江西省新余市第四中学宜春中学届高三英语下学期开学联考试题

2017届宜春中学新余四中高三开学联考

英语试题

本试卷分第1卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。共150分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答第1卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第I卷（选择题共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5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 mainly do in his free time?

A. Watch TV.

B. Read books

C. Have

a walk.

2. Where does the conversatio n take place?

A. At a restaurant.

B.At a music hall.

C. At a store.

3. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A. What to do with the problem.

B. When to talk about the problem.

C. How to get to the bank.

4. What was the woman doing when the earthquake happened?

A. She was cleaning the bathroom.

B. She was washing her hair.

C. She was feeding the dog.

5. When will the man make a phone call to the woman?

A. On 14th

B.On 12th

C. On 15th.

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. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Flight attendant and passenger.

B. News reporter and listener.

C. Tour guide and traveler.

7. What does the woman ask the man to do?

A. Wait for her.

B. Fill out a form.

C. Know about the city.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What happened to the man?

A. He locked himself out.[:]

B. He forgot to lock the front door.

C. His house was broken into.

9. What is the woman going to do next?

A. Look around the man’s house.

B. Ask more questions.

C.Talk to others.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题

10. When is the man leaving?

A. In about a week.

B. In about a month.

C. In a couple of months

11. Why is the man going back to New York?

A. To visit a friend

B. To go sightseeing

C. To work on

a project.

12. What does the man offer to do?

A. Look aft er the woman’s family.

B. Show the woman around New York.

C. Find a job for the woman.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where is Essex?

A. In the southeast of England.

B. In the northeast of England.

C. In the east of England.

14. What does the man think of Brentwood?

A. Pleasant

B. Ancient

C. Inconvenient

15. What has closed down in Brentwood?

A. A shopping center

B. A health center

C. A cinema

16. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A.Some cities in England.

B. The man’s hometown.

C. The living conditions of London.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题

17. Who is busy due to the weather in Moscow?

A. Businessmen

B. Drivers C .Road cleaners

18. Why has the number of the university graduates increased in the U.S.?

A. There are more universities.

B. University students can get good jobs.

C. Internet-based courses are popularized.[:]

19. How much time do the 280 kids spend doing homework a day?

A． 2 hours B. 1.5 hours. C. 0.5 hour.

20. What did the woman in Vancouver want to do?

A. Buy an ocean-side house.

B. Have a better view from her house.

C. Donate some money to the building of a park.

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。

A

This brief book is aimed at high school students, but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life.

Its formal, serious style closely matches its content, a school-masterly book on schooling. The author, W. H. Armstrong, starts with the basics: reading and writing. In his opinion, r eading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as one digests a sandwich and makes it a part of him. The goal is to bring the information back to life, not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees. Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other; in fact, the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text. I’ve seen it again and again ：Someone who c an’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all.

Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history. He generally handles these topics thoroughly and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion(激情）regarding history to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across. To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts. As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration and study that math an d science do, though the study differs slightly in kind. Although it’s commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired, actually, learning the arts is no more natural than learning French or mathematics.

My other comment is that the text aged. The first edition apparently dates to the

1960s—none of the references(参考文献)seem newer than the late 1950s. As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age.

These are small points, though, and don’t affect the main discussion. I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student.

21. According to Armstrong, what is the goal of reading?

A. gain knowledge and expand one’s view

B. express ideas based on what one has read

C. understand the meaning between the lines

D. gets information and keeps it alive in memory

22. The author of the passage insists that learning the arts_________.

A. is as natural as learning a language

B. demands real passion

C. is less natural than learning maths

D. requires great efforts

23. What can this passage be classified as?

A. an advertisement

B. a book review

C. a feature story

D. a news report

B

A thief who dropped a winning lottery ticket at the scene of his crime h as been given a

lesson in honesty. His victim, who picked up the ticket, then claimed the $25,000 prize, managed to trace him, and handed over the cash. The rob be ry happened when maths professor VinicioSabbatucci, 58, was changing a tire on an Italian motorway. Another motorist, who stopped “to

help”,stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the dropped ticket and put it in his pocket before driving home to Ascol i in eastern Italy.

Next day, he saw the lottery results on TV and, taking out the ticket , realized it was a winner.He claimed the 60 million lire(里拉)prize. Then he began a battle with his conscience. Finally, he

decided he could not keep the money despite having been robbed. He adverti sed in newspapers

and on the radio, saying, “I’m trying to find the man who robbed me. I

have 60 million lire for him—a lottery win. Please meet me. Anonymity(匿名)guaranteed.”

Professor Sabbatucci received hundreds of calls from people hoping to trick him into

handing them the cash. But there was one voice he recognized and he arran ged to meet the man

In a park.The robber, a 35‐year-old unemployed father of two, gave back the suitcase and burst

into tears. He could not believe what was happening. “Why didn’t you kee p the money?”he

asked. The professor replied, “I couldn’t because it’s not mine.”Then he walked off, spurning the thief’s offer of a reward.

24. The sentence “Then he began a battle with his conscience.”in Paragr aph 2 implies all of the

following except that _________.

A. he thought for a moment of avenging himself on the robber

B. he hesitated about keeping the money for some time

C. he knew what he should do as soon as he saw the lottery results

D. he came to realize that honesty is more important than money

25. Why did hundreds of people phone Professor Sabbaturcci ?

A.wanted to make fun of him

B. hoped to get the money

C. knew who the robber was

D. lost the lottery ticket

26. How did the robber feel when the victim wanted to find him?

A. Excited

B. Frightened

C. Ashamed

D. Incredible

27. If the story appears in a newspaper,what might be the best title ?

A.

A Thief’s Lucky Day B. A Popular Maths Professor

C. A Magic Lottery

D. A Reward of Honesty

C

There are two types of people in this world: those who regularly wash their office coffee cup. And those who only take it off their desk to cover up the coffee mark at the bottom with a fresh pour, driving away their shame with the reasoning that the heat must kill the bacteria or spine thing.

Depending on which type of person you are, this will be either mildly annoying or more-than-mildly exciting. As Heidi Mitchell wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal column, it’s fine to never wash your cup, as long as you’re not sharing it with anybody else.

There are two warnings to that statement, infectious-disease expert Jeffrey Strake, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, told Mitchell; One, it only applies if you’re not sharing the cup with anybody else. And two , if you leave cream or sugar in your cup over the weekend, that can certainly cause mold(霉) to grow – in which case, wash it out.

Otherwise, though, there’s not really much to worry about. “If I went and cultured the average unwashed coffee cup, of course I would find bacteria.” Starke said. “But remember the vast majority came from the person who used the cup.”Even if you drink from it while sick, it’s pretty hard to re-infect yourself with the same cup; most viruses don’t live long outside the body, which means that just letting your cup live in its own dirt may be a safer bet than the alternative; cleaning it with the disgusting sponge(海绵) in the office kitchen “The sponge in the break room probably has the highest bacteria count of anything in the office.” Starke said if the idea of not washing horrifies you , just stick the sponge in the microwave before using. Otherwise, though, reel free to continue your lazy ways without guilt.

28. What does the passage intend to tell us?

A. It is harmful to drink coffee with sugar.

B. It’s okay not to wash your coffee cup regularly.

C.The hot water contributes to the bacteria growing.

D. Drinking from unwashed coffee cups causes diseases easily.

29. What do we know from Stark’s words?

A. The coffee cup in the office must be put in the microwave to clean.