1、届宁夏银川一中高三上学期第四次月考 英语试题及答案银川一中2017届高三年级第四次月考英 语 试 卷本试卷分第卷(选择题)和第卷(非选择题)两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项：1答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上，认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡的指定位置上。2选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂,如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案的标号；非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的黑色中性（签字）笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。3请按照题号在各题的答题区域(黑色线框)内作答，超出答题区域书写的
2、答案无效。4保持卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。第卷 (选择题）第一部分：听力理解(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1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。例：How much is the shirt ? A.19.15. B.9.18 C.9.15 答案是C.1. What is the man, most probab
3、ly?A. A shop assistant. B. A bank clerk. C. A travel agent2. What do we know about the man? A. He was about 20 minutes late. B. He felt sad that the movie had begun. C. He didnt mind that the woman was late.3. What will the speakers do?A. Adopt a pet. B. Volunteer in an animal shelter. C. Go to a pe
4、t store.4. When will the womans car be ready? A. By 2:00 pm. B. By 3:00 pm. C. By 2:30 pm.5. With whom will the woman spend the weekend? A. Her grandma on her mothers side. B. Her grandma on her fathers side. C. Her grandpa on her fathers side.第二节:(共15小题;每小题1.5分,共22.5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
5、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。每段对话仅读两遍。听第六段材料，回答第67题。6. Where does the woman probably work? A. At a hotel. B. On a farm. C. At a gas station.7. What is the last thing the man asks the woman to do? A. Introducing him to Henry Brown. B. Telling him how to take the short cut.
6、C. Telling him more about Henry Brown.听第七段材料，回答第8-9题。8. What is the woman doing? A. Asking about some new words. B. Giving the man a word quiz. C. Asking about houses in America.9. What kind of home does the man live in now? A. Bungalow. B. Apartment. C. Mansion.听第八段材料，回答第10-12题。10. What is the man
7、sad about? A. Paris isnt as good as he expected. B. He forgot to get off the train in Paris. C. He left his digital camera on the train.11. Why will the woman go to the train station tomorrow? A. To pick up a customer there. B. To see the man off. C. To visit her customer there.12. When will the man
8、 go back to the US? A. In about a week. B. In about three weeks. C. In about two weeks.听第九段材料，回答第13-16题。13. What has the woman seen on American TV shows? A. 80% of Americans buy take-out food once a week. B. Young Americans often buy take-out food. C. Many Americans like eating in restaurants.14. Wh
9、ich of the following does the man like? A. Pizza. B. Soda. C. Hamburgers.15. What do we know about the mans parents? A. They learned how to cook at ten years old. B. They often took the man out to eat. C. They think healthy eating is important.16. What will the woman do tonight? A. Treat the man. B.
10、 Cook at home. C. Eat in a restaurant.听第十段材料，回答第17-20题。17. Why did the speakers parents take her to her grandparents? A. They thought she would study better there. B. They wanted her to keep her grandma company. C. Her grandma could help look after her.18. Who usually prepared lunch? A. The speakers
11、 grandpa. B. The speakers grandma. C. The speakers dad.19. What did the speakers grandma do? A. She helped a poor family. B. She shared their food with a little boy. C. She made lunch for a little boy.20. What do we know about the speaker? A. She likes helping the poor. B. She likes encouraging othe
12、rs. C. She is twenty years old now.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分 ）第1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。ADont worry if you have problems!” It is easy to say until you are in the midst of a really big one. The only people who dont have troubles are gathered in little neighborhoo
13、ds. Most communities have at least one. We call them cemeteries. If youre breathing, you have difficulties. Its the way of life. And believe it or not, most of your problems may actually be good for you! Let me explain.Maybe you have heard the Great Barrier Reef, stretching some 1,800 miles from New
14、 Guinea to Australia. Tour guides regularly take visitors to view the reef. On one tour, a traveler asked the guide an interesting question. I notice that the lagoon (泻湖) side of the reef looks pale and lifeless, while the ocean side is vibrant and colorful, the traveler observed. Why is this?The gu
15、ide gave an interesting answer, The coral around the lagoon side is in still water, with no challenge for its survival. It dies early. The coral on the ocean side is constantly being tested by wind, waves and storms. It has to fight for its survival every day. As it is challenged and tested, it chan
16、ges and adapts. It grows healthy. It grows strong. And it reproduces. Then he added, Thats the way it is with every living organism.”Thats how it is with people. Challenged and tested, we come alive! Like coral pounded by the sea, we grow. Physical demands can cause us to grow stronger. Mental and e
17、motional stress can produce tough-mindedness and resiliency. Spiritual testing can produce strength of character and faithfulness. So, you have problems? No problem! Just tell yourself, There I grow again!Remember: A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.21. Who has no problems according to the pa
18、ssage?A. The persons who are very famous. B. The persons who have much money.C. The persons who have been born. D. The persons who are living in the cemeteries.22. In the writers opinion, _.A. problems bring us much troubleB. problems have two sides, good or badC. we should try to stay away from any
19、 troubleD. the fewer things we do, the less trouble well meet23. The reason why lagoon side of the reef has no life is _.A. it hasnt got any sunlight B. it has less energy than othersC.it never faces any challenge and tests D. it has no work to do every day24. After reading this passage, we should _
20、.A. regard any problem as challenge B. learn from the lagoon sideC. worry your problem D. enter into cemeteriesBA study of more than five million books, both fiction and non-fiction, has found a marked decline in the use of emotional words over time. The researchers form the University of Bristol us
21、ed Google Ngram Viewer, a facility for finding the frequency of terms in scanned books, to search for more than 600 particular words identified as representing anger, dislike, fear, joy, sadness and surprise. They found that almost all of the categories showed a drop in these “mood words” over time.
22、 Only in the category of fear was there an increase in usage. “It is a steady and continuous decrease,” said Dr Alberto Acerbi. He assumed that the result might be explained by a change in the position occupied by literature, in a crowded media landscape. “One thing could be that in parallel to book
23、s the 20th century saw the start of other media. Maybe these media movies, radio, drama, had more emotional content than books.” Although both joy and sadness followed the general downwards trend, the research, published in the journal PLOS One, found that they also exhibited another interesting beh
24、aviour：the ratio (比率) between the two varied greatly, apparently mirroring historical events. During the Roaring Twenties the joy-to-sadness ratio reached a peak that would not occur again until before the recent financial crash. But the ratio plunged at the height of the Second World War. Neverthel
25、ess, the researchers held a reserved opinion about their claim that their result reflected wider social trends. In the paper, they even argue that the reverse could be true. “It has been suggested, for example, that it was the suppression (压抑) of desire in ordinary Elizabethan English life that incr
26、eased demand for writing filled with romance and sex perhaps,” they conclude, “songs and books may not reflect the real population any more than catwalk models reflect the average body.”25. The word decline (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to_. A. increase B. rise C. decrease D. change26. A study
27、 of more than five million books indicated a decrease in mood words over time except_. A. in the use of the words of historical events B. in the category of fear C. in the category of literature D. in the category of joy27. Whats the main idea of this passage? A. A study of emotional words. B. A stu
28、dy about vocabulary in literature.C. Reasons for the use of emotional words decreases in literature. D. A study on increase in the category of fear.CNEMSNEWRI Environmental Master of ScienceNEWRI: Nanyang Environment & Water Research InstituteBe a leader in environmental science and engineeringthrou
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