湖北省宜昌市高三英语11月阶段性检测试题.doc

湖北省宜昌市2018届高三英语11月阶段性检测试题第一部分 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. what does the man want to do? a. take photosb. buy a camerac. help the woman2. what are the speakers talking about? a. a noisy nightb. their life in townc. a place of living3. where is the man now? a. on his wayb. in a restaurant c. at home4. what will celia do? a. find a playerb. watch a game c. play basketball5. what day is it when the conversation takes place? a. saturdayb. sunday c. monday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。听下面一段对话，回答第6至7两个小题。6. what is sara going to do? a. buy john a giftb. invite john to francec. give john a surprise7. what does the man think of saras plan? a. funnyb. exciting c. strange听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题8. why does diana say sorry to peter? a. she has to give up her travel plan.b. she wants to visit another city. c. she needs to put off her test.9. what does diana want peter to do? a. help her with her study.b. take a book to her friend. c. teach a geography lesson.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. why does the man call the woman? a. to tell her about her new job.b. to ask about her job program. c. to plan a meeting with her.11. who needs a new flat? a. alexb. andrea c. miranda12. where is the woman now? a. in baltimore b. in new york c. in avon听下面一段对话，回答第13至16四个小题。13. what does jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant? a. where the restaurant isb. whether the prices are low c. how well the food is prepared14. when did jan begin to write for a magazine? a. after he came back to sweden b. before he went to the united states c. as soon as he got his first job in 198215. what may jan do to find a good restaurant? a. talk to people in the street b. speak to taxi drivers c. ask hotel clerks16. what do we know about jan? a. he cooks for a restaurant.b. he travels a lot for his work.c. he prefers american food.听下面一段独白，回答第17至20四个小题。17. what do we know about the plaza leon? a. its a new buildingb. its a small town c. its a public place18. when do parents and children like going to the plaza leon? a. saturday nights b.sunday afternoons c. fridays and saturdays19. which street is known for its food shops and markets? a. via del mar street b. fernando street c. hernandes street20. why does the speaker like horatio street best? a. it has an old stone surface. b. it is named after a writer.c. it has a famous university.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。amust-read books that are hitting the big screen this yearthe zookeepers wife by diane ackermanstarring: jessica chastain and johan heldenberghrelease date: july 31, 2017 this true story is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. ackerman artfully retells the story of jan and zabinski and how they used their zoo to save over three hundred people from the nazis. after their zoo was bombed, they managed to hide people in animal cages, giving animal names to their guests and human names to their animals. this is one story we truly hope lives up to the hope on film.the lost city of z by david grannstarring: sienna miller and robert pattinsonrelease date: august 14,2017looking for adventure? this story is just what you need. the book(and film) tells the tale of british explorer percy fawcett and how he ventured into the amazon jungle in 1925, never to return. its an enchanting mystery that we cant wait to see play out on screen.the dinner by herman kochstarring: richard gere and rebecca hallrelease date: october 5,2017we always say wed do absolutely anything for our kids, right? the story begins with two couples politely, eating dinner together, avoiding a conversation about their children who have committed a horrific act. as the story goes on, youll see just how far these parents will go to protect the ones they love.the circle by dave eggersstarring: emma watson and patton oswaltrelease date: november 28,2017a young woman, mae, is hired to work for a powerful internet company and feels like shes hit the job jackpot. the facility is very advanced, lively, and a bit wild. maes story begins as one of ambition but soon tums into a heart-racing story of suspense.21.why did jan and zabinski put people in animal cages?a. to offer them living placesb. to treat them as animalsc. to avoid being bombedd. to hide from the nazis22.who plays the role of a modern white-collar woman?a. emma watsonb. rebecca hallc. sienna millerd. jessica chastain23.when can you go to see the film if you enjoy adventure stories?a. in julyb. in augustc. in octoberd. in november24.which of the following is related to parents raising kids?a. the zookeepers wifeb. the lost city of zc. the dinnerd. the circlebchina used to be called the “kingdom of bicycles”, but since then, cars have taken over the country. there are too many vehicles and pedestrians in the street now, so the roads are crowded nearly all the time, and even going a few kilometers can take up to an hour, which can explain the fact that its very difficult to travel across major chinese cities. now, new apps that help people register and find bikes are being used more and more across cities like beijing. the new apps that let people share bicycles are easing traffic, and reducing pollution. cheng li started using bike share services about six months ago. he said now he is using the car less and the bike more. for zhang jian, the bike share revolution makes him recollect the old days. “now, when were riding home from work, especially in the evening, when its not rushed, it feels like were reliving the past,” zhang