【英语】安徽省马鞍山二中安师大附中淮北一中铜陵一中2016届高三上学期12月四校联考

马鞍山二中、安师大附中、淮北一中、铜陵一中2016届高三第一学期12月联考英语试题满分:150 考试时间：120分钟本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

第I卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5个小题：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，从每题所给的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。

1. What does the woman get from the man?A. A book.B. Some flowers.C. Some photos.2. How much was the TV set?A. $30.B. $60.C. $120.3. Who is going for lunch first?A. The man.B. The editor.C. The woman.4. What does the man mean?A. He forgot his office number.B. He will go to the language laboratory.C. He doesn't want to accept the job offer.5. What does the man think of the play?A. It was terrible.B. He liked it very much.C. The actors were enthusiastic.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。

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 is the woman doing?A. Asking for suggestions.B. Buying tickets.C. Asking for information.7. In which month can the woman get the cheapest ticket?A. April.B. May.C. July.听第7段材料，回答第8至第10题。

8. What is the woman’s latest hobby?A. Skating.B. Running.C. Swimming.9. Who makes the woman start this hobby?A. Her brother.B. Her mother.C. Her friend.10. How often does the man go swimming?A. Once every weekend.B. Several times a month.C. Twice every week.听第8段材料，回答第11至第13题。

11. What is the man doing?A. Making an invitation.B. Doing a survey.C. Giving suggestions.12. Where is the woman going to visit?A. Times Square.B. Rockefeller Center.C. The Empire State Building.13. How will the woman get to her destination?A. By taxi.B. By bicycle.C. By bus.听第9段材料，回答第14至第17题。

14. Where are the man’s parents going?A. London.B. New York.C. San Francisco.15. What is the man’s son going to do?A. Travel around.B. Go to a concert.C. Visit their friend.16. How much will the man pay for the ticket to New York?A. $490.B. $550.C. $1,120.17. What will the man do after buying the tickets?A. Drink some coffee.B. Visit a bookstore.C. Go to the supermarket.听第10段材料，回答第18至第20题。

18. Why does the supermarket employ robots?A. To work as salesmen.B. To carry goods.C. To help elderly shoppers.19. What will the robots do at the entrance?A. Collect the shopping lists.B. Welcome customers.C. Give suggestions.20. What did Hasegawa think of shopping with robots?A. Satisfying.B. Surprising.C. Tiring.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。

