1、桂林中学 2017 届高三 10 月月考英语试题考试时间： 2016 年 10 月 8 日 15：00-17：00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）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 the monkeys doing? A. Eating. B. Lifting weights. C. Riding bikes.2. Wha
2、t information can the speakers get about the soldiers? A. Their birthdays. B. Their hobbies. C. Their hometowns.3. How many questions does the boy need to answer tonight? A. 9. B. 12. C. 29.4. Why does the woman need a new cell phone? A. She does not like her old phone.B. Her old phone no longer wor
3、ks. C. She lost her old phone.5. What are the speakers doing now? A. Having a picnic. B. Buying some tables. C. Cleaning the house.第二节（共 15 小题；每题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听下面五段对话或独白，每段对话或短文后有几个小题，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，每个小题 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
4、6、7 题。6. Why did the man call the woman? A. To pay her a visit. B. To ask for directions. C. To make an invitation.7. What will the man do next? A. Call the police. B. Walk to the museum. C. Wait for the woman.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. What do we know about the man? A. He sells second-hand cars. B. H
5、e has just bought a car. C. He lost his car last week.9. What information can the man give the woman? A. A phone number. B. An address. C. A website.10. What will the man do next? A. Return the car. B. Call the seller. C. Go to the police station.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. What does the man think of
6、 the special? A. It is exactly what he wanted. B. It sounds like a lot of food. C. It isnt worth the price.12. What does the man want on his second pizza? A. Sausage, mushrooms, and onions.B. Sausage, chicken, and mushrooms.C. Chicken, peppers, and extra cheese.13. How much is the mans order? A. $23
7、. B. $20. C. $17.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The coming exam. B. A singing competition. C. A party.15. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Neighbors.16. What is true about the game “Touch Your Gift”? A. Everybody
8、 has two chances.B. An Apple iPod is among the gifts.C. Some boxes may contain more than one gift.17. Where will the speakers go after the game?A. Back home. B. To the church. C. To the bar.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18. Whats the percentage of right-handed people according to the talk? A. About 65%. B
9、. About 75%. C. About 85%.19. What is true about the two parts of the brain?A. The left side of the brain is smaller.B. The right half controls the left side of the body.C. The left half is less important than the right side.20. What does the right side of the brain control? A. Math. B. Art. C. Lang
10、uage. 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、D)中，选出最佳选项。 AAava Whistler HotelStar Ratings： Location: WhistlerRooms:192Stay at the Aava Whistler Hotel (formerly Coast Whistler Hotel) and experience a great vacation. The Aava Whistler Hotel is within minutes from ove
11、r a hundred shopping malls and restaurants. It also has a great number of recreational facilities，including swimming，diving and even skiing. Hotel services include 24-hour reception，laundry and room service. Guests can stay in cozy rooms equipped with air-conditioning, bathroom and television. From
12、CN￥496 per night.Best Western Cairn Croft HotelStar Ratings： Location: East Lundys LaneRoom:l66Relax and unwind at the Best Western Cairn Hotel. This resort-style hotel is located just minutes from the airport. At the Best Western Cairn Croft, guests can enjoy a large number of recreational faciliti
13、es, including childrens activities, sightseeing and a swimming pool. Business travelers can also take advantage of spacious meeting and banqueting facilities for hosting corporate events. All rooms come with basic amenities(便利设施). From CN￥439 per night.Clarion HotelSuites Downtown MontrealStar Ratin
14、gs： Location：MontrealRooms：266Conveniently located just 20 minutes from the airport, the Clarion HotelSuite Downtown Montreal is a moderately-priced three-star hotel that provides services to both business and leisure travelers. The Clarion has spacious meeting facilities and modern business centers
15、 for business travelers. It also has a sauna and whirlpool where guest can relax. All rooms come with basic amenities, including cable TV and a kitchenette. From CN￥553 per night. Delta Bow Valley HotelStar Ratings： Location：CalgaryRooms：398The Delta Bow Valley Hotel is located a couple of blocks no
16、rth of Olympic Plaza, east of James Short Park, and north-east of the Petro-Canada Centre. Apart from business and recreational services such as a business centre, fitness centre and restaurant, all rooms in the Delta come with a mini-bar and in-house movies. From CN￥l, 227 per night.21. What do all
17、 four of the hotels have in common?A. They all have a three star ratings. B. They all have the same number of roomsC. They are all close to the airport D. They all provide a room with a mini bar. 22. Which hotel offers facilities for childrens activities?A. Clarion HotelSuites Downtown Montreal B. A
18、ava Whistler HotelC. Best Western Cairn Croft Hotel D. Delta Bow Valley Hotel23. If you want to check in to a hotel at three oclock in the morning you can stay at _. A. Aava Whistler Hotel B. Best Western Cairn Croft HotelC. Clarion HotelSuites Downtown Montreal D. Delta Bow Valley Hotel24. Which of
