福州八中2014—2015高三毕业班第九次质量检查英语试题

考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分

2015.05.05

第一卷

Ⅰ. 第一部分 听力（共20题，每题1.5分，满分30分）

第一节

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。

1. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At a travel agency. B. At a hotel. C. At a restaurant.

2. When is Jane’s birthday party?

A. On the 5th. B. On the 9th. C. On the 20th.

3. What is the woman doing?

A. Enjoying a fountain. B. Having cheese. C. Taking a picture.

4. How did the woman get to work in the past?

A. By bike. B. By bus. C. On foot.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A film. B. A book. C. An actor.

第二节

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、7 题。

6. What are the speakers doing?

A. Preparing for a meal.

B. Doing some shopping.

C. Talking about a recipe.

7. What do the speakers need to buy?

A. Cheese and potatoes.

B. Onions and pepper.

C. Mushrooms and butter.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. What is the party for?

A. John’s birthday. B. Christmas. C. John’s wedding.

9. What do we know about the man?

A. He’ll go to the party with the woman.

B. He has told Anna to keep a secret.

C. He looks forward to visiting the woman.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

10. Who is making the telephone call?

A. Lewis Brothers. B. Oliver Martin. C. Mark Hanson.

11. What has the man failed to receive?

A. The pricelists. B. The brochures. C. The invitation cards.

12. What will Mark do tomorrow?

A. Send 40 invitation cards to the man.

B. Attend a business reception.

C. Check the man’s order.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. Where are the speakers?

A. In Britain. B. In Germany. C. In France.

14. What does the woman do most of her working hours?

A. She handles daily affairs.

B. She deals with e-mails.

C. She makes or receives calls.

15. At what time does the woman usually get off work?

A. 4:30 p.m. B. 4:35 p.m. C. 5:15 p.m.

16. What is the woman?

A. A secretary. B. A director. C. An engineer.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. Where did Lady Gaga give her first performance?

A. In Canada. B. In America. C. In Austria.

18. What did Lady Gaga work as during her early time?

A. A songwriter. B. A singer. C. A pianist.

19. When was Lady Gaga’s first tour?

A. In late 2008. B. In early 2009. C. In late 2009.

20. Which song got the global chart-topping lead single?

A. Just Dance. B. Poker Face. C. Bad Romance.

II .单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

21. When Lucy was waiting for _______ 8:00 plane, she had _______ long conversation with Johnson.

A. a; the B. the；the C.／；the D. the ; a

22. I really don’t know______ Mary found her lost pen the day before yesterday.

A. where was it that B. where it was that

C. it was where that D. it was that where

23. China___________ a high-speed railway network covering almost all its cities with a population of more than 500,000 by the end of 2015.

A. is setting up B. will set up C. has set up D. will have set up

24. The number of pupils_______ to study languages is reported to rise by more than a fifth _______ that of 2010 in the USA.

A. intended; comparing with B. intended; compared with

C. intending; compared to D. intending; comparing to

25. Had he predicted the disaster, he _______ his girl friend to the 2015 New Year’s celebration at the Bund, Shanghai.

A. wouldn’t take B. wouldn’t have taken

C. needn’t take D. needn’t have taken

26. It’s surprising that this respectable gentleman should have such a crime.

A. undertaken B. committed C. performed D. assumed

27. ----What made you so worried?

----_____ from cancer．

A．Jim suffered B．Because Jim suffered

C．Jim suffering D．Jim's suffering

28. __________, he couldn’t get the door open.

A. Try as he might B. As he might try

C. He might as try D. Might he as try

29．Actually all the empty apartments in downtown areas have been rent at______ high prices.

A. extremely B. constantly C. approximately D. frequently

30. The government is trying to do something to better understanding between the two countries.

A. arouse B. promote C. appeal D. arise

31. A nationwide road safety______ launched on Tuesday is targeting at speeding, the offence that causes most accidents, along with six other common violations.

A. command B. competition

C. campaign D. committee

32. --- I’d like to see Curse of the Golden Flower very much, but I have no money on me now.

--- That’s Ok. This is my .

A. treat B. turn C. service D. offer

33. The university estimates that living expenses for international students ________ around $8,450 a year, which ________ a burden for some of them.

