贵州省凯里市第一中学、贵阳一中2017届高三上学期适应性月考（一）

英语

本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，第I卷第1页至第7页，第II卷第8页。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。满分150分，考试用时120分钟。

第I卷（选择题，共100分）

注意事项：

1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚。

2．每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。在试题卷上作答无效。

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。

1. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. On a bus B. At the bank C. At a railway station

2. What was the weather like yesterday?

A. Rainy B. Windy C. Hot

3. Who might Damon be?

A. The woman’s boyfriend B. The man’s father C. The woman’s father

4. When will the speakers probably meet?

A. At 2:30 B. At 3:00 C. At 3:30

5. What has the woman been doing this week?

A. Meeting friends B. Buying fashion products C. Studying

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2至4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5秒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和第7题。

6. What are the speakers discussing?

A. Their wedding B. Their anniversary C. A famous band

7. What can we learn about the man?

A. He is not very wealthy

B. He has more friends than the woman

C. He would prefer to have a smaller event

听第7段材料，回答第8至第10题。

8. What do we know about the speakers?

A. They have known each other for a long time

B. They are both very old

C. They are both good at bowling

9. When did the woman last play bowling?

A. At her last birthday party

B. When she graduated from college

C. When the man was ten years old

10. How will the speakers probably go to the bowling alley?

A. On foot B. By car C. By bus

听第8段材料，回答第11至第13题。

11. What was the boy’s mother like when she was young?

A. She was very naughty

B. She kept wondering about things around

C. She was always in trouble

12. What did the boy’s mother do to know more about hippos?

A. She read books

B. She watched short films at the library

C. She asked a lot of people

13. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She was very strict

B. She used to know about hippos

C. She supported her daughter’s curiosity

听第9段材料，回答第14至第17题。

14. How long has the man’s company been in business?

A. For 5 years B. For 3 years C. For 2 years

15. What does the woman imply about her company?

A. They offer the lowest price

B. They have grown very fast

C. They design the best ads

16. What’s the man’s attitude at the end of the conversation?

A. He is impatient B. He is interested C. He is indifferent

17. What will the woman give the man next?

A. Contact information B. Some designs C. A contract

听第10段材料，回答第18至第20题。

18. What is one of the functions of tears?

A. Avoiding infections B. Keeping you happy C. Increasing stress

19. What is Fred Jones’s research about?

A. The relationship between tears and emotions

B. The relationship between tears and diseases

C The relationship between tears and behaviors

20. What does the speaker think about Fred Jones’s opinion?

A. It is absolutely right

B. It isn’t necessarily right

C. It is useless

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

If I were writing a history of my family, some of the darkest moments recorded would be those surrounding Christmas trees. For example, one afternoon dangerously close to Christmas Eve?my mother bought a glorious tree which was so full and tall that we could hardly get it into the house. Once we did, my father immediately realized that we would have to hire a carpenter to build a stand for it.

Another December, perhaps the very next one, we bought a tree earlier than we ever had before. We were delighted that its size was manageable. We easily placed it in a stand, decorated it from top to bottom, and then self-satisfiedly sat back by the fire in its soft light. Two or three days passed and the truth could not be hidden; we had bought a tree cut so long ago that it was now shedding it needles. There was nothing to do but undecorate it, take it down, and begin tree shopping again.

Our most recent Christmas tree offered still another challenge. When we brought it home, once again it seemed larger than it was in the great outdoors. To complicate matters, we had bought a new stand, one whose nuts（螺帽）?and bolts?（闩子）?worked more mysteriously than those of our old stands. We persuaded two young neighbors to help us get the tree into the house and set it securely in the stand. Unfortunately, no one noticed the mud on our helpers' shoes, so only after removing several reddish brown spots were we able to discuss the question of where the lights and ornaments?（装饰）were stored.

Perhaps those who cut their own trees have tales more painful than these. I don't care to hear them, as my family's experiences , of which these are but three, are enough to cause me to make the following suggestion:" Let's forget the tree next Christmas. Let's simply drape a garland over the mirror in the hall and hang a wreath on the front door.”

21. In the writer’s family, the darkest moments are concerned about __________.

A. buying cheap Christmas trees

B. picking suitable Christmas trees

C. decorating their Christmas trees

D. finding stands for Christmas trees

22. The new stand was bought for __________.

A. the two young neighbors

B. the tree that was cut long gao

C. the tree that her mother bought

D. the most recent Christmas tree

23. We can learn from the last paragraph that the writer may___________.

A. stop celebrating Christmas from then on

B. get the neighbors to put up their Christmas trees

C. make other decorations instead of Christmas trees

D. buy a better and cheaper tree to celebrate Christmas

24. How is the text mainly developed?

A. By following time order B. By giving definitions

C. By making classifications D. By making comparisons

B

Employees are being flooded with too much information that has little to do with their work, according to a new survey. On average, white-collar workers spend 51 percent of their work time receiving and processing information. Only one third of it was relevant to their work, the survey found. Information overload for white collar workers has become a global issue. The huge amount of information has already affected their efficiency in management as well as their performance at work.

Every morning, a secretary at the human resources department of an auto parts company opens her e-mail box, only to find it crammed with at least 50 unread mails. For her, even scanning through these e-mails every day takes at least half an hour. Some of her colleagues are not so lucky — they have to read at least 100.

Telephone calls are also causing a problem. More than 40 percent white-collar workers chose mobile phones as the preferred way to communicate important and urgent business matters. Talking saves time and energy over the clicking, reading and replying to e-mails, but phone calls are also more distracting. While answering a call, a clerk is likely to put away a much more important task at hand and start the business being talked about on the phone.

Many companies start with providing staff with better computers, better Internet access and more advanced gadgets(装置). For example, staff members above a certain level in one company will be provided with a blackberry phone for easier access to their e-mails. The company has also organized many lectures on efficient ways of e-mail management. Yet most white-collar workers think their companies can do more.

25. The underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by __________.

A. filled with B. decorated with

C. provided with D. faced with

26. What problem do telephone calls bring employees?

A. Taking up their time for e-mails

B. Interrupting their work at hand

C. Leaving all their work undone

D. Wasting too much of their money

27. To settle the problem of information overload, many companies __________.

A. organize lectures on management

B. provide more advanced equipment

C. offer every employee a blackberry phone

D. reduce employees’ irrelevant e-mails and calls

?28. What is the main idea of this text?

A. Information overload for white-collar workers has become a global issue

B. White-collar workers find ways to cancel useless e-mails

C. Irrelevant calls and e-mails bother white-workers

D. White-collar workers avoid telephone calls

C

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