1、吉林市普通高中 2014 2015 学年度高三毕业年级摸底考试英 语本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分。第 I 卷 1 至 10 页，第二卷 10 至 12 页。共 150 分。考试时间 120 分钟。注意事项：请按照题号顺序在答题纸上各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。第 I 卷 第一部分：听力部分（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
2、 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. When will the concert begin?A. At 5:45. B. At 6:00. C. At 6:40. 2. How does the woman like her coffee?A. With sugar and milk. B. With milk only. C. With sugar only.3. What will the weather be like tomorrow?A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.4. For which subject is Emil
3、y fully prepared?A. Maths. B. English. C. Physics.5. What did the woman buy for her mother?A. A coat. B. A necklace. C. Earrings.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，
4、回答第 6 至 7 题。6. Where will the woman go for her holiday?A. Dalian. B. Lijiang. C. Dali.7. How will the woman go travelling?A. By air. B. By train. C. By car.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. Why does the woman need her book back?A. She doesnt trust Lily. B. She needs it to look for some information. C. She is
5、angry with Lily.9. What will the woman probably do?A. Apologize to Lily. B. Ask for the book back. C. Give the book to Lily.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Why does the man refuse to go shopping?A. He is busy with his work. B. He has nothing to buy. C. Its too hot outside.11. What does the woman want to
6、buy?A. A T-shirt and a pair of sunglasses. B. A T-shirt and a dress. C. A dress and a pair of sunglasses.12. What will the man do next week?A. Go to a birthday party. B. Go on a business trip. C. Go to summer camp. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. A wonder
7、ful restaurant. B. The birthday cake. C. Their mothers birthday party.14. When will the birthday cake be ready?A. In two weeks. B. In one week. C. Tomorrow.15. What gift will the man give his mother?A. Some flowers. B. A hand-made card. C. A photo album.16. What can we learn about the restaurant?A.
8、The speakers wedding ceremony was held there. B. It will take charge of everything but the birthday cake. C. It is expensive but worth the money.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. How long did the construction of the Hong Kong Space Museum take?A. About three years. B. About four years. C. About five years
9、.18. What made the museum one of the most famous landmarks in Hong Kong?A. Its location. B. Its service for the public. C. Its unique egg-shaped roof.19. Which of the following is beneath the east wing of the museum?A. The Hall of Astronomy. B. Workshops and offices. C. The Lecture Hall.20. Whats th
10、e function of the exhibits?A. To help visitors to learn by experiences.B. To organize plenty of extension activities.C. To show some astronomy films to the visitors. 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。AOdland remembers like it was ye
11、sterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman. Thirty years have passed, but Odland can not get the memory out of his mind, nor the womans kind reaction. She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a k
12、ind voice, told the young Odland. “It is OK. It wasnt your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.Odland isnt the only CEO to have made this discovery. Instead, it see
13、ms to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. Its hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.Watch out for anyo
14、ne who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could buy this place and fire you,” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character than about their wealth and power.The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it do
15、wn, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swansons Unwritten Rules of Management. “A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to som
16、eone cleaning the tables.” 21. What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the womans dress?A. He was fired. B. He was blamed. C. The woman comforted him. D. The woman left the restaurant at once.22. Odland learned one of his life lessons from _.A. his experience as a waiter B. the advice
17、given by the CEOsC. an article in Fortune D. an interesting best-selling book23. According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about _.A. Fortune 500 companies B. the Management RulesC. Swansons book D. the Waiter Rule24. From the text we can learn that _.A. one should be nicer to important
18、 people B. CEOs often show their power before othersC. one should respect others no matter who they are D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurantsBSummer cools down in August when the city features a lot of jazz to send excitement to any music fan. Beginning August 28, the city hosts a week o
19、f jazz performances in a variety of places.This years annual Jazz Festival in Grant Park will offer a “tribute to New Orleans” with performers from the city, honoring the birthplace of Jazz. Jazz fans who want to be part of the week-long celebration can start with a free concert at Millennium Parks
20、famous Pritzker Pavilion on Monday, August 28 at 6:30 pm. Other events will include:Tuesday, August 29 the Jazz Institute of Chicago presents the Fourth Annual Gala Concert.Wednesday, August 30 Heat up Wednesday night with a ride to the best jazz hot spots and learn a bit of history of the genre (风格
21、) with the Jazz Institutes Jazz Club Tour, which starts at 6 pm until midnight. For one low price, visit more than a dozen Jazz Clubs. The tour covers nearly every inch of Chicago.The Chicago Jazz Festival Officially opens with a ticketed performance at the Symphony Center on Thursday, August 31. Th
22、en, the festival moves to Grant Park on Friday, September 1, for three days of free music on three stages. The event opens daily at 11 am. Performance hours are:Jazz on Jackson Stage 12 pm 4:30 pm.Jazz more than 25% were too fat. “We are in a crisis of childhood obesity not only in West Virginia but
23、 in America,” said a researcher.Researchers are looking at the potential for improving effects by using the game. A teacher in West Virginia has been using the video game in her classes since last fall. She reported that the game does improve heart health as well as eye-hand coordination, and her st
24、udents take the video game as a great alternative to jumping rope or ball games.The US Education Department is putting the game in 20 schools to control childhood obesity. Well, are you going to try such a game to dance away your extra weight?29. The underlined part is trying to tell us _.A. the stu
25、dy is more important than the money of the insurance companyB. the study is only an insurance companys businessC. the study involved many insurance companiesD. its not only the insurance company that is concerned about the study30. It can be inferred that _.A. in West Virginia 25% of the children we
