天津市新华中学2012届高三上学期第二次月考英语试题

新华中学2012届高三第二次月考英语试题
第一部分：听力（共15小题，满分20分）
A卷
第一节听下面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。

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 is Agatha Christie?
A. A writer。

B. A bookseller.
C. A detective.
2. What did the man do that day?
A. Stayed at home.
B. Played football.
C. Went out.
3. What’s wrong with Li Hua?
A. He has got a headache.
B. He has got a backache.
C. He has got a toothache.
4. What will the speakers discuss?
A. A report.
B. A computer.
C. A report on computer.
5. What time will the speakers get to Beijing?
A. At 11:00.
B. At 12: 30.
C. At 12: 45.
第二节听下面3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。

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，各个小题将给出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8题。

6. What are they talking about?
A. A new job.
B. The students.
C. The pay.
7. What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. To help to get a new job.
B. To help to make a decision.
C. To help to get more money.
8. What’s the woman’s advice?
A. Keep the job he has. B Make a comparison. C. Accept the new job.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where is Mary?
A. In the sitting-room.
B. In the garden.
C. In the kitchen.
10. What did Mary ask John to do?
A. To help her.
B. To look for their baby.
C. To do some washing.
11. What is the baby doing?
A. He is watching TV.
B. He is playing games.
C. He is cleaning his shoes.
听第8段材料，回答第12至15题。

12. What does Sam take photos for?
A. For fun.
B. For money.
C. For his work.
13. Why did Sam once go to Africa with his wife?
A. To take photos of the wildlife there.
B. To spend their holiday.
C. To study the wildlife there.
14. What did he care most when Sam knew what happened to his wife?
A. His wife’s safety.
B. His own safety.
C. His picture.
15. What do you think of Sam?
A. He disliked his wife.
B. He was a good husband.
C. He was addicted to his work.
B卷
第一节听下面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。

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。

21. What is the man going to do tonight?
A. Go to the cinema.
B. Attend a meeting.
C. Watch TV at home.
22. What did they want to buy?
A. A pair of shoes.
B. A cheap shirt.
C. An expensive coat.
23. What time is it now?
A. 7: 45.
B. 8: 00.
C. 8: 15.
24. How did the man like the beef?
A. Delicious.
B. Satisfying.
C. Not satisfying.
25. Where are the two speakers now?
A. On the first floor.
B. On the fourth floor.
C. On the fifth floor.
第二节听下面3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。

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，各个小题将给出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26至28题。

26. What are the two tickets for?
A. A basketball game.
B. A football game.
C. A table-tennis game.
27. When will they meet?
A. At 7: 00.
B. At 8: 00.
C. At 9: 00.
28. Where will they meet?
A. At the gate of the school.
B. At the gate of the court.
C. At the gate of the hospital.
听第7段材料，回答第29至31题。

29. When did the club open again?
A. On the twelfth.
B. On the thirteenth.
C. On the fourteenth.
30. What will Mary do on Saturday?
A. Go to see a film.
B. Play tennis.
C. Go home.
31. Why does Bill look for today’s newspaper?
A. To get some important news.
B. To find out what films are showing this week.
C. To find out today’s date.
听第8段材料，回答第32至35题。

