益阳市箴言中学2016届高三第二次模拟考试

英语试题

时量：120分钟 总分：150分

第I卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

（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. What does the man want to do tonight?

A. Go out to eat. B. Eat at home. C. Learn how to cook.

2. What does the woman most probably think of the man?

A. Naughty. B. Kind-hearted. C. Careless.

3. Why is there no food left in the fridge?

A. Jim ate all the food.

B. Alice took all the food.

C. Jim took all the food to the kitchen.

4. How does Susan probably look now?

A. Pleased. B. Surprised. C. Upset.

5. What does the man’s father want him to be?

A. A musician. B. A doctor. C. A programmer.

（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 time is it now?

A. 11:00 am. B. 11:30 am. C. 12:00 noon.

7. Where does the conversation take place?

A. On the train. B. At the train station. C. At the restaurant.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why can’t Adam go boating with the woman tomorrow?

A. He is busy preparing a speech contest.

B. He is taking a vacation in China now.

C. He has to work overtime tomorrow.

9. What will the man do tomorrow?

A. Read a new book.

B. Write at home all day.

C. Spend an hour in the park.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What was the news about?

A. Jenny’s famous songs.

B. Jenny’s saving a baby’s life.

C. Jenny’s winning a music contest.

11. How much money did Jenny receive?

A. 2,500 dollars. B. 3,000 dollars. C. 5,000 dollars.

12. What do we know about the woman?

A. She performed at the TV station.

B. She is well known to the public.

C. She is an unknown songwriter.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. In which city did the man live?

A. Shanghai. B. Beijing. C. Wuhan.

14. What was the man’s main reason for going to Los Angeles?

A. To visit his aunt.

B. To visit his grandma.

C. To study English there.

15. What did the man think of the people in Los Angeles?

A. Direct. B. Humorous. C. Rude.

16. Where did the man usually eat when he was in Los Angeles?

A. At restaurants. B. At a university. C. At his aunt’s home.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What inspired the speaker to eat in a more healthy way?

A. A report about Americans’ eating habits.

B. A report about a restaurant owner.

C. A report about fast food restaurants.

18. What do we know about Alice Waters’ restaurant?

A. It is famous in the US.

B. It was started in France.

C. It used to be a fast food restaurant.

19. Where do the vegetables used by Alice Waters’ restaurant come from?

A. Overseas markets. B. Supermarkets. C. Local farms.

20. How much weight has the speaker lost in the past five years?

A. 30 pounds. B. 40 pounds. C. 70 pounds.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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My 18-month-old son, Adam, called from the front door. “Look, Mama! Doggie!” I dropped what I was doing and stuck my head out of the door. Brandy, our next-door neighbor’s 11-year-old dog, was over again. “Go away!” I shouted.

Brandy’s owner had died about a month earlier. The woman’s family had emptied the house and stuck a “For Sale” sign in the front yard, but the family had left old Brandy behind. For weeks, she’d been wandering around the neighborhood.

It wasn’t that I disliked dogs or anything like that. I just didn’t think about them very much. I never had a dog growing up and had never thought to get one.

Brandy went away and I stayed outside with Adam. Then the phone rang. I went inside to take the call. When I came back, Adam was gone. I searched the yard, front and back, then the basketball court and public pool. No trace of him. I was so nervous that I ran home and called the police, then my husband.

Police searched the neighborhood. Suddenly I heard another sound: a dog barking. “It’s coming from the woods.” one of my neighbors said. We followed the barking to a wooded cliff (悬崖). There we found my son, and he was just inches away from the edges of the cliff, fast asleep. Brandy was beside him, leaning (倚靠) against him to keep him away from the edge. When I picked Adam up, Brandy sank down on her side, breathing quickly. She must have been holding Adam there for hours!

I thanked the police and brought Adam and Brandy back to our house. She hesitated a moment on our doorstep, no doubt remembering the time I’d driven her away.

“Come on, girl.” I said. “This is your home now.” Brandy stepped in, and once she saw she was really welcome, she relaxed and lay down on the floor just inside the door. She’d done a great thing, and I wondered if she knew it. She’d certainly touched me in a way that no animal ever had. What a pity a dog like Brandy had been left behind!

