成都外国语学校高2016届高三上期10月月考

英语试卷

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．选出每小题答案前，用2B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, 再选涂其他答案标号框, 不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分 听力（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。

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. How is the weather today?

A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.

2. When does the train leave for Boston?

A. 9: 25. B. 12:00. C. 11: 45.

3. What does the man want?

A. A cup of coffee. B. Orange juice. C. Pancakes.

4. What will they do tonight?

A. Go to the cinema. B. Go to a concert. C. Go to a restaurant.

5. Where are the speakers probably?

A. At a bank. B. At a supermarket. C. At a post office.

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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. On which day is there no train to New York City?

A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday.

7. Which train will the man take?

A. 10:30. B. 12:20. C. 15:10.

8. How much is a hard seat?

A. $15. B. $6. C. $8.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where is the woman?

A. At the doctor’s. B. At the drugstore. C. At the shop.

10. What can we learn about the woman?

A. First she went to an African seafood restaurant.

B. Then she went to eat Chinese seafood.

C. At last she had a lot of Italian things.

11. What is the man’s suggestion?

A. Don’t have anything. B. Take some medicine. C. Stay in bed for some days.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where are the speakers speaking?

A. In the hotel. B. In the restaurant. C. On the phone.

13. What kind of room would the woman like?

A. Single room. B. Double room. C. Standard room.

14. When would the woman check out?

A. December 23rd. B. December 25th. C. December 27th.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What are the speakers talking about?

A. An actor. B. An artist. C. A cook.

16. What has Sam mo Hung become?

A. A producer. B. A director. C. A producer and director.

17. Where can we see Sam mo Hung cook?

A. On the magazine. B. On the Internet. C. On TV.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. How often does the speaker go to Soho?

A. Every two days. B. Once a week. C. Twice a week.

19. How many languages does the Englishman speak?

A. 5. B. 6. C. 7.

20. What’s the Englishman interested in?

A. cooking. B. Mountain climbing. C. Languages.

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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．

A

You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it .But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.

“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette(礼仪)is sort of odd” Gray told the BBC. “They are socially very interesting but often very awkward places”.

We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed.

?? He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want--- it’s your own little box.

?? If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.

?? When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.

?? New entrants（新进入者) to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple --- look down, or look at your phone. Why are we so awkward in lifts?

“You don’t have enough space,” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators.”

In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be understood as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,” she said.

21. The main purpose of the article is to _____.

?? A. remind us to enjoy ourselves in the elevator

?? B. tell us some unwritten rules of elevator etiquette

?? C. share an interesting but awkward elevator ride

?? D. analyze what makes people feel awkward in an elevator

22. The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.

?? A. judge????? ? B. ignore???? ? ?C. put up with??? ?? D. make the best of

23. According to the article, people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.

?? A. someone’s odd behaviors?????????????

B. the lack of space

?? C. their unfamiliarity with one another???

D. their eye contact with one another

B

I was born and raised in England in a culture where privacy and “keeping yourself to yourself” were valued traditions. Speaking to strangers was not encouraged. People were most hospitable and friendly—but only once they had been introduced to new people.

However, I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US, where I found traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.

I experienced Italian hospitality first-hand on a crowded railway carriage travelling, one afternoon, from Genoa to Florence. Sinking gratefully into an empty seat, I was berated(斥责) in rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to this seat－it had not been “spare” after all. I apologized in English, and got up to allow him back into the seat. The gentleman obviously had no understanding of the English language, but he, too, realized my genuine mistake. He smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat, and he himself remained standing in the corridor for the remainder of the journey. The other occupants of the carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel quite welcome amongst them. I feel that if this had been in England, a foreigner who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.

Transport also featured in the differences I noticed between English and American culture. I flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers. We sat together in near silence. Nobody spoke to me nor, as I expected, to anyone else they did not know. They felt it was not polite to intrude on someone else's privacy. However, when I travelled across the United States, whether by plane or Greyhound bus, I was never short of conversation. Conversation was going on all around me and whoever sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about myself. They obviously felt it would have been rude not to speak to another person, whether they were strangers or not.

24. The purpose of the author is to tell us ________.

A. his travelling experience

B. cultural differences to show hospitality and politeness

C. the culture shock he experienced in Italy and the US

D. how to adapt ourselves to a new culture

25. What do we know about the occupants of the carriage when the author was travelling in Italy?

A. They all laughed at the author for his mistake.

B. They would not bear a mistake like the author's in public.

C. They were all on the side of the gentleman.

D. They all showed their understanding of the author's mistake.

26. The author probably believes the Italian people are________.

A. cold??????? B. rude?????????? C. hospitable?????? D. helpful

27. The last paragraph mainly tells us ________.

A. the difference between English and American culture

B. why Americans like to start a conversation

C. different attitudes of Englishmen and Americans towards conversation

D. the importance of privacy among Englishmen

C

For history fans, Margaret Thatcher is one of the most interesting of the British Prime Ministers. She is praised by both British and American conservatives for her firm principles and accomplishments of her term.?? Being so popular, it is only appropriate that a solid movie be made to detail the life of the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The film Iron Lady focuses on Thatcher (Meryl Streep) and her dementia（痴呆症）, with certain items in her house reminding her of periods of her life, which then start series of flashbacks. Thatcher also fantasies of her husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent), and holds conversations with him throughout the film.?? In a world controlled by men and where women are thought to belong to the kitchen, Thatcher struggles to break through the barriers of sex to win a seat in Parliament（国会）. Not only does she struggle with her sex, but being the daughter of a simple shopkeeper, she struggles with class barriers.?? After winning a seat in Parliament in 1959, Thatcher was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science(SES). The film details how the leadership of her party didn’t take her or her opinions seriously. Thatcher became tired of being unheard and decided to challenge the leadership of the party and run for Leader of the Opposition. Not expecting to win the position, she took off in popularity, continuing a strong campaign even after her manager was killed by the Irish Republican Army.?? Thatcher, after the conservative party won a majority in Parliament, became the first woman Prime Minister of the UK. She took off in popularity until an economic decline hit the country. She regained popularity after the Falklands War.??? The film, in many cases, shows archive footage（资料片）to convey the historic timeline of the movie. The film does an excellent job in recording the complex life of