湖南省雅礼中学高三英语第六次月考试卷

湖南省雅礼中学2008年高三英语第六次月考试卷第I卷第一部分：听力（共三节，满分30分）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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.Where is the woman now ?A .At the officeB At homeC At the city library2.What does the woman mean in the conversation ?A she likes looking at the calendarB She takes business trips sometimesC She likes being on trips3.How does this Miss judge the so-called gas man ?A by liking at his clothesB by questioning himC by checking his IDcard4.How old is Carl now ?A 16B 25C 195.What does the man ask the woman to do ?A to work an hour a dayB to work an hour moreC to finish the work第二节（共12小题；每小题1.5分，满分18分）听下面4段对话。

每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

并标在试题卷的相应位置。

每段对话读两遍。

听第六段对话，回答第6至8题。

6.Why didn’t Peter buy all his textbooks at the campus bookstore?A He didn’t have enough moneyB One of them wasn’t availableC He didn’t know which ones to get7.Why does Peter want to buy the history textbook right away ?A he wants to buy it before the price increasesB he doesn’t have time to go back to the bookstoreC he wants to get a head start on the reading8.Why does Lucy tell Peter not to worry ? A he can borrow the textbook from herB he will have his book when classes startC the prices he paid weren’t too high听第七段对话，回答第9至第11题。

9. What do the speakers say about the dorm food?A It’s horribleB It’s plentifulC It’s highly desirable10. Where is the man now living ?A off campusB DowntownC On campus11. What does the man imply about having a roommate ?A A roommate can help cut expensesB Even dorm food is better than itC some of them cook pretty well听第八段对话，回答第12至第14题。

12. Where are the two speakers?A At the radio stationB on a TV showC In the open air13. What are they talking about ?A their journeyB the rainforestC the birds and plants14. What is the woman?A a reporterB a studentC an actress听第九段对话，回答第15至第17题。

15. What are the two speakers discussing ?A the school Internet websiteB a job opportunityC a summer holiday plan16. How did the man get this information?A through an InternetB by e-mailC from the school website17. Why does the woman think she may not be suitable for the work ?A she does not know anything about computersB she does not have any working experienceC she has little interest in the Internet第三节（共3小题；每小题1.5分，满分4.5分）听下面一段材料，将第18至第20三个小题的信息补充完整。

每小题不超过三个单词。

听材料前，你将有时间阅各个小题，每小题5秒钟，听完后，各小题将给出15秒钟的作答时间。

本段材料读两遍。

18. Harry was planning to _______________19. “ Yes, I like these___________” might be a response to “It’s a beautiful day.”20. The man explained that he was afraid of Harry’s ___________with his daughter.第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分；满分15分)从A、B、C、D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填黑。

