1、河南省郑州市 2015 届高三第一次质量预测英语试题本试卷分为第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。第卷包括第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节，第卷包括第三部分的第二节和第四部分。考试时间 120 分钟，满分 150 分（听力成绩算作参考分） 。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试卷上作答无效。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，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）听下面五段对话。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，
2、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. Whats Mark doing when the call comes in?A. Leaving his office. B. Talking with a secretary. B. Making a long distance call.2. What does the man advise the woman to do?A. Talk to her friend.B. Just get the money back.C. Keep a friendship with
3、her friend.3. Why is the woman having a hard time?A. Her children eat a lot. B. Food costs more. C. She has to feed her children.4. What will the man do this weekend?A. Go to visit Mary. B. Go for a picnic. C. Work in his garden.5. What did the woman expect to do?A. Take charge of sales.B. Change to
4、 another department.C. Become the new manager.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，回答第 6 、7 题。6. What are the speakers doing?A. Choosing things to pack. B. Preparing to m
5、ove. C. Talking about the movers.7. What are the speakers planning to do next?A. Eat out. B. Go on packing. C. Make a call.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题 8. When did the man have his first car?A. When he went abroad.B. When he returned from abroad.C. When he started working.9. What do we know about his first
6、 car?A. It was small. B. It wasnt good. C. It was American car.10. What happened to the car later?A. It was broken. B. It was sold. C. It was taken abroad.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题11. What are they mainly talking about?A. A trip. B. A party. C. A concert.12. What is the man going to do?A. Go to Scotlan
7、d. B. Change his plan. C. Meet his friends.13. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?A. Friends. B. Brother and sister. C. Husband and wife.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题14. Why is the man invited?A. He is good at making a speech.B. He is a famous radio announcer.C. He is a successful b
8、usinessman.15. Where is the key to the mans success in running his restaurants?A. He serves the best possible food.B. He tries to please his customers.C. He asks his customers to come back.16. Where is the mans second restaurant?A. Outside the town.B. On the eastern side of the town.C. On the wester
9、n side of the town.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题 17. Where did they stay most of the time during the trip?A. In Modesto. B. At Fairmount. C. at his Cousins18. What did they ask the manager to do?A. Change a TV. B. Operate the TV. C. Chain the TV to the table.19. Why did the manager give them a roll of pap
10、er?A. To dry themselves B. To clean the bathroom. C. To replace the toilet paper.20. How did the speaker sound when telling the story?A. Sad. B. Funny. C. Annoyed.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（共 20 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AKatie was in big trouble. She was such
11、 a sweet kid; a third-grade teacher always dreamed of having a classroom filled with Katies; she was never ever a discipline(纪律) problem. I just couldnt imagine why she had made her parents so angry.It seemed that Katie had been running up sizable charges in the lunchroom. Her parents explained that
12、 Katie brought a great homemade lunch each day, and there was no reason for her to buy school lunch. They assumed a sit-down with Katie would solve the problem, but failed. So they asked me to help them get to the bottom of this situation.So the next day, I asked Katie to my office. “Why are you cha
13、rging lunches, Katie? What happened to your homemade lunch?“ I asked. “I lose it,“ she responded. I leaned back in my chair and said, “I dont believe you, Katie. “ She didnt care. “Is someone stealing your lunch, Katie?“ I took a new track. “No. I just lose it,“ she said. Well, there was nothing els
14、e I could do.The problem was still unsolved the next week when I noticed a boy who was new to the school sitting alone at a lunch table. He always looked sad. I thought I would go and sit with him for a while. As I walked towards him, I noticed the lunch bag on the table. The name on the bag said “K
15、atie“.Now I understood and I talked to Katie. It seemed that the new boy never brought a lunch, and he wouldnt go to the lunch line for a free lunch. He had told Katie his secret and asked her not to tell anyone that his parents wanted him to get a free lunch at school. Katie asked me not to tell he
16、r parents, but I drove to her house that evening after I was sure that she was in bed. I had never seen parents so proud of their child. Katie didnt care that her parents and teacher were disappointed in her. But she cared about a little boy who was hungry and scared.Katie still buys lunch every day
17、 at school. And every day, as she heads out of the door, her mom hands her a delicious homemade lunch.21. What did the author think of Katie?A. She performed well at school. B. She was a girl filled with love.C. She often made trouble at school. D. She used to be a discipline problem.22. Why did Kat
18、ie eat school lunch instead of her homemade lunch every day?A. She lost her homemade lunch.B. She had her homemade lunch stolen.C. She didnt like the taste of her homemade lunch.D. She gave her homemade lunch to a hungry boy.23. What was Katies parents reaction to the truth about the lunch?A. They w
19、ere very angry. B. They were proud of Katie.C. They were disappointed. D. They were rather upset.24. What can we learn from the passage?A. Katie was informed that her parents had known her secret.B. Katie told the author the truth of her lunch during their first talk.C. Katies secret of lunch was di
20、scovered by the author by accident.D. Katie stopped buying lunch at school after her secret was discovered.BI log onto a computer at the doctors office to say I have arrived and then wait until a voice calls me into the examination room.There, a robotic nurse directs me onto a device and then takes
21、my blood pressure. Some time later, in steps the doctor, who is also a robot. He notes down my symptoms and gives me a prescription (处方). I pay for my visit using a credit card machine and return home without having met another human being.When I call my dentists office and actually get a human bein
22、g on the line, I am thrilled. And when I see the introduction of yet more self-service checkout stations at the grocery store, I feel like shouting, “When it comes to cashiers, make mine human, please!“After all, human cashiers sometimes give you a store coupon (优惠券) for items you are buying. Even m
23、ore than that, real-life cashiers often take an interest in particularly cute children, which can brighten a young mothers day. A cashier may also show compassion (同情)for an elderly person struggling to get that last penny out of her purse.What technological device would do any of this? I dont want
24、to go back to the Stone Age, but Im also worried about a world run by machines. Sometimes when youre chatting with someone, you discover things you need to know. Maybe a receptionist needs prayers said for a sick child. Maybe a salesperson can offer a bit of encouragement to a customer who is feelin
25、g tired.Machines can be efficient and cost-effective and they often get the job done just fine. But they lack an element so important to everyday life.Call it the spirit, the soul or the heart. It is something no machine will ever have. It is being human that prompts us to smile at others, which may
26、 be what they need at that moment.25. Whats the authors purpose in writing the first two paragraphs?A. To indicate high technology can make our future life very easy.B. To describe a possible future scene where robots take control of our life.C. To warn readers of the possible dangers of robotic nur
27、ses and doctors.D. To predict how technology can affect the way we see a doctoring the future.26. Why does the author prefer being served by humans rather than by robots?A. Robots are indifferent and emotionless.B. Robots cant provide efficient services.C. Robots dont offer to give store coupons.D.
