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山西省山大附中2014届高三下学期第二次月考英语试题考查时间：120分钟 考查内容：大综合 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分10分）第一节（共5小题，每小题0.5分，满分2.5分）听下面五段对话。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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What will the woman do next? A. Turn down the radioB. Close the windowC. Turn up the radio2. Who will probably get the stamps? A. The womanB. The man's classmateC. The woman's sister3. Why can't the woman go with the man? A. She is a little tiredB. She's going to listen to musicC. She's going to the library4. When will the man see his parents? A. At 1000B. At 800C. At 12005. Where does the conversation take place? A. At homeB. At a travel agencyC. In a hotel第二节(共15小题; 每小题.0.5分，满分7.5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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料.回答第6至7题。6. What does the woman ask the man to send? A. A reportB. An e-mailC. A letter7. For whom will the man reserve a room in the Garden Hotel? A. For the womanB. For Mr. SimpsonC. For Mr. Black听第7段材料.回答第8至9题。8. Where's the hotel located? A. Far away from the cityB. Near the harborC. In the center of the city9. When will the speakers meet? A. On FridayB. On SundayC. On Saturday听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What's the conversation about? A. Buying a flatB. Renting a flatC. Visiting a flat11. How many bedrooms are there in this flat? A. TwoB. ThreeC. Four12. When can the woman move in? A. Right nowB. In two weeksC. After October 1听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What's the man looking for? A. A monumentB. A barC. A hall14. What is the Mound? A. A road nameB. A hall nameC. A monument name15. How will the man get there probably? A. By busB. By taxiC. on foot16. What do you think of the woman? A. She is helpfulB. She is impatientC. She is rude听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Why is Lily sitting in the trolley(手推车)? A. She is too heavy for her mother to carry B. Her mother wants to talk to Mrs. Lee C. Her mother bought too many things18. What is Lily doing while Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Young are talking? A. She is listening to their talk B. She is playing with a bottle of whisky C. She is playing with the things her mother has bought19. What can we learn from the speech? A. Mrs. Lee steals a bottle of whisky B. The detective finds the whisky in Mrs. Lees handbag C. Mrs. Young asks her daughter to steal a bottle of whisky20. What does the speech tell us? A. Lily is a shy girl B. Mrs. Lee is a forgetful person C. People sometimes can hardly explain themselves第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节 （共15小题，每题3分，满分45分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Although man has known asbestos for hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H.W.Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers，was responsible for the opening of that first mine.Mr. Johns was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves，which looked much like ordinary work gloves，he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imagine that he had increased business in asbestos roofing materials. However，because it was very expensive to transport them from Italy to the United States, Mr. Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein, in the province of Quebec in Canada.Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral，which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated，a strange thing happens; the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibers. Scientists do not know why the rock can be separated easily into threads(线)，but they have found thousands of uses of this fireproof material, of the so- called “cloth of stone.”21. Which title best expresses the main idea of this passage?A. Asbestos mined in CanadaB. Fireproof material C. A “wonder” material D.A new roofing material22. Johns proved his ability as a salesman by_. A. going into roofing businessB. carrying asbestos from Italy C. sending out a trained scientist D. showing the use of asbestos gloves23. Which is the most important character of asbestos that the author wants to show us? A. It is like thread B. It feels soapy C. It burns easily D. It is unusually heavy24. The authors main purpose in writing the passage was to_. A. show the need for more scientists B. compare asbestos with other materials C. increase the sales of asbestos D. present facts about asbestosB BEIJING(China Daily2010-8-27)-With a rapid increase in the number of Chinese PhD graduates programs in the past decade, it seems the quality of educating doctoral students is falling. About 70 percent of employers complain that employees who hold PhDs show little creation in their work performance, according a resent survey. The number of PhD students in China reached 246,300 in2009, about five times the figure in 1999. China replaced the United States to become the worlds top producer of doctorate holders in 2008, according to an Asia Times report. “Nowadays, it is not rare for people in their 30s to become professors in Chinese universities, but I really doubt their experience and capability at such a young age,” said Ge Daoshun, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Almost half of the professors admitted each of them had to direct more than seven PhD candidates. Some 60 percent of PhD candidates admitted they have been given more than half of their professors research projects. The relationship between PhD students and their teachers has become an employment, in other words, a ”master-apprentice” relationship, since professors use their students as cheap labor to do research. “Chinese universities should reform the tutorial system and introduce more stricter requirements for people to get a PhD diploma to improve the quality of education,” Ge told China Daily. However, Liu Xin, a 25-year-oldPhDcandidate at the University of Sussex in England, argued that a major reason China is producing low quality doctorates is that most of the candidates do not have a passion for academic research “The best college students of China have seldom ended up in academic positions. Most of them want to work in either banking or foreign companies, which pay much better.”25. What does the underline word in Para,5 mean?A. teacherB. directorC. studentD. co-operator26. From what Liu Xin said in the last paragraph, we can know_. A. the quality of doctorates is based on the quality of students B. the PhD students in China are not so good as those in western countries C. the PhD students in China are not good at academic research D. the PhD students in other countries do not want to make money 27. