宁城县高三年级统一考试（2015.10.20）

英 语 试 题

注意：本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试

时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共100分）

第一部分：听力（共两节，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。

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）

请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。

1. What will the man do?

A. Open the window. B. Find another room. C. Go out with the woman.

2. What’s the date of the woman’s birthday?

A. March 15th. B. March 11th. C. March 7th.

3. What does the man mean?

A. John has some personal problems.

B. The problem is common for young men.

C. It’s not common for young men to leave home.

4. What will the man most probably do?

A. Get some change from Jane.

B. Go and look for a payphone.

C. Use Jane’s mobile phone.

5. What does the man mean?

A. It was impossible for him to go to the party.

B. Everybody was surprised by his appearance at the party.

C. He had expected to go to the party for a long time.

第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

请听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. Why does the woman want to go to the library?

A. To return some books.

B. To borrow some new books.

C. To find some test papers.

7. When does the library close?

A. At 9:00. B. At 9:40. C. At 10:00.

8. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. He asks her to return some books for him.

B. He asks her to borrow some books for him.

C. He asks her to go to the library with him.

请听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What was the man doing when the story happened?

A. Sleeping. B. Swimming. C. Listening to the radio.

10. What happened to the little boy?

A. His eye was hurt by the sand.

B. He couldn’t find his parents.

C. He fell into the water.

11. What did the man do after hearing someone shouting for help?

A. He went on enjoying the music.

B. He looked for the boy’s parents.

C. He jumped into the water.

请听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Teacher and student. B. Husband and wife. C. Manager and secretary.

13. Where are the two speakers going?

A. The airport. B. The railway station. C. The bus station.

14. Why do the speakers call Brenda?

A. To ask her to change clothes.

B. To ask her when Mother arrives.

C. To ask her if she can go with them.

请听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Where is Mary going?

A. Her home. B. The park. C. The zoo.

16. Why doesn’t Mary like walking through the street?

A. It’s too cold.

B. There are too many people.

C. It isn’t interesting.

17. When does the conversation most likely take place?

A. Late in the morning. B. In the late afternoon. C. Early in the morning.

请听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When did Grandma Moses turn to painting?

A. At the age of 76. B. At the age of 39. C. At the age of 101.

19. What did Grandma Moses do before she became an artist?

A. She sold other artists’ works in a shop.

B. She worked on her farm.

C. She taught at a school.

20. What is the story mainly about?

A. A famous American artist.

B. Making money from painting.

C. Collecting paintings.

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）

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The Chinese word “Shanzhai” means a small mountain village, but now it becomes an accepted name for fakes (假货), after “Shanzhai Cell-phones” produced by small workshops in southern China became popular in the mainland market over the past two years.

Besides “Shanzhai” electronic products, there are “Shanzhai” movies, “Shanzhai” stars and even a “Shanzhai” Spring Festival Gala (联欢晚会), a copy of the 25-year-old traditional show presented by CCTV on Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve.

“Shanzhai” has become a culture of its own, meaning anything that imitates something famous.

In Chongqing, “Shanzhai” version “Bird’s Nest” and “Water Cube” woven by farmers with bamboo attract wide attention from tourists. Both are copies of the famous Olympic buildings in Beijing.

A literature critic said that taking the “Shanzhai” Gala as an example, when the traditional CCTV program becomes less and less attractive to the audience, the“Shanzhai” version appears timely to attract people. “Although it is often connected with poor techniques and operation, ‘Shanzhai’ culture meets the psychological needs of common people and could be a comfort to their minds,” he said.

To the mainstream (主流的) culture, the rise of “Shanzhai” culture is a challenge and a motivation (动力). People believe different kinds of cultures developing together is a perfect situation and it is for the public to choose.

21. The Chinese word “Shanzhai” may have started with ______.

A. Spring Festival Gala B. electronic products

C. fake cell-phones D. Olympic buildings

22. According to the passage, “Shanzhai” culture refers to ______.

A. the action that a person imitates famous people

B. products with poor techniques and quality

C. those similar names to famous brands

D. anything that imitates something famous

23. We can infer that the mainstream culture ______.

A. may develop faster because of the challenge of “Shanzhai” culture

B. is the challenge of “Shanzhai” culture

C. will be replaced by “Shanzhai” culture

D. is held back by “Shanzhai” culture

B

When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（优先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values and the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.

Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.

The arts are forms of thoughts as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.

Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.

So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.

24. According to Paragraph 1, students _______.

A. disagree with their parents on education

B. regard music as a way of entertainment

C. view music as an overlooked subject

D. prefer the arts to science

25. In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to _______.

A. compare it with rock music B. introduce American musical traditions

C. show music identifies a society D. prove music influences people’s lifestyles

26. According to the passage, the arts and science _______.

A .approach the world from different angles

B. explore different phenomena of the world

C. express people’s feelings in different ways

D .explain what it means to be human differently

27. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Music is an effective communication tool.

B. Music should be of top education priority.

C. Music makes students more imaginative

D. Music education deserves more attention.

C

A new planet-hunting technique has detected the most earth-like planet yet around a star other than our sun, raising hopes of finding a space rock that might support life, astronomers (天文学家) reported recently.

“This is an important discovery to answer the question ‘Are we alone?’” said Michael Turner of the National Science Foundation.

“The team has discovered the most earth-like planet yet, and more importantly, has proved the power of a new technique that is sensitive (灵敏的) to detecting planets that are fit for people to live on,” Turner said in a statement.

In the last decade, astronomers have detected more than 160 planets moving around stars outside our solar system. Most of these have been gas giant planets like Jupiter, which are unfit for life.

But an international team has detected a cold planet about 5.5 times more massive than the earth — still small enough to be considered earth-like — moving around a star about 20,000 light years away, close to the center of the Milky Way.

To find this new planet, the team used a technique called gravitational microlensing (引力微观透镜法). When a planet is circling the closest star, the planet’s gravity can add its own signature to the light. This kind of light signature was observed on July 11 by a group of telescopes in a project known as OGLE, short for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment.

“The main advantage of microlensing is the signals for low-mass planets: They’re not weak signals. They’re just rare,” Bennett of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana said by telephone. “If there happens to be a straight line between a foreground star with its planet and the background source star, then you’re able t