1、- 1 -湖北省沙市中学 2018-2019 学年高二英语上学期第六次双周考试题第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分 30 分) 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束后，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） 听下面五段对话。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。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. Whats the season now?A. Summer. B. Fall. C. Winter.2. Which dress will
2、 the woman wear?A. The red one. B. The blue one. C. The green one.3. What can we learn about the old oven?A. Its not in style. B. Its broken. C. It has many functions.4. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a hospital. B. In a CD store. C. In a car.5. What does the woman think of th
3、e painting?A. Worthless. B. Just so-so. C. Wonderful.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. How does the man feel about the weather forecasts?A. Inaccurate. B.
4、 Reliable. C. good.7. Whats the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Neighbors. B. Colleagues. C. Classmates.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Why does the man stop relying on music as a full-time job?- 2 -A. The earnings arent stable.B. He doesnt like music so much.C. He doesnt like one of his band me
5、mbers. 9. On what occasion would the man be invited to play most probably?A. A local festival. B. A funeral. C. A birthday party.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What does the woman complain about the office?A. Its dirty. B. Its too small. C. Its noisy.11. What are the speakers supposed to do in the offic
6、e?A. Listen to some music.B. Prepare for the lessons.C. Let students help with the reports.12. What is the room downstairs used for now?A. Storage. B. Meetings. C. Reading.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Whats wrong with the camera?A. It cant be charged. B. It cant be turned on. C. It ruins memory cards.
7、14. Why cant the man get the camera fixed for free?A. He broke it by himself. B. Its out of the free service time.C. He lost his receipt.15. How much will the man pay for the repair?A. $20. B. $30. C. $50.16. What day is it today?A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Tuesday.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. How lon
8、g does the training period last?A. 1 to 2 years. B. 2 to 4 years. C. 3 to 5 years.- 3 -18. Who will test the learner taxi drivers?A. Driving school trainers. B. Special passengers. C. Government officers.19. What do we know about the test?A. 2 to 3 questions will be asked.B. Learners might not get t
9、he result at once.C. Several routes should be given to the destination.20. What do learner drivers have to pay for?A. A taxi. B. The driving license. C. A physical exam.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。AFor many years, my time spent in
10、 the shower could have got me a mention in Guinness World Records as the shortest time taken to bathe. I hurried up during this process.One day ,however, while at a party, I heard an artist friend telling everybody that his idea came while he was having a shower.“What about you?” He asked.“Dont you
11、get your creative thoughts from the same place?”“Im in and out in a hurry,” I told him proudly.“I have no time to waste!” “What a pity,” he said. “Thats the place where you need to slow down; plenty of great thoughts come from there!” I tried it out. I slowed down the whole process, started enjoying
12、 the warm water, taking a little longer to soap myself and even spending more time just enjoying the process, and realized how much I had missed in hurrying up all these years.A woman told me how much stress her friend was suffering from and how she sought to convince her that she needed to find way
13、s to relax. She gave her a videotape on stress management and relaxation techniques, and encouraged her to - 4 -watch it right away. Fifteen minutes later, her friend handed back the tape. “It was good,” she said, “but I don t need it. ”“But its a 70 - minute video,” the woman replied. “You couldnt
14、have watched the whole thing.”“Yes, I did,” her friend said. “I put it in fast - forward!”A major social problem of the 21st century is Hurry Sickness. We hurry through work. We swallow fast food. We complain that we dont have enough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look bac
15、k in amazement and comment, “My god, how the years flew by!” Then we realize the heavy price we have paid for traveling fast.Symptoms of Hurry Sickness include stress and anxiety, bad relationships, lowered work performance and even disease. Some people dont survive it. Whats the cure? Slow down, fo
16、r life is so short and precious that we must live it well. 21. What was the advantage of taking a shower in the eyes of the artist friend?A. Time was saved. B. Creative thoughts came. C. Great ideas flew away. D. Nothing was missed.22. What was the trouble with the womans friend?A. She felt stressed