19、 the following do all rooms in Clarion Hotel and Suites Downtown Montreal have?A. They all come with a mini bar and in-house movie as well as laundryB. They all come with basic amenities, including cable TV and a kitchenetteC. They all come with the basic amenities, including a swimming poolD. They
20、all come with skiing facilities, fitness room and saunaBParents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades. Other forms of parental involvement, including volunteering at school and observing a childs class, also fail to help, according to the most recent
21、 study on the topic.The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting(养育子女) where schools expect them to act as partners in their childrens education. Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.Kaith Robinson, the author of the s
22、tudy, said, “I really dont know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids education that leads to declines in their academic performance. One of the things that were consistently negative was parents help with homework.“ Robinson suggested that may
23、 be because parents themselves struggle to understand the task.“ They may either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learnt it themselves, but theyre still offering advice.“Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging
24、 things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks. In general, about 20% of parental involvement was positive, about 45% negative and the rest statistically insignificant. Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because “children with good academic s
25、uccess do have involved parents “, admitted Robinson. But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.“ A big surprise was that Asian-American parents whose kids are doing so well in school hardly involved. They took a more reasonable approach, conveying
26、 to their children how success at school could improve their lives.“25. The underlined expression “parental involvement “ in Paragraph 1 probably means _.A. parents expectation on childrens health B. parents participation in childrens education C. parents control over childrens life D. parents plan
27、for childrens future 26. What is the major finding of Robinsons study ?A. Modern parents raise children in a more scientific way.B. Punishing kids for bad marks is mentally damaging.C. Parental involvement is not so beneficial as expected.D. Parents are not able to help with childrens homework.27. T
28、he example of Asian-American parents implies that parents should _.A. help children realize the importance of schoolingB. set a specific life goal for their childrenC. spend more time improving their own lives D. take a more active part in school managementCAs more people use smart phones to pay bil
29、ls and store personal information, strict password security has become more important than ever. A new study shows that free - form gestures sweeping fingers in shapes across the screen of a smart phonecan be used to unlock phones. These gestures are less likely to be observed and reproduced by othe
30、rs than traditional typed passwords.“All that it takes to steal a password is a quick eye,” said one of the researchers of the study. “With all the personal information we have on our phones today, improving their security is becoming increasingly necessary.” In developing a secure solution to this
31、problem, the researchers studied the practicality of using free - form gestures. With the ability to create any shape in any size and location on the screen, the gestures were popular as passwords. Since users create them without following a template, the researchers predicted these gestures would a
32、llow for greater complexity.The researchers carried out a create - test - retest experiment where 63 people were asked to create a gesture, recall it, and recall it again 10 days later. The gestures were captured on a recognizer system designed by the team. Using this data, they tested the complexit
33、y and accuracy of each gesture using information theory. The result of their analysis is that people are favorable to use free - form gestures as passwords.To put their analysis into practice, the researchers then had seven students in computer science and engineering, each with considerable experie
34、nce with touchscreens（触摸屏）, attempt to steal a free - form gesture password by observing a phone user secretly. None of them were able to copy the gestures with enough accuracy. The gestures appear to be extremely powerful against attacks.Though the testing is in its early stage and widespread adapt
35、ation of this technology is not yet clear, the research team plans to continue to analyze the security and management of free form passwords in the future. They believe this is the first study to explore free - form gestures as passwords. They will soon publish their findings.28. What can we learn a
36、bout free - form gestures?A. They are improving mobile security in a way. B. Users will have to make use of simple gestures.C. They will never be copied by others. D. Users must move their fingers in fixed shapes.29. The experiment in paragraph 4 is to test _ _ of free - form gestures.A. template B.
