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银川二中2015-2016第一学期高三年级统练五英语试题

本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)。

第 I 卷

注意事项∶

1.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，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

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。

例：How much is the shirt? A. ￡19.15.?? B. ￡9.18. ? C.￡9.15.?

答案是 C。

1. What is the man probably going to do?

A. Cook the food. B. Clean the kitchen. C. Lay the table.

2. Why is the woman so tired?

A. She celebrated a festival.

B. She took some kids to dinner.

C. She helped her neighbor with work.

3. How much will the man pay?

A. $ 5.50. B. $ 13. C. $ 11.

4. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Charge her cellphone.

B. Use his sister’s cellphone.

C. Ask her sister for help.

5. Which subject was the woman poor at in school?

A. Chinese. B. Physics. C. Biology.

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 day is it probably today?

A. Monday. B. Saturday. C. Sunday.

7. What will the man probably do?

A. Borrow the woman’s computer.

B. Go to the library to finish the paper.

C. Have the woman take care of his sister.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At a graduation ceremony.

B. At a welcome party.

C. At a job interview.

9. What are the two speakers going to do next?

A. Say goodbye to their parents.

B. Listen to the president’s speech.

C. Receive their diplomas and degree certificates.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where will the two speakers have a snack?

A. Outside the church. B. On the hill top. C. At the car park.

11. Where is the old church?

A. Near the waterfall. B. Behind the park. C. At the foot of the hill.

12. What are the two speakers doing?

A. Planning their route. B. Doing mountain biking. C. Having a picnic.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How long is the registration period?

A. 30 minutes. B. 45 minutes. C. 65 minutes.

14. Why does the meeting’s ending time need to be changed?

A. There isn’t a room available at that time.

B. A speaker is coming to address the students.

C. Language testing will take longer than expected.

15. When will the campus tour end?

A. At 1:30pm. B. At 2:00pm. C. At 2:15pm.

16. What will the students do around 2:45?

A. Have the oral interviews.

B. Do some after-class activities.

C. Have lunch with the teachers.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When was the construction of the Hong Kong Space Museum finished?

A. In 1977. B. In 1978. C. In 1980.

18. What made the museum one of the most famous landmarks in Hong Kong?

A. Its special location. B. Its good service. C. Its unique roof.

19. Which of the following is beneath the east wing of the museum?

A. The Hall of Space Science.

B. The Hall of Astronomy.

C. The Lecture Hall.

20. What do we know about the museum?

A. It has three thematic exhibition halls.

B. It has a fully automatic control system.

C. It holds astronomy competitions every two years.

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

Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Odland can not get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction. She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odland. “It is OK. It wasn’t your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odland isn’t the only CEO to have made this discovery. Instead, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It’s hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could buy this place and fire you,” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management. “A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables.”

What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress?

A. He was fired. B. He was blamed.

C. The woman comforted him. D. The woman left the restaurant at once.

Odland learned one of his life lessons from .

A. his experience as a waiter B. the advice given by the CEOs

C. an article in Fortune D. an interesting best-selling book

According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about ________.

A. Fortune 500 companies B. the Management Rules

C. Swanson’s book D. the Waiter Rule

From the text we can learn that ________.

A. one should be nicer to important people

B. CEOs often show their power before others

C. one should respect others no matter who they are

D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants

B

Windows 8, apart from Windows 95, is the biggest surprise and the only version of Microsoft’ s operating system that has been changed from the core（核心）when compared to its former one. However, a recent study has shown that under 20% of business owners would be willing to upgrade to the new version of Windows. The reason for this remains to be discussed and debated, and we will try to throw light on this research by providing you with some of the most common advantages and disadvantages of Windows 8.

Generally speaking, there are a great number of?plus sides?related to upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8.

Speed — This is the biggest advantage to mention. Boot time has been reported to be up to nine times shorter than that with Windows 7.

New passwords — Instead of typing your passwords, Windows 8 will let you use gestures on your favorite photos to enter your password. This is not only practical but also extremely cool!

Windows 8 experience — Apart from computers, Windows 8 will be used on all devices, including smart phones, tablet PC’s and so on. Also, owing to the fact that it has been specifically designed with touch screen users in mind, Windows 8, besides using keyboard and mouse, will offer a whole new user experience.

However, there are still some disadvantages.

The first one that has to be mentioned is that there is no Start Menu from Windows. Yes, there is no Start button in the lower left corner, and this might be a real puzzle of many Windows users. Also, many users have had a problem to get used to the new interface（界面）introduced by Windows 8. The biggest problem that is worth noticing is that Windows 8 was originally designed for touch screen users, and this may have a bad effect on desktop users who have gotten used to doing everything with the help of their keyboard and mouse.

25. What does “plus sides” in Paragraph 2 probably refer to?

A. Math symbols. B. Strengths.? C. New rules. D. Messages.

26. The most attractive aspect of Windows 8 is its .

A. fast rate B. complex passwords C. unique experience D. new interface

27. From the text we can learn that Windows 8 .

A. no longer requires a password B. was upgraded from windows 95?

C. will be popular with desktop users D. can be used on more than computers

28. Many Windows 8 users will face the problem that .

A. they don’t get accustomed to the new interface

B. they have to use fingerprints instead of buttons

C. keyboard and mouse can’t be used any longer

D. Start Menu is hidden in the lower left corner

C

The largest land animal remaining on the earth, the African elephant is of much importance to African ecosystem. Unlike other animals, the African elephant is to a great extent the builder of its environment. As a giant plant-eater, it significantly shapes the forest-and-savanna (大草原) surroundings in which it lives, therefore deciding the conditions of existence for millions of other animals that live in its habitat.

It is the elephant’s great desire for food that makes it both a disturber of the environment and an important builder of its habitat. In its continuous search for the 300 pounds of plants it must have every day, it kills small trees and underbushes, as well as pulls branches off big trees. This results in numerous open spaces in not only deep tropical forests but also the woodlands that cover part of the African savannas. In these open spaces are numerous plants in various stages of growth, which attract a variety of other plant-eaters.

Take the rain forests for example. In their natural state, the spreading branches overhead shut out sunlight and prevent the growth of plants on the forest floor. By pulling down trees and eating plants, elephants create open spaces, allowing new plants to grow on the forest floor. In such situations, the forests become suitable for large-hoofed plant-eaters to move around and for small-sized plant-eaters to obtain their food as well.

Scientists are worried n