山西省高三英语上学期“晋商四校”联考试题(无答案)

英语试题（文理科）

本试卷满分：150分考试时间： 100分钟

第一卷（共100分）

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

第一节 (共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。

A

Patricia was worried. She had a job interview, and she wanted to look good. She decided to get some new clothes. The store owner, Pallas Hansen, helped Patricia find a suit. But when she left the store, she didn’t pay for the suit!

How could Patricia do this? She was in a special store called Career Closet in San Jose, California. Pallas Hansen and Charlotte Krumwiede started this nonprofit store to help women. They knew that many women don’t find jobs because they don’t have the right clothes for a job interview. Women who don’t have a lot of money have to use their money to buy food and clothes for their children. They can’t buy clothes for themselves.

Pallas and Charlotte started the store in 1992 after the y heard about a store like this in Chicago .Volunteers work in the store. Working women donate most of the clothes to the store. This makes it possible for the customers at Career Closet to get clothes for free.

Career Closet has helped 2,500 San Jose women, but clothes aren’t the only things women get at the store. They also get confidence. Patricia is 36 yeas old. Her husband was hurt in an accident, and Patricia needed a job to support her seven children. She went to Career Closet and got a jacket, a skirt, and a blouse. “The whole day made me feel special,” she said. Patricia was a success at her interview, and she got the job. One reason why she got it was that she was wearing the right clothes for the workplace.

Pallas says,” I love this job. Sixty percent of the women get jobs. It’s like being a fairy god-mother.”

1. What do the women get besides clothes at Career Closet?

A. Money

B. Shoes

C. Chances

D. Confidence.

2. Where do the clothes at Career Closet come from?

A. Volunteers working in the store

B. Working women

C. Pallas Hansen and Charlotte Krumwiede

D. Patricia

3. We can know from the passage that ____________.

A. dressing properly in working place is important.

B. women need to wear fashionable dress for work.

C. women are trained for the interview in Pallas’s shop.

D. women get the job training in Pallas’s shop.

4. The best title for the passage might be _____.

A. Job Interview

B. Fashion

C. Dress for Success

D. Getting Clothes Free of Charge

B.

Talking Taxis

Many people think New York is a noisy city. In fact, scientists who study noise say that the average noise level in New York is 72.5 decibels. This is a little louder than normal conversation, which is 65 decibels. The noise level comes from having so many people and cars in the same area.

Now even the insides of taxis are noisy. When you get into a taxi, you hear the voice of a well-known opera singer, sports announcer, or Broadway actress giving instructions. That’s right. The voice of a famous person tells you what to do. One popular singer gives this message: “Cats have nine lives, but you have only one, so buckle your seat belt!” Other voices say things such as “Don’t forget to collect all your belongings.” (People often leave hats, umbrellas, and briefcases in taxis.) There is a good reason for the messages. There are more than 12000 cabs in New York, and every year taxis get into more than 15000 accidents. In an accident, people who don’t wear seat belts hit the partition(分隔物) in the taxi. They can bruise （使青肿） their foreheads or break their noses or chins. Every year, about 11000 people are injured in this way.

Many people are annoyed by the voices. Cabdrivers in particular dislike the messages. “I play the messages 12 hours a day. I hear the same voices 60 times a day. It makes me crazy, ” says Amir, a 45-year-old cabdriver. “But if I don’t play the messages, I get fined $100.” A lot of passengers complain, too. “It is too much noise,” says a passenger. “I asked the driver to turn off the message, but he said he can’t.”

Other people think the voices are a great idea. One taxi driver says, “P eople like to hear the famous voices, and they put on their seat belts more often.” And passengers from out of town really like the idea. “Most of the time, taxi drivers are in a bad mood,” says Melanie Benton, who visits New York often on business. “It’s nice to hear a cheerful voice when you get into a cab.”