江苏苏州新草桥中学高三12月月考英语试题含答案

英语
本试卷满分120分，考试时间120分钟
一、听力
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 the man probably trying on?
A. A tie.
B. A suit
C. Some shoes.
2. Who does the woman have to wait for?
A. Her sister
B. The man.
C. Her parents.
3. Who is the man most likely talking to?
A. A saleswoman.
B. A tailor.
C. An assistant.
4. What might the man be doing now?
A. Doing some cooking.
B. Washing dishes.
C. Setting the table.
5. What does the woman think about the book?
A. She likes it very much.
B. There are too many pages.
C. It will be hard to understand.
第二节
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。

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、7题。

6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Neighbors.
B. Husband and wife.
C. House owner and repairman.
7. What will the speakers do next?
A. Go to a cinema.
B. Turn up the TV.
C. Fix their house.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a bus station.
B. At a store.
C. At a school.
9. What did the speakers do together?
A. They bought tickets.
B. They played a game.
C. They went camping.
10. Why was Anish unlucky?
A. He forgot his backpack.
B. He lost against the woman.
C. He didn’t get into the championship.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What did the woman lose?
A. Her wallet.
B. Her credit card.
C. Her cell phone.
12. Where does the woman think she lost it?
A. In the theater.
B. In the taxi.
C. In the restaurant.
13. What did the person on the phone ask the woman for probably?
A. Her full name.
B. Her password.
C. Her receipt.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Which language does the man want to learn well?
A. French.
B. Spanish.
C. English.
15. Why is the man concerned about his language level?
A. He wishes to speak with his relatives.
B. He hopes to get better grades in class.
C. He wants to get into a specific university.
16. What does the man worry about?
A. Writing at a higher level.
B. Understanding the teacher’s instructions.
C. Having a general conversation with someone.
17. How does the man plan to improve in the short term?
A. By hiring a tutor.
B. By moving to another country.
C. By joining an online community. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A. An exercise activity.
B. A dance party.
C. A competition.
19. Who started the dance routine?
A. A student.
B. The principal.
C. A staff member.
20. What modern problems could the dances help fight according to the talk?
A. Weight problems.
B. Learning problems.
C. Discipline problems.
二、单项选择：
21. ________ he was the last man I wanted to see，I did all in my power to help him.
A.As
B. Now that
C. While
D. However
22. The doctor began feeling inactive and powerless a couple of days ago, but not until he developed 103-degree fever, ________ Doctors Without Borders, authorities said.
A. did he contact
B. he had contacted
C. had he contacted
D. he contacted
23. The organic food products are made of natural ingredients, with no_____ flavors added.
A .accurate B. regular C. superficial D. artificial
24. In the program aiming to help kids with heart disease, _______ is given to those who are the only child in their family.
A. preference
B. prejudice
C. recognition
D. compromise
25.Do not make complaints about being left out ________ you shy away from sharing your joys and sorrows with others.
A. while
B. when
C. unless
D. once
26. ---- What a large sum of money! Is it intended for me?
---- Yes, boy. If you get full marks in the game, you’ll have _______ that.
A. more than twice than
B. more than twice as much as
C. twice as much than
D. as much twice as
27. _______ the consistent efforts made by the people of Hangzhou, preparatory work for the G20 Summit has been a success.
A. On account of
B. In terms of
C. In a bid to
D. In addition to
28. E-libraries are more and more popular in that they give us access to books when we are unable to ______ get to a library.
A. voluntarily
B. accidentally
C. appropriately
D. physically
29. —How do you find the club?
—I ______ it. Everyone is saying its management is going from bad to worse.
A. couldn’t have joined
B. might have joined
C. would rather not have joined
D. was to have joined
30. If the world becomes less unfair and people have better education, much of the poverty can be
A．taken out B．left out C．wiped out D．put out
31. The international situation is currently undergoing great changes ________ UNESCO plays an
irreplaceable role in promoting international cooperation.
A. that
B. what
C. which
D. where
32. When asked when their wedding would be, Frank said, “ Ah, when? God knows!” and ______away from her, walked rapidly away.
A. turning
B. turned
C. to turn
D. having turned
33. Although scientists haven’t found a cure ____ cancer, some people have been cured _____ cancer.
A. for; of
B. for; /
C. of; /
D. of; for
34. Last year at this time, governments around the world spared no efforts to ______ a deadly flu virus that killed scores of people in Mexico and quickly spread around the world.
