2015～2016学年第一学期高三第五次模拟考试

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,共150分,考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷

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，从每题所给的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 is the boy doing?

A. Shopping. B. Having dinner. C. Watching TV.

2．Who is the woman?

A. A driver. B. A policewoman. C. A passer-by.

3. Where does the man suggest going?

A. The cinema. B. The museum. C. The gallery.

4. What are the speakers doing?

A. Having a drink. B. Jogging. C. Working.

5. Why was the movie cancelled?

A．The weather is bad．

B. No enough tickets were sold.

C. Another movie is being shown instead.

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、7题。

6．What day is it today?

A. Tuesday. B. Wednesday. C. Thursday.

7. When does American History start today?

A. At 8:00 a.m. B. At 9:00 a.m. C. At 2:00 p.m.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the woman prefer to read?

A. Classics. B. Modern novels. C. Modern poems.

9. Why is the woman fond of The Catcher in the Rye?

A. It is popular among young people. B. It represents different values.

C. The content is great.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What matters most in the restaurant business according to the man?

A. Having good assistant chefs.

B. Knowing what the best ingredients are.[.]

C. Having good relationships with food suppliers.

11. What does the man do on a typical day?

A. He goes to different markets to buy ingredients.

B. He only buys ingredients for three or four dishes.

C. He goes to every single market in town to find the best food.

12. What is the food probably like in the man's restaurant?

A. It is always fresh and creative.

B. It is mostly the same throughout the year.

C. A special menu is served at a fixed time.

听第9段材料,回答第 13至 16题。

13. Who are the speakers talking about?

A. The woman's pet. B. Their daughter. C. Their neighbor's child.

14. What will the speakers do?

A. Ask their neighbor. B. Send for a doctor. C. Take care of Lily at home.

15. How did Lily probably get sick?

A. She ate something bad.

B. She touched something dirty.

C. She picked up stuff at the hospital.

16. What did Lily have two weeks ago?

A. A disease. B. An examination. C. An accident.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When did Choset begin to build mobile robots?

A. In middle school. B. In high school. C. In college.

18. What did Choset study in college?

A. Computer science B. Engineering. C. Architecture.

19. What were Choset's classmates in college working on?

A. Toy cars. B. Humanlike robots. C. Robotic snakes.

20. What is the special feature of Choset's snake robots?

A. They can go where people can't.

B. They can injure a person if they bite them.

C. They can help people keep away from natural disasters.

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

People in the western state of California who are in the United States illegally can now request a driver's license. The law went into effect on January 1. California is not the first American state with such a law, but it has the largest number of illegal immigrants. More than a million people began to request licenses shortly after the new state law went into effect. Among them was Christian Alvarado. Mr. Alvarado entered the United States from El Salvador eight years ago without permission from the U.S. government. Some call such people "illegal immigrants." Others call them "undocumented immigrants".

Mr. Alvarado thinks it so exciting, for he has been waiting for the license for a long time. But some are worried that their personal information will be used to find them and deport them. Armando Botello is a spokesman for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, or DMV. He says people should not be afraid, for such information will not be shared.

The new licenses are the same as licenses given to citizens except that they have the words "Federal Limits Apply". That means the license cannot be used to travel on an airplane or enter a federal building. Ana Garcia, working at the Central American Resource Center, says some illegal immigrants fear those words will be used to abuse them. Civil rights groups say the police and others will not.

Dan Schnur, a political scientist at the University of Southern California, said that the main argument against the new law is that it rewards illegal behavior. But Professor Schnur argued that young, white Americans generally support immigration reform, including giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants

"It's simply because they grow up in a much more multicultural society than their parents or their grandparents did." Professor Schnur says he believes the changes in beliefs about illegal immigrants that have taken place in California will spread throughout the United States.

21. Why did the new law make Mr. Alvarado excited?

A. Because he can request a driver's license.

B. Because he became a legal immigrant of California.

C. Because he got his driving license as an illegal immigrant.

D. Because a law went into effect for the new immigrants.

22. What is the difference of the new licenses compared to those given to citizens?

A. The words “Federal Limits Apply” will abuse illegal immigrants

B. They can't be used to travel on an airplane or enter a federal building.

C. They can be used to act against the police and other people.

D. With the words "Federal Limits Apply", immigrants can enjoy special rights.

23. What's the public's attitude towards the new law released on January 1 in California?

A. supportive B. negative C. neutral D. controversial

B

When I was nine years old, I loved to go fishing with my dad. But the only thing that wasn’t very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn’t catch anything. I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why. He always answered, “Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish.” I remember being even more upset then because, “I’m not a fish!” I didn’t know how to think like a fish. Besides, I reasoned, how could what I think influence what a fish does?

As I got a little older I began to understand what my dad really meant. So, I read some books on fish. And I even joined the local fishing club and started attending the monthly meetings. I learned that a fish is a cold-blooded animal and therefore is very sensitive to water temperature. That is why fish prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer. Besides, water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the shade. Yet, fish don’t have any eyelids and the sun hurts their eyes. The more I understood fish, the more I became effective at finding and catching them.

When I grew up and entered the business world, I remember hearing my first boss say, “We all need to think like salespeople.” But it didn’t completely make sense. My dad never once said “If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman.” What he said was, “You need to think like a fish.” Years later, with great efforts to promote long-term services to people much older and richer than me, I gradually learned what we all need is to think more like customers. It is not an easy job. I will show you how in the following chapters.

24. Why was the author upset in the fishing trips when he was nine?

A. He could not catch a fish. B. His father was not patient with him.

C. His father didn’t teach him fishing. D. He could not influence a fish as his father did.

25. What did the author’s father really mean?

A. To read about fish. B. To love fishing.

C. To go fishing usually. D. To study fishing in many ways.

26. According to the author, fish are most likely to be found .

A. in deep water on sunny days B. in deep water on cloudy days

C. in shallow water under sunlight D. in shallow water under waterside trees

27. After entering the business world, the author found .

A. it easy to think like a customer B. his father’s fishing advice inspiring

C. his first boss’s sales ideas reasonable D. it difficult to sell services to poor people

C

We all know what a brain is. A doctor will tell you that the brain is the organ of the body in the head. It controls our body’s functions, movements, emotions and thoughts. But a brain can mean so much more.

A brain can also simply be a smart person. If a person is called brainy, she is smart and intelligent. If a family has many children but one of them is super smart, you could say “She’s the brains in the family.” And if you are the brains behind something, you are responsible for developing or organizing it. For example, Bill Gates is the brains behind Microsoft.

Brain trust is a group of experts who give advice. Word experts say the phrase “brain trust” became popular when Franklin D. Roosevelt first ran for president in 1932. Several professors gave him advice on social and political issues facing the U.S. These professors were called his “brain trust.”

These ways we use the word “brain” all make sense. But other ways we use the word are not so easy to understand. For example, to understand the next brain expression, you first need to know the word “drain”. As a verb, to drain means to remove something by letting it flow away. So a brain drain may sound like a disease where the brain flows out the ears. But, brain drain is when a country’s most educated people leave their countries to live in another. The brains are, sort of, draining out of the country.

However, if people are responsible for a great idea, you could say they brainstormed it. Here, brainstorm is not an act of weather. It is a process of thinking creatively about a complex topic. For example, business leaders may use brainst