江西省五校（江西师大附中、临川一中、鹰潭一中、宜春中学、新余四中）2015届高三上学期第二次联考英语试题（PDF版）

江西省五校（江西师大附中、临川一中、鹰潭一中、宜春中学、新余四中）2015届高三上学期第二次联考英语试题（PDF版）

英语试卷 共 8 页 1 五校联考(师大附中、临川一中、鹰潭一中、新余一中、宜春中学)英语试卷 命题：王政凯 上官国华 陈梦婕 第一卷 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。 1. What does the man mean? A. He agrees to hold a party. B. He thinks they need some time to prepare for the party. C. He disagrees with the woman. 2. How much is the yellow coat? A. $ 45. B. $ 70. C. $ 90. 3. What can we learn from the dialogue? A. The man was angry with the woman. B. The woman lost a dictionary. C. The man asked the woman to buy a new one for him. 4. What are the speakers probably doing? A. Booking a hotel. B. Writing postcards. C. Looking at photographs. 5. What time is it now? A. 1: 10. B. 1: 15. C. 1:20. 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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。 请听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 8 题 6. What are the speakers talking about? A. Friends. B. Pictures. C. Stories. 7. Why does the woman think it stressful to go to the dentist? A. It’s out of control. B. It’s embarrassing. C. It hurts. 8. What does the man think is the most stressful? A. Being late. B. Having an exam. C. Moving to a new place. 请听第 7 段材料，回答第 9 至 11 题 9. What are they talking about? A. The books. B. The media. C. The Internet. 10. What does the woman think of the Internet? A. It’s boring. B. It’s available. C. It’s convenient. 11. What is the disadvantage of the book? A. There may be some false information. B. It’s easy to get. C. Sometimes the information is out of date. 英语试卷 共 8 页 2 请听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题 12. What does the man think of the new employee? A. He works hard. B. He often leaves work unfinished. C. He works slowly. 13. Why does the woman think it’s harmful to work too much? A. It will make the new employee tired of work. B. It will cause the new employee to fall ill. C. The work will suffer losses if the new employee is too tired. 14. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Give the new employee a vacation. B. Ask the new employee to do some work while he’s on holiday. C. The work can be done by someone else. 请听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至 17 题 15. Why doesn’t he want to take the news job? A. He doesn’t get a good pay. B. He dislikes working in a seaside town. C. He hates playing the same piece again and again. 16. What does the woman think of the job the man was offered? A. Boring. B. Well-paid. C. Tough. 17. What do we know about the man? A. He likes traveling. B. He is good at playing the piano. C. He enjoys the seaside. 请听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题 18. What makes India one of the world's great experiences for traveler? A. Its population. B. Its food. C. Its diversity. 19. Where can people escape heat of summer in India? A. On the beach. B. Along the coasts. C. At the hill station. 20. What is not mentioned about India? A. Its ancient healthcare system and wellness centers. B. Its rapid development of science and technology. C. Its yoga, white water rafting and bungee jumping. 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。 A A new study has shown that the more power and money some people have, the less they care about others. Paul Piff works in the psychology department at the University of California at Berkeley. He wanted to test his observations that people with more money or higher social position behave rudely, and that their behavior shows less concern for the feelings of others. In order to find out how different levels of privilege and different levels of wealth between people in everyday life shape how they behave toward others and how they see the world, Paul Piff designed an experiment to study the behavior of strangers who were meeting for the first time. During these meetings, volunteers who had described themselves as wealthier did not seem interested in getting to know the other person. People who had identified themselves as not wealthy were more likely to listen to and look at the stranger. They laughed more. They seemed to enjoy the get-together. Working with other Berkeley researchers, Paul Piff designed more than thirty experiments to study how wealth and social position affect behavior. One experiment studied the actions of drivers on a busy street. 英语试卷 共 8 页 3 The researchers found that people driving expensive cars were less likely to stop for people trying to walk across the street. These drivers ignored traffic laws more often than drivers of older or less costly cars. Mr. Piff says this field of social science helps in understanding the causes of corruption among the powerful. Besides, Mr. Piff stresses that their findings correspond to those of other studies. He says the research suggests that for many people power and money can have a corrupting influence on social behavior. He is concerned that as wealth inequality increases in society, there is a strong pressure for people who care about fairness and equality to break their own rules of good behavior. 