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1、成都龙泉中学2015级高三上学期12月月考试题 英 语注意事项： 1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。用2B铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型A后的方框涂黑。 2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 3.非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 4.考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第I卷（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，

2、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。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?A19.15. B9.18. C9.15.答案是C。1. Where was the womans phone last night?A. At her home. B. In a restaurant. C. In her office.2. Why does the woman t

3、hank the man?A. He attended her party.B. He got her known to his friends.C. He found a new school for her.3. When are Jennys parents coming?A. In April. B. In June. C. In October.4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. An article. B. A speech. C. A mayor.5. How long will the woman actually

4、spend walking?A. 42 minutes. B. 20 minutes. C. 22 minutes.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。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 are the speakers planning to do?A. Go to a yoga class. B. Go on a hike. C. Have a race

5、.7. What is the woman worried about?A. The snakes. B. Getting lost. C. Getting too tired.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. When did the attack happen to Mr.Snow?A. At a quarter past nine.B. After a quarter past nine.C. Before a quarter past nine.9. How did Mr.Snow break his leg?A. The doctors dropped him.B. He hit

6、himself.C. The attacker hit him.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What season do the two speakers talk about?A. Autumn. B. Winter. C. Summer.11. What does the woman think about watching movies?A. Its so exciting. B. Its too boring. C. Its too expensive.12. What do we know about the woman?A. She hasnt been used t

7、o the weather there.B. She will watch a movie tonight.C. She paid too much to watch movies.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What might the woman be?A. A porter. B. A customs officer. C. A post office worker.14. When does the man need the package to arrive in Canada?A. Before the weekend. B. Five workdays later.

8、 C. The next night.15. How does the man decide to send his package?A. By firstclass mail. B. By regular mail. C. By express mail.16. How much does the man pay at last?A. $30. B. $29.5. C. $10.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How long will the principals talk be?A. About fifteen minutes. B. About twenty minutes

9、. C. About half an hour.18. What will the director of studies talk about?A. Tomorrows activities.B. Next mornings activities.C. The courses and the different requirements.19. Where will the freshmen go at 11 oclock?A. The Main Hall. B. The language lab. C. Classroom 521.0. Why will the freshmen take

10、 a test?A. To watch a video. B. To listen to a lecture. C. To find their level of English.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。ACleverness is a gift while kindness is a choiceGifts are easytheyre given after allChoice can be hardI got the idea to start Amazo

11、n 16 years agoI came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per yearId never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast，and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old，and Id been married for

12、 a yearI told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldnt work since most start-ups dont and I wasnt sure what to expectMacKenzie told me I should go for itAs a young boy，Id been a garage inventorId always wanted to be an inventor，and she wanted

13、 me to follow my passion I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and I had a brilliant boss that I much admiredI went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the InternetHe took me on a long walk in Central Park，listened caref

14、ully to me，and finally said，“That sounds like a really good idea，but it would be an even better idea for someone who didnt already have a good job”That 1ogic made some sense to me，and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decisionSeen in that light,it really was a diff

15、icult choice，but finally，I decided I had to give it a shotI didnt think Id regret trying and failingAnd I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.After much consideration ，I took the less safe path to follow my passion ，and Im proud of that choiceFor all of us，in the end，

16、we are our choice 21What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?AHis dream of being an inventor BThe support of his wife CThe greatly increasing usage of the InternetDMillions of exciting titles,22Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?AThe

17、 idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb himBHe would be very excited if he tried it out CHe would be always having a doubt if he didnt tryDThe decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him23 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?ACleverness

18、 and Kindness BThe Starting of Amazon CFollowing My Passion DWe Are What We Choose BMost people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice. However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner. Born in September, 18

19、97, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies two daughters. Along with nine other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers. She finished her high school education at the College of Svign in Paris. Irene entered the Uni

20、versity of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics. When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities (设备) to help save the lives of wounded soldiers. Irene continued the work by developing X-ray facilities in military hospitals in France

21、and Belgium. Her services were recognised in the form of a Militarys Medal by the French government. In 1918, Irene became her mothers assistant at the Curie Institute. In December 1924, Frederic Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work. They soon fell i

22、n love and were married in 1926. Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five years later. Like her mother, Irene combined family and career. Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, in 1935. Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leuk

23、emia because of her work with radioactivity（辐射能）. Irene Joliot-Curie died from leukemia on March 17, 1956. 24. Why was Irene Curie awarded a Military Medal? A. Because she received a degree in mathematics. B. Because she contributed to saving the wounded. C. Because she won the Nobel Prize with Fred

24、eric. D. Because she worked as a helper to her mother. 25 .Where did Irene Curie meet her husband Frederic Joliot? A. At the University of Paris. B. At a military hospital. C. At the Curie Institute. D. At the College of Svign. 26. When was the second child of Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot born? A

25、. In 1897. B. In 1926. C. In 1927. D. In 1932.27. In which of the following aspects was Irene Curie different from her mother?A. Irene won the Nobel Prize once B. Irene worked with radioactivity. C. Irene combined family and career. D. Irene died from leukemia. CThreatened species thrive Good news f

26、or giant panda lovers: The cute and cuddly creature has just been brought back from the brink of extinction. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union released its updated Red List on Sept 4 at Hawaii. The downgrad

