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荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校考试联盟2016届高三2月联考英语试题
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）
1．What does the man want to tell the woman?
  A．She should help with the repair work. B．She should choose another way.
  C．Her bus has gone wrong.
2．What does the woman think of the movie?
  A．Very interesting. B．Very bad. C．Very moving.
3．Who might have taken the boy’s dictionary?
　　A．Jane. B．Mike. C．Helen.
4．What are they talking about?
  A．Building a toy factory. B．Visiting America.  C．Bill’s wife.
5．What has happened?
  A．A dog was killed. B．The man was injured. C．The man’s car was damaged.
第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
　听下面一段材料，回答第6至7题。
6．What do we know about Mr Hunter?
  A．He is in his hometown now. B．He knows the owner of the wallet. C．He lost a wallet yesterday.
7．What will they do next?
  A．Give the wallet to Mr Hunter. B．Go to Mr Hunter’s home. C．Put up a notice.
听下面一段材料，回答第8至9题。
8．What is the man doing now?
  A．Having dinner. B．Cleaning a meeting room. C．Preparing for a meeting.
9．Whose office does the man have to clean?
  A．Mr Brown’s. B．The manager’s. C．His own.
听下面一段材料，回答第10至12题。
10．How many children does the woman have?
  A．Only a daughter. B．A son and a daughter. C．Two sons.
11．Where does the man’s sister live now?
  A．In Seattle. B．In California. C．In Washington.
12．What might happen next year?
  A．The man’s sister will move her home. B．The man’s sister will buy another farm.
  C．The man will go and see his sister.
听下面一段材料，回答第13至16题。
13．How old is Alice’s grandfather?
  A．83. B．79. C．73.
14．Who owns a bookstore?
  A．Alice’s father. B．Alice’s grandmother. C．Alice’s brother.
15．What do we know about Alice’s grandmother?
  A．She was a college teacher. B．She has poor eyesight now. C．She gave up teaching last year.
16．Where is probably Alice now?
  A．At home. B．At school. C．In a hospital.
听下面一段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．What does the long holiday offer to people?
  A．A new way to live and work. B．A long time to deal with difficulties.C．A chance to do different things.
18．Which of the following can NOT be achieved during the long holiday?
  A．Taking intensive courses. B．Becoming an expert at something new. C．Learning to cook.
19．What is the advantage of most national parks?
 A．People can take sports there.  B．They provide privacy.  C．People can rent cabins there.
20．How long do some organizations offer intensive courses?
 A．Two days. B．Three days. C．Two or three days.
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、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
　　One day in my class, the children were busy preparing for the coming concert. Suddenly Patty came up to me and said, “Every year I-g-g-g-get to be a quiet student. The other kids are always in a p-p-p-play or something. This year, I w-w-want to recite a p-p-p-poem myself!”
　　Watching her eager eyes, I had no way to refuse her request. So I had to promise her that she would have a “reciting” part. That promise proved to be very difficult to keep. None of my books had any proper poems for her. So I had to spend most of the night writing a poem for her. It was not excellent, but it was enough to cope with Patty’s speech problem.
　　From then on, Patty spent a lot of time practicing the reciting every day. With my help, she made great progress. However, an unexpected thing happened when the concert was about to start. The MC（报幕员）came to me with anger, waving his printed program. “There has been a mistake! You have listed Patty for a recitation. That girl can’t even say her own name without stuttering.” Because there was not enough time for explanations, I said to him angrily, “We know what we are doing.”
　　The concert was going very well. When it was time for Patty’s recitation, the MC again said that Patty would embarrass everyone. Losing patience, I shouted to him loudly, “Patty will do her part. You do yours. Just introduce her number.”
　　The curtain parted to show Patty, excited and confident. In perfect control, Patty uttered each syllable clearly helped by my gestures. At last, she made her bow, with tears in her eyes.
　　The curtain closed. At first silence held the audience, then the silence gave way to warm and lasting applause. Patty threw her arms around me and said to me excitedly, “We d-d-d-did it!”
