高三英语下学期入学考试试题

射洪中学高2014级高三下期入学考试英语试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上（答题注意事项见答题卡），在本试题卷上做答无效．．．．．．．．．．。

考试结束后，将本试题卷和答题卡一并交回。

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 are the two speakers going to do?A. Have lunch in the open air.B. Have a meal in a restaurant.C. Go to a park for fun.2. How will the woman get to the theatre?A. On foot.B. By bus.C. In the man’s car.3. What time does the last train leave for London?A. At 8:35 a.m.B. At 8:35 p.m.C. At 7:25 p.m.4. Where does the woman want to go?A. To the bank of the river.B. To Bank of China.C. To the People’s Bank of China.5. Why can’t the man give the woman a hand?A. Because he doesn’t want to help her.B. Because he doesn’t know how to help her.C. Because he is too busy to help her.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至第8题。

6. What does the woman probably do?A. She is the receptionist at a hotel.B. She is the customer of Blackwood Hotel.C. She works at Blackwood Hotel.7. How could the man get in touch with Dr. Green?A. Dial 100 to find the proper phone number.B. Dial 114 to get information.C. Find the hotel.8. Why did the man ask the woman to change the dollar?A. To enter the room.B. To get on the bus.C. To make the phone call. 听第7段材料，回答第9至第11题。

9. What does the man want to learn?A. Computer science.B. Driving.C. English.10. How long does the course last?A. About 20 days.B. About 35 days.C. About 30 days.11. When can he take the final exams?A. From September 15 to 17.B. From August 16 to 18.C. From July 12 to 16.听第8段材料，回答第12至第14题。

12. What is the relationship between the two speakers?A. Neighbors.B. Doctor and patient.C. Friends.13. When did the woman cough most seriously?A. In the morning.B. In the afternoon.C. At night.14. What did the man do for the woman?A. He examined the woman carefully.B. He gave her some medicine and some advice as well.C. He just told her not to worry too much.听第9段材料，回答第15至第17题。

15. What does the man probably do?A. He is an actor.B. He is a writer.C. He is a reporter.16. What does the woman do in the play?A. She acts the part of a young lady.B. She directs the play.C. She writes the play.17. What will the woman do in the future after this play?A. She wants to be a singer.B. She wants to be a director.C. She wants to be a film star.听第10段材料，回答第18至第20题。

