2016年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试西工大附中第六次适应性训练

英 语

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

第I 卷

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）

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．Who do you think are the two speakers？

A．A couple． B．Neighbors． C．Classmates．

2．What do we know about James？

A．He is never late． B．He is often late． C．He is not patient．

3．What is the woman going to do after the conversation？

A．Help herself to the food on the table．

B．Ask someone else for help．

C．Ring someone up．

4．At what time was the fire put out？

A．2:00 o’clock． B．4:00 o’clock． C．5:00 o’clock．

5．What are the two speakers talking about？

A．A painting． B．A country scene． C．A kind of drink．

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，从每题所给的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、7题。

6．What is the relationship between the two speakers?

A．Conductor and driver.

B．Air hostess and passenger.

C．Waitress and customer.

7．Where can the man put his bags?

A．On the shelf. B．Beside his feet. C．Behind the curtain.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8．What do we know about the man?

A．He is getting lost. B．He has lost something. C．He is going to the hospital.

9．Why is the man here?

A．To go on a business trip.

B．To help to do some farm work.

C．To take a vacation in the country.

10．What kind of work does the man do?

A．Office work. B．Farm work. C．Medical work.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11．Who is the speaker according to her speech?

A．A tourist. B．A school teacher. C．A tour guide.

12．What are the listeners told to do before they leave the bus?

A．To take their meals. B．To take photos. C．To take their valuables.

13．When will the listeners have to be back on the bus again according to the

speaker?

A．At 12:00. B．At 11:30. C．At 8:30.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14．What doesn’t the woman like?

A．Chocolate cake. B．Strawberry pie. C．Some fresh fruit.

15．What does the woman have at last?

A．Coffee. B．Chocolate cake. C．Some bananas.

16．What can we learn about this restaurant?

A．It has plenty of food.

B．It hasn’t much food in supply.

C．It can satisfy every customer.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．Why does the woman decide to buy a new pair of shoes?

A．Because the old pair is worn out and shabby.

B．Because the old pair doesn’t match the clothes she is wearing.

C．Because the old pair is too out of date.

18．What is wrong with the first pair of shoes the woman has tried on?

A．Their color is not dark enough.

B．They are uncomfortable.

C．They are not of the right size.

19．What has the woman bought in the end?

A．A pair of dark brown shoes.

B．Two pairs of shoes.

C．A black pair half at price.

20．Which shoes will the woman wear home?

A．The old ones. B．The black ones. C．The new brown ones.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（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中（A、B、C、D），选出最佳选项。

A

Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir（轰动）in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars. Newspapers across the country carried the story, and the painting of a farmer and a younger woman posed before a white house brought the artist instant fame.

In 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, noticed a small white house built in the small southern Iowa town of Eldon. Wood was so fascinated by it that he decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he thought should live in that house. In the painting, the farmer is modeled on his dentist. Dr. Byron McKeeby. His younger sister Nan served as a model for the woman （imagined to be the farmer’s wife or daughter）. Wood wanted to give a description of the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork (干草叉) symbolizing hard labor. Each element was painted separately; the models sat separately and never stood in front of the house. The Gothic style of the house inspired the painting’s title.

American Gothic remains one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting has become part of American popular culture. Some believe that Wood used it to satirize（讽刺） the narrow-mindedness that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture. The painting may also be read as a praise of the moral virtue or rural America or even as a mixture of praise and satire. American Gothic is one of the few images to reach the status of cultural symbol, along with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

21．What can we learn about American Gothic?

A．It won a prize of ￡300.

B．The two characters in it posed before the White House.

C．It was the first painting by Grant Wood.

D．It was on show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.

22．From the passage we can infer Iowa is in __________.

A．the southern town of Eldon B．the Midwest of the United States

C．a European country D．the city of Chicago

23．Grant Wood chose the two models __________.

A．to describe traditional roles of men and women

B．to praise the moral virtue of rural America

C．to make his dentist and his sister famous

D．to carry the story across the country

24．The title of the painting is based on __________.

A．the name of a small town B．the man and the woman

C．the Gothic style of the house D．the pitchfork symbolizing hard labor

B

When early colonial settlers went to America, they took many forms of dance to their new home. Square dancing, one of the oldest forms of American folk dancing, developed from several different Old World group dances, mainly English country dances, and the French quadrille(四对方舞).

In the American version of square dancing, four couples form a square and dance to music. An American addition to square dancing is the caller. What do you think a caller does?

The callers---someone who calls out the dance steps in time to the music--- was a completely American invention. At first dancers memorized all the steps for a particular dance, but eventually the dances became so complicated that it was necessary to have someone call out cues (提示) so that dancers didn’t have to remember so many steps. The caller didn’t just call out “do-se-do your partner”; a good caller also came up with colorful sayings or witty lines that he said in between the cues such as “Don’t be shy and don’t be afraid. Swing on the corner in a waltz promenade (步伐).” A caller might also come up with new dance steps and routines.

Although popular for years, square dancing seemed to be going out of style and fading away until the early 1930s, when Henry Ford helped revive（复苏）interest in it. Ford, the automobile manufacturer, used to vacation at the Wayside Inn in Massachusetts, where he enjoyed the dance programme run by a man named Benjamin Lovett. Ford asked Lovett to come to Detroit and teach dances, but Lovett said he couldn’t because he had a contract with the inn. Ford solved that problem by buying the inn and Lovett’s contract. He took Lovett back to Detroit, where together they established a programme for teaching squares and rounds. Square dancing was updated and groups began forming all over the country.

25. What is the best title for the passage?

A. The Different Steps of Square Dancing

B. The Origin and Development of Square Dancing

C. Who Was the Inventor of Square Dancing?

D. Why Did Square Dancing Go Out of Style?

26. What does the underlined part “their new home” refer to?

A. The United Kingdom. B. France. C. Africa. D. America.

27. Why did the caller call out the steps for the dancers?

A. Because the dance was invented by the caller.

B. Because the dancers didn’t know the names of the steps.

C. Because the steps were very particular.

D. Because it was hard for the dancers to remember all the steps.

28. What can we learn about Henry Ford in the last paragraph?

A. He was the man who made the first car.

B. He was very fond of dancing.

C. He helped make square dancing popular again.

D. He taught people how to dance.

C

Almost every day we come across situations in which we have to make decisions one way or another. Choice, we are given to believe, is a right. But for a good many people in the world. In rich and poor countries, choice is a luxury, something wonderful but hard to get, not a right. And for those who think they are exercising their right to make choices, the whole system is merely an illusion, a false idea created by companies and advertiser, hoping to sell their products.

The endless choice gives birth to anxiety in people’s lives. Buying something as basic as a coffee pot is not exactly simple. Easy access to a wide range of everyday goods leads to a sense of powerlessness in many people, ending in the shopper giving up and walking away, or just buying an unsuitable item that is not really wanted. Recent studies in England have shown that many electrical goods bought in almost every family are not really needed. More difficult decision-making is then either avoided or trusted into the hands of the professionals, lifestyle instructors, or advisors.

It is not just the availability of the goods that is the problem, but the speed with which new types of products come on the market. Advances in design and production help quicken the process Products also need to have a short lifespan so that the public can be persuaded to replace them within a short time. The typical example is computers, which are almost out-of-date once they are bought. This indeed makes selection a problem. Gone are the days when one could just walk with case into a shop and buy one thing; no choice, no anxiety.

29. What does the author try to argue in Paragraph 1?

A. The exercise of rights is a luxury.

B. The practice of choice is difficult.

C. The right of choice is given but at a price.

D. Choice and right exist at th