2016年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试西工大附中第十次适应性训练

英语试题

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第一节

1. What does the man want to learn?

A. Russian B. Spanish C. English

2. What is the woman going to do?

A. Fix the car B. Move the car C. Pick up the man

3. How much will the man have to pay?

A. $5 B. $6 C. $10

4. What will happen tomorrow?

A. The company will hold a big party

B. The woman will host a big party

C. The man will have a bigger office

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The baby B. The housework C. A movie

第二节

6---7

6. Why is the woman so excited?

A. She has a job interview B. She will interview someone

C. She was accepted at a new job

7. According to the man, what should the woman wear?

A. A colorful dress B. Some jeans C. A formal suit

8---10

8. What did the woman use to do on Saturdays?

A. Play basketball B. Go swimming C. Lift weights

9. What is the woman’s main goal?

A. To lose pounds B. To get huge muscles C. To be healthier and stronger

10. How does the coach feel about the team’s chances?

A. Confident B. Worried C. Uncertain

11---13

11. When did the woman want to speak to the man yesterday?

A. In the early morning B. About noon C. In the evening

12. What does the man probably do?

A. He’s a journalist B. He’s a repairman C. He’s a photographer

13. Where was the woman last night?

A. In the newspaper office B. At a concert C. At home

14---16

14. How old is the woman’s nephew?

A. 14 B. 15 C. 17

15. Why won’t the woman buy her nephew video games?

A. His parents got him some B. He has no interest in them

C. She doesn’t want to spend that much money

16. What might the man buy for his kids as a gift?

A. A video game B. A new phone C. A volleyball

17---20

17. What is the speaker doing?

A. Hosting a talk show B. Leading a tour C. Giving a lecture

18. What is produced at the factory?

A. Fruit B. Cake C. Candy

19. How many workers make each statue?

A. 10 B. 100 C. 500

20. What happened to the workers replaced by the robots?

A. They were all fired B. They were given different jobs

C. They were sent to another factory

阅读理解（满分40分）

A

In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh(法老) treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off.

Shades of that spirit spread over today’s conversations. Once a friend and I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked light-heartedly out of the door, picnic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, “Oh boy, bad day for a picnic. The weatherman says it’s going to rain.” I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report, for his smile.

Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile. “Oh that bus left five minutes ago.” Dreams of head-cutting!

It’s not the news that makes someone angry. It’s the unsympathetic attitude with which it’s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn’t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiver.

Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you’re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn’t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.

Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning. Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, “Oh, that’s all right, I’ll catch the next one.” Big winners, when they hear bad news, deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded(被轰炸的) person is sure to have.

21. In Paragraph 1, the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to ________.

A. make a comparison B. introduce a topic

C. describe a scene D. offer an argument

22. In the writer’s opinion, his neighbor was ________.

A. friendly B. warm-hearted

C. not considerate D. not helpful

23. From “Dreams of head-cutting!” (Paragraph 3), we learn that the writer ________.

A. was mad at the sales agent

B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh

C. wished that the sales agent would have bad dreams

D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent’s head that night

B

Brooke Martin’s golden retriever(金毛猎犬) Kayla hated being left alone or separated. She would howl, pace, and chew on things. Brooke learned that other people had the same problem with their pets. She wondered: “What if you could talk to your dog if you were gone?”

Working with her father in their garage, the 16-year-old came up with several ideas. Finally, she invented a device that allowed pet owners to video chat with their pets! She calls the device iCPooch. “The dog doesn’t have to answer the call,” explains Brooke. “It comes up immediately on the screen on their end. It’s a two-way audio and video—you can see and hear each other.”With a click of a button you can even send the dog a treat!?

Her invention has earned her a spot competing against nine other finalists in a young scientist competition for middle-school students. These finalists, selected based on their short video presentations, are working with mentors over the summer before heading to the final competition in St. Paul, Minn.?

After Martin’s video put her among the 10 finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, she was paired with Delony Langer-Anderson, a product development scientist in 3M’s consumer health care division. “I just lead her down the product development path,” Langer-Anderson told Live Science. This path includes guidance on how to test the potential product, which combines a video chat device that answers immediately on the dog’s end with a dog treat device the owner can remotely activate.?

“One thing I have thought about a lot is, what happens if the device is on the floor, what if your dog knocks it over, or scratches the screen?” ?Martin said. She and Langer-Anderson discussed this, and Martin is now testing materials at a local dog shelter by taping them to the dog house floors to see how well they withstand sharp teeth and claws.?

The finalists create models they can test, with the guidance from a mentor. Their projects include a fuel cell that transforms cut grass into electricity and an app that rewards drivers for not texting or calling. Langer-Anderson tries to help the students work through the scientific method, testing their hypothesis, in a determined way. “So the kids don’t get buried in data,” she said.?

24. Which of the following would be the best title of the text??

A.“iCPooch” wins in a young scientist competition.?

B. A 16-year-old girl invents a device for dogs’ hunger.?

C. A man-made device lets people chat with their pets.?

D. A kid-invented device calms dogs’ separation anxiety.

25. “iCPooch”calms pet dogs by ________.?

A. allowing video chat B. making dogs sleep

C. answering the call D. giving them food?

26. What is the probable meaning of the underlined word ?“mentors”??

A. Competitors B. Assistants C. Instructors D. Companions?

27. What do the inventions of the finalists have in common??

A. They are all new inventions dealing with pets.?

B. They are possible solutions to everyday problems.?

C. They cope with the problems related to computers.?

D. They are all accomplished through individual work.?

C

If you never read the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, now is your chance to catch up — by watching the latest film adaptation. Because if there’s one sentence to sum up the film, it would be, as Fox News says in its review, “It’s just like the book”.

Director Baz Luhrmann’s main challenge was “either to find a visual equivalent(相等物) for Fitzgerald’s elegant essay--the open secret of the book’s staying power-- or to bend the material to his own exotic(异国的) strengths,” a Time magazine review says. He tries it both ways, with varying degrees of success.?

Considered to be Fitzgerald's representative work, The Great Gatsby explores themes of idealism, resistance to change, social change, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.?

Nick, the narrator, moves to New York for the summer to visit his cousin Daisy. His next-door neighbor is Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), who rarely contacts with others and is rumored to be a hero of the Great War. Gatsby claims to have attended Oxford University, but the evidence is suspect. As Nick learns more about Gatsby, every detail about him seems questionable, except his love for Daisy. Though Daisy is married, Gatsby still adores her as his “golden girl.” They first met when she was a young lady from a wealthy family and he was a working-class military officer. Daisy promised to wait for his return from the war. However, she married Tom, a classmate of Nick. Having obtained a great fortune, Gatsby sets out to win her back again.?

“All of Fitzgerald’s original creation finds its way into this film, even going as far as to include quite a bit of the original dialo