2006高三联考试卷 (Jan.6th.2006)
英语（2）
本试卷包括听力、阅读与写作三部分，满分为120分。考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
l．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号填写在答题卡上，用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）涂黑。在答题卡右上角的“试室号”栏填写本科目试室号，在“座位号列表”内填写座位号，并用2B铅笔将相应的信息点涂黑。
2．选择题（第l－12题和第26－50题）每小题选出答案后，用2B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，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。
3．非选择题（第13－25题和写作部分）必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
SECTION ⅠLISTENING（60 points）
Part A Listening Comprehension (12 items, 2 points for each item)
Directions In this part of the test, you will hear four conversations and talks. After each conversation or talks, you will hear several questions. After you hear a question, read the four possible answers and choose the best one. Then blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the Answer Sheet. You have 25 seconds for each question. The conversations, talks and questions will be read only once.
Questions 1-3are based on the following conversation.
1. A. The man is the women’s husband
B. The woman is a guest to the man’s house.
C. The man is a guest to the woman’s flat.
D. The woman and the man didn’t know each other.
2. A. Because she wanted to see her old house.
B. Because she thought of her parents.
C. Because she wanted to look at the lights.
D. Because she decided to sell her house.
3. A. She worked hard and was successful.
B. She lived a poor life in the past.
C. She lived a rich life in the past.
D. Both A and B.
Questions 4-6 are based on the following conversation.
4. A. A football game
B. Watching football games.
C. The atmosphere at a football game.
D. Viewing football game on TV
5. A. She can’t get a ticket.
B. She finds it hard to go to the stadium.
C. She wants to see the players more clearly and easily.
D. She wants to be able to follow the game more easily and closely.
6. A. The man is most probably to watch games of TV.
B. The man still likes watching games far from the field.
C. The man plans to get the ticket for the today’s football game.
D. The man is easier to keep track of the ball in the field.
Questions 7-9 are based on the following conversation.
7. A. For money B. For fun C. For others D. For nothing
8. A. They want to put on three shows in all.
B. Three people will appear in the play.
C. They will sing three songs in the play.
D. None of them.
9. A. He will sing and dance in the show.
B. He often gets up on a stage.
C. He sings pop songs for money.
D. He doesn’t like singing in the church.
Questions 10-12 are based on the following conversation.
10. A. Family furniture.
B. Sport apparatus.
C. General appliances.
D. Things for newly-weds.
11. A. They knew they could buy better-quality appliances elsewhere.
B. They were bored with the owner’s long stores.
C. They wanted to compare prices at other stores.
D. They thought the store could not meet their needs.
12. A. He was not disappointed at all because he was accustomed to it.
B. He couldn’t hide his disappointment.
C. He felt disappointed but smiled and then moved to the other side.
D. He smiled and started to uses his power of persuasion.
Part B Listening for Information （10 items, 2points for each item）
Directions In this part of the test, you will hear one monologue. The monologue will be read twice. After you hear the monologue, you are required to fill in the
numbered blanks with the
information you have heard. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Blanks 13 through 22 are based on
the following monologue.
| Telephone Messages | ||
| Organizations | Weekday Business Hours | Phone Number |
| Pacific Telephone | (13)
| |
| Music Center | (14)
| (15)
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| Bell Theater | (16)
| |
| Auto Club After-Hours Emergency Center | (17)
| (18)
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| Hospital Emergency Service | (19)
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| Emergency Policy Service | (20)
| |
| Hospital Patient Information | (21)
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| Other Hospital Information | (22)
| |
Part C Dictation (3 items, 16 points)
Directions In this part of the test, you are required to write out the missing parts of the passage. You'll hear the passage read three times. The first reading is for you to understand the meaning. In the second reading, there will be a pause after the sentence to be dictated. One minute is given for you to write down each sentence. The third reading is for you to check your work. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Paper, like many other things that we use today, was first made in China. The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. (23)______________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________ it was a German named Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. (24) ________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
New paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast.
(25)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SECTION ⅡREADING (40 points)
Part A Reading Comprehension (15 items, 2 points for each item)
Directions In this part of the test, you will read three passages. For each passage there are five 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've just read. Blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Text A
The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radios, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
Yet people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for millions of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
All living cells sent out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses that can be measured and recorded on the surface of the body. When the pulses are recorded, they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram, The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small-often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscled cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effect can be astonishing.
The electric eel is an amazing living storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. (An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to the length of its body.
26. What is the
main idea of the passage ?
A. Biology and electricity appear
to be closely related.
B. Electric eels are potentially
dangerous.
C. People would be at a loss
without electricity.
