包头市第九中学2015届高三下学期适应性考试

英语试题

本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第一卷(选择题, 共90分)

第一部分：听力（共两小节，满分30分）

第一小节 (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 are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A library B. A writer C. A book

2. Where is George now?

A. In Germany B. In Canada C. In Italy

3. How are the prices in the restaurant?

A. Reasonable B. High C. Low

4. What did the woman do last night?

A. She attended a lecture B. She went to the hospital C. She made a speech on education

5. Where is the woman probably going on Sunday?

A. To an art exhibition B. To a museum C To a wedding

第二小节 (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段对话，回答6至7题

6. What does the man think of the woman?

A She is jealous. B. She’s confident C. She’s modest.

7. How did the woman make herself beautiful?

A. By using make-up B. by using cucumbers. C. By using skin smoothers.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What are the speakers looking for?

A. A fire station B. A place to eat C. A college.

9. Where did the fire probably break out?

A. At a classroom B. At a library C. At a cafeteria

10. What are the speakers doing next?

A. Going to town B. Staying home C. Going to a bakery

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What do we know about the man?

A. He failed in the exams. B. He didn’t get scholarships C. He failed to join other clubs.

12. When will the Volunteer’s League have activities?

A. At the holiday B. On weekends C. After school

13. Why does the man decide to join the volunteer’s League?

A. To improve his oral Chinese.

B. To serve the group member.

C. To spend his spare time freely.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What does the woman say about the Statue of Liberty.

A. Beautiful B. exciting C. Dirty

15. What does the woman think of the hotel?

A. Not bad B. Not good C. Too noisy

16. Where does the woman come from?

A. Canada B. The UK C. The US

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题

17. Where was Frost born?

A. In New England B. In Boston C. In San Francisco

18. When did Frost become friendly with Edward Thomas?

A. Between 1924 and 1943 B. Between 1912 and 1915 C. Between 1943 and 1963

19. Which was published in 1914?

A Steeple Bush B. A boy’s Will C. North of Boston

20. What does the speaker ask the listeners to do next?

A. Read a poem B. Study a novel. C. Write a letter.

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

Darnay Duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich. The landlord looks at him and exclaims, 'But you're a duck!'

'Your eyes work,' replies the Darnay Duck. 'And you talk.' utters the landlord. 'And your ears,' continues Darnay Duck, 'Now can I have my beer and my sandwich please?'

'Certainly,' agrees the landlord, 'sorry about that... it's just we don't get many ducks in this pub. What are you doing round this way?'

'I'm working on the building site across the road,' explains the duck.

The landlord watches, astonished, as Darnay Duck drinks his beer, eats his sandwich and leaves.

The duck visits regularly for two weeks. Then one day the circus comes to town. The owner of the circus comes into the pub and the landlord says to him, 'You're with the circus, aren't you? I know this duck that would be just brilliant in your circus - he talks, drinks beer and everything.'

'Sounds incredible,' says the owner, 'get him to give me a call.'

So the next day when Darnay Duck comes into the pub the landlord says, 'Hey Mr Duck, I believe I can line you up with a top job, paying really good money.' 'Yeah?' questions Darnay, 'Sounds great, where is it?'

'At the circus.' Answers the landlord. 'The circus?' Darnay Duck enquires, rather puzzled.

'That's right,' replies the landlord. 'What, the place with the big tent? Big canvas roof, hole in the middle, loads of animals?' asks the duck.

'That's right.' smiles the landlord.

Darnay Duck looks confused. 'Why would they want a plasterer(泥水匠)?'

21. What does the underlined sentence “Your eyes work.” mean in the passage?

A Your eyes are good in function B I am a real duck

C You’d better work with your eyes D You can see clearly with your eyes

22. Why does the owner of the circus ask the landowner to get the duck to give him a call?

A He wants to get in touch with the duck

B He wants to employ the duck

C He doesn’t believe what the landowner says.

D He gets some news for the duck

23. Why does the Duck look confused when the landowner find him a job in the circus?

A He does not know what job a plasterer can do at the circus.

B He does not know what performance he can give at the circus.

C He does not know why a plasterer can be paid good money at the circus.

D He does not know what is wrong with the circus.

24. What job does the landowner try to recommend to the duck at the circus?

A a plasterer B a talker C a drinker D a performer

B

“Time,” says the proverb, “is money”. This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes.

Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. Our life is a brief period measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merry making. Now if all these years were to be deducted(扣除) from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

All time is precious，but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence，for those are the periods when we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recover the loss. Just as money laid out at interests doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages.

25. Why does the author quote the proverb “time is money” in the beginning?

A to explain the meaning of the proverb

B to show how precious time is

C to compare the importance of time and life

D to warn us not to waste time

26. According to the author, which of the following is right?

A A day or an hour wasted is so much life lost.

B We shouldn’t spend one third of our life sleeping

C Merry making is something unnecessary in our life.

D We have less than twenty or thirty years to do active work

27. What is the best title for the passage?

A Time is money B The value of time

C How we spend our time D The morning hours of life

28. In the last paragraph, the author warns that _____.

A one must do his best to acquire knowledge and develop its ability when young

B young people must deposit enough money to make large interests in the future

C the morning hours are important for the young and shouldn’t be wasted

D the time of childhood and youth should be used to acquire countless advantages.

C

The latest revelations from the NSA files, supplied by Edward Snowden and reported on by Glen Greenwald’s The Intercept, have shown that US and UK spy agencies could have the ability to listen in on billions of mobile phone calls from around the world.

What’s happened?

The biggest manufacturer of Sim cards in the world has reportedly been hacked into by the US NSA and UK GCHQ.

The security agencies stole the encryption keys（密码） that are built into every one of the Sim cards made by the Dutch firm Gemalto.

What does this mean?

With the encryption keys for Sim cards, the US and UK security services can potentially listen in on any conversation across any network that uses the compromised(缺乏抵抗力的）Sim cards.

How could they listen in?

The keys allow the security services to decode voice communications sent between a mobile phone and a mobile mast（天线杆）, which carries the call to the receiver. To pick up the call they can use an aerial（天线）placed in the neighbourhood of the caller. They will have to be relatively close to the mobile phone user, but an aerial could be placed anywhere and would not have to be visible.

Who is affected?

Gemalto supplies 2bn Sim cards annually to 450 mobile phone providers globally across 85 countries. Most mobile phone providers will have used Gemalto Sim cards at some point, meaning anyone with a Sim in their mobile phone could be affected.

What can be done?

There is very little that can be done . That means someone could be listening in on any conversation had via the mobile phone network.

Users can separately encrypt their voice and text communications using messaging services such as Apple’s iMessage, Facebook’s WhatsApp or similar secure services.

29. What happened?

A US and UK spy agencies listened in on billions of mobile phone calls from around the world.

B Sim card database hack gave US and UK spies access to billions of cell phones.

C the Dutch firm Gemalto gave away the encryption keys that are built into every one of the Sim cards.

D Edward Snowden and G