谷城一中2016届高三9月月考

英语试题

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第一部分：听力（共二节，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 woman live now ?

A. In New York City. B. In Washington D.C. C. In Chicago.

2. How much does the woman have to pay?

A. 20 dollars. B. 30 dollars. C. 40 dollars.

3. What do we know about Susan?

A. She often listens to the news. B. She is usually very busy.

C. She likes watching TV.

4. How many apartments are provided now?

A. 1. B. 2. C. 3.

5.What does the man suggest doing?

A. Visiting a museum. B. Visiting the London Eye.

C. Shoppong for gifts.

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和第7两个小题。

6.What day is it today?

A. Saturday. B. Friday. C. Monday.

7. Why is the woman going to the musemu?

A.To meet a friend. B. To visit the museum. C. To shop nearby.

听第7，回答第8和第9两个小题。

8. What time is it now?

A. 2:40 B. 2:50 C. 3:00

9. What will the speakers do next?

A. Talk about English learning. B. Go to a bus stop. C. Get on the bus.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Whare can the animal be seen?

A. In East America. B. In Central Asia. C. In West Africa.

11. What’s the color of the animal after it grows up?

A. Black. B. Light yellow. C. Brown.

12. How does the animal live?

A. Alone. B. In small groups. C. In large groups.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How did the woman look at first?

A. Worried. B. upset. C. Angry.

14. What does the man advise the woman to do first?

A. Find out why the teacher dislikes her.

B. Answer question actively.

C. Try to be learn English every day.

15. What does the woman like doing in her English class?

A. Answering questions. B. Talking with others. C. Keeping quiet.

16. What is the woman advised to do in the end?

A. Avoid being late for her English class.

B. Change her attidude towards her English teacher.

C. Finish her English teacher’s assignments on time.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.Which season is it now according to the speaker?

A. Spring B. Summer C. Fall

18. What does the speaker suggest doing?

A. Turning off the light. B. Letting fresh air come in .

C. Listening to the classical music.

19. When should you stop having a cup of coffee?

A. 10 to 12 hours before bedtime. B. 6to8 hours bdfore bedtime.

C. 2to3 hoursbefore bedtime.

20. Where is the text taken from?

A. A TV program. B. A lecture. C. A radio program.

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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．

A

Showing solidarity（团结）with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order requiring paid sick leave（带薪病假）for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.

The White House would not specify the cost to federal contractors to implement the executive order, which Obama detailed in a speech to a major union rally and breakfast in Boston. The Labor Department said any costs would be offset by savings contractors would see as a result of lower attrition rates and increased worker loyalty, but produced nothing to back that up.

Under the executive order, employees working on federal contracts will gain the right to a minimum of one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours they work. Stretched over 12 months, that will add up to seven days a year. The order will allow employees to use the leave to care for sick relatives, and will affect contracts starting in 2017 – just as Obama leaves office.

The Obama administration has been working on the executive order for months, and chose Labor Day to announce it as the president seeks to enact（颁布）what policies he can before his presidency ends, despite resistance in Congress to laws he has proposed to improve workplace conditions.

That push has reverberated（回想）in the 2016 campaign, where Democratic candidates are seeking to draw a distinction with Republicans on who is most supportive of the middle class.

Roughly 44 million private-sector workers do not get paid sick leave – about 40% of the workforce, the White House said. Obama renewed his call for Congress to expand the requirement beyond contract workers and to all but the smallest businesses, an idea that has gained little traction on Capitol Hill. Obama also called on Congress to pass a budget when they come back from their summer recess this week.

Unable to push much of his agenda through a Republican-controlled Congress, Obama has in recent years used executive orders to apply to federal contractors policies he lacks the authority to enact nationwide. His aim is to lay the groundwork for those policies to be expanded to all Americans.

21. How many people will benefit from this paid sick leave policy?

A. 44 million. B. 0.3 million. C. 30 million. D. 300 million. 22. How will this paid sick leave policy benefit the federal contractors?

A. They will lose money. B. Lower attrition rates between companies.

C. Increase workers loyalty. D. Both B and C.

23. Which of the following is true according to this article?

A. The paid sick leave policy took effect on Labor Day, 2015.

B. The middle class plays an important role in the 2016 campaign.

C. The workforce of the U.S. is roughly 44 million.

D. Obama’s federal contractors policies were pushed through in a Republican-controlled Congress.

B

At least 107 people were killed and 238 more were injured when a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque during storms in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Friday, the Saudi Arabian government has said. The director general of the country’s civil defence authority, Suleiman al-Amr, said high winds caused the disaster.

On its Twitter account, the authority said rescue teams had been sent to the scene and offered its “sincere condolences” over the deaths, as well as its prayers for the speedy recoveries of those injured.

Abdel Aziz Naqoor, who said he worked at the mosque, told Agence France-Presse that he had seen the crane fall after being hit by the storm. “If it weren’t for al-Tawaf bridge the injuries and deaths would have been worse,” he said, referring to a covered walkway that surrounds the Ka’bah and broke the crane’s fall.

The UK Foreign Office said it was urgently investigating whether any British citizens were caught up in the accident. “We are are aware of the incident and are in close contact with the Saudi authorities,” a spokeswoman said.

David Cameron tweeted: “My thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones at Mecca today.”

The governor of Mecca region, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, ordered an investigation into the incident and was heading to the mosque, according to the local government.

Muslims make their annual hajj pilgrimage later in September and Saudi authorities go to great lengths to be prepared for the millions of people who converge（聚集）on Mecca. They have taken a series of safety measures over the past decade aimed at preventing crowd crushes after tragedies such as the stampede（人群的蜂拥）in 2006, which resulted in 350 deaths, a building collapse（倒塌） in the same year which killed 76 and a stampede that killed more than 200 people in 2004.

Officials limited numbers attending the hajj after a peak in 2013, in which more than 3.1 million pilgrims arrived. Bottlenecks（障碍物）in which crushes occurred along the pilgrimage route were widened and religious authorities decreed that it was not mandatory for pilgrims to touch sacred spots.

Saudi authorities have lavished（浪费）vast sums to improve Mecca’s transport system in an effort to prevent more disasters. Security services often surround Islam’s sacred city with checkpoints and other measures to prevent people arriving for the pilgrimage without authorization. Those procedures, aimed at reducing crowd pressure which can lead to stampedes, fires and other hazards, have been intensified in recent years as security threats grow throughout the Middle East.

24. How many people were injured in the crane accident on Friday?

A. At least 107. B. 107. C. More than 238. D. Less than 238.

25. What may be the cause of the disaster?

A. High winds. B. Thunder storm weather.

C. Both A and B. D. Unknown

26. What did the authority do after this disaster?

A. Rescue teams had been sent.

B. Sincere condolences over the deaths were offered.

C. Prayers for the speedy recoveries of those injured were offered.

D. All above.

27. What can we know from the article?

A. Al-Tawaf bridge reduced the injuries and deaths in the disaster.

B. No British citizens were caught up in the accident.

C. Muslims made their annual hajj pilgrimage early in September.

D. Saudi authorities don’t do anything to improve Mecca’s transport system.

C

Eat nuts, live longer.? Researchers have found that those who eat a handful of peanuts every day significantly decrease their risk of dying from all causes compared to those who do not eat nuts. A new?study?concludes that all types of nuts seem to be protective. Researcher Ying Bao is with the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She and her colleagues looked at the impact of nut consumption by analyzing two huge studies that began in 1980 - the Nurses’ Health Study, which tracks the well-being of more than 76,000 women, and 42,000 men enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-up S