21. --- Look! Our teacher has _______ tense expression on her face.--- So he does. It seems that ________ news is true.A. a; /B. a; theC. the; /D. the; a22. ---How did your daughter express her thanks to you on Mothers’ Day? ---A gift together with many flowers _______ to me.A. is sentB. are sentC. was sentD. were sent23. Busy as they are, parents should__________ at least two hours every week to spendwith their children.A. set aboutB. set outC. set asideD. set off24 ---- You know Beijing Olympic tickets can ______ online from April, 2007.---- Yes, and I’m sure the 110-metre hurdles tickets will ______ well.A. be booked; sellB. book; be soldC. be booked; be soldD. book; sell25. —Do you know what Tom does all day?—I know he spends at least as much time watching TV as he ______ his lessons.A. is doingB. doesC. spends inD. does doing26. It was at the very beginning __________ Mr. Smith made the decision ________ weshouldsend a medical team there to help with the rescue.A. that; thatB. when; whichC. where; whatD. then; so27. The time is not far away modern communications will become widespread in China’s vast countryside.A. asB. untilC. beforeD. when28. The engineers ran afer the creature, _______ ran with _________ speed and strength.A. what; amazedB. What; amazingC. which; amazedD. which; amazing29. Lakes, ________ by vast grassland, _______ like jewels.A. surrounded; is lookedB. surrounded; lookC. surrounding; is lookedD. surrounding; look30. By the time you arrive in Paris, we _____ in Europe for two weeks.A. shall stayB. have stayedC. will have stayedD. have been staying31. Yesterday _________ the start of the soccer season, but the first match was cancelled due to the bad weather.A. should beB. had beenC. wasD. should have been32. It didn’t look like a table when it was finished, but I still liked it very much,________.A. althoughB. thoughC. howeverD. whereas33. My father ______ my brother for driving but he wanted to pick ______ theknowledge of the computer during his spare time.A. intended; upB. persuaded; outC. advised; upD. managed; out34. So interested _____ in sunbathing that they often go south with their families on weekends.A. is the EnglishB. the English isC. are the EnglishD. the English are35. According to one belief, if truth is to be known it will make itself apparent, so one ____ wait instead of searching for it.A. would ratherB. had toC. cannot butD. had best第二节：完形填空（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36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项Everyone wants to 36 a first-place blue ribbon, to be the best in something. Even kids in Kindergarten want that blue ribbon. In sports, I was never a blue-ribbon person. In a race I was always 37 . In baseball I was likely to be _38__on the head or drop the ball. During the spring of my kindergarten year, our class had a field trip to a park in a town about twenty miles away. Making that drive now is no big 39 but when you’re six and you’ve lived in a town of 300 people all your life, going to a big town of a couple of thousand people is a/an 40 event.I don’t remember too much about it. But there was one that I will never forget-----the 41__ –legged race. The parents tied our feet together. One little boy got me for a __42__. He was the second most __43__boy in our class so he usually won at everything and I knew that with me tied__44___ him he didn’t have a chance. And I’m sure he knew he was in trouble. The gun sounded and we were __45__. Some couples were falling and stumbling all around us, 46 we stayed on our feet and made ___47_ to the other side.__48____, when we turned around and headed back for home, we were in the lead! Only one couple had a chance to win, and they were a good several yards__49__ us.A few feet from the finish line, disaster struck: I tripped and fell. We were 50 enough that my partner could have easily dragged me across the finish line and won. But he didn’t. Instead he stopped, ___51_ down and helped me up----just at the other couple crossed the finish line. As a result , we received a small___52__ ribbon for coming in second. I still remember that moment ___53__the young boy decided that helping a friendget on her feet was more important than winning a blue ribbon. And 13 years later, I still have that little ribbon because it’s a __54___that a friend like this boy is one who第三部分：阅读理解第一节：选择题阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项（共17小题；每小题2分，满分34分）ATo Richard Dorsay, a 36-year-old homeless Chicagoan, it was, at last, a place to call his own. But to everyone else, it was the Lake Shore Drive road bridge, so when Chicago city authorities discovered Dorsay living inside the bridge’s steel structure last month, they had no choice but to evict him.He had been living in the bridge for three years, it turned out, furnishing it with a television, a microwave and a PlayStation, and borrowing power from the municipalelectricity supply. But that wasn’t the most extraordinary thing. The most extraordinary thing was that the Lake Shore Drive Bridge is a drawbridge.