衡阳县第一中学2016届高三上学期第二次月考

英 语 试 题

时量：120分钟 分值：150分

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，从试题所给的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 game did the man watch last night? A. Football B. Basketball C. Ice hockey 2.What is the time now? A.10:30 B. 10:40 C.10:20 3. Why does the man refuse beer? A. To save money. B. To go on a diet. C. To drive a car. 4. What’s wrong with the man? A. He caught a cold. B. He broke his arm. C. He hurt his foot. 5. What color skirt is the woman wearing? A. Orange B. Blue C. Green

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、7题。

6. What’s the woman’s classroom number?

A12. B. A21. C. B21.

7.Where is the woman’s classroom?

Opposite the library. B. Behind the gym. C. Beside the gym.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题

.8. What did the woman do last night?

Had a party. B. Cleaned the house. C. Packed the trash bags.

9. Why did the woman not divide the recyclables from the trash?

A. She was busy. B. She was lazy. C. She had no idea of it.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.When does the conversation take place?

A. At 12 p.m. B. At 11 p.m. C. At 10 p.m.

11. What’s the man complaining about?

A. Late sleep. B. Noise. C. Rude behavior.

12. How is the man feeling first?

A. Grateful. B. Nervous. C. Angry.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What’s the woman?

A reporter. B. A hostess. C. A writer.

14. What’s wrong with the man?

A. He is blind. B. He is deaf. C. He has no arms or legs.

15. What does the man do around the world?

A. Does sports. B. Has tours. C. Gives speeches.

16. When was the man’s first book published?

A. In 1982. B. In 2010. C. In 2014.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What’s the goal of the organization Pencils of Promise?

To give pencils to every child.

To give all children chances to be educated.

To help every poor child around the world.

18. What inspired Adam Braun to found the organization?

A．His volunteer job in India. B. A boy beggar in India. C. A short pencil in Laos.

19. How did Mr. Braun raise money for his project?

A. By public speeches. B. By donations. C. By social media.

20. What has the organization done so far?

A. It has helped over 22,000 children. B. It has built more than 2,000 schools.

C. It has covered over 200 countries.

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） A

The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge

?????????????????????? Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!

The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites , even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.

Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue,

Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch will be served.

Between March 10th and March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at :http:// cambridgesciencefestival.org.

21. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?

A. School students.???? ??B. Cambridge locals. C. CSF winners.??????????D. MIT artists.

22. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?

A. On February 8th.???????B. On March 10th. C. On March 15th ???? ?D. On April 21st.

23. What type of writing is this text?

A .An exhibition guide.??B. An art show review. C. An announcement. D. An official report.

B

Passenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described that flocks (群)were so large that they?shaded the sky for hours. It was calculated that when it population reached its highest point , they were more than 3 billlion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.

Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

By the closing decades of the 19th century ,the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by American’s need for wood, which scattered (驱散) the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.

?? In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time , a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.

24. In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons____.

A. were the biggest bird in the world B. lived mainly in the south of America

C. did great harm to the natural environment D. were the largest bird population in the US

25. The underlined word “ undoing” probably refers to the pigeons’ ____.

A. escape???????? B. ruin???? C. liberation???? D. evolution

26. What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?

A. To seek pleasure.?????B. To save other birds. C. To make money.???D. To protect crops.

27. What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?

A. It was ignored by the public.?????? B.? It was declared too early.

C. It was unfair.??????????????? D. It was strict.

C

?A typical lion tamer（驯兽师）in people’s mind is an entertainer holding a whip( 鞭) at a chair. The whip gets all of the attention, but it’s mostly for show. In reality, it’ the chair that does the important work. When a lion tamer holds a chair n front of the lion’s face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time. With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next. When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

How often do you find yourself in the same position as the lion? How often do you have something you want to achieve (e.g. lose weight., start a business, travel more)—only to end up confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress?

This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is right the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information. The end result is that we feel like we cant’ focus or that we’re focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: All you need to do is focus on one thing,. You just need to get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people. If you have somewhere you want to go, something you want to accomplish, someone you want to become…take immediate action. If you’re clear about where you want to go, the rest of the world will either help you get there or get out of the way.

28. Why does the lion tamer use a chair?

A. To trick the lion.? ????????? B. To show off his skills.

C. To get ready for a fight.???? D. To entertain?the audience.

29. In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?

A. They feel puzzled over choices.????? B. They hold on to the wrong things.

C. They find it hard to make changes.??? D. They have to do something for show

30. What is the author’s attitude towards the expert mentioned in Paragraph3?

A. Tolerant. B. Doubtful. C. Respectful. D. Supportive.

31. When the world is “ waving a chair in your face”, you’re advised to _____[来源:学#科#网]

A. wait for a better chance B. break your old habits

C. make a quick decision D. ask for clear guidance

D.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

?In an effort to prevent language los