湖南省邵阳市邵东县第三中学2016届高三上学期第五次月考英语试题

1、邵东三中2016届高三第五次月考英语试卷本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。第卷第一部分 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和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。( ) 1. Where does this conversation take place? A. In a bookstore. B. In a linbrary. C. In a restaura

2、nt.( ) 2. What causes the difference in prices of the two shirts? A. The color. B. The design. C. The material.( ) 3. What happened to one of the womans friends? A. She was fired. B. She was hired. C. She was ill. ( ) 4. How much does the woman weigh now? A. 150 pounds. B. 153 pounds. C. 163 pounds.

3、( ) 5. What does the woman want the man to do? A. Do some shopping. B. Get a haircut. C. Attend a party.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 woman doing now? A.

4、 Buying a present. B.Looking for a dog. C. Serving a customer.( ) 7. What color is the womans dog? A. White B. Black C. Brown听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。( ) 8. What is Professor Smiths lecture about? A. The energy problem. B. A new energy. C. Hot topics of society.( ) 9. What does the woman think of the lecture?

5、 A. Dull. B. Ordinary. C. Interesting.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。( ) 10. Whats the woman doing?A. Traveling in the United States. B. Having a job interview. C. Applying for a visa.( ) 11. What will the woman have to do after signing? A. Fill in a form. B. Have her fingerprint taken. C. Go to the USA.( ) 12. W

6、hat will be used to inform the woman if there is a problem? A. Telephone. B. Postcard. C. Airmail.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。( ) 13. Where has Jane been? A. Downstairs. B. Downtown. C. Home.( ) 14. What color is the new sofa? A. Brown B. Blue. C. Yellow.( ) 15. What does the woman say about the old sofa? A. I

7、t is old-fashioned. B. Its too narrow to sleep there. C. It doesnt match their other furniture.( ) 16. What does the man think of the womans advice? A. Good. B. Ridiculous. C. Impractical.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。( )17. What does the passaga mainly want to tell us? A. How to study better. B. How to make fr

8、iends. C. How to exchange notes.( ) 18. Who is the speaker probably speaking to? A. Teachers. B. Parents. C. Students.( ) 19. What does the speaker object to? A. Teaching each other. B. Racing to solve problems. C. Studying alone.( ) 20. Whats the function of the tip? A. Helping make friends. B. Mak

9、ing study enjoyable. C. Making people happy.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 Thinking about taking a year out before going to university?Check out your gap year choices here and decide if its the right decision for youWhat is it? Its a year

10、out between finishing senior high school and starting university in which you can travel, work and generally do mind-broadening stuff you will never forget.I dont want to travel, but I dont know what I want to do at university. You will have a good three months between finishing your A Levels and un

11、iversity Clearing (when last-minute vacancies (空缺) on courses for the coming academic year are advertised): surely enough time to decide what to do. You dont need to take a year for that.I need to take some money before starting university. Fair enough. But dont get comfortable and decide not to get

12、 a full-time job. Spending a yearon income support (收入补贴) will be depressing; youll have nothing to say when future employers ask what you did in your gap year, and youll have to put up with smug (得意的) post-gap year students comparing notes when you start university.Id love to travel, but I cant aff

13、ord it.Most gap year students work for the first six months and then travel, using the moneytheyve earned in the second six months.Im scared. Try not to let fear of the unknown put you off seeing the world. Earth is a big planet, but when you travel it seems much smaller (even the remotest countries

14、 have email access).( )21. The potential readers of the text are _. A. parents B. high school students C. university students D. teachers( )22. Most students get money for their gap year trip_. A. from their parents B. by borrowing from their friends C. from the government D. by working themselves(

15、)23. The last paragraph can be regarded as a(n) _. A. encouragement B. warning C. suggestion D. invitationBMost nights I lie in bed, ready for an escape from myself, yet a streaming video of everything I ate, how I exercised, the activities of the day wont stop playing in my mind.I pause. I breathe.