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage? A. PhD education in China B. PhDs High in number, low in quality C. The differences of PhDs between Chinese and other countries D. The “master-apprentice” relationship C The man traveling in the back of the ambulance which was running at a high speed along the streets of Baltimore that morning in2008 had no business to be alive. By everything that was reasonable, and there were plenty of such things before, he should have been very dead indeed. But he wasnt. As the people in the hospital pointed out after they had examined him, he was only slightly hurt. Yet he had just fallen 150 feet down a hotel lift shaft！Unknown to the man, two things had occurred which were to affect his life that day. On the thirteenth floor of the hotel, somebody had carelessly left the lift gate open. Down in the basement, a pipe had burst and it had flooded from the bottom of the lift shaft to a depth of two feet.Modern lifts have all sorts of fail-safe system to prevent accidents, but this was ancient equipment unreliable, slow, dangerous, and unsuitable material to recycle. The man had plenty of things to occupy his mind that morning. He had overslept. The hotel had forgotten to call him and now he was late for an important business appointment. He dressed quickly, shaved hurriedly, took hold of his briefcase and hurried off down the hotel corridor. Good! The lift gate was open. The lift must be there. He need not press the button and wait while the large, clumsy lift made its way upwards. Without looking or thinking, he stepped out into space, The lift cage was, in fact, one floor above him on the fourteenth. The lift shaft which he had walked was a narrow space of not very fresh air, ending150 feet below in two feet of dirty water.The man fell, making his journey to the ground at a speed he had never dreamed of. Confused patterns, a rush of air, time enough to be afraid, split-second thoughts of death, then crash!Perhaps this gave him the record for some sort of high-diving act. No doubt in future he always looked before he jumped. Certainly he learnt that this was no way to save time. The experts said that those two feet of water had saved his life.28. What do we learn about the man? A. He fell from the 13th floor.B. He was hit by an ambulance. C. He got caught in a serious flood.D. He made a record for high-diving29. By “ had no business to be alive”, the writer means that the man_. A. had missed his business appointmentB. was alive with excitement C. was alive and this was surprisingD. didnt do any business 30. The lift did not have a fail-safe system because it was_. A. narrow B. slow C. large D. old31. Which of the following was NOT the cause of the accident? A. A pipe burst B. The man overslept C. The hotel forgot to call him D. Someone left the lift door open D Name Sam Champion Hot job TV Weatherman Where WABC-TV, New York City When you were a child, did you plan to forecast wind, rain, and snow on TV?I want to be a foreign journalist. I took courses in weather science at Eastern Kentucky University, but I majored in broadcasting news How did you finally become a weatherman? My first job in the early 80s was at the local TV station in Paducah, Kentucky. I did everything from turning on the lights in the morning to writing and delivering morning news. I put together weather forecasts, and become interested in them. Back then, how did you forecast weather? Independent companies collected computer information that showed, for example, how a single weather system might split into snow or snow mixed with rain. The information was often opposite and the job of a weather man was to study the information and make the best educated guess about the storm Has weather forecasting changed much with new technology? Advanced computers, satellites, and Doppler radar（sound waves used to track storms）have made forecasting more exact. But we still know very little about how weather is shaped. So far, we just have theories. Any advice for children whod like to become weather scientists?To me, weather is the most exciting filed in the world. There are still so many more questions about weather than answers. After all, if we cant foresee floods or hurricanes, how safe a society are we? Weather forecasting is wide open for scientists who love to solve puzzling problems. The next generation of meteorologists will unlock many of Earth science, and study meteorology in college Thanks, Sam32. Judging from the writing style, the text is_. A. a diary B. an interview C. a news story D. an announcement33. As a child, ABC-TVs Sam Champion wanted to be a _. A. space scientist B. weatherman C. news reporter D. meteorologist34. Present weather forecasting technology_. A. has made weather report more exact than everB. is still not perfect C. hasnt changed much in the last 50 yearsD. both A and B35. The study of weather science is called_.A. meteorologyB. forecastingC. geographyD. earth science第二节 （共5小题，每小题3分，满分15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。Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. -Dale CarnegieIf we really want to be happy, why do we act like such babies?We can claim to be proactive in our life by setting goals and going after what we want. But if were always complaining all the time, are we really living effectively？36. _ Whether it is being stuck in traffic, being bothered by the weather, not enough mustard onyour sandwich, or whatever it is, there are endless instances where you can find a reason to complain.But its not just outside circumstances that we complain about. 37 _ We complain that we dont have enough time, we dont have enough money（this one is huge because its often “true”），that were not smart enough, cool enough, or just enough.38. _ I never really thought about it much until I found this website about “Living in a complaint-free world”.Imagine how much happier you would be if you simply stopped complaining? Much of what you complain about is outside of your control anyway. Whats the point of thinking about something you have no power to change? 39. _Simply becoming conscious of how much you complain is the first step to stopping. When you recognize that youre complaining, stop and take notice of it. Ask yourself if you would rather complain, or be happy.40. _A. We complain about ourselves too.B. Not very intelligent, if you ask meC. Why cant we complain about things around us?D. Are you ready to live a complaint-free, happier life?E. What youre complaining about may make you quite unhappy.F. If you dont believe me, count how many times you complain in one day.G. Ive experienced lots of unpleasantness for complaining about things I cant control.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。I felt gloomy the other day. The weather had been dark and rainy, and I just didn't feel so _41_.As I was sitting at my desk, I _42_ it was the birthday of a dear long-time friend a single, middle-aged woman who has devoted the past 30 years to nursing and loves her _43_. Knowing that she doesn't h