1、- 1 -荆州中学 2016 级高三第三次双周考试卷英 语第一部分：听力(共两节, 满分 30 分)做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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 1.5 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 is woman confused about?A. The time. B. The painting. C. The roa
2、d.2. What does the man do?A. A seller. B. A waiter. C. A fisherman.3. What is the man worried about?A. His cat. B. His angry mother. C. The coming math exam.4. How much are the shoes on the lower shelf?A. $60. B. $100. C. $120.5. What will the man probably do tonight?A. Float on a boat. B. Go to a c
3、oncert. C. Have a feast.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，各个小题将给出 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 至 7 题。6. What is the man probably doing now?A. Printing documents. B. Drawing up a contract. C. Drink
4、ing - 2 -coffee.7. What will the man get as a reward?A. A salary raise. B. A paid vacation. C. A promotion.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. Where does the man get the story?A. From the Internet. B. On a book. C. In the church.9. What is God like in the story?A. Generous. B. Cruel. C. Humorous.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10
5、 至 12 题。10. What do we know about the woman?A. She needs $6,800.B. She will go to USA next week.C. She paid for the mans laundry fee last month.11. Whats the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Bank clerk and client. B. Laundry owner and customer. C. Roommates.12. What will the woman do th
6、is afternoon probably?A. Watch a video. B. Play a computer game. C. Go shopping.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What is the speed limit in the residential area?A. 25 km per hour. B. 30 km per hour. C. 40 km per hour.14. Why does the man praise the woman?A. She remembers to turn on the signal light.B. She
7、 doesnt overspeed.C. She keeps her eyes on the road.15. Where does the man ask the woman to stop the car?- 3 -A. At the parking lot. B. At the garage. C. Beside the sidewalk.16. Whats the result of the test?A. A success. B. A failure. C. Not sure.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. Which is NOT the official
8、 United Nations language?A. Arabic. B. French. C. German.18. What questions did Bella answer in foreign languages in the show?A. School courses. B. Some small talks.C. Her language learning experience.19. How old was Bella when she learned her first foreign language?A. One year old. B. Two years old
9、. C.Three years old.20. What does the expert suggest Bella do?A. Keep practicing.B. Learn more languages.C. Focus on one language.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，每小题 2 分，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、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.
10、 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 farme
11、rs - 4 -house?”Take it easy. A planes 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 happ
12、en. 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?Its scary, uncomfortable and spills your drink. But is turbulence something y
13、ou really need to worry about?Absolutely not. Its part of flying, and 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 you
14、r 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 isnt to make the plane look good. Its for the safety of everyone on board. As the airplane
15、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 stres
16、s 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 directlyB. blue ice frequently falls out of planes - 5 -C. blue ice from a plane is a great safety t
17、hreatD. passengers waste is dealt with on the ground22. 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 reasons23. The plane window has a round design for the purpose of _.A. economy B. security C. beauty D. c
18、onvenience 24. The passage is meant to _.A. tell us some interesting facts about flying B. inform us of flying safety tipsC. warn us of the danger of flying D. introduce us the design of a planeB Times are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experi
19、ence 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 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 co
20、ok. When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas 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
21、 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 chea
22、p, so she cooked a lot of them, - 6 -mostly only using small amounts of meat for 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 gra
23、ndmother and to hundreds of years of family when Im in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conquering starvation of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day. From grandmother I learned to take real s
24、atisfaction 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 anywhe
25、re 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 grandmothers recipesB. she is quite particular about foodC. the food in restaurants is unhealthyD. she and
26、her husband are embarrassed financially 26. According to the passage, the authors grandmother _.A. learnt to cook because of the Great DepressionB. 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
27、inferred from the passage that the author _.A. liked to compare her grandmothers food with that in restaurantsB. learnt something more precious 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
