安徽省阜阳三中2016届高三上学期第二次模拟考试英语试题-2.doc

安徽省阜阳三中2016届高三第一学期第二次模拟考试
英 语 试 题
(时间：120分钟　满分：150分)
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. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. On the plane. 　　 B. At the beach. C. In the music hall.
2. How is the man probably feeling now?
A. Tired. 　　　 B. Sorry. 　　　 C. Worried.
3. What time does the man think the woman will leave?
A. 7: 47. B. 7: 25. C. 7: 27.
4. What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. Buy him some cigarettes. B. Lend him some money. C. Give him some change.
5. What is the woman doing?
A. Apologizing. B. Expressing thanks. C. Complaining.
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 did Tom feel when he saw Lily?
A. Excited. B. Anxious. C. Surprised.
7. What is the whole class talking about?
A. How Lily got fired. B. Where Lily got married. C. Why Lily changed her name.
听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。
8. How long will it take the man to ride a 10-mile distance?
A. About half an hour. B. About an hour. C. About two hours.
9. How does the woman go to work?
A. By train. B. On foot. C. By bike.
听第8段材料, 回答第10～12题。
10. When will the woman go home?
A. Tomorrow. B. In two weeks. C. Still uncertain.
11. What’s the doctor’s suggestion for her?
A. Take the medicine every day. B. Avoid any physical exercise.
C. Have medical checks regularly.
12. How soon will the woman get well completely?
A. In a few days. B. In quite a long time. C. As soon as she is out of the hospital.
听第9段材料, 回答第13～16题。
13. Why will the woman visit her daughter?
A. Her daughter is ill. B. Her daughter gave birth to a baby.
C. She misses her daughter.
14. When was the man in New York?
A. About a year ago. B. About a month ago. C. About a week ago.
15. What do we know about the woman’s husband?
A. He was traveling with the woman. B. He was in China now. C. He loved traveling.
16. Who is traveling with the man?
A. His wife and a friend. B. His colleagues. C. None.
听第10段材料, 回答第17～20题。
17. What was Mr. Perkins like?
A. He tried to be the same as others. B. He tried to be better than others.
C. He was always different from others.
18. Where did he go the day after he bought his new car?
A. His office. B. His friend’s house. C. The country.
19. How did he find his car?
A. By trying his key in every car. B. By waiting until all other cars had left.
C. By checking the plate number.
20. When did he leave the parking lot?
A. Around 5: 00 p. m. B. Around 6: 00 p. m. C. Around 7: 00 p. m.
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, 从每题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项。
A
A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self­made man—the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts，usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker，he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual(体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously (豪华地) furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel，expensive hobbies，and college education for the children；yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself，will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward，furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary，the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car，digging in his flowerbeds，painting the house. His wife may even help with these things，just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait_on_table and wash dishes for his living，or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.
21．From Paragraph 1，we can know that in America ________．
A．people feel painful to mention their fathers as laborers
B．people can always rise to the top through their own efforts
C．college professors win great respect from common workers
D．people tend to have a high opinion of the self­made man
22．According to the passage，the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because ________．
A．servants in America are hard to get B．she takes pride in what she can do herself
C．she can hardly afford servants D．It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
23．The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “________”．
A．wait to lay the table B．keep accounts for a bar
C．serve customers in a restaurant D．work in a furniture shop
24．Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
A．American Attitude toward Manual Labor B．A Respectable Self­made Family
C．Characteristics of American Culture D．The Development of Manual Labor
B
Some say college is wasted on the young. So many of us look back on our own college years and realize what we could have done differently to make the most of them. While we can’t go back, we certainly can offer our sons and daughters our best advice to help them make the right choices in college. Hopefully, they will have fewer regrets than we do. The following are five guidelines parents can share with their college-bound kids to put the whole experience in perspective.
EDUCATION IS YOUR FIRST PRIORITY
As soon as you arrive on campus, there will be competing interests. Feel free to check them out but always remember that you are there first and foremost for your education. Go to class prepared and on time. Be engaged during class. Make sure your professor knows you and realizes that you care.
BE RESPONSIBLE
There are many layers of responsibility. Do what you say you will do and, if you can’t, own up to it early and communicate clearly. But being responsible isn’t just about meeting your commitments; it is also about taking care of you, your body, and your friends. For example, more than 1, 800 college students die annually from alcohol-related injuries. Look out for yourself and other people. Make moderate, sensible decisions so you aren’t suffering from the consequences later.
TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY
Incredible opportunities will present themselves: studying abroad, interning at a unique place, trying new things. Don’t let fear prevent you from taking advantage of them. There may never be so much time or as many resources devoted to your betterment again in your life. Say yes to opportunities that will help you grow.
FIND AND BE A MENTOR(顾问)
Some of the best lessons available to us can come outside of the classroom in the form of a mentor. One of the most powerful growth opportunities is being a mentor. Early on, find someone on campus who you feel can help you grow and develop a relationship with him or her. Also find someone for you to mentor. You will reinforce and enrich your own learning experience by teaching someone else.
