赤峰市宁城县2015届高三3月统一考试（一模）

英语试题

注意：本试卷分第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Ⅰ卷（选择题，共100分）

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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秒的时间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. 15??????????? C. ￡9. 18

答案是B。

1. What will the man do?

A. Open the window. B. Find another room. C. Go out with the woman.

2. What’s the date of the woman’s birthday?

A. March 15th. B. March 11th. C. March 7th.

3. What does the man mean?

A. John has some personal problems.

B. The problem is common for young men. (www. )

C. It’s not common for young men to leave home.

4. What will the man most probably do?

A. Get some change from Jane.

B. Go and look for a payphone.

C. Use Jane’s mobile phone.

5. What does the man mean?

A. It was impossible for him to go to the party.

B. Everybody was surprised by his appearance at the party.

C. He had expected to go to the party for a long time.

第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

请听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. Why does the woman want to go to the library?

A. To return some books. B. To borrow some new books. C. To find some test papers.

7. When does the library close?

A. At 900. B. At 940. C. At 1000.

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

A. He asks her to return some books for him.

B. He asks her to borrow some books for him.

C. He asks her to go to the library with him.

请听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What was the man doing when the story happened?

A. Sleeping. B. Swimming. C. Listening to the radio.

10. What happened to the little boy?

A. His eye was hurt by the sand.

B. He couldn’t find his parents.

C. He fell into the water.

11. What did the man do after hearing someone shouting for help?

A. He went on enjoying the music.

B. He looked for the boy’s parents.

C. He jumped into the water.

请听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Teacher and student. B. Husband and wife. C. Manager and secretary.

13. Where are the two speakers going?

A. The airport. B. The railway station. C. The bus station.

14. Why do the speakers call Brenda?

A. To ask her to change clothes.

B. To ask her when Mother arrives.

C. To ask her if she can go with them.

请听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Where is Mary going?

A. Her home. B. The park. C. The zoo.

16. Why doesn’t Mary like walking through the street?

A. It’s too cold.

B. There are too many people.

C. It isn’t interesting.

17. When does the conversation most likely take place?

A. Late in the morning. B. In the late afternoon. C. Early in the morning.

请听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When did Grandma Moses turn to painting?

A. At the age of 76. B. At the age of 39. C. At the age of 101.

19. What did Grandma Moses do before she became an artist?

A. She sold other artists’ works in a shop.

B. She worked on her farm.

C. She taught at a school.

20. What is the story mainly about?

A. A famous American artist.

B. Making money from painting.

C. Collecting paintings.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 40分）

（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

　　At one time it was the dream for many little girls to become a nurse．Today, however, America is facing its worst nurse shortage since World War I. Recently about 2, 000, 000 nurses are needed and 60 percent of all hospitals in the US have shortages large enough to threaten（= say that you will hurt somebody if they don't do what you want）the quality of care provided. The demand for nurses spreads widely throughout the nursing field.

　　What has become of these women in white? The answer lies in not one but several causes.　One possibility is the fact that woman have greater career options （职业选择）. In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices nursing or teaching. Today, more women than ever are in the work force, but their options have greatly increased. There are women doctors, lawyers, firefighters and police officers. In fact, women today are found in nearly every field of work. Nursing has been left behind, as women move on to jobs with higher pay and greater status（地位）. A woman or man in the nursing field is often looked down upon as “merely a nurse”. Teachers may be also at fault. Many high school students are actually being steered（劝 导）away from nursing, told by teachers that they are “too bright to be a nurse”.

　　Americans are living longer than ever and requiring more medical attention. In fact, the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously a larger population requires more nurses. AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care. Usually fatal diseases mean long drawn - out hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.

21．Why is America facing its worst nurse shortage?

　　A. Because the demand of nurses has been doubled.

　　B. Because more and more women prefer to be teachers and doctors.

　　C. Because women have been provided with many different jobs.

　　D. Because women no longer choose to be nurses.

22．The passage tells us that high school teachers are at fault for________.

　　A. not mentioning the worst nurse shortage in the US

　　B. introducing jobs with higher pay and greater status to their students

　　C. not asking the government to raise the nurses’ payment

　　D. persuading the students not to be nurses

23．The author wrote this passage in order to________.

　　A. describe the unequal treatment of women in the US

　　B. warn people to pay more attention to the nursing problem

　　C. tell us women’s free choice of jobs today

　　D. call on women not to be nurses

24．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A. high school students think themselves too bright to be nurses．

　　B. Women in the US have greater career choice than those in other countries.

　　C. Of all the hospitals in the world 60 percent more nurses are badly needed.

D. Nursing used to be a popular job among women.

B

One thinks of princes and presidents as some of the most powerful people in the world; however, governments, elected or otherwise, sometimes have had to struggle with the financial powerhouses called tycoons. The word tycoon is relatively new to the English language. It is Chinese in origin but was given as a title to some Japanese generals. The term was brought to the United States, in the late nineteenth century, where it eventually was used to refer to magnates who acquired immense fortunes from sugar and cattle, coal and oil, rubber and steel, and railroads. Some people called these tycoons “capitals of industry” and praised them for their contributions to U.S. wealth and international reputation. Others criticized them as cruel “robber barons”, who would stop at nothing in pursuit of personal wealth.

The early tycoons built successful businesses, often taking over smaller companies to eliminate competition. A single company that came to control an entire market was called a monopoly. Monopolies made a few families very wealthy, but they also placed a heavy financial burden on consumers and the economy at large.

As the country expanded and railroads linked the East Coast to the West Coast, local monopolies turned into national corporations called trusts. A trust is a group of companies that join together under the control of a board of trustees. Railroad trusts are an excellent example. Railroads were privately owned and operated and often monopolized various routes, setting rates as high as they desired. The financial burden this placed on passengers and businesses increased when railroads formed trusts. Farmers, for example, had no choice but to pay, as railroads were the only means they could use to get their grain to buyers. Exorbitant (过高的) goods rates put some farmers out of business.

There were even accusations that the trusts controlled government itself by buying votes and manipulating elected officials. In 1890 Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust. Act, legislation aimed at breaking the power of such trusts. The Sherman Antitrust Act focused on two main issues. First of all, it made illegal any effort to interfere with the normal conduct of interstate trade. It also made it illegal to monopolize any part of business that operates across state lines.

Over the next 60 years or so, Congress passed other antitrust laws in an effort to encourage competition and restrict the power of larger corporations.

25. The Sherman Antitrust Act_______________.

A. affected only the companies doing business within state lines

B. sought to eliminate monopolies in favor of competition in the market-place

C. promoted trade with a large number of nations

D. provides a financial advantage to the buyer

26. One might infer from this passage that lower prices _________.

A. are more likely to exist in a competitive market economy

B. usually can be found only in an economy based on monopolies

C. matter only to people who are poor and living below the poverty level

D. are regulated by the government

27. It seems likely that many Americans____________.

A. believed that the trusts had little influence over government

B. expected the wealthy magnates to share money with the poor

C. did little to build up American business

D. were worried that trusts might manipulate the government

C

At one time no one could travel on an English road faster than four miles an hour. That was the law until 1896. A man had to walk in front of a car which could not go faster than the man. At night the man had to carry a red lamp.

Once Charles Rolls brought a car from France to England, but he wanted to drive faster than four miles an hour. In order to have no trouble with the police, he had a talk with some