三明一中2016-2017学年上学期月考2（2016年10月）

高三英语试题

（时间：120分钟；满分：150分）

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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 did Bill do last night?

A. He broke his back.

B. He played the piano.

C. He moved the piano by himself.

2. Which city does the woman want to visit?

A. New York. B. Paris. C. London.

3. How much did the woman’s desk cost?

A.￡66.50. B.￡60.50 C.￡55.

4. What does the woman suggest the man wear?

A. The white shirt. B. The dark blue shirt. C. The blue tie.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Why to choose the cell phone.

B. How to choose a cell phone.

C. Which cell phone to choose

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. How does the boy plan to train for his race?

A. By running. B. By cycling. C. By swimming

7. What does the boy say about his father?

A. He is good at running.

B. He has done a lot of cycling.

C. He has ideas about preparing for races.

听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。

8. How does the woman feel?

A. Satisfied. B. Angry. C. Confused.

9. When can the woman get her computer back?

A. Two weeks later. B. A few days later C. Tonight.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What was the woman doing when the accident happened?

A. Riding a bike.

B. Driving her car.

C. Walking across the street.

11. What do we know about the car driver?

A. He didn’t drive very fast.

B. He was driving out of the street.

C. His view was blocked by something.

12. Who is to blame for the accident?

A. The car driver. B. The boy. C. The traffic lights.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why doesn’t the woman want to cook tonight?[:]

A. She is tired of cooking.

B. She has to go back to work soon.

C. She wants to have something different.

14. Why is the man unwilling to go to the new French place?

A. It is expensive.

B. It is very noisy.

C. It is hard to park there.

15. What do we know about Ying’s Palace?

A. It serves delicious dumplings.

B. The woman has been there before.

C. The man went there for lunch yesterday.

16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Father and daughter. B. Husband and wife. C. Brother and sister.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When will the students be arriving at the university?

A. In a few weeks.

B. In a couple of days.

C. At the end of next month.

18. Where will most research books be located?

A. On the second floor. B. On the third floor. C. On the fifth floor.

19. What can people do on the top floor?

A. Attend meetings. B. Study for exams. C. Watch films.

20. Who might the woman be?

A. A college professor.

B. A department leader.

C. The director of the library.

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

It was on the early afternoon of a mid-October day in 2012. Bismark Mensah, who came to America several months ago, was collecting carts (手推车) outside a Walmart in Federal Way. It was a part-time job for him. He earned $9.05 an hour in charge of getting carts out of the parking lot.

He was used to finding stuff in carts that customers had somehow forgotten — keys, credit cards, wallets. And he turned them into a customer service. But a particular item stood out. It was a white envelope with a clear window in the middle, and there was a lot of cash in it, around $20,000. Mensah turned them into customer services.

Because of what he did that afternoon, Mensah is now the winner of Walmart’s national 2013 “Integrity(正直) in Action Award”.

Bismark Mensah says that since the story ran, he has become the model the youth in Ghana (his native country).

He is now employed full-time at the Federal Way Walmart, earning $10.95 an hour, up from the $9.05 an hour he earned working part-time.

Mensah, 33, no longer collects carts and such. He is in the backroom, dealing with inventory(库存). “I want to learn everything about operating a store like Walmart store,” he says. He plans to return to Ghana to run some shops owned by his family. He also plans to go to college and earn a degree in business administration.

21. What does Mensah do in Walmart now?

A. Collect carts.

B. Deal with inventory.

C. Checks out the groceries.

D. Ensures Walmart’s security.

22. What’s Mensah’s future plan?

A. To teach in college.

B. To run his own shops.

C. To earn a degree in arts.

D. To work in a big factory.

23. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Mensah comes from a poor family in Ghana.

B. Mensah can hardly make himself understood in America.

C. Mensah will help set up some Walmart branches in Ghana.

D. Mensah has set an example for the youth in his own country.

24. What lesson can we learn from the story of Mensah?

A. It’s never too late to learn.

B. Don’t judge by appearance.

C. Honesty is a valuable quality.

D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

B

Since the invention of Guitar Hero and similar computer games, it is no longer necessary to imagine what it would be like to play along with the Beatles—you can come together with them in the virtual world.