D. Scientists still have much to
discover about electricity.
27. The author
mentions all of the following as results of a blackout EXCEPT______ .
A. refrigerated food item may go
bad
B. traffic lights do not work
C. people must rely on candlelight
D. elevators and escalators do not
function
28. Why does the
author mention electric eels?
A. To warn the reader to stay away
from them.
B. To compare their voltage to
that used in houses.
C. To give an example of a living
electrical generator.
D. To describe a new source of
electrical power.
29. How many volts
of electricity can an electric eel emit?
A. 1,000. B. 800 C.
200. D.
120.
30. It can be
inferred from the passage that the longer an eel is the __________ .
A. more beneficial it will be to
science
B. more powerful will be its
electrical charge
C. easier it will be to find
D. tougher it will be to eat
Text B
Is there a "success personality"? Some winning combination of qualities that leads almost inevitably to achievement? If so, exactly what is that secret success formula, and can anyone develop it?
At the Gallop Organization we recently focused in depth on success, probing the attitudes of 1500 prominent people selected at random from Who's Who in America. Our research finds out a number of qualities that occur regularly among top achievers. Here is one of the most important, that is common sense.
Common sense is the most prevailing quality possessed by our respondents. Seventy-nine percent award themselves a top score in this quality. And 61 percent say that common sense was very important in contributing to their success.
To most, common sense means the ability to present sound, practical judgments on everyday affairs. To do this, one has to sweep aside extra ideas and get right to the core of what matters. A Texas oil and gas businessman puts it this way: "The key ability for success is simplifying. In conduction of meeting and dealing with industry reducing a complex problem to the simplest term is highly important."
Is common sense a quality a person is born with, or can you do something to increase it? The oil man's answer is that common sense can definitely be developed. He attributes his to learning how to debate in school. Another way to increase your store of common sense is to observe it in others, learning from their and your own mistakes.
Besides common sense, there are many other factors that influence success: knowing your field, self-reliance, intelligence, the ability to get things done, leadership, creativity, relationships with others, and of course, luck. But common sense stands out. If you develop these qualities, you'll succeed. And you might even find yourself listed in Who's Who someday.
31. It can be known from the passage that Who's Who _____.
A. is a very useful book telling us how to succeed
B. is a book providing us with the information about the family life of some famous people
C. is a book providing us with the names and brief biographies of the top successful people
D. is a book from which we can find out the names of different peoples in the world
32. According to the author, common sense _____.
A. is something that common people like best
B. is a popular quality a person is born with
C. is something that enables one to form correct opinions
D. is a quality that is possessed by common people
33. It can be inferred from the passage that a successful businessman _____.
A. tries to get experience through practice
B. pays attention to the essence of a problem when he tries to solve it
C. keeps on learning in order to be successful
D. has strong willpower, extensive interest and intelligence
34. The passage is mainly concerned with _____.
A. organizational ability and good work habits
B. the way to obtain big profits and achieve fame and success
C. knowledge and interest which are primary to success
D. what successful people have in common
35. According to the author, how can one develop one's common sense?
A. To become a businessman.
B. To learn how to debate and learn from mistakes.
C. To become famous.
D. To be simplifying.
Text C
Automobile drivers and passengers now face a new, unseen danger on the road: the users of cellular mobile telephones. Looking at the phone while dialing or speaking can prevent drivers from keeping their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road; industry experts agree that drivers are more likely to have an accident while using their phones. That fact has excited concern among highway safety organizations in the United States, and some want to ban cellular phones altogether. While manufacturers have not yet come up with a cellular mobile phone that is completely "hands free", several companies have recently developed components that could make mobilephones less distracting -- and their users less accident prone.
Voice Control Systems, Inc., based in Dallas, Tex., has developed a microprocessor unit that allows standard cellular telephones to "dial" numbers at the sound of a human voice. The Voice Dialer unit is attached to the phone's transmitter and receiver in the car's trunk. Programmed with a limited vocabulary, it can respond only to digits and specific control commands spoken by the users, who must pause a quarter of a second between each digit or command. (Frequently dialed numbers can
be preprogrammed into simple, single command codes.) The driver picks up the hand set, and begins calls by saying "Dial," followed by the number or command code; a synthesized voice will repeat the number sequence and place the call told to "Send." A unique aspect of the Voice Dialer is that it is speaker independent; the unit will respond to any voice regardless of gender, accent or tone.
36. Cellular mobile telephones are telephone sets _________.
A. used in cars
B. capable of being moved in offices or at home
C. shaped like cells
D. controlled by human voices
37. Drivers using cellular mobile telephones are prone to accidents because _______.
A. telephone conversation distracts users from driving
B. drivers are often not skillful enough to use them
C. they are not reliable
D. they are not "hands free"
38. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The Voice Dialer unit is a device which dials numbers by human voice, rather than by hand.
