2015~2016学年度

武汉市部分学校新高三起点调研测试

英 语 试 卷

2015.9.9

本试卷分第1卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。本试卷共12页。全卷满分

l50分。考试用时120分钟。

A. Call for a taxi. B.Lock the suitcases. C.Pack the clothes.

5．What is the woman?

A.A driver. B.A policewoman. C.A passenger.

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、7题。

6.What does the man have to do today?

A. Visit his lawyer. B.Co to the doctor. C.Make an appmntment.

7.What will the woman probably do for the man?

A. Answer his phone. B.Call his lawyer. C.Take notes at the meeting.

昕第7段材料，回答第8.9题。

8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A.A new city library. B.Their math homework. C.Their college library.

9.What's the probable reason for the man's going for coffee?

A．Feeling tired.

B. Missing the old days.

C. Meeting the math professor there.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where are the two speakers probably?

A. On the street. B.In a shop. C.At the Lost and Found.

11. What kind of backpack is it?

A.A sports one. B.A leather one. C.A childish one.

12. What's the man's opinion of the woman?

A. Responsible. B.Tricky. C.Strict.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where did the woman work as a costume designer?

A.In Vermont. B.In San Diego. C.In Hollywood.

14. What is the woman's main interest？

A. Museum. B.Theater. C.Fashion.

15. Why is the woman moving to New York City?

A. It's where she grew up.

B．There is a job offer.

C. She wants to be near her parents.

16. What does the woman intend to do?

A. Live with her parents. B.Apply for a job. C.Buy an apartmnent.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the aim of the program?

A. To keep trainees in shape.

B. To develop leadership skills.

C. To improve public relations.

18. What will the trainees do during the program?

A. Make plans for a journey.

B. Prepare reports for the company.

C. Attend lectures on management.

19. How long will the program last?

A.8 days. B.12 days. C.20 days.

20. What should people do to join the program?

A. Sign on a piece of paper. B.Pay for the program. C.Take a test in advance.

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，并在题卡

上将该项涂黑。

A

USA's participation in World WarⅡbrought major changes to the lives of American

women. Before the war,there had been a huge pool of female labour,consisting largely of

young,single women. Many jobs were closed to them and they were effectively restrictetl to

working in domestic service and selling-goods business. Wartime production requirements,

however,combined with the loss of the men who entered the military,provided women with the

opportunity to move into a far wider range of jobs.

The response to the US govemment's request for more women workers was amazing and the

changes marvelous.ln 1941,there were 14.6 million women workers; by 1944 the number had

grown to over 19.4 million. At one point during those wars,more than 50 percent of American

women worked and by 1945 half of all women workers were over 35 years old.

Women were particularly active in the defense industries. Between 1940 and 1944 women

working in enterprises that produced goods increased by 141 percent. In Detroit in 1943 ,\~'omen

made up 91 percent of the new hirings in 185 war plants. Over 10 percent of all shipbuilders

were women. Most of these jobs came with a "pink-slip" attached,as women understood that

they would be dismissed when the men returned from the war. Women were also frustrated by

unfair pay differentials,for men were paid more money for doing the same job. With the end of

the war and armymen being sent home,women were released twice as fast as men. In 1945,

three-quarters of the women in aircraft and shipbuilding were let go,and women in the car

industry decreased from 25 percent t0 7 percent. Although women found their work satisfying

and liberating,postwar publicity focused on women's duty to help the returning soldiers fit in

with society by "making him the man of the home again". When the war ended,many women

left work to take up the duties of homemaking and raising children.

21. Before World War II,women in the USA had jobs mostly related to .

A. aircraft production B. shipbuilding

C. sales business D. defense industries

22. When women were offered jobs in industries,they knew that their jobs would be _

A. temporary B. permanent C. frustrating D. highly paid

23. When the war ended,media made women believe that .

A. their work was satisfying B. their work was worthwhile

C. they should help the army D. they should take care of the family

B

The Great Plague(瘟疫) of London in 1665 was the last in a long senies of plague that

first began in London in June 1499.1t killed between 75,000 and 100,000. First suspected in

late 1664,it began to spread eastwards in April 1665 from the poor suburb of St. Giles to the

crowded and dirty communities on its way to the walled City of London.

