树德中学高2016届高三第二学期入学考试英语试题
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分20分)
第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，满分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 is the man’s passport?
A. In his car. B. In his bag. C. In his pocket. 2. What will the woman do next?
A. Walk to the university. B. Get off at the next stop. C. Take the downtown bus.
3. What does the woman like best about the shirt? A. The color. B. The price. C. The material. 4. What does the man say about Stephanie?
A. She will get well soon. B. She has a very bad cold. C. She is coming to the beach.
5. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. At a clothing store. B. In a tailor’s shop. C. At a laundry. 第二节（共15小题）
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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第六段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. According to the man, what is special at the Salvadoran restaurant? A. A special drink. B. A certain kind of soup. C. Corn pancakes. 7. Where is El Salvador?
A. In South America. B. In Central America. C. In the north of Mexico.
听第七段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. How did the man learn about the job?
A. From an agency. B. From the Internet. C. From the newspaper. 9. What will the man probably do next? A. Learn to type faster. B. Start working right away. C. Pick up an application from the woman. 听第八段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What season do the two speakers talk about? A. Autumn. B. Winter. C. Summer. 11. What does the woman think about watching movies? A. It’s so exciting. B. It’s too boring. C. It’s too expensive. 12. What do we know about the woman?
A. She hasn’t been used to the weather there. B. She will have a date with the man tonight. C. She paid too much to watch a movie. 听第九段材料，回答第13至16题。
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13. Where are the speakers?
A. In Los Angeles. B. In Chicago. C. In Connecticut. 14. What does the woman finally buy?
A. A light coat. B. A heavy coat. C. A wool coat. 15. What discount does the woman get for the coat?
A. Five percent. B. Ten percent. C. Fifteen percent. 16. What does the man recommend to the woman in the end?
A. Some scarves. B. Some gloves. C. Some shirts. 听第十段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Where was the school located?
A. In the woods. B. Two miles from a farm. C. In the middle of a field.
18. What did all the students bring with them to school?
A. Books. B. Food. C. Money. 19. How old was the speaker on his first day at that school?
A. Fifteen years old. B. Eight years old. C. Seven years old. 20. What was the speaker confused about?
A. Why they had to eat outside. B. Why smoking was not considered bad. C. Why they had to go to school in summer. 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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
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From 2008 to 2013, American households lost $l1 trillion in real estate, savings, and stocks. More than half of all U. S. workers either lost their jobs or were forced to take cuts in hours or pay during the recession. The worst may be behind them now, but the shocking losses of the past few years have reshaped nearly every facet of their lives—how they live, work, and spend—even the way they think about the future.
For Cindy, the recession began when her husband was relocated to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, by his company, forcing the family to move in a hurry. The couple bought a new house but were unable to sell their two-bedroom home in Big Lake, Minnesota. With two mortgages(抵押借款) and two young children to care for, Cindy couldn't imagine how to stretch her husband's paycheck to keep her family fed.
Then she stumbled upon an online community called Blotanical, a forum for gardeners, many with an interest in sustainability. “The more I read and discussed these practices, the more I realized this would help not only our budget but also our health,” she says.
Cindy admits that before the recession, she was a city girl with no interest in growing her own dinner. “I grew flowers mostly—I didn’t think about plants that weren’t visually interesting.” But to stretch her budget, she began putting in
vegetables and fruit—everything from strawberry beds to apple trees—and as her first seedlings grew, her spirits lifted. She no longer thinks of gardening and making her own jams as just a money saver; they’re a genuine pleasure. “It’s brought us closer together as a family, too,” she says. Her kids voluntarily pitch in with(主动帮助) the garden work, and the family cooks together instead of eating out. The food tastes better —it's fresher and organic —and the garden handily fulfills its original purpose:
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cost cutting. Now she spends about $200 to $300 a month on groceries, less than half of the $650 a month that she used to lay out.
After discovering how resourceful she can be in tough times, Cindy is no longer easily discouraged. “It makes me feel proud to be able to say I made it myself,” she says. “I feel accomplished, and I'm more confident about attempting things I've never done before. Now she avoids convenience stores and has begun learning to knit, quilt, and make her own soap. “I don't think I would have ever begun this journey if it weren’t for the recession,” she says. “I have a feeling that from now on, it will affect my family’s health and happiness for the better.”
