洛阳理工学院附中2015高考热身练

英语试题（2015-5-30）

时间：120分钟 分数： 150分

第一部分：听力 （共两节）

第一节

听下面五段对话。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。

1. What does the woman do?

A. A painter. B. A lawyer. C. A teacher.

2. Why did the man drop out of the band？

A. He found it difficult

B. He couldn’t afford it.

C. He has been busy with his study.

3. What does the man mean?

A. Most people want to go to the museum.

B. Some people may have different opinions.

C. He has no idea about what to do on weekends.

4. What does the woman suggest the man do in the end?

A. Take a walk alone.

B. Wait for her in a park.

C. Wait until she finishes a letter.

5. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A. The plot B. The music C. The main actor.

第二节

听下面五段对话或独白。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。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间来阅读各个小题，每小题五秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出五秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6-7题。

6. How many people will be absent from the party tonight?

A. 8. B. 6. C. 2.

7. Why can’t Marcia come?

A. She is ill.

B. She is working late.

C. She has another appointment.

听第7段材料，回答8-9题。

8. What does the man think is the best point of the project?

A. It’s environment-friendly.

B. It can get rid of the wasteland

C. It involves local people working together.

9. How much money do the speakers agree to offer the project a year?

A. ￡5000. B. ￡ 3000. C. ￡2000.

听第8段材料，回答10-12题。

10. What does the woman say about Yorkshire pudding?

A. It always tastes good.

B. It tastes good when properly cooked at home.

C. It’s only good when cooked in the restaurant.

11. What is the woman’s favorite English dish?

A. Roast beef. B. Fish and chips. C. Bread and butter pudding.

12. What do we know about the woman?

A. She had a negative attitude towards English food before.

B. She has been accustomed to English food.

C. She doesn’t like spicy food.

听第9段材料，回答13-16 三个小题。

13. Where did the man go for the second week?

A. To Sydney. B. To Canberra. C. To the Gold Coast.

14. How did the woman get to San Francisco?

A. By car. B. By air. C. By train.

15. How did the woman spend most of her vacation?

A. She watched TV and played cards.

B. She sunbathed on the beach.

C. She toured around the city.

16. What does the woman think of her vacation?

A. Wonderful. B. Unpleasant. C. Meaningful.

听第10段材料，回答第17-20 四个小题。

17. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A. His friend. B. His family. C. His study

18. How did the speaker feel for the first week at school?

A. Pleased. B. Lonely C. Worried.

19. How old is the speaker?

A. 15. B. 16. C. 17.

20. What is the speaker’s problem?

A. He can’t find a chance to make peace with Sophie.

B. He doesn’t know how to refuse Sophie’s invitation.

C. He has no way to remind Sophie of her bad manners to him.

第二部分：阅读理解 （共两节，满分60分）

第一节 (共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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

Year of Giving

Yesterday I started the Year of Giving, my first day of a year-long journey into exploring the act of giving and the meaning of charity. I chose December 15 as the starting date, which marked three years since my mother died from heart disease. She was one of the most generous people that I have ever known. She always thought of others first and certainly serves as an inspiration to me.

I had a rather busy day yesterday, ironic (具有讽刺意义的) for someone who is unemployed right now. In the morning I went to the gym, and unsuccessfully got the phone call from the unemployment office for some job searching. Before I knew it, it was noon. I grabbed a quick lunch and rushed down to a meeting. On my way to Connecticut, I wondered if I would see someone that I would feel forced to give my first $ 10 to. I was running late and decided to do it afterwards.

After the meeting I had about half an hour to find the first person of my Year of Giving! I decided to check out DuPont Circle. I had met a guy there named Jerry once and thought he would willing accept my $ 10. He wasn’t there, but I did see a man sitting by himself who looked really lonely, so I approached him. Now I had to figure out what I was going to say, I think I said something like, “Hi, can I sit down here?” “I would like to know if I could give you $ 10?” He asked me to repeat what I had said, I did, then he looked at me funny, got up and left.

I then started walking south where I spotted a man standing by the bus stop on Connecticut Ave. He appeared to be in his 60s. I don’t know what drew me to him, but I thought I would make my second attempt. I was a bit nervous and asked him which bus came by that stop. Then I explained that I was starting a year-long project to give $ 10 to someone every day and that I wanted to give my $ 10 for today to him. The gentleman, I later found out that his name was Ed, responded without hesitation that he could not accept my offer and that there were many people more deserving the money than him. This was exactly one of the things that I hoped would happen. People would think of others before themselves.

21. The author set the starting date on December 15 to ____.

A. help the charity B. remember his mother

C. make an explosion D. fulfill a wish if his mum

22. In the author’s first attempt to give away the money, ____.

A. he was considered ridiculous B. he hesitated for a long time

C. he was forced to donate the money D. he had no time to take action

23. In the author’s second attempt, the gentleman refused his offer because ____.

A. he didn’t need other’s help B. he thought more for others

C. he didn’t care about money D. he wanted to get more money

24. We can refer that the author was inspired by ____.

A. true friendship B. his own kindness

C. generous donations　 D. human’s good nature

B

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A. accumulate 6 bonus points

B. order at least 3 books

C. purchase the catalogue

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A. collect books for the club

B. read different kinds of books

C. join the club and order books

D. learn from famous writers

C

While you may think that being smart and talented would logically make someone successful in running a business, unfortunately, this is often not the case.

This problem starts back in school when the stressful “group projects” are first assigned .The smartest don’t want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the work equally and hoping that an average student does his part well. They just take over and do the whole project themselves.

And thus begins the smart-people work cycle. The smartest people do just about everything better than most everyone else until it comes to running a business. They are not better. A smart person who can’t stand someone else doing a job badly does everything himself. Then, he is stuck with the one-man band “job-business” and ends up not being able to grow. However, it is quite interesting and strange that some “slackers” ( a person who is lazy and avoids work) are better suited to be a business leader than the “smart” people.

Smart and talented people often have a gift for the unusual, complicated or different. They don’t like to follow the KISS principle (keep it simple, stupid), which is required to make a business succeed. Maybe you think the global presence of McDonald’s complex, but in reality, in the company, every single task is broken down into easy-to-follow steps and everything has been standardized. These successful companies have just a few smart enough people to run the majority of the tasks in a way that can’t be screwed up by their average employees. So, being smart or talented isn’t going to help you unless you can use those smarts to figure out a way to simplify those tasks that will make a business successful.

Another issue with the smart people starting businesses is that they often have the most to lose. The smarter you are, the more options you have avai