湖北省荆州中学2019届高三英语第八次双周考试题.doc

1、1湖北省荆州中学 2019 届高三英语第八次双周考试题第一部分 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. How much will the man pay for the four tickets?A. 15 pounds. B. 30 pounds. C. 45 pounds.2. Why is the man late accordin

2、g to his words?A. He knocked down an old man.B. He sent an old man to a hospital.C. His bike was broken on the way.3. Whats the date today?A. 16th. B. 17th. C. 18th.4. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. At a bookshop. B.At a bank. C.At a restaurant.5. What is the womans attitude

3、 to the dishes?A. She thinks it is just so-so.B. She dislikes it.C. She likes it very much.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 is James hobby?A. Collec

4、ting match boxes. B. Collecting envelopes. C. Collecting coins.7. How old was James when he got the match boxes as a gift from his father?2A.16. B.15. C.14.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. What is the job of the man?A. A guide. B.An engineer. C.A teacher.9. What is the mans advantage in English?A. Speaking.

5、 B. Listening. C. Reading.10. How many English words has the man grasped according to himself?A. Almost 500. B.Almost 5,000. C.Almost 5,500.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. What did Joe do last night?A. He saw a film. B. He worked for a design. C. He had a meeting.12. Why will Joe catch the first bus?A. B

6、ecause he will meet an important customer.B. Because he will take part in an interview.C. Because he will be the first to arrive at the company.13. What does the woman prepare for the man?A. Boiled eggs. B. Fried eggs. C. Cakes.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。14. What does the man want to do?A. To exchange f

7、or some cash.B. To put aside some money.C. To lend some money.15. Which is better in cashing a travelers check according to the woman?A. A stocking center. B.A hotel. C.A bank.16. Which of the following neednt the man offer to the woman?A. Address. B. Passport number. C. ID card.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 2

8、0 题。17. What is the age of Miss Bao?A. In her 20s. B. In her 30s. C. In her 40s.18. How much can Miss Bao earn one month in her company?3A. $1,450. B. $1,415. C. $1,410.19. Which is Chinas largest C to C (customer to customer) website?A.T. B.S. C.D.20. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Buy it

9、online, a whole new way of shopping!B. Buy it on TV, a whole new way of shopping!C. Buy it on a magazine, a whole new way of shopping!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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。AThe Costa Book Awards consistently pick winners that are both of

10、 the moment and subsequently endure. Its our pleasure to confirm this years Category Winners.First Novel Award WinnerBook: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineAuthor: Gail HoneymanEleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins again on a Monday. Between, her only company will be two bo

11、ttles of vodka and her own solitary, unique wit (机智) . It is contentment, of a kind, but an unexpected shared experience suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader expectations with a living, breathing character, Gail Honeymans novel is a funny and moving diamond.Biography Award Winn

12、erBook: In the Days of RainAuthor: Rebecca StottThe Exclusive Brethren were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born Rebecca. Her father had been an influential 4Brethren Minister. As her father lay dying, he begged her to help him write the memoir. He wanted to

13、 tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect.Poetry Award WinnerBook: Insider the WaveAuthor: Helen DunmoreTo be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline

14、 between the living and the dead - and the acutely intense being of both.Childrens Award WinnerBook: The ExplorerAuthor: Katherine Rundell, Hannah HornFour children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon jungle, but for Fred and his friends its only the beginning of a cruel battle for survi

15、val. Brimming with adventure and a real command of character and incident, Rundell has few peers in superb childrens fiction.21. What kind of life does Eleanor lead?A. Funny and touching. B. Ordinary and happy. C. Exciting and complex. D. Boring and lonely.22. Why did Rebecca Scott write In the Days

16、 of Rain?A. To pass on her family traditions.B. To share the life of fundamentalist Christians.C. To help her father fulfill his last wish.D. To introduce beliefs of the Exclusive Brethren. 23. For a young adventurous soul, which book seems more appealing?A. The Explorer. B. Insider the Wave. C. In

