山西省忻州一中 长治二中 临汾一中 康杰中学2013-2014学年高三第四次四校联考英语试题A卷

命题：忻州一中 长治二中 临汾一中 康杰中学

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，共10页。第Ⅰ卷为选择题, 共100分；第Ⅱ卷为非选择题，共50分。全卷共150分，考试时间为120分钟。

注意事项:

1．答题前，考生务必用0.55mm黑色中性笔将姓名、准考证号、班级填写在试题和答题卡上。

2．请把答案做在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡，不交试题，答案写在试题上无效。

第 Ⅰ 卷 （选择题，共100分）

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分，不计入总分）

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。

What does the woman think of the examination paper ?

A. Difficult. B. Easy. C. Proper.

2. Where does the woman prefer to live?

A. In the city. B. In foreign countries. C. In the country.

3. What does the man buy?

A. Some bottles of milk. B. Some bottles of vitamins.

C. Some bottles of wine.

4. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The woman doesn’t like pear juice. B. The man broke the juice bottle.

C. The man will buy some pear juice.

5. What is the woman?

A. Journalist. B. A film maker. C. An actress.

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。

听第六段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. What is the man doing?

A. Reading newspaper. B. Writing for newspaper.

C. Looking for stories from the newspaper.

7. What kind of book does the girl want the man to read?

A. A book about business. B. A book about animals.

C. A book about cookies.

8. When does the conversation probably take place?

A. In the evening. B. In the afternoon. C. In the morning.

听第七段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In the office. B. In the woman’s house.

C. In the man’s house.

10. What is the probably relationship between the speakers?

A. Couples. B. Strangers. C. Neighbours.

11. What is Bob probably expected to do?

A. Turn off the radio and go to bed. B. Continue to listen to the music.

C. Have a chat with the woman.

听第八段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What will the speakers do this weekend?

A. Stay at home. B. Visit the man’s parents C. Go shopping.

13. Why doesn’t the woman get well along with her mother-in-law?

A. Her mother-in-law is too strict with her.

B. Her mother-in-law doesn’t like her.

C. They have different views of the world.

14. What is the woman’s attitude now?

A. She will give in. B. She won’t see her mother-in-law any more.

C. She will give up getting along with her mother-in-law.

听第九段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. How does the woman help the man?

A. Lend him her computer. B. Let the man borrow her book.

C. Lend him some money.

16. Why does the man want to go to the cinema?

A. Because he is free this afternoon.

B. Because there is an interesting film on.

C. Because the ticket is cheap.

17. What does the woman think about the film?

A. It’s an old movie. B. It’s too terrible for her.

C. It’s as boring as her homework.

听第十段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What are the listeners?

A. Patients. B. Doctors. C. Nurses.

19. Which is not allowed in the ward?

A. Drinking soft drink. B. Visiting patient. C. Smoking.

20. Where can the listeners find the radio switch?

A. On the bed. B. On the wall C. On the desk.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

第一节：（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。

A

What is a six-letter word that immediately comes to mind when you need some information on the Internet? You probably thought of Google. But Google wasn’t always the name of the famous search engine. In fact, the original name was BackRub!

BackRub was the name two graduate students gave to the new search engine they developed in 1996. They called it BackRub because the engine used backlinks to measure the popularity of Web sites. Later, they wanted a better name — a name that suggests huge quantities of data. They thought of the word googol. (A googol is a number followed by 100 zeros.) When they checked the Internet registry of names to see if googol was already taken, one of the students misspelled the word by mistake, and that’s how Google was born.

Google is just one example of a name change in the business world. Many other companies have decided to change their names or the names of their products. Here are some more examples:

Jerry Yang and David Filo, two young computer specialists, developed a guide to Internet content in 1994. They called it “Jerry and David’s Guide to World Wide Web.” But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”

Sometimes companies change their names because of the popularity of one of their products. In 1962, a young runner named Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1971, Knight decided to design and manufacture his own brand of shoes. He named the shoes after the Greek goddess of victory — Nike. Nike shoes became so well known that Knight changed the name of the whole company to Nike.

