平顶山新乡许昌2016届高三第三次调研考试

高 三 英 语

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，时间120分钟。考试结束，只交答题卡。

第Ⅰ卷

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生在答题卷和答题卡上务必用直径0．5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓

名、准考证号填写清楚。在答题卡上用2B铅笔将考号涂完整。

2．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，如需改动，

用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，在试题卷上作答无效。

第一部分 听力（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）

请听下面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—小题。每段对话仅读—遍。

1. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. Whether to work hard. B. How to pay for their house.

C. Whether to go on a holiday.

2. What does the woman like to do?

A. Clean the yard. B. Weed the garden. C. Take care of the flowers.

3. Where is the woman?

A. In Singapore. B. In Toronto. C. In Los Angeles.

4. When will the Browns arrive?

A. At 2:30 pm. B. At 3:00 pm. C. At 3:30 pm.

5. Whose trumpet will be displayed in the museum?

A. A famous pilot’s. B. Harriet Tubman’s. C. Louis Armstrong’s.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1．5分，满分22．5分）

请听下面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，每小题将给出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. What happened to the red car?

A. It overtook a blue lorry. B. It crashed into the guard rail.

C. It knocked a motorcyclist over.

7. Which vehicle caused the accident?

A. The car. B. The lorry. C. The motorbike.

请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does the woman recommend Carl?

A. His poems are popular among the students.

B. He works at the school newspaper office.

C. He wants to join the school’s poetry club.

9. What is the last thing that the woman suggests be put in the newspaper?

A. Poems. B. Vacation tips. C. Job advertisements.

请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the woman unsatisfied with about the living room?

A. The curtains. B. The wall. C. The carpet.

11. Which of the following is not broken?

A. The window. B. The toilet seat. C. The refrigerator door.

12. What will the woman probably do?

A. Help to fix the house.

B. Look for another place. C. Live by herself.

请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Which subject doesn’t the man like?

A. French. B. German. C. Chemistry.

14. Why didn’t the man study Art immediately after he left school?

A. He was offered a job.

B. His father disapproved of it.

C. There was no good prospects.

15. How long did the man stay at the Art College?

A. One year. B. Two years. C. Three years.

16. What society does the man belong to?

A. Photography. B. Tourism. C. Drama.

请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A. His success in acting. B. The change of his profession.

C. The importance of his first performance.

18. How did the speaker feel after trying out for many roles?

A. He was satisfied. B. He was discouraged. C. He became confident.

19. When did the speaker become an office clerk?

A. In 1984. B. In 1986. C. In 1991.

20. what does the speaker say about his present job?

A. It’s easy doing this job. B. He suffers a lot in this job.

C. He gets along well with the actors.

第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，共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

It’s high time you should live a low-carbon life when traveling. But how? The following offers you the answer.

Before you go

Turn off and unplug all of your non-essential electronic appliances. Experts say that 5-10 percent of the average family’s electric bill is from electronic appliances that are plugged in 24 hours a day. Televisions, computers, coffeemakers, toasters and even lamps can suck up power. If you are gone for any extended period, consider turning down the temperature on your water heater since there is no sense in keeping that water hot if you are not going to be around to use it.

Choose a different way

If you have a little extra time to spare, driving or taking a train to your destination might be an option. And there are always the long-distance options like Mega bus. If you do have to take a plane, fly non-stop. If you want to have a lower carbon footprint, avoid private jets even if you can afford them.

At the hotel

Take use of every conservation program that the hotel offers. Reuse your towels and turn off your air conditioning or heat before you leave for the day. Bring your own soap, shampoo and moisturizer, or at least take whatever is left of the hotel-supplied articles home with you to finish using there. Skip the morning printed newspaper and read it on your ipad, phone or computer.

Drinking

Carry a water bottle with you so that you don’t have to buy plastic bottles. Travel to certain parts of the world and you will understand why. There’s nothing more disturbing than seeing something made up of plastic bottles and bags. Halong Bay in Vietnam is a great example where this kind man-made pollution is clearly visible.

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21. What should you do at the hotel in order to live a low-carbon life?

A. Use one towel once every day. B. Keep your ipad, phone or computer on.

C. Keep indoor temperature comfortable. D. Bring the leftover soap home for later use.

22. You should do all these but ________ when and before travelling.

A. have adequate sleep and keep energetic

B. lower down the temperature on your water heater

C. cut off the power of all non-essential electronic appliances

D. choose green vehicles even if you can afford more expensive ones

23. The text is most probably adapted from _________.

A. a webpage on green life B. a guidebook on travelling abroad

C. an advertisement on travel goods D. a report on scientific discovery

B

My husband and I used to think we had all we had ever wanted. A beautiful house, three healthy children and one more on the way, two cars, a couple of four-wheelers for entertainment — We really had it all and we loved it. Then, the market turned and my husband’s job at a construction company was gone. The company was closing down forever.

We both started looking for jobs right away, but there weren’t any to be found. With each passing day we were getting increasingly worried and we continued to work together in order to pull our family through. The more we pulled together, the closer we got. I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn’t felt in years.

That’s why it was so hard for me to watch him blame himself for our present situation. I continually asked him to stop, but he seemed to want to punish himself for not having a job.

Finally, one afternoon I pulled him aside and said, “We have four healthy children and each other. That’s what’s important. That makes you a rich man.”

“But what if we lose the house? They’ll hate me — you’ll hate me,” he replied.

I smiled at him and put my hands on both sides of his face to make him look me in the eye. “No matter where we live I will be happy — as long as I have you,” I smiled again as I realized that I wasn’t just saying that. In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said “I do”.

I could see his shoulders and neck relaxed. He held me close and we were able to talk and plan and dream together in a way that we hadn’t for quite some time. It was a turning point for us as a couple and a family.

We are still struggling for our better life, but I consider us well-off because we have something that money can’t buy and no one can take away from us.

24. We know from the story that ________.

A. they both found good jobs at last

B. her husband was out of work for his not working hard

C. both of them felt anxious about their unemployment

D. they didn’t love each other any longer after they got married

25. By saying “The more we pulled together, the closer we got”, the wife means ________.

A. her husband worked harder for being closer

B. they had closer affection as they struggled together

C. their house was closer to the company than before

D. they were closer to another employment as time went by

26. What is their present life like?

A. Hard but warm B. Wealthy but annoying.

C. Hard and disturbing. D. Comfortable and admiring.

27. Which of the followings might be the best title?

A. Better Life Comes B. Hard Time Goes

C. We Have It All D. We Lose It All

C

As is seen, kids’ lives have changed a lot in the last decades of years. But do they have a happier childhood than you or I did?

It’s difficult to look back on one’s own childhood without some element of nostalgia（怀旧）. I have four brothers and sisters, and my memories are all about being with them, playing board games on the living room floor, or spending days in the street with the other neighborhood children, racing up and down on our bikes, or exploring the nearby woods. My parents scarcely appear in these memories, except as providers either of meals or of severe blame after some particularly risky adventure.

These days, in the UK at least, the nature of childhood has changed dramatically. Firstly, families are smaller, and there are far more only children. It is common for both parents to work outside the home and there is the feeling that there just isn’t time to bring up a large family, or that no one could possibly afford to have more than one child. As a result, today’s boys and girls spend much of their time alone. Another major change is that youngsters today tend to spend a huge amount of their free time at home, inside. This is due to the fact that parents worry far more than they used to about real or imagined danger