山西省山大附中2014届高三下学期第二次月考

英语试题

考查时间：120分钟 考查内容：大综合

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分10分）第一节（共5小题，每小题0.5分，满分2.5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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

What will the woman do next?

A. Turn down the radio B. Close the window C. Turn up the radio

Who will probably get the stamps?

A. The woman B. The man's classmate C. The woman's sister

Why can't the woman go with the man?

A. She is a little tired B. She's going to listen to music C. She's going to the library

When will the man see his parents?

A. At 1000 B. At 800 C. At 1200

Where does the conversation take place?

A. At home B. At a travel agency C. In a hotel

第二节(共15小题; 每小题.0.5分，满分7.5分)

听下面5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料.回答第6至7题。

What does the woman ask the man to send?

A. A report B. An e-mail C. A letter

For whom will the man reserve a room in the Garden Hotel?

A. For the woman B. For Mr. Simpson C. For Mr. Black

听第7段材料.回答第8至9题。

Where's the hotel located?

A. Far away from the city B. Near the harbor C. In the center of the city

When will the speakers meet?

A. On Friday B. On Sunday C. On Saturday

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What's the conversation about?

A. Buying a flat B. Renting a flat C. Visiting a flat

How many bedrooms are there in this flat?

A. Two B. Three C. Four

When can the woman move in?

A. Right now B. In two weeks C. After October 1

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

What's the man looking for?

A. A monument B. A bar C. A hall

What is the Mound?

A. A road name B. A hall name C. A monument name

How will the man get there probably?

A. By bus B. By taxi C. on foot

What do you think of the woman?

A. She is helpful B. She is impatient C. She is rude

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

Why is Lily sitting in the trolley(手推车)?

A. She is too heavy for her mother to carry

B. Her mother wants to talk to Mrs. Lee

C. Her mother bought too many things

What is Lily doing while Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Young are talking?

A. She is listening to their talk

B. She is playing with a bottle of whisky

C. She is playing with the things her mother has bought

What can we learn from the speech?

A. Mrs. Lee steals a bottle of whisky

B. The detective finds the whisky in Mrs. Lee’s handbag

C. Mrs. Young asks her daughter to steal a bottle of whisky

What does the speech tell us?

A. Lily is a shy girl

B. Mrs. Lee is a forgetful person

C. People sometimes can hardly explain themselves

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

（共15小题，每题3分，满分45分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Although man has known asbestos for hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H.W.Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers，was responsible for the opening of that first mine.

Mr. Johns was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves，which looked much like ordinary work gloves，he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imagine that he had increased business in asbestos roofing materials. However，because it was very expensive to transport them from Italy to the United States, Mr. Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein, in the province of Quebec in Canada.

Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral，which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated，a strange thing happens; the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibers.

Scientists do not know why the rock can be separated easily into threads(线)，but they have found thousands of uses of this fireproof material, of the so- called “cloth of stone.”

21. Which title best expresses the main idea of this passage?

A. Asbestos mined in Canada B. Fireproof material

C. A “wonder” material D.A new roofing material

22. Johns proved his ability as a salesman by___.

A. going into roofing business B. carrying asbestos from Italy

C. sending out a trained scientist D. showing the use of asbestos gloves

23. Which is the most important character of asbestos that the author wants to show us?

A. It is like thread B. It feels soapy

C. It burns easily D. It is unusually heavy

24. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage was to___.

A. show the need for more scientists B. compare asbestos with other materials

C. increase the sales of asbestos D. present facts about asbestos

B

BEIJING(China Daily2010-8-27)---With a rapid increase in the number of Chinese PhD graduates programs in the past decade, it seems the quality of educating doctoral students is falling.

About 70 percent of employers complain that employees who hold PhDs show little creation in their work performance, according a resent survey.

The number of PhD students in China reached 246,300 in2009, about five times the figure in 1999. China replaced the United States to become the world’s top producer of doctorate holders in 2008, according to an Asia Times report.

“Nowadays, it is not rare for people in their 30s to become professors in Chinese universities, but I really doubt their experience and capability at such a young age,” said Ge Daoshun, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Almost half of the professors admitted each of them had to direct more than seven PhD candidates. Some 60 percent of PhD candidates admitted they have been given more than half of their professors’ research projects. The relationship between PhD students and their teachers has become an employment, in other words, a ”master-apprentice” relationship, since professors use their students as cheap labor to do research.

“Chinese universities should reform the tutorial system and introduce more stricter requirements for people to get a PhD diploma to improve the quality of education,” Ge told China Daily.

However, Liu Xin, a 25-year-oldPhDcandidate at the University of Sussex in England, argued that a major reason China is producing low quality doctorates is that most of the candidates do not have a passion for academic research… “The best college students of China have seldom ended up in academic positions. Most of them want to work in either banking or foreign companies, which pay much better.”

25. What does the underline word in Para,5 mean?

A. teacher B. director C. student D. co-operator

26. From what Liu Xin said in the last paragraph, we can know______.

A. the quality of doctorates is based on the quality of students

B. the PhD students in China are not so good as those in western countries

C. the PhD students in China are not good at academic research

D. the PhD students in other countries do not want to make money

27. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?

A. PhD education in China

B. PhDs High in number, low in quality

C. The differences of PhDs between Chinese and other countries

D. The “master-apprentice” relationship

C

The man traveling in the back of the ambulance which was running at a high speed along the streets of Baltimore that morning in2008 had no business to be alive. By everything that was reasonable, and there were plenty of such things before, he should have been very dead indeed. But he wasn’t. As the people in the hospital pointed out after they had examined him, he was only slightly hurt. Yet he had just fallen 150 feet down a hotel lift shaft！

Unknown to the man, two things had occurred which were to affect his life that day. On the thirteenth floor of the hotel, somebody had carelessly left the lift gate open. Down in the basement, a pipe had burst and it had flooded from the bottom of the lift shaft to a depth of two feet.

Modern lifts have all sorts of fail-safe system to prevent accidents, but this was ancient equipment unreliable, slow, dangerous, and unsuitable material to recycle.

The man had plenty of things to occupy his mind that morning. He had overslept. The hotel had forgotten to call him and now he was late for an important business appointment. He dressed quickly, shaved hurriedly, took hold of his briefcase and hurried off down the hotel corridor.

Good! The lift gate was open. The lift must be there. He need not press the button and wait while the large, clumsy lift made its way upwards. Without looking or thinking, he stepped out into space, The lift cage was, in fact, one floor above him on the fourteenth. The lift shaft which he had walked was a narrow space of not very fresh air, ending150 feet below in two feet of dirty water.

The man fell, making his journey to the ground at a speed he had never dreamed of. Confused patterns, a rush of air, time enough to be afraid, split-second thoughts of death, then crash!

Perhaps this gave him the record for some sort of high-diving act. No doubt in future he always looked before he jumped. Certainly he learnt that this was no way to save time. The experts said that those two feet of water had saved his life.

28. What do we learn about the man?

A. He fell from the 13th floor. B. He was hit by an ambulance.

C. He got caught in a serious flood. D. He made a record for high-diving

29. By “… had no business to be alive”, the writer means that the man____.

A. had missed his business appointment B. was alive with excitement

C. was alive and this was surprising D. didn’t do any business

30. The lift did not have a fail-safe system because it was_____.

A. na