2014-2015学年度东北育才高中部第八次模拟考试英语科试卷

命题人：高三英语组 校对人：高三英语组

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. At what time does the office open?

A. 7:45. B. 8:00. C. 8:15.

2. What did the woman do last Sunday?

A. She saw a play. B. She acted in a play. C. She went to the tea house.[ 3. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. They’re friends. B. They’re strangers. C. They’re brother and sister.

4. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A fine boat. B. Their friend, Tom. C. The weather.

5. What will the woman do this evening?

A. Meet her Mum at the airport.

B. Say goodbye to her Mum at the airport.

C. Fly to another city with her Mom.

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. When does the conversation take place?

A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.

7. What can we know about the woman?

A. She agrees to go with the man. B. She disagrees with the man at last.

C. She feels a little cold.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. Alice’s last birthday.

B. Buying a birthday present.

C. Alice’s favorite food.

9. What will the man and the woman buy for Alice?

A. A record. B. Some flowers. C. A box of chocolates.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where are Kate and Tom?

A. In Kate’s office. B. In Tom’s house. C. In a classroom.

11. Why did Tom come into the room?

A. He worked there.

B. He wanted to talk to Kate.

C. He wanted to have a letter typed.

12. What was Jane doing that day?

A. Taking a rest. B. Preparing for an exam. C. Taking an exam.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where did Sue spend the nights in the country?

A. In a farm house. B. In the wild. C. At a hotel.

14. What was the weather like in the country?

A. It snowed a lot

B. It rained nearly every day.

C. There was a lot of sunshine.

15. What did Sue think of the people in the country?

A. They were tall. B. They were strange. C. They were friendly.

16. Where did the man spend his weekend?

A. On a farm. B. At home. C. In the mountains.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What can education give you?

A. Knowledge and skills. B. Time to play. C. Chance to make friends.

18. What does the speaker really want to do?

A. She wants to give some advice to middle school students.

B. She is announcing an advertisement .

C. She wants to tell us how to choose a university.

19. What is the speaker’s suggestion?

A. To earn money after middle school.

B. To continue studying as long as you can.

C. She doesn’t know what to do yet.

20. Which of the following is Not true?

A. The more years of school you attend, the more money you are likely to make.

B. The more educated you are, the more choices you have.

C. The only education beyond middle school is college education.

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。

A

In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, and then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity (一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.

Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milk shake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise（特许经营）other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to copy the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.

Today McDonald's is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonald's had over $ 1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.

21. This passage mainly talks about ________.

A. the development of fast food services

B. how McDonald's became a billion-dollar business

C. how to build up a successful restaurant

D. Ray Kroc's business talent

22. Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except ________.

A. a drive-in B. a cinema C. a theater D. a barbecue restaurant23. We may infer from this passage that ________.

A. Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc

B. The location was the only reason for the great popularity of the McDonalds’ drive-in

C. Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants

D. Ray Kroc was a good businessman

24. What can we learn from the passage about Mac and Dick McDonald?[:]

A. They were always satisfied with their modest success.

B. They sold cheese for 19 cents in their restaurant.

C. They allowed Ray Kroc only to copy their menu.

D. They stuck to the routine for their food.

B

You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it highly attractive to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?

More and more people are turning to complete deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.

Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors（骗子）; another refers to them as special cases. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by no such people.

To avoid outright（彻底的）lies, some job-seekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend.

If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony（假的）diploma. One company will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at twenty dollars for a diploma, which seems rather high for one sheet of paper.

Job seekers’ lying is a social phenomenon, and therefore, the whole society should take its responsibility to deal with the problem.

25. The main idea of this passage is that ________.

A. employers are checking more closely on applicants now

B. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem

C. college degrees can now be purchased easily

D. employers are no longer interested in college degrees

26. According to the passage, special cases refer to cases where ________.

A. students attend a school only part-time

B. students lie about their diplomas on their applications

C. students purchase false degrees from commercial firms

D. students attend a famous school

27. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. performance is a better way to judge abilities than a college degree

B. experience is the best teacher for job seekers

C. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do

D. a degree from a famous school gives an applicant an advantage over others

28. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Buying a false degree is not moral.

B. Personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools.

C. Most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school.

D. Society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications.

C

A tradition since the early 1900’s, homecoming has been a celebration of students and alumni(校友) in an effort to raise students’ spirits and unite the student body. Typically, there’s a week of various activities. However, the main event for high schools across America is the homecoming dance.

From 9 a.m. in the morning to 5:30 p.m., girls including myself, got ready for the dance. It takes an entire day of preparations. Although I didn’t go too far out, most girls get their hair and nails professionally done. Often times, most girls even have their make up done by a make-up artist at the mall.

After all preparations were made, we gathered at my fri