16、 I try to relax once again, but it doesnt work.When Im not exercising even if Ive already exercised that day Im consumed with anxiety about my next workout. Will something come up and make me miss the gym? What about holidays when the gym is closed?Exercise has become a disease; it even disguises (伪

17、装，假装) itself as the cure. If I dont have it as an escape, then whats left to hold me together? Working out feels like the only way to calm myself, but as soon as I leave the gym or finish a walk, the whole cycle starts over again. As you might have guessed by now, I suffer from depression and OCD (强

18、迫症). Im a highly-educated adult woman who knows the risks of this behavior, and yet I cant stop.As a society, were told over and over that its important to exercise. Thats what makes it so easy to keep this addiction a secret; its not as obvious as lighting up a cigarette. You can continue to feed y

19、our addiction under the guise that youre just being “healthy”. I not only have to fight the nonstop thoughts in my head but also the “more exercise is better” messages I receive from the media every day.For me, exercise has become a drug, which is a way to numb the pain I might feel. I wonder what i

20、t would be like to “have the problem” of not wanting to go to the gym. It still feels very far away.Yet I know I can be stronger than this. I can break the cycle Im in. I can tell my story so as to give up a piece of the secrecy that keeps me sick.Because no, you dont want my problem. And finally, n

21、either do I.( ) 24. When the author goes to bed, she_. A. cant breathe normally B. cant fall asleep C. always feels hungry D. always feels tired( ) 25. The underlined word “it” in paragraph 4 probably refers to _. A. the gym B. disease C. exercise D. the cure( ) 26. What is special about the additio

22、n to exercise?A. It is popular among highly-educated people. B. It is widely reported by the mass media.C. It does little harm to health. D. it is not easily discovered.( )27. We know from the text that the author _. A. is emotionless B. lives far away from the gym C. is serviously ill D. has diffic

23、ulty in keeping secretsCCoincidences happen all the time to ordinary people, but the following events are perhaps some of the strangest of them all.1. In the 19th century, the famous writer, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote a book called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It was about four survi

24、vors of a shipwreck (船只失事) who were in an open boat for many days before three of them decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the boat Mignonette sank, and only four survivors were left in an open boat for many days. Finally the three older me

25、mbers killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.2. In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I went to a small restaurant for dinner. When the owner took King Umberto Is order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were doubles, in face and in build. Both men began d

26、iscussing the resemblance between each other and found many more similarities. Both men were born in the same place, on the same day, of the same year (March 14, 1844, Turin, Italy). On the day that the King married Queen Margherita, the restaurant owner had married a lady named Margherita. The rest

27、aurant owner opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto I was crowned(加冕) King of Italy. On July 29, 1900, King Umberto I was informed that the restaurant owner had died that day in a shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, someone in the crowd killed him! 3. Mark Twain was a

28、 popular American author who wrote famous books such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halleys Comet(哈雷彗星) in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he sai

29、d: “I came in with Halleys Comet in1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.”( )28. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, _. A. the boat was named Mignonette B. the ship sank after the cabin boys death C. three people in all eventually survived the shipwreck D

30、. Richard Parker was unfriendly to the other survivors( )29. Whose story is related to astronomy?_. A. Mark Twains B. Edgar Allan Poes C. King Umberto Is D. Queen Margheritas( )30. The author wrote the text with a feeling of _. A. worry B. regret C. amazement D. satisfaction( )31. Whats the best tit

31、le for the text?_. A. Unexplained deaths B. Terrible events in the world C. Well-known people in history D. Strangest coincidences in historyDMy mother got divorced when I was 5 and was left to raise me and my two younger brothers. She didnt have a formal education, so she had to work two full-time

32、jobs to make ends meet.One day several years later, I was determined to help. I told the manager of the Don Carlos Motel in Nana Point that I was 15, so I could get a work permit to work as a maid.Since then, Ive started to work alongside some of Americas top leaders, written books, and achieved fin

33、ancial independence. It took a lot of hard work and sacrifices.But what if I was 15 years old today? Would I be able to accomplish the same things in this new, highly competitive world with so many global challenges? It seems hard work and sacrifices arent enough anymore.Today, you need to be extrem

34、ely adaptable. To progress in your career, its not enough to know one thing well. As my friend Sean Harvey, product manager at Google put it when we were speaking to students, “Today, companies arent hiring people for a specific position but rather people who are smart and flexible. The way you prov

35、e that is by showing you can do multiple things well.”People need to take more risks to succeed now than ever. The combination of unemployment and slow wage growth means that we are not only at greater financial risk, but we have to take more risks to succeed.Luckily, the new Internet world of all-t

36、he-time connectedness means that anyone with a hot idea, product or service can create a business out of almost nothing. And success can be quick and big. But that success demands more “out of the box”thinking.And what about our kids? It makes me think a lot about the future that my 3-years-old daug

37、hter faces. But no matter what the future brings, I think the best message Ill give her is to believe in herself. Life wont get any easier, but the opportunities will come as they always have to those who work hard, adapt as they need to, and trust their abilities.( ) 32. We can infer that the autho

