2016学年第二学期高三十二校联考英语试卷第I卷 (共103分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. By car. B. By train. C. By airplane. D. By ship.2. A. $4.5. B.$5. C. $9. D. $10.3. A. He tried to call the woman. B. He was too busy to call the woman.C. He spoke to the woman last night.D. He forgot to call the woman.4. A. A telephone. B. An automobile. C. A refrigerator. D. An elevator.5. A. Hurry to the meeting. B. Go sightseeing by bus.C. Take the underground.D. Go to the office.6. A. A businessman. B. A lawyer. C. A professor. D. A teacher.7. A. Mother and son. B. Teacher and studentC. Husband and wife.D. Boss and secretary.8. A. It is everything. B. It is nothing.C. It should be got through hard work.D. It is not important to her.9. A. He doesn’t like the hotel. B. They can’t afford to stay at the hotel.C. They do not want to stay at a hotel.D. He can’t find the way to the hotel.10.A. He doesn’t care much about it. B. He enjoys it very much.C. He hates working overtime.D. He doesn’t like his work.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. 6 hours. B. 9 hours. C. 18 hours. D. 13 hours.12. A. Asian people usually prefer their trip to be organized.B.Western people like to wander around freely.C.Tourists never feel tired during the trip.n people have greater pressure from work.13. A. How to organize tours in some new ways.B.How to make the demanding tourists settle in.C.How to communicate with new people.D.How to find something in common with tourists.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.14. A. It remained the same.B. It gained great popularity.C. People seldom go shopping online.D. It was destroyed because of the economic depression.15. A. Because there are few large shopping malls.B. Because she does online shopping out of habit.C. Because she can save money by shopping online.D. Because she can buy something cheap with good quality.16. A. People shop online for the variety, value and convenience offered.B. There are more female online shoppers because they love shopping.C. Nothing needs to be worried about when people are shopping online.D. All the shopping webs are very popular among online customers.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.(A)Freya Stark, explorer and writerFreya Stark was an explorer who lived during a time when explorers were regarded as heroes. She travelled to distant areas of the Middle East, where few Europeans—especially women—(25)____(travel)before. She also travelled extensively in Turkey, Greece, Italy, Nepal and Afghanistan.Stark was born in Paris in 1893. (26)____ she had no formal education as a child, she moved about with her artist parents and learned French, German and Italian. She entered London University in 1912, but at the start of World War I, she joined the nurse team and (27)____ (send) to Italy. After the war, she returned to London and attended the School of Oriental Studies. Her studies there led to extensive travel in the Middle East, (28)____ (enable) her to eventually become fluent in Persian, Russian and Turkish.Stark became well known as a traveler and explorer in the Middle East. She travelled to the Lebanon in 1927 at the age of 33 (29)____ she had saved enough money, and while there, she studied Arabic. In 1928, she travelled (30)____ donkey to the Jebel Druze, a mountainous area in Syria. During her (31)____ trip, she went to a distant region of the Elburz, a mountain range in Iran, where she made a map. She was searching for information about an ancient Muslim sect Known as the Assassins, which she wrote about in Valley of the Assassins(1934), a classic (32)____ ____ she was awarded a God Medal by the Royal Geographic Society. For the 12 years, she continued her career as a traveler and writer, establishing a style which combined an account of her journey with personal commentary on the people, places, customs, history and politics of the Middle East.(B)The electric revolutionThe main reasons why electric cars are not more popular at present are their price and their relatively small range.Existing battery systems only allow electric cars (33)____ (travel) a distance of between 100 and 160km. However, this distance may not be a problem for urban drivers. A recent Sydney study reported that 70 percent of journeys were 30km or less, and recent data from the US suggests that 77 percent of trips (34)____ (take) there are 48km or less.An innovative company called Better Place is aiming to make electric cars an option for all drivers. It wants to see existing vehicles replaced by electric vehicles which, it says, offer a number of benefits. Firstly, they can be powered by renewable energy which produces zero emissions. (35)____ is moreimportant is that electric motors are more efficient and can convert more than 90 percent of power into movement. (36)____ (achieve) its aim, Better Place plans to use technology already available.The plan is simple but revolutionary. It starts with the installation of a home charge point, and through this, the vehicle will be plugged into the electricity charge point whenever it is in the garage, typically at night. In the morning, with a fully charged battery, the car is capable of as much as 160km in urban motoring conditions. (37)____ ____ ____ the home charge point, the battery can be topped up by charge points at work and at supermarkets.(38)____ battery is linked to a control centre by smart technology inside the vehicle. Better Place can then ensure that the car is charged with electricity from renewable sources at the cheapest price. For (39)____ (long) trips, a navigation system directs the driver to the nearestswitch station, (40)____ the battery can be replaced with a charged one by a robot within a couple of minutes.Section BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Japanese and American Comic Book HeroesTo some people, the idea of reading comic books seems childish. To others, comics are nothing more than __41__ of their happy childhoods. But for people who love comic books, they can be a(n)__42__ escape from the realities of modern life. Comics are able to __43__ readers to brightly-colored, imaginary worlds where superheroes fight with super-monsters, where good can succeedover bad, and where heroes can save thousands of innocent people from the ―bad guys.