2008届江西南昌二中高三高考适应性考试

2008届江西省南昌二中高三高考适应性考试
英语试题
第Ⅰ卷（三部分，共115分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，再用2B铅笔将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。

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1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秒种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. When did Jim wish these two people to be at his house?
A. Before five o’clock.
B. At five o’clock.
C. Anytime between five and five thirty.
2. What did you learn about the woman?
A.She doesn’t understand the question.
B. She will not lend him the money.
C. She will lend him the money.
3. Why does the woman say so?
A.Because they will be tested on the Industrial Revolution.
B.Because she did poorly on the history exam.
C.Because there are many stores and industries in the area.
4. Which statement is RIGHT?
A.Bob is leaving for Hong Kong.
B. Tom wants to meet Bob on Saturday.
C. Bob wants to meet Tom today.
5. How does the man feel?
A. Better.
B. Sick.
C. Fine.
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秒钟的做答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6和第7题。

6. Where are they now?
A. In South California.
B. In North California.
C. In Taiwan.
7. What is the temperature today?
A. It's about 15 degrees Celsius.
B. It's about 5 degrees Celsius.
C. It's about 4 degrees Celsius.
听第7段材料．回答第8至第10题。

8. What did the man have today?
A. A party.
B. A meeting.
C. A date.
9. Why was the man excited?
A. Because he got a promotion.
B. Because the boss liked his ideas.
C. Because he got a reward.
10. What is the man going to do?
A. To write a proposal.
B. To build a team.
C. To hold a speech.
听第8段材料．回答第11至第13题。

11. How does the woman play tennis?
A. She plays it very well.
B. She begins to play it.
C. She doesn’t pla y it very well.
12. When will they play tennis?
A. At eight o'clock.
B. At nine o'clock.
C. At ten o'clock.
13. What does the man advise the woman to bring with?
A. Drinks.
B. Food.
C. Tennis balls.
听第9段材料，回答第14至第16题。

14. How many hours do they decide to spend studying French each day?
A. One hour.
B. Two hours.
C. Five hours.
15. When do they plan to study together?
A. At 7:00 am.
B. At 5:00 pm.
C. At 7:00 pm.
16. What does the man think of his French?
A. He has a terrible accent, but his grammar is good.
B. He never gets stuck in study.
C. His grammar is not good, and so is his accent.
听第10段材料，回答第17至第20题。

17. How much money do women spend on make-up and beauty products over their lifetime?
A. 182,000 pounds.
B. 128,000 pounds.
C. 82,000 pounds.
18. What is the magazine's name?
A. Beauty Woman.
B. New Woman.
C. Beauty Survey.
19. What does the sentence “T hey would not leave the house without their ‘face’on” mean?
A. They like to wear a veil (面罩).
B. They like to wear make-up.
C. They like to wear fashionable clothing.
20. How many people said that they never wear make-up?
A. Just one percent.
B. Only six percent.
C. Between A and B.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. —I just heard the tickets for tonight’s film have been sold out.
—Oh no! __________.
A. It’s not at all interesting
B. It doesn’t matter
C. I was looking forward to that
D. I know it already
22. Aborigines’ most common tool in Australia is _______ boomerang, which is used to kill _____ animals.
A. the; ∕
B. ∕; ∕
C. the; the
D. ∕; the
23. Why is he always forcing his daughter to practise playing the piano if she is not _____ for a
pianist?
A. meant
B. intended
C. trained
D. taken
24. I doubt whether he can ______ his efforts much longer as he looks so tired.
A. keep on
B. keep up
C. keep back
D. keep from
25. There is no light on dormitory. They must have gone to the lecture, ______?
A. didn’t they
B. haven’t they
C. mustn’t they
D. don’t they
26. Recently John has agreed to terms of a five-year contract extension with the Liverpool FC and
______, as reported, is worth more than ￡80 million.
A. which
B. he
C. one
D. it
27. Last winter Southeast China was struck by snows, from ______ effects the people are still
suffering.
A. what
B. which
C. whose
D. that
28. Liu Xiang ______ our expectation and got another gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the East
Asian Games in Macao.
A. according to
B. depended on
C. fit in with
D. lived up to
29. He traveled to many mountain villages and saw many poor children out of school. This
experience ______ his life.
A. would change
B. had changed
C. was to change
D. was changing
30. We needn’t get ready yet; the guests ______ come f or another hour.
A. mustn’t
B. shouldn’t
C. shan’t
D. needn’t
31. Can you imagine the singer _____ so much in public?
A. being admired
B. admire
C. to be admired
D. admiring
32. I used to swim with my little friends in this lake every summer, but not once since I left my
hometown in 1992 _________.
A. I have swum
B. have I swum
C. did I swim
D. I swam
33. So far a series of problems ________ brought about by this decision.
A. have
B. has
C. has been
D. have been
34. Was it _____ he was training in the field _____ he got hurt?
A. that, when
B. where, that
C. that, where
D. when, that
35. —My parents will have more time to rest at home after their retirement.
—This is ______ you’re wrong. Most of the old hope for a more active life after they are retired.
A. where
B. what
C. why
D. how
第二节：完型填空（共20 小题；每小题1.5分；满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