17、. B. She found the tape useless. C. She found no way to relax. D. She watched the tape too fast.23. What is the major trouble people face in the 21st century in the writers eyes? A. People run fast to work. B. Time flies without being noticed. C. People dont have enough time. D. Everything is done i
18、n a hurry.BWhen was the last time you sent a postcard? The UKs family-owned oldest postcard firm, which has been publishing postcards and calendars since 1880, will close this December. The reason? It says instead of penning a card, people are putting photos up on Facebook or Instagram or using What
19、sApp to show friends - 5 -and family at home just how much fun theyre having.If you get a postcard from someone whos away somewhere, its as much the thought that theyve gone through the hassle (麻烦) of choosing a postcard, working out where to get a stamp from, finding a postbox and then the postcard
20、 making that journey through to you. Thats the value of the postcard. But that time has gone.Brothers Charles and Harry Salmon, the fifth generation of the family to run the firm, said the popularity of social media had had a huge impact on the business. People are also tending to take shorter holid
21、ays, meaning they are likely to have arrived home long before their postcards. As a result the business was no longer viable.“Increasingly challenging trading conditions and changes to the nature and size of the market for its publications have resulted in uncertainty over the future of its trade, t
22、he brothers wrote in a letter to suppliers and newsagents.As a result they were announcing a proposal to withdraw from publishing. The number of postcards sold each year is reported to have seen a sharp decline to about five million from 20 million just 25 years ago. But the firm said that as well a
23、s the drop in the number of postcards sent, “we have also had to consider that there are no more members of the family who wish to join the business.”24. What is the best title of the text?A. UKs oldest postcard firm set to close. B. Postcard industry booming in the future.C. UKs postcard firm throu
24、gh a tough time. D. Postcard industry needing support to survive.25. Whats the value of sending a postcard?A. Its a journey of love. B. Its a symbol of sympathy.C. Its an act of patience. D. Its a way of passing time.26. What does the underlined word “viable” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Worthy o
25、f praise. B. Possible to change.- 6 -C. Short of money. D. Likely to exist.27. Where does this text probably come from?A. A business column. B. A finance report.C. A hi-tech advertisement. D. A book review.CLondon (CNN) There is no God - thats the conclusion of the celebrated physicist Stephen Hawki
26、ng, whose final book is published Tuesday. The book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, which was completed by his family after his death, presents answers to the questions that Hawking said he received most during his time on Earth.Other bombshells the British scientist left his readers with includ
27、e the belief that alien life is out there, artificial intelligence could outsmart humans and time travel cant be ruled out.“There is no God. No one directs the universe,“ he writes in the book.“For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse by God,“ he adds. “I
28、 prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.“While Hawking spoke of his lack of belief in God during his life, several of his other answers are more surprising.“There are forms of intelligent life out there,“ he writes. “We need to be cautious about answering
29、 back until we have developed a bit further.“ “Travel back in time cant be ruled out according to our present understanding,“ he says. He also predicts that “within the next hundred years we will be able to travel to anywhere in the Solar System.“In remarks prepared by Hawking and played at the laun
30、ch of the book in London on Monday, the scientist also turned his attention to the world he was leaving behind. His greatest concern, his daughter said, “is how divided weve become,“ adding ,“He makes this comment about how we seem to have lost the ability to look outward, and we are increasingly lo
31、oking inward to ourselves.“Hawkings final message to readers, though, is a hopeful one. Attempting to - 7 -answer the question “How do we shape the future?“, the scientist writes, “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.“28. Which question is NOT probably included in the book Bri
32、ef Answers to the Big Questions,?A. Is there Alien life? B. Does the solar system exist?C. Is time travel possible? D. Does anyone direct the universe?29. Hawking mentioned his disability in his book to_.A. show his confidence. B. complain of God.C. tell readers about his hardship. D. support his di
33、sbelief in God.30. What was Hawking most concerned about?A. Artificial intelligence will outsmart humans. B. Allen life will come to the earth some day.C. Technology will destroy the world. D. Human beings are not united.31. What did Hawking suggest human beings do? A. Contact alien life. B. Explore
