1、 仙桃中学 2013 级高三 8 月考 英语试卷 第卷（选择题，满分 100 分） 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 tonight? A. Learn how to
2、cook. B. Go out to eat. C. Eat at home. 2. What does the woman most probably think of the man? A. Careless. B. Naughty. C. Kind-hearted. 3. Why is there no food left in the fridge? A. Jim ate all the food. B. Alice took all the food. C. Jim took the food to the kitchen. 4. How does Susan probably lo
3、ok now? A. Upset. B. Surprised. C. Pleased. 5. What does the mans father want him to be? A. A doctor. B. A programmer. C. A musician. 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
4、段材料，回答第 6、 7 题。 6. What time is it now? A. 11:30 a.m. B. 12:00 noon. C. 11:00 a.m. 7. Where does the conversation take place? A. At the restaurant. B. On the train. C. At the train station. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、 9 题。 8. Why cant Adam go boating with the woman tomorrow? A. He is taking a vacation in China
5、now. B. He is busy preparing a speech contest. C. He is writing a new book tomorrow. 9. What will the man do tomorrow? A. Spend an hour in the park. B. Read a new book. C. Write at home all day. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What was the news about? A. Jennys saving a babys life. B. Jennys winning a m
6、usic contest. C. Jennys famous songs. 11. How much money did Jenny receive? A. 3,000 dollars. B. 2,500 dollars. C. 5,000 dollars. 12. What do we know about the woman speaker? A. She is an unknown songwriter. B. She performed at the TV station. C. She is well known to the public. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16
7、 题。 13. Where does the man live? A. Wuhan. B. Shanghai. C. Beijing. 14. What was the mans main reason for going to Los Angeles? A. To visit his aunt. B. To visit his grandma. C. To improve English there. 15. What did the man think of the people in Los Angeles? A. Rude. B. Direct. C. Humorous. 16. Wh
8、ere did the man usually eat when he was in Los Angeles? A. At a university. B. At his aunts home. C. At restaurants. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What inspired the speaker to eat in a more healthy way? A. A report about a restaurant owner. B. A report about fast food restaurants. C. A report about A
9、mericans eating habits. 18. What do we know about Alice Waters restaurant? A. It was started in France. B. It is a wonderful restaurant in the US. C. It used to be a fast food restaurant. 19. Where do the vegetables used by Alice Waters restaurant come from? A. Supermarkets. B. Local farms. C. Overs
10、eas markets. 20. How much weight has the speaker lost in the past five years? A. 30 pounds. B. 70 pounds. C. 40 pounds. 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。 A The Petit Appetit Cookbook List Price: $ 35.00 Price: $ 23.10 You Save: $11.
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15、cription: Max, a boy who feels misunderstood at home sets out in a tiny boat, seeking new worlds across the sea. He lands on the incredible island of the wild things, a place where being a beast isnt a bad thing. The wild things make Max their king, but life on the island is full of challenges, too.
16、 21 Lily, 5 years old, likes listening to some stories before going to bed, her mother will buy _. A Where the Wild Things Are B Good Night Sun Hello Moon C The Petit Appetit Cookbook D Everyday Raw Express 22 Who will probably show interest in The Petit Appetit Cookbook? A A healthy mother who like
17、s adventures. B A cook in a seafood restaurant. C A 4 year old boy ill in hospital. D A lady with a 9 month old baby. 23 Helen wants to buy a cookbook about eating raw, how much will she save? A $ 6.42 B $ 1.65 C $ 5.42 D $ 11.90 B Emilio Portaluppi was one Titanic passenger. He had a similar real-l
18、ife love story to Jack Dawson in the movie Titanic, but unlike Jack, he didnt die in the disaster. However, he refused to talk about that sad April night for years. Only in the last years of his life, when he returned to Italy, did he tell the story of his Titanic journey to local reporters, said Cl
19、audio Bossi, the writer of Titanic. Portaluppi provided many versions of his survival story, but exactly how he managed to escape the disaster remains a mystery. He once said, following the example of others and wearing a lifebelt, I jumped into the oceans cold water, swam to a huge cake of ice, and
20、 managed to keep afloat until I was seen and picked up by one of the lifeboats. In another, more impossible version provided by him, he noticed that a boat was being lowered near him. As there were no women where he stood, he attempted to board, but lost his footing and fell into the ocean. He then
21、swam in the icy water for two hours until he was pulled out by those in lifeboat 14, one of the last boats to leave the Titanic. Immediately after he was saved, someone said that he had entered the lifeboat dressed as a woman. Women and children first was the order on the Titanic, and men who broke
22、the order risked being shot. Emilio was first listed as Mrs. Portaluppi when the names of the saved were reported. In his later interviews, Portaluppi again changed the story, adding t hat he drank half a bottle of wine before jumping into the ocean with a gun in his mouth. He swam in the cold water
23、 until Lady Astor in lifeboat 14 begged the sailors to pick him up. After the disaster, he continued an adventurous life. Although he was an American, he joined the Italian army during World War . He returned to the US in 1919, but made several other journeys bac k and forth to Italy. 24. How many v
24、ersions did Emilio Portaluppi provide about how he was saved? A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five 25. The underlined word afloat in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _ A. warm B. floating C. unconscious D. awake 26. From the passage, we can infer that Emilio Portaluppi _. A. nearly got shot when he j
25、umped into the lifeboat. B. was the first man who was rescued. C. couldnt be trusted for his contradictory accounts. D. had a good memory of his experience. 27. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. An Adventurous Journey to Italy. B. A Modern Version of the Titanic C. The Su
26、rviving Story of a Titanic Passenger. D. How the Titanic Sank Remains a Mystery. C Texting pedestrians（行人） arent just an annoyance to their fellow walkers, but something dangerous to themselves. I was checking emails while walking to work this morning, said Wilbert van den Hoorn. “But it has a serio
