湖北省2015届高三英语上学期第二次月考检测题

本试卷共10页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。

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第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30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. Where is John probably now?

A. In the hospital.     B. At school.     C. At home.

2. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She forgot lending the book.   B. She lost her book.   C. She finished her paper.

3. Why was the man annoyed?

A. A policeman stopped him.

B. A speeding car ran past him.

C. The driver attempted to overcharge.

4. What relation are the speakers most probably to each other?

A. Waiter and customer.    B. Friends.     C. Bank clerk and customer.

5. What does the woman want to do?

A. Find the computer room.   B. Find a bulletin board.   C. Get a computer.

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，每小题将给出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 girl feel in the beginning?

A. She is angry.      B. She is ashamed.    C. She is regretful.

7. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The girl never used the boy’s stuff.

B. The boy just bought a new headphone.

C. The boy used the iPod without permission.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Public bathroom.     B. Dorm life.     C. Camp life.

9. Why did the boy move out in his sophomore year?

A. He changed school.

B. He couldn’t stand living at school.

C. He couldn’t party on school nights at school.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the girl’s problem?

A. She has no interest in theater.   B. She is tired of study.   C. She can’t decide on her major.

11. Who probably is Angelina Jolie?

A. A famous actress.     B. A famous psychologist.  C. A popular physicist.

12. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The girl took only psychology last semester.

B. French and theater can’t be taken at the same time.

C. The girl took a fantastic physics class last year.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How many hours does the boy spend in surfing on school day?

A. Around two hours.     B. Around one hour.   C. Around half an hour.

14. Why does the boy try to limit time on the Internet?

A. To save time for marketing.   B. To avoid being addicted.  C. To do more programming.

15. What can we learn about the boy’s company?

A. It is about web designing.   B. It provides training courses. C. It is a search engine.

16. What will the boy do with people who treat him as child?

A. He will turn to his father for help.

B. He will fire them.

C. He will talk to them like a grown-up.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What does the word “sprinting” probably mean?

A. World-class games.    B. Olympic sports.    C. Short-distance running.

18. What is Usain Bolt’s Olympic records for 100 meters?

A. 9.30 seconds.      B. 9.69 seconds.    C. 9.86 seconds.

19. What can we learn about Usain Bolt?

A. He set three world records at 2008 Olympic Games.

B. He is the first to set three records at Olympic Games.

C. He is a calm man and doesn’t like dancing.

20. What will Usain Bolt do next?

A. Give a performance.    B. Give a medal.    C. Give a speech.

第二部分：词汇知识运用(共二节，满分40分)

第一节：多项选择(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。

21. The Fifth Euro-Asia Economic Forum, held in Xi’an on 1st October, 2013, is aimed to ____ economic exchanges between Asia and Europe.

A. preserve     B. promote      C. accomplish       D. update

22. When Peng Liyuan , First Lady of China , made her first public appearance overseas, her grace and perfect dress  have earned her international ________.

A.regulation               B. recognition             C.reception              D. appreciation

23. It is reported that floods and serious loss of soil and water have _______an ample amount of mud in the Yellow River, making pumping water out of it hard for farmers around.

A. accelerated       B. snatched    C. deleted         D. deposited

24. As a businessman, Mr. Green is a complete failure. Being lazy may well be one of the______to his success.

A. drawbacks            B. shortcomings         C. disadvantages        D. barriers

25.According to Wang Lijun, Chongqing’s former vice-mayor and police chief, Bo Xilai seemed to have been involved in helping himself _______seek personal gains in the past.

A. anyway      B. anyhow       C. somehow     D. somewhat

26.Women and children, generally referred to as non-power group, are more likely to become _____ targets for thieves and robbers.

A. approximate    B. primitive      C. prime       D. precise

27.What shocked the police and the people around most was that the kidnapper suddenly ______his pocket and took out a gun in a desperate attempt to escape with the kidnapped child.

A. dived into      B. slipped into       C. slid into      D. fit into

28.When it comes to the civil war in Syria, the US government’s attitude towards it has experienced a(n)_______ change , which may have a positive effect on Syria present situation.

A. superior     B. superb     C. subtle     D. stubborn

29.At the party, all the others seemed to know each other well; Catherine sat alone at the table in a corner, feeling ________.

A. cut off      B. kicked out     C. left out    D. squeezed out

30.During the dinner, a lady’s critical comments on my new dress really left me _______. After an awkward silence, I only sat there embarrassed.

A. in a mess      B. in a dilemma   C. at a loss    D. at random

第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1，满分20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。

What do Chinese college graduates have in common with ants? The recent    31    Ants Tribe about the life

of some young people    32    flock (聚集) to Beijing after   33    university, describes the graduates, like ants, as smart but    34    as individuals, drawing strength from living together in communities.

The book, which is based    35    two years’ interviews with about 600 low-income college graduates in Beijing,    36    in mid September, about a month before an announcement from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that 74% of the 6.11 million new graduates had been    37    by Sept. 1.

For the book’s chief editor, Lian Si, a professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, that piece of statistic says    38    about the real situation for many of these graduates. “I am always    39    how many of these employed college graduates are leading a decent life,” Lian said. “I hope this book could offer a window on these graduates, whose stories are    40    known.”

The setting of the book is several so-called “settlement villages for college students” on the outskirts of Beijing,    41    large number of college graduates    42   . Most of these graduates work for    43    or medium-sized businesses,    44    less than 2,000 yuan a month. They live together because it’s    45   : the rent in these communities is only around 350 yuan a month. Many of them travel several hours a day for short-term jobs or job interviews.