21. We learn from the first paragraph that the recession______. A. had great impact on Americans’ work and life. B. affected Americans in certain occupations.
C. had only brought huge losses in savings and stocks. D. is over with some of the losses recovered.
22. What made the family's financial situation even worse was that they_______. A. moved to Rhinelander in a hurry. B. had two children to raise. C. didn't know anyone in Rhinelander. D. couldn't sell their home in Big Lake.
23. In addition, Cindy views gardening as a genuine pleasure because gardening _______.
A. helped her cut living costs almost by half. B. enabled her to make her own jams.
C. built up family ties and kids’ enthusiasm. D. enabled her to know more about plants.
24. What does Cindy think of the difficult times she has gone through? A. It gave the couple and their kids a tough lesson. B. It gave her confidence and optimism.
C. It would come again and affect the family.
D. It left a lasting psychological impact on the family.
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When it’s five o’clock, people leave their office. The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time. They leave when the clock tells them they’re done. These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers. That may be a bad thing, particularly at work. New research shows on that clock-based work schedules hinder morale（士气）and creativity.
Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours. For example: a meeting from 9 am to 10 a.m., research from 10 a.m. to noon, etc. On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to accomplish. They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.
What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under “clock time” vs “task time.” They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives. Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive. They
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tend to enjoy the moment when something good is happening, and seize opportunities that come up.
The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture. Smart companies, they believe, will try to bake more task-based planning into their strategies.
This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time. While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity. It’ll make those tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.
25. What does the author think of time displayed everywhere? A. It makes everybody time-conscious.
B. If may have a negative effect on creative work. C. It is a convenience for work and life.
D. It clearly indicates the fast pace of modern life.
26. What did Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier find in their experiments about clock-timers?
A. They seize opportunities as they come up. B. They always get their work done in time. C. They tend to be more productive.
D. They have more control over their lives.
27. What do the researchers say about today’s business culture?
A. It does not support the strategies adopted by smart companies. B. It aims to bring employees’ potential and creativity into full play. C. It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers’ lives, D. It does not attach enough importance to task-based practice. 28. What do the researchers suggest?
A. Task-based timing is preferred for doing creative work. B. It is important to keep a balance between work and life. C. Performing creative jobs tends to make workers happier. D. A scientific standard should be adopted in job evaluation.
C
Overwhelmed by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you're looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory ─ and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available ─is changing our cognitive habits. Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia
University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers' final observation: the expectation that we'll be able to locate
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information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'll be able to find it.
But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can't be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia ─ meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren't over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can't Google context.
Last, there's the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines fail us. As Sparrow puts it, “The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend.” If you're going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it's fully charged. 29. Google's eyeglasses are supposed to _____. A. improve our memory B. function like memory. C. help us see faces better. D. work like smart phones.
30. According to the passage, the underlined words “cognitive habits” refers to ______.
A. how we deal with information. B. functions of human memory. C. the amount of information. D. the availability of information. 31. Which of the following statements about Sparrow's research is CORRECT? A. We remember people and things as much as before. B. We remember more Internet connections than before.
C. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts. D. We pay equal attention to location and content of information. 32. What is the implied message of the author? A. Web connections aid our memory. B. People differ in what to remember. C. People keep memory on smart phones. D. People need to exercise their memory.
D
We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who's responsible? Actually, it's more like, What is responsible? The Internet, of course, and everything that comes with it ─Facebook, Twitter. You can write your own list.
There's been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before ─ there are more and more readers, and more and more books.
The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.
As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are
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possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an e-book can provide readers with an unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and videos. In the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.
On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization. One Twitter group is offering its followers single-sentence-long “digests” of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span ─ that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.
In such a fast-changing world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility of someone utterly in tune with modern technology but also able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.
In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg's invention of the printing press in Europe had a huge impact on civilization. Once upon a time the physical book was a challenging thing. We should remember this before we assume that technology is out to destroy traditional culture.
