1、2017 届湖南省衡阳市祁东县第二中学高三 9 月月考 英语时量：120 分钟 分值：150 分 第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）做题时，现将答案标在试卷上，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。 例：How much is the shirt? A. 19. 15 B. 9. 18 C. 9.
2、 15 答案是 C。1. What will the man do on Saturday evening?A. Attend a party. B. Do the cooking. C. Go cycling.2. Where are the speakers?A. In a clothes shop. B. In a tailors. C. In a laundry.3. How does the man go to work every day?A. By car. B. By bus. C. On foot.4. What does the man think of his prese
3、nt job?A. Challenging. B. Boring. C. Well-paid.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A phone. B. A play. C. A dress. 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. Why is the man at the airport?A. To board a plane. B. To pick up some passengers. C. To meet the woman. 7. Which flight
4、 has been delayed?A. The French flight. B. The Spanish flight. C. The Italian flight.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Where can the man put his bag?A. Behind the door. B. In the locker. C. On the desk.9. What should the man do after getting into the exam hall?A. Find his examination number. B. Turn off his mob
5、ile phone. C. Show his student ID card. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题10. What will the speakers do during the summer break?A. Earn some money. B. Enjoy some arts. C. Do some shopping11. What can the speakers do in Rosemount?A. Have some nice meals. B. Find a good variety of local artworks. C. Buy some pain
6、tings and handmade jewellery.12. Where will the speakers sleep during the summer break?A. In their house. B. In a hotel . C. In a tent.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What kind of club does the woman want to take?A. The one that has a big number of members.B. The one that offers many different activities
7、. C. The one that has a low entry fee.14. What does the man say about the cross-country cycling club?A. It has many members. B. It looks quite interesting. C. It is too expensive.15. How much does the film club cost?A. $15. B. $30. C. $50.16. Which club will the woman probably join?A. The street dan
8、ce club. B. The table tennis club. C. The film club.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题17. How long does it take the buses to get to the camping area?A. About 8 hours. B. About 6 hours. C. About 2 hours.18. What will the listeners do first when they arrive at the camping area?A. Go shopping. B. Check the e-mail
9、s. C. Set up the tents.19. What does the speakers advise the listeners to do?A. Stay in the camp in stormy weather.B. Listen to the weather report.C. Prepare clothes for wet weather.20. What are the listeners probably unable to do in the hills?A. Ask Mrs. Sanderson questions. B. Go down to the town.
10、 C. Use their phones.第二部分 阅读理解 (共 20 题：每小题 2 分，满分 40 分)第一节 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。AWhats On?Electric Underground7.30 pm-1.00 am 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 local band
11、s. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract(合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30 pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. Hes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music.Gee Whizz8.30 pm-10.30 pm Comedy at KaleidoscopeCom
12、e 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 7.00 pm for drinks and snacks(快餐).Simons Workshop5.00 pm-7.30 pm Wednesdays
13、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
14、n. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.Charlotte Stone8.00 pm-11.00 pm 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
15、 excellent 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 p
16、lace can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?A. The Cyclops Theatre B. KaleidoscopeC. 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. W
17、hen will Charlotte Stone perform her songs?A. 5.00 pm-7.30 pm. B. 7.30 pm-1.00 am. C. 8.00 pm-11.00 pm. D. 8.30 pm-10.30 pm.BFive 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
18、Tinkertoys in front of each student, and said:“Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today and 45 minutes 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 some
19、thing 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
20、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 ha
21、d 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 growing thre
22、e 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 student B. make the lessons more excitingC. raise the stude
23、nts 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 Paragraph 4 probably m
24、ean?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 thinking.CReading
25、 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 to share. BookCrossin
26、g 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 things that change you
27、r 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 a journal entry describi
28、ng 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 Peterson 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 trend among people who want t
29、o 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. To stress the importance of re
30、ading. 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 readers to discuss it. B. Keep it sa
31、fe 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 BooksDA new collection of photos brings
32、 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(海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expe
33、ctation 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 seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to
34、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 South Pole early in 1912 but had died w
35、ith 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 cold and hunger, caught the worlds imagina
36、tion, 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, a confident and gifted Australian pho
37、tographer 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 sceneriesC. They were found by a cameraman D. They recorded a disastrous adventure3
38、4. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?A. Frank Hurley B. Ernest ShackletonC. Caroline Alexander D.Robert Falcon Scott35. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?A. Artistic creation B. Scientific researchC. Money making D. Treasure hunting第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满
39、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。选项中有两项为多余选项。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. It starts with looking insid
40、e 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 that require less water and f
41、ewer 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 memoriesOur model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandmas rose garden and Dads vegetable ga
42、rden 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 translate your childhood memories in
43、to 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 produce that kind of magical
44、 quality in your own garden, tooG. For each of those gardens, writer 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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A 、B 、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little devic
45、e(装置) on 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
46、 my travel 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 o
47、ffice 51 . 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 Ra
48、ni,”she said. I turned around and saw a 56 woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was 57 ! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so 58 .Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Ranis 59 -her warm smile, her nods, her Im here for you 60 -were all silent signals that didnt travel through wires.41. A. accepted
