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山西大学附中2012~2013学年第二学期高三（4月）月考
英语试题
（考察时间：95分钟 满分150）
第Ⅰ卷 （ 共115分）
第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分）
第一节 单项（1×15）
1.We are now living in ____ world where coputers rule our work and daily life. So online searches have already becoe ____ ust.
A. a; the B. a; a C. the; a D. the; /
2. Look! If we had begun to do the work yesterday orning, we ____ ourselves just like the.
A. would have enjoyed B. were to enjoy C. should enjoy D. would be enjoying
3. It is required that ore attention ____ the working conditions of the workers in our country.
A. should be paid to keep B. be paid to having kept
C. should be paid to have iproved D. be paid to iproving
4. The coittee has expected the probles that ____ in the road construction project.
A. arise B. will arise C. arose D. have arisen
5. —You ay find the key to the ath proble on page 107．
—Ah, it's so siple． I wonder why I ____ of that．
A. hadn't thought B. haven't thought C. didn't think D. wasn't thinking
6. Beer bottles can be recycled but they need cleaning thoroughly, ____ they?
A. needn't B.don't C. ustn't D. can't
7. —I’ terribly sorry that I ade your table cloth dirty. —____.
A. Never ind B. Don’t ention it C. That’s right D. Sorry
8. ____ the road round to the right, the blind an asked a boy to guide hi.
A. Follow B. Following C. To follow D. Followed
9. Online shopping sites say that they find it difficult to ____ the deand for canned infant ilk powder after the new law takes effect in Hong Kong.
A. put up with B. catch up with C. keep up with D. coe up with
10. On every feale teacher’s desk ____ a rose with a note “HAPPY WOEN’S DAY” on arch, 8th in our school.
A. appeared B. have appeared C. was appearing D. appearing
11. Lack of confidence does cause soe probles—in fact far ore serious ____ than lack of experience does.
A. one B. those C. ones D. that
12. What a wonder! They’ve finished ____ 40% of the task within one week.
A. no ore than B. no less than C. not ore than D. uch less than
13. Three of the town’s factories have closed down ____ the space of a year.
A. aong B. after C. beyond D. within
14. ____ Aristotle, we are ____ we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
A. In view of; which B. Based on; when C. In ters of; who D. According to; what
15. Painting fro still iages leads to a loss of sensitivity which is ____ to an artist.
A. absolute B. urgent C. special D. vital
第二节 完形（2×20）
Persistence paid off
When I graduated, I was by no eans an exceptionally talented web developer. Like any graduates, I was clueless which 16 to take when I left university, so I took a couple of gap years traveling around North Aerica. After traveling , I returned hoe and 17 in a restaurant where I was offered an assistant anager role. 18 the offer was appealing, it occurred to e that if I didn't start inspiring y enthusias, soon I would find yself relying on a(n) 19 wage and stuck in a career routine.
At this tie, in 2002, the digital industry was booing in the UK, and after looking into this area 20 , I realized I was very interested in 21 a career in web developent. The ain question was: "where do I start?" I had very little 22 knowledge or indeed skills in web developent, and I couldn't get a job without the experience and skills 23 y belt. So, I put everything I had into learning ore and finding a job in web-designing industry. I 24 y resue by post to every digital agency within 100 iles — aking it clear I was 25 to work without pay if I could gain experience. This brought a few 26 ，but nothing which 27 y career abitions or e.
Having 28 to find yself a training position within a copany, I realized that if I wanted to get into this industry I would need to 29 y own opportunities. So, I asked a friend who owned a pub if I could create a website for hi. I even asked for a sall upfront payent which 30 e to coplete the site quickly and to the 31 standard. It proved to be a great website, and a good investent for y friend, as it attracted new custoers. Eventually, I 32 a local web developent agency — which had already turned e down twice! — to take a look at y work. The copany was 33 that I was not going to give up on y passion, decided to take e 34 .
After being offered the post, I've learned when it coes to careers, persistence often pays off. It deonstrates enthusias, coitent and drive; all attractive 35 in the eyes of an eployer. So, don't give up if you don't get the placeent or role first tie round — soeties persistence is all it takes to catch an eployer's eye.
