湖南省临湘一中2016届高三上学期第二次月考英语试卷

临湘一中2016届高三第二次月考试题卷

英语试题

总分：150分时量：120分钟

命题人：李继红柳俊王杏冯卉卉

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）

请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项

1．How does the man think the woman can go to the cinema?

A．By taxi．B．By bus．C．On foot．

2．Where does the woman want to eat tonight?

A．At home．B．At Brown’s C．At Danny’s

3．Why did Mr．Green run into the girl with his car ?

A．He was drunk．B．He was driving fast．C．He didn’t see the girl．4．What are the two speakers discussing?

A．What they’ll do this weekend．B．Where the man borrowed the book．C．When the woman can get her book back．

5．What does the woman want the man to do?

A．Hold the door open for her．B．Carry the box for her．

C. Open the box for her.

第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项

6. When did the man probably get up?

A. At 6:30 am.

B. At 7:00 am.

C. At 7:30 am.

7. What does the woman think the man should do next?

A. Complain to the manager.

B. Call room service again.

C. Change a hotel.

请听第6段对话，回答第6至7题

8. How does the man feel about his job interview?

A. He is excited.

B. He is surprised.

C. He is disappointed.

9. What will the woman do for the man?

A. Try to help him get a job.

B. Arrange for an interview.

C. Give him a job. 请听第8段对话，回答第10至12题

10. How did the woman get her smart phone?

A. She bought it online.

B. She bought it downtown.

C. She received it as a gift.

11. What is the function of Feedly?

A. To help users organize life.

B. To help users read news.

C. To help users study.

12. What will the man do next?

A. Recommend more apps.

B. Talk about smartphones.

C. Show how to find the apps. ~

请听第9段对话，回答第13至16题

13. What does the man know about Norwalk?

A. It is located on Route 18.

B. It is a beautiful little town.

C. It has an interesting museum.

14. How far is Amitsville from here?

A. About 18 miles southeast.

B. About 35 miles northeast.

C. About 55 miles southwest.

15. Where won' t the man go this time? :~

A. Norwalk.

B. Amitsville.

C. Newton.

16. What do we know about Westfield and Great Town?

A. They are in opposite directions.

B. They have lots of old houses.

C. They have many rare plants

请听第10段对话，回答第17至20题

17. When was the museum’s construction started?

A. In 1958.

B. In 1962

C. In 1973.

18. How much area do the exhibition halls in the museum cover?

A. 6,000 square meters.

B. 30,000 square meters.

C. 60,000 square meters. 19．Where are the large-sized art works displayed?

A. In the west hall.

B. In the east hall.

C. In the round hall.

20. When is the museum usually closed?

A. On Sunday.

B. On Tuesday.

C. On Monday.

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15分，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题给的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

My mother got divorced when I was 5 and was left to raise me and my two younger brothers. She didn't have a formal education, so she had to work two full-time jobs to make ends meet.

One day several years later, I was determined to help. I told the manager of the Don Carlos Motel in Dana Point that I was 15, so I could get a work permit to work as a maid.

Since then, I' ve started to work alongside some of America' s top leaders, written books, and achieved financial independence. It took a lot of hard work and sacrifices.

But what if I was 15 years old today? Would I be able to accomplish the same things in this new, highly competitive world with so many global challenges? It seems hard work and sacrifices aren't enough anymore.

Today, you need to be extremely adaptable. To progress in your career, it' s not enough to know one thing well. As my friend Sean Harvey, product manager at Google put it when we were speaking to students, "Today, companies aren't hiring people for a specific position but rather people who are smart and flexible. The way you prove that is by showing you can do multiple things well."

People need to take more risks to succeed now than ever. The combination of unemployment and slow wage growth means that we are not only at greater financial risk, but we have to take more risks to succeed.

Luckily, the new Internet world of all-the-time connectedness means that anyone with a hot idea, product or service can create a business out of almost nothing. And success can be quick and big. But that success demands more "out of the box" thinking.

And what about our kids? It makes me think a lot about the future that my 3-year-old daughter faces. But no matter what the future brings, I think the best message

I' 11 give her is to believe in herself. Life won't get any easier, but the opportunities will come -- as they always have -- to those who work hard, adapt as they need to, and trust their abilities.

