淮南市2015届高三第一次模拟考试

英语试题

第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共115分）

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。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. Who could the man most likely be?

A. A salesman. B. An operator. C. A repairman.

2. How does the boy feel about his new school?

A. Excited. B. Terrible. C. Satisfied.

3. Where are the speakers?

A. In a restaurant. B. In a shop. C. In a hotel.

4. What does the woman say about Sally?

A. She is wrong to fire the manager.

B. She always says what she thinks.

C. She seems to have a lot in her mind.

5. Why is the meat bad?

A. It wasn’t put in the refrigerator.

B. It was bought many days ago.

C. The refrigerator is broken.

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。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 is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Doctor and patient. B. Husband and wife. C. Customer and repairman.

7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. How to get rid of headache.

B. How to fix a washing machine.

C. How to use a washing machine.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. What is the woman doing?

A. Making a reservation. B. Asking the way. C. Getting help with her bags.

9. How will the woman go next?

A. By taxi. B. On foot. C. By subway.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

10. When was the course supposed to start?

A. At 11:00 a.m. B. At 2:00 p.m. C. At 3:30 p.m.

11. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. Make full preparations.

B. Do more listening activities.

C. Have lunch with the whole group.

12. What is the best way to contact the man today?

A. To call his home. B. To call his office. C. To call his cell phone.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Neighbors. B. Trainer and trainee. C. Interviewer and interviewee.

14. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A swimming pool. B. The man’s daily life. C. The man’s favorite sport.

15. What is the man?

A. A student. B. A teacher. C. A coach.

16. Who should help add some other sports facilities, according to the man?

A. The government. B. The sports committee. C. The local companies.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What do we know about Alice?

A. Alice did badly in the final exams.

B. Alice taught the speaker to study French.

C. Alice came from a poor family.

18. Why did the speaker take the trip?

A. Alice’s parents invited her.

B. Alice asked her to go along.

C. She wanted to cheer Alice up.

19. What was the speaker interested in during the trip?

A. Sitting on the trip. B. Playing by the seaside. C. Talking with other passengers.

20. What did the speaker think of the trip in general?

A. Boring. B. Satisfying. C. Amazing.

第二部分: 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：单项填空（共10小题; 每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. Those who can get high marks at school are generally considered _________ successful.

A. mentally B. physically C. academically D. spiritually

22. With the government’s efforts and _____, China can maintain stability, security, and good public order.

A. commitment B. campaign C. ceremony D. circumstance

23. I don’t agree this book is of poor quality. ________, it is a book well worth reading.

A. Above all B. To start with C. As a consequence D. If anything

24. There are 21 stations on the four new lines, _____ increasing the total number of the subway stations to 50.

A. meanwhile B. still C. thus D. besides

25. They will come together as a team and _____ the boundaries within the company so they can move ahead much quicker.

A. break out B. break off C. break in D. break down

?26. With the professor’s help, the graduate student found many errors that ______in his essay.

A. would otherwise have been ignored B. would otherwise have ignored

C. have been ignored D. would be ignored

27. Should you have any trouble carrying out this plan, ______ me at this number.

A. calling B. call C. to call D. called

28. The worker who _____ all the tasks didn’t get paid and took the company to court finally.

A. finishes B. will finish C. had finished D. has finished

29. As is often the case, problems and conflicts arise _____ caution is absent.

A. which B. what C. where D. that

30. The book, _____ after his death, won great fame for the writer.

A. publishing B. having published C. to be published D. published

31. — ______ the police discovered the suitcase that was stolen three years ago?

— Totally by chance.

A. Where was it that? B. Where it was that C. How was it that ?? D. How it was that

32. — John didn’t pass the final exam.

— ______??As?far?as?I?know,?he is the most hardworking student in his class.

A.?Why not B.?How?come???? C.?What for D.?So what

33. The fact that she had apologized _______ for nothing with him. He would never forgive her.

A. deserved B. cared C. afforded D. counted

34. _____ about classical music, but he pretended to be an expert on it.

A. Little did he know B. He knows little

C. Though he knew little D. Little does he know

35. Luckily, _______ to be a goalkeeper walking by when the baby fell off.

A. it happened B. there happened C. there used D. it had

第二节 : 完型填空 (共20小题 , 每小题1.5分, 满分30分)

阅读下面短文 , 掌握其大意 , 然后从每题所给的 A , B , C , D四个选项中选出最佳答案 .

What is your recovery rate? How long does it 36 you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? 37 ? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more 38 that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. Simply speaking, the longer it takes you to 39 , the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.

? You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body 40 and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the 41 at which your heart and breathing system recovers after exercise. Similarly, the faster you 42 a problem that upsets you, the faster you return to a balance, the 43 you will be. The best 44 of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can 45 an incident or missed opportunity and 46 the game, the better their performance. In fact, most of them will measure the 47 it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game, and most think that a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!

Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the 48 . Your aim is to 49 your part to the best of your ability. You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a full stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence, you start a new one and 50 the next sentence is related to the last, it is not affected by it. Your job is to deliver each sentence to the 51 of your ability.

Don’t live your life in the 52 ! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. 53 the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t 54 thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Learn to recover 55.

A. take

B. bring

C. spend

D. let





A. Seconds

B. Days

C. Months

D. Years





A. influence

B. impression

C. performance

D. possibility





A. perform

B. exercise

C. recover

D. behave





A. slim

B. fast

C. poor

D. fit





A. method

B. speed

C. time

D. length





A. catch up with

B. get close to

C. pay attention to

D. let go of





A. busier

B. happier

C. healthier

D. faster





A. example

B. solution

C. reason

D. report





A. solve

B. answer

C. remember

D. forget





A. break up with

B. run out of

C. get on with

D. take charge of





A. time

B. way

C. game

D. rate





A. platform

B. society

C. stage

D. farm





A. play

B. get

C. cost

D. leave





A. because

B. although

C. as

D. until





A. highest

B. best

C. latest

D. least





A. past

B. face

C. box

D. present





A. Increase

B. Overcome

C. Acquire

D. Stop





A. accept

B. afford

C. adjust

D. allow





A. mostly

B. carefully

C. quickly

D. successfully



第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40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， 并填涂到答题卡相应位置。

A

“ Why I’d Like to Visit Texas ”

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