According to the text, Google .

A. has been famous since 1996 B. is a result of a spelling mistake

C. means a number followed by 100 zeros

D. is the original name of the search engine

22. Jerry and David changed the guide’s name to Yahoo because the original name .

A. had been registered B. had been forgotten

C. was not attractive D. was too short

23. The company Nike got its name from .

A. its founders B. its customers

C. its popular products D. its advanced techniques

Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. The name changes B. The history of Google

C. How to choose a name? D. Why are names important?

B

In our world today, the media and entertainment industries are constantly focusing on beauty over brains. Movies, television shows, commercials, and magazines all make use of models and actors whose physical attributes(特性) will sell their product.

As our country is trying to reduce the obesity numbers, eating disorder statistics continue to increase due to the push for thinner people. While obesity is a serious medical condition that can lead to many health problems, many of us try to lose weight for appearance purposes. Children as young as elementary school age have begun to worry about the numbers that appear on the scale. In my opinion, it seems that “fat” has become the new“ugly”.

Two weeks ago, 37-year-old Wisconsin television reporter Livingston, who is 235 pounds, received an email from a man named Krause. In the email Krause attacked her, writing,“Your physical condition hasn’t improved for many years. Surely you don’t consider yourself a suitable example for this community’s young people, girls in particular.”

Today, it seems that a vast majority of people care more about how they look and appear to their peers rather than what is inside. The truth is that every person is built differently; we all come in different shapes and sizes. Just because someone is heavier, that doesn’t mean they eat large amounts of junk food around the day. Likewise, even though a person is thin, that doesn’t mean they are necessarily healthy and fit.

If you are reading this and you struggle with your weight or your appearance, please recognize that you are beautiful and special in your own way. You are worth so much more than you realize, and even if I don’t know you, understand that I respect and support you. Beauty is not defined by size; it is defined by how we treat others and respect ourselves. In the words of the talented film actress Kirstie Alley, “There’s a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.”

25. With so many people losing weight, it will end in .

A. models’ and actors’ appearance in ads

B. the fall of media and entertainment industries

C. more and more people becoming obesity

D. more people’s suffering from eating disorder

26. The underlined phrase “the numbers that appear on the scale” in the second paragraph may mean .

A. intelligence B. weight C. patience D. strength

27. The writer used the example of Jennifer Livingston to show .

A. people think “fat” looks ugly B. fat people are becoming cleverer

C. physical condition is good D. young people never follow example

28. What Kirstie Alley said means .

A. people should pay attention to the appearance

B. there is no need for any people to go on diet

C. people are beautiful when they concern others

D. there’s always someone who understands and supports you

C

Shirley Temple, who died on February 10, 2014, was that rare example of a Hollywood child star who, when the cameras stopped rolling, carved out a new career.

For four years, she was Hollywood’s biggest box-office star representing the kind of sweet, innocent girl that everyone wanted as their daughter. However, years later, she reappeared as a successful politician.

Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California on 23 April 1928. Encouraged by her mother, she learned to dance while she was just three.

In 1934, Stand Up and Cheer became her first film and the film was a great success. At the age of six she was earning $1,250 a week — more than $21,000 at today’s values.

Across the world, audiences flocked to see her in films such as Little Miss Marker, The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel.

In 1935 she was awarded a special Oscar (Academy Award) and her foot and hand prints were added to those of stars such as Jean Harlow and Mary Pickford outside Grauman’s Chinese theatre in Hollywood. The peak of her film career came in 1939 when The Little Princess became a box-office success.

Temple starred in a total of 43 feature films. But she found it difficult to maintain her film career in adulthood and retired from Hollywood in 1950.

She disappeared from the spotlight for nearly 20 years. She returned to the public eye in 1967, as a Republican candidate for Congress. When Nixon became president, he rewarded her with an appointment to the American delegation to the United Nations. Then, in 1974, President Ford appointed her the United States Ambassador(大使) to Ghana. George Bush Snr, appointed her Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

Shirley Temple drew a line between her childhood stardom and her later political career. “Some