The year was 1964. A man I worked with had 36 a couple of 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed (题写) footballs and was selling them at a real 37 price. My first son was on the way. I bought the football as his "coming home from the hospital" 38 , and it was something truly special.
Several years later, young Tom was rummaging (乱翻) around in the garage 39 he came
across the 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football. He asked if he could play with it. I
40 to him that he was still a bit too 41 to play carefully with such a special ball. We had the same 42 several more times in the next few months, and soon the requests 43
away.
The next fall, after watching a football game on television, Tom asked, "Dad, 44 that football you have in the garage? Can I use it to play with the guys now?" And I replied, "Tom, you don't just go out and 45 throw around a 1963 Chicago bears-inscribed football. I told you before: it's special. "
46 it wasn't special any more. I stood 47 in the garage. It had been a long time since the boys moved away from home, and suddenly I 48 that the football had never been so special at all. Children playing with it when it was their 49 to play is what would have made it special. I had blown those 50 moments that can never be reclaimed(找回), and I had
51 a football. 52 what?
I took the football across the street and gave it to a 53 with young kids. A couple of hours later I looked out of the window. They were 54 , catching and kicking my 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed football.
Now it was 55 .
36. A. acquired B. required C. produced D. stored
37. A. possible B. reasonable C. good D. low
38. A. mark B. blessing C. honor D. gift
39. A. once B. when C. before D. until
40. A. referred B. warned C. shouted D. explained
41. A. amateur B. young C. weak D. soon
42. A. adjustment B. argument C. conversation D. discussion
43. A. faded B. ran C. floated D. went
44. A. recall B. take C. remember D. collect
45. A. normally B. happily C. carefully D. casually
46. A. But B. And C. So D. As
47. A. again B. once C. alone D. still
48. A. realized B. doubted C. considered D. concluded
49. A. pleasure B. right C. chance D. time
50. A. short B. precious C. important D. consistent（相容的）
51. A. saved B. hidden C. damaged D. bought
52. A. On B. Of C. For D. With
53. A. group B. family C. school D. kindergarten
54. A. throwing B. holding C. betting D. sharing
55. A. worthless B. expensive C. gone D. special
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A
I found myself a little while ago in one of the largest American prisons. It was like a stone castle, its high towers watched by guards with guns. I had been there several times before, on earlier visits to the USA. But this time I had come to see one particular prisoner. He was nineteen and after two years by himself in one room was awaiting execution for murder. He had just heard the result of a fresh trial. He was to serve life imprisonment instead. He was white-faced and talkative, a boy who had failed in high school and had all too easily got caught up in a night’s adventure that had ended with burning down buildings, two deaths and those two years awaiting death.
This prison is no worse than many others and it is certainly better than some. After you have passed through the complicated series of gates and doors and the electronic instruments have checked that you have no metal on your person —that you have no gun in fact —you enter within the walls. At once you are astonished at the difference between the strict controls outside and curiously easy going way of life inside. Here are men walking about, often smoking cigars; the football team is being trained on the field; there is a good deal of standing around waiting for something to happen. And of course things do happen: a sudden shout, a rush to the water tower, a mad climb to its top, senseless disobedience for days. But this is somehow a symbol for a bigger senselessness of that.
This time I was wondering what twenty years (and that would be the minimum) might mean for one boy pushed into this organized idleness.
56. Which of the following is true?
A. They were taking the prisoner out to kill him.
B. The punishment had been changed from life imprisonment to death.
C. The punishment had been changed from death to life imprisonment
D. They were taking him out for a fresh trial.
57. The prison is ________.
A. the worst in America
B. the best in America
C. the second best in America
D. somewhere between the best and worst
58. How did the writer feel when he went inside?
A. Greatly surprised
B. Pleased.
C. Disappointed.
D. Frightened.
59. When one shows disobedience, he is ________.
A. doing whatever he likes
B. making a lot of noise
C. not doing what is necessary
D. not doing what he is told to
B
Books that Win Minds
The decision by the Whitbread judges to award its big prize to a ch ildren’s fiction, The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman, will have delighted parents and teachers. For Pullman is an author credited, like J.K. Rowling, with the magical power of getting children to read, creating a fictional world so fascinating that even the most stubbornly reluctant readers fall under his page-turning spell (魔力) and discover the joy of books.
The following are some of his viewpoints on reading：
✧We read for many reasons. But what all of us get from engaging with a story is what you
don’t quite get with television or film. On screen the pictures do your imagining for you.
When you read you have to put more into it — and what you have to put in, you get out.
✧In engaging with a book, something more active is going on in your mind because you are
imagining for yourself. This is the thing that parents wish their children were doing.
✧The sense of joy and power and freedom when you can do that—that’s been lost in the
national curriculum and the reading strategy. They don’t mention the fun.
✧There is a wonderful range of popular science books which are fascinating for children, who
will follow a grown-up book as far as it will take them if they are fascinated by the subject.
✧I read a lot of trash, too—everybody ought to read trash. That way you don’t rely on others to
develop your taste.
60. The author of the book, The Amber Spyglass is ________.
A. Whitbread
B. Philip Pullman
C. J.K. Rowling
D. We don’t know
61. According to the author, the main advantage of reading books over watching TV or film is
that________.
A. reading can make people imagine something more actively
B. reading provides more fun
C. there are more interesting books than TV plays or films
D. reading can make you more concentrated on your work
62. It is implied that the national curriculum and reading strategy are ________.
A. important
B. interesting
C. terrible
D. not fascinating
63. In the last paragraph the underlined word trash most probably means________.
