湖南省长沙市长郡中学2016届高三下学期第六次月考英语试卷

长郡中学2016届高三月考试卷（六）英语长郡中学高三英语备课组组稿本试题卷分第I卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共10页。

时量120分钟。

满分150分。

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. Watch a movie.B. Eat Indian food.C. Play a game.2. Why did the man say he had no time?A. He wasn't wearing a watch.B. He wanted to talk another time.C. He misunderstood the woman.3. Why does the man keep the heavy curtains?A. He doesn't like sunshine.B. The neighbors are too curious.C. He doesn't like light-colored ones.4. When should the project be handed in?A. On Friday afternoon.B. On Saturday afternoon.C. On Monday morning.5. What will the woman probably do?A. Go to another club.B. Go to the front of the line.C. Wait in line for two hours.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、7题。

6. What does the Enco company sell?A. Gas.B. Cars.C. Engines.7. What can be inferred from the conversation?A. People should learn English.B. Cultural differences have a lot of influence.C. Companies shouldn't do international business.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What was the woman calling about?A.A one-bedroom apartment.B.A two-bedroom apartment.C.A three-bedroom apartment.9. What does the man say about the rent?A. It must be paid every month.B. It is due at the end of the year.C. It includes water and electricity.10. What time is it now?A. 4:30.B. 5:00.C. 6:00.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Why does the woman like drama?A. It teaches her how to lie.B. It makes her a better speaker.C. It's a good way to study people.12. What is the woman's main job?A. She's a writer.B. She's a teacher.C. She's an actress.13. What does the woman want to focus on next?A. English theatre.B. Asian dramas.C. Asian languages.听第9段材料，回答第14至1 6题。

14. What does the woman say about making a music video?A. lt's not good.B. It's great.C. It's funny.15. Why shouldn't the man smile too big?A. He won't look cool.B. It might make things even worse.C. It would seem unnatural.16. What is the purpose of the speakers' discussion?A. To act well in a play.B. To sell more of their products.C. To win the support of the young people.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Who is the speaker?A.A sales manager.B.A store manager.C.A human resources manager.18. How many store managers will be hired?A. Two.B. Three.C. Five.19. What is TRUE about the team leaders?A. Two years of college is preferred.B. They need to attend weekly meetings.C. They must have management experience.20. What does the speaker suggest about the staff associate?A. They are paid a lot.B. Their jobs are challenging.C. Getting hired isn't difficult.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，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

