四川省双流中学2014级高三（上）9月考试题

英 语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。第I卷（选择题）1至8页，第II卷（非选择题）第9至10页，共10页；满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1. 答题前，务必将自己的姓名、考籍号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。

2. 答选择题时，务必使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

3. 答非选择题时，务必使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定位置上。

4. 所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试卷上答题无效。

5. 考试结束后，只将答题卡交回。

第I卷（100分）

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 man buy for the woman?

A. Notebooks. B. Paper. C. Pencils.

2. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a bookstore. B. In a library. C. In the woman’s office.

3. Why will Mr. Rogers be out of the office next week?

A. To take a holiday. B. To attend a wedding. C. To travel on business.

4. What does the man mean?

A. The woman can’t leave early.

B. He’ll pick up the woman’s parents.

C. Mr. Black won’t come at 4 o’clock.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A lift worker. B. The man’s sister. C. A lift accident.

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、7题。

6. Why did Gareth Jones quit the game halfway?

A. He got hurt. B. He was too tired. C. He broke match rules.

7. What will the speakers do next Saturday?

A. Visit Gareth. B. Watch a game. C. Play a match.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What impressed the man most?

A. The plot. B. The main performers. C. The songs.

9. What do we know about the musical?

A. The woman has seen it.

B. The writer won awards for it.

C. People speak highly of its plot.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What did the woman think of the house owner?

A. Kind. B. Cold. C. Serious.

11. Why did the woman leave the flat?

A. The rent was high. B. The room was too cold. C. The neighbors were noisy.

12. How did the woman’s neighbor act when they met one morning?

A. Angrily. B. Sadly. C. Dishonestly.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How high does the woman need to climb for the walking?

A. 1,500 meters. B. 2,000 meters. C. 4,000 meters.

14. How did the woman prepare for the walking?

A. She slept out in the tent in winter.

B. She climbed a 4,000-meter high mountain.

C. She took long walks through the hills daily.

15. What did the woman think of the walking?

A. It was hard but enjoyable.

B. It was difficult and tiresome.

C. It was wonderful and smooth.

16. What was the most exciting moment during the walking?

A. Watching the sunset.

B. Seeing the ruined buildings.

C. Walking through the Sun Gate.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How long does the break in Barcelona last?

A. Two nights. B. Three nights. C. Seven nights.

18. What costs extra money for the Barcelona break?

A. Flights. B. Breakfast. C. Evening meals.

19. On what can visitors get discounts with a discount card?

A. All the city sights. B. Some restaurants. C. 5-star hotels.

20. When is the deadline of the booking for the Barcelona break?

A. September 30. th B. October 5.th C. October 31.st

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

Cleverness is a gift while kindness 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 1ogic 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．

21．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

B

Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.

I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.

Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.

After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me. Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.

24. What do we know about the author?

A. His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge.

B. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.

C. He took pride in having contributed to the world.

D. He felt honored to study English literature.

25. According to Paragraph 2, it is most likely that the author __________.

A. discussed his decision with his family

B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work

C. attended special training to perform difficult tasks

D. felt frightened about having to leave his family and friends

26. In his application for the volunteer job, the author ___________.

A. participated in many discussions

B. went through challenging survival tests

C. wrote quite a few papers on voluntary work

D. faced strong competition from other candidates

27. What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?

A. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture.

B. He had learned to communicate in the local language.

C. He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.

D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.

C

Does happiness have a scent? When someone is happy, can you smell it? You can usually tell when someone is happy based on seeing them smile, hearing them laugh or perhaps from receiving a big hug. But can you also smell their happiness?

Surprising new research suggests that happiness does indeed have a scent, and that the experience of happiness can be spread through smell, reports Phys.org.

For the study, 12 young men were shown videos meant to bring about a variety of emotions while researchers gathered sweat samples from them. All of the men were healthy and none of them were drug users or smokers, and all were asked to abstain from drinking or eating smelly foods during the study period.

Those sweat samples were then given to 36 equally healthy young women to smell, while researchers monitored their reactions. Only women were selected to smell the samples, apparently because previous research has shown that women have a better sense of smell than men and are also more sensitive to emotional signaling—though it’s unclear why only men were chosen to produce the scents.

Researchers found that the behavior of the women after smelling the scents—particularly their facial expression