Bill Wyman, former bass player(贝斯手) in the Rolling Stones, has pointed out that music video games discourage kids from learning to play real instruments. My own opinion suggest quite opposite.

Last year, I bought Guitar Hero Ⅲ for our 14-year-old son, Jack. Jack quickly mastered the process and entered an intense period of playing the game.

A few months later, while I was away on tour, a couple of his friends came around with a real electric guitar. Playing Guitar Hero had taught them how to play along the track. Now they wanted to see if they could apply that to the real thing. Jack’s friends taught him how to play along to his favorite songs using just his index finger (食指)on the bass string. He got it right away.

Guitar Hero had helped him over the first difficulty for guitar players—how to strum(拨弄) the strings with one hand while making chord(和弦) shapes with the other. He never plays Guitar Hero now, preferring to rock out in the garage with his mates.

Despite my attempts at getting him to learn an instrument, it was Guitar Hero that taught him the basics of playing and built up his confidence to the extent that he was able to make a recognizable sound the first time he played it.

So let’s not complain about a game that encourages kids to become music fans and, in our son’s case, gives them the basic skills needed to learn how to play guitar.

25. What’s Bill Wyman’s attitude towards music video games?

A. Curious B. Approving. C. Negative. D. Unconcerned.

26. Which statement is TRUE about Jack’s first playing with a real electric guitar?

A. He did it successfully.

B. He taught his friends how to play.

C. He didn’t know how to play along to a song.

D. He didn’t know how to strum the instruments.

27. What can we infer from Jack’s case?

A. parents should encourage their kids.

B. computer games are harmful to kids.

C. kids should learn an instrument.

D. Guitar Hero is a useful game.

28. What’s the best title for the text?

A. A new computer game

B. The story of a guitarist

C. In defense of Guitar Hero

D. The best way to play guitar

C

I first came across the concept of pay-what-you-can cafes last summer in Boone, N.C., where I ate at F.A.R.M (Feed All Regardless of Means) Café. You can volunteer to earn your meal, pay the suggested price($10) or less, or you can overpay—paying it forward for a future customer’s meal. My only regret after eating there was not having a chance to give my time. So as soon as Healthy World Café opened in York in April, I signed up for a volunteer shift(轮班).

F.A.R.M and healthy World are part of a growing trend of community cafés. In 2003, Denise Cerreta opened the first in Salt Lake City. Cerreta now runs the One World Everybody Eats Foundation, helping others copy her pay-what-you can model.

“I think the community café is truly a hand up, not a handout,” Cerreta said. She acknowledged that soup kitchens(施粥所) have a place in society, but people typically don’t feel good about going there.

“One of the values of the community café is that we have another approach,” she said. “Everyone eats here, no one needs to know whether you volunteered, overpaid or underpaid.”

The successful cafés not only address hunger and food insecurity but also become necessary parts of their neighborhood – whether it’s a place to learn skills or hear live music. Some teach cooking to seniors; some offer free used books. Eating or working there is a reminder that we are all in this world together.

My 10 am-1pm shift at World-Healthy-Café began with the café manager – one of the two paid staff members. Our volunteer crew wasn’t the most orderly, but we managed to prepare and serve meals with a lot of laughs in between. At the end of my shift, I ordered my earned meal at the counter, together with other volunteers. After lunch, I walked out the door, with a handful of new friends, music in my head and a satisfied belly and heart.

29. What did the author do at F.A.R.M Café last summer?

A. She enjoyed a meal.

B. She ate free of charge.

C. She overpaid for the food.

D. She worked as a volunteer.

30. What is the advantage of community cafés compared with soup kitchens?

A. People can have free food.

B. People can maintain their dignity.

C. People can stay as long as they like.[:]

D. People can find their places in society.

31. Why are community cafés becoming popular in the neighborhoods?

A. They bring people true friendships.

B. They help to bring people together.

C. They create a lot of job opportunities.

D. They support local economic development.

32. How did the author feel about working at Healthy World Café?

A. It paid w