太原五中2015—2016学年度第一学期阶段性检测

高 三 英 语

出题、校对：杜丽雯、齐俊高、席艳艳、刘克静、南 睿、张晓佳

合题、校对： 智虎威 (2015.10.19)

第I卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

1. Where is the woman going?

A. To France. B. To Japan. C. To Spain.

2. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man will give a speech.

B. The woman is worried about the man.

C. Peter is nervous about giving a speech.

3. What language can the man speak?

A. Japanese and French.

B. English and Chinese.

C. French and English.

4. How does the man contact his friends abroad?

A. By email. B. By phone. C. By letter.

5. What will the speaker do tomorrow?

A. Go to the Military Museum.

B. Go to the hospital.

C. Do exercise.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听第6段材料，回答第6，7题。

6. What does the new ski area provide for beginners?

A. Safe tracks. B. Free equipment. C. A discount.

7. What is the woman worried about?

A. The price. B. The distance. C. Safety.

听第7段材料，回答第8，9题。

8. Where does the woman want to go?

A. To the library.

B. To the Student Union Building.

C. To the university.

9. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man is new to the university.

B. The library is behind the red brick building.

C. The library is in building No.16.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What kind of apartment does the man want to rent?

A. A one-bedroom one.

B. A two-bedroom one.

C. A three-bedroom one.

11. How much will the man pay for the rent?

A. 400 yuan. B. 390 yuan. C. 309 yuan.

12. What does the man have to do?

A. Fix the telephone.

B. Contact the power company.

C. Contact the house owner.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the man do in his spare time?

A. Play basketball with his friends.

B. Swim with his friends.

C. Watch track events.

14. What’s the woman’s favorite sport?

A. Swimming. B. Tennis. C. Skating.

15. What will the woman do tomorrow morning?

A. Go to a tennis match.

B. Visit the man’s school.

C. Watch TV.

16. What does the man advise the woman to do?

A. Practice playing tennis.

B. Watch track events.

C. Do more exercise.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How many books of Brooks were published?

A. Over ten. B. Over twenty. C. Over thirty.

18. Why did Brooks write about the South Side of Chicago in her poetry?

A. The scenery there was beautiful.

B. Many Black people live there.

C. She once lived there for a long time.

19. When did A Street in Bronzeville get the attention of library experts?

A. In 1930. B. In1940. C. In 1945.

20. What can we learn about Brooks?

A. She was a black woman.

B. She wrote many poems during the 1920s.

C. The Bronzeville poems were her last published collection.

第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节， 满分60分)

第一节 （共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A.

A new survey conducted by the National Geographic Society (NGS) shows that although consumers in many countries are adopting environmentally-friendly behavior, others live in wasteful cultures of consumption.

The 2014 online survey of 18,000 people in 18 countries gauged environmental attitudes and habits – and their sustainability – when it came to housing, transportation, food and consumer goods.

Some consumer behavior is improving.

In half the countries surveyed, people acted in more environmentally-friendly ways than they had in 2012. For example, Russians are using more public transportation and British consumers are buying more green electricity.

But some countries reported that people’s habits were less sustainable than in the previous survey. Around 68 percent of Germans drink bottled water daily, and Canadians are among the most likely to own at least two cars or trucks.

2. Anxiety about the environment is growing.

A slim majority of consumers– 51 percent – agree that global warming will negatively affect their own lives. Latin Americans are the most concerned, with more than three in four Brazilians convinced that climate change will impact them personally.

3. Americans resist going green.

Nearly one in four American households owns four or more TVs. Americans are also among the most likely to avoid paying extra for environmentally-friendly products, and they consume more packaged and processed food than people in most other countries. And since the 2012 survey, more Americans are saying that they view owning a big house as an important goal in their lives.

4. The least green feel the least guilt.

As in past surveys, the worst offenders express the least guilt about the size of their environmental footprint. British, German and Swedish consumers not only feel the least regret but also are the most likely say they won’t change their ways.

