南昌二中2015—2016学年度上学期第四次考试

高三英语试卷

第一部分 听力

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 will the speakers do today?

A. Tour around the city.

B. Buy a train ticket.

C. Visit a park.

2. What did the woman do last weekend?

A. She went on a trip.

B. She cleaned her kitchen.

C. She moved to a new apartment.

3. Where did the man work part time?

A. In a bank.

B. In a post office.

C. In a department store.

4. What is the man doing?

A. Taking an exam.

B. Reading a book.

C. Having a class.

5. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a library.

B. In a concert.

C. In a store.

第二节

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,各小题将给出 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 are the speakers talking about in general?

A. The man’s children.

B. Their team members.

C. A famous athlete.

7. What team is Patricia on?

A. The swim team.

B. The basketball team.

C. The dancing team.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. What is the relationship between the speakers?[:]

A. Father and daughter.

B. Husband and wife.

C. Brother and sister.

9. What will the speakers do tomorrow?

A. Tidy up the garage.

B. Clean up the backyard.

C. Go to the supermarket.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

10. Why does the woman ask for the man’s home phone number?

A. To invite him to dinner.

B. To stop him from calling her.

C. To make sure she can reach him.

11. How does the woman feel about the man?

A. Grateful.

B. Curious.

C. Impatient.

12. What is the woman doing?

A. Having dinner.

B. Doing exercise.

C. Watching a diet programme.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. How many questions does the man ask?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.

14. What equipment in the kitchen uses the most energy?

A. The stove.

B. The refrigerator.

C. The dish washer.

15. What can people do to help with the environment?

A. Drive the car within the speed limit.

B. Buy a new car instead of a used car.

C. Stop buying The New York Times.

16. What do we know about Sally?

A. She knows a lot about environmental issues.

B. She likes reading newspapers.

C. She doesn’t win the prize.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What is the main purpose of offering students many extra activities?

A. To offer them a chance to know about the society.

B. To help them prepare for their adult lives.

C. To get them interested in their studies.

18. What can sports help students develop?

A. Close teamwork.

B. Competition spirits.

C. Organizing ability.

19. What does Mr. Smith call on students to do?

A. Give money to the poor.

B. Make every effort to gain satisfaction.

C. Offer time and attention to people in need.

20. What can listeners find on Oxford University’s website?

A. Advice on extra activities.

B. Community service information.

C. Further information on this interview.

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

What is a six-letter word that immediately comes to mind when you need some information on the Internet? You probably thought of Google. But Google wasn’t always the name of the famous search engine. In fact, the original name was BackRub!

BackRub was the name two graduate students gave to the new search engine they developed in 1996. They called it BackRub because the engine used backlinks to measure the popularity of Web sites. Later, they wanted a better name — a name that suggests huge quantities of data. They thought of the word googol. (A googol is a number followed by 100 zeros.) When they checked the Internet registry of names to see if googol was already taken, one of the students misspelled the word by mistake, and that’s how Google was born.

Google is just one example of a name change in the business world. Many other companies have decided to change their names or the names of their products. Here are some more examples:

Jerry Yang and David Filo, two young computer specialists, developed a guide to Internet content in 1994. They called it “Jerry and David’s Guide to World Wide Web.” But they soon realized that this wasn’t a very catchy name, so they searched through a dictionary and found a better one: “Yahoo.”

Sometimes companies change their names because of the popularity of one of their products. In 1962, a young runner named Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1971, Knight decided to design and manufacture his own brand of shoes. He named the shoes after the Greek goddess of victory — Nike. Nike shoes became so well known that Knight changed the name of the whole company to Nike.

21. According to the text, Google .

A．has been famous since 1996.

B．is a result of a spelling mistake.

C．means a number followed by 100 zeros.

D．is the original name of the search engine,

22. Jerry and David changed the guide’s name to Yahoo because the original name .

A．had been registered

B．had been forgotten

C．was too short

D．was not attractive

23. The company Nike got its name from .

A．its founders

B．its customers

C．its popular products

D．its advanced techniques

B

Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir（轰动）in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars. Newspapers across the country carried the story, and the painting of a farmer and a younger woman posed before a white house brought the artist instant fame.

In 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, noticed a small white house built in the small southern Iowa town of Eldon. Wood was so fascinated by it that he decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he thought should live in that house. In the painting, the farmer is modeled on his dentist. Dr. Byron McKeeby. His younger sister Nan served as a model for the woman （imagined to be the farmer’s wife or daughter）. Wood wanted to give a description of the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork symbolizing hard labor. Each element was painted separately; the models sat separately and never stood in front of the house. The Gothic style of the house inspired the painting’s title.

American Gothic remains one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting has become part of American popular culture. Some believe that Wood used it to satirize（讽刺） the narrow-mindedness that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture. The painting may also be read as a praise of the moral virtue or rural America or even as a mixture of praise and satire. American Gothic is one of the few images to reach the status of cultural symbol, along with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

24. Which of the following is true about American Gothic?

A．It won a prize of 300 pounds.

B．The two characters in it posed before the White House.:]

C．It was the first painting by Grant Wood.

D．It was on show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.

25. From the passage we can infer Iowa is in __________.

A．the southern town of Eldon

B．the Midwest of the United States

C．a European country

D．the city of Chicago

26. Grant Wood chose the two models __________.

A．to describe traditional roles of men and women

B．to praise the moral virtue of rural America

C．to make his dentist and his sister famous

D．to carry the story across the countryZxxkCom

27. The title of the painting is based on __________.

A．the name of a small town

B．the man and the woman

C．the style of the house

D．the pitchfork symbolizing hard labor

C

Soup on my nose, a nearly spilled glass of wine and chocolate down my white blouse, as blind dates suggest, this was a really messy one. I have never made so much noise with plates and glasses, nor had I dined with a never-before-met companion. This blind date was quite different: we could see nothing. "Put your left hand on my shoulder, and then we'll take small steps forward," said Michael, the visually impaired(视力障碍的) server, in an East London accent. We three felt our way carefully bumping past heavy curtains before being arranged at the dining table, where we would eat and drink three completely secret and unseen courses.

Welcome to Alchemy in the Dark, Hong Kong's first full-time restaurant in total darkness. Upon arrival, diners briefly tell the chef on their allergies(过敏性反应), lock away their mobile phones and enter the windowless restaurant, which can seat 25. When the meal is over, the contents of the delicious menu are shown --- often to the diners' surprise. "This is definitely duck," my friend said, while eating chicken. "This soup," I declared, "is carrot and coriander." Even the too-close smell did not reveal the real tomato and cumin flavors. Dining in the dark changes everything: the sense of smell is heightened, manners go out of the window ----using your hands to feel around the plate becomes normal--- and there is a strange thrill in being able to ignore your facial expressions. Best of all? You don't have to spend hours beforehand(事先) wondering what to wear.

Alchemy in the Dark is at 16 Arbuthnot Road, Central, (tel: 6821 2801) and is open Monday to Saturday, from 7pm to 11pm. Reservations are required. A three-course meal with wine pairing costs HK$700 per person. Five per cent of all profits go to the Hong Kong Society for the Blind.

28. How did the author and her companion arrive at their dining table?

A. By using a map

B. By being led

C. By feeling their way.

D. By finding it by themselves

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

A. The diners might eat what they are allergic to.

B. The author enjoyed a special lunch at Alchemy in the Dark.

C. The restaurant donated some money to the H. K Society for the Blind.

D. The diners aren’t al