宁夏大学附属中学2016届高三上学期第三次月考

英 语 试 题

本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第Ⅰ卷 (选择题）

注意事项：

1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分：听力理解(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）

听时话，选择正确选项。

1. When will the two speakers leave probably?

A. At 5:30. B. At 6:00. C. At 7:l0.

2. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. Travel experiences B. Family members. C. Travelling abroad.

3. Where does this conversation most probably take place?

A. At a theater. B. At a restaurant. C. At a gas station.

4. How will the woman go to New York?

A. By car. B. By air. C. By train.

5. Why is the man angry with Anne?

A. She hasn’t shown up. B. She drives too slowly. C. She is too rude to him.

第二节（共l5小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Where did the man spend his weekend?

A. At home. B. In the cinema. C. In the school.

7. What does the woman think of the roommate?

A. He’s impolite. B. He’s strange. C. He’s careful.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Where are the two speakers?

A. In an office. B. At home. C. In a restaurant.

9. What is wrong with the woman?

A. She has a stomachache. B. She has a headache. C. She has a fever.

听第8段材料，回答第l0至12题。

10. What is the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Teacher and student. B. Salesgirl and customer. C. Friends.

11. What is the woman’s sister like?

A. Friendly and adventurous. B. Friendly and shy. C. Beautiful and quiet.

12. What is the woman learning?

A. Singing. B. Dancing. C. Swimming.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Which city does the man plan to go to?

A. Salt Lake City, the USA. B. New York, the USA. C. Helsinki, Finland.

14. What is the flight number for the second half of the man’s journey?

A. 1070. B. 1090. C. 980.

15. How long will it take the man to go from Salt Lake City to New York?

A. An hour and a half. B. Six hours. C. Three hours.

16. When does the man decide to return?

A. On the twenty-second. B. On the twenty-third. C. On the twenty-ninth.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What do you know about Billy’s family?

A. His father works in a post office. B. They live a hard life.

C. There are only three people in his family.

18. How does Billy deliver the newspapers every day?

A. By bike. B. By car. C. On foot.

19. How much does Billy usually earn every month?

A. $ 18. B. $ 64. C. $ 80.

20. What does Billy save some money for?

A. Continuing his schooling. B. Buying a new bike. C. Buying an old car.

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

Who Owns the Moon?

Within the next ten years, the US, China, Israel, and a crowd of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give them property rights?

A NASA working group hosted a discussion this week to ask: Who owns the moon? The answer, of course, is no use. The Outer Space Treaty, the international law signed by more than 100 countries, states that the moon and other celestial bodies(天体) are the province of all mankind. No doubt that would annoy all of the people throughout the ages, like monks from the Middle Ages, who have tried to claim the moon was theirs.

But ownership is different from property rights. People who rent apartments, for example, don’t own where they live, but they still hold rights. So with all of the upcoming missions(派遣团) to visit the moon and beyond, space industry thought leaders are seriously asking themselves how to deal with a potential land rush.

“This is a very relevant discussion right now. We’ve got this wave of new lunar missions from around the world,” said William Marshall, a scientist in the small-spacecraft office at NASA, but who spoke this week at an event hosted by NASA’s Co Lab, a collaborative(协力的) public-private working group. He was peaking from his personal interest and not on behalf of the agency.

To be sure, the United States aims to send astronauts back to the moon by as early as 2015, in a mission that would include a long-term settlement. China and Israel, among others, are also working on lunar projects. And for the first time, several private groups are building spacecraft to land on the moon in an attempt to win millions of dollars in the Google Lunar X Prize. Some participants say that they plan to gain some property rights in the mission.

21. In the passage the writer seems to be worrying that .

A. the US will live on the moon forever

B. the moon will not be able to hold all mankind

C. the potential land rush will become more and more frequent

D. no one can answer the question “Who owns the moon?”

22. The “Google Lunar X Prize” aims to .

A. encourage private groups to land on the moon

B. help NASA host a discussion about land rush on the moon

C. help some developing countries complete their lunar projects

D. reward some countries or private groups which haven’t stepped on the moon

23. The underlined word “that” in the first paragraph refers to .

A. the Outer Space Treaty B. if and when they plant a flag

C. the NASA working group D. monks from the Middle Ages

24. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. The US astronauts will live on the moon for a longer time.

B. Many countries and private groups plan to go to the moon.

C. Why some private groups wish to land on the moon.

D. It is easy to gain some property rights on the moon.

B

In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.

It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Button, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras(交响乐团). It became fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly.

At the Same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.

Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.

Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.

A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold.

25. What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?

A. To bring Europe together again. B. To honor heroes of World War II.

C. To introduce young theatre groups. D. To attract great artists from Europe.

26. Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?

A. They owned a public house there. B. They came to take up a challenge.

C. They thought they were also famous. D. They wanted to take part in the festival.

27. Who joined the “Fringe” after it appeared?

A. Popular writers. B. University students.

C. Artists from around the world. D. Performers of music and dance.

28. We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival .

A. has become a non-official event B. has gone beyond an art festival

C. gives shows all year round D. keeps growing rapidly

C

The flying car has been talked about for many years, but now it appears to become a reality.

An international company has built a two-seater plane that, at the touch of a button, transforms into a car perfectly suitable for driving on public roads. It takes 15 seconds to switch between flying and driving. With its wings fully open and the propeller(螺旋桨) spinning, it can take off from any airfield.

Flying cars are quicker than traditional ones, and they can run on ordinary fuel. Another big advantage is that they are cool, like something you would see in an action film. At the moment, however, the flying car’s wheels are illegal to leave the ground. That is not because of technical reasons or problems with the design. It is because the various road and aircraft authorities simply cannot agree on whether it is a car or a plane.

Nevertheless the company hopes to produce and deliver its first flying car soon. The company already has orders for 40 of them. The majority potential customers are older and some are retired. There have even been orders from some people who have no pilot’s license.

The flying car will cost around $ 200,000. “For an airplane, that’s a very reasonable price, but for a car, it’s quite expensive,” explains Alan. “But it just is not possible to make a $ 10,000 flying car yet.”

This latest means of transport will not become a mass-market item in the near future, but in the long term it has the potential to change the way you travel. It will become no more expensive than driving your car on the motorway. Travel time could be reduced by more than half.

So the next time