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高三英语试卷
命题学校：黄石二中命题教师:高三英语组审题教师：汪玉玲张晓红考试时间：2015 年10 月23 日下午2:30—4:30 试卷满分：150 分
A. When the train leaves.
B. Where to find a doctor.
C. Where Salt Lake City is.
7.What does the woman suggest the man do ?
A. Have a rest .
B. See an eye doctor.
C. Buy a pair of glasses.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8.What are they doing ?
A. Skating .
B. Skiing.
C. Swimming.
9.What does the man advise the woman to do ?
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。第Ⅰ卷1页至8页，第Ⅱ卷8页至9页。
2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。
3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分）做题时，现将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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 time is it now?
A. 8:00.
B. 8:30.
C. 9:00.
2.Where is the woman’s mobile phone?
A. In the bedroom.
B. In the sitting room.
C. In the kitchen.
3.What’s the possible relationship between the two speakers ?
A. Neighbors.
B. Friends.
C. Strangers.
4.How does the man probably feel ?
A. Annoyed.
B. Pleased.
C. Interested.
5.What does the man mean ?
A. The woman should refuse John.
B. The woman is strict with John.
C. The woman is helpful.
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至7题。
6.What is the man trying to find out ?
A. Have classes for beginners.
B. Choose another coach.
C. Learn skills from him.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10.Why is the woman unhappy with the dog ?
A. It belongs to somebody else.
B. It looks seriously sick.
C. It will make a mess in the house.
11.Where did the man find the dog ?
A. On school campus.
B. By the garbage can.
C. In front of the house.
12. What are they going to do with the dog?
A. Keep it.
B. Send it back.
C. Give it away.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.What was the man watching ?
A. Baseball match.
B. V olleyball match.
C. Soccer match.
14. Which team did the man want to win at first ?
A. Argentina.
B. Brazil.
C. Mexico.
15.How does the man like Mexico?
A. It performed better than Brazil.
B. It has the best players in the world.
C. It should have done much better.
16. How does the woman feel about Brazil’s players ?
A. Regretful.
B. Inspired.
C. Concerned.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What does the speaker’s house have ?
A. Lots of trees.
B. Many seabirds.
C. A garden.
18. What did the speaker like most as a child ?
A. Playing ball games with friends.
B. W orking in the garden.
C. Going to the lake.
19. Where did the family go on a trip ?
A. To a big lake .
B. To New Y ork City.
C. T o the countryside.
20. What did the speaker probably do later ?
A. He moved to a big city.
B. He lived in the former house.
C. He moved to a place near the ocean.
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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
Acrobatic (杂技的) Show in Haidian Theatre Beijing
Introduction of the Show:
This is the entertainment that should not be missed by the young and old on a visit to Beijing. Y ou can see breath-holding acrobatics, some of which can be so demanding in the balance skill as to be close to the impossible.
This time you can see the bicycling show— ten cycling girls all ending up on a bicycle with their fans spread out like a peacock. There are also girls bending and folding their bodies to a position where the feet hold the face and the head and hands are still balancing some glasses. Other exciting acts are the martial
arts (武术), balancing of bowls, rope walking, pole climbing, roller skating and plate swirling (转碟子), etc.
Ticket Prices
Two daily acrobatic shows from 5:15 pm to 7:15 pm. The detailed price is as follows(including 5-65 years old):
Y ellow Zone: (Mid Rows 14-23) RMB 120
Blue Zone: (Mid Rows 1-4) RMB 160
Green Zone: (Mid Rows 8-13) RMB 220
Red VIP Zone: (Mid Rows 5-7) RMB 400
Booking
Book at https://www.doczj.com/doc/634609060.html, or call 138********
Booking information: Y our Name, Shows, Date, Time, Tickets, T elephone Number. W e will explain your enquiry（咨询）or confirm booking within one working day. When your booking is confirmed, you will receive
a confirmation letter by e-mail, which includes the detailed tickets with prices.
Payment
Please pay cash to our clerks when you get to the theater. Both RMB and US dollar are acceptable.