“The first time, it was scary,” Dorsay told a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times, recalling how a bell would ring and his home would tip into the air, allowing tall-masted ships to pass along the Chicago River below. “After that, it was almost like riding a ferry’s wheel.”Brian Steele, a spokesman for the Chicago Department of Transportation, puts it more frankly. “Essentially,” he says, “it changed his living space from horizontal(水平的) tovertical(垂直).”Dorsay had a history of homelessness and emotional problems, but in the bridge, he thought, he had finally found a kind of stability. “You’ve got to be kind of agile( 敏捷的),” he admitted. “but it doesn’t take genius to figure out what to do”Dorsay is now without a home, though he is currently staying with his parents. Gray, his father, said, “I’ve always hoped that he would find a place and he would seek employment, He is strong enough and bright enough to do something.”56. Why did Richard Dorsay like living in the bridge?A It was freeB he felt more secure thereC It was an extraordinary thingD He liked scary things57. What did city authorities do when they found Dorsay living in a bridge ?A They arrested himB They charged him rentC They forced him to leaveD They sent him to his parents58. What made the bridge a scary place to live?A The bridge rose up to let ships passB His living space was verticalC It was steel structuredD It was not s safe place to live59.What can we infer about Dorsay from the passage?A His parents didn’t want to accept himB He was physically weakC He couldn’t find a jobD he was not intelligentBPrevious research by scientists from Kei University in Germany monitored Adelie penguins and noted that the birds’heart rates increased dramatically at the sight of a human as far as 30 meters away. But new research using an artificial(man-made) egg, which is equipped to measure heart rates, disagrees with this. Scientists from Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge say that a slow moving human who does not approach the nest too closely is not seen as a threat by penguins.The earlier findings have been used to partly explain the 20 percent drop inpopulations of certain types of penguins near tourist sites. However, tour operators have continued to insist that their activities do not adversely(不良的) affect wildlife in Antarctica, saying they encourage non-disruptive behavior in tourists, and the decline in penguin numbers is caused by other factors.Amanda Nimon of Scott Polar Research Institute spent three southern hemisphere summers at Cuvervill Island in Antarctica studying penguin behaviors towards human. “A nesting penguin will react very differently to a person rapidly and closely approaching the nest,”says Nimon. “First they exhibit large and prolonged heart rate changes and then they often flee the nest leaving it open for predators(掠夺者) to fly in and remove eggs or chicks.” The artificial egg, specially developed for the project, monitored both the parent who had been “disturbed”when the egg was placed in the nest and the other parent as they both took it in turns to guard the nest.However, Boris Culik, who monitored the Adeli penguins, believes that Nimon’s findings do not invalidate(使无效) his own research. He points out that species behave differently. However, Nimon and her colleagues believe that Culik’s research method was flawed(有瑕疵) because the monitoring of penguins’ responses involved capturing and restraining the birds and fitting them with heart-rate transmitters(传送器). Therefore, argues Nimon, it would not be surprising if they became stressed on seeing a human subsequently.60. What was one of the earlier findings by the German scientists?A Penguins’ heart rates increased dramatically at the sight of a humanB 20% penguin populations near tourist sites droppedC Penguins didn’t see a slow moving human as a threatD An artificial egg could measure penguins’ heart rates61.What is tour operators’ attitude towards German scientists’ findings?A SupportiveB NegativeC Not clearD Suspicious62.What is NOT true about Amanda Nimon’s research ?A she studies penguin’s heart diseaseB she noticed both nesting parents took it in turns to protect their homeC she finds only a nesting penguin will react very differently to an approaching personD It took her 3 summers in Antarctica to study penguins63. Why does Amanda Nimon believe Culik’s research method was flawed?A The German scientists captured and retained the birdsB Nimon’s findings are different from Culik’s resultsC Culik’s research was ineffectiveD The German scientist should use an artificial egg, instead of a heart-rate transmitter.CInternational airlines have rediscovered the business traveler, who regularly jets from country to country as part of the job. This does not necessarily mean that airlines ever abandoned their business travelers. Indeed , companies like Lufthansa and Swissair would rightly argue that they have always taken good care of the executive (行政主管) class passenger. But many lines could be accused of concentrating too heavily in the recent past on attracting passengers by volume, often at the expense of the regular traveler, Too often, they have seemed changed their policy for quantity rather than quality.Operating a major airline in the present time is essentially a matter of finding the right mix of passengers. The airlines need to fill up the back end of their wide-bodied jets with low