1、- 1 -2018年秋四川省棠湖中学高二第三学月考试英语试题本试卷分第卷（选择题)和第卷(非选择题)两部分。总分 150分，考试时间 120分钟。第 卷（选择题，满分 100分）注意事项：1答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、考号用 0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔填写在答题卡上。并检查条形码粘贴是否正确。21-60 小题选出答案后，用 2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号的位置上，非选择题用 0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔书写在答题卡对应框内，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。3考试结束后，将答题卡收回。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
2、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 time is it now?A. 7:00. B. 7:30. C. 8:00. 2. What will the woman probably do next?A. Call her neighbors. B. Put out the fire. C. Call the fire department. 3. What was the weather like?A
3、. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Snowy. 4. What might be the matter with the man on the ground?A. He has a headache. B. He has a car accident. C. He has a heart trouble. 5. What can we know about the two speakers?A. They lost their way. B. They took he wrong bus. C. They cant find their map. 第二节（共 15小题; 每小题 1
4、.5分，满分 22.5分）听下面 3段材料。每段材料有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，- 2 -并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段材料前，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。每段材料读两遍。听下面一段材料。回答第 6至 8小题。6. What does the woman complain about?A. The weather. B. The noise. C. The traffic. B. 7. Why isnt the woman satisfied with her living conditions?A. The
5、flat is too old. B. The flat is too dirty. C. The flat is overcrowded. 听第 7段材料, 回答第 8至 10题。8. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Friends. B. Official and farmer. C. Journalist and visitor.9. Where does the man live now?A. In a polluted city. B. On a lonely island. C. By a beautiful mou
6、ntain.10. Why does the woman come to the mountain?A. To look for a place to move in.B. To see whether the mountain is polluted.C. To have a look at the mans small house.听第 8段材料, 回答第 11至 13题。11. What is the most urgent problem of all?A. The climate. B. The garbage. C. The water.12. Which examples of
7、coastal cities does the man give?A. New York and Hong Kong. B. Shanghai and Hong Kong. C. New York and Shanghai.13. How does the man feel about the situation?A. Optimistic. B. Sad. C. Negative.听第 9段材料, 回答第 14至 16题。14. Who are the two people in the conversation?A. A wife and her husband. B. A travele
8、r and a villager. C. A reporter and a local officer.15. How many people have already left the island?A. About six thousand. B. About eleven thousand. C. About sixteen thousand.16. When will people be able to return to their homes?- 3 -A. At the moment. B. One week later. C. They dont know.听第 10段材料,
9、回答第 17至 20题。17. What time did Elaine arrive at the office?A. At 9:00. B. At 8:45. C. At 8:15.18. What happened to Elaine on the first day of her new job?A. Things were confusing. B. Everybody was friendly. C. Her boss was surprised to see her.19. Who had interviewed Elaine before?A. Tim. B. John. C.
10、 The secretary.20. What did Elaine discover finally?A. She hadnt been hired after all.B. She had been on the wrong floor.C. She had been in the wrong building.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 A、B、C 和 D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ASome students prefer a part-time job after class to ear
11、n some money and improve themselves. Here are some good companies:IN-N-Out BurgerIt is the best hamburger shop in the west of America. Regarded as one of the best employers, it offers flexible hours and the highest part-time salaries(薪水).Above all, the company treats its employees the way they would
12、 like to be treated:like family. However, there is no discount offered to its employees.Position: selling assistant (experience required)Website: www.in-n-out.cmStarbucks CoffeeStarbucks has been at the forefront(前沿) of the United States coffee revolution. Working hours are flexible. Fit twenty hour
13、s of work into your week. There is also a 30% discount and a free pound of coffee or box of tea every week.Position: assistant coffee taster(experience required)- 4 -Website: www.Starbucks.ComWhole Foods MarketWhole Foods Market is the worlds largest natural and organic food selling company. With it
14、s focus on organic ingredients, Whole Foods Market is all about health. Working hours are flexible. Benefits include paid-time off and a 20% discount so you can eat like a king or at least like a top chef in training. There are also training courses on health and food every week.Position: secretaryW
15、ebsite:.Lands EndLands End is a Wisconsin-based clothes store that focuses on casual comfort and warmth for the great outdoors. Employees(even part-time employees) have the chance to go to a company-owned entertainment centre and get a 25% discount on theme parks and movies, and an invitation to the
16、 yearly company picnic. Besides, for part-time employees,working hours are flexible and they can come to work anytime they like as long as they work for 4 hours a day.Position:salespersonWebsite:21.Which company offers its employees the best discount?A. In-N-Out Burger. B. Whole Foods Market.C. Star