27、e came after IUCN data suggested that there were 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China in 2014 their population has grown by 17 percent in the decade leading up to 2014. Chinese conservation efforts, including forest protection and reforestation, are considered to be the driving force behind the a

28、nimals resurgence. “Its all about restoring the habitats,” Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, told the BBC. The number of panda reserves in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds of all wild pandas live in these reserves, according to the World Wildlife Fund. “J

29、ust by restoring the pandas habitat, thats given them back their space and made food available to them,” Hilton-Taylor said. A loss of habitats, on the contrary, was what caused the number of pandas to drop to just over 1,200 in the 1980s, Hilton-Taylor added. Apart from giant pandas, the Tibetan An

30、telope has also moved from “endangered” to “near threatened”. According to a statement from IUCN, the animals numbers dwindled severely dropping from around 1 million to an estimated 65,000-72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s due to commercial poaching. Rigorous（严格的） protection has since been enforc

31、ed to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000. Despite the improved statuses, wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face great challenges. The IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate m

32、ore than 35 percent of the pandas bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would reverse the species recent gains.28. What does the underlined word in pagagraph 1 mean?A. dangerous and threatened B. safe and sound C. weak and easily hurt D. normal and common 29. Which of the following can account

33、for pandas living improvement?A. Better climate . B. More built reserves. C. Well restored habitats. D. Aroused public awareness . 30. The passage is written in order to _. A. convince B. inform C. argue D advocate 31. What does the last paragraph imply ?A. The climate will influence the threatened

34、species. B. We humans still have a long way to go to protect the endangered species. C. Pandas will go extinct for lack of abundant food. D. Habitats for giant pandas will decrease sharply.D An old man in a faded yellow shirt sat in a windowless room on a raised concrete form. The only source of hea

35、t came from somewhere beneath the plastic mattress and the rough blanket the blank-faced police woman had handed him after taking his thumb prints. He heard voices and metallic clang as the cell door swung open. At the front desk a tired looking policeman handed the old man back his belongings, his

36、worn-out cap and the Seiko watch that had stopped working the day his beloved Evelyn left. The policeman dramatically held the blue plastic bag at an arms length to the old man who took it and made sure its contents were undamaged: the goat meat, palm oil, leaves and spices. He ignored the confused

37、expression on the officers face and signed the document declaring he had been returned the possessions they had taken off him the night before. No one spoke to him as he walked slowly towards the exit. “Mr. Easy-nwa?” He stopped and prayed to the God who now took care of Evelyn to please take him fa

38、r away from this unhappy place of expressionless faces, clipped accents and people who did not even attempt to pronounce his name right. “Ezenwa,” He said and looked at a woman with tangerine lips, her name tag said Jessica Harlow, Social Services. “A bit far from home，she said as she drove fast and

39、 with confidence the way Evelyn used to. He wondered if she meant the 50 miles from Liverpool or the 50,000 miles from Enugu，a city in Nigeria. He did not bother replying as this woman had plenty to say about the weather, bad drivers, her daughters school play. At last she drew up outside the block

40、of flats where he lived. “Got here in the end”，said she seriously, “Really Mr. Easy-nwa, if you keep getting lost, we will have to consider moving you into a home”.“No need, I was not lost，he answered. He carefully rolled up the sleeves of the oversize bomber jacket he wore and turned on the tap to

41、wash his hands, relieved the pipes were not frozen. In a clean pan he placed the chopped pieces of goat meat. The herbs and spices that had taken him three months to track down, the uziza seeds had taken him into the heart of Granby Market in Liverpool, his uchanwu leaves down a shady back alley in

42、Manchester, and yesterday, among other food items, the finest goat meat from a Sierra Leonean Butcher in Birmingham. That had taken some time, so much he missed the last train and when the police found him shivering outside the locked up station, so cold he couldnt answer loudly enough the pink-face

43、d big copper who yelled in his face, “Whats your name sir?” spraying his face with spittle (吐沫）as he did so, leaving them with no choice but to search an exhausted, frozen old black man and finding him in possession of mysterious condiments (调味品）including a bag of dried bitter-leaf which could of co

44、urse be mistaken for anything that resulted in him getting read his rights and charged with .possession? He lifted the lid of the bubbling soup, the room was filled with the rich and spicy scent of his culinary (烹饪的）effort. He served two bowls, taking the chipped one and placing the other opposite w

45、here Evelyn would have sat. He would tell her about his adventure, it was their anniversary and this was the perfect pepper soup to celebrate.Ken Onyia, UK (Nigeria) Commonwealth Sport Short Story Prize32. Why was Mr. Ezenwa taken to the prison for a night? A. He was too weak to move. B. He couldnt

46、find his way back home. C. He then had nowhere else to go. D. He was suspected of possessing drugs.33. When Mr. Ezenwa was to leave the prison, A. his thumb print was taken immediately B. the policeman was confused about what he had C. a social worker was assigned to drive him back home D. the polic

47、eman was so kind as not to damage his belongings34. What did Mr. Ezenwa do for his wedding anniversary? A. He collected all sorts of valuables as presents. B. He cooked native food as a surprise for his wife. C. He prepared a special Nigerian pepper soup carefully. D. He travelled a lot, attempting to get his wife back.35. What words can be used to describe Mr. Ezenwa? A. Hopeless and pessimistic. B. Affecti