邯郸市高三摸底考试

英 语 试 题 2014.9

本试卷分为第I卷和第II卷，答题时间120分钟，满分150分。答题时，请将答案填写在答题纸指定位置。交卷时，只交答题纸。

第 I 卷

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，

用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，在本试题卷上作答无效。

第一部分：听力（共两节，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. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18 C. ￡9.15

答案是C。

1. Who lost a French dictionary?

A. Mike. B. Bill. C. Tom.

2. How will the man probably go to Chicago?

A. By car. B. By plane. C. By bus.

3. Why was the man late?

A. His alarm clock didn’t work.

B. He didn’t hear the alarm.

C. He forgot to set the alarm clock.

4. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In a supermarket.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. How to look after Ken.

B. How to spend the vacation.

C. How to deal with the woman’s cat.

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 do we know about the woman’s grandfather?

A. He works in a company now.

B. He has white hair.

C. He wears glasses.

7. How old is the woman’s grandmother?

A. 60. B. 65. C. 70.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where is the work place of the company?

A. In Britain. B. In America. C. In Australia.

9. How will the woman help the man?

A. She will print his application letter.

B. She will check his application letter.

C. She will write a new application letter for him.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does the man prefer cycling?

A. It is quiet and relaxing.

B. He can do it with his friends.

C. He is fond of seeing the countryside.

11. Which two sports does the man like best?

A. Football and cycling.

B. Swimming and football.

C. Table tennis and swimming.

12. When does the man usually play table tennis?

A. In winter. B. In spring. C. In summer.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the woman?

A. A doctor. B. A professor. C. A nutritionist.

14. What does the woman suggest the man eat?

A. Fruits and vegetables. B. Processed food. C. Pork.

15. Where does the woman suggest the man eat?

A. At the university hospital. B. At the restaurant. C. At the dining hall.

16. How does the man probably feel after talking with the woman?

A. Worried. B. Relaxed. C. Confused.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is Ellen’s problem?

A. She can’t respond to sounds.

B. She can’t speak very well.

C. She can’t hear very well.

18. What did Ellen tell the speaker when she came home?

A. She had a good coach.

B. She took part in the sports meeting.

C. She was encouraged by her friends.

19. Why did the speaker try to encourage Ellen?

A. He thought it unlikely that she won.

B. Her coach didn’t encourage her.

C. Ellen couldn’t run very fast.

20. How did Ellen perform in the sports meeting?

A. She won two races.

B. She was faced with defeat.

C. She won almost all the races.

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。

A

Restaurants in the USA

Steve’s Pizza

So many pizza chains compete for the attention of tourists in South Beach, but ask a Miami Beach local where to get the best pizza and they’ll tell you about Steve’s. This is New York–style pizza, handmade with care and good ingredients(成份). New branches of Steve’s are opening elsewhere in Miami, all in non-tourist areas.

Opening hours: 11am-3am

Cattleman’s Steakhouse

This place is 20 miles east of the city, but local folks would probably drive 200 miles to eat here. The food is good, and the scenery is even better. Come early and wander around the grounds of Indian Cliffs Ranch, where you’ll see everything from rabbits to buffalo (水牛), then catch the sunset either before or after your meal.

Opening hours: 5pm-10pm

Absolute Baking & Cafe

The screen door is always swinging open at this town hot spot with giant breakfasts. Try the green chili on eggs – it’s made from scratch, as are the organic(有机的) breads. Lunch includes salads, big sandwiches and local grass-fed beef burgers. Don’t miss a square of soft, fresh carrot cake.

Opening hours: 7am-2pm

Walt’s Wharf

Everybody’s favorite for fresh fish (some drive in from LA), Walt’s packs them in on weekends. You can’t make reservations for dinner (though they’re accepted for lunch), but it’s worth the wait for the tree fire–grilled seafood and steaks in the many-windowed ground floor or upstairs in captain’s chairs.

Opening hours: 11am-3:30pm

21. The new branches of Steve’s Pizza are mainly intended for_________.

A. New Yorkers B. tourists C.the locals D. foreigners

22. Cattleman’s Steakhouse offers the wonderful _________as well as good food.

A. wine B. view C. discount D. service

23. Which restaurant serves both breakfast and lunch?

A. Steve’s Pizza. B. Walt’s Wharf.

C. Absolute Baking & Café. D. Cattleman’s Steakhouse.

B

Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee(拼写大赛). In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.

Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy(书法)to be one of their primary contributions to civilization. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet. The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.

But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.

In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully attempting to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.

24. What can we learn about the Character Hero?

A. It’s open to people of all ages and all walks.

B. It’s the most-viewed TV programs in China.

C. It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world.

D. It draws great public attention across the country.

25. Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?

A. Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often.

B. Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy.

C. Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.

D. Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology.

26. According to Shen Bin, being able to write characters by hand is_________.

A. necessary for adults to survive in China

B. a requirement made by the Education Ministry

C. helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive

D. an ability to be developed only when you are students

27. Where does this text probably come from?

A. A news report. B. A science report.

C. An advertisement. D. Children’s literature.

C

Next time you hear a funny joke you’d better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal, laughter isn’t always the best?medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says: “We found people with heartbeat problems which had stopped their heart, we found people who had fainted(昏倒), and we found people who’d?dislocated their?jaws?or burst their lungs.”

It seems that laughing can be?no laughing matter. But?it’s not all?doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing when you want to?lose weight, for example. Yes, that’s right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains that: “You use energy when you laugh, you move your?diaphragm(横膈膜), you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful.”

According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laughed all day you’d use up about 2,000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But don’t do that or you might end up with a?painful?jaw.?Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a?funny?way.

But I don’t want to finish this article leaving you feeling?desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3-6 months. So give in to your?sense of humour?and keep smiling. Life is short anyway.

28. Laughing too much may cause the following harmful results EXCEPT_________.

A. heart stop B. diaphragm movement

C. lung burst D. jaw dislocation

29. The underlined phrase “doom and gloom” in Paragraph 2 probably means_______.

A. hopeless B. funny C. painful D. nervous

30. How many calories can you use if you laugh for half a day?

A. About 40. B. About 1,000. C. About 2,000. D. About 2,040.

31. What is the author’s attitude towards laughing in the last paragraph?

A. Uninterested. B. Disapproving. C. Worried. D. Favorable.

D

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