28、Robots are unable to do a job as well as humans.27. Whats the authors attitude towards machines?A. He wishes one day they would come to life.B. He is absolutely against their existence in his life.C. He doesnt like they get involved in his life too much.D. He is afraid they would take the place of h
29、uman beings.CFoxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.Famers can also call on the services of their local h
30、unt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of running after a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox, the kill it or a hunter shoots it.People who take part in hunting think of it as
31、 a sport. They wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict rules of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly are expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox-hunting. But over the last couple of dec
32、ades the number of people who are against fox-hunting, because they think it is brutal(残暴的), has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of conflict between hunters and hunt opponents (阻止者). Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly opponents discoura
33、ge the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the foxs smell, which the dogs follow.Noisy conflicts between hunters and opponents have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as running after foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox-hunting face a much big
34、ger threat to their sport. A Labour Party member of Parliament(英国议会), Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.28. Wealthy peop
35、le in Britain have been hunting foxes to _.A. benefit the farmers B. get entertainmentC. show off their wealth D. limit the fox population29. The opponents of fox-hunting often discourage the game by _.A. using violence B. taking legal actionC. seeking help from farmers D. confusing the fox hunters3
36、0. A new law may be passed by the British Parliament to _.A. protect wild animals like foxes B. control fox-hunting on a large scaleC. prohibit farmers from hunting foxes D. standardize the behavior of fox-hunting31. What can be inferred from this passage?A. Limiting the fox population is unnecessar
37、y at all.B. Killing foxes with poison is not allowed by the law.C. Hunting foxes with dogs is considered cruel and violent.D. Fox-hunting causes conflicts between hunters and farmers.D“A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media w
38、ebsite“ is the definition of “selfie“ in the Oxford English Dictionary. In fact, it wasnt even in the dictionary until August of last year. It earned its place there because people are now so obsessed with (对痴迷) selfies we take them when we try on a new hat, play with our pets or when we meet a frie
39、nd whom we havent seen in a while.But is there any scientific explanation for this obsession? Well, you should probably ask James Kilner, a neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) at University College London.Through our lifetime we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other peoples faces and facial expre
40、ssions. In contrast, according to Kilner, we have a very poor understanding of our own faces since we have little experience of looking at them we just feel them most of the time.This has been proved in previous studies, according to the BBC.Kilner found that most people chose the more attractive pi
41、cture. This suggests that we tend to think of ourselves as better-looking than we actually are. To further test how we actually perceive our own faces, Kilner carried out another study. He showed people different versions of their own portrait the original, one that had been edited to look less attr
42、active and one that was made more attractive and asked them to pick the version which they thought looked most like them. They chose the more attractive version.But what does it say about settles? Well, isnt that obvious? Selfies give us the power to create a photograph by taking it from various ang
43、les, with different poses, using filters (滤色镜) and so on that better matches our expectations with our actual faces.“You suddenly have control in a way that you dont have in non-virtual(非虚拟的) interactions,“ Kilner told the Canada-based CTV News. Selfies allow you “to keep taking pictures until you m
44、anage to take one youre happy with“ , he explained.32. What is the passage mainly about?A. The definition and fun of taking selfies.B. A study of why people love taking selfies.C. How taking selfies influences peoples daily lives.D. How to interpret peoples facial expressions in their selfies.33. Th
45、e underlined word “perceive“ in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by “_“.A. interpret B. beautify C. choose D. explain34. What did Kilner discover from his researches?A. People interpret others facial expressions worse than their own.B. People tend to spend more time looking at their faces than at others.
46、C. People tend to believe they look more attractive than they actually are.D. People who like taking selfies know more about their facial expressions.35. According to Kilner, people like taking selfies probably because they think _.A. it is a good chance to learn more about their actual facesB. it i
47、s a way to respond to others facial expressions correctlyC. it enables them to interact with their friends in social mediaD. it allows them to satisfy their expectations with their appearances第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 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答案涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Although most games have w
48、inners and losers, the goal of sports is not to win every game. The real goals include getting exercise, having fun, and learning important social skills, like sportsmanship.Good sportsmanship is all about respect. Good sports (具有运动家品格的人) respect the other players on their team. They respect he play
49、ers on opposing teams. They respect coaches, and they also respect the referees or other officials involved in their games. 36 they yell at their teammates and they talk back to coaches or referees. Kids usually learn sportsmanship good and bad from the adults in their lives 37 If parents and coaches show disrespect to other fans, referees, or each other, kids will likely act the same way on the field. 38 Some of them are very basic and easy to do, like shaking hands with other players before
