南昌市第二中学2015届高三上学期第四次月考

英语试题

第一部分 听力

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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Why can’t the speakers afford to rent a better home now?

A. They have bought a new car.

B. They have bought some furniture.

C. They have bought a second-hand car.

2. Where are the speakers?

A. In a park. B. In a hotel. C. In the British Embassy.

3. When is the next weather report?

A. At 835. B. At 900. C. At 925.

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A typewriter. B. A computer. C. A game.

5. How will the woman go home today?

A. By car. B. By bus. C. By bike.

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至8题。

6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Teammates.

7. What does the man like doing in his spare time?

A. Climbing mountains. B. Watching movies. C. Cycling.

8. What kind of books does the woman like?

A. Horror. B. Detective. C. Romance.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Husband and wife. B. Classmates. C. Neighbors.

10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. How to save energy at home.

B. How to do well in an exam.

C. How to educate children.

11. What was the man’s score?

A. 25. B. 36. C. 40.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What is the woman likely to get if she answers the questions?

A. A trip to Thailand. B. A free movie ticket. C. A sum of money.

13. What does the woman think of credit cards?

A. Inconvenient. B. Harmful. C. Useful.

14. What do we know about the woman?

A. She is doing shopping now.

B. She saves a lot of money each month.

C. She often borrows money from her friends.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What do we know about air transportation?

A. It is the safest way of transportation.

B. Its insurance is cheaper than that of sea transportation.

C. It is the most expensive way of transportation.

16. Under what condition will the man suggest using sea transportation?

A. When the goods aren’t easily broken.

B. When the client doesn’t have much money.

C. When the client has a large quantity of goods.

17. Why does the man usually recommend a truck?

A. It’s much cleaner. B. It’s much more flexible.

C. It’s more economical in the use of labour.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What does the speaker talk about?

A. A CD tower. B. A CD player. C. A CD recorder.

19. What do we know about the product?

A. It’s inflexible. B. It’s made of iron. C. It has a soft-touch mechanism.

20. How much do two units cost?

A. $25. B. $35. C. $50.

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。

A

21. What can we learn about Lily?

A. She was treated badly by her husband’s family.

B. She didn’t treat her mother-in-law sincerely at first.

C. Her mother-in-law didn’t agree to her marriage.

D. She didn’t respect the tradition of her husband’s family.

22. Lily first went to see Mr. Huang to _________.

A. ask for some herbs to kill her mother-in-law

B. ask him to cure her mother-in-law’s illness

C. buy some herbs to improve her mother-in-law’s health

D. ask him for some advice on dealing with her mother-in-law

23. After visiting Mr. Huang, Lily__________.

A. became more and more suspicious

B. changed all of her living habits to please her mother-in-law

C. prepared specially cooked food for her mother-in-law every day

D. changed her attitude towards her mother-in-law gradually

24. What does the underlined word, “poison”, in the last paragraph, refer to?

A. Buying poisonous herbs. B. A negative attitude towards life.

C. Thinking ill of others. D. Losing one’s temper randomly

25. What does the author try to tell us?

A. Be aware of other people’s good qualities in relationships.

B. Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts will become your words.

C. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without depending anxiously on the future.

D. Don’t waste your time explaining, because people will only hear what they want to hear.

B

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26. If you are going on one of the trips for the first time, you can’t go on trips ________.

A. near the ocean B. in the back country

C. in the Cascade Mountains D. in northeast Washington

27. How much will you have to pay for your second trip if you’re not a WTA member?

A. $145 B. $185 C. $195 D. $235

28. After choosing a trip, you ________.

A. will naturally become a WTA member

B. can cancel your trip and get all your money back

C. will be added to the waiting list

D. must submit your payment and application within two weeks

29. You must be lucky enough to obtain a scholarship if you ________.

A. apply before March 1, 2014 B. donate a little money to WTA

C. support WTA by advertising D. volunteer in your high school

30. From the text we can learn that 2014 Youth Volunteer Vacations ______.

A. will be the last activity of the year B. are more popular than people say

C. are open only to 14-to18-year-olds D. offer a one-day trip for training

C

Taking photographs at a birthday or a wedding has become as natural as blowing out candles or cutting the cake. But our obsession with recording every detail of our happiest moments could be damaging our ability to remember them, according to new research. A study has shown that taking pictures rather than concentrating fully on the events in front of us prevents memories taking hold.

Dr. Linda Henkel, from Fairfield University, Connecticut, described it as the "photo-taking impairment effect". She said "People so often pull out their cameras almost mindlessly to capture a moment, to the point where they are missing what is happening right in front of them. When people rely on technology to remember for them—counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves—it can have a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences."

Dr Henkel and her team carried out an experiment in a museum, to learn if taking pictures of the exhibits was hindering the ability of visitors to remember what they had seen.

A group of university students were led on a tour at the Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University and were asked to either photograph or try and remember objects on display. The next day their memory was tested. The results showed that people were less accurate in recognizing the objects they had photographed than those they had only looked at. It was found that their memory for the details of the objects they had photographed was poorer.

Henkel's lab is currently investigating whether the content of a photo, such as whether you are in it, affects later memory. She is also researching whether actively choosing what to photograph might influence what we remember.

Previous research suggests that reviewing photos we have taken does help us remember the objects, but only if we take the time.

"Research has suggested that the sheer volume and lack of organization of digital photos for personal memories discourages many people from accessing and recalling them. In order to remember, we have to access and interact with the photos, rather than just collect them," said Dr Henkel.

31. What does the word “them”, in the first paragraph, refer to?

A. Gifts at a birthday. B. People who go to parties.

C. Photos taken at a wedding. D. Details of the happiest moments.

32. What is the “photo-taking impairment effect”?

A. Some unhappy events may impair the effects of photos.

B. Taking photographs of objects ruins one’s memory of them.

C. The effects of photos are stro