2018-2019学年湖北省荆州中学高二上学期第三次半月考（双周考）英语试题 Word版 11页

2018-2019 学年湖北省荆州中学高二上学期第三次半月考 （双周考）英语 时间：120 分钟满分：150 分 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 20 分） 做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案 转涂到答题卡上。 第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 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。 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳 选项。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 will the man do first? A. Meet the group members. B. Complete the paper. C. Plan tomorrow's work. 2. Where does the conversation most likely take place? A. In a dentist's office. B. In a dining hall. C. In a clothes shop. 3.What are the speakers talking about? A. A shopping list. B. Preparations for a picnic. C. Children's clothes. 4.What does the man mean? A. He dídn’t get a satisfying grade. B. He is disappointed in his maths teacher. C. He is well prepared for the exam. 5. Where did the woman spend her childhood? A. In Switzerland. B. In England. C. In Scotland. 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。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. Where does the man look for the trousers for the woman? A. At another store. B. On the shelf. C. In the stockroom. 7.What do we know about the store? A. All the goods are 4O% off. B. The jeans are on sale. C. There aren’t many jeans left. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8.What does the woman think of “Winner Takes”? A. Boring. B. Exciting. C. Encouraging. 9. What will the speakers watch? A. A movie. B. A concert. C. A basketball game. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What is the Eurostar? A. A train. B. A ship. C. A plane. 11. Why does the woman like Budapest? A. The weather is fine there. B. It is famous and exciting. C. She wants to visit the museum there. 12. Which city is last to visit? A. Bern B. Rome. C. Amsterdam. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13 What is the most important in learning English according to the man? A. Grammar. B. Pronunciation. C. Vocabulary. 14. What does the man always carry with him? A. A vocabulary list. B. A dictionary. C. A grammar book. 15.What is the man's attitude to his speaking mistakes? A. He is afraid of them. B. He is ashamed of them. C. He isn’t worried about them.. 16.How does the man practise his pronunciation? A. He watches videos to learn how people speak. B. He talks to customers in the restaurant. C. He speaks with people on the street. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What helped the speaker climb onto the elephant? A. A ladder. B. Trees. C. A car. 18. What was the tiger doing when the speaker saw it? A. Walking towards her. B. Staying under the trees. C. Looking at her directly. 19. What did Ajay tell the tourists? A. Elephants can go round tigers safely. B. Few old or injured tigers attack humans. C. Many people are eaten by tigers in India. 20.What did Ajay stop Amy doing? A. Getting out of the car. B. Taking pictures of tigers. C. Throwing food to monkeys. 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，并在答 题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Flying can be fun and exciting, no matter what you choose to do. But have you ever thought about what happens on the plane? Here are some of the most interesting things that happen. Do planes drop human waste while in flight? When you flush（冲）a toilet on a plane at an altitude of 30,000 feet, there must be a question in your mind: “Is this about to land on a farmer’s house?” Take it easy. A plane’s toilets cannot be emptied in the sky. The waste is stored in tanks on board and can only be operated by the ground crew. However, why is news like “blue ice falling out of a plane” reported? Is blue ice human waste? Stories about blue ice are true but rarely happen. The FAA said some toilet holding tanks have a blue chemical in them. If a tank leaks high in the air, the water freezes once it hits the outside air, and melts before it lands on the ground. Is turbulence (颠簸) dangerous? It’s scary, uncomfortable and spills your drink. But is turbulence something you really need to worry about? Absolutely not. It’s part of flying, and it isn’t dangerous. Turbulence is caused when two masses of air hit one another at different speeds. Wind, thunderstorms and closeness to mountains are all possible reasons. Despite how dangerous it feels, turbulence won’t crash your plane. Even in extremely rough air, the wing is not going to break off. Why are plane windows round? If you have traveled by plane before, you may have noticed that every plane window has a round design. This isn’t to make the plane look good. It’s for the safety of everyone on board. As the airplane flies higher and higher, the outside atmospheric pressure gets lower and lower. In the end, the pressure inside the plane becomes greater than the pressure outside. At this time, windows that can resist pressure are needed. Square windows can crack. The different pressure inside and outside put stress on the right angles. However, rounded corners help to reduce these stresses by spreading them around the window. 