四川省成都外国语学校2016届高三2月月考试题英语试题及答案

成都外国语学校2016届高三下期2月月考英语本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。

第Ⅰ卷1至10页，第Ⅱ卷11至12页。

满分150分。

考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：1．答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上，请按照题号在各题的答题区域（黑色线框）内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。

在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。

3．选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号；非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的黑色中性（签字）笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。

4．保持答题卡卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。

考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

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。

例：How much is the shirt?A.￡19.15B.￡9.18C.￡9.15答案是C。

1.How does the woman find the book?A.Appealing.B.Just so so.C. Strange.2.What happened to Susan?A.She lost her ticketB.She got her driving licenseC.She was fined for speeding3.What will the woman do？A. Cut down on food.B. Take her temperature.C. Take medicine with food.4.What are the two speakers talking about？A.A new movie.B.A weekend plan.C.Steve’s cousin.5.Where are the two speakers?A.On the ground floor.B.By the European paintings.C.At the black and white photo show.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。

毎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 makes the woman upset?A. The deaf landlady.B. The unfair agreement.C. The poor electrical equipment.7. What does the man suggest the woman do ？A. Refer to the agreement.B. Sign a new document.C. Move out of the apartment.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the woman think about travelling to Hawaii?A. Crazy.B. Interesting.C. Boring.9. What will the man do?A. Go to Hawaii by himself.B. See his sister in Hawaii.C. Travel to Hawaii by ship. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does the conversation take place?A. In an office.B. In the street.C. On the subway.11. What ’s the relationship between the two speakers?A. Colleagues.B. Strangers.C. Roommates.12. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. High price of gas.B. Importance of exercise.C. Advantages of taking the subway. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why did the woman come to the office?A. To get her notice letter.B. To find her physics class.C. To offer her mailing address.14. How did the man deal with the woman s enquiry?A. By giving her a notice letter.B. By checking on the computer.C. By confirming with the office.15. When was the letter sent out to the students?A. A month ago.B. A fortnight ago.C. A week ago.16. Who was responsible for the mistake?A. The woman.B. The man.C. The postman.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How many hours a week can employees choose to work?A. Eighteen. B .Thirty two. C. Forty eight.18. What will the new schedule help solve for the country?A. Unemployment.B. Low salary.C. Workload.19. What benefit will employees get from the new schedule?A. Higher pay.B. More spare time.C. Richer working experience.20. What does the speaker think of the new schedule?A. Acceptable.B. Costly.C. Impractical.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AThis summer I volunteered at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan and had a once in a lifetime chance to get within three feet. Born and raised in America, very rarelyhad I ever seen a panda. I had expected this moment ever since my mother told me that we would bevolunteering at the Center.When my cousin and I arrived at the Center and received our uniforms and gloves, any nervousness I had felt during the car ride quickly faded and changed into excitement.Our first task was to clean up the panda’s cage.Although it was a boring job, it was interesting to be in the panda’s living area and see how big the animals really are.Pandas actually fear heat, so the Center provides each animal with an ice block to keep it comfortable.When it was time to feed the pandas, the keeper gave us five pieces of food each, which consisted of bamboo, carrots, or bread to feed to a one-year-old male.Never having dreamed of being so close to a panda, I was delighted by the action and after listening to it munch（用力嚼）on the food, hurriedly offered a piece more.Next, we watched a video on China’s goal to help giant pandas back into the wild.It explained China’s efforts to raise them to increase the population, and detailed measures taken to train the pandas to enter their nature reserve once again.The workers had to spend lots of time teaching the animals how to live in nature and guaranteeing their safety at all times.I am grateful to have been able to volunteer for a day and will treasure the experience for the rest of my life.21.How did the writer feel on the way to the Center?A.Excited.B.Nervous.C. Bored.D. Calm.22. Which of the following is delightful to the writer?A.Wearing uniforms.B. Cleaning the cages.C.Feeding the panda.D. Watching the video.23.Why does the Center raise the giant pandas?A.To attract more volunteers.B.To keep them comfortable.C.To help them back to nature.D.To gain more experience.BGoldfish have pretty boring lives, so maybe it’s a good thing they can only concentrate for nine seconds! But according to new research, humans are becoming like goldfish.Our attention span (时长) isgetting shorter ...and it’s all because of technology.“We move quickly from one site to another on the web,”says Doctor Ted Selker, a computer scientist from Massachusetts,“and we are losing the ability to concentrate.”With millions of websites to choose from, the attention span of the average internet user is just seconds.There are other digital distractions（分心）too: email, instant messaging and quickie movies on websites.Some people are worried about the effect on young people. “You need time to understand and think about what you read,”says Julia Wood, from London.