21. We can infer that the author had

A．a happy childhood B. a lonely child hood

C. a normal life

D. A difficult childhood

22. The author achieved financial independence when she was 15 largely due to

A. her hard work

B. her boss' s help

C. her strong leadership

D. her competitive spirit

23. Compared to the past, people who want to succeed now need

A. more time

B. more money

C. to work harder

D. to be more creative

24. The author writes the text mainly to

A. describe her childhood

B. tell a story about her mother

C. share some useful parenting skills

D. give some suggestions about success

B

San Francisco has nearly 6,300 homeless people, according to recent city figures, with 4,300 of them living on the street. Among the many problems the homeless face is little or no access to showers. But Doniece Sandoval has made it her mission to change that.

“Homelessness is something you can't really miss in San Francisco.” the 51-year-old former marketing manager told ABC News.

She started Lava Mac, a sort of showers on wheels, a new project that aims to turn decommissioned (退役的) city buses into shower stations for the homeless.

One day I passed a woman on the street and she was very dirty and crying, and I heard her say that she would never be clean. I was wondering what opportunities she had to actually get clean," Sandoval said. "That's when I realized that this shouldn't be happening."

Sandoval was inspired to start Lava Mac. The project has already been welcomed with open arms in the city.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has donated one bus for the cause and is willing to donate three more in the future if the project succeeds. Sandoval hopes the first bus will be able to hit the road in March.

The Public Utilities Commission has also agreed to let the buses plug into fire hydrants (消防栓) around the city if Lava Mac pays for the water.

One of Lava Mae's biggest supporters is Bevan Dufty, the director of Housing Opportunities. “For people who are unhoused, access to showers is very difficult." Dufty said. “Doniece has done an incredible job as a citizen who cares about helping the poor. We are very excited to see Lava Mac become a reality next year."

Each bus will have two shower stations and Sandoval expects that by 2015. they' II be able to provide 2.000 showers a week.

The project is currently $80,000 short of its first year's budget of $365,000 and

runs on donations. Lava Mac has a fiscal (财政的) sponsorship through the nonprofit ZEROI: The Art and Technology Network，but hopes to apply for its own nonprofit status next year.

25. What does the underlined word "that" in Paragraph l refer to?

A. The homeless live on the street.

B. There are too many homeless people.

C. There is little food for the homeless.

D. The homeless have difficulty getting clean.

26. Lava Mae is a project which

A. aims to provide homeless shelters

B. helps the homeless take a bus for free

C. gives the homeless chances to take showers

D. has been founded to reduce the number of the homeless

27. The Public Utilities Commission has promised to

A. let Lava Mac use the fire hydrants in the city

B. give large amounts of money to Lava Mac

C. supply water to Lava Mac free of charge

D. donate several buses to Lava Mac

28. According to the text, Lava Mac still needs

A. more money

B. more volunteers

C. technical support

D. government permission

C

Well-styled, beautiful designs. Bright blue lights. Built-in memory chips. These gadgets (小玩意儿)sound as snazzy as the new iPhone. They' re e-cigarettes, which are marketed as a tool for people addicted to nicotine to try and kick the habit. With no tobacco and such careful engineering, these little battery-powered gadgets must be safe，right?

Not so fast ...

Though there' s been a decline in the number of teens smoking conventional cigarettes, the number of middle and high school students using e-cigarette has tripled (增至三倍) in the past three years contributing to a brand-new and booming $3 billion industry. But even though these gadgets don't flood your lungs with smoke, they still contain mcotine. "Nicotine actually creates changes in the developing brain." says Robin Koval. CEO and president of Legacy Health. a health foundation created to prevent youth smoking.

That' s not even the worst of it, though. Koval says that the industry is actually courting teens.

“Tobacco companies need to replace the 1.200 individuals who die each day from tobacco," says Koval. "And they know that the best way is to recruit (吸收) teenagers." In fact, research shows that if you don't start smoking by age 19, you' re unlikely to ever become a smoker. "The e-cigarette industry says they don't market e-cigarettes to teens," explains Koval. "But they' re using a lot of the same means that they used to recruit millions and millions of young people to smoke regular cigarettes." (Some of these previously successful techniques-include clever movie placements: new means include

sweet flavors.)

Besides, researchers are beginning to suspect that e-cigarettes could have the power to turn teens into tobacco users. "We' re finding that kids who never smoked before are using e-cigarettes, and they may be moving on to smoking regular cigarettes." explains Dr. Garry Sigman. director of adolescent medicine at Loyola University Medical Center.

What's more, you may think: "E-cigarettes aren't even regulated---they must be safe!" Establishing guidelines is a lengthy process, and e-cigarette regulations are still years away. Currently, anyone can sell them, so there's no guarantee regarding how they' re made, what's in them. And how they' re advertised. Traditional cigarettes developed into a big-time business before anyone knew their true side effects. And by the time warning labels appeared on packages in 1966, 42 percent of Americans were already smokers. Is history repeating itself?