17、bucks Coffee. D. Lands End.22. Which website should you visit if you are interested in selling clothes?A. www.in-n- B. C. D. 23. What do the four companies have in common?A. Training courses are offered. B. Working hours are flexible.C. Related experience is required. D. Employees can get high sal
18、aries.BOh my God, the robots are taking over! Were doomed! Doomed! Now that Ive gotten that out of my system, its become clear that while we may or may not be - 5 -doomed, the robots are taking over. The latest example is the governments new guidelines for self-driving cars.Tesla, Google and Uber ar
19、e already testing driverless cars in cities across America. Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick is among those predicting that by 2021, self-driving cars will play a big part in urban settings.Nearly 40,000 people died last year in this nation in automobile-related accidents, and we believe driverl
20、ess cars can save tens of thousands of lives annually.It makes sense. Robot drivers are less likely to get drunk, drive without a license, text while driving or feel agitated at the scene of a traffic jam. On the other hand, I wonder how these highly sensitive cars will react with walkers constantly
21、 dashing into the street. Will they jam on the brakes every 10 seconds?But theres a bigger picture. Not only are robots replacing humans behind the wheel, but behind the work desk, in warehouses, senior homes, you name it. Robots arent just taking over in the workplace.The question is, where cant a
22、robot function better than a human? How about writing songs? A robot can go through every combination of notes in record time and come up with a pleasing melody. The lyrics might be a different story. Is a Grammy-winning song co-written by Hank Human and R-3071 in our future?Finally, its only a matt
23、er of time until we have robot politicians and presidential candidates. Why not? They can be programmed to be experts in world and domestic affairs and come up with the best solutions without corruption and bad humors.Actually, its too bad such technology isnt available in 2018. Pretty sure the robo
24、t would win in a landslide.24. What does the underlined word “agitated” in Paragraph 4 mean?A. Exhausted. B. Embarrassed. C. Disappointed. D. Anxious.25. What doubt does the writer have about self-driving cars?A. How passengers behave in it. B. How robot drivers get the license.- 6 -C. How they resp
25、ond to walkers on a busy street. D. How they avoid crashing into other cars.26. The last question asked in Paragraph 6 reflects the writers .A. eagerness to listen to songs written by robots B. doubt about robots ability to write songsC. confidence in robots winning Grammy Awards D. curiosity about
26、the future Grammy songs27. What might be the most suitable title for the text?A. Robots will control the world in every field. B. Robots can drive cars and write music.C. Robots are being used in our daily life. D. Robots are coming but not soon enough.CPeople who play computer games to train their
27、brains might as well be playing Super Mario, new research suggests.In a six-week study, experts found people who played online games designed to improve their cognitive(认知的) skills didnt get any smarter.More than 8,600 people aged 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by the resear
28、chers to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills, for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week.They were compared to more than 2,700 people who didnt play any brain games, but spent a similar amount of time surfing the Internet. All participants were given an “IQ test” before and after
29、 the experiment.Researchers said the people who did the brain training didnt do any better on the test after six weeks than people who had simply been on the Internet.“If youre(playing these games) because theyre fun, thats absolutely fine,” said Adrian Owen, assistant director at Britains Medical R
30、esearch Council. “But if youre expecting these games to improve your IQ, our data suggests this isnt the case.”Computer games that are supposed to improve memory, reasoning and other cognitive skills are played by millions of people worldwide, though few studies have examined if the games work.- 7 -
31、“There is precious little evidence to suggest the skills used in these games transfer to the real world,” said Art Kramer, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, US.Instead of playing brain games, Kramer said people would be better off getting some exercise. He said physical activi
32、ty can help produce new brain cells.Other experts said brain games might be useful, but only if they werent fun.“If you set the level for these games to a very high level where you dont get the answers very often and it really annoys you, then it may be useful,” said Philip Adey, a professor of psyc
