江西省南昌三中高三英语第二次（10月）月考试题.doc

南昌三中20152016学年度上学期第二次月考高三英语试卷第卷（共105分）第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小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. why cant the woman go to the party? a. because she doesnt want to. b. because she has to work. c. because she wants to eat in a restaurant. 2. whats the relationship between the two speakers? a. teacher and student. b. waiter and customer. c. patient and doctor. 3. what time is it? a. 8:45. b.8:15. . c.9:15. 4. what does the man want to learn? a. russian. b. spanish. c. english. ;5. what does the man believe? a. there must be many thieves around. b. he was wrong to have placed his wallet on the desk. c. his wallet was stolen during the past hour.第二节（共15小题; 每小1分，满分15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，各个小题将给出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 does the man suggest? a. going to a park. b. going for a swim. c. helping work in the park.7. when and where are they going to meet? a. after 2 o clock at the gate of the park. b. exactly at 2 oclock at the womans home. c. before 2 oclock at the mans home.听第 7段材料,回答第 8至 10题。 8. where did sue spend the nights in the country? a. in a farm house. b. in the open air. c. at a hotel. 9. what was the weather like in the country? a. it snowed a lot. b. it rained nearly every day. c. there was a lot of sunshine. 10. what did sue think of the people in the country? a. they were tall. b. they were strange. c. they were friendly.听第 8段材料,回答第 11至 13题。 11. where did the teacher talk with jack? a. at home. b. outside school. c. in the classroom. 12. what was mrs. smith going to do? a. visit jacks father. b. make a phone call to jacks father. c. she didnt know what to do.13. when did the teacher see jacks parents? a. yesterday. b. half a year ago. c. the day before yesterday.听第 9段材料,回答第 14至 16题14. what are they talking about at first? a. an exam. b. the mans english. c. a football match.15. what do we learn from the dialogue? a. the woman is very good at english. b. the woman likes football better than the man.c. the man didnt do well in the exam.16. what do we know about the man? a. he isnt so good at football as at english. b. he is interested in football.c. he doesnt like to watch tv.听第 10段材料,回答第 17至20题 17. what did lincolns father do? a. teacher. b. worker. c. farmer.18. why couldnt lincoln go to school? a. his family was too poor. b. he wanted to teach himself. c. there was no school near his home. 19. how did little lincoln feel most of the time on the farm? a. happy. b. unhappy. c. angry. 20. how long did mrs. lincoln make a trip to town? a. a whole day. b. a quarter of a day. c. three days.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 ，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。 ahomestay provides english language students with the opportunity to speak english outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a british home.what to expectthe host will provide accommodation and meals. rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week.you will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.accommodation zoneshomestays are located in london mainly in zones 2, 3 and 4 of the transport system. most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central london is commercial and not residential . zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowded area. it is very convenient to travel in london by underground.meal plans availableu continental breakfastu breakfast and dinneru breakfast, packed lunch and dinnerits important to note that few english families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. your accommodation includes continental breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal, bread and tea or coffee. cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a continental breakfast in england. dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee.friendsif you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your hosts permission. you have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.selfcatering accommodation in private homesaccommodation on a room-only basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room.this kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the longstay student. however, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practise english at home quite as much.21the passage is probably written for _.aforeigners hoping to build british culture bhosts willing to receive foreign studentscenglish learners applying to live in english homesdtravellers planning to visit families in london22which of the following will the host provide?amedical care. broom cleaning.cphysical training. dfree transport. 23what can be inferred from paragraph 3?athe business centre of london is probably in zone 1. bzone 4 is more crowded than zone 2. chosts dislike travelling to the city centre. daccommodation in the city centre is not provided.24why do some people choose selfcatering accommodation?ato enrich their knowledge of english. bto experience a warmer family atmosphere.cto enjoy much more freedom. dto entertain friends as they like.bin the fall of 1985, i was a bright-eyed girl heading off to howard university, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a supreme court bench somewhere. twenty-one years later i am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.my grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. she was the first in our family to reach that goal. but one year after i started college, she developed cancer. i made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. it meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.then i got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopted and biological children. in 1999, we adopted our first son. to lay eyes on him was fantasticand very emotional. a year later came our second adopted boy. then followed son no.3. in 2003, i gave birth to another boy.you can imagine how fully occupied i became, raising four boys under the age of 8! our home was a complete zooa joyous zoo. not surprising, i never did make it back to college fulltime. but i never gave up on the dream either. i had only one choice: to find a way. that meant taking as few as one class each semester.the hardest part was feeling guilty about the time i spent away from the boys. they often wanted me to stay home with them. there certainly were times i wanted to quit, but i knew i should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.in 2007, i graduated from the university of north carolina. it took me over 21 years to get my college degree!i am not special, just single-minded. it always struck me that when youre looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when youre in the midst of it, it just seems normal. everything you want wont arrive in your life on one day. its a process. remember: little steps add up to big dreams.25why did the author quit school in her second year of college?ashe suffered from a serious illness. bshe decided to look after her grandma.c. she wanted to study by herself. dshe fell in love and got married.26what can we learn about the author from paragraphs 4 and 5?ashe wanted to remain a fulltime housewife.bshe was too confused to make a correct choice.cshe was busy yet happy with her family life. dshe ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. 