The Great Plague at Its Peak

By September 1665 ,the death rate had reached 8,000 per week. Helpless city authorities

began to abandon quarantine(隔离) measures. Houses containing the dead and dying were no

longer locked. London's mournful silence was broken by the noise of carts carrying the dead for

burial in churches or public plague pits.

Well-off residents soon fled to the countryside,leaving the poor behind in poor old

commun/ties.Thousands of dogs and cats were killed to remove a feared source of contagion

(传染) ,and piles of rotting garbage were burned. Doctors cut swellings and bled black spots in

attempts to cure plague victims.

Plague Orders prohibited churches from keeping dead bodies in their buildings during

public assemblies or services,and camers of the dead had to identify themselves and could not

mix with the public. '

Samuel Pepys: Eyewitness Accounts

In his famous diary,Samuel Pepys,a member of Parliament,conveyed the sad image of

desperate people wandering the streets in search of relief from the ruins of the plague. His notes

during 1665 indicated the severity of London's Great Plague. In July,he mourned " the sad news

of the death of so manv in the community,forty last night,the bell always going either for

deaths or burials. " A month lat.er,when London's death rate rose sharply, Pepys noted that

surviors "are forced to carry the dead to be buried by daylight,the nights not enough to do it

The Plague Declines and the Government Reacts

By February 1666,the Great Plague had nearly run its course.lt died out during the Great

Fire that same year and never returned. Central parts of London were rebuilt with wider streets

to relieve crowding and better waste water svstems to improve public cleanliness. New Plague

Orders were issued in May 1666,which banned the burial of future plague victims in churches

and small churchyards, enforced the use of quicklime (生石灰) at chosen burial sites, and

strictly prohibited opening graves less than one year after burial as a safeguard against the

spread of infection.

24.1n the course o_f the Great PJague,it was a common practice to .

A. keep dead bodies in the church buildings

B. burn piles of rotting garbage in the streets

C. carry the dead for church burials in the daytime

D. unlock the houses containing the dead and dying

25.lt can be inferred from the passage that _ .

A. dogs and cats were certain to spread the piague

B. doctors' treatment of plague victims was effective

C. city authorities allowed rich residents to go to the countryside

D. quarantine measures were powerless in preventing the plague

26. How did Samuel Pepys feel when the bell was going all the night during the Great Plague?

A. Frightened. B. Relieved. C. Sorrowful. D. Moody.

27. What's the main purpose of this writing?

A. To blame poor public cleanliness for plague.

B. To inform readers of what happened in the Great Plague.

C. To show that plague was closely related to church activities.

D. To prove that plague could be controlled by humans.

C

Famous writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote 70 poems and 66 short stories during his life,but

published only one novel. That book, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon, Pym of Nantucket,is

fiction,focusing on Pym's bad luck on a whaling ship.

The novel,published in 1838 ,involves an attempted rebellion of the whaling ship. Pym and

two others drive back the rebels,killing or throwing overboard all but one. The spared rebel,

named Richard Parker,is kept aboard in order to help operate the ship. But as the ship

overturns,it has no adequate food. Parker suggests that cannibalism(食人) is the only way

out,and they draw straws to determine the victim. Parker loses and becomes dinner.

But in 1846 a real-life Richard Parker died in a shipwreck(船难) . He and 20 0thers were

on board the doomed Francis Spaight, which sank, killing all on board. It was a mere

coincidence,as it involved neither rebellion nor cannibahsm.

In 1884,the coincidence became extremely horrible. A boat named the Mignonette sank,

and four people went into a lifeboat. And just like in Pym's tale,the four found themselves

lacking food and were desperate. They did not draw straws;however,two of the remaining three

simply killed the youngest,a cabin boy who had fallen unconscious. All three then dined on the

now-dead 17 year old. The cabin boy's name,of course,was Richard Parker.

As for rebellion,one needs to travel back t0 1797 ,before Poe penned his novel - although

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