2013～2014学年度第二学期高三年级考试英语试卷

                                                本试卷分为第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分1．答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。

2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。第卷听下面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。

What is the woman probably doing?

A. Waiting for her plane.    B. Seeing the man off.      C. Complaining to the man.

2. What does the woman want to buy?

A. Beach blankets.         B. Some pictures.          C. Some film.

3. Why does the man apologise to the woman?

A. He ordered the wrong table.  

B. He called her by mistake.

C. He went to the wrong address.

4. What does the man think is wrong with the plant?

A. It needs to be watered at present.

B. It should be moved into a large pot.

C. It is not getting enough sunshine.

5. What is the man concerned about?

A. The time to fix the problem.

B. The problem of the car.

C. The way to get home.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

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。

How much should the man pay in total?

A.＄115.  B.＄120.   C.＄125.  

9. What does the woman advise the man to do?

  A. Think it over before having the pants shortened.

  B. Have a professional tailor his pants.  

C. Use a plastic bag to put his pants in.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why doesn't the woman take the direct flight?

A. She wants to visit Chicago.

B. It's much more expensive.

C. Its time is too early.

11. When does the woman's flight leave?

A. On Saturday afternoon.  B. On Sunday morning.     C. On Sunday evening.

12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Customer and travel agent.

B. Manager and secretary.

C. Guide and tourist.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. When will the woman present?

A. On September 7.   B. On September 8.   C. On September 9.

14. What did Rachel and Sam ask about?

A. The time of the meeting.

B. The information on the hotel.

C. The change of the schedule.

15. How will the man get everyone to know the details of the meeting?

A. By phone.             B. By e-mail.             C. By letter.

16. What will the woman do in the morning?

Write several reports.  B. Meet Rachel and Sam.   C. Prepare her lunch.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where was Jean Dunant from?

A. Italy.                B. Australia.             C. Switzerland.

18. Why was the Red Cross started at first?

A. To help the wounded in the war.

B. To provide food for the poor.

   C. To fight against the war.

19. What do we know about the red cross?

   A. It can be used to represent the first aid stations．

   B. It can only refer to the international organisation.

   C. It is an official symbol of hospital and medical treatment.

20. What will Mr John Francis talk about next?

   A. Something about First Aid.

   B. The law about the Red Cross.

   C. The Red Cross organisation in Australia.

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。

    A

Taking exams in a large group setting can be stressful for students and for the staff members who are watching over them. When classrooms are crowded and desks are close together, cheating might be tempting.    One university in Thailand came up with an anti-cheating hat that makes it almost impossible for students to see other students’ papers. A photo of the students wearing the anti-cheating hats made its way to the Internet, and the university was criticized for making students wear those ridiculous looking homemade hats. The hats were made by stapling two pieces of paper onto a headband, one to each side of the head.    After being criticized, senior academic staff at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, released a statement saying that the hats idea came from students. They said that in a bid to prevent cheating they asked the students for ideas on how to prevent cheating in the upcoming exam, which was being taken by almost one hundred students. Students came up with different ideas, and then the paper hat idea was selected by them as the most fit. The university claims that no one was forced to use the hat, but they all chose to do so. “When wearing the hat during the exam, students felt more relaxed,” Nattadon Rungruangkitkrai, a lecturer at the university said. “It was not meant to indicate that Kasetsart students often cheat on exams. I apologize if the photo makes other people look at my students in a negative way,” Rungruangkitkrai added.21. Why was the university criticized on the Internet?

A. Wearing the anti-cheating hat made students look ridiculous.

B. The homemade anti-cheating hat looked too simple.

C. Wearing the anti-cheating hats couldn’t prevent students from cheating in the exam.

D. The university forced students to wear the anti-cheating hat. 

22. What’s most of the Kasetsart University students’ attitude towards the cheating hat? 

A. Skeptical   B. Supportive   C. Objective  D. Negative 

23. It can be inferred from the passage that_______

A. it’s useless wearing the anti-cheating hat in the exam.

B. Kasetsart students are often caught cheating in the exam.

C. wearing the anti-cheating hat is effective to some degree.

D. some students are forced to wear the anti-cheating hat.

B

Italy is one country where beauty is prized more than any other virtue. That is, except in the small town of Piobbico, the self-declared World Capital of Ugly People. The road sign at the edge of the town even warns visitors that they are entering the ugly zone. People who consider themselves ugly have been gathering in Piobbico since the 1960s. That’s when Ugly Club president Telesforo Lacobelli established a dating agency for women who believed they were too ugly to attract husbands. Lacobelli believes that he is ugly himself because he has a short nose in a country where long or large noses have always been considered beautiful. 

People from around the world travel to Piobbico to tell their sad stories of ugliness. During the annual Festival of the Ugly, which occurs on the first Sunday of every September, hundreds of people gather in Piobbico’s town square to elect the president of the Ugly Club. Lacobelli wins the election every year. The Ugly Club has over 20, 000 members. They carry ID cards that grade their ugliness from bearable to extreme. A prize is awarded to Ugly Club members who qualify as extremely ugly. 

The Ugly Club president insists that ugliness is a virtue. Since beautiful people get a lot of attention for their beauty alone, they have to work hard to prove their other virtues. Ugly people, on the other hand, are genuine and do not have to prove anything to anybody, according to Lacobelli. 

Lacobelli is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere. He believes that the uglier one is, the better life can be. Though the club enjoys making fun of beauty, especially beauty contests, Lacobelli has a serious side as well. He believes that too many people suffer from financial and emotional pressures because they don’t meet society’s standards of beauty. The fact that beautiful people are more successful in the workforce is a problem that Lacobelli has attempted to bring forward to the Italian public and government. 

24.Piobbico is rather special in that       . 

A. it is a very small town    B. it is home to ugly people

C. it receives no visitors D. it is the capital of Italy

25. Why is Lacobelli elected the president of