21. What probably leads to Paul Piff’s study? A. The task given to him by the psychology department. B. The daily behavior of rich people in public places. C. The actions of some wealthy drivers on a busy street. D. The results of other studies done by other scientists. 22. Paul Piff’s research on the behavior of strangers suggests that less wealthy people are more _____ than wealthy ones. A. generous B. selfish C. easy-going D. impolite 23. It can be inferred from the passage that _______. A. less wealthy people will not follow the examples of wealthy people B. people have a tendency to become equally rich as society develops C. being wealthy or enjoying privilege has both advantages and disadvantages D. some leaders become corrupt because of wealth and privilege 24. What can be the best title for the passage? A. Wealth and Power Affect Your Attitude to Others B. Wealth and Power Inequality Breeds Corruption C. Why Do Wealthy People Behave Impolitely? D. Who Are More Likely to Be Impolite? B There are a few things in life more annoying: you are in the middle of a conversation with a friend, and suddenly she bursts out laughing, making you think you’ve made a brilliant joke. But then she says, “Sorry, I wasn’t laughing at you. I just saw something really fun on a micro blog.” The Guardian described the scene of a friend’s face buried in a screen as “a distinctly 21st-century problem”. A new word has been created to describe this - phubbing. It is the act of looking at your mobile phone instead of paying attention to others during a social interaction. Like pointing at one’s nose, phubbing is widely considered rude behavior. People everywhere are beginning to lose patience with the phenomenon. A Stop Phubbing campaign group has been started in Australia and at least five others have sprung up in its wake as anger about the lack of manners grows. The campaign’s creator, Alex Haigh, 23, from Melbourne, said, “A group of friends and I were chatting when someone raised how annoying being ignored by people on mobiles was.” He has created a website where companies can download posters to discourage phubbing. Phubbing is just one symptom of our increasing dependence on mobile phones and the Internet which is replacing normal social interaction. A survey found that one out of three Britons would answer the phone in a restaurant and 19% said they would while being served in a shop. The survey comes after a supermarket assistant in south London refused to serve a woman until she stopped using her phone. Time magazine once pointed out, “Phubbing has a much greater potential harm to real-life connections by making people around us feel like we care more about posts than their presence.” In the UK, Glamour magazine even imagined how novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) would have written about people with bad mobile phone manners: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man or woman 英语试卷 共 8 页 4 in possession of a good mobile phone must be in want of manners.” 25. Phubbing has come about because _______. A. distrust has already been everywhere among people B. the friendship between people is becoming fragile C. people are getting dependent on attraction online D. there has been a lack of means of communication 26. Which of the statements is TRUE about the Stop Phubbing campaign? A. It was first started in America and then it spread to Melbourne. B. Companies can update posters against phubbing on the website. C. Alex Haigh, 23, was the first one to find phubbing annoying. D. Up till now, at least six groups have claimed to support it. 27. The supermarket assistant refused to serve the woman mainly because _______. A. the woman buried her face in the mobile phone screen for a very long time B. the woman ignored respect and manners by focusing only on her phone C. the assistant lost his patience with the woman who was using her phone D. it is rare for customers to answer the phone while being served in shops 28. In the last paragraph, the writer wants to tell readers that _ A. one with a mobile phone should mind his/her manners B. 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According to the text, what is common to the three places is that _____. A. the city center is within walking distance B. the price is both reasonable and affordable C. the gymnasium is available for all the guests D. the basic facilities in them are well provided 30. What does the underlined sentence probably mean? A. You shall get money if you surf the Internet. B. You have to go on the Internet in the workshops. C. You can use the Internet free in many of the rooms. D. You have to pay some money to go on the Internet. 