内蒙古赤峰市2015届高三4月统一考试英语试题

绝密★启用前2015年赤峰市高三统一考试英语2015.4注意事项：1．本试卷分Ⅰ卷、Ⅱ卷两部分，满分：150分；考试时间：120分钟。

2．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上。

3．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第I卷第一部分听力理解（共两节，满分30分）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. Where is the man’s mother now?A. At home.B. In a hospital.C. At a bus stop.2. Where is the man going first?A. To the Healey Supermarket.B. To the airport.C. To Canada.3. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a clothing storeB. In a restaurantC. In a bookstore4. What are the two speakers talking about?A. Diving.B. Drawing.C. Driving5. Why is the woman preparing so much food?A. It’s the man’s birthday.B. The woman wants to thank the man.C. The man can eat a lot.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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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至8题。

6. Where did the man meet Claudia?A. On the Internet.B. At a music store.C. At a class discussion7. What is the relationship between the man and Claudia?A. Web friends.B. Close friends.C. Boy friend and girl friend.8. What does the woman suggest about greeting Claudia?A. Arriving on time.B. Using her family name.C. Bringing her some flowers听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where are probably the speakers?A. In a theater.B. At a store.C. In a street.10. What does the man want to buy?A. FoodB. Clothes.C. Furniture.11. Which is next to the theater?A. A hotelB. The City Hall.C. The post office.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Why is the man surfing the Internet?A. To get major news.B. To learn English.C. To get information.13. What does the man prefer?A. Engineering.B. Economics.C. Medicine.14. When does the conversation probably take place?A. On February 28.B. On March 30.C. On April 6.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15.How is the man going to Sun College?A.By bike.B. On foot.C. By car.16.How far is it from Main Street to Water Square?A.A few yards.B. 2 blocks away.C. 20 minutes’ walk.17.Where will the man have to ask the way again?A.At Rain Avenue.B. At Mass Hospital.C. At the Farmers’ Bank.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.Where does the speaker most probably make the speech?A.At a party.B. At a reception.C. At a conference.19.What is Mr. Brown?A. A businessman.B. An assistant manager.C. A government official.20.Why are Mr. Brown and his party coming to England?A.To part from his friends.B. To pay an informal visit.C. To seek new cooperation.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。

