2018届内蒙古包头市第九中学高三下学期第二次考试英语试题

第一卷（选择题共70分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题，每题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 Fun Day

To celebrate the Year of the Dog

Organised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High School Date: 2 February 2018 Time: 10am – 5 pm.

Place: Kwun Tong Playground. Fee: $20 (buy three get one free)

Programmes: drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performance.

Highlights: 1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera. 2) learn to make festival food.

Join us on the Fun Day! All are welcome! Free Soft Drinks

Note:

*Tickets are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Centre.

*For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity.

21. What you have just read is a ________. A. note

B. report

C. schedule

D. poster

22. What is going to take place on 2 February, 2013? A. A big event to welcome to Chinese new year. B. A social gathering to raise money for wildlife.

C. A party for close friends to meet and have fun. D. A meeting of Kwun Tong High School students.

23. How much do you have to pay in total if four of you go together? A. $20.

B. $40.

C. $60.

D. $80.

24. Which of the following statements is true? A. Tickets are sold in Kwun Tong High School. B. It’s unnecessary to take soft drinks with you. C. Free digital cameras are provided for everybody. D. Festival food will be served without extra charge.

B

During World War I the Red Cross set up a program for people to send letters to soldiers in Europe so they would never be lonely. During the course of this program a soldier received a letter from a woman he didn’t know and had never met. She asked him the typical things and he wrote a return letter with the typical answers.

As their letters became more frequent they realized that they had much in common and a friendship was formed. Though the ever0increasing letters they came to know each other more and be looked forward to them as he moved ever forward into combat and danger. Over time their friendship began to blossom into love, but they never exchanged photos.

Eventually the war ended. He told her he was coming home and they made a plan to meet at Grand Central Station. He would look like countless other soldiers so he told her he would hold a bouquet of carnations（康乃馨）and she said she would be carrying a particular book. If their love was real they could meet.

At the station he was eagerly searching for the book in the hands of every woman he met. Shortly after, a short, plain and overweight woman appeared carrying a book. He knew it was her. His excitement for meeting the love of his life dashed away. But he put a big smile on his face and called her name. She smiled and came over to him. He bent to kiss her cheek, but she pushed him off. Instead she handed him the book and walked off. Confused, he suddenly turned around and a beautiful woman was standing and smiling before him.

“I had to be sure, “she said to him, “if you were the man of personality I dreamed about. And you are.” And she came into his arms and they kissed for the first time under the big clock in the center of Grand Central Station. 25. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. Soldiers

B. Letters

D. The typical things

C. The typical answers

26. Why did the soldier decide to fold a bouquet of carnations? A. To check if their love was true

B. To fulfill the promise he made years ago C. To distinguish himself from other soldiers. D. To present a welcome gift to the woman.

27. How did the man feel at the first sight of the woman with a book? A. Eager Disappointed

28. What’s the key topic of the passage? A. War and peace

C

Pacing and Pausing

Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve’s new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn’t hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there’s no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I’m finished or fail to take your turn when I’m finished. That’s what was happening with Betty and Sara.

It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an

B. Dream and reality.

D. Friendship and love

B. Cautions

C. Embarrassed

D.

C. Cheat and trust

interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping（思维定式）. And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in—and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

That’s why slight differences in conversational style—tiny little things like microseconds of pause-can have a great effect on one’s life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training. 29. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her? A. Betty was talkative. B. Betty was an interrupter. C. Betty did not take her turn. D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.

30. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

A. Americans. The Finns.

31. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

B. Israelis.

C. The British.

D.