33. The following are all cited as advantages of e-books EXCEPT ______.
A. multimodal content B. environmental friendliness C. convenience for readers D. imaginative design
34. According to the passage, people need knowledge of modern technology and
______ to survive in the fast-changing society. A. good judgment B. high sensitivity C. good imagination D. the ability to focus 35. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Technology pushes the way forward for reading and writing. B. Interconnectivity is a feature of new reading experience.
C. Technology is an opportunity and a challenge for traditional reading. D. Technology offers a greater variety of reading practice. 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。
Lost in the Post
How would you feel if the letter you penned carefully and posted to your favorite star ended up in the recycling bin? That's where unopened fan mail sent to singer Taylor Swift was found in Nashville. 36 Swift’s management said it was an accident, but dealing with piles of letters is a burden for most public figures. According to the BBC reporter Jon Kelly, at the height of his fame, Johnny Depp was said to receive up to 10,000 letters a week. 37 The dawn of the digital age in which public figures with a Twitter account can be messaged directly has made the process easier. The White House says it deals with 20,000 messages addressed to President Barack Obama each day.
Some celebrities don’t want letters. In 2008, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr said that he would throw them out because he was too busy. 38 Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight films, claims that he reads tons and tons of letters from fans,
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which takes up almost all his free time.
Many artists, however, outsource (外包) the task of opening, reading and replying. Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor, 58, has run a service in California that does just that since 1987. 39 Most letters are simply declarations of affection and admiration, she says. A few ask for money. A small number contain threats which require her to contact the celebrity’s security team and law enforcement.
The biggest problem for Taylor is working out how to deal with the correspondence(通信). Presents such as soft toys are sent to local hospitals, and most of the letters just get shredded and recycled.
40 For some, this is enough, according to Lynn Zubernis, an expert at West Chester University. She says that the relationship between fan and celebrity may exist only in the mind of the former but it comes from a deeply-rooted human need for community.
A. Others do attempt to get through it themselves.
B. In fact, there is no alternative to deal with the problem.
C. How could he have enough time to skim through these letters one by one? D. Typically, correspondence is acknowledged by a photo with a printed “signature”.
E. Accordingly, the correspondence problem has been difficult for the computer to automate.
F. She and her staff deal with up to 20,000 items of mail a month on behalf of 26 celebrities.
G. This incident has caused a wide public concern about how the public figures
deal with the letters or mails from the fans.
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；每题1.5分，满分30分）
A Deed a Day
It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat 41 we had to take the girls to their next activity. My husband seemed a bit 42 that dinner was not on the table.
That night, I had a heavy 43 , thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line (流水线). We had become too 44 in our own tasks and not very considerate towards those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would 45 our own agendas and energize us toward the common good.
I bought a notebook, named it “Our Deed Diary” and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a 46 for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our 47 . And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.
I thought one deed a day was too easy. However, it was actually 48 than it seemed because it had to be something 49 what we had already done. Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not 50 .
We had a rough 51 . On some days, someone would forget to 52 a good deed, while on other days, we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary. After a few weeks though, I found myself waking up in the morning trying to 53
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what good deed I could do for someone that day. My daughters began to rush to me after school to 54 me the good deed they had done.
Now, after a year, I am happy to say that it is making a(n) 55 in our lives. Instead of always 56 what the day will bring for us, we think about what we can do for someone else.
Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so 57 ? I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only 58 by giving to someone else from your heart. The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for or expect anything in 59 . So, when someone does return the favor, it is an enormous and positive 60 . 41. A. though B. unless C. before D. while 42. A. annoyed B. puzzled C. embarrassed D. frightened 43. A. shoulder B. stomach C. foot D. heart 44. A. absorbed B. interested C. confident D. successful 45. A. repeat B. relate C. refocus D. recall 46. A. kindness B. task C. job D. copy 47. A. room B. home C. school D. town 48. A. stranger B. sweeter C. harder D. bigger 49. A. beyond B. from C. about D. between 50. A. matter B. count C. last D. happen 51. A. time B. life C. start D. idea 52. A. praise B. check C. record D. do 53. A. describe B. decide C. remember D. explain 54. A. bring B. teach C. offer D. tell 55. A. effort B. choice C. difference D. fortune 56. A. forgetting B. believing C. knowing D. wondering 57. A. tiring B. moving C. surprising D. rewarding 58. A. experience B. imagine C. predict D. exchange
59. A. silence B. return C. time D. order 60. A. effect B. bonus C. attitude D. contribution
第二节 （共10分；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空格处填人适当的内容（1个单词）或使用括号中单词的正确形式。
What kind of music do you like 61 (good)? My 62 (favour) is pop music. It really took off in the 1950s, when the electric guitar 63 (invent). When someone had the bright idea of putting a microphone inside the guitar, a whole new range 64 sounds became possible. The origins of pop music lie in jazz ─a type of music which became 65 (increase) popular among young people. The first real pop superstar is Elvis Presley, 66 king of rock music. He was 67 (follow) in the 1960s and 1970s by the rock super groups. And I was still a little child when the Beatles had the first hit of 68 (their). It was amazing! Suddenly, pop music came to life and everyone wanted to be part of it. After the Beatles came the heavy rock: the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Queen,
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and then rock music 69 (spread) across the world. Young people 70 live in the countries as far apart as Canada and Japan have been influenced by American and British pop music for over 40 years now.
三、短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) 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，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)，并在其下面写出该加的词。 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。
Mr. Li, who has a great influence on my growth, is a good teacher with a pair of glasses. He’s real considerate and we all love him.
Last week, I suddenly had a terrible stomachache in the class. Mr. Li was very worried. He sent me to the nearest hospital as soon as possible. After check, the doctor said there were something wrong with my stomach, and I needed to stay in hospital for another day. But both my parent were far away. Mr. Li made several phones and stayed with me all the night in the hospital. He even bought food for me or asked me to take medicine on time. After recovery, he helped me with the missing lessons, what made me so moved.
Here, I want to express gratitude to him, for I can’t recover so fast with his care. Because of him, I can make a great progress in my study. No present can express my grateful feeling to my teacher. I will study hard and this is the best present for her.
四、书面表达。(25分)
假如你是光明中学高三学生李夏，今年暑假你将参加”英国名校两周游”夏令营，计划8月份在London逗留三天（8月16-18日），住在Wellington Hotel。你想与去年你家接待过的来自英国Birmingham的学生Tony见面，请你给他写一封Email。主要内容包括：
1．问候；
2．简单介绍你在伦敦的行程；
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3．希望见面并商量见面的时间和地点。
注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头已给出，但不计入总词数。
Dear Tony,
How time flies! It has been almost a year since your last visit. Looking forward to your reply.
Yours, Li Xia
树德中学高2016届高三第二学期入学考试
参考答案
第一部分：听力理解（共两节，30分）
1-5 CBABC 6-10 CBCCA 11-15 CAABA 16-20 BABCB 第二部分： 阅读理解
阅读21-24：ADCB 阅读25-28： BCDA
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阅读29-32：BACD 阅读33-35： DBC 阅读七选五： 36-40 G CA FD 第三部分：完型填空
41-45 CA D A C 46-50 ABCAB 51-55 CDB DC 56-60 DDABB 语法填空：
61. best 62. favourite 63. was invented 64. of 65. increasingly 66. the 67. followed 68. theirs 69. spread 70. who 改错：
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with me all the night in the hospital. He even bought food for me or asked me to take and
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四、书面表达。(25分) 【参考范文】 Dear Tony,
How time flies! It has been almost a year since your last visit. How’s everything going with you and your family? My parents and I miss you very much.
I’m happy to tell you that I will join in a two-week camp to visit some of the
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famous universities in the UK this summer vocation. It’s scheduled that we will stay in London from August 16th to 18th. We’re planning to have a tour of London on the first two days, when we’ll visit some popular tourist attractions such as the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and so on.
I’m eager to see you, for this is a very good opportunity. I am wondering if we could make it on the afternoon of August 18th at Wellington Hotel, where we’ll be staying. We won’t have any planned activities then. Please let me know if it is convenient for you.
Looking forward to your reply.
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