AWanted, Someone for FM 90.8We’re looking for a radio announcer to join us on Anhui Transportation Broadcasting FM 90.8. Broadcasting and hosting major is necessary, along with some experience in radio and music. Please apply in writing to Anhui Radio and TV Station.Father ChristmasWe’re looking for a very special person, preferably over 40, to fill our Father Christmas suit.Working days: Every Saturday and Sunday from December 11 to December 20 and every day from December 21 to December 25, 14∶30－20∶00.Excellent pay.Please contact Yurun Central Square, Changjiang Road.Accountants AssistantWhen you join the team in our Social Security Administration Office, you will be providing assistance within all parts of the Office, dealing with post and other general duties. If you are educated in a 211 University we would like to talk to you. This position is equally suitable for a school leaver or for somebody who has office experience.Social Security Administration OfficeSoftware TrainerIf you are aged 22-48 and have experience in teaching and training, you could be the person we are looking for. You should be good at the computer and have some experience in programme writing. You will be allowed to make your own decisions, and to design courses as well as present them. Pay upwards of ￥8,000 for the right person. Please apply by sending your CV to Mrs. Huang, Huanghe Computer Training Center.21. Who should you get in touch with if you hope to work in a radio station?A. Yurun Central Square.B. Mrs. Huang, Huanghe Computer Training Center.C. Anhui Radio and TV Station.D. Social Security Administration Office.22. We learn from the ads that Yurun Central Square needs a person who________.A. is aged between 22 and 48B. needs to do some training workC. should deal with general dutiesD. can work for about a fortnight23. Which position is open to recent school graduates?A. Accountants Assistant.B. Father Christmas.C. Radio announcer.D. Software Trainer.24. What kind of person would probably apply to Huanghe Computer Training Center?A. One graduating from a 211 university.B. One with some office experience.C. One having good computer knowledge.D. One with experience in radio and music.BThe government in China plans to end its one-child per family policy and instead let families have two children.The plan was announced Thursday after high-level political meetings in Beijing. The official Xinhua news agency says the country’s top legislature must approve the proposal before it becomes law.A Chinese Communist Party statement gave a number of reasons for the change in policy. The statement said the change is meant to balance population development. It said the move also attempts to stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the country’s work force.China, the world's most populous country, launched the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children. A total of 19 rural provinces have a partial two-child policy. That policy states if the first-born is a girl, a second child is permitted.In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children. Families could have two if one parent was an only child.A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explained how Chinese families will react to the policy. “Too many young people in the cit ies are probably no longer interested in having a second child,”he said. “People in rural farming villages may be more interested. But again, some of them are already allowed to have two children.”At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them are employed. But that job market population is expected to drop by 2050. With the two-child policy, an increase in births will ease the labor shortage, starting in 20 years.25. Which of the following is NOT the reason for the two-child policy?A. To ease the present labor shortage.B. To balance population development.C. To strengthen the country’s work force.D. To stop a declining birth rate.26. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. In the 1980s rural families could have two children if the first-born was a girl.B. Due to the boom in population, by 2050 more young people will become unemployed.C. Chinese government changes its population policy to greet the new situation in socialdevelopment.D. Few young people in the cities show much interest in the new policy because of financialpressure.27. The writer writes this passage ________.A. To educate.B. To inform.C. To advertise.D. To analyze.CWhen computer servers operate a complex program, they can get very hot. Cooling the servers can be costly. So researchers asked what would happen if the heat created by the servers could be captured and used?Data centers of large Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft have thousands of computer servers. As these servers process information, they create large amounts of heat, so they need huge cooling systems, which send the heat into the air.The Dutch company Nerdalize thinks paying for electricity to operate the servers and then paying again to cool them is a waste of energy. So it developed a device called the e-Radiator, a computer server that also works as a heating source.Boaz Leupe, the chief executive officer of Nerdalize, says the e-Radiator saves money because companies don’t have to pay to cool their servers. “…The kilowatt hour you are using is used twice —once to heat the home and once to compute the client’s task without the cooling expenses.”At present five homeowners in the Netherlands are testing the heating device in their homes.“We compensate the electricity the server uses, and that we can do because of the computer clients on the other side, and, in that way, homeowners actually get heating for free, and computer users do n’t have to pay for the expenses of the data center.”Jan Visser is one of the participants in the year-long experiment. He notices that the amount of heat produced by the e-Radiator depends on the work being done by the computer server. He reveals it cann ot be used as the primary source of heat. But he is ready to try it. “If it providesenough warmth, I will be able to use my home’s heating system less, which will save me money.” he added.Nerdalize says e-Radiators create heat temperatures of up to 55 de grees Celsius. It’s also said that the devices could save users up to $440 in heating costs a year.28. What can we learn from this passage?A. E-Radiator can save homeowners a big sum of money in cooling the computers.B. Google and Nerdalize developed the heating device, e-Radiator.C. E-Radiator has been put into use in the Netherlands.D. The heating device will benefit computer users as well as homeowners.29. According to the passage, what’s Jan Visser’s attitude towards e-Radiator?A. Cautious.B. Positive.C. Satisfied.D. Doubtful.30. Where can we most probably read the passage?A. In an economic report.B. In a science magazine.C. In an education newspaper.D. In a computer guide book.31. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. Money-saving heating device.B. E-Radiator, the primary source of heat.C. Hot computers could be used to heat home.D. Nerdalize developed e-Radiator, a heating system.DThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says more than half of the world’s wildlife population has been lost, which the conservation group says has placed the health of the planet at risk.The WWF recently released its 10th Flagship Living Planet Report. The group warns the condition of the world's animals is worse than its earlier reports showed, indicating worldwide action is needed.The WWF is worried about the loss of and damage to Earth’s environment. The report provides information about more than 10,000 animal populations from 1970 to 2010. These populations are cal led “vertebrate species,” or animals with backbones —like fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The report shows these populations have dropped by 52percent in just 40 years. It warns freshwater species have fallen by 76 percent, which is almost twice the loss of land and ocean species. Most of these losses are in the tropics, with the biggest drop in Latin America.Marco Lambertini, the WWF’s International Director-General said, “This is about losing natural habitats. This is about converting forests, grasslands, and wetlands into agriculture mainly, and it is about unsustainable use of wildlife. Illegal hunting has been actually increasing over the last 10 years, which definitely a driving force for extinction, particularly of large species.”Th e report also notes what it calls the world’s “Ecological Footprint”, that is, the effect of human activities on the planet. Mr. Lambertini says there has been an increase in carbon dioxide gases and the pouring of nitrogen into oceans and rivers from fertilizers used in agriculture, which certainly cannot continue.“We are consuming on average every year about the equivalent of about 1.5, one and a half times the resources available to the planet. That means we are cutting trees more quickly than they can be restored. We are fishing the oceans more quickly than fishing stocks can reproduce, and we are emitting in the atmosphere more CO2 than the natural systems can actually absorb, which is clearly not sustainable.”Mr. Lambertini warns climate change affects almost everyone on the planet and that whole species may disappear if the world does not reduce the effects of humans on the climate.32. According to the passage, what kind of species faces the biggest drop in population?A. Land and ocean species.B. Animals with backbones.C. Freshwater species in Latin America.D. Freshwater species in the tropics.33. All the following can contribute to the loss of world’s wildlife population EXCEPT ________.A. turning wildlife habitats into agriculture land.B. making sustainable use of wildlife.C. hunting illegally.D. emitting CO2 gases and pouring nitrogen.34. Which does the underlined word “converting” in paragraph 4 mean?A. Conserving.B. Conveying.C. Exchanging.D. Transforming.35. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.A. Marco is much concerned about human’s current behaviors towards wildlife.B. what the planet provides now can satisfy human’s sustainable development.C. more than half of the world’s wildlife population has been lost.D. if humans reduce the effects on the climate, the whole species will not disappear.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。