“YOUR password has expired (过期),” a message said on my screen, with instructions for changing it. Coming up with a new password doesn’t seem like a big deal, unless you work at my company, where we have to change it monthly, using at least one uppercase (大写的) character, one lowercase character, one symbol, and one number.u Oh, the whole password can’t be fewer than eight characters. And I can’t use any of the same passwords I’ve used in the past three months.Suddenly I was angry. What didn’t make it any better was that I was deeplydepressed after my recent divorce. Disbelief about what she had done to me was all I thought about every day.I remembered a tip I’d heard from my former boss. He’d said: “I’m going to use a password to change my life.”I couldn’t focus on getting things done in my current mood. There were clear signs of what I needed to do to get control of my life again.My password became the sign. My password reminded me that I shouldn’t let myself be a victim of my recent breakup and that I was strong enough to do something about it.I made my password Forgive@h3r.I had to type this several times a day. The simple action changed the way I looked at my ex-wife. That constant reminder led me to accept the way things had happened and find a new way of dealing with my depression. As the month wore on, I felt a slow healing begin to happen. By the time my server asked me to reset my password the following month, I felt free.One month later, my dear Exchange server asked me yet again to reset my password.I thought about the next thing that I had to get done.My password became Quit@smoking4ever.I quit smoking overnight.This password was a painful one to type during that month, but doing it helped me to yell at myself in my mind as I typed that statement. It motivated me to follow my monthly goal.One month later, my password became Save4trip@thailand.Guess where I went three months later: Thailand.Seeing how these reminders helped to achieve my goals kept me motivated and excited. While it’s sometimes difficult to come up with your next goal, keeping at it brings great results.21. Which of the following passwords fits the company’s requirements?A. Seeme@2B. Dream4futureC. Visit$meD. Stay@4ever22. Why couldn’t the author focus on doing things?A. Because he couldn’t come up with a new password.B. Because he always forgot his password.C. Because he was in low spirits due to his divorce.D. Because his wife stole his password before their breakup.23. What happened to the author after he had used his password to change his life?A. He finally overcame his depression and forgave his ex-wife.B. He started smoking to heal his broken heart.C. He quit his job and went traveling around the world.D. He became furious about his passwords getting longer and longer.24. What message does the author intend to convey through his story?A. Never let yourself be a victim of others’ faults.B. Be patient with the healing process for any pain.C. Constant reminders can be positive as well as negative.D. Setting yourself a goal and keeping at it can bring great results.BAnyone for kimchi (韩国泡菜)? Around 2,000 women made the traditional dish last week in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea (ROK).More than 270 tons of kimchi were produced and handed out to needy neighbors. In the ROK, kimchi is more than a dish to be eaten with every meal, even though Koreans are said to eat about 40 pounds (around 18kg) of kimchi per person each year. According to , the country’s official multilingual (多语种的) website, kimchi represents “the spirit” of the Koreans.Kimchi traditionally has a rosy color. says: “The color red wards off (避开) evil spirits. The color represents the spirit of the Korean people and kimchi is more than just a food. It’s a culture.”A meal without kimchi is unthinkable. So what is kimchi?Joan Raymond, food writer for US website , writes: “It’s a reddish , fermented (发酵的) cabbage dish, made with a mix of garlic , salt, vinegar, chili peppers and other spices.It is served at every meal, either along with or mixed with rice and noodles. It is part of a high-fiber, low fat diet, which has kept obesity at bay.”Kimchi is used in everything from soups to pancakes and as a topping (配料) on pizza and burgers. named kimchi in its list of the world’s top five healthiest foods as it is rich in vitamins, aids digestion and may even reduce the risk of cancer.A study conducted by Seoul National University claimed that chickens infected with the H5N1 virus (bird flu) recovered after eating food containing the same bacteria found in kimchi.When Koreans pose for photos, they say “kimchi”, instead of “cheese”.25. From the first two paragraphs, we can conclude that ______.A. kimchi is mostly eaten by poor familiesB. kimichi is usually made in winterC. kimichi is very common in ROKD. every Korean woman knows how to make kimchi26. According to the article, which of the following statements about kimchi is TRUE?A. Each person eats 40 pounds of kimchi per month.B. Kimchi is a cultural treasure for Koreans.C. Kimchi is rated as the healthiest food in the world.D. Kimchi contains something that can kill the H5N1 virus.27. What does the underlined phrase “keep … at bay” in the eighth paragraph mean?A. Affect.B. Develop.C. Control.D. Prevent.28. What does the article mainly talk about?A. The origin of kimchi.B. Ways of making kimchi.C. Kimchi and what it means to Koreans.D. The nutritional value of kimchi.CPEOPLE may use the expression “birdbrain” in English to talk about someone who is stupid, but crows prove that this is unfair. Now it has been discovered that crows may understand analogies (类推法).It was once thought that only humans could understand analogies, which help us to solve problems creatively, put things into categories, and make scientific discoveries.To test this ability in animals, scientists do “relational