38、r had _. A. a difficult childhood B. a lonely childhood C. a normal childhood D. a happy childhood( )33. The author achieved financial independence when she was 15 largely due to _.A. her strong leadership B. her bosss helpC. her hard work D. her competitive spirit( )34. Compared to the past, people

39、 who want to succeed now need _. A. more time B. more money C. to work harder D. to be more creative( )35. The author writes the text mainly to _. A. describe her childhood B. give some suggestions about success C. tell a story about her mother D. share some useful parenting skills第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分1

40、0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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Teens are busy people. They balance high school and friends; some add jobs and extracurricular activities(课外活动)to the mix. _36 . Involve your teen with a variety of activities from your life and relate them to your teens experiences.Large proje

41、ct_37 .Create a timeline for the project, such as making holiday cards. Take family pictures in November. Continue by designing and then ordering cards. Purchase stamps and envelops, assemble cards and mail by your deadline.StorageInclude your teen in organizing items for storage in a closet or base

42、ment. _38 . Sort your clothes and books. Include your teen in determining the criteria for donating, trashing or storing. Decide what contents are needed for protection: plastic or cardboard. Label containers and stack for long-term safety. BedroomTeens should be responsible for organizing their own

43、 rooms. Provide your children with a laundry system, clothing storage and a trashcan. _39 . Possibilities include scanning the room for clothes in the morning and at night, tidying a desk every night and so on.Calendar _40 . Using a computerized or paper calendar is fine, because consistency in ente

44、ring the information is key. Teen may dislike having parents check on their calendars, so make an agreement to discuss the plans once a week. A. Busy lives call for organization.B. Involve your teen in completing a large project.C. This activity includes sorting and protecting items.D. Teens must ke

45、ep track of activities and school work.E. Parents can complete hands-on activities with their teens.F. Share your weekly calendar to model organization for your teen.G. If they do not have established routines, make a plan for an organized room.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

46、短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。On the morning of May 18, 2010, Enzo PiscoPos alarm clock went off, signaling the start of another workday. Moments later, unbearable pain shot through his back.“I 41 so loud that I probably woke up the whole neighborhood,” he says. He became par

47、alyzed (使瘫痪，使麻痹) from the waist down, Doctors said hed likely never 42 again.The last three years have been a challenging, but equally 43 , journey for Enzo, a Coca-Cola employee since 1966. He has gone through great pain, relearned everyday tasks and got used to life in a 44 .“These lessons have ma

48、de me the happinest Ive ever been,” Enzo says. Nearly every day, someone asks Enzo how he can be so 45 after such a life-changing 46 . Its a question, he admits; hes asked himself more than a few times.One particular 47 changed Enzo. A few weeks after his injury, he was talking to his wife in his ho

49、spital room. 48 focusing on what he had, he fixed his attention on what he thought hed 49 .His wife told him the things that mattered most to them were 50 intact (完好无损的), and that they would continue to follow their dreams and do everything they 51 to do, including traveling.“That conversation 52 me

50、 that I have the most wonderful wife and four beautiful and healthy kid,” he says. Enzo, who returned to work three months after his injury, 53 that happiness is a choice. “You can find millions of 54 to either be happy or unhappy. The choice is yours. Many people who seemingly have everything are 5

51、5 , while some of the 56 people in the world are deeply happy. The 57 is focusing on the things that really matter. Today I make an effort to 58 all the little things that make me happy. I still want to 59 and grow as a person in all aspects of my life, 60 Im now enjoying the abundance of things I a

52、lready have much more.( ) 41. A. asked Bscreamed C. talked D. laughed( ) 42Aspeak Bread Cwalk Dwork( ) 43. A. comfortable B. dangerous C. boring D. rewarding ( ) 44. A. hospital B. vehicle C. house D. wheelchair ( ) 45. A. optimistic B. energetic C. sweet D. smart( ) 46. A. chance B. journey C. inju

53、ry D. success ( ) 47. A. conversation B. operation C. colleague D. friend( ) 48. A. Instead of B. In case of C. As for D. Except for( ) 49. A. created B. lost C. got D. explained( ) 50. A. never B. still C. also D. even( ) 51. A. need B. pretend C. agree D. love( ) 52. A. remined B. warned C. promised D. advised( ) 53. A. doubts B. remembers C. hopes D. insists( ) 54. A. results B. truths C. reasons D. questions( ) 55. A. excited B. pitiful C. careful D. tired ( ) 56. A. wisest B. poorest C. prettiest D. busiest( ) 57.