英语试卷 2012. 3
本试卷分为第I卷（第1-16页）和第II卷（第17页）两部分。全卷共17页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。 考生注意：
1． 答第I卷前，考生务必填好考号、姓名、学校信息，并将条形码粘贴在答题纸的指定区
域内。
2． 第I卷（1-16小题，25---80小题）由机器阅卷，答案必须全部涂写在答题卡上。考生应
将代表正确答案的小方格用铅笔涂黑。注意试题题号和答题卡编号一一对应，不能错位。答案需要更改时，必须将原选项用橡皮擦去，重新选择。答案写在试卷上一律不给分。第I卷中的第17-24小题,81-84小题和第II卷的试题，其答案用钢笔或水笔写在答题纸的规定区域内，如用铅笔答题，或写在试卷上则无效。
第I卷 （共105分）
I. Listening Comprehension (30%) Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. At 11:35. 2. A. By car.
B. At 11:45. B. By train. B. In a hospital.
C. At 12:00. C. By taxi.
C. In a hotel.
D. 12:45. D. By bus. D. On a plane.
3. A. In a restaurant.
4. A. He's unwilling to fetch the laundry.
B. He picked up the laundry 3 hours ago. C. He will go before the laundry is closed. D. He doesn‘t know who picked up the laundry.
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5. A. Boss and secretary.
B. Colleagues. D. Classmates.
C. Interviewer and interviewee.
6. A. The man is not suitable for the position.
B. The job has been given to someone else. C. She received only one application letter.
D. The application arrived a week earlier than expected. 7. A. $15.
B. $30.
C. $50.
D. $100.
8. A. He has not adjusted to the new culture.
B. He has been studying hard at night. C. He finds biology difficult to learn.
D. He is not accustomed to the time in a different zone. 9. A. He is the right man to get the job done.
B. He is a man with professional skills. C. He is not easy to get along with. D. He is not likely to get the job. 10. A. Go to the office.
B. Call the booking office. D. See a doctor.
C. Try online booking.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. At 6:15.
C. At 7:15.
B. At 6:45. D. At 7:45.
B. All the students of Durfee High School. B. Give every student an alarm clock. D. Post students‘ names on the school website.
12. A. Students who are often late for school. 13. A. Call the students at 6:15.
C. Make study hours longer.
C. Parents sending notes to the headmaster. D. Parents who are always late for work.
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Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.
14. A. Because dragon babies will have more educational opportunities.
B. Because dragon babies are believed to be rich and successful in the future.
C. Because couples can only have a dragon baby every twelve years. D. Because dragon is an imaginary creature in the Chinese culture.
B. May 10th. D. May. 22nd.
B. To get better service. D. To gain better child education.
C. May 12th.
15. A. May 2nd.
16. A. To avoid one child policy.
C. To gain more job opportunities.
Section C Longer Conversations
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
About Highland Hotel Rooms: Well-furnished. Prices in the restaurant: _____17_____. Recommended dish: Baked fish. Special offer: A _____18_____ at the weekends. Complaint: A problem with the Internet _____19_____. Tip policy: Money in the special box is shared _____20_____ by the hotel staff.
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What color was Lucy‘s hair in August? What does Lucy think of black hair? Why is the man against using hair dye frequently? What‘s the advantage of natural hair dyes? _____21_____. It‘s _____22_____. Because it is likely to _____23_____. They don‘t _____24_____ and do no harm to hair. II. Grammar and vocabulary (25%) Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
25. In New York, high school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys--13.8%, far _____ the
national average.
A. over C. below
B. beyond D. on
26. Doctors should take special care when treating children because their breathing rate is different
from _____ of adults.
A. one
B. those D. that
C. some
27. After being a teacher, he found himself _____ his student badly, the same way he was treated
by his former teacher.
A. treated C. treating
B. being treated D. treat
28. Best-selling author and race car driver Han Han offered a 20 million RMB reward to _____
could prove his works were ghostwritten (代笔)。 A. no matter who
C. whoever
B. who D. whomever
29. _____ for her powerful and pure voice, Houston was the winner of 6 Grammys and 22
American music awards.
A. Being known C. Known
B. Knowing
D. Having been known
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30. To prepare for the Olympic Games in summer, London _____ its largest ever exercise to test
the response of emergency services.