21. What is the correct order for the events in the story about Brandy?

a. She was left behind by her owner’s family.

b. She stepped into the woman’s house.

c. She appeared at the woman’s front door.

d. She stayed beside the woman’s son for hours.

A. d, a, b, c B. a, c, b, d 　　 C. a, c, d, b D. c, d, b, a

22. What did the woman do when she first saw Brandy?

A. She drove her away.

B. She gave her some food.

C. She took her home.

D. She said thank you to her.

23. How were they able to be aware that the woman’s son was near the cliff?

A. By searching the neighborhood.

B. By hearing her son’s crying.

C. By following a dog’s footsteps.

D. By hearing a dog barking.

B

Thousands of taxi drivers in Shenyang, Liaoning province, reportedly blocked streets with their vehicles on Sunday in protest against unlicensed vehicles using taxi-hiring apps (打车软件) and apps-based car rental companies providing passenger services, including high-end cars. Although the drivers also complained about the withdrawal of the fuel subsidy by the government, their main complaint was the loss of business because of the rising number of Internet-based car services companies.

On Wednesday, news reports came that Beijing transport authorities will take measures to stop the illegal “taxi business” of private cars through the newly rising Internet apps, following the footsteps of Shenyang and Nanjing.

It is not yet clear how the Shenyang city government will handle the issue and whether it will declare the services offered by market leaders such as Didi Dache, a taxi-hiring app provider backed by Tencent Holdings, and Kuaidi Dache illegal. But Shanghai transport regulators have set a rule, by banning Didi Zhuanche, or car services offered by Didi Dache in December.

Such regulations will cause a setback to the car-hiring companies and investors that are waiting to cash in on the potentially booming business. Just last month, Didi Dache got $700 million in funding from global investors, including Singapore state investment company Temasek Holdings, Russian investment company DST Global and Tencent. Besides, the market is uncertain that Kuaidi Dache is about to finalize its latest round of funding after getting $800 million from global investors.

Regulatory uncertainties, however, could cast a shadow on the future of the Internet-based car-hiring services, which have become popular in most of China’s big cities. To be fair, these companies’ business model is anything but bad. For example, Didi Zhuanche works side by side with established car rental companies to provide high-end car service mainly for businesspeople through the Internet and mobile phone apps.

Every link in this business model chain has legal companies and services. Hence, it is hard to define it as illegal and ban it.

24. Why did taxi drivers in Shenyang block the streets with their vehicles?

A. Because they wanted the authority to increase their driving allowances.

B. Because they wanted to be taught how to use the taxi-hiring apps.

C. Because they wanted to appeal to passengers not to hire the private cars.

D. Because they wanted to make their main complaints known to the authority.

25. The author’s attitude to banning internet car-hiring service is______.

A. positive B. negative C. neutral D. unclear

26. Which of the following statements is false according to the passage?

A. App-based car rental is functional to some degree

B. The problem referred to in the passage exists in all cities

C. The government should regulate the app-based car rental market

D. Didi Dache is a China-foreign joint company

27. we can learn from the passage that _____.

A. some international investment companies have strong faith in the future of apps-based car rental companies

B. Shenyang forbade apps-based car rental companies

C. Shanghai is the second city banning Didi Zhuanche

D. it is not difficult to picture the apps-based car rental companies illegal

C

School children are using mobile phone applications to do their homework, which seem to be increasing during summer vacations. But instead of blaming students for their behavior, we should say no to too much homework. This is important because by using mobile phone applications to do their homework, students don't add much to their knowledge, says an article in Guangzhou-based Yangcheng Evening News. Excerpts (摘录):

Using mobile phone applications to do homework is no different from copying from someone else's work. This is the opinion of a vast majority of teachers. Students who seek cell phone apps help to do their homework will pay dearly during major exams when they cannot seek the help of such applications, the teachers say.

The heavy load of homework Chinese students are burdened with, said to be the heaviest in the world, has led to the popularity of these applications.

Senior high school students in China rarely go to bed before 11 pm. A report in Shanghai published in2013 showed that students in the city on average spend 28.2 hours in class every week, the 9th highest among 65 countries and regions surveyed. Also, they spend an average of 13.8 hours