where he definitely wasn’t. So, maybe the word “re-discover” is more 57 when it comes to Columbus, if history is to give him any credit at all.
Everyone believes such historical “facts” because, like you, they got them from what they thought was a 58 source. But how can such things be written down in the first place? One of the reasons must be that history is seldom “cut and dried”. The events are often complicated and 59 . Another reason is that such “facts” always 60 a grain of truth. Columbus was not the first person to travel to America, but he was the first fifteen-century explorer to go there. His “re-discovery” was, from a historical point of view, extremely 61
for Europe since his voyages opened up large-scale commerce between Europe and America.
History has 62 been written by the winners. If the conquered peoples had written the history of the discovery of the New World, it would most probably have been very different, but not necessarily objective: the point of view of the conquered can be just as 63 as the point of view of the conqueror. But that is not the 64 story. The writing of history depends not only on the “side” the writer is on, but also on the culture and attitudes of the era it is written in.
51. A. go over 52. A. complete 53. A. conquer 54. A. gone on 55. A. certainly 56. A. In addition 57. A. accurate 58. A. political 59. A. messy 60. A. exhibit 61. A. pointless
B. make up B. funny B. set out B. After all B. common B. secret B. clear B. overlook
C. see to C. strange C. discovery
D. think about D. true D. foundation D. taken on D. unbelievably D. For example D. familiar D. thorough D. evil D. contain D. purposeful D. unconsciously D. thoughtful D. false D. subjective
History is always 65 . So, remember: when you read history, take it with a pinch of salt. B. development B. historically
C. turned out C. necessarily C. To sum up C. harmonious C. reliable C. proper C. abandon
B. significant B. exceptionally B. changeable B. whole B. important
C. troublesome C. marvelously C. prejudiced C. famous
C. unexpected
62. A. traditionally 63. A. impersonal 64. A. real
65. A. inevitable
Section B(24分)
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Home to 8.2 million people, 36 percent of whom were born outside the United States, New York, known as the Big Apple, is the biggest city in America. Nearly twenty times bigger than the capital, Washington DC, you might expect New York to be twenty times more dangerous. Actually, it’s safer. Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100,000 people than 193 other US cities. It’s also healthier than it used to be. For example, the smoking rate has gone down from 21.5 percent a few years ago, to 16.9 percent today.
New Yorkers should be delighted, shouldn’t they? In fact, many feel that New York is losing its identity. It used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty (at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.
If you decided to have a picnic in Central Park, you’d need to be careful—if you decided to feed the birds with your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s banned. In many countries a mobile phone going off in the cinema is annoying. In New York it’s illegal. So is putting your bag on an empty seat in the subway. If you went to a bar for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er … no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City. In fact, you can’t smoke outdoors on the street or in parks either. The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, says, “Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray.” He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.