28、 country food in the kitchen 28. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? - 7 -A. Cook like my grandmother B. My grandmothers sacred foodC. My grandmothers recipe D. Joy and pleasure in cookingCWhat Cocktail Parties Teach UsYoure at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking
29、. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分贝 ) level. Yet among all those distractions, you can tune 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
30、that sound-editing process occurs 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 some sounds and turns down others so that when the signal reaches the higher brain, “its as if only one person was speaking alone,” says invest
31、igator Edward Chang.These findings, published in the journal Nature last week, explain why people arent very good at multitasking our brains are wired for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inborn ability has helped humans survive in a world buzzing with visual and
32、 auditory stimulation (刺激). But we keep trying to push the limits with multitasking, sometimes with tragic (悲剧的) consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get into traffic accidents as those who arent.Many of those accidents are due to “inattentional blind
33、ness”, 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 down in the visual cortex before being
34、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, the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.- 8 -Studies
35、 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 device that is distracting their attention. Those talking on any kind of cell phone react more slowly and m
36、iss 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 effect
37、ively multitask, but are actually shifting their attention rapidly between two things and not getting the full effect of either, experts say.29. 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 k
38、inds 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.30. What do we learn from the passage?A. We are biologically incapable of multitasking.B. We survive distractions in life by multit
39、asking.C. We cannot multitask without extra attention.D. We benefit from pushing the limit with multitasking.31. 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 ma
40、nager talked on a hands-free phone with his client.D. A pedestrian had a car accident because of phubbing (低头).DLike toolmaking, teaching was once thought to be an exclusive(独有的)capacity - 9 -of the human mind. It is not true.“Teaching” requires this: one individual must take time from their own tas
41、k to demonstrate and instruct with effort and the student must learn a new skill. Thats a tall order.When a young chimpanzee watches a skilled adult and then imitates (模仿), thats learning. But the adult has not taken time specifically to instruct, so it is not teaching. In the honeybees amazing danc
42、e, the dancer takes time to indicate information about a source of food, but observers learn no new skill. They do take time to show, but they do not pass on new skills to learners.Dolphins teach. Atlantic spotted dolphin mothers sometimes free a caught fish in the presence of their youngsters and l
43、et their youngsters chase it, catching it again if its getting away. Dolphin youngsters also position themselves alongside mothers who are scanning sandy bottoms for hidden fish, and the mother spends extra time demonstrating.Other teachers include: housecats who bring back live prey and let their y
44、oung learn to catch it, and meerkats (猫鼬)who first bring to their growing young dead scorpions (蝎子 ), then disabled ones, to demonstrate how to remove the poisonous part on their tails.Like toolmaking and teaching, imitation is also considered to reflect high intelligence. In South Africa lived a ba
45、by dolphin named Dolly. One day while she was just six months old, Dolly was watching a trainer standing at the window smoking a cigarette, blowing puffs of smoke. Dolly swam to her mother, got a mouthful of milk, then returned to the window and released a cloud of milk that surrounded her head. The
46、 trainer was “absolutely astonished”.Somehow Dolly came up with the idea of using milk to represent smoke. Using one thing to represent something else isnt just imitation. It is art. 32. What does the underlined phrase “a tall order” probably mean in paragraph 2?A. A clear instruction. B. A high ris
47、k. C. A difficult requirement. D. A useful purpose.- 10 -33. What do we know about honeybees dance?A. Presenting. B. Learning. C. Imitating. D. Teaching.34. What can we infer about animals that can teach?A. Bees show their dance to younger generations.B. Housecats teach in a way similar to dolphins.
48、C. Young dolphins must learn how to free a fish.D. Meerkats have poisonous parts on the tails.35. Why does the author use Dollys example?A. To prove smoking can affect other animals.B. To explain dolphins are capable of making art.C. To show animals can be surprisingly intelligent.D. To stress milk
49、is to dolphins what smoking is to men.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。New research helps to explain why screaming is disturbing and useful.Screams, like those we hear in horror movies, have a special quality that separates them from other noises we make and hear. These screams are recognized by people all over the world.36 Every kid in every culture screams. Every adult in th