GET THE JOB DONE
It is natural to occasionally feel you want to quit, when it makes more sense to you to go and find a full-time job. Resist that urge. As Jocelyn Negron-Rios, a mother of two, who is currently completing her degree, advises, “No matter how difficult it seems, keep at it because however insurmountable it feels now multiply that by 10, 000 and that is how it feels when you are in your thirties with a full-time job and a family and are trying to pursue a degree. ”
25. According to the passage, the most important thing for college students is　　　.
A. taking part in different activities
B. working hard to get a degree
C. seizing every chance to try new things
D. improving themselves by learning from others
26. Which of the following about college life is TRUE?
A. Passing on what you’ve learned in college can help you enrich your learning experience.
B. Make sure that you are responsible for yourself rather than others.
C. Professors will not assess your performances in class but the grades you get in exams.
D. You can make full use of the opportunity whenever you want.
27. What can we infer from the words said by Jocelyn in the last paragraph?
A. Persistence is the key to success when you meet with difficulties in your learning process.
B. It is better if you gain more working experience before you finish your education.
C. As long as you work hard, you can gain a degree even when you are in your thirties.
D. Youth is the best time to learn since you have less burden.
28. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To give some rules for the college students.
B. To call on the students to make full use of college years.
C. To summarize some tips for parents to share with their college-bound children.
D. To analyze the benefits and difficulties of college life.
C
Cast your mind back to the past twenty years and hardly did anyone have their own email account. The Internet just took off in 1991 and people were only using office and PC­based email exchanges.
In the mid 1990s external email providers emerged. The most famous of these was Hotmail，the first free email provider and web­based email service. Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched Hotmail on July 4,1996. And Microsoft took note of and bought Hotmail for $400 million on December 30,1997，a nice birthday present for Bhatia who turned 29 that day. It was relaunched as MSN Hotmail and in 2007 was relaunched again as Windows Live Hotmail.
Fast forward the present day and most of us have at least a personal web­based email account. It seems impossible to live without them. One of the biggest advantages of email is the fact that communication has become so much easier，especially with those across different time zones. Email takes seconds to send a message whereas letters，as we used to communicate by，could take weeks. Of course there was the fax，that beeping invention from the 1980s，but it wasn't as secure as email and you never knew if the person on the other end had picked up your fax or if it had got lost somewhere in the office.
In conclusion，one of the best inventions from the 1990s has to be email. But sometimes people are too closely connected to their email and have a compulsion to check it several times a day. At work，people have become lazy and instead of going to speak to the person sitting next to them，they send an email，causing an inbox to pile up with more time spent reading email and responding rather than working. Clearly，an invention that saved time because of its quick and speedy connection can now also cause us to waste a lot of time.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
29．Which of the following may be the main idea of the second paragraph?
A．The development of Microsoft. B．The life of Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.
C．The connection of MSN and Hotmail. D．The history of modern email.
30．The author mentions “fax” in the third paragraph in order to tell us that ________.
A．it is exactly as good as email B．it is much better than email
C．it is less convenient than email D．it is easier and faster than email
31．The underlined word “compulsion” in Paragraph 4 probably means“________”．
A．strong desire B．common sense C．special curiosity D．general idea
D
Just 25 years ago，the top three career hopes for young people in Britain were teacher，banker and doctor. Now，they want to be sports star，pop star and actor，according to a survey by the Guardian newspaper.
Rachel，a character in the popular TV show Glee，may be said to speak for British teenagers. “Nowadays being nobody is worse than being poor.” he said.
Emma Brockes，a reporter with the Guardian，believes it is “the bad influence of celebrity (名人) culture” that is to blame. “When children wanted to be doctor，it wasn't because they were really more interested in the functions of human organs than they are now；you go where the respect is.” she wrote.
It could explain why there has been such an increase in levels of anxiety and depression. Dr Carlo Strenger，of Tel Aviv University，studied the sense of self for his new book The Fear of Insignificance：Searching for Meaning in the 21st Century. He told the Daily Mail that young people now are “affected by the close connection to the global entertainment network，which has turned ranking and rating people according to wealth and celebrity into an obsession (痴迷)．”
“As humans，we naturally measure ourselves to those around us，but now we live in a global village. We are comparing ourselves with the most ‘important' people in the world and finding ourselves wanting，” he said. Today, even high achievers constantly fear that they are insignificant when they compare themselves to success stories in the media.
The way out？Simply stop measuring your achievement through a fantasy of wealth and celebrity. Dr Strenger said that it is a process called “active self­acceptance through a constant search for self­knowledge through life”．
“The fear of insignificance can only be overcome through strong individual and cultural identity over and above measurable achievement，” he said.
32．Nowadays，young people in Britain want to ________.
A．choose jobs based on interests B．become famous
C．be teacher，banker and doctor D．earn more money
33．According to Emma Brockes，what causes the increasing level of anxiety?
A．Choices of future careers. B．Access to the global network.
C．Bad influences of celebrities. D．Endless comparison with others.
34．Which of the following is TRUE of Dr Carlo Strenger?
A．He is a newspaper reporter. B．He is the spokesman of teenagers.
C．He tells success stories on TV. D．He is against ranking people with wealth.
35．Dr Carlo Strenger suggests that young people should________.
A．seek active self­acceptance B．stick to their own dreams
C．make great achievements D．search for the secret of wealth

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。
How to Love Your Parents
Even if you think that your parents are mean-spirited at times, loving your parents is a normal and fulfilling part of life. You love them for the fact that they created you, raised you, and are in part a source of who you are. Here are some ways to love your parents.
　36　A gentle “good morning” and “I love you” will warm a coldest heart. Remember that they brought you into this