21. What can we infer from the passage above?
A. Only children would like to watch it.
B. It will include the bicycling show by a peacock.
C. It will be shown only twice .
D. It will be performed by highly-skilled acrobatic group. 22. If a couple with their 4-year-old child want to sit in Row 6, they should pay .
A. 800 yuan
B. 660 yuan
C. 240 yuan
D. 320 yuan
23. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. The ways to book acrobatic show tickets.
B. The popularity of acrobatic shows in Beijing .
C. An advert for Beijing Acrobatic Show.
D. The introduction of Chinese acrobatic.
B
When you first arrive in Oxford, it may take a little while for you to find your way around. The university is a large organization that is fully integrated into the city and has been evolving for 800 years. Some of the first things our students do when they arrive include finding a bike(most students in Oxford find cycling is the best way to go around), setting up a bank account, getting their computer and mobile phone working, finding their department, getting to know their college and working out the best places to socialize.
One of the major events you will experience shortly after “co ming up”to Oxford is matriculation. Matriculation is held at the University’s Sheldonian Theatre and is the ceremony at which you are formally admitted to the university.
International students are invited to an orientation day at the start of the academic year. Sessions run throughout the day that will give you practical information about living and studying in UK and introduce you to other graduate students from all over the world who are starting their studies at Oxford at the same time as you, as well as to current Oxford graduate students and staff who will be able to help and advise you. The day covers topics such as studying and learning in the Oxford system, University services, information on living in Britain and culture differences, as well as addressing practical issues such as employment, immigration and visas, health and safety. Y ou can choose which talks to attend and at the end of the day there is a social hour so you can meet fellow students.
Another good thing to experience early is college dining. Most colleges have a tradition of regular formal hall dinners, which consist of three or four courses, and the atmosphere of an evening out in a nice restaurant. On some of these occasions you can invite people around to your college for dinner and then they may return the favor. In this way, you can get to know people studying your own and other subjects at the same time as visiting many of the historical college grounds and dining halls.
Further information on your first few weeks at Oxford is available via the Students Gateway on our website, and you can get first-hand accounts of what life at Oxford is like by watching videos of students talking about their experiences on our W all of 100 Faces.
24. For a newcomer to Oxford, what does he have to do first ?
A. to work out what to major in.
B. to open a qq account.
C. to get a bike to go around.
D. to buy a new mobile phone.
25. What is matriculation?
A. Performances held at the Sheldonian Theatre.
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B. A ceremony when students are formally admitted to Oxford.
C. The best places to socialize.
D. A special day for International students to start academic.
26. Which talk can students attend on the orientation day?
A. Studying in the Cambridge system.
B. Practical issue like employment, immigration ,visas, health and insurance.
C. Talks on how to meet fellow students.
D. University services about the life in Britain and cross-culture barrier .
27.What does the underlined part in paragragh 4 probably mean ?
A. treating you to dinner.
B. visiting historic college in return
C. studying the subjects with your friend
D. showing you around the college.
C
I was as normal as other children, totally exposed to brilliant sunshine and splendid world. However, I became blind at four after falling off a box car in a yard and landing on my head. Now I am thirty- two. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity（灾难）can do strange things to people．It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes．I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left．
Life, I believe, asks adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy.
I was totally confused and frightened. But luckily, my parents and teacher saw my potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have broken down and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life．When
I say belief in myself, I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone, but something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the complicated pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit．
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance ．It had to start with the simplest things．Once a man gave me an indoor baseball and urged me to roll it around．His words stuck in my head．"Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went．This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. Later I invented a successful variation of baseball--- ground ball．
I have set a series of goals and tried to reach them, one at a time. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure．I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress．28.What attitude does the author take to his blindness?
A. Pessimistic.
B. Optimistic.
C. Desperate.
D. Shameful.
29.According to the passage, which statement is TRUE?
A. After struggling , the author discovered his potential on his own and began to live with it.
B.
The author invented a baseball with the help and encouragement of a kind man.