A. are；is B. are；are C. is；are D. is；is

34. All the streets in Moscow were with flags to welcome Chairman Xi Jinping .

A. furnished B. supplied C. decorated D. declined

35. I’d his reputation with other businessmen, and then make a decision about whether or not to approve a loan.

A. take into account B. live up to

C. make up for D. come to light

III. 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分)

Are parents rational (理性的) about their children? No. Parents aren’t rational because 36 isn’t rational. Young people can understand this about romantic love, but they find it hard to 37 this element (元素) in parental love. My eldest daughter’s 38 the other day brought this up. “Let me ask you something, Dad,” she began in a tone of patiently controlled 39 that every experienced parent knows. “I sailed around the Mediterranean in a yacht (游艇) when I was seventeen,” she said. “I hiked through the Pyrenees from Spain to Paris. I’ve done rock climbing and deep-sea diving and slept in rainforests in the jungle of Indonesia. Right?” “Right,” I said, “So 40 ?” “So this,” she went on. “When I go to the corner drugstore to pick up some shampoo, why do you always tell me to be 41 when I cross the street?” There is no 42 answer a parent can give to this. All I could mumble (嘟囔) in 43 was that when I was 50, my mother would 44 me not to drive too fast. If I were 80 and she were still alive, I would be getting the 45 warning. No matter the 46 , a child is a child. There is something else, too, that children find it hard to 47 . When they are far away, there is nothing we can do about their 48 . They are in the hands of the gods. Parents try not to 49 about it. But when the children are 50 , the old protective urge quickly comes back, and it doesn’t 51 how far they have been or what experiences they have got through. Most 52 happen around the corner, not in the rainforest. The most instinctive (本能的) act of almost every creature is to 53 its young, and with humans this 54 stays for a lifetime. In the parent’s mind, a child ages but does not 55 . Rational? No. But if we were rational, would we want children at all?36. A. anxiety B. fear C. love D. desire37. A. accept B. improve C. remove D. dislike38. A. problem B. question C. warning D. explanation39 A. anger B. pride C. worry D. surprise40. A. when B. how C. what D. why41. A. brave B. careful C. quick D. helpful42. A. necessary B. different C. satisfactory D. ordinary43. A. apology B. turn C. regret D. reply44. A. persuade B. promise C. remind D. expect45. A. different B. same C. extra D. right46. A. age B. distance C. gender D. power47. A. decide B. miss C. choose D. understand48. A. success B. happiness C. luck D. safety49. A. argue B. think C. forget D. complain50. A. aware B. hesitant C. close D. frightened51. A. prove B. matter C. mean D. mind52. A. accidents B. failures C. changes D. mistakes53. A. follow B. protect C. spoil D. treat54. A. impression B. effect C. opportunity D. response55. A. stop B. compete C. leave D. grow

IV阅读理解：40分(共20小题；每小题2分，共40分)

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Once upon a time, there was a lovely vegetable field, on which grew a very thick tree. Both the vegetables and the tree gave the place a wonderful appearance, which was the joy of the garden’s owner. What no one knew was that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn’t stand each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow, because it left them only just enough light to survive. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they drank nearly all the water before it could get to him, leaving him with just enough to survive.

The situation became so extreme that the vegetables got totally fed up and decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree answered back by refusing to give the vegetables shadow from the hot midday sun, so they both began to dry up. Before long, the vegetables were really thin and the tree’s branches were drying up.

Neither of them thought that the gardener, on seeing his vegetable field becoming worse, would stop watering it. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables really learned what thirst was. There seemed to be no solution, but one of the vegetables, a small courgette（小胡瓜）, understood what was going on, and decided to deal with it. Despite the little water and the unbearable heat, the little courgette did all he could to grow, grow...He managed to grow so big that the gardener started watering the field again. The gardener wanted to enter that beautiful big courgette in some gardening contest.

And so the vegetables and the tree realized that it was better to help each other than to fight. They should really learn how to live in harmony with those around them, doing the best they could. So they decided to work together, using both the shadow and the water in the best combination to grow good vegetables. Seeing how well they were doing, the gardener now gave the best of care to his vegetable field, watering it better than any other field for miles around.