ALaws that would have ensured pupils from five to sixteen received a fullfinancial education got lost in the “wash up". An application is calling on t henext government to bring it back.At school the children are taught to add up and subtract（减法）but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account-let alonehow to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner MartinLewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financialeducation a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Childrenfrom five to sixteen should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the children,schools and families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called¨wash-up" earlier this month-the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed. Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has alwaysbeen one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habitsof young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven to ll-year-olds are saversbut by the time they get t0 17, over half of them are in debt to family andfriends. By this age, 26% see a credit or overdraft（透支）as a way of extendingtheir spending power. Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it muchharder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have been fallen many oftheir parents' generation unless they receive good quality financial educationwhile at school".The UK has been in the worst financial recession（衰退）for generations. Itdoes seem odd that-unless parents step in-young people are left in the darkuntil they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up atuniversity. In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financialeducation in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents.21. The passage is mainly aboutA. how to manage school lessonsB. how to deal with the financial crisisC. teaching young people about moneyD. teaching students how to study effectively22. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs thatA. the author complains about the school educationB. pupils should not be taught to add up and subtractC. students have been taught to manage their financesD. laws on financial education have been effectively carried out23. The website and the consumer campaigner joined toA. instruct the pupils to donate their pocket moneyB. promote the connection of schools and familiesC. ask the government to dismiss the parliamentD. appeal for the curriculum of financial educationBTayka Hotel de SalWhere: Tahua, BoliviaHow much: About $ 95 a nightWhy it's cool: You've stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That's something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt-includingthe beds (though you'll sleep on regular mattresses and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake which is the world's biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste (糊) of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.Green Magic Nature ResortWhere: Vythiri, IndiaHow much: About $ 240 a nightWhy it's cool: Taking a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window-there isno glass! -you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy(罩篷). Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don't even have to come down for breakfast-the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator" .Dog Bark Park Inn B&BWhere: Cottonwood, IdahoHow much: $ 92 a nightWhy it's cool: This doghouse isn't just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30- foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go upa few steps of the loft(阁楼) in Willy's head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toiletin the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant(消防栓) outside.Gamirasu Cave HotelWhere: Ayvali, TurkeyHow much: Between $ 130 and $ 450 a nightWhy it's cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your staywill be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the roomscool in summer. (Don't worry-there is heat in winter. )24. What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?A. It is located on a prehistoric lake.B. It should be protected against the rain.C. Everything in the hotel is made of salt.D. You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.25. How are the hotels similar?A. Expensive.B. Comfortable.C. Natural.D. Unique.26. What do the underlined words “Sweet Willy" refer to?A. The name of the hotel.B. The name of the hotel owner.C. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.D. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.27. Which of the hotels gives you a feeling of living in the far past?A. Tayka Hotel de Sal.B. Green Magic Nature Resort.C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel.CIt is a familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers out for a drink for comfort. But which side deserves sympathy more, the joblessor the still employed? On March 6, researchers at a conference at the Universityof Cambridge heard data suggesting it's the latter.Brendan Burchell, a Cambridge sociologist, presented his analysis based on various surveys conducted across Europe. The data suggest that employed people who feel insecure in their jobs show similar levels of anxiety and depression as those who are unemployed. Although a newly jobless person's mental health may “bottom out" after about six months, and then even begin to improve, themental state of people who are continuou sly worried about losing their job “just continues to get worse and worse", Burchell says.Evolutionary psychologists support this theory by arguing that human beings feel more stress during times of insecurity because they sense an immediate but invisible threat. Patients have been known to experience higher levels of anxiety, for example, while waiting for examination results than knowing what they are suffering from-even if the result is cancer. It's better to get the bad news andstart doing something about it rather than wait with anxiety. When the uncertainty continues, people stay in a nonstop “fight or flight" response, which leads to damaging stress.But not every employee in insecure industries has such a discouraging view, Burchell says. In general, women get on better. While reporting higher levels of anxiety than men when directly questioned, women scored lower in stress on theGHQ 12, even when they had a job they felt insecure about losing. As Burchell explains, “For women, most studi es show that any job-it doesn't matterwhether it is secure or insecure-gives psychological improvement over unemployment. " Burchell supposes that the difference in men is that they tend to feel pressure not only to be employed, but also to be the primary breadwinner,and that more of a man's self-worth depends on his job.28. Why do researchers think the still employed deserve sympathy more?A. They have to do more work since then.B. They have no chance to find better jobs.C. They have to work with inexperienced workers.D. They constantly worry about losing their jobs.29. What is most likely to cause a “fight or flight" response?A. Not having a paid job.B. Fierce competition for jobs.C. Not knowing what will happen.D. Pressure to work longer hours.30. What will the writer talk about following the last paragraph?A. Advice on preparing a job interview.B. Advice to those in insecure industries.C. Some knowledge of psychology.D. Difference in men and women.31. What could be the best title for the text?A. Is it less stressful to get laid off than stay on?B. Should greater sympathy be given to the jobless?C. Do employees bear more stress than ever before?D. Do men or women show higher levels of anxiety?DMost of the time, the ground feels solid beneath our feet. That's comforting. But it's also misleading because there's actually a lot going on underground. Masses of land (called plates) slip, slide, and bump against each other, slowly changing the shape of continents and oceans over millions and billions of years.Scientists know that Earth formed about 4. 5 billion years ago. They also know that our planet was hot at first. As it cooled, its outermost layer, calledthe crust （地壳), eventually formed moving plates. Exactly when this shift happened, however, is an open question.Now, an international group of researchers has an answer. They've foundnew evidence suggesting that Earth's crust started shifting at least 3.8 billion years ago. The new estimate is l. 3 billion years earlier than previous ones.Not long before 3. 8 billion years ago, lots of small planets were hitting Earth, keeping its crust in a hot, melting state. After the hard crust formed,much of it sank at various times into the planet's hot insides. There, it melted before returning to the surface.In some places, however, the crust never sank. One of the oldest such placesis in Greenland, in an area called the Isua supracrustal (上地壳) belt. The rockycrust there is between 3. 7 and 3. 8 billion years old. The belt was once part of the seafloor, but now it is exposed to air.The researchers recently took a close look at the Isua supracrustal belt. They noticed long, parallel cracks（裂缝）in the rock that have been filled in with atype of volcanic rock.To explain this structure, the scientists propose that tension in the crustcaused the seafloor to crack open long ago. Hot, liquid rock oozed from deepinside Earth to fill the cracks. Finally, the whole area cooled, forming what wesee today.That explanation, plus chemical clues inside the rock, suggests that the Isua supracrustal belt was once part of plate under the ocean, beginning around 3.8billion years ago.“It's a fantastic case of solving a jigsaw puzzle（拼图）,”says one of the researchers. He notes that the puzzle was “a very difficult one because theserocks are all very old and have been badly ruined".32. The underlined phrase “oozed from" in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning toA. filled up graduallyB. washed away quicklyC. flew out of slowlyD. broke through suddenly33. What can we infer from the text?A. The shapes of continents and oceans changed slowly.B. The Earth's crust started shifting l.3 billion years ago.C. The crust began to shift when the Earth was hot.D. The hit from small planets made the Earth cool.34. What do scientists know about the past of the Isua supracrustal belt?A. It was once covered by hot, liquid rock.B. It remained under the deep sea.C. It stayed hot and sinking.D. It kept moving slowly.35. The text is mainly aboutA. why the Earth cooledB. how the Isua supracrustal belt formedC. whether the ground beneath our feet is stillD. when Earth's crust began shifting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。