3月29日英语试题

3月29日英语试题

第一部分：听力（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. How was the weather this afternoon?

A. Sunny.

B. Windy.

C. Cloudy.

2. Why can’t the man hear the announcers?

A. The sound is turned off.

B. They are speaking softly.

C. The woman is talking on the phone.

3. How much is the shirt?

A. $4.

B. $3.

C. $1.

4. What was the woman’s opinion of Thailand?

A. The food was great.

B. The weather was bad.

C. The people were friendly.

5. What is the man doing?

A. Getting dressed.

B. Supporting the woman.

C. Cleaning the bedroom. 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. Where might the family be right now?

A. At a hotel.

B. At the border.

C. At a music festival.

7. What will the kids most likely be returning with?

A. Toys.

B. Food.

C. Drinks.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The cost of a package.

B. The sender of a package.

C. The contents of a package.

9. Where was the package damaged?

A. In Philadelphia.

B. In Paris.

C. In Washington

D.C.

10. How will the man get the information the woman wants?

A. From a sticker.

B. From a computer.

C. From a phone call.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Who did Brent talk to earlier?

A. Charlene.

B. Mrs. Lang.

C. Mr. Hooper.

12. What does the woman plan to join?

A. The book club.

B. The video club.

C. The basketball team.

13. Where is Brent’s classroom?

A. Across from the gym.

B. On the 2nd floor.

C. Not far from the computer lab.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Where did the woman’s story take place?

A. In the cafeteria.

B. In a science lab.

C. On the sidewalk.

15. What happened in the man’s story?

A. He went to a science lab.

B. He walked into something.

C. He fell down in front of his friends.

16. Who is the woman talking to?

A. Her dad.

B. A teacher.

C. A headmaster.

17. What do the speakers’ stories have in common?

A. They were embarrassing.

B. They are both cool stories.

C. They happened a long time ago.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Who was the first person to see Antarctica in 1820?

A. A Russian.

B. An Englishman.

C. An American.

19. How is Antarctica’s surface most often described?

A. An island of ice.

B. A desert of ice.

C. A mountain of ice.

20. What is forbidden in Antarctica?

A. Research.

B. Exercise.

C. Mining.

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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Growing up in Arizona's rodeo (竞技) country, I was familiar with the events that come with traveling rodeos: bull riding, dressing and mutton busting. Mutton busting is like bull riding, but instead of bulls, they use sheep. And in place of the men, it’s children between six and ten years old who try to hang on for eight seconds.

It took me all of five minutes to say yes to the idea of riding a sheep. Being seven years old, my decision-making ability was pretty limited. I figured I could ride a sheep as well as the next kid. Little did I know that I was in for a world of pain and embarrassment.

My nerves were shaking the day of the rodeo. I hated being in front of crowds. I didn’t like getting dirty;

I didn’t even like sheep, which I thought of as just dirty and smelly. Yet there I was, getting ready to ride one for eight seconds in front of hundreds of people. I wanted to run out of the field and hide in the hot car until it was over. But by the time this idea occurred to me, it was too late. I was lifted away from my mother by a rodeo trainer and placed onto a platform.

My feet went into the narrow pen (羊圈) first. I felt my shoes touch the dirty floor of the pen. Once I was balanced on the top of the sheep, the trainer let go and told me to lean forward. I did as he said. I could feel the animal’s heart beating faster than mine. I realized that the poor sheep was even more frightened than I was.

Then the gate opened, and I quickly discovered that my hold was too weak. Within three seconds I had fallen off the sheep, and found myself face-down on the sun-baked earth. The sheep thought this was its time