攀枝花市2016届高三第四次统考
英语
本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。第一卷1至10页，第二卷11至12页。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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，从试题所给的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. How will the woman get home?
A. By bike.
B. By bus.
C. By car.
2. What does the woman mean?
A. She often plays chess.
B. She hates playing chess.
C. She is weak in playing chess.
3. What will the speakers do?
A. Wait for a short while.
B. Call the service center.
C. Press the emergency button.
4. How is the woman doing in the course?
A. She understands very little.
B. She doesn’t have much trouble.
C. She hasn’t done much of the reading.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A fire
B. An earthquake.
C. A house.
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. What does the man think of the book?
A. It’s worth reading.
B. It’s too difficult.
C. It’s popular.
7. What does the man suggest doing?
A. Asking April and Charles for help.
B. Borrowing references from the professor.
C. Getting some background knowledge first.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What does the man think of his place?
A. Unsatisfactory.
B. Well-equipped.
C. Affordable.
9. What does the man want to do?
A. Redecorate the house.
B. Move to a cheaper house.
C. Eat in an Italian restaurant.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does the woman exercise in a gym?
A. To keep healthy.
B. To stay in shape.
C. To enjoy herself.
11. What activities are both of the speakers engaged in?
A. Cycling.
B. Swimming.
C. Walking.
12. What do we know about the man?
A. He walks 10 to 20 km every day.
B. He goes to the gym three times a week.
C. He is unwilling to go to the gym at present.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Recommend a car to her.
B. Buy her a new car.
C. Lend her his car.
14. What does the man think of power-driven cars?
A. They are advanced.
B. They are too expensive.
C. They are environment-friendly.
15. What kind of cars attract the woman most?
A. Eco-friendly.
B. User-friendly.
C. High-tech.
16. How does the guidance system predict traffic jams?
A. By recording road sign.
B. By distinguishing traffic signals.
C. By analyzing historical traffic data.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the advantage of the bicycle after a German’s design in 1817?
A. The bicycle could change directions.
B. The bicycle became more comfortable.
C. The rider’s feet needn’t push against the ground.
18. When was the size of the bicycle’s wheels changed?
A. In 1817.
B. In 1839.
C. In 1869.
19. What happened in 1884?
A. Bicycles first had rubber tires.
B. The safety bicycles appeared.
C. Bicycles could run faster.
20. What is the talk mainly about?
A. The development of the bicycle.
B. The materials of making the bicycle.
C. The process of bicycle’s becoming popular.
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
Name: Course in first aid (2) — apply first aid
Aim: To develop people’s ability and confidence in providing emergency first aid.
Contents:
●Apply first aid mana gement skills to burns.
●Describe the recognition and management of bleeding and wounds.
●Apply first aid management skills to bone injuries.
●Manage emergency situations.
●Apply first aid management skills to bites, stings and poisoning.
●Manage severe il lnesses.
●Describe the recognition and management of facial injury.
●Describe the structure and the function of the human body.
●Apply first aid management skills to chest, hand and head injuries.
Requirements:
●Be at least fourteen years old.
●Attend all parts of the course.
●Actively take part in group activities and discussions in the training program. Successfully complete either a written test; demonstrate (演示) practical use of skills or answer questions one by one by the end of the course. Course length:
●1.5 to 2 hours online quiz.
●About 7 hou rs’ face-to-face lecture.
Locations: In our training rooms as well as On the spot.
Class size: Mini: 10 people.
21. Which of the following is TRUE of the course?
A. One’s performance in the class will be very important.
B. One must give a 7 hours’ face-to-face lecture.
C. First aid experience is required.
D. One must pass an online quiz.
22. What do we know about the course?
A. It’s a teacher-centered training course.
B. The course covers a small part of first aid.
C. People learn first aid through lectures and practice.
D. Students can choose the lessons which appeal to them.
23. Who are the intended readers of the passage?
A. Children and parents.
B. Teenagers and adults.
C. Students and teachers.
D. Amateurs and professionals.
B
An environment group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan. The water, which is arousing angry argument in public, has traveled 10,000 “food miles” before it reaches Western customers. “Transporting water half-way across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK.” It is also worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia (7,000 food miles) and carrots from South Africa (5,900 food miles).
Counting the number of miles traveled by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy-efficient. It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ market does not necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of “food miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.
What the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.