C. The author happened to be blind due to a car accident.
D. The author would not appreciate life if the calamity hadn’t occurred.
30.What is the greatest challenge for the author?
A. Attempting to adjust himself to reality.
B. Figuring out his own potential to live on one’s own.
C. Building up his own confidence so that he can find his place in society.
D.
Setting and reaching a series of goals.
31.What is the best title of the passage?
A.A disaster Pushes a man forward
B. A Fateful Accident
C.A Sorrowful Life
D. Fighting Against Difficulties
D
Wise compromise is one of the basic principle and virtue of the British.
If a continental greengrocer asks 14 shillings( or crowns, or francs) for a bunch of radishes, and his customer offer 2, and finally they strike a bargain agreeing on 6 shilling, this is just the low continental habit of bargaining; on the other hand if the British dock-workers or any other workers claim a rise of 4 shillings per day, and the employer first flatly refuse even a penny, but after a six week’s strike they agree to a rise of 2 shilling a day---that is yet another proof of the British genius for compromise. Bargaining is a hateful habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues--- the difference between the two is that the first is practiced on the continent, the latter in Great Britain.
The genius for compromise has another aspect, too. It has a tendency to unite together everything that is bad. English club life, for instance, unites the duties of social life with the boredom of being alone. An average English house combines all the curses of civilizations with the ups and downs of life in the open. It is all right to have windows, but you must do not have double windows because double would indeed stop the wind from blowing right into the room, and after all, you must be fair and give the wind a chance. It is all right to have central heating in an English home, except in the bathroom, because that is the only place where you are naked and wet at the same time, and you must give British germs a fair chance. The open fire is an accepted, indeed a traditional institution. Y ou sit in front of it and your face is hot while your back is cold. It is a fair compromise between two extremes and settles the problem of how to burn and catch cold at the same time.
English spelling is a compromise between documentary expressions and an delicate code-system; spending 3 hours in a queue in front of a cinema is a compromise between entertainment and asceticism(苦行主义); the English weather is a fair compromise between rain and fog; to employ an English charwoman
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doing.
is a compromise between have a dirty house or cleaning it yourself; Y orkshire pudding is a compromise
between a pudding and the county of Y orkshire.
32. What is the tone of author while writing this passage?
A. Serious.
B. Sincere.
C. Humorous.
D. Delightful.
33. Which of the following is NOT the example of compromise of the British in the passage?
A. The employer finally promises his workers a rise of 2 shilling a day.
B. People sit in front an open fire and their face is hot while their back is cold.
C. The house has double windows and central heating system in the bathroom.
D. To see a film, some people would like to wait in a queue for 3 hours.
34.What is the weather like in Britain according to the passage?
A. It is foggy when it is raining.
B. It is determined by humidity.
C. It is sunny and bright.
D. It is either foggy or rainy.
35. Where does this text probably come from?
A. A Culture Magazine.
B. The
Business W eekly.
C. A Travel Brochure.
D. An English
Literature T extbook.
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。
3 habits of remarkably charming people
Some people instantly make us feel important. Some people instantly make us feel special. Some people
light up a room just by walking in. They're naturally charming. 36 Familiarity leads to,
well, familiarity.
37 : They build and maintain great relationships, consistently influencing the
people around them positively. They're the kind of people we all want to be around and want to be.
Fortunately we can, because being remarkably charming isn't about our level of success or our presentation
skills or how we dress or the image we project--it's about what we do. Here are the 3 habits of remarkably
charming people:
■ They listen more than they talk.
Ask questions. Maintain eye contact, smile, frown or nod. In a word , respond--not so much verbally, but
nonverbally. 38 Then when you do speak, don't offer advice unless you're asked. Listening shows you
care a lot more than offering advice.
■39
No one receives enough praise. No one. Tell people what they did well. W ait, you say you don't know
what they did well? Shame on you--it's your job to know. It's your job to find out ahead of time. Not only will
people appreciate your praise, they'll appreciate the fact you care enough to pay attention to what they're
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