33、hology at Kings College in London.If people are enjoying the brain games, Adey said they probably arent being challenged and might as well be playing a regular video game.He said people should consider learning a new language or sport if they really want to improve their brain power. “To stimulate(激
34、发) the intellect, you need a real challenge,” Adey said, “Getting smart is hard work.”28. According to the article, which of the following is NOT useful to develop brain power?A. Learning a language B. Getting some physical exerciseC. Playing challengeable games D. playing fun games29. What can we i
35、nfer from the first two paragraphs?A. Playing brain games is as effective a means of improving the brain as Super MarioB. Playing Super Mario is a better means of improving the brainC. Playing brain games cant improve cognitive skillsD. Playing computer games can train the brain30. Which of the foll
36、owing statements is true?A. Many studies show that brain games are an effective means of improving cognitive skillsB. The skills used in brain games can be transferred to real lifeC. Participants took IQ test twice during the research on the effectiveness of brain gamesD. Surfing the Internet is a m
37、ore effective means of improving cognitive - 8 -skills than video games31. Which is another way of summing up Adeys argument in the last paragraph?A. Practice makes perfect B. Where there is a will, there is a wayC. No pains, no gains D. A bad beginning makes a bad endingDFrom July to October every
38、year, about a quarter of the worlds blue whales feed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. But the whales currently face a major threat in their favorite feeding area. Ships carrying cargo (货物）sail in the same area at the same time. All too often, the whales paths and the ships travel li
39、nes overlap (重叠), and a ship will hit a whale. According to a new study, these ship strikes have become a serious threat to the overall population of the worlds blue whales. Only about 10,000 of the creatures still exist worldwide. Blue whales are the largest known animals ever to live on Earth. Eve
40、n so, if hit by a container ship, a blue whale will likely die from its injuries.In 2007 alone, large ships killed five blue whales in the waters off San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that because there are so few whales alread
41、y, losing three to five from the California whale population every year is a significant loss. “The estimated population of blue whales in this part of the Pacific is 2,500”, says Sean Hastings, a NOAA analyst. “So every whale counts toward this species moving off the endangered-species list.”Now, m
42、arine scientists must figure out how to protect the whales from the giant container ships. One very simple program is already under way in the Santa Barbara Channel, a waterway that separates mainland California from the nearby Channel Islands.The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary has asked
43、large container ships passing through the area to voluntarily slow down. Sailing slower will - 9 -allow the ships crew (船员）more time to change course before hitting a whale.Several of the worlds largest shipping lines are set to participate in the new program. For every ship that passes through the
44、Santa Barbara Channel at or below the reduced speed of 12 knots (海里/小时）, the company that owns the ship will be paid $2,500.32. From Paragraph 1, we can know that_.A. people intend to illegally hunt blue whales for moneyB. large ships often carrying goods may pollute the seaC. the container ships ma
45、y hit the blue whales frequentlyD. there is fewer fish in blue whales favorite feeding area33. Why is the death of several whales regarded as significant loss to the worlds blue whales?A. Because the number of the blue whales is so small.B. Because other blue whales will be scared away.C. Because bl
46、ue whales are the largest animals in the world.D. Because many blue whales get killed throughout the year.34. According to Sean Hastings, its inferred that .A. the number of the blue whales is decreasing sharply.B. the blue whales are still on the endangered-species list.C. most of the worlds blue w
47、hales live in the Pacific Ocean.D. blue whales are often disturbed by other endangered creatures.35. What are the last three paragraphs mainly about?A. The basic responsibility of a sailor. B. Measures to protect the blue whales.C. The worlds largest shipping lines. D. Ways to slow down the speed of
48、 the ships.第二节(共 5小题；每小题 2分，满分 10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。- 10 -36 I say this a lot because its important: you need to walk more. There are a few main reasons why Im so fond of walking, also known as moving frequently at a slow pace.37 Walking might not be as effective as other for
49、ms of exercise, but frequent walking will help anyone with two functioning legs that allow movement who would otherwise meld into the couch lose some body fat.Its good for your brain.Walking does much more than work the area underneath your neck. The farther an older person can walk in six minutes, the be