17、the Days of Rain. D. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine .BAn Indian barber has come up with a novel technique to give people haircuts 5using just a small comb and a burning candle instead of a pair of scissors. Just like any barber, Dasharath Kumar, 28, combs the hair and meticulously runs the flam

18、e of the candle on the ends, giving it a unique finish. The cutting-edge technique has made him the most demanded barber in his small village in Gulbarga in Karnataka in southern India.While Dasharath joined his family business when he was 15, the unique idea only clicked him five years ago. He says

19、: “Electricity cut was common in our village and we were used to working in dark. But one evening while I was cutting the hair of a customer, power went off and I had to use the light from a candle to finish the haircut. But the flames of the candle that night inspired me to think of using a new tec

20、hnique for trimming hair.”“I had bunch of regular customers so when I told them about the experiment, they happily said they trusted me and my skills and gave a nod for the new technique. Surprisingly, it came out very well. Since then there was no looking back.”Started with only 20 pence, customers

21、 now happily pay him 1 for his novel way of haircut.One of his daring customers Yusuf Khan, who waited for nearly two hours for his turn, said:“Every barber gives a haircut using scissors but the fun of getting a haircut with a candle flame is unbeatable. Initially, I was not prepared for it but onc

22、e I saw the magic of his hands, I never went back to a regular barber.”24. The underlined word “meticulously” probably means _.A. casually B. carefully C. surprisedly D. randomly25. When was Dasharath inspired to trim hair with a burning candle?A. At the age of five. B. After his graduation.C. After

23、 a power failure. D. When its getting dark.26. What can we conclude from the text?A. No customers want to be back to Dasharaths salon.B. Dasharath charges more money than any other barber.C. A traditional barber cant make a living in the future.D. Many people are attracted by Dasharaths technique.62

24、7. The best title for the passage is probably _.A. An amazing Indian barberB. A latest cutting fashionC. A regular barbers futureD. What made a good barberCIt is quite apparent that competition surrounds every aspect of human life whether in the United States or the Amazon rainforest. Without it we

25、would not have grown into primates (灵长类动物) . Or we would probably still be struggling to sharpen a bronze tool while crawling around on four legs in search of meat. Without competition, Columbus wouldnt have discovered America and Edison would never have invented the light bulb.Friendship, like all

26、relationships between two people, involves competition. It isnt competition in a traditional sense because there are no goals to be scored and no prize. Perhaps the ecological definition - the simultaneous (同时) demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients, l

27、iving space, or light - better explains it.As in nature, high school life is governed by a set of laws, similar to a shortened version of Darwins theory of evolution, overpopulation, and competition. There is an abundance of high school students and to distinguish them, ranking and categorizing (分类)

28、 take place. In high school, friendships learn to coexist with competition even though at times the relationship is rough. In fact, in some circumstance, competition is too much of a burden for a friendship to bear, causing it to fall apart. College admission is the final high school objective. Four

29、 years of hard work is to achieve good grades, and a students fate is determined not only by these achievements, but by the records of thousands of other seniors trying to achieve a similar recognition.Nevertheless, by necessity, competition between students exists in all aspects of high school life

30、. It sets and improves the standards in everything 7from sports to schoolwork. A healthy, friendly competition can have only benefits, but when it becomes too fierce, jealousy (妒忌) can tear friendships apart. Yet, despite all this, without competition, we would be lost.28. What does the ecological d

31、efinition mainly explain?A. How to win the competition. B. What competition exactly is.C. What the result of competition is. D. How friends compete with each other.29. According to the writer, what causes the high school students to compete?A. They know the laws of nature well. B. Friendship is a bu

32、rden for them.C. The number of them is too large. D. They are divided into different groups.30. Which best describes the relationship of friendship and competition?A. Friendship is always based on competition.B. Competition is a result of lost friendship. C. Competition is terribly harmful to friend

33、ships.D. The degree of competition is vital to friendship.31. What does the author think of “competition”?A. Competition is certain to happen at school.B. The result of competition are out of control.C. Competition becomes fierce in high school.D. Friendship is not as important as competition at sch