Tangjialing, a small    46    20 kilometers from Tiananmen Square, has around 3,000    47    villagers, but has become a    48    for more than 50,000 migrants, most of them    49    from all over the country. Lian describes the students’    50    as five-or-six-storey buildings with two or three people crammed together in each room of about 10 square meters. Up to 70 or 80 people share the same toilet and kitchen.

31. A. film   B. story    C. book    D. magazine

32. A. who   B. what    C. which    D. whose

33. A. leaving   B. studying   C. going    D. working

34. A. meaningful   B. meaningless  C. important   D. tiring

35. A. up   B. on    C. at     D. out

36. A. camp up   B. came on   C. came along   D. came out

37. A. fired   B. interviewed   C. employed   D. graduated

38. A. much   B. little    C. some    D. more

39. A. wondering   B. researching   C. studying   D. telling

40. A. rarely   B. well    C. always    D. often

41. A. which   B. that    C. why    D. where

42. A. work   B. study    C. relax    D. live

43. A. small   B. big    C. famous   D. unknown

44. A. earning   B. thinking   C. shopping   D. paying

45. A. expensive   B. comfortable   C. cheap    D. convenient

46. A. city   B. town    C. community   D. village

47. A. original   B. young    C. rich    D. poor

48. A. school   B. hotel    C. home    D. company

49. A. benefit   B. differ    C. come    D. suffer

50. A. lives   B. dormitories   C. buildings   D. restaurants

第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分, 满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A meteorite (陨石) flew fast across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured l,200 people.

People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt the shock wave.

According to Russian space agency Roscosmos, the fireball, travelling at a speed of 30km per second, had burnt very brightly across the horizon, leaving a long white trail that could be seen as far as 200km away. Car alarms went off, thousands of windows shattered and mobile phone networks were disrupted.

“I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it were day,” said Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains. “I felt like I was blinded by headlights.”

The meteorite, which weighed about 20 tons and may have been made of iron, entered Earth’s atmosphere and broke apart 30-50km above ground, according to Russia’s Academy of Sciences.

The energy released when it entered the Earth’s atmosphere was about several thousand tons, the academy said, the power of a small atomic weapon exploding.

No deaths were reported, but the Emergencies Ministry said 20,000 rescue and clean-up workers were sent to the region after President Vladimir Putin told Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov to ease the disruption and help the victims.

The Interior Ministry said about l,200 people had been injured, at least 200 of them children, and most from broken pieces of glass.“While events this big are rare, an impact that could cause damage and death could happen every century or so. Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop impacts.”

51. When did the meteorite incident happen?

A. At midnight.        B. In the early morning.

C. In the late morning.      D. In the evening.

52. According to the text, the meteorite explosion caused _________.

A. some deaths        B. road accidents

C. communication problems     D. building collapse

53. The Russian government’s response to the incident was ________.

A. a little slow but effective     B. quick and serious

C. cold and slow          D. quick but ineffective

54. It can be inferred that the loss caused by meteorites _________.

A. is nearly unavoidable      B. happens every few years

C. can be avoided       D. is hard to estimate

B

Having a child may improve a woman’s memory, a new study suggests.

In the study, women who were new mothers scored better on tests of visuospatial memory – the ability to understand and remember information about their surroundings—compared with women who didn’t have children.

The findings contradicts the old belief that women develop“baby brain" or a decline in memory and cognitive(认知的) function, after they have kids, said study researcher Melissa Santiago, a doctoral student at Carlos Albizu University in Miami. “You don’t have to feel that because you have kids, your memory isn’t the same," Santiago said.

The study was small, and the findings will have to be tested in larger groups of people, Santiago said.

Previous studies on the topic have had mixed results—some showed motherhood hurts cognition, and others showed the opposite. Studies on rats show those with pups have better memory than those without offspring.

Santiago analyzed information from 35 first-time mothers whose children were ages 10 to 24 months, and 35 women who had never been pregnant. Both groups scored similarly on intelligence tests. The average age of mothers was 29 and the average age of never-pregnant women was 27.

To test visuospatial memory, the women were shown a paper containing six symbols for 10 seconds, and then asked to draw what they remembered. This task was repeated several times. The first time women were shown the paper, both groups remembered about the same amount. But on the second and third pass, mothers performed better than those without children, indicating that the mothers collected more information each time than the other women.

Later, the women were shown a variety of different symbols, and asked to remember which ones were presented on the earlier task. Mothers did not make a mistake in this task—they remembered every symbol correctly—but those without children made one or two errors, Santiago said.

55. How did Santiago lead to the findings?

A. By observation.        B. By comparison.

C. By analyzing intelligence tests.       D. By asking women questions.

56. By saying “The study was small", what did Santiago mean?

A. The study received little attention.

B. The study has just started.

C. The study was carried out among a small group of people.

D. A small group of researchers were involved in the study.

57. Which of the following was discussed in the text?

A. Ways to test visuospatial memory.

B. Why having kids improves memory.

C. How young mothers are different from never-pregnant women.

D. The negative effects that worries of women without children have.

58. It can be inferred that Santiago believe the findings of the study_________.

A. may cause a heated discussion among parents

B. may cause an increase in the birth rate

C. are tested by previous similar studies

D. are encouraging news for mothers

C

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