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2016届高三年级第二次四校联考英语试题2015.12命题：康杰中学 长治二中 忻州一中 临汾一中 【本试题分第I卷和第II卷两部分，时间120分钟，总分150分，听力不计入总分。】第I卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节 (共5小题; 每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面五段对话。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. What does the man think of his math class?A. Interesting. B. Boring. C. Difficult.2. What does the woman want to do first?A. Do her homework. B. Go to the cinema. C. Go to the concert.3. What are the two speakers talking about?A. The repair of the road. B. A traffic sign. C. Careful drivers.4. How much did the woman pay altogether? A. $ 50. B. $ 48. C. $ 52.5. What does the man mean?A. He will remain in the company. B. He will ask for more money. C. He will accept the womans advice.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至7题。6. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. In a shop. B. In a hotel. C. In the mans house.7. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. Clothes. B. The room. C. The cupboard.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What does the man ask the girl to do? A. Do some sports. B. Have a good rest. C. Do her homework.9. Whats wrong with the girls mother? A. She is tired after work every day. B. She is late for the sports activities.C. She has got some heart problems.10. What can we know about the girl? A. She is treated unfairly. B. She hates to do any sports. C. She is too tired to do any sports. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What does Dr. Brown do? A. A professor. B. A dentist. C. A teacher.12. When will the man meet Dr. Brown? A. At 2:00. B. At 2:30. C. At 3:00.13. What is the man worrying now? A. Dr. Brown may not return. B. He may feel painful. C. He may not be free in the afternoon.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What is the woman doing in the city now? A. Looking for a house. B. Looking for a job. C. Working in a company.15. What did the womans father advise her to do? A. Work on his farm. B. Live in the city. C. Go back to school.16. Why is it difficult to find a job in the city? A. Many factories are closed. B. Financial crisis happened. C. Many people are out of work. 17. What will the woman do if she cant find a job tomorrow? A. She will ask for her fathers advice. B. She will continue to look for a job in the city. C. She will return to her fathers farm in the countryside.听第10段材料，回答第18至第20小题。18. Where does Daniel come from? A. France. B. Poland. C. America.19. Why will the museum be built?A. In memory of the dead on Sep. 11, 2001. B. In memory of the US independence in 1776. C. To fill the hole in the heart of the city.20. Who will pay for the rebuilding costs? A. The American government. B. Relatives of the dead. C. Some American businessmen.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节 (共15小题; 每小题3分，满分45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。AProduct DescriptionLife Without Limits helps you clarify what you want in every area of your life. By using Bassetts powerful techniques you will change; therefore your life will change. You control your life. And only you can take steps to change it. Life Without Limits helps you take back your power.Life Without Limits helps you to achieve satisfaction and fulfillment personally, professionally, and financially. Once you have defined what success means for you, you will clarify your dreams and start pursuing them.Product Detailsl Published in: 2001-12l Released on: 2001-12-24l Original language: Englishl Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inchesl Binding: Paperbackl 304 pagesAbout the AuthorLucinda Bassett is the founder and CEO of one of the most successful self-help companies in the country, the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety, Inc. Author of the national bestseller From Panic to Power, Lucinda Bassett produces and hosts the award-winning infomercial, Attacking Anxiety. She has shared her techniques with such clients as McDonalds, Chrysler, and AT&T. She has appeared on numerous talk shows, including Operah and The View, and been featured in Family Circle, Readers Digest, and many more.Customer ReviewsThis book has helped me to gain hope and courage to cope with all my fears and worries. Lucinda writes with such a great understanding and sympathy. She herself had problems with panic and worry. Her positive thinking tips are easy to follow. I dont get lost in a lot of mental problems. Its as if she were holding your hand, sitting right beside you, cheering you on! I believe I can do anything I set my mind to after reading this book. However, there are some other readers holding the contrary views.21. What is Life Without Limits about? A. It shows readers what Lucinda Bassett is.B. It encourages readers to realize their dreams. C. It describes how hard the actual life is. D. It implies it is hard to control your life.22. Lucinda Bassett works as all the following except _. A. hostessB. teacherC. writerD. businesswoman23. We can conclude from the last paragraph that _. A. Lucinda has made a lot of money from the bookB. all the customers have some mental problemsC. Lucinda talks with the customer face to faceD. all the customers dont agree with what Lucinda wroteBA lot of people say math is not their strong suit. One New Jersey parent wants to help change that. Laura Overdeck grew up with numbers. She always helped measure ingredients when her mother baked, and she learned about angles from her father. She went on to major in astrophysics in college. Overdeck knew she wanted her own children to be good at math, too.