枣阳市高级中学2016-2017学年度上学期高三年级8月月考

英语检测题

（时间：120分钟 分值150分）

本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共15页。满分150分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。

2．全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。

第I卷

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；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。

例：How much is the shirt? X|k | B| 1 . c|O |m

A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.15. C. ￡9.18. 答案是B。

1. Why does the woman refuse the invitation for tonight?

A. She doesn't like the man.

B. She has another appointment.





C. She is too busy with her work.

2. What does the man think of classical music?

A. He enjoys it at bedtime.

B. He prefers it to other music.





C. He does not like it at all.

3. What did the two girls do yesterday?

A. They went to the English Evening.

B. They went to meet Jeff.





C. They became friends at the English Evening.

4. What time is it now?

A. 9:00.

 B. 9:10.

 C. 9:40.



5. What do we know about the man?

A. He saw off his father at the airport yesterday.

B. He was late for class yesterday morning.

C. He went to meet his cousin yesterday morning.

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?

A. When they surf the Web.

B. What they do on the Internet.





C. How they look up information online.

7. How often does the man probably surf the Internet?

A. Once a week.

 B. Twice a week.

 C. Several times a week.



8. What do we know about the man?

A. He gets some help from the Web.

B. He has never sent e-mail.





C. He shows no interest in the Internet.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where does this conversation take place?

A. Near a bus stop.

 B. On a train.

 C. In a department store.



10. What did the man do?

A. He hurt the woman.

B. He helped the woman carry the bags.





C. He made the woman drop the bags to the ground.

11. What is the woman like?

A. She is rude.

 B. She is kind.

 C. She is proud.



听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where does this conversation take place?

A. In a hospital.

 B. In a restaurant.

 C. At the office.



13. When does the woman get a pain in stomach?

A. About an hour before she has eaten.

B. About an hour after she has eaten.





C. Just when she begins to eat.

14. What can you conclude about the woman's husband from this conversation?

A. He doesn't eat as quickly as his wife.

B. He eats very quickly.





C. He sometimes eats more slowly than his wife.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Where did the two speakers go for dinner?

A. To a Chinese restaurant.

 B. To KFC.

 C. To McDonald's.



16. Why didn't they eat at home?

A. Because Jill was tired of her father's cooking.

B. Because Jill's mother was not in the house.

C. Because Jill's father wanted to eat fried chicken. w W w .x K b 1.c o M

17. What did Jill want for her dinner?

A. Hamburger, salad, coffee and chicken.

B. Hamburger, salad, Coke, and ice cream.





C. Hamburger, vegetables and coffee.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What do we know about Manhattan Island?

A. It used to be a small country.

B. It was controlled by Dutch before 1609.





C. Only Indians lived there before 1609.

19. Why did Henry Hudson go to Manhattan Island?

He wanted to trade with the Indians.[:.]

B. He wanted to find more land for his country.

C. He hoped to find a shorter way to the Far East.

20. How did the Indians react to Henry Hudson's arrival?

A. They captured him.

B. They were friendly to him.





C. They didn't allow him to land.

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。

A

At some point I noticed that people were staring at me. The box boys at the supermarket spoke to me with respect. People were mistaking me for somebody else. It had to be somebody who weighed close to 300 pounds and wore a full beard. I enjoyed the way people would suddenly turn to look at me as if I wore wings. Nobody mentioned my name， but naturally they assumed I knew who I was. I could hardly ask， “By the way， who am I？” As a result of being in the public eye， I began to change myself. I kept my shoes shined. Also， I changed shirts every day. The more I changed， the more second looks I received. From enjoying the attention， I began to long for it. I’d always felt I was somebody special. Now others were finally realizing it.But who did people think I was？ I must have been a movie star， or at least a television personality. Then one evening I was sitting at a bus stop in Westwood Village when two young men in an old car looked up at me with that expression I had come to recognize as a respect to my talent and success. One of them said， “Hello， Dom！” So that was who I was！ Once I imagined that well-known comedian， I realized I couldn’t have been anybody else. I gave my young fans a big celebrity grin and said， “Hello， boys！” I waved one hand with a welcome-to-Hollywood gesture they would be talking about for years.I also realized that it was time to go on a diet. I ate more salads and vegetables. I laid off the carbohydrates. I walked a couple of miles every day. When I had lost about 40 pounds， I shaved off my beard. I didn’t realize that my barber had actually been trying to make me look like the fat Dom DeLuise. I waited for my clients to ask， “What did you do to yourself？” But nobody even noticed a change. I melted back into the general population.21．Why was the author mistaken by people for somebody else？? (No more than 11 words)???? (2 marks)22．What did the author do to change himself as a result of being in the public eye？ (No more than 12words)???? (2 marks)23．Why did the young man greet the author？(No more than 10 words)???? (3 marks)24．What did the author expect his clients to do ？(No more than 11 words)(3 marks)

Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack, which was very full, but he didn’t have any other luggage. Brian needed to meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France counter. Tony gave him a round-trip ticket and a small package.

“Give this package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you can find him easily,” Tony said, ”You don’t have any luggage, right?”

“Only this backpack,” Brian answered. ”You said I could bring one carry-on bag.”

“That’s right. One carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip.”

“Thanks.”

Is Brian a criminal(罪犯)? Not at all. He is an air-courier. And he paid only $110 for the round-trip ticket to Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers to foreign countries. Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day. Often, the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick.

Every year about 80,000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for courier travel is growing by about 10 percent a year. However, air-courier travel isn’t for everyone. But if you have very little money, can be flexible(灵活的) about your travel plans, and don’t mind wearing the same clothes for a week, it can be a great way to take a vacation!

25．Why was Brian wearing so many clothes for his travel?

A. Because they were the uniforms for air couriers.

B. Because that made him easier to be recognized.

C. Because his backpack had no room his clothes.

D. Because he did not have any luggage with him

26．An air courier is a person who_________

A .manages a business company in foreign countries

B. organizes international flights for tourists

C. travels around the world with cheap tickets

D delivers papers and packages to foreign countries.

27．Businesses choose the air-courier service because_____.

A. it costs less B. it is flexible

C. it saves time D. it grows fast

28．One of the disadvantages of traveling as an air courier is that he_____.

A. cannot decide when and where to travel

B. cannot take any luggage with him

C. has to wear two pairs of jeans

D saves little money from the travel

The extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound(白蚁堆).

Architect Mick Pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the Eastgate Building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. The building—the country’s largest commercial and shopping complex—uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building of its size. The Eastgate’s owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning plant didn’t have to be imported.

The complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium(天井) open to the air. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents(通风口). As it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys.

During summer’s cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the empty floors. By day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building, to circulate the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. For winter days, there are small heaters in the vents.

This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little dampness and rapid temperature swings—days as warm as 31℃ commonly drop to 14℃ at night. “You couldn’t do this in New York, with its fantastically hot summers and fantastically cold winters,” Pearce said.

The engineering firm of Ove Arup&Partners monitors daily temperatures. It is found that the temperature of the building has generally stayed between 23℃ and 25℃, with the exception of the annual hot period jus