A. deposit
B. release
C. contain
D. ignore
35.—What do you want to do at present during the financial meltdown?
—I want to set up a large company of my own; I want to be a millionaire and I want to be…
—Be realistic. _______________________.
A. Never put off what can be done today till tomorrow
B. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
C. He that falls today may be up again tomorrow
D. You can go as far as you can believe
三、完型填空（20*1）
All of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years. It's the age when we have to deal with the most 36 in our life. This transition (过渡) from childhood to adulthood is 37 for some, but rough for others. The most important thing about being a teenager is 38 . When we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do. Unlike before when we were small kids, even if we made a big trouble, we didn’t need to pay anything for it.
It’s all not so 39 about being a teenager though. We don’t have to have our 40 take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn’t go before. We can have 41 with friends or even alone,
which we couldn’t have because we were too 42 to know what pleasure is! It's a very enjoyable time of life. During this age, we are old enough to 43 what is good for us, and make decisions by ourselves without 44 others.
But like the s aying goes ‘‘All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue 45 .” During this period, we are having much 46 for our studies. If we don't pass, we won’t get jobs, and things will take a turn for the 47 . With the present world economy in _48 , we have to do really, really well in our 49 for a job. Adults say that their _50 is the hardest part of life. But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much 51_ than being already an adult. What we do in our teenage years will 52 what we become and how we lead our life in the future.
In conclusion, it is quite 53 that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager. If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better._54 for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us. What's more, we should understand the right 55 of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.
36. A. chances B. changes C. feelings D. expectations
37. A. smooth B. practical C. demanding D. necessary
38. A. knowledge B. independence C. confidence D. responsibility
39. A. easy B. strange C. bad D. interesting
40. A. guides B. partners C. parents D. friends
41. A. fun B. trouble C. relation D. business
42. A. proud B. young C. smart D. mature
43. A. predict B. remember C. imagine D. understand
44. A. guiding B. helping C. inviting D. consulting
45. A. occasionally B. temporarily C. forever D. increasingly
46. A. pressure B. passion C. motivation D. panic
47. A. better B. worse C. fewer D. more
48. A. decline B. hope C. increase D. debt
49. A. contribution B. education C. application D. qualification
50. A. promotion B. work C. experience D. age
51. A. harder B. happier C. easier D. lighter
52. A. reflect B. confirm C. determine D. identify
53. A. vital B. urgent C. common D. unnecessary
54. A. Or B. Otherwise C. But D. Because
55. A. experience B. way C. condition D. power
四、阅读理解
A
Is there link between humans and climate change or not? This question was first studied in the early 1900s. Since then, many scientists have thought that our actions do make a difference. In 1997, the Kyot o Protocol explained our role in the Earth’s changing atmosphere and set international limits for gas emissions(排放) from 2008 to 2012. Some countries have decided to continue these reductions until 2020. More recently, the Paris Agreement, stuck by nearly 200 countries, also aims to limit global warming. But just now how much warmer it will get depends on how deeply countries cut carbon emissions.
3.5℃
This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the
initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal
cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.
2℃
To meet this minimum goal, the Agreement requires countries to tighten
emissions targets every five years. Even this increase could sink some islands,
worse drought(干旱) and drive a decline of up to a third in the number of
species.
1.5℃
This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris Agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to 1.5℃ could save them from sinking.
0.8℃
This is how much temperatures have risen since the industrial age began, putting us 40% of the way to the 2℃ point.
0℃
The baseline here is average global temperature before the start of the industrial age.
56. It can be concluded from paragraph 1 that _______.
A. the problem of global warming will have been quite solved by 2020
B. gas emissions have been effectively reduced in developed countries
C. the Paris Agreements is more influential than the Kyoto Protocol
D. humans have made continuous efforts to slow down global warming
57. If those island nations not far above sea level are to survive, the maximum temperature rise, since the start of the industrial age, should be_______.
A. 0.8℃
B. 1.5℃
C. 2℃
D. 3.5℃
B
China International Import Expo which takes place in Shanghai from November 5 to 10 is
regarded as a significant move to further open the Chinese market to the world as it provides new channels for countries and regions in trade exchanges and opportunities to enhance cooperation. Launched in 2018, the CIIE is the world’s first import-themed national-level exhibition. Aside from an expansion in exhibition space, the number of countries, companies and organizations participating in the expo has also increased this year.
