银川一中2015届高三第三次模拟考试英语试题

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。第Ⅰ卷第1至12页，第Ⅱ卷第13-14页。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第Ⅰ卷 (选择题）

注意事项：

1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分：听力理解(共两节。满分30分)

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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。

(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。

例：How much is the shirt ?

A.＄19.15. B.＄9.18 C.＄9.15

答案是C.

1. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At a store.

B. At a hotel.

C. At an airport.

2. What does the man mean?

A. The woman should make her decision quickly.

B. The woman can buy both a pizza and a hamburger.

C. He cannot watch the movie with the woman.

3. Who will leave for Houston?

A. Jim.

B. Jim’s brother.

C. The man.

4. What day is it today?

A. Wednesday.

B. Thursday.

C. Friday.

5. What will the man do tomorrow night?

A. Go to a folk music concert.

B. Go to a jazz concert.

C. Watch a film on TV.

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7题。

6. Which transportation does the woman prefer, especially for short journeys?

A. The bus.

B. The subway.

C. The taxi.

7. What do we know about the woman?

A. She goes to Washington D.C. every week.

B. She feels that taxis are too expensive.

C. She travels quite a lot in America.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the woman most probably do?

A. A teacher.

B. A bookstore keeper.

C. A hotel clerk.

9. When did David want to meet the two speakers?

A. At 2:30.

B. At 2:45.

C. At 3:00.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man want to know about the woman?

A. What she is studying at school.

B. How many friends she has made.

C. How she deals with her course.

11. Where is Janice from?

A. America.

B. South Africa.

C. Mexico.

12. What does the man want to do after graduation?

A. Move to New York.

B. Run a hotel.

C. Work as a lawyer.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why did the man fall asleep in the library?

A. It was too quiet there.

B. He was tired of studying.

C. He had no idea what he was studying.

14. What did the man think of the psychology lesson?

A. Confusing.

B. Exciting.

C. Boring.

15. How many women contributing to the American Revolution was the professor asked to name?

A. 6.

B. 3.

C. 12.

16. What does the woman think her classmate should have done?

A. She should have come down to earth.

B. She should have given fewer lectures in class.

C. She should have let Professor Rivers save face.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Why did Jerry Meehl say the warm weather was a guilty pleasure?

A. People found it easy to do wrong things in warm weather.

B. People felt guilty about enjoying such warm weather.

C. People knew it’s not good to have such warm March.

18. What was La Nina?

A. A kind of weather pattern.

B. Manmade climate change.

C. A kind of fossil fuel.

19. How many weather stations reported record-high temperatures at night?

A. 7,570.

B. 7,775.

C. 7,517.

20. What can we learn from the talk?

A. The March temperatures were slightly higher than the records.

B. The records for night-time heat were also broken.

C. The unusual heat happened only in March.

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

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.

When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: "No pain, no gain". He hardly watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.

Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty five years ago. They were all tall and strong.

I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity(逆境) seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to meet with hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart.

21. With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often __________.

A. kept watering them every morning

B. paid little attention to them

C. talked to them to get their attention

D. beat them to make them grow deep roots

22. What does the author think of the way Doctor Gibbs planted trees?

A. strange and harmful

B. interesting and funny

C. original and reasonable

D. cruel and unacceptable

23. Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?

A. Have an easy life, without too much to worry about.

B. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.

C. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life.

D. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.

24. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Prayers for my sons

B. Doctor Gibbs and his trees

C. Growing roots

D. Watering trees

B

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Bexar County’s so-called Biblio Tech is a low-cost project with big ambitions. Its first branch is in a relatively poor district on the south side of the city of San Antonio. It has 100 e-readers on loan, and dozens of screens where the public are able to browse (浏览), study, and learn digital skills.

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