‖ Comics are published globally, but Japanese and American versions __44__ the market despite the fact—or perhaps because—they differ in some ways.One difference is the appearance of the heroes. Manga([日语]漫画) heroes look smaller, younger, and more immature than their all-conquering American oneswho have sport muscles and wear themed clothes. Also, manga heroes rarely look Japanese, and the stories are not typically set within a Japanese __45__. Conversely, American comic heroes, despite their masks, are proudly American and are admired for their __46__ to defend U.S. cities. Importantly, in Japan a manga creator can himself or herself become a national hero, becoming almost as famous as the characters.Probably the biggest difference is the __47__. Up until the 1950s, American comic books were read by both children and adults, with popular titles such as Superman selling as many as half a million copies per month. The __48__ of TV, however, led to a long-term decline in sales so that now the average reader of an American comic book is a teenage boy with an interest in superheroes. In Japan, the __49__ couldn’t be greater. There manga sales are still __50__, reaching as high as $7 billion each year largely because readers range from young boys and girls up to middle-aged men and women. A survey by the Mainichi newspaper estimates that 42 percent of women aged 20 to 49 read comics. Manga for men and boys, like the American comics, tend to be action-oriented, while manga for women and girls tend to be focused on relationships.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.The best job in the world?Chocolate consultantThis could well be the bestjob for anyone with even the __51__ passion for chocolate—and yes, jobs like these really do exist. There are lots of different types of chocolate consultant. Louise Thomas has worked in the chocolate industry for two years and has been __52__ about chocolate. She became __53__ by the lack of education and awareness regarding fine chocolate, so started her own company to share her love of the cocoa bean. She now runs tastings to find a(n)__54__ chocolate for everycustomer or to extend their range. If you don’t yet have what it takes to be achocolate consultant, you can still work with chocolate as a pastry chef.LEGO __55__Who hasn’t at some point in their life sat down in front of a box of Lego and __56__ building (or helping someone else to build) a fantastic creation in multi-coloured blocks? For some people this becomes more than just something you did as a kid. Lego has a number of __57__ who work with the company to create sets and build models for them. They work against fairly tight budgets and thematic restrictions, and are based in Legoland Discovery Centres around the world. However, competition for the jobs is __58__, with estimates varying as to exactly how many there are in the world—from 9 to 30. The latest one to get a job was 23-year-old Andrew Johnson, and then competed in a tough three-round build-off, __59__ 45 other competitors. If you love childhood toys but don’t fancy building them, why not consider working in a toy shop?Shark tank cleanerWindow cleaning is probably not the most fun of professions. However, add in the requirement to share your job with a lot of sharks while simultaneously(同时地)__60__ by a crowd of people, all of whom are no doubt secretly hoping at least one of the sharks is feeling a little hungry, and suddenly the __61__ levels rise up a level or two. However, if you want to work with fish, perhaps the job would be a good choice.Professional sleeper__62__ you’re addicted to your alarm o’clock or spend all day at your desk yawning and drinking cups of coffee to stay awake, then maybe you should consider turning your comments into a profitable career. Believe it or not, you can actually get paid to wear the pajamas. __63__, these professional sleepers participate in a lot of university studies on sleep or dreams, etc. to decide whetherthe beds are comfortable or not. In 2009 during an art show at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, women were paid to sleep as part of a ―living art‖ exhibition, so you never know __64__ you could be asked to rest your head next. If you enjoy your sleep, you probably want to __65__ jobs that lead to sleep withdrawal.51. A. greatest B. blind C. smallest D. intense52. A. worried B. curious C. scared D. passionate53. A. lost B. frustrated C. enthusiastic D. inferior54. A. particular B. biggest C. sweet D. bitter55. A. examiner B. seller C. competitor D. builder56. A. taken up B. set about C. given off D. got in57. A. professionals B.bosses C. purchasers D. competitors58. A. fierce B. open C. fair D. international59. A. cooperating with B. beating C. discussing with D. encouraging60. A. warned B. helped C. watched D. admired61. A. difficulty B. interest C. income D. profit62. A. Although B. Because C. If D. Unless63. A. Rarely B. Contrarily C. Consequently D. Typically64. A. why B. how long C. where D. how often65. A. avoid B. accept C. create D. offerSection BDirections: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. Choosethe one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)We are all attracted by magicians, who seem to be able to perform impossible acts, such as pulling white rabbits out of hats and cutting a woman in half. Like all performances, though, a magician’s real secret is in practicing thoroughly before showing anyone their tricks.Magic MatchsticksYou will need●several matchsticks● a handkerchief with hems(折缝)along the edgesWhat to do1. Show the audience a