A. planned
B. is planning D. plans
C. had planned two years.
A. in case
B. even if D. as far as
C. on condition that beauty.
A. that
B. whether D. when
C. in which
31. The man won‘t be sent to prison _____ he does volunteer work in the community for at least
32. More teens begin to realize the basic principle _____ there is more to a person than physical
33. On the ocean floor _____. However, to bring them to the surface requires expensive equipment
and trained people.
A. do some sunken ships lie C. lie some sunken ships small income? A. could C. might in Europe.
A. to have been sent C. sent
B. to be sent D. having been sent
B. ought D. would
B. some sunken ships do lie D. some sunken ships lie
34. He gets about 500 yuan a month. How _____ he balance his family's outgoings with such a
35. Medical teams are reported _____ to isolated villages to help people fight against the cold snap
36. _____ you are in a speech contest or you are giving a talk in class, a little preparation will make
your presentation organized and dynamic.
A. Either C. Whether
B. While D. No matter
37. There is no denying that it was drug use _____ badly damaged Whitney Houston‘s voice and
ruined her life. A. which
C. what
B. that D. /
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38. I heard that some patients who had undergone laser eye surgery experienced sudden losses of
vision, _____?
A. didn‘t I C. didn‘t they
B. hadn‘t they D. isn‘t it
39. Jeremy‘s fans in China are going crazy about this 23-year-old Harvard graduate, _____ it‘s a
breakthrough in American basketball history. A. saying
B. said D. to say
C. having said
40. People choose to have a haircut for a refreshing start on the second day of the second lunar
month because it is the day _____ the dragon awakens and raises its head.
A. that
B. which D. whose
C. when
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. mirrored B. adequate C. sticking D. processed E. disorder F. developing G. associated H. environmental I. anxiety J. extraordinary Eating lots of fruit and vegetables could help protect teenagers from mental health problems, according to an Australian study published in an academic journal.
The study of 3,000 adolescents aged 11 to 18 found that those who had poor diets filled with junk and __41__ foods were more likely to suffer mental health problems such as depression and __42__.
The participants filled in questionnaires about their diets and psychological symptoms in 2005 and again in 2007. The study found that teenagers who ate healthy diets had fewer mental health problems than those with poor diets.
The study also found that improvements in diet quality were __43__ by improvements in mental health, while worsening diet quality was __44__with poorer psychological __45__.
Jacka said the finding suggested it could be possible to stop some mental health problems __46__ in adolescents by ensuring they ate healthy diets.
\"Having good nutrition-rich foods is really important for adolescents because it's a time when they are growing rapidly and it's essential they have __47__ nutrition,\" Jacka said.
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Studies show one in five Australian adolescents has some forms of mental health problems, caused by genes and __48__ factors such as stressful events in early childhood.
Jacka said parents could protect children against mental health problems by eating two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables a day, as well as __49__ to wholegrain food and lean meats while avoiding junk food.
III. Reading Comprehension (50%) Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
The Human Development Report, published annually since 1990, seeks to __50__ ―human development‖ around the world and calculates a ―Human Development Index‖ (HDI 人类发展指数) for 169 countries. The HDI is __51__ on average income, life expectancy, and level of education. __52__, rich countries tend to have higher HDIs than poor countries, but there are interesting __53__ in human development among countries with similar levels of economic development, because some have better health and education systems than others.
Almost every country in the world has a higher HDI than in 1990, despite the fact that since the 2008 financial crisis the total number of people living in extreme __54__ has increased. The report concludes that most people are healthier, live longer, are more __55__, — and that even in countries with severe economic problems, people‘s health and education have generally __56__. Although sub-Saharan African countries are at the bottom of the pile __57__ human development, some of them have made significant progress since 1990. The report is __58__, however, of the fact that economic inequality has increased significantly in the last twenty years, both within and between countries.
The greatest threat to HDI in the future, according to the report, is climate change. The way to increase average income in a country is through economic growth, which means increased production and __59__. However, if this __60__ to greater emissions (排放) of greenhouse gases, as has always been the case in the past, global warming will probably go faster, causing severe environmental problems in some parts of the world that will __61__ the livelihoods of huge numbers of people. The progress of the last twenty years, __62__, might not be sustainable (可持续的).
The only solution, according to the report, is to break the __63__ between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions — which, __64__ to say, is easier said than done.
