巢湖市柘皋中学2016—2017学年高三第四次月考英语试卷考试时间：120分钟卷面分数：150分第I卷第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）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。
每段对话只读一遍。
1.How long does the man have to wait for the next train?A.5 minutes.B.45 minutes.C.50 minutes.2.Where are the two speakers?A.At a bus stop.B.In a shop.C.In a hospital.3.What does the man suggest the woman do?A.Be stricter with her son.B.Have confidence in her son.C.Ask the teacher for help.4.What is the woman’s problem?A.Her husband has hearing problem.B.Her husband doesn’t share the housework.C.She seldom has time to talk with her husband.5.What do we know about the pianist?A.She was blind at birth.B.She became deaf at the age of 16.C.She was blind when becoming a concert pianist.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。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6.What did the man do yesterday?A.He went to see his friends.B.He visited his brother.C.He watched a play.7.Why was the man late?A.He had to leave school.B.He talked with his friends.C.He had to finish his homework first.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.What does the man plan to do this weekend?A.Go to work.B.Write a paper.C.Visit his parents.9.Who has an exam next week?A.Martin.B.The man.C.The woman.缘礱躍試颜壶10.What can we learn about the man?A.He doesn't like reading.B.He is hard to get on with.C.He can't help the woman.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11.Where does the conversation probably take place?A.In a auditorium.B.In the bookstore.C.In a library.12.What has the woman been doing at night?A.Watching the sky.B.Reading astronomy.C.Working night shift.13.What does the woman major in?A.Physics.B.Drama.C.Chemistry.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14.What is the relationship between the two speakers?A.Friends.B.Strangers.C.Colleagues.15.What happened to the man?A.He quarrelled with his wife.B.He was tired of his job.C.He was out of job.16.Where did the man stay for the last three days?A.At his new company.B.At a coffee store.C.At a bar.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.What is the speaker mainly talking about?A.Changes in the country.B.Cities in the past and at present.C.Differences between the city and the country.18.What separated cities from the countryside in the past?A.Walls.B.People.C.Buildings.19.What is the country like in the past?A.Buildings and people looked different from those in the city.B.Little land was covered with farms.C.There were too many people.20.What can we learn about cities today from the talk?A.They are quite noisy.B.The re are more people.懔戏紳喾驊谗鯫击嘘鹂喽誄鵪C.It's hard to tell cities from the countryside.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）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。
AChoose Your One-Day Tours!Tour A—Bath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge—￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter.Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.Tour B—Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary’s Church Tower and Anne Hathaway’s house—￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter.Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England’s oldest university city and colleg es. Look over the “city of dreaming spires(尖顶)”from St Mary’s Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.Tour C—Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace—￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter.Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIII’s favourite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫)where it is easy to get lost!Tour D—Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great—￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter.Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.21.Which tour will you choose if you want to see England’s oldest university city?A.Tour A.B.Tour B.C.Tour C.D.Tour D.22.Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March?A.Windsor Castle & Hampton Court.B.Oxford & Stratford.C.Bath & Stonehenge.D.Cambridge.23.Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction?A.It used to be the home of royal families.B.It used to be a well-known maze.C.It is the oldest palace in Britain.D.It is a world-famous castle.BThe freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmt h and vitamin C(维生素C), thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets(at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon)filled the weekend, but the best part—particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold-weather root vegetables—was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.The market, which was founded in 1979,sets up its tents every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries; the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的)promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal—and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where—luckily for me—I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.24.What did the author think of her winter life in New York?A.Exciting.B.Boring.C.Relaxing.D.Annoying.25.What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile?A.Having a swim.B.Breathing in fresh air.C.Walking in the morning sun.D.Visiting a local farmers' market.26.What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter?A.They are soft.B.They look nice.C.They taste great.D.They are juicy.27.What was the author going to do that evening?A.Go to a farm.B.Check into a hotel.C.Eat in a restaurant.D.Buy fresh vegetables.CWould it surprise you to learn that, like animals, trees communicate with each other and pass on their wealth to the next generation?UBC Professor Simard explains how trees are much more complex than most of us ever imagined. Although Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard shows just how wrong he was. In fact, the opposite is true: trees survive through their co-operation and support, passing around necessary nutrition “depending on who needs it”.Nitrogen(氮)and carbon are shared through miles of underground fungi(真菌)networks, making sure that all trees in the forest ecological system give and receive just the right amount to keep them all healthy. This hidden system works in a very similar way to the networks of neurons(神经元)in our brains, and when one tree is destroyed, it affects all.Simard talks about “mother trees”, usually the largest and oldest plants on which all other trees depend. She explains how dying trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important minerals to young trees so they may continue to grow. When humans cut down “mother trees” with no awareness of these highly complex “tree societies” or the networks on which they feed, w e are reducing the chances of survival for the entire forest.“We didn’t take any notice of it,” Simard says sadly. “Dying trees move nutrition into the young trees before dying, but we nev er give them chance.” If we could put across the message to the forestry industry, we could make a huge difference towards our environmental protection efforts for the future.28.The underlined sentence “the opposite is true” in Paragraph 2 probably means that trees .pete for survivalB.protect their own wealthC.depend on each otherD.provide support for dying trees29.“Mother trees” are extremely important because they.A.look the largest in size in the forestB.pass on nutrition to young treesC.seem more likely to be cut down by humansD.know more about t he complex “tree societies”30.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to.A.how “tree societies” workB.how trees grow oldC.how forestry industry developsD.how young trees survive31.What would be the best title for the passage?A.Old Trees Communicate Like HumansB.Young Trees Are In Need Of ProtectionC.Trees Are More Awesome Than You ThinkD.Trees Contribute To Our SocietyDWorking with a group of baboons(狒狒)in the Namibian desert, Dr. Alecia Carter of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University set baboons learning tasks involving a novel food and a familiar food hidden in a box. Some baboons were given the chance to watch another baboon who already knew how to solve the task, while others had to learn for themselves. To work out how brave or anxious the baboons were, Dr. Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of a model of a poisonous snake.She found that personality had a major impact on learning. The braver baboons learnt, but the shy ones did not learn the task although they watched the baboon perform the task of finding the novel food just as long as the brave ones did. In effect, despite being made aware of what to do, they were still too shy to do what the experienced baboon did.The same held true for anxious baboons compared with calm ones. The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not, even though they spent more time watching.This mismatch between collecting social information and using it shows that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals, something that has previously been ignored in studies on how animals learn to do things. The findings are significant because they suggest that animals may perform poorly in cognitive(认知的)tasks not because they aren’t clever enough to solve them, but because they are too shy or nervous to use the social information.The findings may impact how we understand the formation of culture in societies through social learning. If some individuals are unable to get information from others because they don’t associate with the knowledgeable individuals, or they are too shy to use the information once they have it, information may not travel between all group members, preventing the formation of a culture based on social learning.32.What is the first paragraph mainly about?A.The design of Dr.Carter’s research.B.The results of Dr.Carter’s research.C.The purpose of Dr.Carter’s research.D.The significance of Dr.Carter’s research.33.According to the research,which baboons are more likely to complete a new learning task?A.Those that have more experience.B.Those that can avoid potential risks.C.Those that like to work independently.D.Those that feel anxious about learning.34.Which best illustrates the“mismatch”mentioned in Paragraph 4?A.Some baboons are intelligent but slow in learning.B.Some baboons are shy but active in social activities.C.Some baboons observe others but don’t follow them.D.Some baboons perform new tasks but don’t concen trate.35.Dr.Carter’s findings indicate that our culture might be formed through.A.storing informationB.learning from each otherC.understanding different peopleD.travelling between social groups第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。