29. The underlined word "snazzy" in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by_

A. simple

B. strange

C. expensive

D. fashionable

30. In the past three years, e-cigarettes have been getting more and more popular

among_

A. teenagers

B. male adults

C. regular smokers

D. university students

31. Movie placements are mentioned in Paragraph 5 to explain .

A. the popularity of e-cigarettes

B. the advantages of traditional cigarettes

C. that e-cigarettes have been advertised very heavily

D. that the e-cigarette industry is trying to attract teens

32. We can infer from the last paragraph that by the time e-cigarettes are regulated, __

A. there will be fewer desperate smokers

B. few people will smoke regular cigarettes

C. about half Americans will benefit from e-cigarettes

D. lots of people will have become addicted to e-cigarettes

D

Australia has a cat problem. At least 15 million cats wander the continent, living on up to 75 million native animals every day. The cats have been called the biggest threat facing Australia' s wildlife and have already been linked to as many as 30 extinctions, Previous attempts to trap and kill cats haven't been very effective, but now a new solution is likely to be adopted. It' s called Eradicat -- a combination of kangaroo meat, chicken fat, and a deadly poison called 1080, which has proven successful in other attempts to remove invasive species. Under trial conditions, it managed to kill between 70 percent and 80 percent of the cats that consumed it. The 1080 poison is a good solution for the state of Western Australia because it is made from plants that grow there. The native animals in these areas have evolved a resistance to it through evolving with the plants.

Buckminster was the lead author of a paper published last year in the journal PLOS ONE that examined the risk 1080 might bring to native species. The study found that species that did not evolve with the plants would face a greater risk from the poison. Buckminster suggested that the deployment (部署) of Eradicat should be timed at a

point when cats don' t have a lot of other readily available food.

Even once the poison is deployed, other cat-controlled techniques such as shooting, trapping, and fencing will need to continue. Buckminster said he feels nothing will ever completely solve the problem, but 1080 is an important tool that "can be used to reduce the population to a level where native animals are less at risk and potentially able to grow their populations."

Of course not everyone supports the use of 1080. The Australian charity The World League for Protection of Animals calls it "cruel". Buckminster acknowledged that "it is simply not possible to guarantee that no nontarget animal will ever take a bait(诱饵) and die," but he said the risk of not using the bait is higher if cats continue their eating. "In my view, it becomes a choice -- deploy the bait and potentially risk the death of a few native animals, or don't deploy the bait and guarantee the death of many," Buckmin'ster said.

33. The cat problem in Australia can be described as __

A. complicated

B. serious

C. disappointing

D. mysterious

34. Eradicat is most effective when __

A. cats first arrive in West Australia

B. there isn't enough food for cats to eat

C. other cat-control techniques are not used

D. native animals have evolved a resistance to it

35. The underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refers to __

A. the making process of Eradicat

B. the sacrifice of native animals

C. the removing of cats

D. the use of the poison

第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短问内容，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

How to be a good roommate

Roommate horror stories are pretty popular topics of conversation at school. Follow a few simple tips to ensure you're not the awful roommate everyone's talking about.

Respect each other

First and foremost, you need to respect your roommate.

●36 If your roommate is sleeping, keep the noise and light levels down. If your roommate is studying, don't have loud conversations in the same room. If in doubt, ask yourself whether you would be annoyed if your roommate didn't do the above things for you.

●Keep it clean. 37 Hair in the shower or bathrooms littered with magazines or dirty clothes. Respect means keeping your side of the room clean. And hopefully, if your roommate sees you keeping your side clean, they'll be more likely to keep theirs clean.

●Keep your hands off their stuff.38 If you really need to borrow something of theirs always ask before you do. If they say no, don't get angry. Some people just don't like other people using their stuff.

Set basic rules

You and your roommate should establish some basic rules. For instance. I really don't like it when people have phone conversations in the room while I' m studying. 39

I' d rather be writing my paper than listening to you tell your best friend about your weekend. So discuss that with your roommate. Make a compromise, but the tie should go to the person studying. Another example is to discuss cleaning duties. Dividing cleaning duties will make your room cleaner and it will help ease roommate tensions. 40

A. It is amazing how people don't understand what it means to be considerate.

B. Taking out the trash and tidying the room are just a few things to consider.

C. I have heard many horror stories about dirty roommates.

D. I' m not good at doing several things at the same time.

E. Don't use your roommate's items without asking.

F. Talk on the phone.

G. Be considerate.

第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45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，从短文后各题给的四个选项中，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。

It's commonly believed that school kids started taking summers off in the 19th century so they'd have time to work on the farm. Nice as that story is, it isn't 41. Summer vacation has little to do with working in the 42 and more to do with 43, rich city kids playing hooky (逃学) and their parents.