16. A. suggestion B. directionC. courseD. decision
17. A. stayed B. dinedC. workedD. joined
18. A. When B. IfC. BecauseD. Although
19. A. regularB. realC. low D. average
20. A. deeperB. furtherC. heavierD. nearer
21. A. applyingB. seekingC. registeringD. picking
22. A. advancedB. correctC. coon D. practical
23. A. uponB. aroundC. underD. with
24. A. sentB. wroteC. preparedD. collected
25. A. supposedB. goingC. willingD. able
26. A. receptionsB. rejectionsC. repayentsD. responses
27. A. suited B. liitedC. possessedD. substituted
28. A. pausedB. agreedC. failedD. pretended
29. A. eetB. createC. changeD. get
30. A. soothed B. refreshed C. pushedD. raised
31. A. certainB. peranentC. entionedD. desired
32. A. convincedB. insuredC. proisedD. proved
33. A. scaredB. confusedC. ebarrassed D. ipressed
34. A. inB. onC. overD. apart
35. A. qualitiesB. coitentsC. potentials D. procedures
第三节 理解（3×20）
A
The fourth round of heavy sog to hit Beijing in four weeks has sent ore people to the hospital with respiratory（呼吸的） illnesses and led to calls for laws to control the pollution.
Pan Shiyi , a celebrity real estate developer said he is planning to propose a Clean Air Act to the local governent. As a representative to the Beijing unicipal People's Congress, he started an online survey at 9:20 a.. Within three hours, ore than 25,000 web users, or 99 percent of total respondents, welcoed his proposal on Sina Weibo , China's Twitter.
They have good reasons to stand alongside Pan. The latest round of haze reduced visibility to under 500 eters in any parts of the city. The sog has also led to a great increase in respiratory illnesses, particularly aong children and the elderly. Anxious parents and doctors alost all blae the soggy air for the illnesses. Though ost schoolchildren are hoe for the winter holidays, the bad air can easily ove indoors. Besides, ordinary edical asks fail to provide adequate protection, so soe people have turned to gas asks and respirators.
The causes of the scary sog are rather ysterious, though experts blae excessive eissions and the ountains around Beijing that trap pollution in winter, unless there is adequate wind to clear it away. Soe critics have pointed fingers at China’s top two oil firs, China National Petroleu Corp and China Petrocheical Corporation, saying the copanies’ outdated production technologies produce large quantities of substandard, high-polluting gas fuel.
eanwhile, concerned Beijingers have oved their brainstoring sessions to cyberspace. If Pan’s proposal for a Clean Air Act is adopted, netizens say the new law should include ites providing for “car-free days” in ties of sog, higher standards for vehicle fuel, stricter restrictions on industrial and exhaust gas eissions, and ore effective protection for the public.
Beijing is not the only city that has ever lost the blue sky. Five days of thick fog caused thousands of deaths in Britain in Deceber 1952, urging the governent to pass the first Clean Air Act in 1956, which introduced sokeless zones and cleaner fuels to reduce pollution. That ay provide soe experience for Beijing to refer to.
36. Why did Pan Shiyi started an online survey?
A. To investigate the public’s opinions on pollution.
B. To tell people the danger of the soggy weather.
C. To call on ore people to support his proposal.
D. To collect supporting evidences for his proposal.
37. What can we learn fro the passage?
A. People are clear about the causes of the soggy weather.
B. Children staying indoors will not get respiratory illnesses.
C. Sog is worse for people with lower resistance to diseases.
D. asks can give people protection against the soggy weather.
38. Britain is entioned in the last paragraph to ____.
A. suggest Beijing should learn fro other countries
B. let people know any places have this proble
C. tell people the situation in Britain is worse
D. call on the governent to pass Britain’s Clean Air Act
B
High-quality custoer service is told by any, but actually keeping custoers happy is easier said than done.
Shoppers seldo coplain to the anager or owner of retail (零售) store, but instead will alar their friends, relatives, co-workers, strangers and anyone who will listen. Store anagers are often the last to hear coplaints, and often find out only when their regular custoers decide to frequent their copetitors, according to a study jointly conducted by Verde group and Wharton school. “Storytelling hurts retailers and entertains consuers." Said Paula Courtney, president of the Verde group. "The store loses the custoer, but the shopper ust also find a replaceent."
On average, every unhappy custoer will coplain to at least four others, and will no longer visit the specific store. For every dissatisfied custoer, a store will lose up to three ore due to negative reviews. The resulting "snowball effect" can be disastrous to retailers.
According to the research, shoppers who purchased clothing encountered the ost probles. Ranked second and third were grocery and electronics custoers. The ost coon coplaints include filled parking lots, essy and overloaded shelves, sold-out ites, long check-out lines, and rude salespeople.
During peak shopping hours, soe retailers solved the parking probles by getting oonlighting local police to work as parking attendants. Soe hired flag wavers to direct custoers to epty parking spaces. This guidance got rid of the need for custoers to circle the parking lot endlessly, and avoided confrontation between those eyeing the sae parking space.