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50. A. judge 51. A. based
B. investigate B. focused
B. Unwillingly B. experiments B. poverty B. ignored B. proud B. sticks B. maintain B. however B. record B. needless
C. assess C. keen C. signs C. emotion
D. justify D. reflected D. Unsurprisingly D. mixtures D. terror D. educated D. impressed D. in terms of D. independent D. concentration D. turns D. guarantee D. nevertheless D. link D. hopeless
52. A. Unexpectedly 53. A. variations 54. A. cruelty 55. A. talented 56. A. infected 58. A. critical 60. A. objects 61. A. threaten 63. A. gap
C. Unfortunately
B. disadvantaged C. determined
C. improved C. fond C. leads C. concern C. law
B. on account of B. consumption
57. A. to the extent of 59. A. administration
C. for the sake of C. application
62. A. therefore 64. A. fearless Section B
C. otherwise C. careless
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Life is different in Anchorage, Alaska, at the beginning of March. Every year at this time, the downtown streets become crowded with people. But these are not just regular pedestrians. In addition to the people walking through the streets, there are hundreds of dogs. It is time for the Iditarod—the famous dogsled race of Alaska.
The name of the race comes from the name of an Alaska gold rush town, Iditarod. It means ―distant‖ or ―distant place.‖ It comes from one of the languages of native Alaskans.
More than sixty sled teams begin the race in Anchorage. When the teams reach the outskirts of town, they get a taste of Alaska‘s wilderness. For about two weeks, they will fight the unbearable cold, wind, snow, and ice to finish the race. The temperature on the trail is often well below zero degrees.
The Iditarod trail stretches for about a thousand miles. It has many rendezvous points. At these meeting places, race teams ―check in‖ to let officials know how they are doing. Some teams get into
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trouble along the way. Officials will stop them on the trail and give them the help they need. For example, officials might stop a team‘s progress to give first aid or to collect an injured or tired dog. These dogs are cared for and reunited with their owners after the race.
The Iditarod trail is an important part of Alaska‘s history. A part of the trail was used by some heroic dogs and humans in 1925. In Nome, Alaska, many people were catching the deadly disease diphtheria. The whole town was in quarantine, or isolation, in order to stop this disease. The only way to get medicine to Nome was by dogsled. About twenty ―mushers,‖ or dogsled drivers, offered to help. They wanted to save the people of Nome from this terrible trouble.
Today the Iditarod race honors this heroic journey and all of the journeys on the famous trail. As the race organizers say, the Iditarod is ―the last great race on Earth.‖ 65. Which of the following is TRUE about the Iditarod race?
A. It is held every year in the downtown streets in Anchorage. B. It usually lasts about two weeks in freezing cold weather. C. It is held to honor the gold seekers who once lived in Iditarod. D. Its trail is totally different from the one used by some heroic dogs A. to finish the race unnoticed C. to work for a new owner
B. to meet its owner again D. to get timely treatment
66. In the race, it‘s possible for a seriously injured dog _____.
67. When a town is in quarantine (in paragraph 4), people in the town _____.
A. can get whatever they want easily B. have to exchange gold for medicine C. are not allowed to go out freely D. will be remembered as heroes 68. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. life in Alaska
B. a dogsled race of Alaska D. heroic dogs and people in Alaska
C. a period of Alaska‘s history
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(B)
Appleton County Library Your Source for Knowledge TITLE |AUTHOR |ADVANCED SEARCH | HELP Welcome to Access Info: an online database for all the materials in the library! Please follow the steps below for finding your sources. Search by Title If you know the title of the publication for which you are searching, select TITLE from the taskbar and type in the name. then, select FORMAT. Your format choices are book, magazine, film, music score, and audio book. If you do not have a preference, select ALL. Then click SEARCH. If the title is available, the search results tell you the call number and the department in which it can be found. Departments in our library include Fiction, Nonfiction, Reference, Paperback, Periodical, and Electronic. Write down the call number and Home location. If you need further help, please ask a librarian. Access Info> If the search result says “unavailable/waiting,” this means you may choose to be placed on a waiting list. Select Reserve and enter your 10-digit library card number in Library hours the pop-up-box. Click ENTER. You will be notified by email when the publication Book Clubs becomes available. If you prefer to be notified by phone or mail, please enter this Library events request in the notes section of the box. If the search result says “unavailable/transfer,” this means that the publication is currently unavailable at our location but can be transferred from another library. If you wish to choose this option, select TRANSFER and enter your 10-digit library card number in the pop-up box. You will be notified by email when the publication becomes available. If you prefer to be notified by phone or mail, please enter this request in the notes section of the box. Search by Author If you wish to search by author, select AUTHOR from the taskbar and type in the author’s name, starting with the last name. Then select from the following choices: works by author, biographical information about the author, statistical information about the author, and critical analysis of the author. Finally, click SEARCH. When you find the publication, write down the call number and information.
