2015929英语月考题

襄阳一中2016届高三年级九月考试英语考试时间：2015年9月29日下午2：30 —4：30 时间：120分钟分值：150分本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分,考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

注意事项:1. 答第I卷前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在答题卡上。

2. 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(共两节, 满分30分)做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。

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。

1. What does the man want to do?A. Take it easy.B. Finish his work.C. Get something to eat.2. What does the woman suggest the man buy?A. A dress.B. A purse.C. A jacket.3. When does the man want to go to the library?A. On Saturday.B. On Sunday.C. On Monday.4. Where does this conversation most likely take place?A. At a clothing store.B. At a laundry place.C. At a restaurant.5. How does the woman respond to the man?A. She is disappointed.B. She is impressed.C. She is optimistic.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7题。

6. Why won’t the woman’s sister come to dinner?A. She has to work late.B. She has an appointment.C. She’s in another town.7. How does the man feel about the dinner tonight?A. He is very excited.B. He is a little disappointed.C. He is quite angry.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Where does the woman plan to go?A. San Francisco.B. Sacramento.C. Los Angeles.9. What is the best way to see California according to the man?A. Go there by plane.B. Take the train along the coast.C. Go through the center of California.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why did the man fall asleep?A. He is sick.B. He works at night.C. His class was boring.11. Why does the man have to work?A. To pay for school.B. To pay his debts.C. To pay his hospital bill.12. Where will the man probably go next?A. To a class.B. To the financial aid office.C. To the student employment office.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How did the woman get the computer?A. She ordered it.B. She borrowed it.C. It was a gift.14. What surprises the man about the computer?A. The size.B. The price.C. The color.15. What did the woman do in the café today?A. She talked with a friend.B. She worked on her résumé.C. She looked for a job there.16. How does the woman feel about noisy cafés?A. She dislikes the noise.B. She ignores the noise.C. She is inspired by the noise.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is true about the Great American Beer Festival?A. It’s the oldest beer festival in America.B. It’s the cheapest beer festival in the world.C. It’s the largest beer festival in America.18. How many companies will attend the festival?A. Tens of thousands.B. Hundreds.C. Thousands.19. According to the talk, what is Sticky Fingers?A. An American beer.B. An organic cheese.C. The name of a beer company.20. How old are people allowed to enter?A. 18.B. 20.C. 21.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。

