陕西省西工大附中2016届高三第九次适应性考试英语试题(含答案)

陕西省西北工业大学附属中学2016届高三第九次适应性考试英语试题本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。

第Ⅰ卷1页至8页，第Ⅱ卷9页至10页。

考试结束，将本试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，现将答案标在试卷上，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。

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

1. When will the two speakers probably discuss the matter again?A. On Wednesday.B. On Thursday.C. On Friday.2. Where did the man work part-time?A. In a bank.B. At the post office.C. At a department store.3. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. An answer.B. A program.C. A question.4. What does the man offer to do?A. Fix the car for the woman.B. Call a taxi for the woman.C. Give the woman a ride.5. Why does the man recommend a green shirt to the woman?A. The color suits her.B. There’s one in her size.C. He has no blue shirts in stock.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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. Who is Andy?A. The man’s new colleague.B. The man’s new neighbor.C. The man’s brother-in-law.7. How many people will attend the dinner party?A. Thirteen.B. Fourteen.C. Fifteen.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What will the man do next week?A. Go to a birthday party.B. Go on a business trip.C. Go to a summer camp.9. What will the woman buy for each family member?A. A pair of sunglasses.B. A backpack.C. A T-shirt.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Friends.B. Couple.C. Teammates.11. What does the woman say about the coach?A. He takes it easy on the players.B. He used to be a great player.C. He usually does a good job.12. What are the two speakers probably doing?A. Watching a game.B. Having a baseball class.C. Practicing baseball with Jimmy.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why did the woman book the man a room in the Sky Palace?A. It offers much more traveling.B. He’s stayed there twice before.C. It is near the company he’ll visit.14. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Call the travel agency.B. Fetch the air tickets today.C. Find another hotel in Brussels.15. What is the man's final destination?A. London.B. Brussels.C. Barcelona.16. Who will meet the man at the airport?A. His wife.B. His customer.C. His secretary.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is wrong with the gate?A. The nails are coming out of the wood.B. The pieces of wood are coming apart.C. Not enough nails were used.18. What does the speaker think of the Borg Fence staff?A. They overcharged him.B. They were careful about their work.C. They didn't pay much attention to his fence.19. What do we know about the speaker?A. He lives at 52 Ascott Circle.B. He will deal with the case in private.C. He was the Borg Fence’s customer before.20. What does the speaker threaten to do?A. Call the police.B. Make a formal complaint.C. Go to Borg Fence's office.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。