matchstick.2. Take a clean cotton handkerchief from your pocket, and shake it out, showing both sides toprove you are not hiding anything.3. Wrap the matchstick in the handkerchief.4. Ask one of the audience members to feel the matchstick inside the handkerchief, and break it.5. Shake the handkerchief, allowing the unbroken matchstick to fall onto the floor!The secretBefore you begin the performance, slip a matchstick into the hemof the handkerchief. When you ask someone to break the wrapped-up matchstick, make sure that they break the one hidden in the hem (when they feel it, they will think it is the one they saw you wrap into the handkerchief).It’s a good idea to have two or three handkerchiefs with matchsticks already secretly in the hems, as your audience is sure to be shocked and ask you to do the trick again. But don’t let them realise that you are changing handkerchiefs, or they may become suspicious!66. If a magician wants to succeed on the stage, he or she must __________.A. practice the magic completelyB. have some magical matchsticksC. recite the process thoroughlyD. keep the secret unknown forever67. Which of the following pictures shows the step 3?A B C D68. One of the secrets of ―Magic matchsticks‖ is to __________.A. make the hidden matchstick broken in the hemB. keep audience from being suspicious during the magicC. invite one of the audience to break the matchstickD. confuse the two different matchsticks in the handkerchief(B)A visit to the village of Kitaisa, UgandaThere are not many visitors to Kitaisa, and not much that would bring them there unless they know someone living there. Most of the villagers live a distance from the main road and where they live are paths that are difficult to travel, especially during the rainy seasons.There are a few shops selling oil, sugar, tea, flour, candles. There is no petrol station, but one will find a school and a small government hospital. But there are no doctors, just a few nurses and medically trained staff.It is still early and most people are outside cooking their meals over firewood. Children in uniform and without shoes are going to school, making their way through muddy paths from the night’s rain.You can see some adults picking beans, or cultivating the ground around corn plants. Some children are carrying water from the nearby river. People are sitting outside having breakfast. Children will have porridge, the family will eat leftover posho, or plantain bananas called matoke. Meat is not often eaten, protein comes mostly from beans.Here life is tough, there is simply a lack of everything. Some chickens are running around and I am told that they are basically for eggs, though one was caught and given to me for later. Life here is very simple. There is no library here, no newspapers. There was a little restaurant with some outside chairs, a beauty shop, and about eight places where food and other supplies were sold.People in villages don’t live long for the most part, since there is no infrastructure here. There are no ambulances, and if you do get sick there is no money to pay for treatment. The nearest hospital is 15 kilometres away in Busunju, but even that larger town lacks facilities, though a medical clinic is there with a doctor, unlike the small facility in Kitaisa which has few things.Other obvious problems are with water and sanitation. Water taken from creeks should be boiled and treated. It is not and because it has to be carried from a distance it is used sparingly. Children become ill with diseases that could be prevented through the use of soap and water.There are no jobs in the village, except cultivating your garden. You can try selling food along the road, but there is no way to make money. You learn to live on little and to make every shilling count. Some support comes from relatives and if you visit someone in the village, you bring those things that they do not have and when you leave you leave them some cash.Village people in Uganda are friendly and hospitable. They are kind and show their graceful ways to outsiders. Kids hover, adults greet you like they have known you forever.69. What is the most likely reason for people to Kitaisa?A. To visit some relatives or friends.B. To enjoy the beautiful scenery.C. To know more about Uganda.D. To help people away from diseases.70. Whichof the following words can NOT be used to describe the life in Kitaisa?A. Hard.B. Peaceful.C.Boring .D. Ideal.71. The word ―infrastructure‖ (paragraph6) is closest in meaning to ―_____‖.A.enough nutritionB. systemic transportationC. basic servicesD. high-quality education72. Thepassage mainly talks about the author’s __________.A. expectation of the under-developing villageB.experience and feelings of the visit to the villageC. suggestions on the development of the villageD. description of the beautiful scenery of the village(C)There was a time when we thoughthumans were special in so many ways. Now we know better. We are not the only species that feels emotions, or follows a moral code. Neither are we the only ones with personalities, cultures and the ability to design and use tools. Yet we all agree that one thing, at least, makes us unique: we alone have the abilityof language.It turns out that we are not so special in this aspect either. Key to the revolutionary reassessment of our talent for communication is the way we think about language itself. Where once it was seen as an unusual object, today scientists find it is more productive to think of language as a group of abilities. Viewed this way, it becomes apparent that the component parts of language are not as unique as the whole.Take gesture, arguably the starting point for language. Until recently, it was considered uniquely human—but not any more. Mike Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others have collected a list of gestures observed in monkeys and some other animals, which reveals that gestures play a large