“And when our first child was about two, we just started giving her a math problem every night,” Overdeck said. The problem was usually a story, involving animals, cars or candies that let the kid count. “Our third child started, at age two, yelling that he wanted his own math problem because he saw his brother and sister doing it. And we thought, Wow, we have a household where math is the popular thing at bedtime,” Overdeck said.In February, Overdeck launched Bedtime Math, an Internet website where she posts daily puzzles for children. Overdeck is particularly keen to hook children on numbers before they go to school. So why introduce little ones to math so early?Sain Beilock, an expert on performance anxiety, says the more fun and familiar math is early on, the less likely children will feel nervous when they start to learn math in school. “My lab has shown recently that kids as early as first grade report feeling anxious about doing math,” Beilock said.“You can hear totally educated adults say, You know Im just not that good at math. or Im kind of afraid of math. And thats a totally acceptable thing for a well-educated person to say, but you never hear them say, Well, you know, Im just not that good at reading,” Overdeck said. She wants children and their parents to become as fluent in numbers as they are in Harry Potter.24. Overdeck majored in astrophysics because she _. A. was really fond of mathematicsB. hoped to change math education in the USC. had an interest in physicsD. would like her children to be good at math25. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? A. Toys can be used to encourage kids in solving math problems.B. Math will become more popular in every household.C. Math is enjoyable in Overdecks family.D. The third child is cleverer than his brother and sister.26. Beilocks attitude towards Overdecks idea is _. A. agreeable B. puzzledC. anxious D. critical27. The unfavorable situation of the US in math ability is shown by _. A. the popularity of Bedtime Math B. childrens performance anxiety in schoolC. peoples response to mathD. adults great fondness for Harry PotterCThe moment a college student arrives on campus, he or she is bombarded with credit card offers. Advertisements for student credit cards are everywhere: in bags at the bookstore, in the campus newspaper, in your regular mailbox, in the residence halls.With so many college students graduating with large amounts of credit card debt(figures vary, but most are at least in the thousands), learning how to manage a student credit card can be an important lesson for any student. While using a card wisely can be an important part of building credit and making it through a difficult time,knowinghow to use a card wisely can be the hard part.Stick to the following rules when, and if, you need to use a credit card:l You can repay the charge(s) within the cards next billing cycle.l You must meet yourbasicneeds, like food, clothing and shelter, but set rules and be aware that you will need to repay those charges at the end of the month.l You can talk to the financial aid office in your school for an alternative in “emergency” situations.If you do want a credit card, just be smart about it. (They let you in to that school because of your brain, right?) Dont automatically get the first one you find. Shop around for a card that has the lowest interest rate possible, and consider places that may not be advertising on campus. Additionally, be aware of any cards repayment options: When will payments be due? How much will they be? A credit card isnotlike a loan that comes with a grace period(宽限期)after you graduate and waits until you are done with school. That new sweater and nice dinner out will need to be paid back right away.28. What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 mean? A. Be confused by. B. Be terribly hurt by.C. Be attracted by. D. Be surrounded by.29. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. A college freshman should be careful when choosing a credit card.B. Students should take a lesson about how to use a credit card wisely.C. A credit card will be the only help for students in emergency situations.D. The author doesnt appreciate the idea of having a credit card on campus.30. Whats the best tittle for this passage? A. Economic Tips for College Students B. Dos and Donts in Using Student Credit CardsC. Mistakes about Student Credit Cards Use in CollegeD. Student Credit Cards What You Need to Know31. If this is a passage of a college newspaper, in which column can we read it? A. Entertainment. B. Advertisement. C. Economy. D. Education.DFor most caffeine(咖啡因)consumers, its chief benefit is that it helps you get more done. This is what makes it unusual, says Stephen Braun, author of Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine.“Its appeal is that it helps us earn more money,” he adds. “What makes it different from other drugs is that its used as a productivity tool not for pleasure.” Many of historys creative minds have also been associated with a large amount of caffeine consumption.According to one biographer, the French novelist and playwright Balzac drank as many as 50 cups of coffee a day. “Were it not for coffee one could not write, which is to say one could not live,” he once insisted.For seven years, the film-maker David Lynch ate at the same Los Angeles diner every day, drinking up to seven sweetened cups of coffee “with lots of sugar” in one sitting, which he said would guarantee that“lots of ideas”arrived.Ludwig van Beethoven was said to have painstakingly counted out exactly 60 coffee beans per cup when he brewed(煮)coffee.Perhaps recent tales of caffeine excess featured the singer Robbie Williams, whoreportedly consumed 36 cups of black coffee and 20 cans of Red Bull a day.It is the routine task itself, as much as the stimulating(刺激的)effects of caffeine, that makes the process so important, says Mason Currey, author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. “A lot of artists use the process of making coffee as a gateway to the creative process,” he adds. “You need to get into the right mindset to do that sort of work, and the preparation process provides a focus.” One problem with attempting to control caffeine, says Braun, is that it affects everyone differently it is impossible to work out a “safe” limit that works for everyone. “Eventually, you have to become your own scientist there isnt an alternative to careful self-experimentation,” he says.32. Stephen Braun mainly stresses caffeines _. A. creating ideas B. improving work efficiencyC. helping people to relax D. stimulating people33. The examples of some famous people are given to show that _. A. most artists like drinking coffee B. drinking coffee helps artists make more money C. theres a link between drinking coffee and creating ideas D. drinking coffee makes artists become more successful34. What leads to the artists creative process according to Mason Currey? A. Getting a good mindset. B. Drinking the coffee. C. Being lost in thought. D. Brewing the coffee.35. What does Braun advise us to do in the end? A. To drink less coffee. B. Never to take more coffee than you need. C. Never to limit caffeine use.D. To work out a safe level of caffeine use.第二节 (共5小题; 每小题3分，满分15分)根据短文内容，从短文后的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。The key to losing weight is to understand what really motivates you. Have you ever been excited about losing a few pounds? 36 And to help you keep your weight under control, you need some coping strategies.Ask questions. When youre researching different dieting products and plans or even talking to a doctor about diets, ask as many questions as you can. 37 Ask questions like: Do I have to purchase special meals or supplements? Does the program include a part to help me maintain my weight loss? Get real. 38 Dont burden yourself with unrealistic expectations. Remember, large amounts of weight loss are not realistic and are most likely not safe or healthy. Talk with your health care professional to determine a healthy weight goal. 39 To maintain your weight, you must balance your intake of calories with the energy you burn. Just 30 minutes of fast walking in most days can take about 10 pounds off your weight each year.Weigh yourself weekly. Its important to track your weight on any diet or weight loss plan, but dont get on the scale every day. Weighing daily wont show you the big picture. 40 A. Stay balanced.B. Once a week is fine.C. Stick with your healthy eating plan.D. Losing one to two pounds a week is a realistic goal. E. Being well informed will help you choose the best diet for you.F. Regular weight check-ins will show you your progress over time.G. If so, you must find a way to turn that excitement into determination. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分）第一节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。There Really Was a Santa ClausAnn worked for a big company. One of the duties of her 41 was to go to the post office every day and 42 the company mail. One day in December, she 43 a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus 44 on the corner of the street. Each day she 45 her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and 46 her a Merry Christmas.At night the temperature dropped below 0, but the Santa Clause 47 stood in the cold wind. 48 she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.A week later, a(n) 49 Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “Hes very 50 today.” She prayed for his health.Later that day, a colleague came into her office 51 . “I dont know what Im going to do.” “Whats wrong?” she asked. “Its my ex-husband,” her colleague 52 , “I dont have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, 53 my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they wont have anything this year.” The lady 54 her colleague, “Im sure everything will 55 . Its Christmas. Believe in miracles(奇迹).”That evening, she told her husband about her colleagues 56 , “I know we dont have much money to 57 , but Id like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. Well just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldnt afford to buy anything for 58 but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”She reached up and held him. Warmth spread 59 her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus and he had 60 her! 41. A. familyB. jobC. lifeD. religion42. A. receiveB. go throughC. answerD. pick up43. A. spottedB. watchedC. sensedD. followed44. A. standingB. waitingC. playingD. performing45. A. earnedB. countedC. savedD. threw46. A. sendB. wishC. offerD. tell47. A. evenB. justC. stillD. yet48. A. AlthoughB. IfC. SinceD. After49. A. honestB. newC. considerateD. strong50. A. sadB. poorC. coldD. sick51. A. in tearsB. in shockC. in horrorD. in trouble52. A. concludedB. decidedC. continuedD. commented 53. A. orB. butC. soD. otherwise54. A. remindedB. amusedC. teasedD. comforted55. A. work outB. come backC. run outD. open up56. A. messageB. suggestionC. situationD. example57. A. lendB. helpC. lose