ACompassion is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into actions. An experience last weekend showed me this is true. I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款机）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered w hat kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable. “Change it to me,” was all he said.What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.21. The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits_________.A. promised to obey the store rulesB. forgot to take any money with himC. hoped to have the food first and pay laterD. could not afford anything more expensive22. The writer acted upon the store rules because_________.A. he wanted to keep his present jobB. he felt no pity for the old gentlemanC. he considered the old man dishonestD. he expected someone else to pay for the old man23. What does the writer learn from his experience?A. Wealth is more important than anything elseB. Helping others is easier said than doneC. Experience is better gained through practiceD. Obeying the rules means more than compassion.William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His childhood lacked the harmony that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he in herited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family—both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama and poetry.Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats’s po ems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility（情感）to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition.He had not enjoyed a major public lift since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now be valued as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works between the age of 50 and 75. After Yeats’s death in 1939, W. H. Auden wrote, among others, the falling liners:Earth, receive an honored guest:William Yeats is laid to rest.Let the Irish vessel (船) lieEmptied of its poetry.24. Which of the following can describe Yeats’s family?A. It filled Yeats’s childhood with laughter.B. It was shocked by Yeats’s choice.C. It was a typically wealthy family.D. It had an artistic atmosphere.25. According to these passage, what do we know about Yeats’s life?A. Yeats founded the first Irish theaterB. Yeats stuck to modern forms in his poetry.C. Yeats began to produce his best works from the 1910s.D. Yeats was not favored by the public until the 1923 Nobel Prize.26. What kind of feeling is expressed in W.H. Auden’s lines?A. Envy.B. Sympathy.C. Emptiness.D. Admiration.27. What is the passage mainly about?A. Yeats’s literary achievements.B. Yeats’s historical influence.C. Yeats’s artist ic ambition.D. Yeats’s national honor.In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX” Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses,” Harvard Pre sident Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan.MIT has offered a program called Open Course Ware for ten years that makes materials from more than 2,000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December , the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate(证书), known as MITx, for people who compete certain online course. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program.The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.“ Fasten your seatbelts,” Hockfield saidOther universities, including Standford, Yale and Canegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.The Hardvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit (非盈利的) organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two countries. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.28. According to this text, edX is ______.A. a part of the free MIT Open Course Ware.B. a free computer program by MIT and Harvard.C. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses.D. a free program online for universities world wide.29. What is said about online education in the text?A. Universities have been trying online courses.B. About 2,000 online courses have been offered.C. Over 100 million people have finished courses online.D. Standford and Yale together have similar to edX.30. The underlined part in the text probably means “______”.A. Get ready for the difficulties.B. Get ready for this education change.C. Get prepared to complete the online courses.D. Get prepared to make materials for the edX courses.31. What can be said about MITx according to the text?A. It is first offered as part of the edX learning program.B. It is another free MIT-Harvard online learning program.C. It is a standard to recognize online learners’ achievemen t.D. It is a new kind of free online course of Harvard and MIT.DHigh-quality customer service is told by many, but actually keeping customers happy is easier said than done.Shoppers seldom complain to the manager or owner of retail (零售) store, but instead will alarm their friends, relatives, co-workers, strangers and anyone who will listen. Store managers are often the last to hear complaints, and often find out only when their regular customers decide to frequent their competitors, according to a study jointly conducted by Verde group and Wharton school. “Storytelling hurts retailers and entertains consumers." Said Paula Courtney, president of the Verde group. "The store loses the customer, but the shopper must also find a replacement."On average, every unhappy customer will complain to at least four others, and will no longer visit the specific store. For every dissatisfied customer, a store will lose up to three more due to negative reviews. The resulting "snowball effect" can be disastrous to retailers.According to the research, shoppers who purchased clothing encountered the most problems. Ranked second and third were grocery and electronics customers. The most common complaints include filled parking lots, messy and overloaded shelves, sold-out items, long check-out lines, and rude salespeople.During peak shopping hours, some retailers solved the parking problems by getting moonlighting local police to work as parking attendants. Some hired flag wavers to direct customers to empty parking spaces. This guidance got rid of the need for customers to circle the parking lot endlessly, and avoided confrontation between those eyeing the same parking space.Retailers can relieve the headaches by redesigning store layouts, pre-stocking sales items, hiring speedy and experienced cashiers, and having sales representatives on hand to answer questions. Most importantly, salespeople should be diplomatic and polite with angry customers."Retailers who're responsive and friendly are more likely to smooth over problems than those who aren't so friendly." Said Professor Stephen Hoch. "Maybe something as simple as a greeter at the store entrance would help."Customers can also improve future shopping experiences by filing complaints to the retailer, instead of complaining to the rest of the world. Retailers are hard-pressed to improve when they have no idea what is wrong.32. Why are store managers often the last to hear complaints?A. Customers have no easy access to store managers.B. Few customers believe the service will be improved.C. Customers would rather relate their unhappy experiences to others.D. Most customers won't bother to complain about unhappy experiences.33. Shop owners often hire moonlighting police as parking attendants so that shoppers__________.A. won't have trouble parking their carsB. won't have any worries about securityC. can find their cars easily after shoppingD. can stay longer looking around in the store34. What contributes most to smoothing over problems with customers?A. Design of the store layout.B. Manners of the salespeople.C. Hiring of efficient employees.D. Huge supply of goods for sale.35. To achieve better shopping experiences, customers are advised to _________.A. voice their dissatisfaction to store managers directlyB. put pressure on stores to improve their serviceC. shop around and make comparisons between storesD. settle their disagreement with stores in a diplomatic way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，选项中有两项为多余选项。