18. Why did the man refuse to buy a TV set in the past?A. He thought it was useless.B. He thought it wasted time.C. He thought it was too expensive.19. What did he use to do in the evening?A. He slept at home.B. He played games at home.C. He read books instead of watching TV.20. What can we learn from the talk?A. The speaker is a person who can’t change his mind.B. The speaker is a person who is eager to learn more.C. The speaker is a person who can’t get well with others.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◆ Open Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00 and Sunday 12:00 to 17:00. Last admissions at 16:30 each day.◆ Personal Admission: Adults,￡5; Seniors/Students,￡4.◆ Group Admission (Ten or more): Adults￡4.5 per person; Students/Seniors￡3.50 per person.◆ Payment for groups must be made together.Welcome to the James Joyce CentreThe James Joyce Centre is to promote an understanding of the life and works of James Joyce. In doing so, the Centre tries to work with institutions to celebrate Ireland’s rich cultural heritage (遗产). The James Joyce Centre provides the casual visitor with arewarding and memorable experience.The Centre’s home is a restored 18th century townhouse in the north of Dublin, the city of Joyce’s birth and the setting for all his works. From this central place in Joyce’s heartland, the Centre aims to develop an appreciation of this most remarkable and significant literary figure of the 20th century.No. 35 North Great George’s Street was built in 1784 and decorated with fine plasterwork (灰泥) by Michael Stapleton. The house was restored in the 1980s and opened as the James Joyce Centre in 1996, run by members of Joyce’s sister’s family.The Kenmare Room is used for lectures and has a small show of reproductions of Joyce family pictures. In addition, this room provides details of Joyce’s life and times, a reading table where visitors can sit and read works by and about Joyce, and a show of some of th e many translations of Joyce’s works.ExhibitionsThe centre’s permanent and temporary exhibitions show various aspects of Joyce’s life and work. Through shows and three films, you may dig into the novel about its historical background and learn more a bout Joyce’s life. The Centre also hosts International Joyce, an exhibition that provides a wonderful introduction to the life and works of James Joyce.Walking ToursOur walking tours are available every Saturday at 11 am and 2 pm, and by advanced booking on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 am and 2 pm (with at least four people). Adults￡10;Seniors/Students￡8. For bookings, contact info@jamesoyce.ie.We look forward to your visit.21. According to the text, the James Joyce Centre ________.A. has a history of about 30 yearsB. is run by Dublin’s governmentC. is on the North Great George’s StreetD. has been well protected since its construction22. It can be inferred from the text that in the James Joyce Centre, you can _______.A. see some movies about James JoyceB. listen to James Joyce’s lecturesC. learn every event of James Joyce’s timesD. have the walking tours by yourself23. What is the main purpose of the text?A. To comment on the James Joyce Centre.B. To tell the history of the James Joyce Centre.C. To briefly introduce the James Joyce Centre.D. To attract potential tourists to the James Joyce Centre.BGwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding about black culture in America.Her poems described conditions among the poor, racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women. But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She was an expert at the language of poetry. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience.In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago. The South Side of Chicago is where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was “A Street in Bronzeville” that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skill and her powerful descriptions of the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection.In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Liter ature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called “Annie Allen.” “Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about the life of a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and being poor. Ms. Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called “Maud Martha.” “Maud Martha” received little notice when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult life of many women are popular among female writers today.In some of her poems, Gwendolyn Brooks described how what people see in life is affected by who they are. One example is this poem, “Corners on the Curing Sky”.By the end of t he 1960s, Gwendolyn Brooks’s poetry expanded from the everyday experiences of people in Bronzeville. She wrote about a wider world and dealt with important political issues.24. What does the text mainly talk about?A. The life of Gwendolyn Brooks.B. The poems of Gwendolyn Brooks.C. The understanding about black culture.D. The struggles of black women.25. What can we learn about Gwendolyn Brooks from the second paragraph?A. She mainly wrote about the struggles of black women.B. She was good at using the language of poetry.C. Her writing skills were a little worse than her ability.D. Her poems were mainly about the African experience.26. The author develops the passage mainly by ______.A. providing examplesB. using statisticsC. comparing opinionsD. describing her experiences27. In the last three paragraphs, the author would most probably talk about _______.A. the difficulties Gwendolyn Brooks would meetB. the poems related to political issuesC. the awards Gwendolyn Brooks gainedD. the racial inequality the black had to faceCAlmost everyone stood when the bride walked down the aisle in her white gown, but not the wedding conductor, because she was fixed to her chair.The nuptials at this ceremony were led by “I-Fairy”, a 4-foot (1.5-meter) tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails (辫子). Sunday's wedding was the first time that a marriage had been led by a robot, according to manufacturer Kokoro Co.“ Please lift the bride's veil (面纱),” the robot said in a tinny voice, wavi ng its arms in the air as the newlyweds kissed in front of about 50 guests.The wedding took place at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, where the I-Fairy wore a wreath of flowers and directed a rooftop ceremony. Wires led out from beneath it to a black curtain a few feet away, where a man clicked commands into a computer.Japan has one of the most advanced robotics industries in the world, with the government actively supporting the field for future growth. Industrial models in factories are now standard, but recently Japanese companies are making a push to inject robots into everyday life.Honda makes a walking child-shaped robot, and other firms have developed them to entertain the elderly or play baseball. Kokoro, whose corporate goal is to “ touch thehearts of the people,” also makes giant dinosaur robots for exhibitions and life-like android models that can smile and laugh. The company is a subsidiary (附属公司) of Sanrio Co., which owns the rights to Hello Kitty and other Japanese characters.“This was a lot of fun. I think that Japanese have a strong sense that robots are our friends. Those in the robot industry mostly understand this, but people mainly want robots near them that serve some purpose,” said bride Satoko Inoue, 36, who works at manufacturer Kokoro Co.The I-Fairy sells for about 6.3 million yen ($ 68,000) and three are in use in Singapore, the US and Japan, according to company spokeswoman Kayako Kido.28. The underlined word “nuptials” in paragraph 2 can best be placed by ________.A. conductorB. brideC. robotD. wedding29. The robots made in Japan can do the following EXCEPT ________.A. entertain the senior peopleB. play baseballC. look after childrenD.laugh30. What can we learn from what bride Satoko Inoue said?A. A robot has been widely used to serve the people in Japan.B. It’s very interesting to work with a robot in her company.C. Japanese consider a robot can do many things like their friends.D. People need robots that can help them in some ways.31. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A.I-Fairy, a robot conducts wedding in TokyoB. The development of robotsC. All kinds of robots in JapanD. Wedding customs in JapanDWe are not who we think we are.The American self-image is spread with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable—a place where brains, energy and ambition are what count, not the circumstances of one’s birth.The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: The “rags to riches” story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the top.That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap their way into the top . Meanwhile, an incredible 42 percent of children born into that lowest are still stuck at the bottom, having been unable to climb a single rung of the income ladder.It is noted that even in Britain—a nation we think of as burdened with a hidebound(守旧的) classs ystem—children who are born poor have a better chance of moving up. When the studies were released, most reporters focused on the finding that African-Americans born to middle-class or upper middle-class families are earning slightly less, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than did their parents.One of the studies indicates, in fact, that most of the financial gains white families have made in the past three decades can be attributed to(归功于) the entry of white women into the labor force. This is much less true for African-Americans.The picture that emerges from all the quintiles, correlations and percentages is of a nation in which, over all, “the current generation of adults is better off than the previous one”, as one of the studies note s.The median income of the families in the sample group was $55,600 in the late 1960s; their children’s median family income was measured at $71,900. However, this rising tide has not lifted all boats equally. The rich have seen far greater income gains than have the poor.Even more troubling is that our nation of America as the land of opportunity gets little support from the data. Americans move fairly easily up and down the middle rungs of the ladder, but there is “stickiness at the ends”—four out of ten children who are born poor will remain poor, and four out of ten who are born rich will stay rich.32. What did the Economic Mobility Project find in its research?A. Children from low-income families are unable to bootstrap their way to the top.B. Hollywood actors and actresses are upwardly mobile from rags to riches.C. The rags to riches story is more fiction than reality.D. The rags to riches story is only true for a small minority of whites.33. It can be inferred from the undertone(潜台词) of the writer that America, as a classless society, should________.A. perfect its self-image as a land of opportunityB. have a higher level of upward mobility than BritainC. enable African-Americans to have exclusive access to well-paid employmentD. encourage the current generation to work as hard as the previous generation34. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. The US is a land where brains, energy and ambition are what countB. Inequality persists between whites and blacks in financial gains.C. Middle-class families earn slightly less with inflation considered.D. Children in lowest-income families manage to climb a single rung of the ladder.35. What might be the best title for this passage?A. Social Upward Mobility.B. Incredible Income Gains.C. Inequality in Wealth.D. America Not Land of Opportunity.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。