荆州中学高三年级第一次质检英语卷

第一部分: 听力(共两节,满分30分)

做题时,先将答案划在试卷上。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，并标在试卷相应位置。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. How long has the train already stayed at the station?

A．15 minutes. B．14 minutes. C．8 minutes.

2. When will the mother probably arrive?

A．Around dinner time. B．In the mid-afternoon. C．At noon.

3. What does the man imply?

A．The woman should be careful.

B．The woman shouldn’t start training.

C．The woman should see a doctor.

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Classical music. B．Studying literature. C．Watching movies.

5. What degree does the man plan to start to do?

A．Doctor’s degree. B．Master’s degree. C．Bachelor’s degree.

（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，并标在席卷的相应位置。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。

请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. Where does the man want to go?

A．To Beijing. B．To London. C．To New York.

7. When is the man’s flight?

A．At 6:25 a.m. B．At 6:25 p.m. C．At 10:00 p.m.

请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What do we know about the man?

A．He quarreled with his boss. B．He lost his job. C．He is tired.

9. What does the woman suggest the man do?

A．Ask for help. B．Go see a doctor. C．Finish the projects.

请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．What transport to take.

B．How to carry their luggage.

C．Where to spend Vacation.

11. Why does the woman want to take a train there?

A．To be safe. B．To enjoy the scenery. C．To save money.

12. What does the man worry about?

A．Their luggage. B．Their tickets. C．Their time.

请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What are the speakers worrying about?

A．Booking plane tickets.

B．Missing five days of school.

C．Making up lessons during spring break.

14. What does the man suggest doing first?

A．Getting their money back.

B．Talking with their professors.

C．Booking plane tickets

15. What can we learn about the man?

A．He has canceled his trip.

B．He had been ill for a week.

C．He was caught in a storm.

16. What can we learn about the woman?[:]

A．She is looking forward to the vacation.

B．She got the news from the dean.

C．She has talked with John.

请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What date is St. George’s Day?

A．April 22nd B．April 23rd. C．April 24th.

18. Who drove the car yesterday?

A．John. B．Margaret. C．Andrew.

19. What can we learn from the talk?

A．Stratford is not very far from the sea.

B．Cairngorms has great scenery.

C．Cairngorms lies in the heart of England.

20. What do we know about Stratford?

A．There are mountains round it.

B．Avon river runs through it.

C．It has marketplaces.

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, 从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The king was to pass by a beggar’s small poor house and the man was excited, not because he was about to see the king but because the king was known to part with expensive jewels and huge sums of money when moved by sympathy. He saw the king’s carriage just when a kind man was filling his begging bowl with uncooked rice. Pushing the man aside, he ran into the street, shouting praises of the king and the royal family. The carriage stopped and the king beckoned to the beggar. “Who are you?” he asked. “One of the most unfortunate of your people,” said the beggar. “Poverty sits on my doorstep and follows me about like a dog. I haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon!” “Have you nothing for your king except great sorrow?” said the ruler, putting out his hand. “Give me something.” The beggar, astonished, carefully picked up 5 grains of rice from his bowl and laid them on the king’s outstretched palm. The king drove away. The beggar’s disappointment was great. He complained and cursed the king again and again for his miserliness.  When he returned home in the evening he found a bag of rice on the floor. “Some generous soul has been here,” he thought and took out a handful of rice from the bag. To his astonishment, there was a small piece of gold in it. He realized then that the bag had been sent by the king. He emptied the rice on the floor, feeling sure there would be more gold pieces in it, and he was right. He found 5, one for each grain of rice he had given the king. “It is not the king who has been miserly,” thought the man, sadly. “If I had been generous and given him the whole bowl of rice, I would have been a rich man today.”