According to Chen Wenxuan, who is in charge of the trade in services exhibition area, one of the seven main areas consisting of the 30,000-square-meter exhibition space, more exhibitors have shown a commitment to creating a better exhibition for the event, after learning about or personally benefiting from the positive feedback during the first one. Forpheus, the world’s first table tennis coach robot, for example, is making a comeback（复出）with its latest fifth generation upgrade at the expo, which is capable of reading the facial expressions of the player, and accurately calculating and predicting the pathway of the ball.
Tian Ye, who is responsible for the equipment exhibition area, added that more exhibitors are ready to take advantage of the expo, which serves as a rising platform for countries and companies to show their latest innovation results and developments, so they can establish a connection and ideally strike a deal with purchasers. It’s also the expo’s unique appeal.
In addition, the CIIE of this year is expected to introduce a large number of distinctive and high- quality foreign products to China, and further satisfy the demand of domestic consumption upgrade. By continuing to upgrade open platforms such as the CIIE, China can achieve more economic breakthroughs in the future.
58. How can we understand the CIIE is considered a significant measure?
A. It promotes the development of global economy.
B. It consists of many companies from developing countries.
C. It is the world’s first nation al exhibition focused on import.
D. It has a strong influence on the development of technology.
59. How does the expo’s unique appeal benefit exhibitors?
A. They can learn the way to contact purchasers.
B. They can add more orders for high-quality products.
C. They can present latest original products of their own.
D. They can satisfy various needs of domestic consumption.
60. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Shanghai Gets Set for CIIE
B. CIIE Promotes Development
C. CIIE Brings in More Products
D. Exhibitors Expand the Market
C
Several years ago, Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of the famou s BBC television programme ‘Top Gear’, discovered that one of his guests was half German and half Irish. Immediately, he said: “That’s quite an odd combination. It’s like, ‘this must be done absolutely perfectly… tomorrow’”.
This joke played on stereotypes (刻板印象) of the Germans as efficient and the Irish as lazy. Many people could understandably be offended by these kinds of assertions. We do not know every Irish person, so how can we then conclude that every Irish person is lazy?
I recently read on a websi te that Irish business people were described as being ‘generally rather casual’ and ‘more outwardly friendly than many European countries’'. German business people, on the other hand, are considered to be very direct and according to the website, they ‘do not need a personal relationship in order to do business’. Once you hear advice like this, it becomes easier to understand where jokes like the one in the first paragraph come from.
So why do some people disapprove of the kind of stereotypes as seen in Cla rkson’s joke, but not batting an eyelid when it comes to generalisations. What is the difference between the two?
By definition, a stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. A cultural characteristic, on the other hand, is a pattern of behaviour that is typical of a certain group.
So what does this really mean? Stereotypes are simply overstated assumptions about groups of people. Imagine if a tourist visited a small town in Switzerland and saw a number of locals playing the alphorn instrument, and then claimed that Swiss people can play the alphorn. This would be a stereotype! This is an overstated image of the Swiss which is based on one tourist’s experience.
If, however, this tourist were to say that the Swiss are very punctual, this could be seen as a cultural characteristic. This is because it is a pattern of behaviour which is very typical in Switzerland: from their transport system to their business meetings.
In this way, some people argue that generalising another culture is not just useful, but important. Politicians always have to be mindful of the cultural characteristics of different countries. By becoming aware of different cultural characteristics, they can avoid causing offence in those cultures.
However, others argue that generalising cultures will always lead to offensive stereotypes. They argue that the best thing we can do is to stop generalising cultures and start treating people as individuals.
All this raises important questions: can making generalisations about groups of people be a positive thing? Or should we always avoid making broad assumptions about different groups?
61. When he said, “It’s like, ‘this must be done absolutely perfectly… tomorrow’”, Jeremy Clarkson really meant ________.
A. the Germans will do it perfectly tomorrow while the Irish won’t
B. the combination of half German and half Irish is interesting
C. the characteristics of the Germans and the Irish are opposite
D. the stereotypes of the Germans and the Irish are not so good
62. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The Irish people are considered as lazy, direct and casual.
B. The Germans are thought to be efficient, friendly and direct.
C. The Swiss can play the alphorn quite well.
D. It’s typical of the Swiss to be punctual.
63. Politicians think it important to generalize another culture because ________.
A. they think different cultural characteristics are useful
B. they don’t want to offend other people
C. cultural characteristics are better than stereotypes
D. generalizing will lead to offensive stereotypes
64. The main purpose of this passage is to _________.
A. discuss whether it is good to make generalizations about groups of people
B. tell us the differences between stereotypes and cultural characteristics
C. illustrate the importance of making generalizations
D. show it is wrong to play jokes on stereotypes of different people
D
Changing technology stimulates (刺激) the brain and increases intelligence. But that may only be true if the technology challenges us. In a world run by intelligent machines, our lives could get a
lot simpler. Would that make us less intelligent?