26、re too fatB. the government and society think highly of the gameC. the teacher is a success in using the video gameD. the US Education Department is promoting the game all over the country31. The most suitable title for the passage is _.A. Dance Away Your Weight B. Play the Video Dance GameC. Solve
27、the Problem of Obesity D. A Magic Video Dance GameDPaparazzi, or “paps”, are photographers who take pictures of famous people when they are not at the center of public attention. Paps are different from professional photographers or journalists because they never take ordinary photos. The goal for p
28、aparazzi is to get pictures that no one else will get and then sell the pictures to the buyer who offers the most money normally a small newspaper, magazine or website. There is no law against paparazzi taking pictures in public places. However, there are laws that protect certain individuals. For e
29、xample, child protection laws stop improper pictures of anyone under 16 from being published.There is also no law that stops paparazzi from following celebrities (名人) and taking their pictures either. However, if paps are secretly following them and taking pictures of their faces, they could get int
30、o trouble.Most paparazzi hang out on streets and hot spots for celebrities, waiting for the opportunity to take a picture of a star. Many stay on the streets until the early hours of the morning when celebrities are leaving nightclubs and looking a little worse for wear. However, some have other way
31、s to make sure they get pictures. Many paps are in contact with “informers” who know the locations of celebrities at any given time. They then pass the information on to paparazzi. An informer could be anyone from a restaurant waiter to a salesman.Most of the time, paparazzi get a bad reputation for
32、 following celebrities. But sometimes stars or their managers will contact paps themselves and tell them exactly where and when they will go.What a love-hate relationship between paparazzi and celebrities!32. Which of the following things paparazzi might do would be against the law?A. Taking picture
33、s of famous people in public places.B. Getting unsuitable pictures of a 10-year-old actress published. C. Following a famous woman singer secretly and taking her pictures.D. Hanging out at the places where celebrities often appear.33. In order to earn big money a pap has to _.A. get the only first-h
34、and pictures B. sell the pictures to a big newspaperC. make friends with famous people D. know the locations of celebrities34. The fifth paragraph mainly tells us _.A. how paparazzi get the pictures B. how dangerous paparazzis job isC. how much paparazzi pay for the pictures D. how paparazzi contact
35、 informers35. What can we infer from the passage?A. Paparazzi always take pictures when famous people are tired.B. Stars hate paparazzi and dont want to be followed.C. Paparazzi and famous people rely on each other sometimes. D. Informers might get paparazzi into trouble.第二节（共 5 小题; 每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）
36、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。Everyone knows that the Frenchmen are romantic, the Italians are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? 36 At least one group of people are certain that it can. A recent surve
37、y of the top 500 entrepreneurs (企业家) in the UK found that 70% felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public. Britain is hostile(敌意的) to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy(嫉妒). 37 Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green eyed monster” and the UK is its home.Scienti
38、sts at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money. 38 Those given a little were given the chance to destroy the large amount of money given to others but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of th
39、e people tested agreed to do this.39 . But there is also opposite evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently reported that the UK is now the worlds fourth largest economy. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are
40、not lazy, either.Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem. They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires. 40 . It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more peo
41、ple want to be like them.A. This test seems to prove that the entrepreneurs were right to complain.B. The one who owns the most money in the end is the winner.C. As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood.”D. And if there is, can it affect how a nation succ
42、eed or fail?E. Some were given a little, others a great deal.F. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them.G. It is not true that British people are born jealous of others success.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
43、空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I live in a big city with a lot of homeless people. Luckily therere 41 ways of helping them and you neednt have a lot of 42 . One way to help is to buy their monthly magazine. 43 doing this one day, I got to 44 a young homeless man. He was often 45 the magazine at the train stat
44、ion.He was a poor farmer from another country. After a while, I discovered that his 46 was close to mine. It 47 that we were born in the same month. I met him last year 48 after his birthday, and after congratulating him, without 49 , I asked if he had had a good day. He 50 and said that he hadnt re
45、ally celebrated. I felt so 51 .I just couldnt bear the thought of this nice, young man being 52 on his 25th birthday with no friends, no presents, no cake, nothing! So I went home and looked in my yarn (纱线) basket. Luckily for me, I had enough yarn 53 . I set to work and knitted (编织) a 54 for the yo
46、ung man. The yarn had become a little dirty 55 I didnt knit very often. Then I washed the yarn so the scarf would be 56 when he got it.I met him on my own birthday as I was going shopping. I had 57 to meet him so I had 58 the scarf and a piece of my own birthday cake around with me. He was very 59 w
47、ith these gifts and so was I. The tears in his eyes were the best 60 he could have given me!41. A. correct B. basic C. small D. cheap42. A. work B. energy C. money D. experience43. A. In B. On C. With D. By44. A. meet B. realize C. know D. like45. A. selling B. delivering C. releasing D. collecting4
48、6. A. birthday B. house C. height D. age47. A. said B. discovered C. thought D. meant48. A. suddenly B. shortly C. eventually D. instantly49. A. preparing B. permitting C. greeting D. thinking50. A. looked up B. turned up C. looked down D. calm down51. A. foolish B. helpless C. nervous D. confused52. A. unforgettable B.
