1、1荆州中学 2018-2019年度上学期高二英语双周考（三）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
2、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 tomorrows work.2. Where does the conversation most likely take place?A. In a dentists office. B. In a dining hall. C. In a clothes shop.3.What are the speakers talking about?A. A shopping
3、list. B. Preparations for a picnic. C. Childrens clothes.4.What does the man mean?A. He ddnt 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
4、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.
5、 The jeans are on sale. C. There arent 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?2A. 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
6、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
7、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 mans attitude to his speaking mistakes?A. He is afraid of them. B. He is ashamed of them. C. He isnt worried about them16.How does the m
8、an 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 th
9、e 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. Gettin
10、g 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。AFlying can be fun and exciting, no matter what you choose to do. But have 3you ever thought about what happens on the plane?Here
11、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 farmers house?”Take it easy. A planes toilets cannot be emptied in the
12、 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 the
13、m. 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?Its scary, uncomfortable and spills your drink. But is turbulence something you really need to worry about?Absolutely not. Its part of flying, and
14、it isnt 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 wont crash your plane. Even in extremely rough air, the wing is not going to break o
15、ff.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 isnt to make the plane look good. Its for the safety of everyone on board. As the airplane flies higher and higher, the outside atmospheric pressure gets lower a
16、nd 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 s
17、tresses 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 ground22. According to the
18、passage, turbulence _.A. is very dangerous B. seldom happens during flying C. may crash a plane D. can be caused for many reasons23. 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 _.4A. tell us some interesting fac
19、ts about flying B. inform us of flying safety tipsC. warn us of the danger of flying D. introduce us the design of a planeBTimes 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 on
20、e month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when were facing difficult times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmothers recipes. She taught me to cook. When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and C
21、hristmas vacations with my mothers 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 grandm
22、other 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 f
23、or seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldnt 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 Im in my kitchen making count
24、ry 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 he
25、avily 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 pra
26、ctice, I can. 25. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because _.A. she wants to try out her grandmothers recipes B. she is quite particular about foodC. the food in restaurants is unhealthyD. she and her husband are on a tight budget 26. According to the passage, the authors gra
27、ndmother _.A. learnt to cook because of the Great Depression5B. was good at cooking as well as careful in budgetingC. preferred chicken to beefD. 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 grandmothers foo
28、d with that in restaurantsB. learnt something more valuable than cooking from her grandmotherC. hasnt found the joy in cooking though she can cook like her grandmotherD. feels connected to her grandmother when making country food in the kitchen 28. Which of the following can be the best title of the
29、 passage? A. Cook like my grandmother B. My grandmothers sacred foodC. My grandmothers recipe D. Joy and pleasure in cookingCAdults 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 c
30、an 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
31、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, Ive been thinking of bigger, deeper questions: How do we
32、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
33、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 p
34、assed 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?6A. The more, t
35、he 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 girlC. Adding the money to her fund D. Giving the money to a sick mother31. Why did the author play
36、the ball with Shepherd?A. To try out an idea B. To show a parents loveC. To train his attention D. To help him start a hobby32.What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Take It or Leave It B. A Lesson from KidsC. Live More with Less D. The Pleasure of GivingDWhat Cocktail Parties Teach UsYoure at
37、 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 Universi
38、ty 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
39、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 arent 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
40、 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 arent.Many of those accident
41、s are because of “inattentional blindness”, in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they arent 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 do
42、wn 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.“Its a push-pull relationship the more we focus on one thing, 7the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, a professor of psychology at the Universit
43、y 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 rea
44、ct 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 t
45、hink 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 sp
46、eaking 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 distractio
47、ns 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 lo
48、cated 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 thats how your awareness and thankfulness will grow. Youll find new things