24. The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ________.
A. some imported goods cause environmental damage
B. UK wastes a lot of money importing food products
C. growing certain vegetables damages the environment
D. people waste energy buying food from other countries
25. The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance ________.
A. that a food product travels to a market
B. between UK and other food producing countries
C. that a food product travels from one market to another
D. between a Third World country and a First World food market
26. By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the author tries to explain that ________.
A. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than British ones
B. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones
C. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money
D. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel
27. From the passage we know that the author is most probably ________.
A. a supporter of First World food markets
B. a member of the Food Commission
C. a supporter of free global trade
D. a member of an energy development group
C
Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy —they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion (激情).
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” He asked me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choice.
28. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?
A. The support of his wife.
B. Millions of exciting titles.
C. His dream of being an inventor.
D. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.
29. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?
A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.
B. The decision of not trying the online bookstore would terrify him.
C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.
D. He would be very excited if he tried it out.
30. We can know from the passage that ________.
A. the author wanted someone else to try the idea
B. the author might not regret if he failed the idea
C. the author might go back to his boss if he failed
D. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author
31. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Following My Passion.
B. The Starting of Amazon.
C. We Are What We Choose.
D. Cleverness and Kindness.
D
We might think we know which colors do what. The idea that red wakes us up or blue calms us down is deeply rooted in Western culture. But do they really change our behavior in the ways that we assume?
When it comes to scientific research, the results are confusing and sometimes contested. Some studies have found that people do better on cognitive (认知的) tasks when faced with red rather than blue or green; others show the opposite. The idea is that if you repeatedly have a particular experience surrounded by a certain colour, then you eventually begin to associate that color with the way you were feeling or behaving. A school career spent reading your teacher’s red writing circling your mistakes forever makes you link red with danger. Blue meanwhile is more likely to be associated with calmer situations like a big blue expanse of sky.
Of course there will always be exceptions —the comment from the teacher saying “well done” is also written in red. It is true that people do make different associations with different colors, but whether this translates into behaving in a certain way or succeeding at a particular task is a different question.
In 2009 researchers tried to clarify the situation. They sat their participants at computer screenscolored blue, red or “neutral” and tested them on various tasks. With a red screen people did better on tasks requirin g attention to detail, but when the screen was blue they did better on creative tasks. In practice this might be complex and full of problems. In a classroom you might want to think creatively some of the time and pay attention to detail at others. However, when another team tried to repeat the study with a larger group of people in 2016, the effect of color disappeared. The initial study consisted of just 69 people. In this new, bigger study, of 263 volunteers, background color made no difference.
So colours might have an effect, but so far those effects have been difficult to prove consistently and sometimes don’t seem to exist at all.
32. What’s the major function of the first paragraph?
A. To present a widely supported view.
B. To summarize the whole passage.
C. To introduce the theme of the passage.
D. To raise a question of behavior change.
33. The author mentions the exception in Paragraph 3 in order to show ________.
A. there are exceptions to every rule
B. colors do matter to those who desire success
C. people tend to associate colors with behaviors
D. colors don’t necessarily mean particular behaviors
34. It can be concluded from the results of the studies in 2009 and 2016 that ________.
A. the research findings are practical in indoor decoration
B. solid evidence is not adequate to prove how colors affect us
C. a larger study may help confirm colors’ effects on our behaviors
D. walls should be painted different colors depending on different tasks
35. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. The influence of colors on people’s behaviors remains unknown.
B. Two studies on whether colors affect people’s behaviors.
C. Students associate a teacher’s red writing with danger.
D. How different colors affect people’s behaviors.
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。
Now, 700,000 American kids attend school over the Internet using computers. This is called online learning. This idea may create an impression of a lonely kid reading pages of information on a computer screen rather than
from a book or an image of another kid spending the day playing video games instead of learning mathematics or reading a book. Where online education is concerned, both of these are false! 36
Online schools offer many benefits for the learners. 37 Students can attend school wherever and whenever they desire. Homework can be turned in from anywhere the student has Internet access. Additionally, many online schools will allow students to work at their own pace. Another advantage is with the variety of courses. Most online schools teach the same basic classes like English, math, science, and history. 38 However, traditional schools are often unable to offer these types of classes if there are not enough students.
Online schools also have different types of learning tools for kids to use. For example, many online schools have special Web sites where only students registered in online classes can watch videos, see lessons presented, or chat with teachers and other students. Some online schools have live class times where students can call and talk with the teacher directly. 39 .
Computer technology is amazing, and we use computers for chatting with our friends, listening to music, and playing games. 40 But only you can decide if this type of learning is right for you.
