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山西高县、古县、离石区三区（县）八校高三暑假末结业考试

英 语 试 卷

命题：姚倩倩 刘日峰 富文荣试题研究组

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第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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，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一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. How much was the TV set?

A. $60 B. $120 C. $90

2. What does the man mean?

A. Tom was talking with the postman.

B. Tom was running around the corner.

C. Tom was helping the postman with his work.

3. What does the man want to do?

A. Buy a fan B. Use electricity C. Cool himself down

4. Why did the boss criticize Joseph?

A. He was late for work.

B. He quarreled with the man speaker.

C. He criticized the man speaker too seriously.

5. Who is Fiona?

A. The woman speaker B. Thompson’s sister C. Daisy’s sister

第二节（共15小题）

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，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8题。

6. What was the weather like last week?

A. Nice and sunny.? B. Too warm. C. Neither hot nor cold.

7. What season is it now?

A. Summer. B. Winter. C. Autumn.

8. What does the man think the weather will be like this weekend?

A. He thinks it’ll rain.

B. He doesn’t think it’ll rain.

C. He thinks it’ll be cloudy.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What can we know about the singing group?

A. It’s made up of 15 girls.

B. It practices once every other week.

C. Every member comes on time for each practice.

10. What is the singing group doing these days?

A. Practicing eight songs.

B. Performing a new song.

C. Practicing for a school show.

11. What can we know about the new song?

A. Its name is Sundays.

B. It’s written by a famous musician.

C. It’s written by a singer of the group.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What is the father reading at the beginning of the conversation?

A.A novel. B.A magazine. C.A newspaper.

13. What kind of book does the girl want to read?

A. A book about animals.

B. A book on dolls.

C. A book about candy and cookies.

14.What does the girl’s teacher say about reading?

A. The girl can borrow books from the library.

B. The girl should read books every day.

C. The girl ought to read at least ten books a night.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Where are they planning to go in the morning?

A. To a zoo. B.To an art museum. C.To the seashore.

16. Why does the woman want to go shopping instead?

A. To buy some clothes.

B. To meet her friend there.

C. To buy a gift for her friend.

17. What are they talking about?

A.A city guide. B.A shopping center. C.A travel plan.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. How do you decide what you are going to buy in a supermarket?

B. Who decides what you should buy in a supermarket.

C. How does a supermarket make people spend more money.

19. Why does the food that everybody must buy spread all over the store?

A. To lead customers to all sections of the store.

B. To make it easy for customers to locate the food.

C. To provide a good service.

20. How much do people spend after they have been in a store for 30 minutes?

A.40 cents each minute B.1,500 cents in total C. Five dollars each minute.

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。

The Enigma (谜）of Beauty

　?? The search for beauty spans centuries and continents. Paintings of Egyptians dating back over 4, 000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup. In 18th-century France, wealthy noblemen wore large wigs (假发）of long, white hair to make themselves attractive. Today, people continue to devote a lot of time and money to their appearance.

　?? There is at least one good reason for the desire to be attractive: beauty is power. Studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class, and are regarded as friendlier.

　?? But what exactly is beauty? It's difficult to describe it clearly, and yet we know it when we see it. And our awareness of it may start at a very early age. In one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs. The faces on the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students. In the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the unattractive ones.

　?? The idea that even babies can judge appearance makes perfect sense to many researchers. In studies by psychologists, men consistently showed a preference for women with larger eyes, fuller lips, and a smaller nose and chin while women prefer men with large shoulders and a narrow waist. According to scientists, the mind unconsciously tells men and women that these?traits?—the full lips, clear skin, strong shoulders —equal health and genetic well-being.

　??? Not everyone thinks the same way, however. “Our hardwiredness can be changed by all sorts of expectations —mostly cultural,” says C. Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan. What is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another. Look at most Western fashion magazines: the women on the pages are thin. But is this “perfect” body type for women worldwide? Scientists' answer is no; what is considered beautiful is subjective and varies around the world. They found native peoples in southeast Peru preferred shapes regarded overweight in Western cultures.

　??? For better or worse, beauty plays a role in our lives. But it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what makes one person attractive to another. Although there do seem to be certain physical traits considered universally appealing, it is also true that beauty does not always keep to a single, uniform standard. Beauty really is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder.

21. People's ideas about beauty ________.

A. have existed since ancient times ????? ???????????????????? B. can be easily described

C. have little influence on a person's success??????????????????? D. are based upon strict standard

22. In Paragraph 3, the babies in the study ________.

A. were rated for their appearance

B. were entered in a beauty contest

C. were shown photos of a group of college students

D. were able to tell attractive faces from unattractive ones

23. The underlined word “traits” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A. qualities?????????? B. measurements??????? C. judgments????????????? D. standards

24. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. the ideas of beauty vary as people grow up

B. the search for beauty is rooted in lack of confidence

C. the standards for beauty are based on scientific researches

D. the understanding of beauty depends on cultural backgrounds

In the Middle Ages in Europe, theater was an important part of civic, economic and religious life. During this period after the fall of Roman civilization, many cities were destroyed. Southern and Western Europe, famous for its agriculture, became increasingly more agricultural. After several hundred years, many towns appeared again. The Roman Catholic Church took over religion, education and politics. What remained of theater was mostly on the Greek and Roman performing arts.

Theater was reborn as liturgical（礼拜式的）dramas. It was written in Latin and dealing with biblical（圣经）stories which would be performed by church members. Then there came local dramas spoken in common language not Latin. They were more wonderful one-act dramas taking place in town squares or other parts of the city. There were three types of local dramas. Mystery or cycle plays were short dramas based on biblical stories organized into historical cycles. Miracle plays dealt with the lives of the great. Morality（道德的）plays taught a lesson through characters standing for good or bad qualities. Secular plays in this period existed, but religious drama in the Middle Ages is mostly remembered today. As the Middle Ages ended, the number of religious theatres became small as the church weakened and more secular qualities won over religious theaters.

25. According to the passage, what does "secular plays"mean here?

A. Plays that deal with the lives of the great.????? B. Plays that taught a lesson.

C. Plays based on biblical stories.????????? ?? ??????

D. Plays that are not connected with the church.

26. Why did religious theatres become less important as the Middle Ages came to an end?

　A. People were not interested in them any longer.?

　B. The church was not as important as what it had been.

　C. People liked new plays.???????????????????

　D. The stories of religious theatres were outdated.

27. According to the passage, why did religious theatres take over in the Middle Ages?

A. People preferred religious theatres to other ones.?

B. There were no other types of theatres.

C. The church played an important part in people’s life.

D. The quality of religious theatres was better than that of other theatres.

28. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. European dramas?????????????????????? ?????? B. Religious dramas

C. Religious theatres in the Middle Ages? D. Secular dramas in the Middle Ages

There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health and?wealth and other comforts of life, one becomes happy and the other becomes unhappy. This arises from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and the resulting effects upon their minds.

People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things: the pleasant parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine and the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the opposite things. Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they?sour the pleasure of society, hurt many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere