银川一中2016届高三年级第四次月考

英 语 试 卷

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ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。

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂,如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案的标号；非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的黑色中性（签字）笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。

3．请按照题号在各题的答题区域(黑色线框)内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。

4．保持卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。

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l.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．Where does this conversation probably take place?

A．On a bus B．At the bank C．At a railway station

2．What was the weather like yesterday?

A．Rainy B．Windy C．Hot

3．Who might Damon be?

A．The woman’s boyfriend. B．The man’s father C．The woman’s father

4．When will the speakers probably meet ?

A．At 2:30 B．At 3:00 C．At 3:30

5．What has the woman been doing this week?

A．Designing B．Shopping C．Studying

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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6. 7题。

6．What does the man still get confused about?

A．The woman’s family members

B．The characters’ name in a TV drama.

C．The faces of the new singers.

7．What does the woman want to do next?

A．Have a drink B．Watch a show C．Have a meal

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8．What does the man say about his grandparents?

A．They are still very much in love.

B．They have been together for 50 years.

C．They often play tennis together.

9．Which saying best explains Grandma’s secret of being healthy?

A．You are what you eat.

B．Laughter is the best medicine.

C．One is never too old to learn

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．Who is the girl?

A．The leader of a soccer team

B．A university student.

C．A professional soccer star

11．What is the man’s opinion of the girl?

A．She is too modest.

B．She sets a good example for others.

C．She needs to work harder.

12．What will the girl do this summer ?

A．Be trained abroad

B．Study Italian

C．Play in some matches at home

听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13．What has the man done about his back?

A．He walks for an hour or so every day.

B．He has taken some medicine

C．He has eaten some candy

14．Why hasn’t the man been to the doctor ?

A．Because of the bad weather.

B．Because of the trouble and the cost.

C．Because his pain hasn’t been bad.

15．What will the speakers do next?

A．Call a taxi. B．Get the bus. C．Drive to the hospital.

16．What do we know about the woman ?

A．She is kind-hearted. B．She is troublesome. C．She is a doctor

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．What does the report say about the truck crash in Mexico City?

A．It caused several deaths

B．It caused a heavy traffic jam

C．It was the only crash caused by the fog.

18．What did the city officials in Los Angeles do ?

A．They turned off the water supply.

B．They told people to stay in cool places.

C．They asked people to limit their water use

19．How is the weather in London ?

A．Hot B．Wet C．Windy

20．What is the suggestion to the people in Shanghai ?

A．Avoid staying in tall buildings.

B．Avoid staying outside.

C．Stay away from the downtown area.

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

A

When I was a boy my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to．Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city．and so he did．

When I was 16，dad looked closely at the violin I played and said that he wanted to make one．He read about violinmaking，and then became a violinmaker at the age of 43．He bought the tools and materials，opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper，while he worked at a local company．He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments．

Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sounded so beautiful．Some experts told him that it was the special varnish(油漆)that gave the instruments their beautiful sound．Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish—if that was the answer．

One of Dad’s friends asked him which kind of wood was used to make violins．When dad explained that the top was made of spruce(云杉)，his friend said that he had all old piece of spruce which dad might be interested in．

He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him．It proved to be an excellent violin and it would become Dad’s masterpiece．He believed that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself．

Later, the instrument was stolen． Dad’s spirit was broken and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old，selling guitars and violins．

The violin has been missing for more than 25 years．Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone．The owner today may never understand why this Ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius．

21．In Paragraph l，the writer mentioned his father's developing color prints to ．

A．let others know that he believed his father

B．show that his father would like to make violins

C．prove that his father could do anything he wanted to

D．give an example showing that his father was an inventor

22．What did the writer's father think about Stradivarius violins?

A．They were made by experts．

B．The wood of the violins was special．

C．The way of making them was unusual．

D．The varnish was different from the others．

23．From the underlined sentence，we learn that the writer's father ．

A．found another new job

B．wanted to become famous

C．lost interest in instruments

D．liked the violin very much

24．What could be the best title of the passage?

A．My Experienced Father B．My Father and His Violin

C．The Secret of Making Violins D．The New Owner of the Violin

B

A supermarket checkout operator was praised for striking a blow for modern manners and a return to the age of politeness after refusing to serve a shopper who was talking on her mobile phone.

The supermarket manager was forced to apologize to the customer who complained she was told her goods would not be scanned unless she hung up her phone. Jo Clark, 46, said, “I don't know what she was playing at. I couldn’t believe how rude she was. When did she have the right to give me a lecture on checkout manners? I won’t be shopping there again!”

But users of social media sites and Internet forums(论坛) were very angry that store gave in and the public appeared to be supporting the angry checkout worker. “Perhaps this is a turning point for mobile phone users everywhere. When chatting, keep your eyes on people around you. That includes people trying to serve you, other road users and especially people behind you in the stairs,” said a typical post.

“It’s time checkout staff fought back against these people constantly chatting on their phones. They can drive anyone crazy. It’s rude and annoying. I often want to grab someone’s phone and throw it as far as I can, even though I am not a checkout girl, just a passer-by,” said another.

Siobhan Freegard, founder of parenting site www. Netmums.com said, “While this checkout operator doesn’t have the authority to order customers to switch off their phones, you can see clearly how frustrated and angry she felt. No matter how busy you are, life is nicer when you and those around you have good manners.”

25．According to Jo Clark, the checkout operator_____________.

A．lacked the knowledge of checkout manners

B．played with a mobile phone while at work

C．had no right to forbid her from using her mobile phone

D．deserved praise for her modern manners

26．The third and fourth paragraphs imply that the public_________.

A．are used to chatting on their mobile phones

B．are driven crazy by constant mobile calls

C．ignore the existence of mobile phone users

D．seem to support the checkout operator

27．The attitude of Siobhan Freegard towards the checkout operator was________.

A．disapproving B．supportive C．neutral(中立的) D．indifferent

28．The passage is mainly about _________.

A．whether we should talk on our phones while being served

B．why we can talk on mobile phones while shopping

C．what good manners checkout operators should have

D．how we can develop good manners for mobile phone users

C

Alibaba started taking the lead in China by connecting big Chinese manufacturers(制造商) with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba.com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to judge: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its market attracts 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year — and Alibaba is just the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets — not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.

If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “You’re looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ” my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.

Alibaba’s original business-to-business model now is second to consumer buying. Chinese retail(零售) buying makes up 80% of Alibaba’s profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things you’ll ever find. TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.

What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U.S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping — big-box retailers especially —in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.

I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a s