江苏省扬州中学2017届高三下学期5月质量监测(最后一模) 英语 含答案

2017扬州中学高三英语阶段测试第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

( )1. What does the man mean?A. He wants to try the rice.B. He plans to mae the rice.C. He prefers to have light food.( )2. When is the film starting?A. In an hour.B. In half an hour.C. In three minutes. ( )3. Where does the conversation probably tae place?A. At the train station.B. At the airport.C. At the bus stop. ( )4. Who might be speaing to Tom?A. His boss.B. His teacher.C. His mother.( )5. What does the man imply about the woman?A. She should spend more.B. She should buy the red sirt.C. She should budget her money carefully.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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 is Cindy's problem?A. She is worrying about losing her job.B. She is uncertain about a new job offer.C. She doesn't get along well with her colleagues.( )7. How does Cindy find her present job?A. Interesting.B. Well-paid.C. Easy.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

( ) 8. What are the two speaers taling about?A. A student's choice about accommodation.B. The cost of the self-catering accommodation.C. The requirements of application for accommodation.( )9. How much does a single room cost per month for the self-catering accommodation?A. About $70.B. About $120.C. About $160.( )10. What is the recommended time to apply for university-owned accommodation?A. At the beginning of the month.B. At the end of the month.C. Before the end of the month.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

( )11. Why was the man late?A. Because he forgot the time.B. Because he lost his way.C. Because he went to eat something.( )12. What is the topic of the conversation?A. Architecture.B. Art.C. Travelling.( )13. Which place is the second stop of their trip?A The Castle. B. The Art Gallery. C. The Botanical Garden.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

( )14. Why didn't the man contact the woman immediately after landing?A. Because of the plane's delay.B. Because of a business meeting.C. Because of the wrong phone number.( )15. Where can the luggage information be found?A. On the man's ticet.B. At the information des.C. At the Lost and Found office.( )16. At what number can the man be reached after four o'cloc?A 305-3272. B. 352-9836. C. 333-6282.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

( )17. What problem does the speaer focus on?A. People's being treated unfairly.B. People's being afraid to voice their opinions.C. People's being cheated into buying unnecessary things.( )18. Why do people have such a problem?A. Because they have low self-respect.B. Because people around own good sense.C. Because they don't have enough training.( )19. How long does the course last?A. Two hours.B. Ten hours.C. Ten wees.( )20. What's the aim of the course?A. To observe people's behavior.B. To raise people's self-awareness.C. To create role-play situations.第二部分：英语基础知识运用(共两节，满分35分)第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

21.The old couple are considering moving to the country ________ its quietness and lower livingcosts.A. in view ofB. in terms ofC. in spite ofD. in face of22. We do not ________ between our worers on the basis of their bacground or ethnic origin.A. differentiateB. drillC. determineD. deposit23. The Ban of England's announcement gave the stoc maret a ________ today.A. liftB. leaC. labelD. load24. Human beings need attention, and giving attention to each other is, to a large etent, ________human civiliation is based.A. whichB. howC. whatD. where25. Men are equally as good as women at taing care of others; better ________，male nurses can bea great help in eeping patients still when they are receiving painful treatment.A. yetB. muchC. enoughD. even26. The ban has to ________ investors because it is in a fiercely competitive maret.A. carry onB. let downC. butter upD. cut off27. John Logie Baird constructed the first colour TV in 1928, but it was in 1938 that the first colourTV program was broadcast, ________？A. did heB. wasn't itC. was itD. didn't he28. But the pursuit of the American dream ________ quicly turn into a nightmare, eperts warn, asmany of these so­called parachute ids live in the US with little parental supervision.A. canB. mayC. shallD. will29. Men are more suited to occupational environments ________ require decisive action whilewomen are better at jobs ________ a considered approach is most important.A. which; thatB. /; whenC. which; whenD. that; where30. He is ________ quitting smoing. To do it, he stics to eating some sugars whenever he wants tosmoe.A. bent onB. bound toC. desperate toD. abundant in31.Quite a few people used to believe that disaster________ if a mirror was broen.A. was sure of striingB. was sure of having strucC. was sure to be strucD. was sure to strie.32. — I didn't epect that John would be absent from my last Sunday's birthday party.— As far as I now, he ________ to see his parents in the countryside on Sundays.A. goesB. wentC. has goneD. had gone33. Now that the war was over, they could ________ the threads of their life again.A. tae upB. pic upC. mae upD. loo up34. — Mie, the office is in a mess. It's your turn to clean it up.