27what does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?aevery coin has two sides. bwell begun, half done.cfailure is the mother of success. dlittle by little, one goes far. 28which of the following can best describe the author?aambitious and sensitive. binnocent and singleminded.ccaring and determined. dhonest and responsible. cin business, theres a speed difference: its the difference between how important a firms leaders say speed is to their competitive strategy and how fast the company actually moves. the difference is important regardless of industry and company size. companies fearful of losing their competitive advantage spend much time and money looking for ways to pick up the speed.in our study of 343 businesses, the companies that chose to go, go, go to try to gain_an_edge ended up with lower sales and operating incomes than those that paused at key moments to make sure they were on the right track. whats more, the firms that “slowed down to speed up” improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating incomes over a three-year period.how did they dis-obey the laws of business physics, taking more time than competitors yet performing better? they thought differently about what “slower” and “faster” mean. firms sometimes fail to understand the difference between operational speed (moving quickly) and strategic speed (reducing the time it takes to deliver value). simply increasing the speed of production, for example, may be one way to try to reduce the speed difference. but that often leads to reduced value over time, in the form of lower quality products and services.in our study, higher performing companies with strategic speed always made changes when necessary. they became more open to ideas and discussion. they encouraged new ways of thinking. and they allowed time to look back and learn. by contrast, performance suffered at firms that moved fast all the time, paid too much attention to improving efficiency, stuck to tested methods, didnt develop team spirit among their employees, and had little time thinking about changes.strategic speed serves as a kind of leadership. teams that regularly take time to get things right, rather than plough ahead full bore, are more successful in meeting their business goals. that kind of strategy must come from the top.29what does the underlined part “gain an edge” in paragraph 2 mean?areach the limit. bset a goal.cincrease the speed. dget an advantage.30what can we learn from the text?afirms guided by strategic speed take time to make necessary changes.bfirms guided by operational speed take time to develop necessary team spirit.chow fast a firm moves depends on how big it is.dhow competitive a firm is depends on what it produces.31which could be the best title for the text?areduce time? move faster. bneed speed? slow down.cimprove quality? serve better. ddeliver value? plough ahead.dsince the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. braincomputer interface (bci) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.recently, two researchers, jose millan and michele tavella from the federal polytechnic school in lausanne, switzerland, demonstrated a small robotic wheelchair directed by a persons thoughts.in the laboratory, tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right hand. he could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.“our brain has billions of nerve cells. these send signals through the spinal cord (脊髓) to the muscles to give us the ability to move. but spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles.” tavella says. “our system allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control devices.”the researchers designed a special cap for the user. this head cover picks up the signals from the scalp (头皮) and sends them to a computer. the computer interprets the signals and commands the motorized wheelchair. the wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects in its path. they help the computer react to commands from the brain.prof. millan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. “the practical possibilities that bci technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices. one example is this wheelchair.”he says his team has set two goals. one is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from. and the other is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time.32bci is a technology that can _.a. help the disabled to recover b. control a persons thoughtsc. help to update computer systems d. link the human brain with computers33how did tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?a. by moving his hand. b. by using his mind.c. by controlling his muscles. d. by talking to the machine.34which of the following shows the path of the signals described in paragraph 5?a. scalpcapcomputerwheelchairb. capcomputerscalpwheelchairc. scalpcomputercapwheelchaird. computercapscalpwheelchair35which of the following would be the best title for the text?a. bci could mean more freedom for the disabledb. robotic vehicles could help to cure brain injuriesc. switzerland, the bci research centerd. new findings about how the human brain works第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。a great life doesnt happen by accident. it is the result of allocating(分配) your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. it is the result of using what you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next.36._ ssimplify. a great life is the result of simplifying your life. people often misinterpret what simplify means. its not a way to remove work from your life. 37._ in order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.eeffort. a great life is the result of your best effort. creating it requires that you make some adjustments. it may mean re-evaluating how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a different way. life will reward your best effort. ccreate priorities（首要事情）. a great life is the result of creating priorities. its easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way thats important to you. 38._rremove distractions (分心). a great life is the result of removing distractions. 39._ removing distractions can be a difficult concept to many people, since they havent really considered that there is another way to live. find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you. tthoughts. 40._ your belief in the outcome will directly determine how successful you are. motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them. believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love.a. a great life is the result of controlling your mind so that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to you! b. a great life is the result of having reservesreserves of things, time, space, energy and money.c. focus on removing the obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your priorities.d. today, right now, is the right day to start to take a step in the direction of your hearts desires.e. when you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here.f. now please use “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today.g. up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that stop you concentrating.第三部分：英语知识运用（共三节；满分50分）第一节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从3655各题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。last christmas while staying with my parents, i 41 across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. these letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and 42 with dust. deciding to read and sort them, i asked them if i could take the letters back to my illinois home. they 43 .as i carefully opened each letter, 44 of them fragile with age, i discovered a new page 45 unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents lives. my father used to 46 in the army. so his letters were full of fr