31. According to the text, if you’re tired of hotels in the summer, you can ______. A. choose a cottage room for a change B. build an apartment in Moon Island C. buy a furnished house in Costa Rica D. share a studio close to the city center D We regularly hear how important consumer spending is for the economy. The story goes like this: the more consumers spend, the more money circulates in the economy, which contributes to healthy job growth and profits. Keynes, a British economist, went as far as to say that individuals saving their money may actually be hurting the economy. Sounds troubling, doesn’t it? Fear not. You aren’t actually hurting anyone else by saving money. Strong economic growth only comes from the place: savings. Not consumption. In fact, economic activity should not be mistaken for economic growth. For example, somebody takes their money, walks into a store, and purchases goods. The store increases its revenue. But what happens to all of those goods and services that people have chosen not to consume by saving their money? Simple: other people are allowed to consume them. Think of it this way: when you lend out your savings, you are actually saying, “Here, I am not going to consume right now, so why don’t you?” Banks simply play the middleman: they collect lots of people's savings and then lend out lots of funds. It takes an unbelievable amount of goods and services to construct a building. It takes food, shelter, and entertainment for all of the workers, as well. Without savings, it is quite impossible to finance such a construction. The coordination between savings and consumption is a necessary basis for sound economic growth. This coordination is also why consumer lending (say, to borrow a big sum of money to buy a car) is not productive, in a strict sense. It doesn't increase the net (净的) amount of wealth of an economy. Those savings could have been used to construct, say, factory equipment. None of this means consumption and spending are “bad” things. They simply do not make us wealthier. After all, the final goal of production and savings is to consume. But to say that consumption is the engine of economic growth is to put the cart before the horse. Or, to rephrase: the consumption of wealth can never make you wealthier. Happier, perhaps. Wealthier, no. 32. What is the author’s attitude towards Keynes’ theory? A. Approving. B. Reserved. C. Uncertain. D. Critical. 33. The underlined word “revenue” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “_______”. A. cost B. reputation C. interest D. income 34. According to the author, which chart could show the effect of savings on economy? X: Economic Growth, Y: Savings 35. What would be the best title for this passage? A. The Saving Behavior of the Economy B. Consumption: a Key Concept in Economy 英语试卷 共 8 页 6 C. Consumer Spending and Economic Growth D. The Truth about Savings and Consumption 第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 How to Break a Bad Habit A habit is an established habitual practice developed in the form of an automatic pattern of behavior. 36 A good habit could be you making your bed as soon as you wake up, or wiping your shoes on the doormat before entering, and a bad habit could be biting your nails, or talking loudly in public. 37 We are so accustomed to our bad habits that most of the time we don’t even realize that we have them, until someone points them out to us. So, the first step that will lead to changing a bad habit is by accepting it and acknowledging it. Make Yourself Aware. Now that you know you have developed a bad habit, it's best to find out why you developed it in the first place. Find out the reason behind it, as that will help you understand why you’re so tempted to perform that act. Sometimes it even discloses ghosts from the past. 38 You’ve got to face it and then get rid of it. Know What the Consequences Are. A bad habit is termed as “bad”, because its consequences are harmful. Find out how this bad habit of yours has spoiled things around you. Your mom must have yelled at you a million times for it, but after all she is your mother and you hear what she says from one ear and throw it out from the other. 39 Determination Is the Name of the Game. Leaving a bad habit is like throwing a boomerang（回飞棒）and you throw it and it will come back to you. Take it as a test of your willpower. Don’t be laid back about it. 40 Breaking a bad habit is a better option than letting it grow with you to become an addiction. A. Breaking a habit is a very tricky game. B. But it’s now time to change that. C. Take Help from Family and Friends. D. There is nothing to feel scared about. E. Be firm that this time you’ll break free from it. F. There are both good and bad habits. G. Accept That it is a Bad Habit. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分） 第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1. 