B. The Voice Dialer allows drivers to pay more attention on driving while dialing.
C. The Voice Dialer unit can make cellular mobile phones completely "hands free."
D. The Voice Dialer was developed by Voice Control Systems, Inc.
39. The Voice Dialer unit is programmed to respond to ____________.
A. what the user wants to say
B. a special vocabulary used by the driver
C. various commands spoken by the user
D. only the telephone numbers and specific control commands
40. This passage centres on ___________.
A. a new hazard on the road
B. different kinds of telephones
C. a safer car telephone
D. Voice Control Systems, Inc
Part B Meaning Guessing (5 items, 1 point for each item)
Directions In this part of the test, there are five sentences taken from the above three passages. For each sentence there is an underlined word, which might be unfamiliar to you. You are required to choose its most appropriate Chinese equivalent from A, B, C and D. Blacken the letter corresponding to your answer on the Answer Sheet.
41. The written record of our conversation doesn’t correspond with what was actually said. A. 通讯 B. 相一致 C. 矛盾 D. 回答
42. As a result of the heated conference, all nations agreed that the use of chemical weapons should be banned. A. 禁止 B. 暂停 C.打击 D. 警告
43. Woken up by a strange noise outside, the old man groped for the doorhandle in the dark. A. 抓紧 B. 打开 C. 敲 D. 摸索
44. The core curriculum means the subjects that all pupils have to study. A. 公开 B. 核心 C. 重要 D. 选修
45. The film managed to distract me from these problems for a while. A. 吸引 B. 消遣 C. 阻止 D. 分散注意力
Part C Vocabulary in Context (5 items, 1 point for each item)
Directions In this part of the test, eight words have been selected from the above three passages to make up the following WORD LIST. There are five incomplete sentences. You are required to choose from the WORD LIST one appropriate word that can fill in the blank, of each sentence. On the Answer Sheet, blacken the letter corresponding to your answer. Each word can be used only once.
WORD LIST
A. generate B. attribute C. inevitably D. at random
E. tone F. jolt G. preprogrammed H. independent
46. After studying in a free school, parents found their children could lead a\an ______ life and they were living by themselves.
A B C D E F G H
47. The competitors are said to be chosen ______ from the audience.
A B C D E F G H
48. With more and more cars on the road, traffic accidents are ________ increasing.
A B C D E F G H
49. What do you think the experts ________ the failure of the film to?
A B C D E F G H
50. The doctor asked the patient with HIV some questions in a casual _____ of voice.
A B C D E F G H
SECTION Ⅲ WRITING (20 points)
Directions In this part of the test, you are required to write an English composition of 200 ~ 300 words according to the following requirements. Write your composition on the Answer Sheet.
作文标题：自定。 写作要求：
1． 作文的主题必须围绕“成功的要素”；
2． 按照作文的主题范围要求，先简要概括阅读文章B的内容要点；然后选取成功的要素之一，发表你自己的看法，或通过实际的例证表述你的看法。
3． 作文必须主题明确，结构合理，内容连贯，语言规范。
2006高三联考试卷
(Jan.6th.2006)
英语（2）答题卡
SECTION I
Part B. Listening for Information (10 item s, 2 points for each item)
13._______14.__________15._________16.__________17.__________
18._______19.__________20._________21.__________22.__________
Part C. Dictation (3 items, 16 points)
23. _______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
24. _______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
25. _______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
SECTION II Part C. Vocabulary in Context (5 items, 1 point for each item)
46---50._______________
SECTION Ⅲ WRITING (20 points)
2006届高三联考试卷(2006.1)英语（2）参考答案
第一部分 听力（60分）
A节：听力理解 1-5 CCDBD 6-10 ABBAC 11-12 CD
B节：信息获取（20分）
13. 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 14. 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 15. 972-7614
16. 972-7654 17. 9:00a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 18. 758-3020 19. 825-1491
20. 825-1411 21. 825-8611 22. 825-9111
C节：听写（16分）
23. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hair-like parts of certain plants.
24. Today in Finland, which makes the best paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest in the land.
25. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 300 meters long and 6 meters wide in one minute.
第二部分 阅读（40分）
A节：阅读理解（30分）
26- 30 ADCBB
31-35 CCBDB
36-40 BABDC
B节：词义猜测（5分）
41-45 BADBD
C节：词汇填空（5分）
46-50 HDCBE
第三部分 写作（20分）
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