1、石嘴山三中 2017 届第四次模拟考试英语能力测试本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项：1. 答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上，认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡的指定位置上。 2. 选择题答案使用范围 2B 铅笔填涂，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号；非选择题答案使用 0.5 毫米的黑色中性笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。3. 请按照题号在各题的答题区域（黑色线框）内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。4. 保持
2、卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。第 I 卷 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。例：How much is shirt? A.19.15 B. 9.18 C. 9.151. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Policeman and driver. B. Teacher
3、 and student. C. Director and actress.2. When did the man become a lawyer?A. In 1975. B. In 1979. C. In 1989.3. What is the man doing?A. Boarding. B. Getting tickets. C. Checking baggage.4. What is the woman dissatisfied with about the dress?A. The size. B. The color. C. The material.5. How does the
4、 man prefer to go to work?A. By car. B. By bus. C. On foot.第二节 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。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。6. How does the woman usually go to appointments?A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot.7. W
5、hat does the woman think of her way of keeping fit?A. Stressful. B. Safe. C. Tiring.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8. What is the party for? A. A birthday. B. A festival. C. A marriage.9. What do we know about the man?A. Hell go to the party with the woman.B. He has told Anna to keep the secret.C. He looks
6、 forward to Christmas.听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。10. What relation is the woman to Timothy?A. His teacher. B. His mother. C. His classmate.11. Why does the man call the woman?A. To let her pay more attention to Timothy.B. To get some extra help from her.C. To ask for her permission.12. What can we le
7、arn from the conversation?A. The man is angry with Timothy.B. The man is very responsible.C. Timothy dislikes English.听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。13. Where are the speakers?A. In Britain. B. In Germany. C. In France. 14. What does the woman spend most working hours doing?A. Working on reports. B. Deal
8、ing with e-mails. C. Making and receiving calls.15. At what time does the woman usually get off work?A.5:15 pm. B.4:30 pm. C. 4:15 pm.16. What is the woman?A. A secretary. B. A director. C. An engineer.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17. Where does the speaker work?A. In York. B. In London. C. In New York
9、.18.Why was “Feelgood” developed?A. To open up new markets.B. To keep the market share.C. To thrive in poor economy.19. What does the speaker say about “Feelgood”?A. It is aimed at housewives.B. It will be rather expensive.C. It is expected to have higher qualities.20. How has the speakers company r
10、un to promote the new product?A. Advertisements online.B. Nationwide promotions.C. Advertisements in magazines.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，并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。A New York Helmsley HotelNew York City, NYKAYAK members are specially offered the New Yor
11、k Helmsley Hotel, a world class hotel located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of Times Square, Grand Central Station and the United Nations, as well as the Theatre District and Rockefeller Center.Gaylord PalmsOrlando, FLGay1ord Palms Hote1 and Convention Center offers exci
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17、ley Hotel and Affinia Chicago.D. Gaylord Palms and New York Helmsley Hotel.B For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line be
18、tween what I control and what you do?Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part，this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents complete unr
19、easonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped. In this article, Ill describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrel on unimp
20、ortant things. Examples include the color of the teens hair, the cleanness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the childs failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the othe
21、r admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesnt matter what the topic ispolitics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an eggthe point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong，for both wish
22、 to be considered an authoritysomeone who actually knows somethingand therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, theyll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress. 24. Why does the aut
23、hor compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?A. Both can continue for generations. B. Neither can be put to an end.C. Neither has any clear winner. D. Both are about where to draw the line. 25. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?A. The teens accuse their parents of misleading
24、them.B. The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict. C. The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.D. The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents. 26. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to_. A. give orders to the other B. gain respe
25、ct from the otherC. know more than the other D. get the other to behave properly 27. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?A. Causes for the parent-teen conflicts B. Examples of the parent-teen warC. Future of the parent-teen relationship D. Solutions for the paren
26、t-teen problemsC Imagine picking apples on Christmas or going skating on May Day. What about going for a swim on Thanksgiving? Without Leap Day(闰日 ),which takes place every four years, that could happen.Our calendar is normally 365 days long. It was created to match the cycles of the seasons. But Ro
27、man ruler Julius Caesar noticed a problem: The earth doesnt circle the sun in exactly 365 days. It actually takes 365 and one-quarter days. He figured out that the extra part of a day would cause the calendar to grow apart from the seasons over time. Over 100 years, the seasons would shift about 24
28、days. Spring would start on April 13 instead of March 20.Caesar used math to figure out a way to stop the calendar from shifting. He decided to add an extra day to the month of February every four years. His idea helped keep the seasons and calendar matched up. Even so, it still wasnt perfecthis cal
