2015成都外国语学校12月月考英语试题及答案(4)

A. his son’s doing better while standing up 
B. his failure in keeping his son under control
C. his own experience as a school boy 
D. his disappointment with his active child
45. By this passage, the author attempts to tell other parents to ______.
A. correct their kids’ manners from the early ages
B. respect and trust their kids’ ways of behaviors
C. develop a good relationship with their children
D. guarantee their children’s freedom at home
46. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? 
A. Parental help with teens’ study
B. Adult influence on teen growth
C. Kids’ success in their own styles
D. Friendship between generations
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Listening to music while you drive can improve your speed and ability to get away from accidents, according to Australian psychologists. But turning your car radio up to full volume could probably make you end up in an accident. The performance of difficult tasks can be influenced if people are subjected to loud noise. The experience of pulling up at traffic lights alongside cars with loud music made some psychologists in the University of Sydney look into whether loud music has something to do with driving. 
The psychologists invited 60 men and women aged between 20 and 28 as subjects and tested them on almost the same driving tasks under three noise conditions: silence, rock music played at a gentle 55 decibels (分贝), and the same music at 85 decibels.
For 10 minutes the subjects sat in front of a screen operating a simple machine like a car. They had to track (追踪) a moving disk on screen, respond to traffic signals changing color, and brake in response to arrows that appeared without warning.
On the tracking task, there was no difference in performance under the three noise conditions. But under both the loud and quiet music conditions, the performers “braked” at a red light about 50 milliseconds sooner than they did when there was no rock music at all. That could mean a reduction in braking distance of a couple of meters actually, the difference between life and death for a pedestrian.
When it came to the arrows that appeared across the visual field, the psychologists found that when the music was quiet, people responded faster to objects in their central field of sight by about 50 milliseconds. For the people listening at 85 decibels, response times were dropped by a further 50 milliseconds — a whole tenth of second faster than those “driving” with no music. 
 “But there’s a trade-off,” the psychologists told the European Congress of Psychology. “They lose the ability to look around the whole situation effectively.” In responding to objects that suddenly appeared, people subjected to 85-decibel rock music were around 100 milliseconds slower than both the other groups. Since some accidents — such as children running into the road — take place without any notice, drivers listening to loud music must be less safe as a result. 
47. Where did the researchers do the experiment? 
  A. At crossroads.
B. At a police traffic station. 
C. In a crowded street.    
D. Under the experimental conditions as those of the streets. 
48. What does the underlined sentence “there’s a trade-off” in paragraph six mean?  
  A. Every coin has two sides. B. Business is business.  
  C. Practice makes perfect. D. A loss may turn out to be a gain.
49. Which of the following is NOT true of loud music? 
A. It helped the performers to brake sooner at red lights. 
  B. It quickened the performers’ response to objects in their central field of sight 
  C. It helped the performers to respond faster to objects suddenly stepping in the way. 
  D. It can sometimes do harm to drivers. 
50. On the whole, which of the following is the best way to make driving safer? 
  A. Loud music. B. Quiet music. C. Silence. D. Heavy metal music. 


第二节 对话理解（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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Policeman: Now, Jimmy, did you get a good view of the accident?
Jimmy: Oh, yes. I was standing outside the bank building and I saw it quite clearly. 
Policeman：Do you know what time it was?
Jimmy: Yes.___51___ It was 2:45 exactly. 
Policeman: Good. ____52____
Jimmy: Well, quite slowly — about 10 miles an hour. It was coming up York Road. ____53____ But they were still red when he went over them.
Policeman: I see. ____54____ Was it also driving slowly?
Jimmy: It was coming along Union Street about 30 miles per hour. It was a blue Toyota. ____55____
Policeman: Did you see what colour his traffic(交通) light was?
Jimmy: Yes, it changed to yellow just before he crossed it.
A. What about the car
B. I checked my watch.
C. Didn’t you see the car?
D. Now, how fast was the truck moving?
E. Was the car going beyond the speed limit?
F. I suppose the truck driver knew the lights were going to change.
G. The driver stopped his car when he saw the truck crossing the street.

第II卷（非选择题，共60分）
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
第三部分  写作（共三节，满分60分）
第一节 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分）
阅读下面短文并回答问题,然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求)。
On Christmas morning, Linda wakes up, and tries to imagine the wide-eyed surprise of children in another household as they unwrap the presents she carefully chose for them. Linda has never met the children, but that’s all part of the joy of giving as secret Santas, she says.