27、us influence on the safety of people who type or read text while walking. “ Anecdotes back him up. A tourist from Taiwan walked off a port near Melbourne last month while checking Facebook, bringing an abrupt and icy end to a penguin-watching visit. Another shopper in the U.S. was too addicted to hi
28、s mobile phone to notice the fountain ahead, walking straight into it. And as mobile-phone use has grown to about 77% of the worlds population, the study says so has the number of phone-related accidents. The number of U. S. emergency-room visits linked to phone use on the move doubled to as many as
29、 l,500 between 2005 and 2010, an Ohio State University study recently showed. Authorities world-wide have taken note. Signs on Hong Kongs subway system advise passengers in three languages to keep their eyes off their phones. Police and transport authorities have also warned the danger in Singapore,
30、 where the Straits Times newspaper ranked it as No.2 Bad Habit due to the rising number of road deaths. Some U.S. states, including New York and Arkansas, are even considering bans on this act. The Australian study used 26 volunteers, a third of whom admitted having hit objects while texting. They w
31、ere fitted with different equipment in different parts of their body, and asked to walk 8.5 meters three times once without a phone, once while reading a text and once while writing a text while eight cameras captured the action. Volunteers using the phone walked slower and with shorter steps (and s
32、lowest of all when typing), and more seriously, they locked their arms and elbows in like robots, in the researchers words. That forced their heads to move more, throwing them off balance. “In a pedestrian environment, inability to maintain a straight path would be likely to increase potential for h
33、its, falls and traffic accidents,“ said Mr. van den Hoorn. “The best thing to do is to step aside and stop, or keep off the phone.“ 28. The writer uses the two examples in Paragraph 3 to show _. A. the popularity of mobile phones while people are walking B. the bad effects of using mobile phones whi
34、le people are walking C. the drawbacks of mobile phones while people are using them D. the functions of mobile phones while people are using them 29. What is New York and Arkansas attitude to the action of texting pedestrians? A. favorable B. dispproving C. indifferent D. doubtful 30. Why are textin
35、g pedestrians likely to hit or fall according to the passage? A. They are out of balance. B. They walk with longer steps. C. They lock their arms and elbows in. D. They walk too fast. 31. What is the best title for the passage? A. Ways to avoid falls B. Text message or e-mail only? C. Safety or text
36、 message? D. Mobile phones for entertainment D Bad news travels fast when you watch the evening news or read the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage are all tragedies like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders. This is the classic rule for mass media. They want you
37、r eyeballs and dont care how youre feeling, Jonah Berger, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, US, told The New York Times. But with social media getting more and more popular， information is now being spread in different ways， and researchers are discovering new rules good news can act
38、ually spread faster and farther than disasters and other sad stories. Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times website and analyzed the most popular list for six months. One of his findings was that articles in the science section were much mor
39、e likely to make the list. Those stories aroused feelings of awe（敬畏） and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others. Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. The more positive an article was, the more likely it
40、 was to be shared, Berger wrote in his new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On. For example, stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City he writes, tend to be shared more than the death of a popular zookeeper. The differences between the two is due to the fact that the mass media pr
41、efers news that gets attention, while when you share a story with your friends you care a lot more about how they react, Berger explained. But does all the good news actually make the audience feel better? Not necessarily. According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people tend to say
42、 more positive things about themselves when theyre talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on microblogs. This, researchers found, makes people think that life is unfair and that theyre less happy than their friend
43、s. 32. We can learn from the first five paragraphs that _. A. the new rule for the mass media appears because social media get increasingly popular B. one of Bergers findings was that science articles were not much more popular C. when you watch the evening news, it seems that things are all tragedi
44、es D. the classic rule for the mass media is that they focus on your attention and your feelings 33. What kind of stories does the underlined part those stories in Paragraph 5 refer to? A. Science stories. B. Tragedy stories. C. Murder stories D. Funny stories 34. Which of the following stories will
45、 not be popular on The New York Times website? A. A funny experience in space. B. A new invention of cooker C. An exciting trip to Europe. D. A murder in a hospital 35. What are the last two paragraphs mainly about? A. All good news doesnt make the audience feel better. B. All bad news doesnt make t
46、he audience feel frightened. C. Good news always makes the audience better. D. Bad news always makes the audience feel frightened. 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 On a hot summer day, there are few things more appealing than a nice cool pool. 36 And it is complete
47、ly relaxing. Of course, if you have children, there are certain safety measures you should take, whether you have a pool in your backyard or are going to a public pool. Go swimming together. No person should ever swim alone. Though many people do, the simple truth is that it only takes a second to b
48、ecome injured or drown. 37 Having someone there with you can make the difference between life and death. This is especially true for young children. If your child is under the age of 5, you should never allow them to swim out of arms length. 38 Kids love to chase one another through the water. But it is important that you tell your children that at no time should they be running around the pool or pushing anyone. In the water, teach children not to jump on top of