matching-to-sample (RMTS, 依照示例中物品的关联进行匹配)” tests, according to the IFL Science website. If a pair was AA, for example, then picking BB to match it would be correct. If the pair was CD, however, then EF would be correct.Apes and monkeys have learned RMTS, but scientists wanted to know if crows could do it, too. An international team led by Edward Wasserman from the University of Iowa in the US first trained two hooded crows to match things by color, shape, and number in what is called “identity matching-to-sample (IMTS, 依照示例进行匹配)”, then moved onto RMTS.For the IMTS test, the birds were put in a cage with a plastic tray that had three cards and two cups in it. The card in the middle was the sample card. The cups on either side were covered with the other two cards: One was the same as the sample (in the color, shape, or number of shapes pictured), while the other wasn’t. The cup with the card that matched the sample card contained two worms to eat.In the second part of the experiment, the birds were tested with relational matching pairs. A card with two same-sized circles, for example, meant they should pick the test card with two same-sized squares and not two different-sized circles. The birds did well in the more difficult test and picked the correct card more than three quarters of the time, Science News reports.Wasserman was surprised that crows were able to solve the problem without any training in RMTS. “What the crows have done is extraordinary,” he said in a news release. “Honestly, if it was only by force that the crows showed this learning, then it would have been an impressive result. But this was spontaneous.”So perhaps it’s time to stop saying “birdbrain” for good!29. Why does the author mention the expression “bird brain” in the openingparagraph?A. To get the reader interested in the origins of the expression.B. To urge people to stop saying that birds are stupid.C. To introduce the topic of Edward Wasserman and his experiments.D. To introduce recent findings about crows’ intelligence.30. Which of the following is TRUE about the tests on the hooded crows?A. The birds did better in RMTS than in IMTS.B. The birds were first made to do RMTS, then IMTS.C. The birds picked almost all the correct cards in RMTS.D. In the IMTS test, the birds needed to identify the sample card to get rewards.31. In the RMTS test, if the birds were given the sample card with two same-sizedtriangles, they had to pick the test card with _____.A. two same-sized circlesB. one circle and one triangleC. two different-sized circlesD. two different-sized triangles32. The underlined word “spontaneous”is closest in meaning to _____.A. naturalB. CreativeC. trustworthyD. PredictableD• MembershipHostelling International (HI) is a membership organization, and HI membership gives you much more than a comfy bed! It puts you at the heart of a huge international family, where you can share experiences, travel and friendship with people of all nations.• Membership Savings ProgramYour National Association or Hostelling International Membership card not only opens the door to the world’s largest network of safe, clean and welcoming hostels, but in many HI hostels, being a member now gives you at least a 10 percent saving on the cost of your accommodation – just one of the great reasons to become a member!In some countries, membership is compulsory if you wish to stay in HI hostels listed on this site. To find out what is applicable in the country you wish to visit, please check the Membership Savings Program.Apart from cheaper accommodation in many of our 4,000 hostels worldwide, membership also gives you access to thousands of travel-related savings at home and abroad. Please check locally with your HI hostel on arrival for details of these great benefits which can include: reduced-price admission to attractions and museums, discounts on meals, transportation and lots more.Whatever your budget, membership helps you to explore and “Say HI to the world”, backpack across Europe, discover Down Under, dance to Latin rhythms, chill out on an idyllic Asian beach or simply “Discover the real hostel experience” in one of our unique hostels worldwide.• How to become a memberPurchase a membership from your nearest HI Youth Hostel Association office or membership selling outlet before you start your journey.Purchase an international membership when you arrive at an HI hostel outside your country of residence. To check the price and availability of membership on arrival, please contact the hostel directly.Alternatively, you can purchase a 12-month e-Membership during the booking process with your hostel stay. The e-Membership entitles you to stay in any HI hostel and receive at least 10 percent discount on accommodation charges compared to a non-member.Please note: when you select your country from the list below you will be given full contact details plus a link to the national HI Youth Hostel Association website. Please select the Membership section on the site.33. Which of the following is NOT promised by Hostelling International?A. A safe and clean place to stay.B. Welcoming atmosphere.C. Membership benefits.D. Opportunities to meet local people.34. Which of the following is TRUE about the HI hostels?A. Accommodation discounts for members are not available at every HI hostel.B. For some HI hostels, you have to be a member to find accommodation.C. You will enjoy high quality services at the cheapest possible price.D. Free public transportation to your destination is ensured.35. If you want to be a member of HI, ______.A. you can either call the HI Youth Hostel Association office or buy a membershiponlineB. you should book a room at an HI Youth Hostel firstC. you can buy a membership at an HI Youth Hostel Association office or outletD. you can buy a membership when you check in at an HI Youth hostel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。