A. Flexibility is the main advantage.
B. Actually, online learning simply means learning differently.
C. Of course, there are some downsides of going to school online.
D. Almost every part of our lives is affected by it, and school is no exception.
E. Some online schools also offer specialized classes in subjects like space science.
F. Other online schools even have online clubs where kids can talk about their hobbies.
G. For some students, online school may be ideal, but for others, traditional school may better meet their needs.
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For many, just taking part in a single marathon is the achievement of a lifetime. But for Julie, it has become a 41 routine. She has run 52 marathons four times a month for the past year for her dad who 42 soon after he was found living with pancreatic cancer. When Julie 43 her father in 2010, she was 44 to find the research for pancreatic cancer is so short of 45 . “It made me feel helpless, so I knew I had to do something,”she said.
So this marathon queen, 46 she calls herself, did what she did best: she went running. Having completed 25 marathons during the previous two years, Julie was now 47 to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks in 48 of her father. After 49 money for each marathon, she set up a 50 , https://www.doczj.com/doc/c818485296.html,, to collect money for a nonprofit organization called PANCAN. Julie began her incredible 51 with a marathon in Rome and then entered a race every 52 in some city across North America. On leaving work at 5 p.m. on Friday she would be ready to begin the next race, before she 53 home to California on Sunday. Julie finished her 1, 362 4-mile journey in March 2013, collecting over $ 200, 000 in the process for PANCAN.
While running, she 54 a strict training schedule. “My body has got used to this, 55 I’ve changed my diet, becoming healthier and learning to run more 56 .” she said. When her muscles began to 57 , she kept her 58 in mind. “When you do what you love, for those you love, that is where the 59 happen. Together we can make a 60 , and pave the way for a happy, healthy, cancer free life.” she said.
41. A. daily B. weekly C. monthly D. yearly
42. A. passed by B. lost hope C. passed away D. gave in
43. A. left B. parted C. lost D. missed
44. A. shaken B. unbelievable C. excited D. strange
45. A. training B. personnel C. confidence D. finances
46. A. while B. what C. as D. since
47. A. anxious B. determined C. energetic D. likely
48. A. search B. need C. place D. memory
49. A. raising B. spending C. saving D. earning
50. A. website B. team C. match D. project
51. A. stage B. challenge C. road D. experiment
52. A. weekend B. morning C. day D. weekday
53. A. parted B. left C. missed D. headed
54. A. followed B. abandoned C. changed D. shared
55. A. unless B. though C. because D. until
56. A. regularly B. effectively C. proudly D. patiently
57. A. relax B. ache C. form D. stress
58. A. pain B. experience C. interest D. motivation
59. A. beliefs B. accidents C. wonders D. emotions
60. A. difference B. sacrifice C. promise D. selection
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
In recent years, a new idea called a “naked marriage (裸婚)” has arisen as the cost of living goes up, 61 has become a new trend (趋势) for many young people in China. With a small marriage certificate in hand, they get married. And for the couples in a naked marriage, this certificate also contains many other 62 (mean).
A local from Panzhihua said, “There are many people like us born in 63 1980’s. Our families cannot afford
64 (buy) new apartments, cars, let alone diamond rings. I think that’s very normal for regular families. We must depend 65 our own to make a bright future for ourselves.”
A graduate student of Panzhihua University said, “The most important is love. I believe our living conditions will gradually get 66 (good).”
Some professors say a “naked marriage” is sharply contradictory with China’s traditional marriage customs. But as living costs continue to rise, this phenomenon will likely become 67 (increasing) popular in the future.
68 , not all people have a positive opinion of naked marriages. According to a survey 69 (conduct) by https://www.doczj.com/doc/c818485296.html,, only about 40 percent of 3500 people surveyed liked the idea of a naked marriage. About 80 percent of men supported naked marriages, while 70 percent of women did not support the idea because they 70 (hold) the view that these marriages would not be stable.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意： 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
In your last letter, you said you are really interested in the Spring Festival. Now let me to tell you something about it.
Usually before the festival, people are busy cleaning their houses thoroughly and do lots of shopping. Each family will have big meal on the New Year’s Eve, or many people like to set off firecrackers at night as well. During the festival, people visit their relatives and closely friends and give their best wishes.
In a word, the Spring Festival is the festival with great important in China. How I wish you come to Panzhihua to enjoy the festival. Please give my thank to your friend John because he, as well as you, always give me a hand if possible.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是攀枝花市新华中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次中学生英语演讲比赛, 希望任教于攀枝花大学的外籍教师女士Ms Fiona来担任评委。请按照以下比赛通知给她写一封电子邮件，并询问对方的意向。
注意： 1. 词数100左右；
2. 邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：演讲比赛—speech contest 评委—judge
Dear Ms. Fiona,
___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________
With best wishes
Li Hua