西安市第七十中学2016届高三10月月考

英 语 试 题

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称钟的时间来回答有关小题如阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Why did both of the speakers do grocery shopping at 9:00 sharp ?

A. To run into each other. B. To avoid the crowds. C. To get bargains

2. What is the man going to do ?

A. Call a taxi for the woman. B. Take the woman to the bus station. C. Drive the woman to the train station.

3. What does the woman suggest the man do ?

A. Wait for the proper moment . B. Find another way to walk. C. Cross the street at the traffic lights.

4. What does the man mean?

A. He has also read the article for three times.

B. He can’t understand the article either

C. He can’t read the article in the dark.

5. What does the woman say about the film?

A. She has already seen the film.

B. She is interested in seeing the film.

C. Most classmates think the film is good.

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至7题。

6. When will the dinner start ?

A. 6:10 B. 6:30 C. 6:40

7. Why is the man late ?

A. Because the ferry he took broke down.

B. Because he went to the ferry Lost-and- Found.

C. Because he went back to the ferry to find his dog.

听第7段材料，回答第8 、9题。

8. Why can’t the baby-sitter come ?

A. Her daughter is sick. B. She has a stomachache. C. She will go to the hospital.

9. What does the man think of the baby-sitter tonight ?

A. Nice B. Good C. Nervous

听第 8段材料,回答第 10至 12题。

10. Where does the man want to go ?

A. Chicago B. New Zealand C. Tokyo

11. What time will the Flight 212 take off ?

A. At 11:30 a.m. B. At 10:30 a.m. C. At 11:30 p.m.

12. How long does the whole journey take ?

A. Less than one hour . B. About two hours. C. About eleven hours

听第 9段材料,回答第 13至 16题。

13. What are the two speakers doing in the park?

A. They are having a date. B. They are picnicking. C. They are exercising

14. Why did the woman go to the doctor the day before yesterday?

A. She fell down and hurt her ankle.

B. She cut her fingers badly.

C. She had trouble in breathing.

15. What can we know about the woman’ build?

A. She’s heavy. B. She’s of medium build C. She’s healthy

16. What annoys the woman most ?

A. Giving up fried chips. B. Getting up early C. Getting rid of Coke.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题

17. Why do people leave home to travel according to the speaker ?

A. To get educated. B. To take an adventure. C. To enjoy themselves.

18. What do we learn about Paris from the passage ?

A. There are 200 vehicles for every kilometer.

B. There are few shops along river Seine

19. What impression will a tourist get of Hong Kong ?

A. It has many big parks. B. It is a city of contrasts. C. It is an industrial center.

20. What does the passage tell about travelling ?

A. It makes our city more interesting.

B. It enables us to get first-hand knowledge.

C. It brings about changes in our lifestyle.

（40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 ，

A

Some people will do just about anything to save money. And I am one of them. Take my family’s last vacation. It was my six-year-old son’s winter break form school, and we were heading home from Fort Lauderdale after a weeklong trip. The flight was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us $400 per person in credits to give up our seats and leave the next day. I had meetings in New York，So I had to get back. But that didn't mean my husband and my son couldn't stay. I took my nine-month-old and took off for home.

The next day, my husband and son were offered more credits to take an even later flight. Yes, I encouraged—okay, ordered—them to wait it out at the airport, to "earn" more Delta Dollars. Our total take: $1,600. Not bad, huh?

Now some people may think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife either. But as a big-time bargain hunter, I know the value of a dollar. And these days, a good deal is something few of us can afford to pass up.

I've made living looking for the best deals and exposing （揭露）the worst tricks. I have been the consumer reporter of NBC's Today show for over a decade. I have written a couple of books including one titled Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide. And I really do what I believe in.

I tell you this because there is no shame in getting your money’s worth. I’m also tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my children, and expensive restaurants. But I wouldn't hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It keeps its shape longer, and it's the first thing people notice. And I will also spend on a classic piece of furniture. Quality lasts.

21. Why did Delta give the author's family credits?

A. They took a later flight. B. They had early bookings.

C. Their flight had been delayed. D. Their flight had been cancelled.

22. What can we learn about the author?

A. She rarely misses a good deal. B. She seldom makes a compromise.

C. She is very strict with her children. D. She is interested in cheap products.

23. What does the author do?

A. She's a teacher. B. She's a housewife.

C. She's a media person. D. She's a businesswoman.

24. What does the author want to tell us?

A. How to expose bad tricks. B. How to reserve airline seats.

C. How to spend money wisely. D. How to make a business deal.

B

They baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert （警觉）. Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze（凝视） starts to lose its focus — until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns: she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?

Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects (a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise （同样地） when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.

25. The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is related to the baby’s__.

A. sense of hearing B. sense of sight C. sense of touch D. sense of smell

26. Babies are sensitive to the change in______.

A. the size of cards B. the colour of pictures

C. the shape of patterns D. the number of objects

27. Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?

A. To reduce the difficulty of the experiment. B. To see how babies recognize sounds.

C. To carry their experiment further. D. To keep the babies’ interest.

28. Where does this text probably come from?

A. Science fiction. B. Children’s literature. C. An advertisement. D. A science report.

C

It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, “a brilliantly （精彩地）written book”. However, he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.

And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s “Report on Guilty Secrets”, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out), I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s really brilliant.

The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I haven’t read him, but haven’t lied about it either) and Herman Melville.

Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to “impress” someone they were speaking to. This could be tricky if the conversation became more in–depth!

But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story (I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).

29. How did the author find his friend a book liar?

A. By judging his manner of speaking. B. By looking into his background.

C. By mentioning a famous name. D. By discussing the book itself.

30. Which of the following is a “guilty secret” according to the World Book Day report?

A. Charles Dickens is very low on the top-ten list. B. 42% of people pretended to have read 1984.

C. The author admitted having read 9 books. D. Dreams From My Father is hardly read.

31. By lying about reading, a person hopes to .

A. control the conversation B. appear knowledgeable

C. le