34、ool.DAs any plane passenger will confirm, a crying baby is almost impossible to ignore, no matter how hard you try. Now scientists believe they may have worked out why. A babys cry pulls at the heartstrings(扣人心弦）in a way while other cries dont, researchers found.Researchers found that a babys cry ca

35、n trigger unique emotional responses in the brain, making it impossible for us to ignore themwhether we are parents or not. Other types of cries, including calls of animals in great pain, 8fail to get the same response, suggesting the brain is programmed to respond specifically to a babys cry.A team

36、 of Oxford University scientists scanned the brains of 28 men and women as they listened to a variety of calls and cries. After 100 milliseconds - roughly the time it takes to blink (眨眼) two parts of the brain that respond to emotion lit up. Their response to a babys cry was particularly strong. The

37、 response was seen in both men and womeneven if they had no children.Researcher Dr Christine Parsons said, “You might read that men should just notice a baby and step over it and not see it, but its not true. There is a special processing in men and women, which makes sense from an evolutionary(演化的）

38、view that both men and women would be responding to these cries.” The study was in people who were not parents, yet they are all responding at 100ms to these particular cries, so this might be a fundamental response present in all of us regardless of parental status.Fellow researcher Katie Young sai

39、d it may take a bit longer for someone to recognize their own childs cries because they need to do more “fine-grained analysis”. The team had previously found that our reactions speed up when we hear a baby crying. Adults performed better on computer games when they heard the sound of a baby crying

40、than after they heard recordings of adults crying.32. A babys cry is difficult to ignore because it .A. keeps on crying B. cries harder than adults C. causes people great pain D. makes people feel strong emotions 33. What may Christine Parsons agree to?A. A crying baby makes no sense to people witho

41、ut children.B. Parents can hardly recognize their own babies cries.C. Men pay less attention to a crying baby than women.D. Almost everyone makes certain response to a babys cry.34.Computer games are mentioned in the text to show_9APlayers different reactions to a crying babyBBabys crying contribute

42、s to quicker reactionsCthe influence of babys and adults crying on performanceDIts hard to keep ones concentration with a crying baby nearby.35. Whats the main idea of the text?A. How to recognize different babies cries.B. Why you cant get a babys cry out of your head. C. Why a baby is easy and like

43、ly to cry.D. How to prevent a baby crying.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 。Gratitude is not only an art performed in daily life, but also part of our traditional virtue. Has your mother or friend told you that youre an ungrate

44、ful person? Do you feel unable to appreciate the world or people around you? Are you obsessed with things you dont have instead of being thankful for what you do have? 36 then you will definitely need to work on being a more grateful person.Showing gratitude has been put forward in the last few deca

45、des. 37 But there are still some tips that help make it possible for you to practice gratitude.Refusing to play the victim is the first step youre supposed to take. 38 If you want to be grateful, stop complaining the world, your teachers, your friends and your family about not putting themselves in

46、your shoes, and focus on how much theyve helped and cared about you.Volunteering in your community is another effective way to show how grateful you are for what the world has given you. Whether youre helping clean up a local park, working in a soup kitchen, or teaching children or adults in your co

47、mmunity to learn to read, your perspective towards life will change positively. 39 1040 You shouldnt always be good only to your close friends or family members. You can help a neighbor look for a lost dog. You can also help an old lady carry her grocery. You dont have to search for these opportunit

48、ies purposely. Sometimes they will present themselves. So when they come, act with generosity. Youll be more grateful for your role played in the world.A. However hard you try to avoid these questionsB. If you find yourself involved in one of these circumstancesC. Gradually, youll be more grateful f

49、or the chances to repay the societyD. Doing a random act of kindness is also a great way of practicing gratitude.E. While such encouragement is morally meaningful，it seems to be a little abstract.F. Ungrateful persons are always blaming the world for the problems and owing all the faults to others.G. When you reflect on yo