After the Industrial Revolution, machines began to replace manual workers. The process played out in agriculture as well as manufacturing so that groups of agricultural workers were replaced and forced to move to cities to make a living.
When machines took away much of the manual work, people became less physically active and gained weight. The sedentary (久坐的) lifestyle contributed to a worldwide spreading of overweight and related metabolic disorders such as heart disease, secondary diabetes and kidney disease .
As our bodies rested, our brains were forced to work harder, however. It is much more difficult to drive through an overcrowded modern city than it is to move around in a small rural village, for instance. Modern jobs are also more complex and urgent and they require more education because employees need to process new information quickly. Even during our leisure time, our brains work harder due to greater availability of books and explosion of audiovisual media, for entertainment, study, music, news, and so forth.
Now in the Internet age, the amount of information grows fast along with the advance of electronic technologies. The number of people with whom we interact electronically grows by leaps and bounds thanks to the ease of use of social media like Facebook and Twitter.
All of this extra work for our brains makes us more intelligent. That helps explain why human intelligence increases steadily from generation to generation in all developed countries, a phenomenon named the Flynn Effect. Of course, there are other reasons, including improved nutrition, better medical practices that reduce brain damage, and improved sanitation and public health that reduce diseases of childhood.
In the P.G Wodehouse novels, Bertie Wooster got away with being a fool because Jeeves was there to back him up with superior brain power. Similarly, people of the future are at risk of being less intelligent because machines will do their thinking for them.
Artificial intelligence is taking over many human jobs. For instance, planes are being flown much of the time by automatic pilots. Moreover, the complex problem of controlling air traffic around large modern airports is also achieved by artificial intelligence that operates well beyond the capability of mere human air traffic controllers.
Artificial intelligence exists in many fields of modern life for the simple reason that intelligent machines can already outperform humans, including some aptitudes(天资) which were once
thought to be a human advantage, such as playing chess or recalling details in a game of Jeopardy.
Machine intelligence is increasing much faster than human intelligence. As machines get smarter, they will do more of our thinking for us and make life easier.
Instead of struggling to identify ourselves to some electronic system via passwords that are secure only if they are hard to remember, the system will work harder to identify us using biometrics (生物测定学) such as fingerprints or even the individual sound of our hearts. More technologies of the future may also be voice-activated so that we will talk with machines much as we would talk to a friend.
In the future, the electronic assistant will develop to the point where it serves similar functions as a real living chief male servant of a house, fulfilling requests such as: “Organize a dinner party for six on Thursday, Jeeves, and invite the usual guests .”
At that point, our long struggle with challenging technologies is at an end. Like Bertie Wooster, we can take it easy knowing that the hard work of planning and organizing is being done by a better brain—the electronic assistant. Starved of mental effort, our brains will return to an earlier or less advanced form.
The future is still in the fog.
65. According to the author, the Industrial Revolution led to ________.
A. the development of education
B. the spread of diseases in the world
C. a lifestyle of being physically active
D. people’s physical and mental problems
66. The Flynn Effect refers to the phenomenon that ________.
A. extra work can stimulate our brain
B. humans are becoming smarter and smarter
C. the change in human intelligence is steady
D. people in developed countries have higher intelligence
67. The writer gave the example of Bertie Wooster to tell us ________.
A. the possibility of humans' becoming less intelligent
B. the risk of machines ' destroying the world
C. the end of challenges people face in life
D. the powerful functions of technologies
68. Why is artificial intelligence popular in our life?
A. It can improve and update itself.
B. It can take advantage of humans.
C. It can do much better than humans.
D. It can deal with abstract information.
69. We can infer from the passage that electronic systems ________.
A. will make trouble in our daily life
B. will function as the master of humans
C. will become more user-friendly in the future
D. will be deserted because of their inconvenience
70. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. The future is bright due to artificial intelligence.
B .Will machines replace manual workers?
C.Humans will develop electronic assistants.
D. Can artificial intelligence make us stupid?
五、任务型阅读：
If You Get In, Make College Count
As tuition costs rise, with post-undergraduate (本科毕业后) jobs difficult to find, is higher education worth the cost?