“Young people search the net all the time and their brains become full of useless information but there is no time to make sense of it.I am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books, so that they concentrate on one subject for longer.”Other teachers are trying more unusual methods to improve students’concentration.Anne Savan, from Wales, was so worried about her students that she started playing Mozart during her science lessons.She says that it had an amazing effect:“The music made them calmer, and their concentration was much better.”But not everyone believes that there is a problem.Ray Cole, an educational psychologist says: “On the web, young people learn to make quick decisions about what is and isn’t worth reading.They might look at five unhelpful websites very quickly, before stopping and reading a sixth useful website more carefully.In a world with so much information available, this is an important skill.”24. Why does the writer mention “goldfish ”?A. To analyze data.B. To introduce a topic.C. To settle problems.D. To suggest a way out.25. What may cause a shorter attention span according to Dr. Ted Selker?A. Skipping around the internet.B. Time to digest information.C. Traditional methods of reading.D. Making decisions.26. What will help students overcome a short attention span?A. Receiving emails.B. Texting messages.C. Reading more books.D. Watching quickie movies.27. What is Ray Cole ’s attitude towards looking through websites quickly?A. Cautious.B. Unfavorable.C. Skeptical.D. Supportive.CWant to help fight global warming? Take off your tie, says the Italian health ministry. It has urged employers to let their staff dress casually at work in the summer so that the air conditioning can be turneddown.“Taking your tie off immediately lowers the body temperature by 2 or 3 degrees centigrade,” the ministry said in a statement.“Allowing a more sensible use of air conditioning brings about electricity savings and protects the environment.”It called on all public and private offices to let employees wear no tie during heat waves like the one that has brought Africa-like temperatures to many parts of Italy this week.The move echoes （回应）a similar action from Italy ’s biggest oil group, ENI, which told its staff earlier this month they need not wear a tie at work. The tie makers, however, were left hot under the collar.“Italy confirms that it is a strange country,” Flavio Cima said angrily in a letter to financial daily IL SOLE 24 ORE under the headline: “I, tie maker, am responsible for global warming ”“We can now happily continue with our lifestyle, using cars, consuming fuel, heating and cooling our homes at leisure. On one condition: we should not wear a tie while we do so,” he wrote.“I should have listened to my friends and become an oil producer instead .”Italy is one of the European Union ’s worst performers on the pollution front and is among the EUcountries expected to exceed （超出）their greenhouse gas emission （排放）targets 28.What ’s the purpose of the move of taking off ties?A. To dress casually.B. To fight global warming.C. To keep the body temperature.D. To improve working conditions.29. Who first encouraged employees to take off ties?A. ENI.B. Flavio Cima.C. A financial daily.D. The Italian health ministry.30. What does the underlined part “hot under the collar ” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?A. Angry.B. Speechless.C. Delighted.D. Puzzled.31. Which of the following is TRUE about Flavio Cima?A. He stands by the oil group.B. He agrees with the ministry.C. He admits his responsibility.D. He argues against taking off ties.DWhen students read articles about scientific discovery, they learn what worked. Scientists present themethods that got the best result.They often show only the results that are significant and important.What they won’t show are the mistakes or failures that came first.Yet sometimes those mistakes pointed the way to success.It can take a long time and many experiments to achieve scientific success.Robbin, 16, and Annabelle, 15, learned that while working this summer in a biochemistry lab at Stony Brook University inNew York.What’s more, they learned that failure is not necessarily something to fear.“I like the idea of scientific research,”says Robbin.It’s the basis for“every lesson you learn in school and understanding everything you see in life.”This summer, Robbin has been working with Lauren, a chemistry student, who is making new drugs to fight harmful bacteria.At first, the tests made Robbin anxious.She worried that she might be making costly mistakes.But Lauren reassured her that finding out what doesn’t work is “just part of the learning process”.With time, the teen got comfortable with the idea that every experiment wouldn’t succeed.Annabelle also learned a lot about failure and success.She worked with graduate student Agnieszka Gil.“Sometimes I try something and it takes a while for the experiment to run.”This means that finding out whether Annabelle did something wrong can be a stressful waiting game, because “if you did something wrong you need to do it again.”But she’s now learning to be patient and not to expect instant success. In science, figuring out why something failed is what may just put them on the road to success.32.What impresses students most in articles about scientific discovery?A.Scientists achievements.B.The reasons for success.C.The cause of mistakes.D.Stressful process of research.33.What can we learn from the passage?A.Robbin is a graduate student.uren managed to make new drugs.C.Annabelle learns the value of patience.D.Agnieszka expected an instant success.34.What did Robbin and Annabelle have in common in their experiments?A.They did their experiments independently.B.They realized not all experiments would succeed.C.They assisted graduate students to make new drugs.D.They made severe mistakes in the experiments.35.What does the writer intend to tell us?A.The cause of making errors in science.B.The significance of scientific discovery.C.The importance of doing experiments.D.The correct attitudes towards failures.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分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。