role in their communication. Ape (猿) gestures can involve touch, vocalising or eye movement, and individuals wait until they have another ape’s attention before making visual or auditory gestures. If their gestures go unacknowledged, they will often repeat them.In an experiment carried out in 2006 by Erica Cartmill and Richard Byrne from the University of St Andrews in the UK, they got a person to sit on a chair with some highly desirable food such as banana to one side of apes and some undesirable food such as vegetablesto the other. The apes, who could see the person and the food from their enclosures, gestured at their human partners to encourage them to push the desirable food their way. If the person showed incomprehension and offered the vegetables, the animals would change their gestures—just as humans would in a similar situation. If the human seemed to understand while being somewhat confused, giving only half the preferred food, the apes would repeat and exaggerate their gestures—again in exactly the same way a human would.Such findings highlight the fact that the gestures of the animals are not merely inborn but are learned, flexible and under voluntary control—all characteristics that are considered preconditions for human-like communication.73. Compared with all the other animals, we agree that humans alone __________.A. own the ability to show their personalitiesB. are capable of using language to communicateC. have moral standards and follow them in societyD. are intelligent enough to release and control emotions74. According to the passage, humans are not so special in language ability because language __________.A. involves some abilitiesthat can bemastered by animalsB. is a talentimpossibly owned by other animalsC. can bedivided into different componentsD. are productive for some talented animals75. Which of the statements can be concludedfrom the passage?A. Some animals can try to use body languages as communication methods.B. Gestures, the starting point for language, are considered uniquely human.C. Some animals such as apes and monkeys share some common gestures codes.D. When gestures are misunderstood, apes will often try to express in a new way.76. What can we learn from the experiment by Cartmill and Byrne?A. Apes can use language to communicate with the help of humans.B. Repeating and exaggerating gestures is vital in language communication.C. Some animals can learn to express and communicate through some trials.D. The preferred food stimulates some animals to use language to communicate.77. What is probably the best title of the passage?A. Language involves gestures!B. Animals language—gestures!C. So you think humans are unique?D. The similarity between humans and apes.Section CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.GoldIndia is the world’s largest market for gold jewellery. In much of Asia, the Middle East and India, around two-thirds of the jewellery purchased is used as a way of saving money as well as being worn as a decorative item. The use of jewellery as a way of saving money is often important in rural areas where finding a bank is difficult or even impossible. People buy gold because its value stays strong even when the value of money goes down.Gold jewellery has often been a woman’s only valuable possession, and in some families this is still true. A woman’s gold can therefore be her only protection against personal misfortune. Today, all around the world, sales of gold jewellery have grown by over 20% per year, because everyone is confident that gold won’t lose its value. Demand for gold is so high that gold mines cannot supply enough.Gold’s function as a decoration, as jewellery, has been evident for thousands of years. Since the earliest times, the beauty and richness of gold, along with the fact that it does not change its colour, has meant that it has always been the favourite metal of jewellers. The earliest gold jewellery dates from the Sumerian civilisation that was at its most powerful around 6,000 years ago. In the Middle Ages, ancient people attempted to make gold from other metals. They used gold in medicines designed to fight old age and prolong life.Gold also performs important functions in many aspects of everyday life. It does not react when it comes into contact with other substances and this, along with other unique properties, makes it useful in medicine and many other areas that we consider essential to our modern lives.During heart surgery, gold-covered ―stent‖ are put into blocked arteries to help the flow of blood. These gadgets need to be carefully positioned. Gold is ideal for this because it shows up clearly on X-rays and can easily be located by doctors. A pacemaker, a device inserted in the body to keep the heartbeat regular, also contains gold. Gold is used in all of these applications becauseof its high level of reliability. Gold also helps doctors to deliver precise doses of powerful drugs to the parts of the body where they are required.Gold has many other applications in modern life as it conducts electricity very efficiently. The standard touch-tone telephone contains 33 contacts made from gold. Air-bag systems fitted in more than 30 million cars around the world rely on gold-coated electrical contacts. And every time you touch a key on your computer it strikes a gold circuit that sends your command to the computer’s microprocessor. In fact, you have probably never realised how much gold there is in your everyday life.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)78. Compared with money, people prefers gold because of __________.79. Gold were used in medicines because ancient people believed it could __________.80. Why can gold be used in pacemaker?81. What makes the application of gold in electronic products possible?第II卷(共47分)I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1、现在没有网络，我们就无法便捷地与国外友人保持联系。
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