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Search by Subject If you wish to search by subject, select ADVANCED SEARCH from the taskbar. Type in the search words you wish to use and then select either MATCH EXACT PHRASE or ANY OF THESE WORDS. If you select MATCH EXACT PHRASE, the computer searches for the text exactly as you input it. For example, if you type “ballparks in California,” you receive information only on ballparks in California. If you select ANY OF THESE WORDS, you receive information on ballparks everywhere as well as information on California in general. It is best to start with a specific search and broaden your search terms from there. If at any time you need additional information, select HELP from the taskbar, or locate a librarian who will be happy to assist you.
69. What is the first step in beginning a search in the online database?
A. Choose a type of search from the taskbar. B. Type in the search words you wish to use.
C. Type in the author‘s name, starting with the last name. D. Choose to be notified by mail, phone, or email.
70. According to the passage, what is the BEST way for a user to find an audio book?
A. Search by title, then select TRANSFER.
B. Search by subject, then select ADVANCED SEARCH. C. Search by title, then select FORMAT.
D. Search by author, then write down the call number. available?
A. Click the HELP button on the taskbar. B. Write down the call number and location. C. Ask a librarian if the item is checked out. D. Enter the user‘s 10-digit library card number.
(C)
71. According to the passage, what should a user do after searching for an item and finding that it is
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On 8th March this year, events marking International Women‘s Day (IWD) were held in many countries around the world. In most countries the events have a political tone: they tend to celebrate the advances women have made towards economic, social and political equality with men, and to press for change in those areas of life where there is still progress to be made.
In other countries, meanwhile, 8th March is traditionally more about expressing an appreciation of women: it is a day on which men give presents to their wives, girlfriends and mothers, and it therefore has some similarities with St Valentine‘s Day and Mother‘s Day.
Back in 1911, the first IWD events in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland were certainly political. They were protests by women against forms of gender discrimination that would now be unthinkable in most parts of the world: almost nowhere were women allowed to vote, and Finland was the only country with any female members of a national parliament. The general expectation worldwide, across different continents and cultures, was that women would spend their lives largely in the home, devoting themselves to looking after their husbands and children. The proportion of women who had paid employment was far lower than today, and when women did go out to work they typically earned very little, meaning they were economically dependent on men.
A century later, gender inequality in employment – particularly pay inequality – is still one of the issues IWD tries to draw attention to: it remains common, of course, for women to earn less than men for doing exactly the same job.
Limited educational opportunities (there are many countries in which girls generally stay fewer years in school than boys) and domestic violence towards women have also been highlighted by events surrounding IWD in recent years.
And yet, as the IWD website notes, ____________________. As just one example, to return to the issue of women elected to office, the change over the last hundred years has been significant. Since 1911, when the small group of women in the Finnish parliament (nineteen of them, to be precise) were the only females in public office worldwide, the governments of more than fifty different countries have been led by women. In 2011, at least one country in every continent has a female leader, including high-profile examples such as Brazil (Dilma Rousseff), Germany (Angela Merkel) and Australia (Julia Gillard).
72. The underlined word in paragraph 3 ―discrimination‖ probably means _____.
A. equality
73. 100 years ago, it was widely considered that women‘s main task was to _____.
B. unfairness D. imbalance
C. difference
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A. fight for economical independence C. fulfill their domestic responsibilities
B. get the right to vote
D. gain educational opportunities
74. Which of the following is the missing sentence in the first line of the last paragraph?
A. distinctive differences do exist between men and women B. women expect too much of their political power
C. it‘s impossible to realize the true equality between the two genders D. alongside the ‗negatives‘ there are plenty of ‗positives‘ 75. We can conclude from the passage that _____.
A. Much has been achieved in gender equality, but still there is space for improvement B. The concept of equal pay for equal work is completely accepted in practice. C. One or two female leaders can‘t stand for women‘s social status on the whole. D. The progress in gaining equality in the last century seems to be too slow.