5. Repairing, reusing and recycling are on the rise.

Majorities in 17 of the 18 countries say they’d rather repair than replace a broken item, with Chinese and German consumers the most likely to fix something and Japanese consumers the least likely. American and French consumers are the most likely to buy used items; Canadian, British, and Australian consumers are the biggest recyclers.

21. The author’s purpose in mentioning Germans is __________.

A. to say that drinking bottled water is not environmentally-friendly at all

B. to point out that bottled water is a less sustainable product

C. to emphasize that Germans should change their habits

D. to explain that people in some countries have some less sustainable habits

22. Which of the following is TRUE about the survey results?

A. Japanese consumers are among the biggest recyclers.

B. The majority of Brazilians believe climate change will affect their lives.

C. Chinese and Canadian consumers like to repair broken items.

D. Used items are popular with French and British consumers.

23. What can we learn about Americans from the passage?

A. Three in four American families don’t have TV sets.

B. Many of them dream of owning a big house.

C. They think green products are too expensive.

D. They prefer packaged and processed food to health food.

B

Peer into a smartphone, and all will become clear. Smart Vision Labs, a start-up in New York City, wants to make it easier to diagnose vision problems in developing countries with an iPhone camera add-on.

The World Health Organization estimates that 246 million people have poor vision. Of these, about 90 percent live in low-income areas without good access to healthcare or expensive diagnostic machines.

To solve this problem Smart Vision Labs has combined two tools often used for eye tests into a single inexpensive and portable device. The first tool, an auto-refractor (自动曲光仪), calculates whether someone is short-sighted or long-sighted, and to what extent, by measuring the size and shape of their eye. The second, an aberrometer (像差仪), looks for distortions (扭曲) in how light reflects off the eye, which could indicate rarer problems such as double vision.

This equipment usually costs thousands of dollars, but Smart Vision Labs says it has made a device with the same functions that clips onto an iphone. It can estimate vision problems by taking a handful of pictures of a person’s eye and using software to analyze them. The company plans to sell it as part of a low-cost kit for people in developing countries.

Earlier this year, Smart Vision Labs sent prototypes (原型) to Haiti and Guatemala through non-profit organization, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity. Optometrists tested the device on a few dozen patients in each country, asking them to look into it and focus on a small red dot for several seconds. People who used the device in the field were impressed with it. “It was very helpful to have the technology available to us in Haiti,” says Elizabeth Groetken, an optometrist from Le Mars, Iowa. “I can see the benefit of this tool in countries that do not have eye care readily available.”

24. People in developing countries have vision problems mainly because of ____________.

A. poor purchasing capacity

B. overworking on computers

C. neglecting eyesight problems

D. poor healthcare and costly diagnostic equipment

25. What is Groetken’s attitude towards the Smart Vision Labs device?

A. Doubtful. B. Positive. C. Indifferent. D. Tolerant.

26. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. Smart Vision Labs is always doing charity activities.

B. People in Haiti have more serious eyesight problems.

C. The new device will be popular in developing countries.

D. Eyesight problems will be easily solved thanks to the device.

27. The purpose of the passage is to ___________.

A. advertise a new product for Smart Vision Labs

B. call on people to pay attention to eyesight problems

C. persuade people to donate vision-testing equipment to poor areas

D. tell people about a convenient vision-testing device on an iphone

C

A few weeks ago, I had a chat with my son Chase’s teacher. We talked about teaching children and what a sacred trust and responsibility it is. She and I agreed that subjects like maths and reading are not the most important things that are learned in a classroom. We talked about shaping little hearts to become contributors to a large community and our mutual dream that those communities might be made up of individuals who are kind and brave above all.

And then she told me this.

A few times a year, she asks her students to write on a piece of paper the names of four children with whom they’d like to be teamed up the following semester. Every Friday, she also asks the students to nominate one student who they believe has been an exceptional classroom citizen that week. All ballots (不记名票) are privately submitted to her. And after each ballot, when the students go home, she takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her and studies them.

Who is not getting requested by anyone else?

Who never gets noticed enough to be nominated?

Who had a million friends last week and none this week?

You see, Chase’s teacher is not really looking for exceptional classroom citizens — he is looking for lonely children — children who are struggling to connect with their classmates. “