29、endar was adding too many days.In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII worked on Caesars idea. His calendar, called the Gregorian calendar, declares that every year that is equally divided by 400 is a leap year. Turn-of-the-century years, or years ending in “00”, would not be leap years unless they could be divi
30、ded equally by 400. These complicated equations(等式）help keep the calendar in balance with the orbit of the earth. Today, we still use the Gregorian calendar. In about 3，000 years, the calendar will be only one day out of step with the seasons, Its still not perfect, but mathematicians decided it was
31、 as close as we could get.28. Why was Julius Caesars calendar not good enough?A. There would be too many days on the calendar.B. It would be only one day out of step with the seasons.C. Spring would start twenty-four days later than usualD. Leap Day would take place every other year.29. It can be in
32、ferred from the text that _.A. the earth circles the sun in exactly 365 daysB. Caesar added an extra day to every FebruaryC. Popes calendar has been used for 3，000 yearsD. Gregorian calendar is more scientific than Caesars30. Which of the following years is a leap year according to Pope?A. The year
33、2100. B. The year 2200.C. The year 2400. D. The year 2300.31. In which section of a website can you probably read this text?A. Opinion. B. Policy. C. Science. D. Entertainment. D Whenever we see a button, we want to press it because we know that something will happen. This is true in most cases, for
34、 example, on a doorbell. But some buttons are actually fake(假的 ), like the “close” button on a lift.Many people are in the habit of pressing the “close” button because they dont have the patience to wait for the lift doors to shut. But lifts “close” buttons are a complete trick, at least in the US t
35、he doors will not close any faster no matter how hard you press.It started in the 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in the US, making sure that all lifts stayed open long enough so that people with disabilities could enter. Only US firefighters and repairmen can use the butto
36、ns to speed up the door-closing process if they have a code or special keys.But to normal lift riders, the buttons arent completely useless. According to psychologists, fake buttons can actually make you feel better by offering you a sense of control.“A sense of control is very important. It reduces
37、 stress and increases well-being,” said Ellen J. Langer, a psychology professor at Harvard University. Experts also added that a lot of buttons that dont do anything exist in our lives for this same purpose.For example, pedestrian crosswalk buttons dont live up to their names either. Pressing them u
38、sed to help make the traffic signals change faster, but that was before computer controlled traffic signals were introduced.But psychologists found it interesting that even when people are aware of these little “white lies”, they still continue to push fake buttons because as long as the doors event
39、ually close, it is considered to be worth the effort.32. What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To describe different fake buttons.B. To explore the functions of fake buttons.C. To analyze various habits of pushing buttons.D. To explain the disadvantages of fake buttons.33. What can we l
40、earn about the “close” buttons on a lift in America?A. They work when people press them hard.B. They were designed for a sense of control.C. They never speed up the door-closing process.D. They take the safety of the disabled into account.34. What can we infer about pedestrian crosswalk buttons?A. T
41、hey help computers work faster.B. They can make people feel better.C. They can control the traffic signals.D. They help pedestrians cross safely.35. Which may be the best title for the passage?A. Buttons in the USA. B. Buttons Always LieC. Buttons May not Work D. “Close” Buttons on Lifts第二节（共 5 小题：每
42、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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Who would have thought to put a kite and a surfboard together? It may seem like an impractical idea, but a man named Cory Roeseler from Oregon believed that it would work, and introduced the idea in the 1980s. 36 . Over the next f
43、ew years, other designers contributed to the style and shape of the board, resulting in a mixture of kiting and surfing, which is what kite surfing is today.37 . The power kite pulls a small board that is fastened to the surfers feet, and there is a harness (安全带) that goes around the surfers waist t
44、o make sure that the surfer stays connected to the board. The wind determines which direction would be easiest for the surfer to go in. Once the kite surfer is able to control the board and the kite, they can learn many tricks, such as turning, jumping, and so on. 38 This sport can sometimes be pote
45、ntially dangerous to other kite surfers, beachgoers, and the kite surfers themselves if they dont know how the proper procedure is done. 39 . They can learn the techniques safely without putting themselves and others in danger. A good course should include basic operations, kite set-up, maintenance
46、(维修) of equipment, weather planning, and emergency landings. These courses are available in almost all areas where kite surfing is popular.40 . Some popular destinations for kite surfing enthusiasts are South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, but wherever there is wind, there will be kite
47、 surfers. You might even be able to see kite surfers on the beach closest you!A. Kite surfing has become a mainstream sport. B. Kite surfing is a difficult and dangerous sport.C. The way it works is an application of simple physics. D. The first design was with water skis powered by a kite. E. It is
48、 also known as kite boarding, and in some European countries as fly surfing.F. Therefore, it is highly recommended that people who want to participate in this sport attend a course. G. With the combination of the wind and the ocean, some kite surfers can go at top speeds while flying over 20 feet in
49、 the air. 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。One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited 41 for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became 42 . When he saw a photogra
