日照第一中学2016届高三下学期教学质量检测（八）

英 语 试 题

第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共100分）

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。

1. What do we know about the weather?

A. It’s cold. B. It’s warm. C. It’s cool.

2. What does the man mean?

A. His wife likes watching CCTV5.

B. His wife’s tears are really exciting.

C. The programs often make his wife very excited.

3. Who will be taken there?

A. Alice. B. Jack. C. Eric.

4. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. Linda left here half a year ago.

B. The woman has covered a long way.

C. Linda has lived here for half a year.

5. How does the woman probably feel?

A. Regretful. B. Happy. C. Disappointed.

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8题。

6. What's the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Waiter and customer. B. Passenger and conductor. C. Shop assistant and customer.

7. What does the woman prefer?

A. Wool gloves. B. Leather gloves. C. Fur gloves.

8. What can we know about the woman?

A. The woman bought a pair of gloves.

B. The woman didn’t buy anything.

C. The woman bought a pair of glasses．

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A basketball match. B. A football match. C. A volleyball match.

10. Who scored all the goals?

A. Rudolf. B. Steven. C. Geoff.

11. Why didn’t the man score any goals?

A. He didn’t enter the game. B. His ankle was hurt. C. He was a new member.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What should the girl do first before she goes out to play?

A. Housework. B. Homework. C. Nothing.

What does the girl want to do?

A. Clean the bathroom and the toilet. B. Scrub the bathtub. C. Clean the family room.

What’s the man’s work?

A. Cleaning rooms. B. Cleaning the yard. C. Preparing lunch.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

What’s the man’s unpleasant situation?

A. He wonders whether to go to New Zealand or not.

B. He couldn’t get the scholarship.

C. His girl friend wants to break up with him.

Why didn’t the woman accept the job in Thailand?

A. She didn’t like the job. B. She didn’t like Thailand. C. Her husband didn’t like the idea.

What did the woman advise the man to do?

A. He should give up the idea.

B. He should go to the university.

C. He should go somewhere else.c

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

What will the young elephant’s mother do after they part?

A. Return to her normal life. B. Return to the forest. C. Return to school.

How long does the elephant school take?

A. 7 months. B. 8 months. C. 9 months.

Why are the young elephants trained?

A. To adapt to the life there. B. To attend school. C. To put on performances.

第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，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

When you're on the go, your best friend and resource can be your phone. In the age of smart phones, apps are like guiding stars: They can point you in the right direction for a hotel, list expenses, send postcards, and much more. When used together, these apps can be the basic travel tool, placing a wealth of information at your fingertips no matter where you are on the planet.?U.S. News?Travel?has picked the essential travel apps, known for their utility and reliability. Best of all, they cost absolutely nothing.

Trip It

Your Personal Travel Agent

Be your own travel agent and plan every detail of your trip—from car rental to accommodating restaurants—with?Trip It. You can make travel schedule by hand, or simply forward the email confirmations of your flight, rental car, train tickets, and hotels to plans.

Weather Free

Your Go-To Meteorologist(气象学者)

Stop trying to explain the weather forecast on the evening news (particularly when it's in a foreign language). The?Weather Free?app informs you (in English) of the climate in various locations. It features the local weather, and other key factors that will inform your decision about what to wear before stepping outside.

Goby

Your Event Guru

When you're in a foreign city, you sometimes look around and ask: Where are all the people? Goby?has the answer. This app pinpoints(定位) the neighborhood hot spots (including museums, hotels, eateries, and more) in your neighborhood. But its true value comes in finding nearby events. You'll discover concerts, plays, and more right around the corner.

21. What is the advantage of using travel apps picked by the U.S. News?Travel?

A. They can solve any problem you come across. B. They reduce your travel budget.

C. They exercise your fingertips. D. They are reliable and free of charge.

22. With the help of the travel apps used together, travelers can do the following things EXCEPT__________.

A. rent a car B. decide what to wear

C. look for a friend while traveling D. find the nearby museums

23. Where are the readers likely to read the passage above?

A. In a geography textbook B. In a science and technology magazine

C. On a popular website D. In a business report

B

Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. “Yes, honey. Of course.” she said.

“Can we write him a letter?”

She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, “Yes.”

My heart jumped. “How? Does the mailman go there?” I asked.

“No, but I have an idea.” Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.

“Just wait, honey. You’ll see.” Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.

She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.

“Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three.”

The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.

Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he’d persevere, hang on, and finally transcend(超越) this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon.

24. When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother ______.

A. found it easy to lie B. thought her a creative girl

C. believed it easy to do so D. felt it hard to answer

25. When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she ______.

A. became excited B. jumped with joy

C. started writing immediately D. was worried that it couldn’t be delivered

26. In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?

A. An incurable disease. B. An unforgettable memory.

C. The failures her father experienced. D. The hard time her father had.

27. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. An unforgettable experience B. Fly to paradise

C. The strong red balloon D. A great father

C

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. www.sdzxlm.com

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.

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

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

29. According to the text the greatest advantage of Windows 8 is its ______.

A. high speed B. complex passwords

C. unique experience D. new interface

30. From the text we can learn