21. It can be learned from the passage that _______. A. passengers’ waste falls onto the land directly B. blue ice frequently falls out of planes C. blue ice from a plane is a great safety threat D. passengers’ waste is dealt with on the ground 22. According to the passage, turbulence _______. A. is very dangerous B. seldom happens during flying C. may crash a plane D. can be caused for many reasons 23. The plane window has a round design for the purpose of _______. A. economy B. security C. beauty D. convenience 24. The passage is meant to _______. A. tell us some interesting facts about flying B. inform us of flying safety tips C. warn us of the danger of flying D. introduce us the design of a plane B Times are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when we’re facing difficult times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmother’s recipes. She taught me to cook. When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mother’s parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go hunting with my grandfather on mornings, I found myself more and more in the kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands. My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As the eldest daughter, she was expected to take on all of the housework while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldn’t do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste. Now I understand that her food was sacred (神圣的). I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when I’m in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of fighting starvation — of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day. From grandmother I learned to take real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say: “Do you know what this would cost at the restaurant?” I never knew what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and years of practice, I can. 25. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because _______. A. she wants to try out her grandmother’s recipes B. she is quite particular about food C. the food in restaurants is unhealthy D. she and her husband are on a tight budget 26. According to the passage, the author’s grandmother _______. A. learnt to cook because of the Great Depression B. was good at cooking as well as careful in budgeting C. preferred chicken to beef D. had to walk a long way to learn cooking in a restaurant 27. It can be inferred from the passage that the author _______. A. liked to compare her grandmother’s food with that in restaurants B. learnt something more valuable than cooking from her grandmother C. hasn’t found the joy in cooking though she can cook like her grandmother D. feels connected to her grandmother when making country food in the kitchen 28. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? A. Cook like my grandmother B. My grandmother’s sacred food C. My grandmother’s recipe D. Joy and pleasure in cooking C Adults understand what it feels like to be flooded with objects. Why do we often assume that more is more when it comes to kids and their belongings? The good news is that I can help my own kids learn earlier than I did how to live more with less. I found the pre-holidays a good time to encourage young children to donate less-used things, and it worked. Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness. She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund(基金）(our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor）. For weeks, I’ve been thinking of bigger, deeper questions: How do we make it a habit for them? And how do we train ourselves to help them live with, need, and use less? Yesterday, I sat with my son, Shepherd, determined to test my own theory on this. I decided to play with him with only one toy for as long as it would keep his interest. I expected that one toy would keep his attention for about five minutes, ten minutes, max. I chose a red rubber ball---simple, universally available. We passed it, he tried to put it in his mouth, he tried bouncing it, rolling it, sitting on it, throwing it. It was totally, completely enough for him. Before I knew it an hour had passed and it was time to move on to lunch. We both became absorbed in the simplicity of playing together. He had my full attention and I had his. My little experiment to find joy in a single object worked for both of us. 29. What do the words “more is more” in paragraph 1 probably mean? A. The more, the better.B. Enough is enough. C. More money, more worries. D. Earn more and spend more. 30.What made Georgia agree to sell some of her objects? A. Saving up for her holiday B. Raising money for a poor girl C. Adding the money to her fund D. Giving the money to a sick mother 31. Why did the author play the ball with Shepherd? A. To try out an idea B. To show a parent’s love C. To train his attention D. To help him start a hobby 32.What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Take It or Leave It B. A Lesson from Kids C. Live More with Less D. The Pleasure of Giving D What Cocktail Parties Teach Us You’re at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分贝) level. Yet among all those distractions(分心), you can turn your attention to just one voice from many. This ability is what researchers call the “cocktail-party effect”. Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have found where that sound-editing process happens in the brain — in the auditory cortex (听觉皮层) just behind the ear, not in areas of higher thought. The auditory cortex boosts(增强) some sounds and turns down others so that when the signal reaches the higher brain, “it’s as if only one person was speaking alone,” says investigator Edward Chang. These findings, published in the journal Nature last week, explain why people aren’t very good at multitasking — our brains are for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inborn ability has helped humans survive in a world with visual and auditory stimulation ( 刺 激 ). But we keep trying to push the limits with multitasking, sometimes with terrible results. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get into traffic accidents as those who aren’t. Many of those accidents are because of “inattentional blindness”, in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they aren’t focusing on. The more attention a task demands, the less attention we can pay to other things in our field of vision. Images land on our retinas (视网膜) and are either boosted or played down in the visual cortex before being passed to the brain, just as the auditory cortex filters sounds, as shown in the Nature study last week.“It’s a push-pull relationship — the more we focus on one thing, the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Studies over the past decade at the University of Utah show that drivers talking on hands-free cell phones are just as influenced as those on hands-held phones because it is the conversation, not the phone that is distracting their attention. Those talking on any kind of cell phone react more slowly and miss more traffic signals than other motorists. Some people can train themselves to pay extra attention to things that are important — like police officers learn to scan crowds for faces and conductors can listen for individual instruments within the orchestra as a whole. Many more think they can effectively multitask, but are actually switching their attention rapidly between two things and not getting the full effect of either, experts say. 33. What have scientists in University of California found about “the cocktail-party effect”? A. Usually there is only one person who is speaking alone. B. All kinds of annoying sounds drive up the decibel level. C. The higher brain processes sounds and images selectively. D. Sounds are sorted out before reaching the higher brain. 34. What do we learn from the passage? A. We are biologically not good at multitasking. B. We survive distractions in life by multitasking. C. We can multitask effectively with extra attention. D. We benefit from pushing the limit with multitasking. 35. Which of the following is an example of “inattentional blindness”? A. A careless driver lost his eyesight after a car accident. B. Police scanned the crowds and located the criminal. C. A manager talked on a hands-free phone with his customer. D. A walking man had a car accident because of lowering his head. 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。 A gratitude journal is a great way to keep yourself in a positive state of mind. This article will offer some tips for starting and keeping one. ◆ Make it a rule to write down things you are thankful for per day. 36 This will make writing the journal more challenging as time goes on, but that’s how your awareness and thankfulness will grow. You’ll find new things to be thankful for that you hardly noticed before. ◆ Write about extended material things in your life. 37 For example, if you love to paint, you may be grateful for the paint that you have. Or, if you like music, you may be grateful for your CD collections. ◆ 38 You can start by feeling grateful to be alive. Avoid the trap of being grateful for something that is better than what others have. Instead, compare whatever you are grateful for with how you would feel if you didn’t have it. ◆ Think about your abilities. You may start with basic abilities like your ability to see and hear. 39 Think about skillful things like dancing and singing, and your character like your skills in cheering up people or your skills in being a good friend. ◆ Consider the people in your life. Think about all the people you are grateful for and write down the reasons. It’s also good to write about the people that you don’t really like and find a reason to appreciate them. 40 After all, there is good in everyone. A. Avoid repeating the same things. B. Describe how you are grateful for what you have. C. This can be difficult but very uplifting. D. Then progress to those that are unique to you. E. Feel grateful for any advantage you may have. F. These things differ greatly depending on your interests. G. In this way, everything will become more heartwarming. 第三部分英语知识运用（共三节，满分 55 分） 第一节: 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出 可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought 41 . It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle (奇迹). This farmhouse had been 42 too long. It needed a family. Zigfried’s 43 made a noise. He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday. He jumped from the windowsill (窗沿), grabbed a 44 from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s. Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for the little mouse 45 the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Zigfried 46 when he thought of it. He looked around cautiously as he 47 into the room where grain was stored and was quite 48 as he filled his bag with wheat. He was turning to leave when suddenly he 49 a hot breath about his ear. His heart beat 50 , and without thinking he started to run and luckily 51 the cat’s paws (爪子). The next afternoon Zigfried heard some good news: a 52 family would be moving into the farmhouse soon. Zigfried’s granny would arrive on Christmas Eve to 53 with him. He hoped that the family would come before his granny came. Before long, a car came 54 the road leading to the house, with butter sandwiches, cheese and chocolate. Zigfried’s Christmas miracle did arrive! The house came 55 the next few days. Zigfried 56 every single hour of them. 57 , the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a 58 smile at the door of his home, he heard the 59 of the children of the family about what they might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The 60 froze on his face; his mouth fell wide open. After a long while, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?” 