Retailers can relieve the headaches by redesigning store layouts, pre-stocking sales ites, hiring speedy and experienced cashiers, and having sales representatives on hand to answer questions. ost iportantly, salespeople should be diploatic and polite with angry custoers.
"Retailers who're responsive and friendly are ore likely to sooth over probles than those who aren't so friendly." Said Professor Stephen Hoch. "aybe soething as siple as a greeter at the store entrance would help."
Custoers can also iprove future shopping experiences by filing coplaints to the retailer, instead of coplaining to the rest of the world. Retailers are hard-pressed to iprove when they have no idea what is wrong.
39. Why are store anagers often the last to hear coplaints?
A. Custoers have no easy access to store anagers.
B. Few custoers believe the service will be iproved.
C. Custoers would rather relate their unhappy experiences to others.
D. ost custoers won't bother to coplain about unhappy experiences.
40. Shop owners often hire oonlighting police as parking attendants so that shoppers____.
A. won't have trouble parking their cars
B. won't have any worries about security
C. can find their cars easily after shopping
D. can stay longer looking around in the store
41. The underline word “confrontation” eans____.
A. coent B. consideration C. counication D. conflict
42. What contributes ost to soothing over probles with custoers?
A. Design of the store layout. B. anners of the salespeople.
C. Hiring of efficient eployees. D. Huge supply of goods for sale.
43. To achieve better shopping experiences, custoers are advised to ____.
A. voice their dissatisfaction to store anagers directly
B. put pressure on stores to iprove their service
C. shop around and ake coparisons between stores
D. settle their disagreeent with stores in a diploatic way
C
Nowadays ore and ore people are trapped in too busy work to relax theselves. We have no tie to tell a bed-tie story to our children, or enjoy a nice dinner with our faily, or take a break to think about how we live the precious life, or even eet friends. All we notice is that the distinctions that used to guide and steady us— between Sunday and onday, public and private, here and there—are gone. We have ore ways to counicate, but less and less to say. Partly because we're so busy counicating.
aybe that's why ore and ore people I know，even if they have no religious coitent, see to be turning to yoga, or editation, or tai chi. Soe friends of ine try to go on long walks every Sunday, or to “forget” their cellphones at hoe. A series of tests in recent years has shown that after spending tie in quiet rural settings, subjects “ exhibit greater attentiveness，stronger eory and generally iproved cognition. Their brains becoe both caler and sharper, ” ore than that, sypathy, as well as deep thought, depends on neural processes that are “inherently slow, ” the very ones our high-speed lives have little tie for.
In y own case, I turn to unusual and often extree easures to try to keep y good sense and ensure that I have tie to do nothing at all. I've not yet used a cellphone and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook . I try not to go online till y day's writing is finished, and I oved fro anhatan to rural Japan.
None of this is a atter of principle or asceticis (苦行主义)：it's just pure selfishness. Nothing akes e feel better, caler, clearer and happier than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of usic. It's actually soething deeper than ere happiness： it's joy, which the onk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens. ” That is the highest of the highest we have been longing for—The Joy of Quiet.
44. The writer soeties doesn't do anything because ____.
A. he is out of work B. whatever he does ake no sense
C. he is worried about his writingD. he can enjoy hiself in his leisure tie
45. When the writer uses the word “forget”，his real eaning is ____ .
A.soebody really forgets his cellphone at hoe
B.soebody leaves his cellphone at hoe on purpose
C.soebody hates odern techniques such as the cellphone
D.soebody thinks cellphone is not a suitable eans of counication
46.The underlined word “distinctions”, eans ____.
A outcoeB. siilarityC. differenceD. coplication
47.What is the ain idea of the article?
A. It is iportant to spend tie in quiet circustances.
B.We can do soe sports such as yoga to relax.
C.Principle or asceticis is iportant in one's life.
D.The ore we counicate, the ore we will be closer.
D
Sir,
Last Saturday I watched the TV coverage of the latest Grand Prix otor race and could not fail to notice how uch advertising there was. In particular, the leading car (and the one that eventually won) was alost constantly on the screen; it was painted to look like a packet of well-known cigarettes. Not only that, but the car was, on ore than one occasion, referred to by the coentator not by the nae of the driver or the otor copany, but by the nae of the product. However, the football tea that I support is not allowed to wear shirts advertising anything when their atches are being televised.
The rule preventing sportsen and sportswoen fro carrying advertiseents on television is a good one. Keep it and do it. To take one exaple, what is the effect, I wonder, on the young and old, of the apparent connection between cigarette soking and an exciting sport like otor-racing?
L. H. Gray, London
Sir,
What a ridiculous situation our television copanies find theselves in with regard to sport and advertising!
