1、成都龙泉中学 2014 级高三下学期 4 月月考试题英 语注意事项：1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型 A 后的方框涂黑。2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3.非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4.考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第卷第一部分：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，
2、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，每题 1.5 分；共 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 did the woman do during the Spring Festival?A. She saw her friends at home. B. She visited her uncle. C. She visited her teachers. 2. What
3、does the man imply? A. The chairs didnt need to be painted. B. He doesnt like the color of the chairs.C. The park should have warned people about the paint. 3. What can be inferred about the speakers? A. They cant see the stars clearly. B. Theyre not in the city tonight.C. Theyre looking at the star
4、s fr om the city. 4. Where is Citibank? A. On the street in line with Broadway. B. On the street next to Broadway. C. On Fox Street. 5. Why does the woman think that her apartment is beautiful? A. There is a parking area downstairs. B. Her apartment is big and great. C. She can see the park downstai
5、rs. 第二节（共 15 小题；每题 1.5 分；共 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，各个小题将给出 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. Which of the following is not a British magazine? A. Readers Digest. B. Private Eye. C. Spectator. 7. What do we know
6、about British magazines? A. They are all published weekly.B. Theres a great variety of them.C. N ot every profession has its own journal. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. How old might the man be? A. 72. B. 75. C. 78. 9. Why did the woman come to the neighborhood? A. To look for her new office. B. To meet h
7、er client. C. To meet her old neighbor. 10. Where is the new office complex? A. Next to a bakers shop. B. Behind a bakers shop. C. Next to a flower shop. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. When did the man begin to line up this morning？A. At 8:15. B. At 8:45. C. At 1:30. 12. What does he expect to see? A .
8、A movie. B. A tennis match. C. A play. 13. What is the womans probable job? A. A reporter. B. A tennis player. C. An actress. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。14. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Schoolmates. 15. How did David plan to finish his proj
9、ect? A. By referring to as many books as possible. B. By co-working with the woman. C. By copying part of a book. 16. What does the woman think is most important? A. David should hand in his project in time. B. David should do his own project. C. There should be brilliant charts in the project. 听第 1
10、0 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. When should you arrive if you are invited to a friends house at 5:00 p.m.? A. 5:08. B. 4:50. C. 5:50. 18. What is the talk mainly about ? A. When to arrive at your friends house. B. How to greet people. C. How to be a good visitor. 19. What does giving a little gift to the ho
11、st mean? A. Youre willing to spend money. B. You want to be invited again. C. Youre excited to be his guest. 20. What does the speaker think of the way she addressed Pauls parents? A. She could have been more polite. B. She think s it was highly proper.C. She thinks she was very rude that time. 第二部分
12、：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 50 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，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。ANEW YORK Picking a Christmas tree takes most people a few minutes, or a couple of hours if they head for the woods . Dave Murbach needs 11 months.Almost every day of every year, Murbachs thoughts tur
13、n to vision of a perfectly shaped evergreen tree that will take everyones breath away.Murbach is the man responsible for finding the towering tree that makes more attractive Manhattans Rockefeller Center each Christmas season.“Im always looking for a tree,” the centers chief gardener says. “I look f
14、or it even when I go to the beach in the summer. Its like a homework assignment hanging over your head.”And if he gets it wrong, theres nothing hiding it.“Every day its up, 400,000 people go by, and 2.5 million people watch the lighting celebration on television,”he says.This years tree, a 74-foot N
15、omy spruce (云杉) from Richfield, Ohio, flown to New York on the worlds largest cargo plane, was lighted on December 2.The arrival of the tree leads in the Christmas season in New York a tradition dating back to 1931, when the workers building Rockefeller Center put up a small tree with ornaments. The
16、 search for the next years tree starts soon after the old tree is chopped up for wood chips and horse-jumping logs.Murbach has three standards: The tree must be at least 65 feet high, at least 35 feet across and leaves dense enough not to see through.Thats not as simple as it sounds. Though forests
