重庆市南开中学高2016级高三（下）3月月考

英语试题

本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分，考试时间120分钟。

第I卷（共三部分，满分115分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，请先将答案划在试题卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试题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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟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 will the woman go to Los Angeles?

A. By car. B. By air. C. By train.

2. What does the man think of the ending of the movie?

A. Exciting. B. Happy. C. Sad.

3. What does the man plan to do this summer?

A. Attend classes. B. Visit Michael. C. Go to Boston.

4. Where will the man put the chair?

A. Against the wall. B. By the window. C. Next to the desk.

5. What is the man going to do today?

A. Go to the library. B. Write a novel. C. Read a book.

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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题，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至7题。

6. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. In a library. B. In a chemistry lab. C. In a teacher's office.

7. What should the woman show to read Professor King’s articles?

A. Her ID card. B. Her library card. C. Her student ID card.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the woman ask the man to dot?

A. Tell her about two teachers.

B. Help her with her physics.

C. Introduce her to a professor.

9. What does the man think the woman should do?

A. Discuss her problem with Professor Hunter.

B. Change her major to physics.

C. Take Professor Bell's class.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man want to sell?

A. Books. B. Furniture. C. An apartment.

11. How will the man pay'?

A. In cash. B. By check C. Through online bank.

12. What will the man do next?

A. Write an advertisement.

B. Go over his advertisement.

C. Post his advertisement.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What are the speakers talking about?

A. When to take a boat trip.

B. How t0 1reat the man's cousins.

C. Where to meet the man's cousins.

14. What does the man think of the ice cream in Pizza Roma?

A. Bad. B. Expensive. C. Delicious.

15. Which film will the speakers see?

A. Purple Rain. B. Catch a Train. C. Friends and Enemies.

16. How will the speakers go to the sea?

A. By bus. B. By bike. C. By train.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Who is the talk probably intended for?

A. Students studying animals.

B. Visitors to the Bronx Zoo.

C. Visitors to the City Zoo.

18. What does the speaker say about night animals before the 1960's?

A. They were sleeping when visitors were present.

B. They were uncomfortable about light.

C. They were not allowed to be watched.

19. Why is red light used at the living places of night animals?

A. To put them to sleep.

B. To create natural daylight.

C. To enable visitors to watch their activities.

20. What will the listeners probably do next?

A. Study Australian animals.

B. Look at the night animals.

C. Go to the World Down Under show.

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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

A

My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled（翻耕的）soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.

As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden, I remember Dad pushing the tiller（耕作机）ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow com, and our favorite --- red tomatoes.

As I grew into a teenager, I didn't get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.

But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.

For the first few years after he died, I couldn't even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the comer of my eye and I had to smile, It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.

21. Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?

A. The garden was planted with colorful flowers.

B. The garden was just freshly tilled by his father.

C. He loved what his father grew in the garden.

D. He enjoyed being in the garden with his father.

22. When all the kids started their own families, the author's father .

A. stopped his gardening

B. turned to other hobbies

C. devoted more to gardening

D. focused on planting tomatoes

23. What happened to the garden when the author's father was seriously ill?

A. The author's son took charge of it.

B. No plant grew in the garden at all.

C. The garden was almost deserted.

D. It brought the author a great harvest.

24. We can infer from the last paragraph that .

A. the author's son played happily in the garden

B. the author's son reminded him of his own father

C. the author's son was very glad to help the author

D. the author's son will continue gardening as well

B

Walk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been there around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests might have reacted to the cold, dry climate of the ice ages, but till now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.

Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to solve global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal to the total amount of CO2 given off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to the future climate change? If it gets drier, will it survive and continue to draw down CO2? Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past.

Unfortunately, collecting information is incredibly difficult. To study the past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen（花粉）kept in lake mud, Going back to the last ice age means drilling down into lake sediments（沉淀物）, which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled（未取样）. So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon forest reacts to climate change.

25. How do scientists study the past climate change?

A. By predicting the climate change in the future.

B. By drilling down deep into land sediments.

C. By analyzing fossilized pollen in lake mud.

D. By taking samples from rivers in the Amazon.

26. Why is it difficult to collect information about the past climate change?

A. Because scientists can't find proper equipment and machinery.

B. Because it is very difficult to obtain complete samples.

C. Because helicopters and aeroplanes have no place to land.

D. Because none of the cores provide any information.

27. Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A. A medical journal. B. A news report

C. A travel brochure. D. A science magazine.

28. The best title for the text may be .

A. Secrets of the Rainforest

B. Climates of the Amazon

C. The History of the Rainforest

D. Changes of the Rainforest

C

Bringing up children is hard work, and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Harris has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long-term effects on the development of the characteristics of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood. Ms. Harris takes to hitting the belief which has controlled developmental psychology for almost half a century.

Ms. Harris's attack looks likely to strengthen doubts that the field was already having. If parents matter, why is it that a pair of twins, raised in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of twins raised in different homes?

Difficult as it is to follow the exact effects of parental upbringing, it may be harder to measure the exact influence of the peer group in childhood and youth. Ms. Harris points how children from immigrant homes soon learn not to speak at school in the way their parents speak. But gaining a language is surely a skill, rather than a characteristic of the sort developmental psychologists look for. Certainly it is different from growing up tensely or relaxed, or from learning to be honest or hard-working. Easy though it may be to prove that parents have little effect on those qualities, it will be hard to prove that peers have much more.

Moreover, mum and dad surely cannot be ditche4 completely. Young adults may, as Ms. Harris argues, be eager to appear like their peers. But even in those early years, parents have the power to open doors: they may firstly choose the peers with whom their young mix. Moreover, most people suppose that they come to be sim