41. A. carefully B. excitedly C. hopefully D. proudly 42. A. dirty B. noisy C. messy D. empty 43. A. mouth B. nose C. stomach D. throat 44. A. bag B. stick C. bowl D. coat 45. A. although B. until C. after D. unless 46. A. jumped B. smiled C. trembled D. pressed 47. A. broke B. marched C. paced D. slid 48. A. curious B. nervous C. pitiful D. sensitive 49. A. took B. released C. felt D. drew 50. A. strongly B. irregularly C. slowly D. wildly 51. A. escaped B. seized C. rubbed D. shook 52. A. close B. happy C. new D. young 53. A. celebrate B. communicate C. compete D. sweep 54. A. across B. from C. off D. up 55. A. alive B. loose C. open D. still 56. A. counted B. enjoyed C. missed D. wasted 57. A. However B. Instead C. Moreover D. Therefore 58. A. bitter B. forced C. polite D. satisfied 59. A. introduction B. discussion C. comment D. debate 60. A. blood B. smile C. tear D. sweat 第二节（共 10 小题：每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 I was deeply 61 (impression) by my space trip into the future of 62 was still my hometown. Actually it was the fist time I 63 (be) on a spaces trip. 64 instant I got into it, I found the adjustment 65 space life seemed a little difficult. I couldn’t tolerate the new 66 (surround). And I felt sick as if there was little oxygen 67 (leave). 68 (guide) by my friend, I felt better. I even learned how to drive a hovering carriage 69 (drive) by computer . 70 (finish) the trip, I had a rest in a room monitored by computers. So fancy a trip! 第三节：根据句子意思或所给词的正确形式填空（10 分） 71. In 2014 the number of Chinese citizens who went on tours abroad reached 13.56 million, a rise of 11 percent on the p __________ year. 72.I think all my students are really good ----highly ________ (有动力的)and hard-working. 73.A r__________ is a person who has been chosen to act or make decisions on behalf of another person or a grope of people. 74.The best way to handle a problem is trying to be e__________ and effective so that you can save enough time and make real difference. 75.Personality building can affect all a (方面)in your life. 76. She is really very o__________ and always hopes for the best. 77.It’s widely accepted that r___________ is the safest and greenest way to deal with waste materials. 78.He picked up the r__________ to answer the phone, only to be told his mom was sent to hospital. 79.For l________ of food many people starved to death during the war time. 80. Fashion is ___________(不断地) changing and everything may make a comeback years later. 第四部分：写作（共两节，满分 35 分） 第一节 短文改错（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 下面短文中有 10 处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删减或修改某个单词。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。 修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。 注意： 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2.只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。 I paid a visit to a space station considering the most modern in the space. Inside was the inventions of the 3lst century. First we saw the late form of communication. Messages could be sent use a “thoughtpad”. But the limitation was that messages could be unclear. Then we saw an ordinary and powerful model of a waste machine, absorb by its efficiency. There was a system which the waste was disposed ecologically. At last we learned that on space stations as this one, there might be no waste, no pollution and no environmental damage! What a wonderful world of the future! 第二节书面表达（共 1 题，满分 25 分） 假定你是李华，你校英文报将举行以“What would happen without computers in our life?” 为主题的英文征文比赛，请你发挥你的想象写一篇 120 词左右的英文短文参赛，开头已经给 出，不计入总词数。 As we all know, computers are playing a very important role in our life nowadays.________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 答案 听力 1—20 BABAC CBABA ABCBC ACBAC 阅读理解 21—40 DDBA DBBA ACAC DAD AFBDC 完形填空 41—60 CDCAB CDBCD ACADA BADBB 语法填空 61. impressed 62. what 63. had been 64. The 65. to 66. surroundings 67. left 68. Guided 69. driven 70. Having finished 单词填空 71. previous 72. motivated 73. representative 74. efficient 75. aspects 76. optimistic 77. recycling 78. receiver 79. lack 80. constantly 短文改错 81.considering—considered 82. 去掉 the 83. was—were 84. late—latest 85. use—using 86. and—but 87. absorb—absorbed 88. which—where 89. 加 of 90. as—like Possible version: As we all know, computers are playing an important role in our life nowadays. They bring us closer and free us from kinds of tiring work. However, a coin has two sides. Computers are also used in bad ways. For example, hackers stole information or money through computers and personal information and rumors spread on the Internet. But what would happen without computers in our life? Will it be better or will it be worse? First, though it may be quite inconvenient for people to communicate with each other people can spend more time with families and friends. Second, the modern security systems will break down but Internet crimes won’t happen any more which is such good news to the police and the world will be safer. Without computers people will soon find out life becomes more difficult and more original but the world will be more peaceful. Without computers our life will be like what it was one hundred years ago. It’s difficult to confirm whether it would be better or worse but it’s certain that we’ll find a totally new way to live in a new balance of the world.