17、are full of evergreens, few get enough sunlight or space to fill out. And branches in snow regions often break under the weight, making trees unbalanced.Back at the office, he sorts through hundreds of letters from people offering their trees, many addressed simply to “Mr. Christmas Tree Man.”Though
18、 there was occasional anxiety attack and sleepless night, Murbach knows the effect the tree has on people: “Its for bringing people together, attempting to bring together people you love. Thats what I hope it sets off.” But Murbach says hes always too worn out to celebrate Christmas.21. Which is the
19、 correct order of the events in the passage? a. Murbachs thoughts turn to a perfectly shaped tree. b. 2.5 million people watch the Christmas tree. c. The tree is flown to New York. d. It was lighted on December 2. e. The tree is chopped up. f. Murbach searches for the tree. A. a, b, c, d, e, f B. c,
20、 d, b, f, e, a C. c, d, e, b, a, f D. a, f, c, d, b, e22. Why does Murbach take his job seriously?A. Because he wants everyone to be happy with his choice. B. Because he hopes to make everybody unable to breathe.C. Because he enjoys showing off. D. Because he wishes to attract peoples attention to h
21、imself.23. According to Murbach s standard of trees, the best tree must _.A. be evergreen B. have lots of space between their branchesC. be tall enough not to see through D. be equally balancedB About this time every year, I get very nostalgic(怀旧的). Walking through my neighborhood on a fall afternoo
22、n reminds me of a time not too long ago when sounds of children filled the air, children playing games on a hill, and throwing leaves around in the street below. I was one of those children, carefree and happy. I live on a street that is only one block long. I have lived on the same street for sixte
23、en years. I love my street. One side has six houses on it, and the other has only two houses, with a small hill in the middle and a huge cottonwood tree on one end. When I think of h ome, I think of my street. Only I see it as it was before. Unfortunately things change. One day, not long ago, I look
24、ed around and saw how different everything has become. Life on my street will never be the same because neighbors are quickly grown old, friends are growing up and leaving, and the city is planning to destroy my precious hill and sell the property to contractors.It is hard for me to accept that many
25、 of my wonderful neighbors are growing old and wont be around much longer. I have fond memories of the couple across the street, who sat together on their porch swing almost every evening, the widow next door who yelled at my brother and me for being too loud, and the crazy old man in a black suit w
26、ho drove an old car. In contrast to those people, the people I see today are very old neighbors who have seen better days. The man in the black suit says he wants to die, and another neighbor just sold his house and moved into a nursing home. The lady who used to yell at us is too tired to bother an
27、y more, and the couple across the street rarely go out to their front porch these days. It is difficult to watch these precious people as they near the end of their lives because at once I thought they would live forever.The “comings and goings” of the younger generation of my street are now mostly
28、“goings” as friends and peers move on. Once upon a time, my life and the lives of my peers revolved around home. The boundary of our world was the gutter at the end of the street. We got pleasure from playing night games or from a breathtaking ride on a tricycle. Things are different now, as my frie
29、nds become adults and move on. Children who rode tricycles now drive cars. The kids who once played with me now have new interests and values as they go their separate ways. Some have gone away to college like me, a few got married, two went into the army, and one went to prison. Watching all these
30、people grow up and go away makes me long for the good old days.Perhaps the biggest change on my street is the fact that the city is going to turn my precious hill into several lots for now homes. For sixteen years, the view out of my kitchen window has been a view of that hill. The hill was a fundam
31、ental part of my childhood life; it was the hub of social activity for the children of my street. We spent hours there building forts, sledding, and playing tag. The view out of my kitchen window now is very different; it is one of tractors and dump trucks tearing up the hill. When the hill goes, th
32、e neighborhood will not be the same. It is a piece of my childhood. It is a visual reminder of being a kid. Without the hill, my street will be just another pea in the pod.There was a time when my street was my world, and I thought my world would never change. But something happened. People grow up,
