1、宾川四中20152016学年高二年级下学期7月月考 英语试卷考生注意：1、考试时间120分钟，总分150分。 2、所有试题必须在答题卡上作答否则无效。 3、交卷时只交答题卡，请认真填写相关信息。 第一卷(选择题 满分115分)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）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。1. What will Dorothy do on the weekend? A. Go out with her friend. B. Work on her pa
2、per. C. Make some plans.2. What was the normal price of the T-shirt? A. $ 15. B. $ 30. C. $ 50.3. What has the woman decided to do on Sunday afternoon? A. To attend a wedding. B. To visit an exhibition. C. To meet a friend4. When does the bank close on Saturday? A. At 1: 00 p.m. B. At 3:00 p.m. C. A
3、t 4:00 p.m. 5. Where are the speakers? A. In a store. B. In a classroom. C. At a hotel.请听第6段材料，回答6-7题。6. What do we know about Nora? A. She prefers a room of her own. B. She likes to work with other girls. C. She lives near the city center.7. What is good about the flat?A. It has a large sitting roo
4、m. B. It has good furniture. C. It has a big kitchen.请听第7段材料，回答8-9题。8. Where has Barbara been?A. Milan. B. Florence. C. Rome.9. What has Barbara got in her suitcase?A. Shoes. B. Stones. C. Books.请听第8段材料，回答10至12题。10. Who is making the telephone call? A. Thomas Brothers. B. Mike Landon. C. Jack Cooper
5、.11. What relation is the woman to Mr. Cooper? A. His wife. B. His boss. C. His secretary.12. What is the message about?A. A meeting. B. A visit to France. C. The date for a trip.请听第9段材料，回答13至16题。13. Who could the man speaker most probably be? A. A person who saw the accident. B. The driver of the l
6、orry. C. A police officer.14. What was Mrs. Franks doing when the accident took place? A. Walking along Churchill Avenue. B. Getting ready to cross the road. C. Standing outside a bank.15. When did the accident happen? A. At about 8:00 a.m. B. At about 9:00 a.m. C. At about 10:00 a.m.16. How did the
7、 accident happen? A. A lorry hit a car. B. A car ran into a lorry. C. A bank clerk rushed into the street.请听第10段材料，回答17至20题。17. What is the talk mainly about? A. The history of the school. B. The courses for the term. C. The plan for the day.18. Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for ne
8、w students? A. In the school hall. B. In the science labs. C. In the class classrooms.19. What can students do in the practical areas? A. Take science courses. B. Enjoy excellent meals. C. Attend workshops.20. When are visitors expected to ask questions? A. During the lunch hour. B. After the welcom
9、e speech. C. Before the tour of the labs.第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40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 Whats on?Electric Underground7.30pm1.00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know whos playing in your area? Were bringing you an evening of live rock and pop music from the best loc
10、al bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract(合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. Hes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce you music.Gee Whizz8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope
11、Come and see Gee Whizz perform. Hes the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks(快餐).Simons Workshop5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays
12、at Victoria StageThis is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fu
13、n. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.Charlotte Stone8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza WorldFine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with e
14、xcellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.21. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced? A. Jules Skye. B. Gee Whizz. C. Charlotte Stone. D. James Pickering.22. At which pl
15、ace can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh? A. The Cyclops Theatre B. Kaleidoscope C. Victoria Stage D. Pizza World23. What do we know about Simons Workshop? A. It requires membership status. B. It lasts three hours each time. C. It is run by a comedy club. D. It is held every Wednesday.24.
16、 When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs? A. 5:00pm-7:30pm. B. 7:30pm1:00am. C. 8:00pm-11:00pm. D. 8:30pm-10:30pm. B Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tink
17、ertoys in front of each student, and said: “Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today - and 45minutes each day for the rest of the week.” A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made somet
18、hing according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations. Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted a
19、t the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect(感染) other students. Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who h
20、ad a different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare,” But Im just not creative.” “Do you dream at night when youre asleep?” “Oh, sure.” “So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growin
21、g three heads. “Thats pretty creative. Who does that for you?” “Nobody. I do it.” “Really-at night, when youre asleep?” “Sure.” “Try doing it in the daytime, in class, okay?”25. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to _? A. know more about the students B. make the lessons more exciting C. r
22、aise the students interest in art D. teach the students about toy design26. What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3? A. He liked to help his teacher. B. He preferred to study alone. C. He was active in class. D. He was imaginative.27. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragr
23、aph 4 probably mean? A. Mistake. B. Drawback. C. Difficulty. D. Burden.28. Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams? A. To help them to see their creativity. B. To find out about their sleeping habits. C. To help them to improve their memory. D. To find out about their ways of
24、 thinking. C Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookC turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like t
25、o share. BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it. Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two
26、things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.” Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it. People who find a book can also leave
27、a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Pederson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home. BookCrossing is part of a tren
28、d among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.29. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph? A. To explain what they are. B. To introduce BookCrossing. C. T
29、o stress the importance of reading. D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.30. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. The book. B. An adventure. C. A public place. D. The identification number.31. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it? A. Meet other re
30、aders to discuss it. B. Keep it safe in his bookcase. C. Pass it on to another reader. D. Mail it back to its owner.32. What is the best title for the text? A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour B. Electronic Books: A new Trend C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back D. A Website Links People through Book
31、s DA new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life. Frank Hurleys pictures would be outstanding-undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism-if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck(海滩), by a
32、 cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship. The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of sea
33、men and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarcticas Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the S
34、outh Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back. As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scotts last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of col
35、d and hunger, caught the worlds imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley
36、, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.33. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley? A. They were made last week B. They showed undersea sceneries C. They were found by a cameraman
37、D. They recorded a disastrous adventure34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text? A. Frank Hurley B. Ernest Shackleton C. Robert Falcon Scott D. Caroline Alexander35. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage? A. Artistic creation B. Scientific research C. Money m
38、aking D. Treasure hunting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。 A garden thats just right for youHave you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? 36. But it doesnt happen by accident.
39、 It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process._37 Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods
40、 that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料). 38. However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.Recall(回忆)your childhood memories Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandmas rose
41、 garden and Dads vegetable garden might be good or bad, but thats not whats important. 39 -how being in those gardens made us feel. If youd like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 40 then go outside and work out a plan to transla
42、te your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.A. Know why you gardenB. Find a good place for your own gardenC. Its our experience of the garden that mattersD. Its delightful to see so many beautiful flowersE. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plantsF. You can
43、 produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, tooG. For each of those gardens, write down the strongest memory you have 第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分) 第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device(装置)on
44、 your desk. And theyve never actually 41 you. Everything they know about you 42 through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. 43 they feel they can know you 44 from the sound of your voice. Thats how powerful the 45 is. Powerful, yes, but not always 46. For years I dealt with my travel
45、 agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom Id never met 47, got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really 48 me. I sometimes wished to 49 another agent. One morning, I had to 50 an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Ranis office 51.
46、The woman sitting at the desk, 52 my madness sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a 53 smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the 54 immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought. Rushing out 55 I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, whats your name?” “Im Rani,” she said. I turned around and saw a 56 woman with a big smile on
