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2012年5月长望浏宁四市县区高三联考
英语试题
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Part I Listening Comprehension (30 marks)
Section A (22.5 marks)
Directions: In this section, you will hear six conversations between two speakers. For each conversation, there are several questions and each question is followed by three choices marked A, B and C. Listen carefully and then choose the best answer for each question.
You will hear each conversation TWICE.
Conversation 1
1. What will the woman take?
A. Clothes. B. Tickets. C. Food.
2. Where are the speakers going?
A. To the train station. B. To the bus stop. C. To the airport.
Conversation 2
3. What are they looking for?
A. Key. B. Handbag. C. Door.
4. What's the most probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Boss and secretary. B. Customer and waitress. C. Husband and wife.
Conversation 3
5. What is Jean worried about?
A. Sleeping. B. Grades. C. Classes.
6. What's Arthur's advice for Jean?
A. Stopping thinking. B. Helping others. C. Taking a yoga class.
Conversation 4
7. When did Linda start looking for a job?
A. A week ago. B. Several days ago. C. Two days ago.
8. What kind of job is Linda looking for?
A. Sound engineer. B. Tour guide. C. Field worker.
9. How is the demand for that kind of job?
A. It’s high. B. It's not high. C. It's just so-so.
Conversation 5
10. What are the two speakers talking about?
A. Life style. B. Intelligent people. C. Intelligent life on other planets.
11. What does Tom believe?
A. There's life on other planets.
B. Intelligent life tries to contact us.
C. Global warming won't destroy Earth.
12. Why do people try to find another planet?
A. To travel. B. To research. C. To live on it.
Conversation 6
13. What has Michael experienced?
A. An earthquake. B. A few hurricanes. C. A flood.
14. Where did Jocelyn stay when the hurricane came?
A. In the living room. B. In the basement. C. In a public place.
15. What happened to Jocelyn's father's car?
A. It was destroyed when it was new.
B. It was destroyed by wind.
C. It was stolen.
Section B (7.5 marks)
Directions: In this section, you will hear a short passage. Listen carefully and then fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
You will hear the short passage TWICE.
Make Good Decisions
On wedding anniversary
buy 16 ;
have a wonderful and romantic 17
Good decisions
made by a cool head and 18
Why it's 19
never have enough 20
Part II Language Knowledge (45 marks)
Section A
Directions: For each of the following unfinished sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D . Choose the one that best completes the sentence.
21. More and more old people are skiing but it has ______ to do with snow and slopes: this type of skiing stands for Spending the Kids Inheritance.
A. something B. nothing C. everything D. anything
22. A Colorado woman said that her iPhone 4 ______ fire while charging overnight.
A. had caught B. has caught fire C. was catching D. caught
23. In May 2011, Americans spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook, ______ it the most popular U.S. website.
A. making B. made C. to make D. having made
24. A study has found that 80% of the people who ______ to be constantly distracted ______ more “working memory”.
A. appears; have B. appear; has C. appears; has D. appear; have
25. It's not how much money you make or who your daddy is ______ makes you the most attractive person in the world but the way you do some simple things.
A. that B. which C. what D. who
26. They studied what ______ since 2007 and found Australian electricity prices were among the highest in the developed world.
A. has happened B. happened C. had happened D. has been happening
27. Some scientists have questioned the theory ______ CO2 is causing dangerous global warming.
A. which B. what C. that D. why
28. North Korea fired a long-range rocket last month, but the launch was reported ______ in failure.
A. to end B. to have ended C. having ended D. ending
29. As long as the laws of nature ______, there will be tornadoes.
A. exist B. are existing C. will exist D. existed
30. It is believed that forest bathing ______ strengthen the immune system.
A. should B. must C. need D. can
31. Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning American writer, says if there’s a book you really want to read, but it ______ yet, then you must write it.
A. hasn’t been written B. hasn’t written C. doesn’t write D. isn’t written
32. Children ______ on healthy diets are more intelligent compared with their junk food eating peers, new research suggests.
A. being brought up B. having brought up C. brought up D. bringing up
33. A work spouse is a co-worker, usually of the opposite sex, ______ one shares a special relationship, such as, loyalties, shared experiences and openness.
A. with which B. with whom C. to whom D. to which
34. The mayor of a small town in southern Italy has forbidden residents to die, ______ there is no graveyard for them to be buried in.
A. as if B. because C. if D. where
35. Helen Keller ever wrote in her article that only through experiences of trial and suffering ______ achieved.
A. success was B. was success C. success can be D. can success be
Section B
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank, with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
A man and his girlfriend got married. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine about how we can 36 our marriage. Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit 37 with the other. Then, we can talk about how we can 38 them together and make our lives happier together."
The husband 39 . So each of them went to a(n) 40 room and thought about the things that annoyed them about the other for the rest of the day.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their 41 .
"I'll start," offered the wife. She 42 her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. After the wife had read all three pages to her husband, 43 the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the 44 that you are. I don't want you to 45 anything for me."
The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his 46 of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go 47 for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time seeking the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wonderful things before us?
36. A. enrich B. strengthen C. lengthen D. deepen
37. A. annoying B. surprising C. satisfying D. inspiring
38. A. fix B. do C. find D. set
39. A. smiled B. refused C. agreed D. hesitated
40. A. spare B. separate C. empty D. special
41. A. dishes B. magazines C. lives D. lists
42. A. put away B. handed in C. took out D. wrote down
43. A. disappointedly B. unluckily C. bitterly D. quietly
44. A. appearance B. way C. situation D. position
45. A. change B. accept C. decide D. drop
46. A. advice B. warning C. acceptance D. pride
47. A. leaving B. waiting C. asking D. looking
Section C
Directions：Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
To upcycle something is to take a used object and change it to a new function.