I watched a televised football atch in which the players did not carry any advertiseents on their shirts, and yet there was advertising all around the ground. (Do the TV producers think we viewers are blind or soething?) And when a well-known international player was interviewed after the atch, both he and the interviewer referred by nae to the ake-ups fir! And as if that were not enough, the sports ite that followed was the National Bank Golf Tournaent.
Advertising is all around us every day. Long live advertising, I say, and let the television copanies recognize it and allow football players, athletes, racing drivers and others to wear sponsors' advertiseents. At least we would all know where we were!
rs. R. P. Laing, Bristol
48. L. H. Gray would like to see ____.
A. advertising officially forbidden fro televised sport
B. cigarette advertiseents ade illegal
C. football teas wear shirts advertising certain products
D. the law forbidding coercials will coe into effect soon
49. rs. Laing believes that ____.
A. sportsen should be allowed to carry advertising on TV
B. advertising cigarettes should be officially forbidden at football atches
C. advertising on television should be forbidden
D. golf tournaents should not be sponsored by banks
50. Both Gray and Laing agree that____.
A. sportsen should be allowed to advertise on TV
B. TV sport should allow advertising except for drink and cigarettes
C. TV copanies ust get rid of their "double standards"
D. sports coentators should be allowed to advertise
E
51 It was held on the last Saturday of arch, which asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on cliate change. Based on an idea successfully executed in Thailand in 2005, it was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney orning Herald in 2007, and achieved worldwide participation in 2008. 52
Earth Hour 2007
Earth Hour was held in Sydney, Australia at 7:30 p, local tie.
Earth Hour 2008
The official website for the event, earthhour.org, received over 6.7 illion unique visitors in the week leading up to Earth Hour. 53
According to a Zogby International online survey 36 illion people participated in Earth Hour 2008. The survey also showed there was a 4 percentage point increase in awareness of environental issues such as cliate change, directly after the event. (However a search of Zogby's website and archive fails to produce any such survey or reference to the event)
54
Earth Hour 2009 is fro 8:30 p.. to 9:30 p.. local tie, arch 28 2009. Currently, 82 countries and ore than 2100 cities are coitted to Earth Hour 2009, a huge increase fro people participating in 35 countries for Earth Hour 2008.
55
A. Earth Hour 2009
B. Other websites took part in the event, with Google's hoepage going :"dark" on the day.
C. Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF .
D. The ai of Earth Hour is to call on the public to save energy.
E. People are invent to provide blogs and short video clips on how they spend their tie.
F. The tie for Earth Hour is the sae all the tie．
G. Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday，arch 28，2009 at 8：30 p，local tie．
第Ⅱ卷 （非，共35分）
第一节 短文改错（1×10）
The alar was first gone off on the third floor.
People left the building hurriedly but in a orderly anner. They cae out carry their shopping bags and their parcels, soe not properly wrapped and soe not even paid. ost passer-by waited in the street to watch. any of the shops and offices in the street had just closed. r. Cleent, the officer in charge of, ordered all hoses (软管) to turned to the roof of the ain building. People were pushed back fro the area of their own safely. Seven officers entered the baseent or were driven back within inutes. Hurriedly they put on their asks, ready to try again.
第二节 书面表达（25×1）
假如你是育才中学学生会主席李华，你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛（speech contest），希望附近某大学的外籍教师Sith女士来做评委，请参照以下比赛通知给她写一封信。
英语演讲比赛
主题：人与自然
时间：6月15日下午2:00---5:00
地点：501教室
参赛选手：10名学生
联系人：李华（电话44876655）
欢迎大家光临
注意：词数100左右
Dear s. Sith ,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
第Ⅰ卷
第一节 单项填空（1×15）
1-5 BDDBC 6-10 BACCA 11-15 CBDDD
第二节 完形填空（2×20）
16-20 BCDAB21-25 BDCAC26-30 DACBC31-35 DADBA
第三节 理解（3×20）
A DCA B CADBA C DBCA D AAC E CGBAE
第Ⅱ卷
第一节 短文改错（1×10）
was---had a---an carry---carrying paid后加for passer-by---passers-by charge of去掉of hoses to后加 be of---for safely---safety or---but
第二节 书面表达（25×1）
Dear s. Sith,
I’ Li Hua ,Chair of the Student Union of Yucai iddle School ,which is close to your university. I’ writing to invite you to be a judge at your English speech contest to be held in our school on June 15. It will start at 2:00 p and keep for about three hours .Ten students will deliver their speeches on the given topic “an and the Nature”. We hope you will accept our invitation if it is convenient for you. Please call e at 44876655 if you have any questions.
I’ looking forward to your reply.
With best wishes.
Li Hua