21. From the passage, we know that the king___________.

A. was a kind man B. was arrogant

C. was a miserly man D. was very young

22. Why did the king ask the beggar for something according to the text?

A. Because he was poor than the beggar.

B. Because he wanted to make the beggar even poorer.

C. Because he had nothing to eat.

D. Because he wanted to give something to the beggar in return.

23. The real reason why the beggar got only five gold pieces is that________.

A. he complained and cursed the king again and again

B. the king was only generous to rich people

C. the king wanted to punish him severely

D. he himself was miserly

B

A survey suggests that people who have dropped out from high school just earn an average of $9,000 less per year than graduates. Now a new study removes a common belief why they quit. It’s much more basic than flunking out(不及格).

Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can’t cut it. They are lazy, and perhaps not too bright. So researchers were surprised when they asked more than 450 kids who quit school about why they left.

“The vast majority actually had passing grades and they were confident that they could have graduated from high school.” John Bridgeland, the executive researcher said. About one million teens leave school each year. Only about half of African-American and Hispanic(美籍西班牙的)students will receive a diploma(证书), and actually all dropouts come to regret their decision. So, if failing grades don’t explain why these kids quit, what does? Again, John Bridgeland: “The most dependable finding was that they were bored.” “They found classes uninteresting; they weren’t inspired or motivated. They didn’t see any direct connection between what they were learning in the classroom to their own lives, or to their career aspirations.”

The study found that most teens who do drop out wait until they turn sixteen, which happens to be the age at which most states allow students to quit. In the U.S., only one state, New Mexico, has a law requiring teenagers to stay in high school until they graduate. Only four states: California, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, plus the District of Columbia, require school attendance until age 18, no exceptions. Jeffrey Grin, another researcher, says raising the compulsory attendance age may be one way to keep more kids in school.

“As these dropouts look back, they realize they’ve made a mistake. And anything that sort of gives these people an extra push to stick it out and see it through to the end, is probably helpful measure.”

New Hampshire may be the next state to raise its school attendance age to 18. But critics say that forcing the students unwilling to continue their studies to stay in school misses the point—the need for reform. It’s been called for to reinvent high school education to make it more challenging and relevant, and to ensure that kids who do stick it out receive a diploma that actually means something.

24. According to researchers’ study, most high school students drop out of school because____________.

A. they have failing grades

B. they are lazy and not intelligent

C. they are discriminated against

D. they take no interest in classes

25. According to the passage, which state has a law requiring school attendance until they graduate?

A. New Hampshire.

B. Utah.

C. New Mexico.

D. The District of Columbia.

26. In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to__________.

A. suggest raising the compulsory attendance age

B. analyze the reason why students quit school

C. raise awareness of reforming high school dropouts

D. wish to make laws to guarantee no dropouts

27. From the passage, we can infer the following EXCEPT that __________.

A. the grades of most dropouts at school were acceptable

B. dropouts’ salary is not as satisfying as graduates’

C. classes don’t appeal to dropouts

D. about 500,000 high school dropouts are black and Spanish

C

Generally speaking, government regulations normally ban anything from smoking in public places to parking in certain zones. But officials in the Brazilian town of Biritiba Mirim, 70km (45miles) east of Sao Paulo, have gone far beyond that. They plan to prohibit residents from dying early because the local cemetery(墓地) has reached full capacity.

There’s no more room to bury the dead, they can’t be cremated(火化) and laws forbid a new cemetery. So the mayor has proposed a strange solution: outlaw death. Mayor Roberto Pereira says the bill is meant as a protest against federal regulations that prohibit new or expanded cemeteries in preservation areas. “They have not taken local demands into consideration”, he claims.

A 2003 decree(法令) by Brazil’s National Environment Council forbids burial grounds in protected areas. Mr. Pereira wants to build a new cemetery, but the project has been stopped because 98% of Biritiba Mirim is considered as a preservation area.

Biritiba Mirim, a town of 28,000 inhabitants, not only wants to prohibit residents from passing away. The bill also calls on people to take care of their health in order to avoid death. “I haven’t got a job, nor am I healthy. And now they say I can’t die. That’s ridiculous,” Amarido do Prado, an unemployed resident said.

The city council is expected to vote on the regulation next week. “Of course the bill is laughable, illegal, and will never be appro