大连市2016年高三第二次模拟考试英语能力测试
说明:本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。第I卷1至9页,第II 卷10至12页。考试结束,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第I卷
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 are they talking about?
A. Buying a gift.
B. Buying a house.
C. Holding a party.
2. What does the man mean?
A. Traditional schools will be replaced.
B. Online education has a bright future.
C. Traditional schools won’t disappear.
3. What is the woman doing?
A. Complaining. B. Apologizing. C. Smoking.
4. What is the man’s job?
A. Cleaning the house.
B. Looking after his children.
C. Working in the supermarket.
5. What have the two speakers done?
A. They have set the date.
B. They have booked the hall.
C. They have sent the invitations.
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 man’s problem?
A. The copies were sold out.
B. He damaged the book cover.
C. There is only one copy left.
7. When will the man buy the book?
A. Tomorrow.
B. In three days.
C. In four days.
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。
8. Why does the boy want to go to Egypt on vacation?
A. He loves hearing history.
B. He got room number 13.
C. He loves the mountain view.
9. Why does the boy think the girl failed the test?
A. She had a bad luck.
B. She didn’t study hard.
C. She was in poor health.
听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。
10. What is the man going to do in Los Angeles?
A. Do business. B. Have a holiday. C. Visit his family.
11. How many members are there in the man’s family?
A. Two. B. Four. C. Five.
12. What does the man bring With?
A. Some duty-free items.
B. Some fruit.
C. Some plants .
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。
13. Who is the man probably?
A. The woman’s friend.
B. The woman’s brother.
C. The woman’s husband.
14. Where will they have lunch tomorrow?
A. Near the museum.
B. Near the library.
C. At the downtown area.
15. How did the man learn about the city?
A. From a friend.
B. From a book.
C. From the Internet.
16. Where does the man want to go after lunch?
A. To a square.
B. To a temple.
C. To a library.
听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。
17. What does college life mean?
A. Joining in social groups.
B. Studying hard alone..
C. Experiencing new things.
18. Who directed all the activities and events?
A. Parents. B. Students. C. Teachers.
19. What do we know about clubs at a university?
A. Ski clubs are the most popular.
B. There are quite a few clubs.
C. There are no clubs on religions.
20. What can students do if no club interests them?
A. Find an advisor.
B. Form a new one .
C. Study hard.
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
Someone recently put the question to me,which is the most 'human' machine I own. This got me thinking; after all we use machines all day every day in our modern life.
It took me a long time to consider this,about five seconds actually, and the answer? I blame my mother. My father was a mechanic (技工)before he retired. My mother was a homemaker and a terrific cook,but mechanically challenged. She perfected learned helplessness. Whenever anything mechanical went wrong,she asked my father for help. Unfortunately, this learned helplessness was passed on to me. I unconsciously accepted the fact that women called for men to fix things? and men fixed things. It was one of the basic laws of nature. Then I married a man,who, like my father,was in my eyes, a mechanical genius. It was the normal thing for me to yell out “Peter,the oven won’t go!” Then he would walk in and in a short time the oven would then happily running along doing its job.
Today, machines know things. They have a sense of who is using them. They can tell the difference from a woman carefully lifting it out of the cupboard and onto a tidy bench to use,and a man pulling it off the shelf and throwing it down somewhere. And they will not work for a woman.
I have had so many experiences with machines, where I tried to use something,and it sat there,showing passive resistance,not talking,just refusing to turn on. If you are a woman,how many times has the man in your life come to 'fix' a machine,only to find that it works perfectly the first time he tries it? Frequently, I am sure.
So,after this rather lengthy explanation I have to say that I do not own any 'soulful' or 'human-like' machines. I am the product of my parenting,and have gradually developed the necessary female art of learned helplessness, and I blame my mother for this.
21. When a machine went wrong,the author would_.
A. leave it alone B. call her husband for help
C. help her husband to fix it D. manage to repair it by herself
22. The author owes her learned helplessness in terms of machinery to_.
A. her mother B. her husband
C. her teacher D. her father
23. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Stupid Machines B. Soulful Machines
C. Special Machines D. Smart Machines
B
An American photographer is making copies of great artwork available for blind people and those with very poor eyesight. At least 285 million people worldwide are either blind or considered visually impaired (有缺陷的).They are unable to see or enjoy visual fine art.
Romeo Edmead lost his eyesight when he was only two years old. But that has not stopped him from living life to the fullest. He went to college and studied journalism. He now lives in New York. He depends heavily on his other senses. But he cannot experience the great works of art in the City. He remembers a visit to an art collection with his grandmother. “So we went to this museum and I just wandered off somewhere and I started touching something, and all of a sudden alarm went off. And a guard came running over,and my grandmother was all ashamed.
Romeo is now able to use his fingers to feel art paintings. He can get an idea of the appearance by following the markings.
John Olson once worked as a photographer for LIFE magazine. He developed a printing process to make the art of Da Vinci and Van Gogh touchable for visually-impaired people. "I began to realize how important images(影像)have been to me,and what they have allowed me to do. And it caused me to wonder what it was for the blind, not having access to images."
Olson’s company is called 3D photoworks. It produces copies of artwork in three dimensions: height,width and depth. The whole process can take up to four weeks.
Thanks to new technology,3D art may soon hang in art museums all over the world. It gives the visually-impaired the chance to experience the beauty of visual art.
24. From the passage,we know Romeo Edmead_.
A. had failing eyesight when he was two years old
B. has become a journalist since graduation from college
C. is unable to live an active life because of his blindness
D. shamed his grandmother by setting off the alarm in a museum
25. Thanks to John Olson,blind people_.
A. are able to live their life to the fullest
B. don’t need to depend heavily on their other senses
C. can have the chance to feel the beauty of visual art
D. have free access to museums without any difficulty
26. What motivated John Olson to make 3D art for blind people?
A. His kindness to the public.
B. The benefit of his company.
C. His appreciation to blind people.
D. The importance of images to people.
27. We may learn from the passage that_.
A. 3D art is produced based on height and depth
B. it takes a month or so to produce a3D artwork
C. 3D art is displayed in art museums all over the world
D. John Olsonis rich for what he has done for the blind
c
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