fare passengers, without forgetting that the front end should be filled with people who pay substantially(fully) more for their tickets.After two major airlines who were among the companies specializing in cheap flights went bankruptcy in 1980s, it is no surprise that airlines are turning increasingly towards the business traveler to improve their rates of return. They have invested much time and effort to establish exactly what the executive demands for sitting apart from the tourists.High on the list of priorities is punctuality; an executive’s time is money. In-flight service is another area where the airlines are competing strongly for the executive’s attention. The free drinks and headsets and better food are all part of the attraction.The airlines are also trying to improve things on the ground. Executive lounges(休息室) are commonplace and intended to make the inevitable waiting between flights a little more bearable. Luggage handling is being improved. Regrettably, there is little the airlines can do to speed up the boring immigration and Customs process, which manages to upset and frustrate passengers of all classes in every continent .Although it is the airlines’attention to attract executive passengers from their rivals(competitors), the airlines themselves would nonetheless like to change one bad habit of this kind of traveler-the expensive habit of booking a flight and then failing to turn up. The practice is particularly widespread in Europe, Where business frequently book return journeys home on one of several flights.As a result, the airlines throw away the empty seat, which cannot be resold. Some airlines have attempted to check that practice by offering discounts to passengers who travel on their booked flight.64. One criticism pointed against many international airlines is that they have_______A given better treatment to executive clientsB took care of the needs of the regular travelerC marketed their services with the masses in mindD provided good service for the wealthy class of society65. From 1980s, many airlines are working hard to_____A separate executives from touristsB meet the needs of business travelersC improve business by charging high faresD increase the return tickets66. With the intention of attracting a somewhat different type of passenger, the airlines have now begun to concentrate on______A providing facilities enabling business travelers to work on boardB organizing activities in which first-class passengers can participateC installing sleeping compartments where more privacy is ensuredD ensuring that the facilities offered to the executive are indeed superior 67. There is little hope of improvement when it comes to ________A claiming baggage ager the flightB waiting in uncomfortable airport loungesC going through routine immigration checksD mixing with all kinds of different passengers68.One problem which particularly frustrates the airlines arises when _______A rival airlines offer empty seats to be resoldB passengers do not travel on seats they have bookedC executive passengers fail to book their seats in advanceD executive passengers receive large discounts on bookings.DMoney Matters for StudentsGETTING A GRANTWho pays ? The local education authority(LEA) for the area in which the students are livingWho can get this money ?Anyone who gets a place on a first-degree course, although a student who has already attended a course of advanced further education may not. Students must also have been resident in the UK for at least three years, which can exclude some students from overseas.SPECIAL CASESIf a student has worked before college:A student who is 26 or more before the course starts and who has worked for at least three of the previous six years will get extra money---155 a year if 26, increasing to a maximum of 615 at 29 or more.If a student is handicapped(disabled): LEAs will give up to 500 to help meet extra expenses-such as buying a tape recorder for a blind student, extra heating or special food.Banking: Most of the big banks offer special services to students who open accounts (in the hope that they will stay with the bank when they become rich executives).A student won’t usually have to pay bank charges as long as the account stays in credit, Some banks allow students to overdraw by 100 or so, and still don’t make charges(though they do charge interest).69. A student from Japan who has been staying in England for a year and intends to go to college in a few months can___A get money if he is taking a first-degree courseB not get money from the LEAC get money from the LEA when he had finished his courseD open a bank account before he gets any money70. A 31-year-old nurse wished to qualify as a doctor at a university. She has worked since she was 25. How much extra money will she get a year?A 100B 155C 615D 71571. A student who cannot walk has to buy a wheelchair costing 750 to go to classes. How much will he pay himself for the wheel chair?A 150B 250C 500D 75072. You are a new student. Why does a bank welcome you as a customer ?A They know you receive money regularlyB They charge students extraC They hope you are likely a rich customerD They need student accounts in term-time第二节简答题（共3小题；每小题2分，满分6分）阅读下面短文，根据第73至第75小题的具体要求，简要回答问题。