Recycling usually breaks down the material that an object is made from 48 it is made into something else. By that means it wastes plenty of energy. 49 recycling, upcycling just uses something in a new way without reprocessing 50 material it's made from. In addition to being 51 energy-saving, another major benefit of upcycling is 52 it reuses items made of materials which couldn't be dealt with by traditional recycling methods. When something is upcycled, nothing, 53 very little, is thrown away, with every component part having a potential use.
An upcycled product is generally 54 higher value than the materials or objects which are used to create 55 , like metal ring pulls becoming pins or earrings, low-value coins becoming cufflinks(袖扣), and so on.
Part III Reading Comprehension (30marks)
Directions：Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
A
C is out with its list of best and worst jobs of 2012. It’s bad news for the writer of this story, but much brighter for the folks who program the code that keeps this website busy.
Using a method that looked at physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook, career Website C, ranked the top 200 jobs. They also ranked the jobs with the most stress. Not surprisingly, none of the most stressful jobs show up on the best jobs list.
At the top is software engineer and at the bottom is the lumberjack. Cutting trees failed to skate above the bottom 10 percent in all ranking categories, except income. “Unemployment for lumberjacks is very high, and the demand for their services is expected to continue to fall through 2016. And while working outside all day may seem like a great job perk(有额外津贴的工作), being a lumberjack not only is considered the worst job, but also one of the world’s most dangerous,” according to C. And, for that most dangerous job, a lumberjack earns a little more than $32,000 a year. That’s about $56,000 less than the easy job of a software engineer, which has the average salary at $88,000 a year, according to Careercast.
Here’s a complete look at the best and worst jobs. And, take a look at the most stressful jobs. You may be surprised.
Best Jobs Worst Jobs Most Stressful Jobs
Software Engineer Lumberjack Enlisted Soldier
Actuary Dairy Farmer Firefighter
Human Resources Manager Enlisted Military Soldier Airline Pilot
Dental Hygienist Oil Rig Worker Military General
Financial Planner Reporter (Newspaper) Police Officer
Audiologist Waiter/Waitress Event Coordinator
Occupational Therapist Meter Reader Public Relations Executive
Online Advertising Manager Dishwasher Corporate Executive Computer Systems Analyst Butcher Photojournalist
Mathematician Broadcaster Taxi Driver
56. Who might be most interested in the passage?
A. Job-hunters. B. Net surfers.
C. Employers. D. Educators.
57. Which of the following was not considered when C ranked the top 200 jobs?
A. Hiring outlook. B. Pressure.
C. Mental demands. D. Salary.
58. What do we know about the lumberjack?
A. Although the lumberjack has high unemployment, it isn’t considered the worst job.
B. On the best jobs list, the lumberjack isn’t at the bottom.
C. More lumberjacks’ services will be needed after 2016.
D. A lumberjack earns less than half of a software engineer’s salary a year.
59. According to the passage, the list is good news for ______.
A. Online Advertising Managers. B. Reporters.
C. Firefighters. D. Dairy Farmers.
60. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To describe the advantages of different careers.
B. To provide career information.
C. To explain why a software engineer is the best job.
D. To analyze why a lumberjack is the worst job.
B
Located along California’s San Andreas Fault, the city of San Francisco is likely to take precautions(预防，防备) in the event of the next big earthquake.
According to a New York Times report, emergency planners in San Francisco are not only thinking of human evacuation(撤离，疏散) plans in the event of an earthquake, but also of how to care for pets during a natural disaster. Ideally, the planners will be able to train pet-disaster responders who work to evacuate dogs, cats and other household pets from the disaster site to one of the 125 temporary animal shelters that will be set up or, if the pet is injured, it will be brought to an emergency animal medical unit where there will be people on hand to tend to the pet’s injury. The city’s “no-pets-left-behind” policy results from the great number of pet deaths during the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
As emergency responders arrived to rescue people isolated in their homes during Katrina, hurricane victims were told that they could not take their pets along with them when evacuating; thus, many pet owners were forced to make the heart-breaking decision to save themselves while leaving their pets behind to perhaps meet their deaths.
Since then, the U.S. has passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006, allocating federal funds for animal disaster planning projects. Yet, not all counties are as progressive as San Francisco has been in the effort to protect pets in the event of a natural disaster. Pets are after all, a large part of San Francisco’s population — overnumbering the number of school age children in the city.
Over the last three years, San Francisco has received $350,000 in federal funds designated to animal disaster preparedness efforts in order to protect animals in the case of a disaster such as an earthquake. The city is still working on obtaining $300,000 to pay for an emergency animal unit. Until then, animal lovers in San Francisco will continue to work to ensure that pets are never an afterthought when it comes to rescues during earthquakes or other life threatening situations.
61. We learn from the second paragraph that ______.
A. emergency planners in San Fransico only consider human evacuation plans in a disaster
B. emergency planners in San Fransico only think about pet evacuation plans during a disaster
C. the safety of both humans and pets in a disaster is taken seriously
D. emergency medical units will be used only for humans
62. What do we know about Hurricane Katrina?
A. A great number of pets died during Hurricane Katrina.
B. San Francisco’s “no-pets-left-behind” policy had been made before Hurricane Katrina.
C. The pet owners chose to sacrifice themselves in order to save their pets.
D. Emergency responders failed to rescue the hurricane victims.
63. Whi
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