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太原五中2013—2014学年度第二学期月考（2月）高三英语第I卷第一部分：听力（共两节）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答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题）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。

例：How much is the shirt?A. £19.15.B.£9.15.C.£9.18.答案是B。

1. How much will the man pay for the tickets?A. £7.5.B. £15.C. £50.2. Which is the right gate for the man’s flight?A. Gate 16.B. Gate 22.C. Gate 25.3.How does the man feel about going to school by bike?A. Happy.B. Tired.C. Worried.4.When can the woman get the computers?A. On Tuesday.B. On Wednesday.C. On Thursday.5.What does the woman think of the shirt for the party?A. The size is not large enough.B. The material is not good.C. The color is not suitable.第二节(共15小题)听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有几个小题，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。

每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.What can we learn about Mr. Brown?A. He is in his office.B. He is at a meeting.C. He is out for a meal.7.What will the man probably do next?A. Call back.B. Come again.C. Leave a message.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.What kind of room does the man want to take?A. A single room.B. A double room.C. A room for three.9.What does the man need to put in the from?A. Telephone and student card numbers.B. Student card number and address.C. Address and telephone number.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Fellow clerks.B. Boss and secretary.C. Customer and salesperson.11.What does the man like about his job?A. Living close to the office.B. Chances to go abroad.C. Nice people to work with.12.What do we know about the woman?A. She likes traveling.B. She is new to the company.C. She works in public relations.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.When will the visitors come?A. In March.B. In April.C. In May.14.How many visitors are coming?A.8.B.10.C.12.15.What will the visitors do on the second day?A. Go to party.B. Visit schools.C. Attend a lecture.16.Where will the visitors go on the final day?A. To London.B. To Scotland.C. To the coast.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What is the first word the baby tried to say?A. Truck.B.OK.C. Duck.18.How old was the baby when he learned to say that word correctly?A. About 18 months.B. About 21months.C. About 24 months.19.What did the father do when the baby screamed that word at the airport?A. He corrected the baby.B. He tried to stop the baby.C. He did himself somewhere.20.Why did the mother pretend not to know the baby?A. She got angry with the father.B. She was frightened by the noise.C. She felt uneasy about the noisy baby.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节（共15小题，每小题3分，满分45分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并将答案填在答题卡上。

