桂林市第十八中学13级高三第三次月考

英 语

命题人：张书萍 审题人：周夏阳

考试时间 2015年11月8日 15:00-17：00

第Ⅰ卷（共100分）

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）

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. Why does the girl hurry home?

A. To join in a group discussion. B. To get something important.

C. To have a quick meal.

2. Why did the man go to San Francisco and Los Angeles?

A. To visit some friends. B. To study in the USA. C. To visit some universities.

3. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The woman is a close friend of the man. B. The woman is tired of her work.

C. The woman is seeing a doctor.

4. Where are the cash machines?

A. It was more interesting than ever. B. It was far beyond his understanding.

C. It was long but easy to understand.

5. With whom and where did the woman spend her vacation?

A. With their friends in Europe. B. With George’s parents in Chicago.

C. With the woman’s sister in Washington.

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. What does the woman think of her new working place?

A. Good. B. Far. C. Poor.

7.How does the man go to work?

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

听第7段材料，回答第8 至10题。

8. Where is the man living?

A. 17 Mallett Street. B. 70 Mallett Street. C. 17 Mallett Street.

9. Which house is on fire?

A. Number 16. B. Number 18. C. Number 20.

10. Why is there nobody in the house on fire?

A. They went shopping. B. They went to work. C. They went abroad on holiday.

听第 8段材料,回答第 11至 13题。

11. Which is NOT true about the man?

A. Water is running down his leg. B. He can not breathe well after a walk.

C. He hasn’t been sleeping well because of the pain in his leg.

12. What has caused the trouble?

A. The woman doesn’t know yet. B. He was burnt by boiling water.

C. He has tired himself out in his work.

13. What’s the woman’s name?

A. Doctor Cook. B. Doctor Martin. C. The conversation doesn’t tell us.

听第 9段材料,回答第 14至 17题。

14. What is the man doing for the woman?

A. Chatting on the phone. B. Introducing her to the managers.

C. Telling her about her new office.

15. What is the woman?

A. A new manager. B. A visitor to the company. C. A new secretary.

16. What is the woman NOT allowed to do during work hours?

A. Make personal phone calls. B. Chat over the phone.

C. Keep her desk neat.

17. Why does the woman come here half an hour early?

A. To make a good impression. B. To check in earlier. C. To meet the department managers.

听第10段材料，回答18至20题。

18. What was done to find people’s ideas about the women’s movement?

A. A question was asked of husbands.. B. A group was set up to interview people.

C. A survey was made to both men and women.

19. Who help most at home?

A. Danish husbands. B. British husbands. C. Italian husbands.

20. What can we learn from what the speaker said?

A. Housework should be shared between men and women.

B. More than 50% of Danish men help in the house.

C. Danish men are more afraid of their wives.

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）

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

I had worried myself sick over Simon's mother coming to see me. I was a new teacher, and I gave an honest account of the students' work. In Simon's case，the grades were awfully low. He couldn't read his own handwriting. But he was a bright student. He discussed adult subjects with nearly adult comprehension. His work in no way reflected his abilities. So when Simon's mother entered the room, my palms (手掌心) were sweating. I was completely unprepared for her kisses on both my cheeks. “I came to thank you,” she said, surprising me beyond speech. Because of me, Simon had become a different person. He talked of how he loved me, he had begun to make friends, and for the first time in his twelve years, he had recently spent an afternoon at a friend's house. She wanted to tell me how grateful she was for the self-respect I had developed in her son. She kissed me again and left. I sat, stunned, for about half an hour，wondering what had just happened. How did I make such a life changing difference to that boy without even knowing it？What I finally came to remember was one day, several months before，when some students were giving reports in the front of the class, Jeanne spoke quietly，and to encourage her to raise her voice, I had said, “Speak up. Simon's the expert on this. He is the only one you have to convince, and he can't hear you in the back of the room.” That was it. From that day on, Simon had sat up straighter, paid more attention, smiled more，and became happy. And it was all because he happened to be the last kid in the last row. The boy who most needed praise was the one who took the last seat that day.? It taught me the most valuable lesson over the years of my teaching career, and I'm thankful that it came early and positively. A small kindness can indeed make a difference.21. We can infer that when Simon’s mother entered the room, the writer felt _______. A. nervous? B. satisfied? C. happy? D. surprised22. Why did Simon’s mother come to visit the writer? A. Because she worried about her son’s poor work. B. Because Simon asked her to do so. C. Because she wanted to show her gratitude to the writer.

D. Because she wanted to know her son’s performance in the school.23. The following words can be used to describe Simon before he met the writer EXCEPT _____. A. unconfident? B. lonely? C. clever? D. outgoing 24. The purpose of the passage is to ________. A. share a valuable lesson with readers? B. tell teachers how to be kind to students C. advise the readers to be kind to others? D. tell the story of Simon

B

One windy?spring?day, I observed young people having?fun?using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds dashing and dancing in the exciting atmosphere above the earth. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check. Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve?great?heights. They shook and pulled, but the controlling string and the clumsy tail kept them in tow(牵引), facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They flew beautifully even as they fought the forced restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say, “Free to fly with the wind.” Yet freedom from control simply?put?it at the mercy of an unsympathetic gentle wind. It flew ungracefully to the ground and landed in a twisted mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”. Free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along?the ground, and to settle down lifeless against the first roadblock. How much like kites we sometimes are. There always exist misfortunes and restrictions, rules to follow?from which we can grow and gain strength. Prohibition is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us pulled at the rules so hard that we never fly fast to reach the heights we might have obtained. If we keep all the commandment(戒律), we will never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground. Let us each rise to the?great?heights, recognizing that some of the prohibitions are actually the steady force that helps us climb and achieve.25. In the passage the writer watched _______. A. many young people flying multicolored kites B. many birds dashing and dancing in the sky C. many young people enjoying the sunny day D. the strong winds blowing against the sky26. What didn’t happen to the freed kite? A. It was blown helplessly around. B. It lay powerless in the dirt. C. It was trapped in a dead bush. D. It kept flying freely in the air.

27. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?A. To give up tips on how to fly kites effectively. B. To warn us that freedom is actually powerless.C. To teach us a lesson that rules are important in life. D. To explain that restrictions are really unnecessary.

28. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Where to Fly B. Fly with Restrictions C. Why to Fly Kites D. Fly to Freedom

C

In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity（繁荣）. Others say that competition is bad, that it sets one person against another and that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.

I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）?of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.

However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which only values the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary player, they strongly blame competition. Among?the most vocal?are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “ I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really di