Section C
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. The downtrend of malaria death B. The research finding about malaria C. Combined efforts to combat malaria D. Malaria and its symptoms E. Children killed by malaria F. The reason for the underestimation of death cases
76. Malaria is a serious and ancient disease caused by one-celled Plasmodium parasites, and malaria is spread by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. The symptoms of malaria include periodic chills, fever, headache, and sweating. Complications affecting the kidneys, liver, brain, and blood can be fatal. Malaria is a major health problem in the tropics, where it afflicts up to 500 million people every year.
77.
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Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up, according to a new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
78.
More than 1.2 million people died from malaria worldwide in 2010, nearly twice the number found in the most recent comprehensive study of the disease. The researchers say that deaths from malaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption that the disease mainly kills children under five. They found that more than 78,000 children aged 5 to 14, and more than 445,000 people aged 15 and older died from malaria in 2010, meaning that 42 percent of all malaria deaths were in people aged 5 and older.
79.
The study also found that while the overall number of malaria deaths is higher than earlier reports, the trend in malaria deaths has followed a similar downward pattern. Starting in 1985, malaria deaths grew every year before peaking in 2004 at 1.8 million deaths worldwide. Since then, the number of deaths has fallen annually and, between 2007 and 2010, the decline in deaths has been more than seven percent each year.
80.
Researchers say the biggest drivers of the decline in malaria deaths have been the scaleup of insecticide-treated bed nets and artemisinin-combination treatments. This has been accomplished through the advent of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis in 2001 and the creation of organizations focused on fighting malaria, such as the World Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria, Malaria No More and Nothing But Nets. Overall funding for malaria efforts grew from less than 250 million U.S. dollars annually in 2001 to more than two billion in 2009, according to the researchers' latest estimates.
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Section D
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Do you know anyone who suffers from equinophobia, pluviophobia or leukophobia? Or, to put it another way, do you know anyone who is very afraid of horses, rain or the colour white? You probably don‘t, and yet these are recognized medical conditions, though very rare ones.
According to many surveys, more than ten per cent of people in the United States have some kind of phobia (the word comes from the Greek phobós, meaning fear). There are, of course, dozens of different kinds, ranging from the obscure to the well known. The names of most of them have been created by adding ‗phobia‘ to a Greek or Latin root – a process that has turned into something of a word game, with people inventing names for conditions that perhaps exist only in theory (for example androidophobia, the fear of robots).
True phobias consist of an intense fear that produces a very strong desire to avoid the object of that fear. Without specialist help they are very difficult to control and tend to disrupt the daily life of the sufferer.
Phobias often originate from upsetting experiences earlier in life – for example an intense fear of dogs (cynophobia) often comes from having been bitten by one; In some cases, however, experts suggest phobias are to some extent evolutionary, arising not from personal experience but from inherited memory lying deep in our brains. Arachnophobia and ophidiophobia (the fear of snakes) are often suggested as examples: for our distant ancestors, who lived closer to nature than we do, fear of poisonous spiders and snakes would have served the useful evolutionary purpose of helping them avoid potentially fatal bites.
A common technique for treating some phobias is that of ‗progressive exposure‘ in which sufferers are encouraged by a therapist to gradually get closer to the object of their fear. The idea is that at each step the patient realizes nothing bad is happening to them, which should lead to their fear gradually decreasing. With someone who is terrified of spiders, for example, the therapist might start by showing them a picture of a spider, then introducing a real spider in a glass box and slowly moving the box closer to them, then finally having them hold the spider in the palm of their hand. Therapy of this kind is said to be very effective, although in this case perhaps not very enjoyable. (Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS)
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81. When we want to create a name to describe the condition of a person who has the fear of ice,
the name is usually ended with _____________________________.
82. A sufferer of a true phobia usually desires strongly to _________________________________. 83. What are the two possible reasons for different kinds of phobias?
_____________________________________________________________.
84. In the last paragraph, the writer gives an example of the treatment of someone who is terrified
of spiders to illustrate the meaning of ___________________________________.
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第II卷 （共45分）
I． Translation （20%）
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1. 我们盼望着收到你的建议。（forward） 2. 他的重大科学发现震惊了世界。(astonish) 3. 日益紧张的医患关系有待解决。（remain）
4. 我们应该将有限的生命投入到无限的为人民服务中去的说法过时了吗？(devote) 5. 如果饭店老板们把游客当作将要上钩的鱼而不是受到欢迎的客人，旅游事业就不能得到发
展。(hook)
II. Guided Writing （25%）
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
请简要描写照片，谈谈你所偏爱的读书方式并提出理由。
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