2015—2016学年度第二学期考试

高三年级校二模英语试卷

命题人：高三英语备课组

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 girl make today?

A. A paper cup B. A paper vase C. A paper flower

2. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At home. B. In an office. C. In a store.

3. What does the man suggest they do?

A. Ask the school radio station for help.

B. Find an advertising company.

C. Hold a charity concert.

4. Where did the woman find the TV guide?

A. On the TV set. B. Under the sofa. C. By the telephone.

5. What did Tony do last month?

A. He saved a child.

B. He saved an old man.

C. He caught a criminal.

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 do we know about the girl?

A. She comes to school late.

B. She has finished reviewing.

C. She missed some classes.

7. What does the girl hope to do?

A. Pass this course. B. Get financial support. C. Work even harder.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. When did the woman send the package?

A. About three days ago. B. About a week ago. C. About ten days ago.

9. What has happened to the package?

A. It is broken.

B. It didn't go out.

C. It hasn't arrived.

听第8段材料，回答第10 至12题。

10. What is the man making an ad for?

A. A company. B. A festival. C. A party.

11. What does the woman think of ads?

A. She hates them.

B. She likes them.

C. She doesn’t mind them.

12. What are advertising rules like in the US?

A. Strict. B. Misleading C. Flexible.

听第9段材料，回答第13 至16题。

13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Teacher and student.

B. Boss and employee.

C. Husband and wife.

14. When will they go on a vacation?

A. This Thursday. B. Next Thursday. C. At the end of the month.

15. Why don’t they go to New York?

A. It's too expensive. B. It's too cold there. C. They've been there before.

16. What will the man do later?

A. Make a phone call.

B. Find out the skiing season.

C. Look for a hotel.

听第10段材料，回答第17 至20题。

17. What do these students need to do?

A. Pay for heating costs.

B. Move their belongings.

C. Clean the Butler Hall.

18. When will the dorms reopen?

A. At 5 pm, on Feb. 7th.

B. At 5 pm, on Feb. 16th.

C. At 6 pm, on Feb. 1 6th.

19. Where can students go during the break?

A. To the college store.

B. To the computer center.

C. To the dining hall.

20. Why won't some students leave campus?

A. To go on studying.

B. To work on campus.

C. To finish their paper.

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）

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

Have you ever heard of an old saying? Intelligence is a born ability while goodness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choice．

2l.What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?

A. His dream of being an inventor.

B. The support of his wife.

C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.

D. Millions of exciting titles.

22. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?

A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

B. He would be very excited if he tried it out.

C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.

D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

23. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A Cleverness and Kindness

B. The Starting of Amazon

C. Following My Passion

D. We Are What We Choose

24. We can know from the passage that_______

A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author

B. the author wanted someone else to try the idea

C. the author might not regret if he failed the idea

D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed

B

With the development of modern society, human beings are increasingly invading wild animals’ habitat as well as the wild plants’. Nearly a third of the world’s cacti (仙人掌 ) are facing the threat of extinction, according to a shocking global assessment of the effects.

Cacti are an important provider of food and water to desert wildlife ranging from wolves and deer to tortoises, bats and birds, and these fauna spread the plants’ seeds in return.

But the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s first worldwide health check of the plants says that they are coming under huge pressure from human activities such as land use changes, commercial and residential developments and shrimp farming. But the paper said the driver of cacti species extinction was the “uncontrolled collection of live plants and private decorating collections, and annual agriculture.”

The findings were described as “disturbing” by Inger Anderson, the IUCN’s director-general. “They confirm that the scale of the illegal wildlife trade, including the trade in plants is much greater than we had previously thought, and that wildlife illegal trade concerns many more species than the elephants which tend to receive global attention.”

Cacti are almost always delicious but unlike most others, they store water in their stems alone, enabling them to survive extreme draughts. The plants can be as small as one centimeter in diameter and grow above 19 meters in height. Well over half of the species are used by humans for display decoration, food or medicine. Almost 1,500 types of cacti were surveyed by the IUCN specialists over a five-year period, mostly in America.

Dealing with the illegal trade is a hard task as they can be hidden in suitcases or even socks. While countries such as Peru have made progress in blocking the illegal trade, the IUCN is calling for more strictly carrying out the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in the “hotspots” of Uruguay, Brazil and Chile. Mexico has made advances but still has work to do, according to Goettsch.

25. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

A. What causes cacti species extinction B. What gives people pressure

C. What IUCN has found D. What farmers have planted

26. In Inger Anderson’s opinion, ________.

á. the findings of the IUCN are not disturbing

B. the illegal plant trade is less serious than we had thought

C. cacti have received much global attention

D. the illegal plant trade threatens lots of wildlife

27. Why is it hard to fight against cacti trade?

A. Because cacti can be made into socks.

B. Because cacti are easy to carry secretly.

C. Because many countries carry out Cites strictly.

D. Because some countries made advances to trade cacti.

C

It is widely acknowledged that nearly every kid might come across some kind of school bullying, however, the age at which kids first fall victim to bullying (欺侮) could influence how strongly they are affected, suggests a new study. And, surprisingly, it is not the youngest kids who are hurt the most in the long term.

Bullying can have long-lasting effects, but particularly when it begins in adolescence, the researchers say. people subjected to either verbal ( 口头的) or physical bullying are known to be at greater risk of developing depression, anxiety disorders or to behave violently. But not everyone reacts in this way.

Children bullied for the first time before they hit adolescence seem to get over it, but those who are bullied for the first time later on in adolescence seem to become more aggressive or are more likely to turn to drink as the conclusions of psychologist Matthew Newman and colleagues of Texas at Austin, US.

The team gave questionnaires to nearly 1,500 college students regarding their experience of physical and psychological bullying before adolescence- before high school- and in late adolescence- at high school. They assessed mood and mental state, judging by signs of anxiety or depression, such as sleeplessness. The group was also questioned about how they would react to certain challenges, such as humiliation.

People who were bullied all revealed slightly higher levels of stress. But while those bullied earlier in life seemed to respond normally to provocation (煽动), people bullied for the first time late in adolescence are more withdrawn and sensitive to violence.

There are also sex differences between those