33、 and people grow old. Places changes, and with the change comes the heartache of knowing I can never go back to the times I loved. In a year or so, I will be gone just like many of my neighbors. I will always look back to my years as a child, but the place I remember will not be the silent street wh
34、ose peace is interrupted by the sounds of construction. It will be the happy, noisy, somewhat strange, but wonderful street I knew as a child.24. The writer finds it hard to accept the fact that _. A. many of his good neighbors are growing old B. the lady next door who used to yell at him and his br
35、other is now a widow C. the life of his neighbors has become very boring D. the man in his black suit even wanted to end his own life 25. The biggest change on the writers street is _. A. removing the hill to make way for residential development B. the building of new homes behind his kitchen window
36、 C. the fact that there are much fewer people around than in the past D. the change in his childhood friends attitude towards their neighborhood 26. What does the writer mean by saying “my street will be another pea in the pod”? A. his street will be very noisy and dirty B. his street will soon be c
37、rowded with people C. his street will have some new attractions D. his street will be no different from any other street 27. Which could be a good title for the passage?A. The Past of My Street will Live Forever B. Unforgettable People and Things of My StreetC. Memory Street Isnt What It Used to BeD
38、. The Big Changes of My Street C“I dont think I can do this any more.” “Yes, you can. You only have five more radiation treatments to go. ” I held my wife Becky close.Ever since the breast cancer diagnosis(诊断), she had tried hard to be strong for the kids and for me. When her diagnosis came, my firs
39、t thought was there was no way I could lose m y wife. The doctors assured us the cancer was discovered early so we were feeling positive.Becky had received an operation and was recovering from it. After six weeks of radiation therapy(治疗), she was facing her final five treatments. She was weak and ti
40、red, in low spirits. Seeing her suffering, I felt so helpless and powerless.As soon as I was outside, long held frustration and anger erupted in me like a volcano. I took a hammer and suddenly was swinging as hard as I could, beating heavily on the front porch(门廊). While doing so, I imagined I was b
41、eating my wifes cancer. With all my strength, I destroyed the porch.During the treatment, my wife had been very brave. She said she had it easy, but I dont think it was easy for her.Seeing the porch gone, Becky shook her head at the window. I came into the room, not knowing how she would react to wh
42、at I had done.“Becky, are you mad at me？” She looked at me in surprise. “For what？” I pointed at the gate. “For tearing down the porch.” She laughed. “Look how sunny this room is now. I love that its bright in here .”“You comforted me in my darker hour, Vince. Youve found a way to deal with your own
43、 frustration. By destroying the porch, you let the sunshine in.”As I looked around the brightened room, I realized the light that filled the space was the light of hope that shone so bright after the darkness. We never did rebuild the porch.28When the diagnosis came out, _Athe author had little hope
44、 that his wife would surviveBthe author was determined to save his wifes lifeCthe authors wife refused to receive radiation treatmentsDthe author felt lucky that his wifes disease was not serious29The author went outside to destroy the porch because _Ahe wanted to release his frustrationBhe was disa
45、ppointed with his wifeChe intended to let sunshine inDhis wife didnt like it at all30How did the authors wife feel about him seeing the porch gone?ASympathetic BAngryCUnderstanding DHappy31What lesson can we learn from the passage?ATragedy cannot separate loving couple.BA day without sunshine is lik
46、e night.CTrue love is based on understanding.DNothing is impossible for a willing heart.DParents will do anything for their children. Whether it wo uld be the food, clothes, or the place they live in,parents will always make sure their children have the best of everything. One of the biggest concern
47、s that parents currently have is educating their children. They are faced with lots of difficulties when it comes to education for their young ones. Choices include private school, charter school,public school or home schooling.Fortunately for parents，there are a variety of different strategies that
48、 they can take in order to in-crease their childs overall intelligence. According to Ross A. Thompson, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, a childs brain will actually reach 90% of its full size by the time they start kindergarten.Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago concluded that playing a musical instrument directly affected the brain stem, the lower section of the brain. Moreover, children that learn an instrument at an early age tend to continue it when