— ________. I did it yesterday and the day before yesterday.A. Bac in a moment.B. Don't count on me.C. Don't fall for it.D. Get off my bac.35. — Mr Li is the most ecellent engineer in our company despite his poor education bacground.— ________. His technical capacity comes from his devotion and rich eperience.A. Four eyes see more than twoB. The end justifies the meansC. Wor maes the wormanD. Better late than never第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)Well hidden in our subconsciousness is an idyllic(田园式) vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the __36__ We are travelling by train. Out the windows, we __37__ in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving on a crossing, of cattle graing on a(n) __38__ hillside, of smoe pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and __39__. of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city sylines and village halls.__40__ the uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull __41__ the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we reach the __42__ so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will be fit together lie a(n) __43__ jigsaw pule. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes loitering, waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.“__44__ we arrived at the station, that will be it”， we __45__ “When I'm 18”，“When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Ben”，“When I __46__ my last id through college”，“When I have paid off the loan, “When I get a(n) __47__”，“When I reach the age of the __48__ I shall live happily ever after.”Sooner or later, we must be __49__ that there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The __50__ joy of life is the trip. The station is merely a dream. It __51__ outdistances us.“Relish the moment” is a good motto. It isn't the burdens of today __52__ drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who __53__ us of today.So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. __54__ climb more mountains, eat more ice creams, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be __55__ as we go along. Then the station will come soon enough.36. A. coast B. continent C. boundary D. frontier37. A. absorb B. bring C. drin D. involve38. A. attractive B. winding C. hollow D. distant39. A. valleys B. plains C. farms D. fields40. A. So B. Meanwhile C. But D. Therefore41. A. out B. into C. up D. over42. A. local B. trail C. potential D. terminal43. A. craced B. separated C. completed D. connected44. A. While B. Since C. When D. Before45. A. cry B. whisper C. weep D. sob46. A. put B. carry C. comb D. pull47. A. inspiration B. promotion C. profit D. prediction48. A. commitment B. unemployment C. settlement D. retirement49. A. thrilled B. confident C. aware D. astonished50. A. artificial B. incredible C. natural D. true51. A. constantly B. frequently C. rarely D. accidentally52. A. which B. that C. what D. as53. A. rid B. remind C. rob D. steal54. A. Besides B. Instead C. Nevertheless D. Eventually55. A. satisfied B. quitted C. tolerated D. lived第三部分：阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)AHere's this wee's list of four open jobs throughout the local area. Whether you're unemployed and need a job or you are just sic of the one you have, Roswell Patch wants to help. We now new jobs can be hard to come by these days, which is why we'll try to post a selection of jobs we've found in the area on the site each wee. Happy hunting!Part­time Spanish Instructor—World Language Institute, Inc.—Roswell.World Language Institute, Inc. in Roswell, is currently hiring a part­time, native­speaing Spanish instructor. Applicants must be able to pass a bacground chec and drive a 15­passenger bus to pic up students from several schools, from 2 p．m.—6 p．m. Monday—Friday. The position pays $10 per hour. More information about the job is available online.Eperienced Servers—Chili's—AlpharettaChili's in Alpharetta is seeing eperienced servers to add to its team. Qualifications will include being clean and neat and having great attitude and customer service sills. The pay is $2.13, plus tips. Stop by the store to fill out an application. More information about this position is available online.Registered Nurse—North Fulton Regional Hospital—RoswellNorth Fulton Regional Hospital is looing for a RN/Registered Nurse to fill a 12­hour night shift. Applicants must be registered and previous hospital eperience is preferred. More information about the position is available online.Software Engineer—ControlScan—AlpharettaControlScan in Alpharetta is hiring a software engineer. Applicants should have five or more years of relevant eperience, as well as advanced nowledge of computer technology. Pay is commensurate(相称) with eperience. More information about the position can be found online.56. Who will mainly wor at night?A. Sally, hired by Chili's.B. Robert, hired by ControlScan.C. John, hired by World Language Institute. Inc.D. Jane, hired by North Fulton Regional Hospital.57. Which of the following sentences is true according to the passage?A. We can most probably read the passage in a newspaper.B. World Language Institute is looing for a part­time teacher.C. You can apply for the job by sending an E­mail or in person if you want to wor in Chili's in Alpharetta.D. ControlScan in Alpharetta wants to hire an eperienced software engineer with a good nowledge of English.BBy 2050, a completely new type of human will evolve as a result of etremely new technology, behaviour, and natural selection. This is according to Cadell Last, a researcher at the Global Brain Institute, who claims manind is undergoing a major “evolutionary transition”．In less than four decades, Mr Last claims we will live longer, have children in old age and rely on artificial intelligence to do ordinary and boring tass. This shift is so significant, he claims, it is comparable to the change from moneys to apes, and apes to humans. “Your 80 or 100 is going to be so radically different than your grandparents，” Mr Last says, who believes we will spend much of our time living in virtual reality. Some evolutionary scientists believe this age could be as high as 120 by 2050.Mr Last claims humans will also demonstrate delayed_maturation,_according to a report by Christina Sterben in Business Insider. This refers to something nown as life history theory which attempts to eplain how natural selection shapes ey events in a creature's life, such as reproduction. It suggests that as brain sies increase, organisms need more energy and time to reach their full potential, and so reproduce less.Instead of living fast and dying younger, Mr Last believes humans will live slow and die old. “Global society at the moment is a complete mess，” he told MailOnline. “But in crisis there is opportunity, and in apocalypse(启示) there can be transformation. So I thin the net system humanity creates will be far more sophisticated, fair, and abundant than our current civiliation.”“I thin our net system will be as different from the modern world, as our contemporary world is from the medieval(中世纪的) world. The biological cloc isn't going to be around forever，” he added, and said that people could pause it for some time using future technology.The change is already happening. Today, the average age at which a woman in Britain has her first baby has been rising steadily at 29.8. In the US, just one percent of first children were born to women over the age of 35 in 1970. By 2012, that figure rose to 15 percent.“As countries become socio­economically advanced, more and more people, especially women have the option to engage in cultural reproduction，” Mr Last added. And as well as having more child­free years to enjoy leisure time, he believes artificial intelligence will mae up the need for low­sill jobs. We may also spend a large amount of time living in virtual reality. “I'm not quite sure most people have really absorbed the implications of this possibility，” Mr Last said.His views are detailed in a paper, titled “Human Evolution, Life History Theory, and the End of Biological Reproduction” published Current Aging Science.58. Which statement is compared by Mr Last to the change from moneys to apes, and apes to humans?A. We have diseases and die young.B. We use intelligent robots to do everyday housewor.C. We spend less time in virtual reality.D. We give birth to a child when we are young.59. The underlined words in the third paragraph most probably m ean “________”．A. Organisms need more energy and time to ripen.B. Natural selection shapes ey events.C. Reproduction.D. Reproduce less.60. In the net system Mr Last eplained we can infer that ________．A. women are engaged in cultural reproduction in place of menB. women are engaged in playing computer games rather than woringC. women are engaged in careers or hobbies instead of giving birth to babiesD. women are engaged in living in virtual reality without optionsCWhen a big boat, lie a cruise ship, goes through the ocean, it often creates waves. This happens when the large engines on the bac of the cruise ship cause the water on the ocean's surface move up and down violently. These waves move out from the boat in both directions. If you are captaining a smaller boat, you'd better steer clear of a ship's wae, so that your boat is not surfing on the waves, causing it to overturn.A wave is a pattern of motion. When you loo at a wave, it may appear as simply water moving across the surface of the ocean. In fact, this is false. The water is actually not moving in the same direction as the wave. While the wave itself—the pattern of motion—is moving across the surface of the ocean, the water is actually moving in a circular motion, which brings the water molecules bac to their original position. The water merely gives the appearance of moving forward.If this is confusing, thin of the ind of wave you do at a baseball stadium. Viewed from a distance, the wave is clearly moving across the stadium. But the thing that maes up the wave—the people—are not moving across the stadium, they're just moving up and down in their seats. This is just lie the water in an ocean wave.A lot of water is moving up and down, which gives water the appearance of moving along