34、 the universe.C. Develop the earth. D. Respect artificial intelligence.DAlthough biological mechanisms (机 制) do not work with the accuracy or stability of modern clocks, a sense of time and its rhythm is built into the functioning of the human body. Our heart, with its beating pulse, is the clock-li
35、ke internal rhythm of which w e are most aw are.There are, how ever, other biological timekeepers that play important roles in our lives. These inner clocks are generally very regular, but they can also be “reset” and will fall in step with a different rhythm. Even after we take a long flight across
36、 the Atlantic or Pacific,our lack of - 8 -synchronization (同 步) with the local time slow ly disappears.Though known to biologists for over 200 years, biological clocks are the subject of a lot of research nowadays. The question is to what extent this human body rhythm is an autonomous mechanism rath
37、er than a simple response to external signals, such as changes in the level of light, the times of meals, or social interactions with our surroundings. It has not been easy to find the answer, but careful laboratory experiments have led to the conclusion that our body contains an autonomous timekeep
38、er. Individuals who volunteered to be kept in artificial isolation with no time clues also helped to find the answer. In 2015, a French researcher spent two months in a cold cave, 375 feet underground in the Alps. The Frenchman called his above-ground supporters by telephone w henever he ate, went t
39、o sleep, and woke, and he recorded in detail his thoughts and impressions of the passage of time. He found himself affected by definite internal time signals. His subjective impression of the time of the day and his periods of sleep and w aking, w as slightly longer than 25 hours. When he came out o
40、f the cave, his internal timer w as many hours out of phase with the external 24-hour clock.32. The example of a long flight in Paragraph 2 supports the idea that .A. airplane flights make most people tiredB. humans should avoid long-distance travelC. humans adjust to the natural rhythms around them
41、D. trans-Pacific flights take longer than trans-Atlantic flights33. The French researcher in Paragraph 3 did the experiment to .A. prove the existence of human body rhythmsB. explain how human body rhythms w orkC. explore how independent human body rhythms areD. show how to conduct a research on hum
42、an body rhythms34. The French researcher probably chose the location primarily to .A. avoid any effects of the outside- 9 -B. restrict his access to food and w aterC. improve his ability to sleep soundlyD. limit his communication w ith other humans35. The tone of the passage is best described as .A.
43、 playful B. objective C. concerned D. argumentative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。We all have one, dont we? A friend whos always late. The one who turns up for coffee a full half hour after the appointed time. 36 . The dear pal who sends a message saying “Sorry,
44、bit delayed.”, when theyre already 20 minutes behind schedule. Or just maybe, if youre really honest, this persistently tardy (拖延的) individual is actually you yourself. 37 .How on earth can people be so inconsiderate?Recent research suggests that there might be more to this than simple rudeness. Psy
45、chologists from Washington University believe people view time differently. 38 . It even provided them with a clock. Despite this, some people became so absorbed in the activity that they completely forgot to check the clock.39 . The less punctual among us often share characteristics such as “optimi
46、sm, low levels of self-control, anxiety.” Why optimism, you ask? Optimists tend to overestimate how much they can achieve and underestimate problems, which means they dont account for the long traffic jam on the way to meet you for that coffee.Heres another thought: maybe language is to blame? The E
47、nglish phrase “to be fashionably late” is used to describe the proper time to arrive at an event. If youre too early, you can appear overly eager, but if youre a bit late, you seem cool and sophisticated (老练的). The problem is, what one person regards as fashionably late, another may view as plain im
48、polite. 40 .A. Our personality also plays a role- 10 -B. Keep a distance from those full of excusesC. Next time you have coffee, do try to be on timeD. The one who seems to be forever “stuck in traffic”E. Either way, lateness can be extremely annoying to the receiving endF. Participants were require
49、d to set down how long they finished a taskG. Their study gave participants a specific amount of time to complete a task第三部分: 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分 45 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。When I was twelve, I took part in a six-day hiking with the Scout troop for fifty miles through the mountain in autumn. With a forty-pound pack, we 41 into the mountains. It didnt take me long to realize that this hike was 42 than expected. We couldnt even st