32. What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Boss and worker.
B. Teacher and student.
C. Husband and wife.
33. Why do they think of going out?
A. They are having a holiday
B. It’s a lovely day.
C. They’ve got some m oney.
34. What will the woman do then?
A. Prepare a picnic.
B. Prepare a supper at home.
C. Try to buy something for their trip.
35. Who is planning the trip?
A. The man
B. The woman.
C. Mary.
第二部分：语言知识运用
I. 单项选择（15分，每题1分）
36. —Would you take this along to the office for me?
—_____.
A. With pleasure
B. That’s right
C. Never mind
D. Don’t mention it
37. Nowhere else in the world more attractive country scenery than in Wales.
A. you enjoy
B. can you enjoy
C. you can enjoy
D. enjoy you
38. After visiting Expo 2010 Shanghai China, his parents returned with a lot of pictures, .
A. tired
B. tiredly
C. tiring
D. and tired
39. I just wonder that makes him so excited.
A. why it does
B. what he does
C. how it is
D. what it is
40. —Which driver was to blame?
—Why, ! It was the child’s fault, clear and simple. He suddenly came out between two parked cars.
A. both
B. each
C. either
D. neither
41. —Mom, what did your doctor say?
—He advised me to live the air is fresher.
A. where
B. in which
C. the place where
D. in where
42. I don’t think Maria will be disappointed at the news, but I will see her she is.
A. as if
B. so that
C. in case
D. even though
43. —What was the trouble with you the day before yesterday?
—When I practiced running on the playground, my strength and I fell onto the ground.
A. gave out
B. gave in
C. gave off
D. gave away
44. —Do you have anything to say for yourselves?
—Yes, there is one point we must insist on.
A. why
B. where
C. how
D. /
45. The weather turned out to be fine yesterday. I the trouble to carry my umbrella with me.
A. should have taken
B. needn’t have taken
C. could have taken
D. mustn’t have taken
46. He asked me for this book many times. Please tell him he have it tomorrow.
A. must
B. might
C. shall
D. could
47. Any application form properly will not be accepted by the company.
A. not to be filled
B. not filled
C. not being filled
D. not having been filled
48. She ought to stop studying. She has a headache because she all day long.
A. is reading
B. had read
C. has been reading
D. read
49. I in London for many years, but I've never regretted my final decision to move back to China.
A. have lived
B. was living
C. had lived
D. lived
50. It’s already 10 o’clock. I wonder how it that she was two hours late on such a short trip.
A. came over
B. came out
C. came about
D. came up
II完形填空（30分，每题1.5分）
The private automobile has long played an important role in the United States. In fact, it has become a (n) 51 and important part of the American way of life. In 1986, sixty-nine percent of American families 52 at least one car and thirty one percent had 53 one. By giving workers rapid transportation, the automobile has 54 them from having to live near their workplace. This has encouraged the growth of the cities, but it has also 55 traffic problems.
For farm families the automobile is very 56 .It had made it 57 for them to travel to town very often for business and 58 ,and also to transport their children to distant schools. Family life has been 59 in various ways. The car helps to keep 60 together when it is used for picnics, outings and other shared 61 However, when teenage children have the use of the car, their parents cannot 62 them. There is a great danger if the driver has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs, or 63 by speeding or breaking down traffic laws. Mothers of victims of such accidents have formed a(n) 64 called MADD(mothers against drinking driving). These mothers want to 65 further tragedies. They have worked to 66 the government to limit the youngest drinking age. Students have formed a 67 organization, SADD and MADD are spreading the same 68 among their friends.
For many Americans the automobile is a necessity .But for some, it is also a mark of social 69 and for young people, a(n) 70 of becoming an adult. Altogether, cars mean very much to Americans.
51. A. necessary B. interesting C. wonderful D. happy
52. A. changed B. owned C. borrowed D. hired
53. A. less than B. rather than C. more than D. now that
54. A freed B. stopped C. prevented D. kept
55. A. devoted to B. looked forward to C. contributed to D. resulted to
56. A. dangerous B. impossible C. obvious D. helpful
57. A. possible B. important C. necessary D. true
58. A. with pleasure B. for pleasure C. in pleasure D. by pleasure
59. A. interesting B. moved C enjoyed D. affected
60. A. families B. parents C. children D. friends
61. A. improvement B. confidence C. experiences D. feelings
62. A. call attention to B. keep an eye on C. take a notice of D. throw right on
63. A. showing off B. putting off C. keeping off D. setting off
64. A company B. school C. organization D. hospital
65. A. prevent B help C. keep D. protect
66. A upset B forbid C. discourage D. encourage
67. A. similar B. same C. unusual D. ordinary
68. A. news B. message C. report D. tale
69. A. position B. condition C. relation D. situation
70. A. signal B. appearance C. sign D. decision
III. 阅读理解（50分，每题2.5分）
A
Lisa was running late. Lisa, 25, had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way; her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs. she started to feel uncomfortably warm. By the time she got to the platform, Lisa felt weak and tired—maybe it hadn’t been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought. She rested herself against a post close to the tracks.
Several yards away, Frank, 43 and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying.
But when he heard the scream, followed by someone yelling, “Oh, my God, she fell in!” Frank didn’t hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “No! Not you!” his girlfriend screamed after him.