5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 41--60 各题所给的四个选项（A,B,C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Long long ago, a circle missed one piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its 41 piece. But because it was 42 and therefore could roll only very slowly, it 43 the flowers along the way. It 44 with the worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but 45 of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and 46 searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted 47 . It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. 48 it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, 49 fast to notice the flowers or talk to the worms. After it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it 50 , left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away. The 51 of the story, I suggest, is that in some strange 52 we are more whole when we are missing 英语试卷 共 8 页 7 something. The man who has 53 is in some way a poor man. He will never know what it 54 like to nourish his soul with the dream of something 55 . When we accept that 56 is part of being human and when we can continue rolling 57 life and appreciate it, we will have 58 wholeness that others can only desire, which, I believe, is 59 God asks of us-not “Be perfect”, not “Don’t even make a mistake”, 60 “Be whole”. 41. A. other B. missing C. rest D. remaining 42. A. incomplete B. ugly C. ordinary D. unusual 43. A. picked B. watered C. admired D. planted 44. A. played B. chatted C. sang D. danced 45. A. neither B. each C. all D. none 46. A. carried out B. put on C. worked out D. kept on 47. A. especially B. permanently C. perfectly D. constantly 48. A. Although B. Now that C. Unless D. As long as 49. A. very B. too C. so D. how 50. A. stopped B. continued C. hesitated D. cried 51. A. lesson B. root C. reason D. cause 52. A. degree B. level C. sense D. manner 53. A. nothing B. something C. little D. everything 54. A. smells B. feels C. looks D. sounds 55. A. better B. common C. impractical D. worse 56. A. strength B. kindness C. imperfection D. benefit 57. A. behind B. at C. of D. through 58. A. recognized B. searched C. achieved D. founded 59. A. which B. how C. that D. what 60. A. but B. while C. and D. otherwise 第Ⅱ卷 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分） 第二节 （共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于 3 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 It’s easy to take your hearing for granted until it’s too late. With the wide 61 (popular) of digital entertainment products, it is not uncommon to see people wearing headphones and listening to music while running in the park or using public transport. And the volume is often so 62 that people around them can hear the music as well. However, doctors warn that such behavior can potentially damage 63 hearing. “In noisy places, people tend 64 （turn）the volume up to get the same clarity of sound. 65 (fortunate), that can damage the hearing 66 people being aware of it,” said Feng YongFeng, chief ENT physician at Beijing Tian’an Hospital. After the Spring Festival, the hospital witnessed 67 slight increase in the number of teenagers coming in with hearing problems, 68 Feng attributed to them wearing headphones at home for long periods during the holiday. Feng said both in-ear and overhead headphones can harm the ears and 69 (advice) against using them for long periods. He said if you do use headphones they are worthy 70 (invest) in the highest quality you can afford. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 35 分） 第一节 短文改错（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 英语试卷 共 8 页 8 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处错误， 句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（^），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2．只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。 John, a heavy smoker, once felt bad-tempering. His hands started shaking and he coughs a lot, so he turned to his doctor for help. “Quit smoking,” the doctor advised. Find the advice reasonable from several points, such as money and healthy, John decided to give up smoking. Otherwise, for several hours without a cigarette, John was nervous and had a difficulty concentrating, which made him hungrier for a cigarette. He said to himself, “One more, I will quit it tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a suitable day for me to break off from the bad habit...” Then he picked up a cigarette who made him relaxed. Again and again John made up his mind to doing it “tomorrow”. 第二节 书面表达（满分 25 分） 假如你是李华，你们学校最近开展创建“平安校园”的活动。你们班为此组织主题班会，请你用英语 写一篇发言稿，谈一谈你对如何创建“平安校园”的一些想法。短文应该包括下面的内容： 1. 安全意识的重要性；2. 在运动中要注意安全；3. 在校内要注意人身安全；4. 同学间发生矛盾时， 一定要保持冷静、理智；5. 逐步将“平安校园”活动转化为全体师生的实际行动。 注意： 1. 不要逐句翻译，可适当增加细节使行文连贯； 2. 词数 100—120 个左右。 3. 文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。参考词汇：校园安全 safety at school My dear classmates, There is no denying that safety plays an important part in our daily life. Recently our school has carried out a program aimed at making our campus a safe place to stay in.