AThe Man of Many Secrets — Harry Houdini — was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes — from prison cells, from wooden boxes floatingin rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his ―magic‖ tricks.Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.It was the publicity that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success. Harr y had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck — and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wide fame and a name remembered today.21. According to the passage, Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on _______.A. his special tricks and supernatural powersB. his unusual ability and a skeleton keyC. his magic tricks and unhuman powersD. his wisdom and magic tricks22. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word ―this‖ refers to _______.A. his first prison escapeB. the year 1898C. the publicityD. Harry Houdini’s success23. From the passage we can infer that Houdini became famous _______.A. in 1894B. before he marriedC. at the age of 17D. when he was about 2424. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. A Skeleton KeyB. A Man of Many SecretsC. World-wide FameD. Great EscapeBThe time of year a baby is born can shape what profession they will embark on in later life, a new study has suggested. Being born in a certain month appears to indicate the possibility of what job a person will end up with, the study by the Office for National Statistics found.Researchers have uncovered that the month in which babies are born could also affect everything fromintelligence to length of life. A child born in December is more likely to become a dentist while someone whose birthday falls in January will tend to a debt collector, they found.A February birth appears to increase the chances of being an artist while March babies appear to go on to become pilots. Meanwhile, April and May are said to have a fairly even spread of professions, births in the summer months mean a much lower chance of becoming a high-earning football player, doctor or dentist. The study was gained by researchers who analyzed the birth months of people in 19 separate occupations using information from the last census (人口普查), the Daily Mail reported. Although these trends may be difficult to explain, relations between birth months and specific health problems have a scientific basis.Spring babies are at greater risk of illnesses including schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s dise ase, asthma and autism. They may also be less clever than classmates born in other parts of the year.25. What does the underlined phrase ―embark on‖ refer to?A. land onB. keep in touch withC. be engaged inD. break from26. According to the researchers, a child born in March is likely to become_______.A. a debt collectorB. a pilotC. a dentistD. an artist27. We can learn from the text that______.A. the month babies are born could only affect his intelligence and length of lifeB. People born in the summer months are more likely to get highly paidC. Spring babies may have the bigger chance to get illD. the choice of profession for April and May is very narrow28. What can be included from the passage?A. There exist connections between birth date and occupationsB. The fate has been already decided when people are bornC. People born in Autumn would be more successful than those born in SpringD. The time of year one is born decides which specific health problems one hasCIt is part book, part film, part game—and a world away from the best-selling books in any season. But Julian McCrea, developer of the immersive(拟真的) iPad thriller The Craftsman, is convinced his mashup (混搭) of literary gothic and cinematic chiller(恐怖电影或书籍) is the future of fiction.The app turns the reader into the main character in a tale that draws on influences such as Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In future works, McCrea hopes to use the iPad’s built-in camera to read your facial expressions, letting him increase the tension accordingly as the story develops.With sales of paper books declining, McCrea believes the app represents a new kind of digital storytelling that could open up an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole of possibilities.―No two people will get the same experience,‖ says McCrea, who gave up his previous job three years ago to start Portal Entertainment.The project has echoes of the ―choose your own adventure‖ paperbacks of the 1980s and 90s, whichallowed pre-teen readers to plot their own way through treasure islands and spooky forests. But the creators of the new app wanted to take the idea further.―You,‖ as a fully paid-up character in the drama, can sign online petitions (请愿书) on factious（虚构的）websites and receive mysterious message on your mobile phone from other characters, while the events you attend in the story pop up in your real-life calendar, as the app’s creators attempt to ―bleed‖ the story into your everyday life.With the story unfolding in short episodes over five days McCrea hopes to capture an audience of thirtysomething dads used to whipping out their phone to play Angry Birds when they have a spare five minutes. But also in his sights is the £87 million British market for thrillers and crime novels.Authors embrace the new form of digital storytelling as a chance to engage in the innovations of the publishing industry. Mike Jones, the novelist who led the writers’ team for The Craftsman, says the appeal of the app project was the chance to bring some of the ―age-old traditions of storytelling –genre, character and catharsis（情感的抒发）‖— into new media. ―There has never been a better time to be a storyteller.‖29. The Craftsman is ____________.A. an immersive iPad thrillerB. an app that can read our facial expressionsC. the sample of the future booksD. a combination of literary work and fiction30. How can the app users engage in the thriller The Craftsman?A. They can be turned into the main character in the tale while reading.B. They can experience in the real life the events that happened in the tale.C. They can contribute their ideas to the writers on how the tale continues.D. They can decide the ending of the tale.31. What kind of readers does the app intend to target?A. Young dads in their thirties.B. Thriller and crime novel lovers.C. Both A and B.D. Neither A nor B.32. What is the attitude of authors towards the new way of storytelling?A. Opposed.B. Neutral.C. Skeptical.D. Supportive.DWe eat what our friends eat, according to a new study presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economic Association’s 2013 annual meeting in Washington, D.C.The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U of I) and Oklahoma State University, provided fresh confirmation of how much our environment influences our eating habits. The scientific team analyzed the lunch receipts from a restaurant in Stillwater, Oklahoma that agreed to use three menus designed by the researchers for three months in 2010. One group of diners — the control group —used the restaurant’s original menus with ite m and price listings. The second group received menus with calorie counts and the third group used menus that had both calorie counts and a traffic light symbol designed to indicate calorie ranges. A green traffic light meant a food option was 400 calories or less, a yellow light indicated 401 calories to 800 calories and a red light was placed next to choices withmore than 800 calories.By analyzing diners’ receipts, the researchers found interesting patterns in what patrons（老主顾）ordered. They also interviewed servers and found that people who were part of larger parties and received menus with traffic lights typically ordered healthier options, which the researchers say suggests the influence of peer pressure.The researchers then created a model to assess how customers felt about their choices. Based on the popularity of menu items, the researchers determined the probability that individuals were satisfied with their choice. Interestingly, this gauge（测量标准）of satisfaction was influenced by expected factors such as price and calories, but also by fellow diners’ menu choices as well. They found that even if a customer initially felt less satisfied about their choice of say, a salad, they felt better about it if their friends ordered an item within the same menu category.“The big takeaway from this research is that people were happier if they were making similar choices to those sitting around them,‖ study author Brenna Ellison, an economist at the U of I, said in a statement. ―If my peers are ordering higher-calorie items or spending more money, then I am also happier, or at least less unhappy, if I order higher-calorie foods and spend more money.‖ So if you’re hoping to eat better, try dining with friends who do too.33. The scientific team came to their conclusion by ________.A. analyzing receipts from diners using specially designed menus.B. studying information from the receiptsC. comparing calorie counts and ranges that appear in different menusD. analyzing the connection between diner’s choices and calorie counts34. According to the research findings, those who ordered healthier options tended to ______.A. ask the servers for recommendations and notice the calorie countsB. eat with friends and be concerned about calorie ranges of the foodC. be more affected by their friends’ preference of the choice of foodD. have a much unhealthier eating habit when they ate alone35. The word ―takeaway‖ is closest in meaning to ________.A. conclusionB. successC. illustrationD. judgment第二节（共5小题，每小题3分，满分15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。