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　　桂林中学2015届八月月考英语试题
　　本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。试卷共8页。试卷满分150分。考试时间120分钟。
　　第I卷 选择题
　　第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30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。每段对话仅读一遍。
　　1. What does the man think of Jane?
　　A. She is attractive    B. She is too slim C. She is a little fat
　　2. What will Jack do when he gets home?
　　A. He will play soccer B. He will watch TV  C. He will help his parents
　　3. What advice does the man speaker give?
　　A. Buy a magazine about decoration.
　　B. Don’t put furniture in the bedroom
　　C. Just put some of the furniture in the bedroom
　　4. How old is James?
　　A. 20 years old     B. 21 years old      C. 22 years old
　　5. What did the woman do for Billy’s birthday party?
　　A. She prepared the hats      
　　B. She set the table    
　　C. She made the birthday cake
　　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、7题。
　　6. What makes the speakers happy?
　　A. The good program on TV
　　B. The end of the election.
　　C. A special story about the election.
　　7. How soon is the next election?
　　A. In four years    B. In five years       C. In six years
　　听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
　　8. What can be known about the curtains?
　　A. They are nice and expensive.
　　B. They are beautiful but dirty.
　　C. They are dirty and small.
　　9. What will the woman do with the curtains?
　　A. She will have them mended.
　　B. She will throw them away.
　　C. She will wash them herself.
　　听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
　　10. Where did they meet Claudia?
　　A. On the Internet  B. At a music store.   C. At the post office
　　11. How long will the man stay in Germany?
　　A. About half a month. B. One month       C. One week
　　12. What advice does the woman give the man?
　　A. Take a small gift   B. Smile and be friendly C. Be on time
　　听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
　　13. What does the man plan to wear in the summer months?
　　A. Casual shoes     B.  Jeans           C.  A cool hat
　　14. What will the man buy in his destination if it’s necessary?
　　A. A sun hat         B. A suitcase          C. A coat
　　15. What does the man plan to buy later on for the spring season?
　　A. Some sweaters     B. A jacket          C. An umbrella
　　16. What is the weather like in the spring?
　　A. It’s rainy         B. It’s cool         C. It’s windy
　　听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
　　17. How long should a young child sleep a day according to the International Sleep Foundation?
　　A. Over 10 hours    B. Over 9 years       C. Over 8 years
　　18. How many young child did the researchers monitor a week?
　　A. About 300       B. About 400       C. About 200
　　19. What did the researchers find?
　　A. Most of the children slept only eight hours.
　　B. Some fat children slept irregularly.
　　C. Few children slept enough hours.
　　20. What advice did the researchers give?
　　A. Map lost sleep on the weekends.
　　B. Sleeping regularly and enough hours.
　　C. Sleeping comfortably in a dark environment
　　第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
　　第一节（共10小题：每小题2分，满分20分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。
　　(A)
　　One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England，an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walp and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. "This boy has lost his family," he wrote. "He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?”
　　I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.
　　The first two times we met, David didn't say a word. He sat there, only loop to look at the children's drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon一in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.
　　Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?
　　"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.”Some months later, when we were playing chess, he loop at me suddenly.
　　"It’s your turn," he said.
　　After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.
　　Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one一without any words一can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens. 
　　21. When he first met the author, David         .
　　A. looked a little nervous B. walked energetically
　　C. felt a little excited D. showed up with his teacher
　　22. As a psychologist, the author         .
　　A. was able to describe David's problem B. was skeptical about psychology
　　C. was ready to listen to David D. was sure of handling David's problem
　　23. David enjoyed being with the author because he________.
　　A. wanted to asthor for advice
　　B. beat the author many times in the chess game
　　C. liked the children’s drawings in the office
　　D. need to share sorrow with the author
　　(B)
　　Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
　　However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
　　This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel linbearable pain and will likely ma quit well before you ever become good at it.
　　When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.