She was right to be alarmed. By the time Frank reached Lisa, he could feel the tracks shaking and
see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.
It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the arms and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness, felt herself being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse.
Lisa thought she'd been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head. And she tried to talk but she couldn’t, and that was when she realized how much pain she was in.
Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story, to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown—just as he had been seconds after the rescue, which made her think about her reaction at the time. “I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was going to die.” she expla ined.
71. What was the most probable cause for Lisa's weakness?
A. She had run a long way.
B. She felt hot in the subway.
C. She had done a lot of work.
D. She had donated blood the night before.
72. Why did Jennifer try to stop her boyfriend?
A. Because they would miss their train.
B. Because he didn’t see the train coming.
C. Because she was sure Lisa was hard to lift.
D. Because she was afraid the train would kill him.
73. How did Frank save Lisa?
A. By lifting her to the platform.
B. By helping her rise to her feet.
C. By pulling her along the ground.
D. By dragging her away from the edge.
74. When did Lisa become conscious again?
A. When the train was leaving.
B. After she was back on the platform.
C. After the police and fire officials came.
D. When a man was cleaning the blood from her head.
75. The passage is intended to
A. warn us of the danger in the subway
B. show us how to save people in the subway
C. tell us about a subway rescue
D. report a traffic accident
B
Every day I drive through town. I see a one-legged man go through ash trays for cigarette butts and trash cans for food outside fast food restaurants. It was only a month before Christmas and it was starting to get cold, so I could not stop thinking about him. That year my husband and I didn’t have enough money to spend much on presents, but I figured what was too little for us would be a lot for someone who had nothing.
So one day I bought a toothbrush，some toothpaste and some cans of tuna (金枪鱼), just a few little things that didn’t cost much and then I added a blanket and sweatshirts to them. I prepared a box so that it looked like a present and went in search of this man. I saw him hobbling (蹒跚) away from the trash can next to McDonald, so I pulled over, grabbed the box and went up to him. I said, “I would like to give you a Christmas present. There are some food items here and some other th ings I think you might be able to use. ”
He looked at me and said, “No, thank you. I just had lunch. I don’t need anything. ”Then he hobbled on down the sidewalk, leaving me standing there in tears. I took the box down to a little shop that gave things out to the poor and the homeless and told them what had happened. Then I asked them to give the box to someone who could use it. The person there told me not to be upset, but I told her I was not crying for myself but for him because what I had done took away his dignity by treating him like a beggar. I was so ashamed. What a great lesson it was for me to learn, though accepting help is sometimes harder than giving it.
76. According to the text, it is obvious that .
A. the author often helps the poor in the neighborhood
B. the one-legged man is living a very poor life
C. no one besides the author wanted to help the man
D. the author spent a lot of money helping the man
77. After being refused by the one-legged man, the author .
A. became very annoyed
B. was hurt by the man
C. felt embarrassed
D. felt disappointed and worried
78. It can be inferred from the text that .
A. the author wouldn't give presents to the poor in the future
B. the author would never want to see the one-legged man again
C. in fact the one-legged man was rather rich
D. the author didn’t expect that she would be refused by the man
79. The author learned from this experience that .
A. sympathy is a great gift to beggars
B. people may have different ideas of receiving
C. sympathy might hurt the dignity of the poor
D. one’s kindness should not be refused
80. Which would be the best title for the text?
A. A Proud Beggar
B. A Lesson About Dignity
D. What Do We Need? D. An Unfortunate Experience
C
Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men’s m inds decline more than women’s ,according to the results of a worldwide survey.
Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: men are better at dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial (三维空间) skills), while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain’s files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men. The men
tested are the survivors, “so they’re the ones that may not have shown such cognitive (认知的) decline, ” said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated (旋转的) form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time, e. g. “objects usually colored gray”, and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter are typically dominated by women.
Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both sexes, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
81. The underlined word “inherent” in the second paragraph means .
A. original
B. native
C. natural
D. absolute
82. Which of the following tasks are men better at?
A. Matching lines shown from the same angle.
B. Typing as many words in a particular category as possible·
C. Recalling the location of objects in a line drawing.
D. Recalling information from their brain’s files.
83. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
A. Men excel at typing words in a particular category in the given time.
B. Women excel at dealing with mathematic problems.
C. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.
D. Women stand out at remembering people’s names.
84. What important factor affects the correctness of the research results?
A. People tested come from all over the world.
B. Men live longer than women.
C. Not enough old men were tested.
D. The researchers got their results mixed.
85. The author aims to tell us that .
A. the survey on human’s mind decline was done recently
B. men’s minds decline more with age
C. everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older
D. women’s minds perform better than men’s
D
Among rich countries, people in the United States work the longest hours. They work much longer than in Europe. This difference is quite surprising because productivity per hour worked is the same in the United States as it is in France, Spain and Germany, and it is growing at a similar speed.
In most countries and at most times in history, as people have become richer they have chosen to work less. In other words they have decided to ‘‘spend” a part of their extra income on a fuller personal life. Over the last fifty years Europeans have continued this pattern, and hours of work have fallen sharply. But not in the United States. We do not fully know why this is. One reason may be more satisfying work, or less satisfying personal lives. Another may be greatly lower taxes in America, which increase the rewards to work.
Longer hours do of course increase the GDP (国内生产总值). So the United States has produced more per worker than, say, France. The United States also has more of its people at work, while in France many more mothers and older workers have decided to stay at home. The overall result is that American GDP per head is 40％higher than in France, even though productivity per hour worked is the same.
It is not clear which of the two situations is better. As we have seen, work has to be compared with other values like family life, which often get lost in interest. It is too early to explain the different trends in happiness over time in different countries. But it is a disappointing idea that in the United States happiness has made no progress since 1975, while it has risen in Europe. Could this have anything to do with trends in the work-life balance?
86. From the text we know that the author .
A. believes that longer working hours is better
B. prefers shorter working hours to longer ones
C. says nothing certain about which pattern is better
D. thinks neither of the patterns is good
87. Which of the following countries has more of its people at work?
A. Spain
B. France
C. Germany
D. America
88. In the last paragraph, the underlined word “w hich” refers to .
A. family life
B. situations
C. other values
D. trends
89. What message can we get from the text?
A. The GDP of Europe is higher than that of America.
B. Two possible reasons are given for working longer hours in the US.
C. People all over the world choose to work less when they are richer.
D. Americans are happier than Europeans.
90. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Americans and Europeans
B. Staying at Home
C Work and Productivity D. Work and Happiness
IV. 阅读表达（10分，每题2分）
Do you sometimes wonder why some animals seem smarter than others? Perhaps you have different pets and some appear wiser and sharper than others. They may learn faster and seem to understand more. What is the difference? Can you help change things to make them smarter?
The difference can be accounted for in many ways. Sometimes genetic factors have a lot to do with many things. In my work on animal behavior consulting, the best animals are those that are directly bred (繁殖) from wild animals.
You can make a difference in your animal’s IQ, despite its inherited background. It is really rewarding and fun to help them onto the path of education! How do you do it? To be the most effective, start right after you acquire the animal. Ideally, this will be at a young age. However, it is possible to work with an older animal. The main difference is that it might take a bit longer to do.
This is because older animals are more like senior citizens and can become confused more easily. They can be slower in their reactions and responses, or in grasping new concepts.
Increasing intelligence could be compared to raising a baby. As they develop they are more responsive to different things. You have to expose them to the world and introduce them to new toys, colors, tastes, and environments, bit by bit. This also includes introducing them to people of different ages, animals and many other things.
All animals are different. Some will adapt better than others. You should start this work at a young age to increase their IQ. Have fun with your pets. They love you and can teach you some wonderful things. Give them something in return by opening up their world and helping them to understand many different things.
91. What is the most important and possible reason for some pets’ being smarter than others? (no more than 5 words)
92. Please explain the underlined phrase “make a difference” in English. (no more than 5 words)
93. Why is it more difficult to educate an older pet than a younger one? (no more than 20 words)
94. What can you do to increase your pets’ intelligence ?
(no more than 15 words) (please give an example)
95. What would be the best title for the passage? (no more than 10 words)
V书面表达（25分）
96. 假如你是新华中学的李华，参加了学校组织的“中美青年交流项目”，你将接待一名美国中学生Jack。

他将在你家生活一个月的时间。

请在Jack到中国前给他写一封信，信的具体内容包括：
1. 你的基本情况(年龄、性别、兴趣等)；
2. 父母的情况(职业、性格等);
3. 你的希望;
4. 其他。

注意：1. 词数100—120左右，信的开头和格式已为你写好，不计入总词数。

2. 可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jack，
My family and I feel excited at the news that you are going to stay with us for one
month.
Yours,
Li Hua
【试题答案】
阅读表达：
91. Genetic factors
92. have an effect
s weater in case it gets cold sometimes. We are looking forward to your coming and having great fun with you.
Yours，
Li Hua。