A. science books
B. novels
C. books of poor quality
D. interesting books
C
In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit (押金) on beverage (饮料) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum (铝) cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it would be buried in landfills (垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.
Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paintbrushes, etc.
As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a second life--and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials.
Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling
is already the least expensive waste management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal (处理), which, in parts of New York, amounts to saving of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims (减少) the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
64. What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?
A. Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda
bottles.
B. Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling.
C. A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling.
D. Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on
returning them.
65. The returned plastic bottles in New York used to________.
A. end up somewhere underground
B. be turned into raw materials
C. have a second-life value
D. be separated from other rubbish
66. Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because________.
A. local governments find it easy to manage
B. recycling has great appeal for the jobless
C. recycling causes little pollution
D. other methods are more expensive
67. It can be concluded from the passage that________.
A. rubbish is a potential remedy (补救) for the shortage of raw materials
B. local governments in the U.S. can expect big profits from recycling
C. recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentally
D. landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal
D
Exchange a glance with someone, and then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer and you have made a different statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person’s gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. If
you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up（打量）and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to send out a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contacts what sociologist Erving Goffiman（1963）calls “a dimming of the lights”. You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger’s eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person extremely uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.
If you hold eye contacts for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and the situation. For instance, a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, and then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again. But if one man gives another man a 3-second-plus stare, he signals, “I know you”. “I am interested in you.” or “You look peculiar and
I am curious about you.” This type of stare often produces hostile feelings.
68. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.
A. every glance has its significance (meaning or importance)
B. staring at a person is an expression of interest
C. a gaze longer than 3 seconds is unacceptable
D. a glance carries more meaning than words
69. If you want to be left alone on an elevator the best thing to do is ________.
A. to look into another passenger’s eyes
B. to avoid eye contacts with other passengers
C. to signal you are not a threat to anyone
D. to keep a distance from other passengers
70. By “a dimming of the lights”, Erving Goffiman means ________.
A. closing one’s eyes
B. turning off the lights
C. stopping glancing at others
D. reducing gaze-time to the minimum.
71. The passage mainly discusses ________.
A. the limitations of eye contacts
B. the exchange of ideas through eye contacts
C. proper behavior in situations
D. the role of eye contacts in interpersonal communication
E
The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Although science has made enormous (巨大的) steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon (结肠). Difficult cultures are some prone to contract (易于染上) certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives (添加剂) , caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry (家禽) and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medical purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.
72. How has science done disservice(损害) to mankind?
A. Because of science, disease caused by contaminated food has been virtually done away with.
B. It has caused a lack of information, concerning the value of food.
C. As a result of scientific intervention (干涉), some potentially harmful substances have been
added to our food.
D. The scientists have preserved the color of meats, but not of vegetables.
73. What are nitrates used for?
A. They preserve flavor in packaged food.
B. They preserve the color of meats.
C. They are the objects of research.
D. They cause the animals to become fatter.
74. The underlined word carcinogenic(Line 9) means most nearly the same as ________.
A. trouble-making
B. money-making
C. color-retaining
D. cancer-causing
75. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Drugs are always given to animals for medical reasons.
B. Some of the additives in our food are added to the food itself and some are given to the
living animals.
C. Researchers have known about the potential hazards (危害) of food additives for over fifty years.
D. Food may cause forty percent of cancer in the world.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确的形式，使对话通顺。

Sophie: Have you ever watched the film. E.T. made by Steven Spielberg? It
is one of the (76) b money-making films in history. I think it's a
great film.
76.
Alan: I don't think so. But the story is good in some ways. The (77)i of a friendly alien living in our world and (78) m friends with a group of teenagers is OK. 77.
78.
Sophie: The film is more than twenty years old now and people still love the (79) s . 79. Alan: I just think it is a good film but not a great one. I think that Steven Spielberg made the film because he wanted to make everyone (80) m____
to cry. I also think the film is too long.
80.
Sophie: It's only one hour and forty-five (81) m long! 81. Alan: I mean that it feels too long. I (82) a it's extremely exciting
at the beginning. But at the end...
82.
Sophie: But can you remember the part (83) w E.T. is dying and one of the children is so attached to E.T. that he becomes (84)s ill too?
Alan: Yes, I think I fell (85) a at that point. 83.
84.
85.
第二节：书面表达（25分）
作为中学生，你肯定经历过多次考试，体验过成功，也遭遇过失败。

请你根据下面的提示内容，简要概述中学生普遍存在的对考试失败的两种态度，并结合自身实际，说明你的观点。

注意：
1.词数：100左右；
2.可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。