with the wave.Surfers pay a lot of attention to waves. If you're not in an area where the waves are suitable for surfing, then you can't surf. Usually, surfers gather in areas nown for big waves—waves that rise high off the ocean's surface. If the wave is bigger, then the surfer is often able to surf for longer distances and perform more trics. The height of a wave is nown as its amplitude. If you could mae a wave freee, then you could measure the wave's amplitude by running a tape measure fromthe ocean's surface to the very pea of the wave.All waves can be measured using amplitude and wavelength. While the waves created by a boat have very small amplitude—sometimes as small as a few centimeters—the wavelength can be very short, as lots of waves are being generated. By contrast, a tsunami has very high amplitude, sometimes more than 100 feet, but a relatively long wavelength, as it's a high wave.Waves generated in the same way can have great differences in amplitude and wavelength. For eample, thin bac to the cruise ship. While each ship creates waves caused by the movement of the boat, the properties of each of the waves may be very different. For eample, a larger cruise ship, with powerful engines, may create a wave that has high amplitude and a short wavelength. However, if the ship's engines slow down, they may then start creating less powerful waves at a slower rate. This would cause the waves' amplitude to decrease, but its wavelength to increase.61. What does the phrase “steer clear of a cruise ship's wae” in the 1s t paragraph mean?A. eeping awae while steering a ship.B. Getting a clear view of what is ahead.C. Following the cruise ship very closely.D. eeping away from the cruise ship.62. The author gives an eample of wave people do in the stadium in order to________．A. illustrate how ecited people are in a basetball stadiumB. clear the confusion over measuring the wave's amplitudeC. eplain why the water appears to move along the wavesD. demonstrate how to mae waves in a basetball stadium63. The last paragraph gives us the impression that ________．A. the wave's amplitude may vary, but its wavelength remain the sameB. the amplitude of a wave depends on the direction the water moves forwardC. the more powerful the ships' engines are, the higher the waves they generateD. measuring the amplitude and wavelength of waves is not quite easy64. What is this passage mainly about?A. What maes the sea water move forwards.B. How to steer a cruise ship in the rough sea.C. Why people create waves in the stadium.D. How waves are created and measured.DJobs quicly became bored with college. He lied being at Reed, just not taing the required classes. In fact he was surprised when he found out that, for all of its hippie aura, there were strict course requirements. When Wonia came to visit, Jobs waved his schedule at him and complained, “They are maing me tae all these courses.” Wo replied, “Yes, that's what they do in college.” Jobs refused to go to the classes he was assigned and instead went to the ones he wanted, such as a dance class where he could enjoy both the creativity and the chance to meet girls.“I would never have refused to tae the courses you were supposed to, that's a difference in our personality，” Wonia marveled.Jobs also began to feel guilty, he later said, about spending so much of his parents' money on an education that did not seem worthwhile. “All of my woring ­class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition，” he recounted in a famous commencement address at Stanford. “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all wor out oay.”He didn't actually want to leave Reed; he just wanted to quit paying tuition and taing classes that didn't interest him. Remarably, Reed tolerated that. “He had a very inquiring mind that was enormously attractive，” said the dean of students, Jac Dudman. “He refused to accept automatically received truths, and he wanted to eamine everything himself.” Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition.“The minute I dropped out I could stop taing the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looed interesting，” he said. Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him after he saw posters on campus that were beaut ifully drawn. “I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what maes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.”It was yet another eample of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology. In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches, and even romance. He would be in the fore of pushing friendly graphical user interfaces. The calligraphy course would become iconic in that regard. “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's liely that no personal computer would have them.”In the meantime Jobs deced out a bohemian eistence on the fringes of Reed. He went barefoot most of the time, wearing sandals when it snowed. Eliabeth Holmes made meals for him, trying to eep up with his obsessive diets. He returned soda bottles for spare change, continued his tres to the free Sunday dinners at the Hare rishna temple, and wore a down jacet in the heatless garage apartment he rented for $20 a month. When he needed money, he found wor at the psychology department lab maintaining the electronic equipment that was used for animal behaviour eperiments. Occasionally Chrisann Brennan would come to visit. Their relationship sputtered along erratically. But mostly he tended to the stirrings of his own soul and personal quest for enlightenment.