Before the Civil War, farm kids 44 had summers off. They went to school during the hottest and 45 months and stayed home during the spring and fall, when crops needed to be planted and 46. Meanwhile, city kids hit the books all year long ----__47 included.

But as cities got more crowded, they got hotter, 48 the "urban heat island effect." That's when America's middle and upper class families started 49 cities and went to the cooler 50 . And that caused a problem. School 51 wasn't compulsory back then, and 52 were being left half-empty each summer.

Lawmakers started arguing that kids should get summers off anyway. It helped that, culturally, 53 time was becoming more important. With the dawn of labor unions and the eight-hour workday, working adults were getting more time to themselves. Advocates for vacation time also 54 (incorrectly) that the .brain was a muscle, and like any muscle, it could suffer injuries if 55 .From there, they believed that students shouldn't go to school year-round. What is more, air conditioning was decades away, and city schools during summertime were like 56.

So by the turn of the century, urban districts had managed to cut about 60 schooldays from the hottest part of the year. Rural schools soon 57 the same pattern 58 they wouldn't fall behind. Business folks obviously saw a(n) 59 here. The summer vacation business 60 ballooned into what is now one of the country's largest billion-dollar industries.

41 A true B. funny C. bad D. fair

42 A factories B. schools C. fields D. teams

43 A smart B. sweaty C. strong D. sweet

44 A always B. never C. still D. also

45 A coldest B. longest C. best D. busiest

46 A watered B. covered C. harvested D. cleared

47 A springs B. summers C. falls D. winters

48 A apart from B. in spite of C. in case of D. thanks to

49 A loving B. leaving C. damaging D. forgetting

50 A. countryside B. city C. mountain D. building

51 A work B. B. attendance C. age D. uniform

52 A. hospitals B. buses C. classrooms D. halls

53 A. hard B. local C. opening D. spare

54 A. argued B. doubted C. decided D. admitted

55 A. broken B. frightened C. influenced D. overused

56 A. bottles B. boxes C. drawers D. ovens

57 A. improved B. adopted C. described D. analyzed

58 A but B. though C. so D. unless

59 A. advertisement B challenge C. opportunity D. holiday

60 A. soon B. only C. again D. too

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the year 1999, Jack Ma founded Alibaba. No one at that time would have thought a small start-up would become the world's largest initial public offering (IPO) on Wall Street, 61. (earn) higher profits than those of international giants like Amazon. corn and eBay combined.

Ma's ambitions 62. (realize) last week. Ma isn't just popular because of his wealth. He also possesses communication skills that allow him to communicate with audiences from a wide 63. (various) of cultural contexts.64. (reflect) on his success as a start-up manager and English major, we try to analyze how Ma became 65. international superstar.

Ma failed his college entrance exams twice. He managed to enroll in Hangzhou Normal University at his third attempt, 66. he studied English. Ma first experienced the Internet in 1995 on a short trip to Seattle. He can remember 67. (search) for the word "beer" on Yahoo! Ma noticed there was not a single online listing 68. "China" and "beer", unlike those that popped up for American and German beer. He quickly became 69. (addict) to this online information system.70. (gradual), his addiction turned into a vision.

“I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers," he once said to The Guardian.

第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删改或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删改：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Thanks very much for your story. The plot is very touched. OK, now listen to me carefully. It' s very funny. One day, a young man was going from house to house on his street so he wanted to introduce him to all his new neighbors. Outside one house, he stopped and saw a big dog sitting on the sidewalk. Well, he thought that it was belonged to the people in the house, but he paid no attention to it. He just pressed the bell, and the owners asked him in, and the dog went in, either. He greeted them with a smile and then he sat down, and a couple gave him a cup of coffee and some cookies. Well, the dog ate one of the cookies off the plate, and sat in his knee. The young man don't want to seem rude, so he petted the dog gentle and continued talking to the couple. Anyway, when it was time to go, he thanked them and left. When the young man left, the woman called after him, "Excuse me, don't forget to take your dog!"

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

假设你是李华。上月你从某国外网店订购了一件毛衣、一件夹克和一双鞋。收到货后你发现毛衣上有个洞，夹克不是你要的尺码而且少了一粒纽扣，鞋子不是你要的款式。请给该网店客服写封投诉信，说明理由并要求退货。

注意 1. 词数100左后；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

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