37、 application C. accuracy D. security30. According to the text, the researchers think that _.A. it is easy to steal any password with a quick eye B. better ways of setting passwords should be developedC. people had better not use smart phones to pay bills D. personal information should not be stored
38、in a phone31. The main purpose of the text is to _.A. advise people to use free - form gestures B. discuss whether smart phones are safeC. talk about the practicality of passwords D. introduce the study of a new passwordDThey are the little sweeties who look pretty cute in a photo, or when sleepingb
39、ut a lot less appealing at 30, 000 ft, crying loudly in the seat right next to you. According to a new survey, almost seven in ten Britons dislike flying with babies so much that they would like to see child-free areas introduced on planes. As for long-distance flights where people want to s leep, a
40、lmost one in four British travelers believes that no-kid-zones should be fixed as required sections. The survey was conducted by bookings website LateDeals.co.uk, with 1,108 UK consumers questioned as to what they hate most about air travel.And our dislike of noisy children and babies on planes runs
41、 deep, it seems.More than a third of us35 percentwould pay extra to travel on a childless service.Long-distance passengers would be prepared to pay an additional 63 to the cost of a return ticket if it meant adults only on board. And on short-distance flights, an extra 28 on the price of a return fa
42、re would be considered good value if it guaranteed an absence of angry babies in the middle of the economy-class aisle(走道).However, screaming babies are not the only source of annoyance for British travelers. In fact, according to the research on the most annoying types of airline passengers, a cryi
43、ng baby ranks as only the fourth. Over half of those surveyed58 percentselected “drunk travelers” as their pet peeves. People with “bad personal hygiene(卫生)”and travelers who kick the back of the seat in front were also near the top of the list, causing anger to 48 and 47 percent of us respectively(
44、分别地).Crying babies came in at fourth on the list, a pet peeve for 43 percent of those surveyed. 32. Britons dislike flying with babies because they_ A. make too much noise B. get angry easilyC. sleep right next to them D. stay in the economy-class aisle33. How many British travelers surveyed would l
45、ike to have no-kid-zones on planes?A. About 35. B. About 43. C. About 70. D. About 58. 34. What type of writing is this text?A. A brochure. B. A tourist guide. C. An announcement. D. A news report.35. What does the underlined phrase “pet peeves” in the last fourth line mean?A. Pets on a plane. B. Pa
46、ssengers with a baby.C. People who annoy you. D. People who were surveyed.第二节根据短文内容，从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。Reti red or not?Is retirement harmful to your health? Its an interesting question in light of a new study that finds senior citizens who work are in better health than their counterparts
47、 who dont. Researchers from the University of Miami examined data on more than 83,000 Americans. All of them were at least 65 years old. 36 The majority of these workers 61 percentheld white collar positions. Compared to people with white-collar jobs, those who were unemployed or retired were 2.75 t
48、imes more likely to report their health as “poor” or “fair.”37 For example, the survey included information on serious conditions like cancer and heart disease. Compared to those with white-collar jobs, those who were unemployed or retired were 49 percent more likely to have a history of at least two of these health problems. Finally, interviewers asked whether people needed any assistance or special equipment