21. What was the challenge for Patty to prepare for the concert?
   A. She hadn’t enough time to practice. B. She wasn’t popular with the students in her class.
   C. She couldn’t recite words clearly owing to stuttering. D. There weren’t proper poems for her at all.
22. The author yelled at the MC loudly because_____.
   A. he made a mistake about the printed program B. he showed no respect for the author
   C. he didn’t list Patty for a recitation D. he was unwilling to include Patty in the performing list
23. From the passage we can learn that_____.
   A. where there is a will, there is a way B. experience is the mother of wisdom
   C. strike while the iron is hot D. the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
B
　　COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of black parents and civil rights activists presented a petition（请愿书） Thursday calling for officials to drop charges against a 16-year-old South Carolina high school student who was videotaped being dragged from her desk and thrown to the floor by a police officer in her classroom.
　　The group said it was unfair and unacceptable that the student and her 18-year-old classmate at Spring Valley High School who taped the incident were the only people charged that day when authorities already knew Richland County Deputy Ben Fields had tossed the girl from her desk to the ground.
　　They also said their petition had hundreds of thousands of names from around the country asking prosecutor Dan Johnson to drop the "disturbing schools" charges against the teens. The students in the case are black; Fields is white.
　　Johnson issued a statement Wednesday saying he won't do anything with the case until the FBI finishes its investigation into Fields, who was fired after the video became public. "I do not simply decide cases based upon feelings, public opinion or sentiment, nor do I decide them based on political pressure," Johnson said in the statement.
　　Disturbing schools is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 or 90 days in jail. The students' lawyer did not respond to telephone messages.
　　The video spread quickly across the country, prompting questions about when police officers should get involved with classroom discipline. Fields was called to the classroom after the student refused to stop using her cellphone, and then she would not leave the classroom for a teacher or administrator.
　　In the days after the incident, the teacher turned her class over to a substitute and the administrator was placed on leave. Richland two officials didn't respond to an email asking about their current status. The students were allowed back in school.
　　Organizers of the protest said they plan to be at South Carolina's Statehouse next year, calling for legislators to change the law that allows police officers to arrest students for misbehaving at schools. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott blamed that law for escalating the situation. "Let's find a way where we don't saddle students with arrest records," said Efia Nwangaza from the Malcom X Center for Self Determination. "Let's get ahead of the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse train in South Carolina."
24. What are the teens charged with  
  A. Playing cellphones in class     B. Disobeying the teacher
  C. Disturbing schools        D. Fighting with the police officer
25. What is Don Johnson's attitude towards the case 
  A. Indifferent   B. Ambiguous  C. Subjective D. Cautious
26. According to the passage, people are now concerned about the following except_____.
  A. whether the incident reflects a racial issue
  B. when police officers should get involved with classroom discipline
  C. whether students can play cellphones in class
  D. whether the law that allows police officers to arrest students for misbehaving at schools should be changed
27. Which of the following could be the best title for the passage 
  A. Police officer fired for tossing student B. Black parents protest charge for teen tossed from desk
  C. Charged teens allowed back in school D. Violence at school
C
　　A study of a million UK women, published today in The Lancet, has shown that happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, and that the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect. Life-threatening poor health can cause unhappiness, and for this reason unhappiness is associated with increased mortality. In addition, smokers tend to be unhappier than non-smokers. However, after taking account of previous ill health, smoking, and other lifestyle and socio-economic factors, the investigators found that unhappiness itself was no longer associated with increased mortality.
　　The lead author, Dr Bette Liu, now at the University of New South Wales, Australia said: "Illness makes you unhappy, but unhappiness itself doesn't make you ill. We found no direct effect of unhappiness or stress on mortality, even in a ten-year study of a million women."
　　As in other studies, unhappiness was associated with deprivation, smoking, lack of exercise, and not living with a partner. The strongest associations, however, were that the women who were already in poor health tended to say that they were unhappy, stressed, not in control, and not relaxed.
　　The main analyses included 700 000 women, average age 59 years, and over the next 10 years these women were followed by electronic record linkage for mortality, during which time 30 000 of the women died.
