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莆田一中2012学年高三第5次月考英语考试
第Ⅰ卷（选择题共115分）
一．听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题，每题1.5分） 1. What does the woman want to do? A. Sign an agreement.
B. Attend a lecture.
C. Read the agreement carefully again. 2. Whose picture is on the show at the exhibition? A. The man’s.
B. The woman’s.
C. Li Ying’s.
3. What does the man want to do? A. To turn on the TV.
B. To turn off the TV.
C. Let her turn the TV down.
4. What does the woman think about the man’s plan? A. She thinks he is foolish. C. She thinks he is very clever. 5. What is happening outside? A. It is raining slightly.
B. It is raining heavily.
C. It’s shining.
第二节（共15小题，每题1.5分） 听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。
6. What does the woman call the man for? A. To ask him to see a film.
B. To ask him to join a group discussion.
C. To ask him to join her group.
7. How many times do the group meet every week? A. Once.
B. Twice.
C. Three times.
B. They go bird-watching.
8. What do the group sometimes do in spring and autumn? A. They have a picnic in the forest.
C. They go catching birds. 听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. What do the speakers both want to do in the coming new year? A. Save some money.
B. Work harder.
C. Lose weight.
10. What did the man do last year?
B. She thinks he works very hard.
A. He joined a health club. C. He got a good job.
B. He stopped smoking.
11. When did the man promise to stop smoking? A. Last June.
B. Last year.
C. This summer.
听第8段材料，回答第12至13题。
12. What is the man’s favorite sport in summer? A. Play tennis.
B. Swim.
C. Play tennis and swim.
13. What do you know about Bob?
A. He doesn’t like watching football on TV. B. He likes playing football. C. He likes weightlifting.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What’s the matter with the woman? A. She lost her job.
B. She wants to find a job.
C. She doesn’t know if she should change her present job. 15. Why does the woman want to change her job? A. She can get more money.
B. She doesn’t like her present job.
C. Her present job is not interesting.
16. When should the woman make her decision? A. Tomorrow.
B. Today.
C. Next week.
17. What does the man want to do?
A. To give the woman a hand. B. To get that job. C. To give the woman a job. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. Why did the speaker change his interest to underwater exploration? A. It is much cheaper than space travel. B. It is much safer than space travel. C. It is more exciting than space travel.
19. In what way does the speaker think diving is similar to space travel? A. They are both expensive.
B. They both attract scientists’ attention.
C. They can both be quite challenging. 20. Why does the speaker give this talk? A. To explain the danger of exploring space.
B. To explain why he took up underwater exploration.
C. To show how simple diving can be.
二、单项选择（共15题，每题1.5分）
21. You don’t have to buy______. The book with red cover is just the same as the one with yellow cover. A. all
B. both
C. either
D. any
22. –How do you think of Steve Jobs who succeeded in creating the empire of Apple? - I think the most important is that he had intelligence ____ the ordinary. A. like
B. for
C. beyond
D. than
23. Don’t believe in those ads that you can master a language in one month. Instead, it
is a(n) ______ process, which may last for years. A. rapid
B. instant
C. gradual
D. regular
24. For many people, the Internet is a means of _____ with what’s going on in the
outside world. A. keeping up
B. catching up
C. doing away
D. getting away
25. It’s really important to form an atmosphere among the students ____ saving water
is a habit rather than a rule. A. who
B. where
C. what C. added
D. which D. decreased
26. The dark colors are _____ by the brightness of the walls. A. balanced
B. increased
27. There was a code on the card _____school students could log on to the website
and receive online education. A. on which A. Occupying C. Occupied
B. in which B. To occupy
C. through which
D. of which
28. _____with her children, Mrs White can’t go shopping with us.
D. Being occupied
29. –Have you got any news about John, Lily?
– He_____ in a job interview the other day and he’s waiting for the result. A. was participating C. is participating
B. had participated D. participated
30. - Excuse me, are you Amy, from Class2, Grade1?
- Sorry, I’m not ____ Amy from Class2, Grade1 but from Class1, Grade2. There
are two Amys in my school? A. a
B. an
C. /
D. the
31. It’s said that John is a good driver. ______, I won’t sit in his car. A. If so
B. If ever
C. Even so
D. Even though
32. -I don’t think our earth will be destroyed this year as described in the film 2012. -______. It’s merely a science fiction film! A. Nor I am.
B. That’s all right.
C. Sounds great.
D. You just stole my words.
33. At the press conference Yao Ming announced a personal decision, ___ his career
as a basketball player．
A. ending B. to end C. ended D.having ended 34. –Will $100 _____?
-I’m afraid not. We need at least another 20 dollars.
A. count
B. satisfy
C. fit
D. do
35. We need some more facts and figures __________ we take the final decision. A. since B. before C. after D. until 三、完形填空（共20小题，每题1.5分）
Recently I experienced a wonderful lesson in how little things still mean a lot.
I live on the Island of Hawaii. About a month ago, when I 36 my car and was about to drive off, I glanced down at the roadside. A piece of paper 37 my eye. I picked it up and read it 38 . Instantly I was grateful that I had done that. The form 39 to be a receipt from the State Motor Vehicle Division,
documenting the owners’ 40 of their Vehicle’s Registration fees. Quickly I put myself in their 41 and figured: no one would throw this away, especially if it was current. I also 42 the form for contact or any 43 data, perhaps a license tag(牌照) or telephone number. But that seemed 44 .
Although the form had been 45 on the wind, where in the busy, crowded
parking lot would I find the 46 ? So I checked the date and 47 the names of the owners, who must be in our town. I believed that the best and easiest step to 48 was to put the form in a(n) 49 addressed to the couple and mail it by post. Further, I imagined how frantic (狂乱的) I’d be 50 I had misplaced the receipt. It is much easier to make a(n) 51 to return it than to leave them angry, upset etc. over the 52 , so I did as I thought. My hunch(预感) was right. On the weekend a happy couple called 53 my house and brought me a big gift. They said they had panicked and searched for the receipt 54 everywhere before giving up. Without it they would lose $8,000. It