Here is an unfortunate truth: For far too many incoming freshmen, college－any college－is not worth it. Year after year, students fail to get the full value of their tuition.
Many critics blame this cost/value problem on the universities, though each critic might point to a different reason: teachers always think of difficult research, the high costs of athletics, or the popularity of majors that are supposedly not suited to the new job market, to name some of their favorites.
But these are symptoms and not the illness itself. In our experience, the source of the wasted
university experience begins with the student. Too often, students make bad choices or, frankly, just not enough great choices.
Too often we meet students who are so exhausted by the business of getting into college that they don’t work hard once the y arrive－one of the most common wastes of time and tuition. A poorly constructed transcript (成绩单) can be destructive to a student’s education. Failure to engage and build professional working relationships with professors in office hours (which may lead to continued study, internships and more) also hurts the student’s experience.
Another mistake is failing to make use of the many support networks on today’ s college campuses. It’s almost embarrassing how many good offerings are rolled into each tuition dol lar, but most students don’t know they exist.
Another common point of failure is filling the schedule with too many extracurricular activities as students once did in high school, rather than getting intensely involved in one or two at most. The same can be said of overburdened course loads.
The final great failure we frequently see is the approach students (and their parents) take to selecting a major and accurately seeing its impact on a future career. University systems are not vocational schools. While critics nowadays complain about the attraction of useless majors –and some do exist – more frequently we see too many students pursue a course of study that is not their strength, simply because it seems to have obvious connections to a potential job after graduation.
Rather than perform poorly in a “practical” major and be of little interest as a future job candidate, we say it is better to major in a subject where a student would do well and master the tools of communication and analysis. Students who choose a unique major should complement (使更具有吸引力) that with some well-chosen skill courses, internships and other co-curricular activities that help with career opportunities after college.
So, is college worth it? It can be. Studies show that college graduates have many advantages –material, social and emotional – that can lead to greater success later in life.
To get the full value out of college, students must be as diligent and creative about getting out of college as they were about getting in. After all, the most beautiful, Olympic saltwater pool does you no good if you don’t know how to swim.
六、书面表达
请阅读下面文字及图表，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Beijing police detained (拘留) 16 students from the Beijing Midi School of Music on suspicion of drug use, after a raid on a dormitory on November 24, 2015, following a statement that marijuana was being used at the school.
By June, 2015, there were more than 3 million known drug addicts in China, among whom there were more than 38,000 under the age of 18, according to an official at the drug control department of the Ministry of Justice.
The Drug Danger Zone: Most Illegal Drug Use Starts in the Teenage
Years
【写作内容】
1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；
2. 结合上述信息，简要分析材料所反映的社会现象的原因及危害；
3. 根据你的分析，谈谈你对解决此问题的看法或建议（不少于两点）。

【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。

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内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

答案
听力：1-5 . ACBAB 6-10 . B AABC 11-15BCCBC 16-20ACABA
单选：21-25CAD AB 26-30 B ADCC 31-35 DAACB
完型：36-40BADCC 41-45 ABDDC 46-50 ABABD 51-55ACDCB
阅读: 56-57 DB 58-60 ACB 61-64 CDBA 65-70 ABACCD
任务型阅读:
1. unable / unlikely 2 blame 3 admission/ going 4. resources / support
5.participating / joining
6.. method / way
7. strength(s)/advantage(s)/merit(s)
8.increase/ boost 9. diligence 10.Conclusion
第六部分(满分25 分)
81. One possible version:
The two selections presented above clearly reveal that teenagers engage in illegal drug abuse, which has become a growing social phenomenon and to which we are supposed to attach importance.
Quite a few factors give rise to the problem. For one thing, some teenagers take drugs illegally because they are curious or want to rebel against families. For another, some try them just on account of peer pressu re. Drug abuse has a dangerous effect on teenagers. Drugs affect teens’ ability to concentrate on their study and work. Besides, drug abuse can cause both emotional and physical problems, and even suck the life right out of a person.
To protect teenagers from illegal drugs, safety education has been of great urgency. By putting more safety education into textbooks, we should make teenagers realize the risk and consequence of taking drugs. Meanwhile, parents’ supervision and communication play an important r ole in keeping teenagers away from drugs.
录音原文
M: This matches that suit I have at home, doesn’t it? I don’t know how to tie it, though. (1)
W: Don’t worry, I do. My dad taught me how to do it when I was little.。