ATwelve years ago, Rachel Miller was lost when it came to her son John. The 7-year-old was profoundly disabled because of his autism(孤独症). Unable to speak, he withdrew from people at school and, worse still, from his family.In March 2003, Miller was introduced to Jeff Hancock, a one-on-one therapist(治疗师) for people with autism. Hancock was hired to be John’s companion. The two would go people-watching at the mall on the weekends. Hancock chatted throughout their trips, even though John couldn’t talk back.Their relationship developed when Hancock introduced John to the Special Olympics. Whenever John was running or being active, he was smiling. When John turned 12, Hancock introduced him to track at the Special Olympics. For the first three years, the pair just observed the sport by watching practices and events. Hancock worked daily with John, showing him everything, including where to sit, stand and walk, so he would understand the flow of the events.In May 2014, John’s training brought him to the Special Olympics State Summer Games in Orlando. The 18-year-old was competing in the 800 meters and the 110-meter hurdles.As the 800 was setting up, Miller remembered, she pressed her face against the fence, anxiously waiting for John to compete. But as soon as the race started, all Miller saw was an athlete. “I just wanted to see the bestperformance. It seemed much more significant than whether he would ever speak or respond to me,” she said.John ended up winning the gold medal for the 800. Sports completely changed John, and Miller said that is because of Hancock. “A person with a disability can feel hopeless and isolated, and I think that can happen to parents, too. Jeff probably saw that with us,” said Miller.21. The first paragraph mainly tells us .A. how Rachel Miller felt 12 years agoB. why John became disabledC. when John became seriously disabledD. that John wasn’t willing to communicate22. How did Jeff Hancock help John?A. She encouraged him to speak to people around.B. She exposed him to the Special Olympics training.C. She employed a one-on-one therapist for him.D. She found him a better training centre for treatment.23. When Miller saw John was an athlete in the 800 meters, she felt .A. curiousB. delightedC. confusedD. upset24. What can be the best title for the text?A. A Disabled Boy with Autism.B. A One-on-one Therapist.C. A Disabled Boy Turning Running Champ.D. The Special Olympics Games.BA study of 216 babies up to 12 months old indicated they were unable to remember new tasks if they did not have a lengthy sleep soon afterwards.The University of Sheffield team suggested the best time to learn may be just before sleep and stressed the importance of reading at bedtime. Experts said sleep might be much more important in early years than at other ages.People spend more of their time asleep as babies than at any other point in their life. Yet the researchers, in Sheffield and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, say “strikingly little is known” about the role of sleep in the first year of life.They taught 6- to 12-month-olds three new tasks involving playing with hand puppets(木偶). Half the babies slept within four hours of learning, while the rest either had no sleep or napped for fewer than 30 minutes.The next day, the babies were encouraged to repeat what they had been taught. The result showe d “sleeping like a baby” was vital for learning. On average one-and-a-half tasks could be repeated after having a lengthy nap. Yet zero tasks could be repeated if there was little sleep time.Dr. Jane Herbert, from the department of psychology at the University of Sheffield, told the BBC News, “Those who sleep after learning learn well, while those who don’t sleep don’t learn at all. ”She said it had been assumed that wide-awake was best for learning, but instead it may be the events just before sleep that are the most important. And the findings showed just how valuable reading books with children before sleep could be.Dr. Herbert added, “Parents get load s of advice, some saying fixed sleep, some flexible. These findings suggest some flexibility would be useful, but they don’t say what parents should do.”A study last year uncovered the mechanisms(机制) of memory in sleep. It showed how new connections between brain cells formed during sleep. Prof. Derk Jan Dijk at the University of Surrey said, “It may be that sleep is much more important at some ages than others, but that remains to be firmly proved. ”25. What can we learn from the study?A. Babies should be fed before going to sleep.B. The best time to learn is just after waking up.C. It’s important fo r babies to have enough sleep.D. It doesn’t make sense to read before sleeping.26. Which of the following can best show the process of the research?A. Read → sleep or no sleep → repeat.B. Learn → asleep or no sleep → repeat.C. Sing → sleep → learn.D. Learn → no sleep → feed.27. Dr. Jane Herbert would probably agree that .A. sleeping contributes to new brain cells formingB. it is unwise to teach babies new tasks before bedtimeC. sleeping plays a key role in helping babies learnD. it is better to teach babies when they are wide-awake28. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?A. More sleep will lead to a better memory.B. Sleeping after training should be encouraged.C. Parents should unconditionally follow the advice from experts.D. Further research needs to be done about the sleep-age relationship.CThere are many weight loss products, plans and programs available in the market. However, if most of these programs were effective, we would see obesity trends reversing, yet we are witnessing more and more people struggling with weight.Experiences of dieters regaining pre-dieting weight within 5 years are common. Therefore, a fitness program that works over a long period of time is something you should be looking for. Before reaching for your wallet or purse, make sure the program is exactly what it claims to be.Professional endorsement(认可)A good program should not insist on offering pills, injections, powders or similar products that are not endorsed by a medically trained professional. Your choice of programs should have been designed by a medically trained professional.Unrealistic promisesA good program should not make unrealistic promises, such as “To lose 5 pounds in a week, with no ex ercise!” Therefore, it is advisable to judge whether the promises being made are realistic. The plan should also have a high success rate of weight loss.QualificationA weight loss program should consider the health of the applicants. It should consider their age, medical condition, gender, health background, medications and more, in order to make a plan that meets the needs of every applicant. A good program should include diet and exercise in order to promote permanent and good health.RestrictionA good program should not be overly restrictive on food allowances. Some program ask you not to eat foods from the main/nutrient food groups like fruit and vegetables. A successful weight loss plan, for most people, should not involve less than 1,200 calories per day.Cost effectiveA long-term program does not have to cost you lots of money. An effective plan that is reasonably priced can save you a large sum of money that can be spent on other healthy habits. This can in turn improve your lifespan.We provide the best information about weight loss program. For further details please visit the provided links.29. What does the underlined word “reversing” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. Increasing quickly in a short time.B. Arranging things in the opposite order.C. Going faster in the same direction.D. Changing to the opposite direction.30. The text mainly contributes to .A. finding the cause of being overweight worldwideB. selling more reasonably priced weight loss productsC. better understanding of good weight loss programsD. helping people avoid overweight by controlling diets31. What can be inferred from the text?A. Weight loss programs always have to charge a large amount of money.B. We should take in at least 1,200 calories every day to keep healthy.C. No weight loss program can stop you regaining weight within five years.D. Medically trained professionals usually recommend medicines on purpose.32. The text is probably taken from .A. a newspaperB. a magazineC. a websiteD. a textbookDEndless playing of songs like All I Want for Christmas in shops during the festive season doesn’t just drive us mad—the songs also make us more careless with our money, a research has warned.While repeated performance of Jingle Bells may seem like an innocent attempt to raise customers’ spirits during the nightmare of Christmas shopping, the songs also have a more delicate impact.“Background music, or ‘Muzak’, can be used by marketers to impose cultures—such as the commercialization of Christmas—onto consumers and influence their behaviour,” experts said.Dr Alan Bradshaw of Royal Holloway, University of London, said, “Festive jingles are force—fed to Christmas shoppers in a bid to change their mood, influence their sense of time and what sort of products they buy. In other words, this is an attempt to control your shopping habits in a way that you might hardly be aware of.”“Often we are told that we have the freedom to choose where we want to shop, but during Chris tmas the use of music in this way is so common that our freedom to choose disappears.”Dr Bradshaw and Professor Morris Holbrook of Columbia University examined the phenomenon and found that retailers often “dumb down” the music played in shops to relax cu stomers, meaning it is easier to control their behaviour.It is thought that slowing down the rhythm of music in shops can trick customers into thinking less time has passed, and therefore spend more time examining the shelves, for example.Some providers of background music have been known to promote their services by claiming they can boost profits by controlling the behaviour of customers.“A common trick is to take a popular current song and record an instrumental version which can be slowed down or sped up at different time of the day to influence behaviour in different ways,” Dr Bradshaw said.Background music is often classed as “Muzak” in honour of the Seattle—based company which began producing its soft—sounding melodies in the 1930s.33. According to Dr Bradshaw, in what ways does Christmas music influence customers?①their mood ②their income ③their sense of time ④ the sort of products they buyA. ①②③B. ①②④C. ②③④D.①③④34. Shopkeepers slow down the rhythm of music in shops to .A. let customers enjoy the beautiful musicB. make customers and sales assistants relaxedC. let customers spend more time shoppingD. help customers find what they really want35. What kind of music is now often adopted for background music in shops?A. Classical music.B. Popular modern songs.C. Folk songs.D. Jazz music.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。