　　After allowing for any differences already present in health and lifestyle, the overall death rate among those who were unhappy was the same as the death rate among those who were generally happy. The study is so large that it rules out unhappiness being a direct cause of any material increase in overall mortality in women.
　　This was true for overall mortality, for cancer mortality, and for heart disease mortality, and it was true for stress as well as for unhappiness.
28. The word “mortality” in the passage means         .
　 A. richness      B. relaxation       C. death        D. morality
29. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? 
　 A. Unhappiness will definitely make a person ill.
　 B. Unhappiness doesn’t necessarily make you ill.
　 C. Unhappiness is not associated with lack of exercise.
 D. The death rate among those unhappy people is greater.
30. It’s wrongly believed that ________.
　 A. unhappiness itself is not associated with increased mortality
　 B. there is no direct link between unhappiness and mortality
　 C. ill health directly causes unhappiness and stress
　 D. ill health directly results from unhappiness and stress
31. The writer’s attitude towards the result of the study is __________.
    A. disappointing      B. indifferent         C. subjective       D. objective
D
　　A full stop is used at the end of an idea or thought, and is an important rule in proper grammar. But text messages are changing the rules as a new study finds digital messages ending with one aren't sincere. The results suggest skipping punctuation altogether, as it indicates you are answering naturally and heartfelt.
　　Binghamton University’s Harpur College observed 126 students, who read a series of messages displayed as texts on a screen or handwritten notes on loose-leaf paper(活页纸). In the 16 experimental exchanges, the sender’s message contained a statement followed by an invitation phrased as a question such as, “Dave gave me his extra ticket. Wanna come?” The receiver then gave a one-word response like “Okay”, “Sure”, Yeah” or “Yup”. Half of the participants’ responses were with a full stop and the other half did not use it. Based on the responses, text messages that ended with a full stop were rated less sincere than those that did not end with one. The students who read the notes on the paper reported that full stop or not, they felt the message was sincere. These results suggest that punctuation can misconstrue or influence the meaning of text messages. The study concludes, “ not so much that the full stop is used to convey a lack of sincerity in text messages, but that punctuation is one of the cues(提示) used by senders, and understood by receivers, to convey practical and social information. ”
　　“Texting is lacking many of the social cues used in actual face-to-face conversations”, said Celia Klin, associate professor of psychology at Binghamton University’s Harpur College. “When speaking, people easily convey social and emotional information with eye gaze, facial expressions, tone of voice, pauses, and so on. People obviously can't use these mechanisms when they are texting. Thus, it makes sense that texters rely on what they have available to them -- emoticons, deliberate misspellings that mimic speech sounds(拟声) and, according to our data, punctuation. ”
　　Recently, Klin’s team conducted a follow-up study and found that text response with an exclamation mark（感叹号） is interpreted as more sincere. “That’s not surprising, but it broadens our claim,”said Klin. “Punctuation is used and understood by texters to convey emotions and other social and practical information. Given that people are wonderfully good at communicating complex information in conversations, it’s not surprising that as texting evolves, people are finding ways to convey the same types of information in their texts. ”
32. According to a new study in the first paragraph, digital messages with punctuation indicate you are ______.
　 A. impolite        B. insincere        C. heartfelt         D. natural
33. The underlined sentence in the passage means that ______.
   A. the full stop conveys a lack of sincerity in text messages
   B. to show sincerity, people shouldn’t use punctuation in text messages
   C. punctuation can’t influence the meaning of text messages
   D. punctuation actually conveys practical and social information in a way
34. Compared with face-to-face conversations, which of the following can text messages rely on to convey their meaning?
   A. Eye contact     B. Tone of voice     C. Emoticons   D. Gestures
35. Which of the following agrees with Celia Klin’s opinion?
   A. Conversations rely on the same expression way as text messages.
   B. Texters may find more ways available to convey the same information.
   C. Text response with an exclamation mark sounds more insincere.
   D. Punctuation is only used to convey emotions.
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。
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