2015—2016学年度上学期高中学段高三联合考试

英语科试卷

时间：120分钟 满分：150分 命题人：田立欣 校对人：李式瑜

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）。

第 I 卷

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 impressed the man about the new theater?

A. The ticket price. B. The sound. C. The seats.

2. What are the speakers going to do tonight?

A. Go out for pizza. B. Listen to a lecture. C. Work in the garden.

3. Why has the man been staying at home?

A. He is out of work. B. He works at home. C. He’s been sick.

4. How many students had planned to take the exam?

A. 15. B. 25. C. 50.

5. What does the man think of the cheese?

A. It has gone bad. B .It smells better than it tastes. C. It is delicious.

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 is out there?

A. A wolf. B. A bear. C. A duck.

7. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Keep awake. B. Continue to sleep. C. Look at Greg’s tent.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What will Nancy do?

A. Move to Africa. B. Move to Russia. C. Teach Russian.

9. How will Nancy learn Russian?

A. Talk to people. B. Take an online class. C. Study at university.

10. Why is the woman saving money?

A. To help the poor. B. To study abroad. C. To visit Russia.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Who is Eric?

A. The man’s little brother. B. The woman’s classmate. C. Jim’s friend.

12. Why was the man absent from school yesterday?

A. He wanted to escape from a test.

B. He was sick.

C. He needed to pick up a friend.

13. What will the woman do after school?

A. Go to the new movie theater.

B. Lend the man her notes.

C. Prepare for a test.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. How long ahead of time did the woman leave home?

A. An hour. B. Half an hour. C. 20 minutes.

15. Where are the speakers?

A. In the car. B. On the bus. C. On the plane.

16. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A. Traffic. B. Flight delay. C. Business travel.

17. How does the woman feel about the situation?

A. Understanding. B. Angry. C. Sorry.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Why is the coast guard being contacted?

A. The ship is sinking. B. The ship is 200 miles off the coast.

C. The ship is out of fuel.

19. What will happen in ten minutes?

A. The coast guard will arrive. B. There will be another announcement.

C. The ship will stop moving.

What are the passengers asked to do?

A. Go on with their enjoyment. B. Gather in the dining hall.

C. Stop using the gym.

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 went to the Tsavo National Park in northern Kenya for a film. We set off early for a distant water hole. A huge elephant covered with dry mud, drank calmly and deeply. He might have traveled 50 km to reach the water. He wasn’t going to hurry now. He’d drink a while and rest in the shade, and then drink again or so we thought. What actually happened was that he drank deeply and stepped away. Then he suddenly fell down. Within minutes he was dead.

We called animal doctor Jeremiah Poghon immediately. He removed the head of a poisoned arrow from the elephant’s body, and let out over 100 liters of pus (胺)－the result of the elephant’s meeting with a poacher（偷猎者）months before.

Today's poacher shoots from a blind. He fires an arrow, covered with poison, into the body of an elephant. If the poacher is lucky, the elephant might die in an hour or two; if not, he might have to follow the elephant for days before it dies. Often the arrow head fails to kill the elephant at once－it doesn't mean the poison won't finally kill the elephant, but it will be a slow death.

Living in Tsavo through these times, I could see the results of poaching from time to time. When I think about the death of that elephant, what stays with me is the extraordinary silence after the shocking sound of his body hitting the ground. I took some comfort from the knowledge that as the dead body returned to the soil, some animals would benefit－but I couldn't escape the feeling that with the death of such a large animal, the world seemed to be a poorer and emptier place.

21. While filming near the water hole, the author and his team ________.

A. knew the elephant was injured

B. found the elephant acted violently

C. tried their best to save the elephant

D. thought the elephant was in good condition

22. Further examination showed that the dead elephant________.

A. had suffered an hour or two B. was killed by a poisonous needle

C. had suffered a lot D. had had a good fight with a poacher

23. How does the author feel when thinking about the elephant s death?

A. empty. B. comfortable. C. upset. D. relieved.

24. Why did the author write the text?

A. To introduce African elephant. B. To show the cruelty of poaching.

C. To describe his filming experience. D. To ask readers to protect wild animals.

B

Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the cold months. Squirrels, for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. Well, scientists have been busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.

They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow in the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death traps for seeds”.

Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.

The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

25.The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.

A. find out the living conditions for squirrels

B. do something to get rid of squirrels

C. learn squirrels’ influence on black walnut trees

D. save the forests in the American state of Indiana

26.The difference between gray squirrels and red squirrels mainly lies in ________.

A. the way they gather the walnut

B. the place they store the walnuts

C. the number of the nuts they can collect

D. the fact that the gray squirrels have a bad memory

27.When Professor Swihart says “death traps for seeds”, he actually means that ________.

A. nuts above the ground will not develop into plants

B. red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels

C. gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights

D. seeds can be traps for other animals in the forest

28.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels.

B. Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees.

C. The cleaning of forest land benefits gray squirrels directly.

D. Human beings should bear some responsibility for the decreasing number of gray

squirrels.

C

La Gomera is the only place in the world that has a whistle language. We do not know how and why it began because we do not know the complete history of the island. But we can certainly imagine the reasons for the beginning of the whistle language. There are many deep valleys on the island. A person on one side of a valley can not easily shout to a person on the other side. But he can whistle and be heard. Some of the best whistlers can be heard from four miles away and the record is seven miles.

The people who live on the island usually have good teeth, and this helps them to whistle well. They must also have good ears so that they can hear other whistlers.

We can understand why the whistle language continues. It is very useful on the island, and quite easy to learn. When somebody is hurt or ill, the whistle language takes the place of telephone. If the sick person is quite far away from the town, people pass the message from one to another. A boy guarding cattle on a hillside whistles to a man fishing from his boat. The last one is able to describe the trouble fully and exactly to the doctor in town. People help one another in the same way when a car breaks down or a cow is lost.

The whistle language is hundreds of years old, and probably it will continue to live on for hundreds of years more. Radio and TV often kill the special ways of speaking in different parts of a country. But on La Gomera you are nobody if you cannot whistle. Perhaps soon after TV arrives on the island, people there will be whistling the news and other facts and opinions.

29. If a person on La Gomera is ill, ______.

A. the whistle language