泉州实验中学2014届高三年段

第四次月考英语试卷

试卷满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟

命题人：陈铃

第Ⅰ卷（满分 115 分）

第一部分：听力 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，共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. Which place does the man spend most of his lunch time in these days?

A. The store. B. The library. C. His office.

2. Where have the speakers probably been?

A. A flower show. B. A restaurant. C. A concert.

3. What happened to the woman?

A. Someone knocked her down.

B. Her friend just had an operation.

C. Something was stolen from her.

4. Who is the man playing the game with?

A. His friend Samantha.

B. The woman.

C. A stranger.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Rules for winning a prize.

B. How to lose weight.

C. A special diet.

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、7题。

6. What does the woman hope to buy?

A. A shirt. B. A bag. C. A computer.

7. Who is the man?

A. The manager of the shop.

B. The woman’s assistant.

C. A shop assistant.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why was the woman on the news?

A. She won a music contest.

B. She sang a song for charity.

C. She wrote a song for the TV station.

9. What does her plan about singing?

A. She decides to be a professional singer.

B. She will stick to it whatever happens.

C. She will just sing in her spare time.

听第8段材料，回答第10至第13题。

10. What are the speakers doing?

A. Watching ads on TV.

B. Reading ads in a newspaper.

C. Looking for an office building.

11. What kind of company is Culture Flash?

A. A clothing company.

B. An education company.

C. A chemical company.

12. What’s one of the requirements of the job offer?

A. Rich experience.

B. Being able to travel.

C. Being independent.

13. What will the man probably do later?

A. Go to class.

B. Look for a different job.

C. Go to the company’s office.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Where did the woman take her pictures?

A. In Australia.

B. In America.

C. In Africa.

15. How much money did the man save by buying his camera in Japan?

A. $200. B. $400. C. $500.

16. What mistake did the woman make?

A. She didn’t save her own pictures.

B. She thought the man had saved his pictures.

C. She accidentally broke the man’s camera.

17. How did the man sound in the end?

A. Angry. B. Surprised. C. Happy.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What is the talk mainly about?

A. Why people laugh.

B. The benefits of laughing

C. Different funny things in life.

19. What does the speaker suggest people do?

A. Watch funny movies a lot.

B. Spend time with children and pets.

C. Tell jokes with their funny neighbors.

20. Why should people have “full belly laughs”?

A. To live longer.

B. To entertain others.

C. To make your belly smaller.

第二部分英语知识运用

第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

21. Holiday is ______time for leisure and relaxation. But making the best of ______ time is not an easy task for most people.

A. the; the

B. a; the

C. the; a

D. a; \



22. With no water left and food , we are anxious about the miners trapped in the mine.

A. running out

B. being run out

C. to be run out

D. to run out



23. This was the first time that a Chinese soccer club the title of AFC Champions League, which wrote China’s soccer history in more than a decade.

A. has claimed

B. had claimed

C. claimed

D. claims



24. I didn't understand _______it meant to him until I was in his place.

A. that

B. how

C. which

D. what



25. Beethoven is my favorite musician. I regard him______ other musicians.

A. superior to

B. more superior to



C. superior than

D. more superior than



26. ---Does your father quit drinking, Jonny?

---Yes, but he for almost fifteen years.

A. drank

B. was drinking

C. has drunk

D. had drunk



27. Researchers have failed to find a way to treat such diseases, and it will still be years before they can find is effective．

A. the one

B. one

C. one that

D. the one that



28. It is possible that one day we will disability, so we shouldn’t look down upon the disabled.

A. end up with

B. put up with

C. catch up with

D. come up with



29. How you expect me to trust you? I have been cheated several times by you.

A. shall

B. can

C. may

D. must



30. Poorer families often lack _____to a car, which they would need to drive their children to a more successful school outside their own district.

A. tendency

B. caution

C. access

D. profession



31. ---Did you go to the lecture delivered by Professor Li last week?

---I________, but I was fully occupied the whole week.

A. had gone

B. went

C. would go

D. would have gone



32. I have kept that picture I can see it every day as it always reminds me of my stay in the country.

A. in which

B. whether

C. where

D. when



33. She was shy and feeling pretty nervous, on such a big stage.

A. for the first time she was

B. this being her first time



C. she was the first time

D. being her first time



34. The bus hit against a tree in the fog and to the deep valley, with twenty passengers on board killed, most of whom are pupils.

A. down it rolled

B. down rolled it

C. down did it roll

D. it down rolled



35. ---Would you like to meet Krystal at the airport?

---________. She is the last person I want to see.

A. Yes, I’d like to

B. With pleasure



C. Oh, no, not me

D. I’d like to, but I have no time



第二节 完形填空 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very 36 . When Doctor Gibbs wasn’t 37 lives, he was planting trees. His house was 38 on ten acres of land, and his life’s 39 was to turn this land into a forest. The good doctor had some 40 theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: “No pain, no gain”. He never watered his new trees, a(n) 41 which is contrary to 42 wisdom.

Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants 43 them because it made them grow weaker. He said you have to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest 44 . He talked about how watering trees made them develop 45

roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots 46 moisture

(水分). So Doctor Gibbs would plant an oak(橡树) and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s 47 .

Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him 48 some 25 years ago. They were tall and 49 .

I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of coddling(溺爱) these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches 50 .

Adversity (逆境) seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb’s trees in ways comfort and ease 51

could.

Every night before I got to bed, I 52 my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to 53 my prayer. I know my children are going to 54 hardships. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be 55 .

36. A. cruel B. mean C. kind D. grateful

37. A. living B. saving C. wasting D. helping

38. A. depended B. sat C. located D. existed

39. A. work B. goal C. value D. belief

40. A. interesting B. complicated C. funny D. abnormal

41. A. rule B. attitude C. trend D. principle

42. A. current B. conventional C. original D. reasonable

43. A. spoiled B. restored C. strengthened D. discouraged

44. A. support B. survive C. insist D. continue

45. A. shallow B. strong C. slim D. deep

46. A. in need of B. in spite of C. in view of D. in search of

47. A. attention B. interest C. injury D. improvement

48. A. grow B. plant C. bring D. destroy

49. A. weak B. colorful C. beautiful D. strong

50. A. waved B. danced C. swung D. trembled

51. A. never B. always C. sometimes D. almost

52. A. look through B. care for C. watch out D. check on

53. A. improve B. correct C. stop D. change

54. A. experience B. challenge C. beat D. reach

55. A. put out B. held up C. taken over D. torn apart

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，共40分）

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Family traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree.

“Dad, can we watch when you trim(修剪) the tree?” My eldest son, Dan, nine, and his seven-year-old brother John, asked.

“I won’t be cutting this year,” my husband Bob said. “Dan, you and John are old enough to measure things. Do it all by yourselves. Think you boys can handle it?”

Dan and John seemed to grow six inches in their chairs at the thought of such an amazing responsibility. “We can handle it,” Dan promised. “We won’t let you down.”

A few days before Christmas, Dan and John rushed in after school. They gathered the tools they’d need and brought them out to the yard, where the tree waited. I was cooking when I heard the happy sounds as the boys carried the tree into the living room. Then I heard the sound that every mother knows is trouble: dead silence. I hurried out to them. The tree was cut too short. John crossed his arms tight across his chest. His eyes filled with angry tears.

I felt worried. The tree was central to