“I came of age at a magical time，” he reflected later. “Our consciousness was raised by en, and also by LSD.” Even later in life he would credit ps ychedelic drugs for maing him more enlightened. “Taing LSD was a profound eperience, oneof the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can't remember it when it wears off, but you now it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of maing money, putting things bac into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”65. Jobs and Wonia differed in ________．A. approach to freedomB. attitude to requirementsC. appetite for nowledgeD. affection for college life66. One factor in Job's decision to leave college is that ________．A. his family was in absolute povertyB. he wanted to be independent of his parentsC. the college couldn't prepare him for his set goalD. he wouldn't have his parents' money wasted67. From Jac Dudman's statement, we can see that Jobs was ________．A. rather difficult to get along withB. very serious about eisting beliefsC. quite good at solving problemsD. too stubborn to change his mind68. The underlined word “audit” in paragraph 3 means “________”．A. give successfullyB. miss occasionallyC. attend informallyD. conduct irregularly69. Jobs wored on typefaces while suffering from a hard life ________．A. to bring something great into eistenceB. to prove his value to the whole worldC. to mae himself wealthy for a better lifeD. to show college was unimportant to him70. Which of the following can be the proper title for the passage?A. Stay OutB. Wor OutC. Hold OutD. Drop Out第Ⅱ卷(非选择题共35分)第四部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)Troubled by the poor performance of their investments, many people are taing steps to stop decrease of their savings and rethin their financial plans. They are not sure what to do to maimie returns in light of stoc maret fluctuations, new ta laws, low interest rates and syroceting real estate values. “People are afraid of maing a mistae and losing more money，” says financial counselor Denise Hughes. “The do­it­yourself investor of the 1990s is more comfortable now doing nothing.”But doing nothing isn't better than doing something smart. Here's what financial advisors are recommending to their clients：Plan for financial aid. Most parents don't save nearly enough for children's education. They assume that investing in a 529 plan is the best place for your savings. While a 529 plan offers ta­free growth and withdrawals for college costs, collegesloo at these savings when evaluating their qualification and how much they will hand over. Do save aggressively for college in a taable account in your name if your household income is below $100，000. In this case, your child will liely qualify for some financial aid. Do invest in a 529 plan if your income is higher than $100，000 and will liely remain at or above that level when your child enters college. In this case, the 529 plan is great because you probably won't qualify for financial aid anyway.Epect ups and downs. Annoyed by three straight years of stoc maret declines, many people have been shifting to lower­ris investments. But just as taing too much ris can hurt your portfolio's(投资组合) growth rate, so can hiding out in ecessive safe investments. Do consider investing in funds that you'll hold on to for more than a year. Under the new ta law, long­term capital gains are taed at a maimum of 15%, down from 20%. Do loo at stoc funds that pay dividends(红利). Dividends on stocs used to be taed at your personal income ta rate. Under the new law, they are now taed at no more than 15%. Investing in these funds will not only hold down taes but also sustain your portfolio's value in tough times.Forget high fees. Over the net ten years, achieving the ind of double­digit returns we eperienced over the past 20 years will be much harder. In the 1990s, the average rate of returns for a portfolio allocated 60% to stocs and 40% to bonds was 13.2% after taes and transaction epenses. Over the coming decade, this rate is epected to be closer to 5.5%. Don't pay unnecessarily high investment costs and fees. For eample, if you can save half a percentage point on your fund epense ratio(the fee that funds charge you each year to manage your money), your average investment return could be 6% instead of 5%.Title How to Manage Your Money第五部分：书面表达(满分25分)请阅读下面材料，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章Bie-sharing has taen off in China far faster than in any other maret. The maret has become flooded with new companies in recent months. The bie-sharing companies operate in a similar way. They use apps that allow users, after paying a deposit, to unloc the wheels with their smartphones. After the journey, users can leave bies anywhere in public and。