said.however, there is now a lot of competition among bike share providers because of their popularity. some providers are trying to flood the streets with bikes to be more visible. sometimes there are so many bikes that they completely block the sidewalks. this has become a problem for city governments. it is not uncommon for bike users to leave bikes in the middle of the street or on the sidewalk. this blocks cars and people in already crowded cities.in beijings southern district of daxing, officials have been trying to fix the problem by seizing illegally parked bikes. voa spoke to a woman who said, “bike sharing is really convenient, but no one is taking care of the problem of illegally parked bikes.” behind her were several thousand seized bikes.many people in china feel that bike shares are helping reduce the countrys transportation problems and polluted air. however, they also hope companies will do more to improve their service and avoid flooding the streets with bikes. 25. which is the cause of traffic jams in major chinese cities?a. the booming of cars.b. lack of bike share services.c. poor road conditions.d. lack of parking lots.26. what does the underlined word “recollect” in paragraph 2 probably mean? a. step forward.b. back off.c. look back.d. slide away.27. what does paragraph 3 mainly want to tell us about the bike shares?a. their popularity. b. their problems. c. their competition. d. their advantages.28.what do you think will be discussed about the bike shares in the following paragraph?a. they create bike revolution. b. they solve the traffic problems.c. they bring about polluted air. d. they need further improving.cmy grandmother rosalind einhorn was born exactly fifty-two years before i was, on august 28, 1917. like many poor jewish families in new york city, hers lived in a small, crowded apartment close to their relatives. her parents, aunts and uncles addressed her male cousins by their given names, but she and her sister were referred to only as “girlie”. during the depression, my grandmother was pulled out of morris high school to help support the household by sewing fabric flowers onto undergarments that her mother could resell for a tiny profit. no one in the community would have considered taking a boy out of school. a boys education was the familys hope to move up the financial and social ladder. education for girls, however, was less significant both financially, since they were unlikely to contribute to the familys income, and culturally, since boys were expected to study the torah while girls were expected to run a “proper home”. luckily for my grandmother, a local teacher insisted that her parents put her back into school. she went on not only to finish high school but to graduate from u.c. berkeley. after college, “girlie” worked selling pocketbooks and accessories at davids fifth avenue. when she left her job to marry my grandfather, davids had to hire four people to replace her. years later, when my grandfathers paint business was struggling, she jumped in and took some of the hard steps he was unwilling to take, helping to save the family from financial ruin. she displayed her business ability again in her forties. after being diagnosed（诊断）with breast cancer, she beat it and then devoted herself to raising money for the clinic that treated her by selling some watches. girlie ended up with a profit that apple would envy. i have never met anyone with more energy and determination than my grandmother. when my grandmother had children of her own my mother and her two brothers she emphasized education for all of them. my mother attended the university of pennsylvania. when she graduated in 1965 with a degree in french literature, she surveyed a workforce that she believed consisted of two career options for women: teaching or nursing. she chose teaching. she began a ph. d. programme, got married, and then dropped out when she became pregnant with me. it was thought to be a sign of weakness if a husband needed his wifes help to support their family, so my mother became a stay-at-home parent and an active volunteer. the centuries-old division of labor stood. even though i grew up in a traditional home, my parents had the same expectations for me, my sister, and my brother. all the three of us were encouraged to do well in school, do equal routine tasks, and participate in after-school activities. we were all supposed to be athletic too. my brother and sister joined sports teams, but i was the kid who got picked last in gym, despite my athletic shortcomings. i was raised to believe that girls could do anything boys could do and that all career paths were open to me. when i arrived at college in the fall of 1987, my classmates of both genders seemed equally focused on academics. i dont remember thinking about my future career differently from the male students. i also dont remember any conversations about someday balancing work and children. my friends and i assumed that we would have both. men and women competed openly and aggressively with one another in classes, activities，and job interviews. just two generations removed from my grandmother, the playing field seemed to be level.but more than twenty years after my college graduation, the world has not evolved nearly as much as i believed it would. almost all of my male classmates work in professional settings. some of my female classmates work full-time or part-time outside the home and just as many are stay-at-home mothers and volunteers like my mom. this mirrors the national trend. in comparison to their male counterparts（相同能力者）, highly trained women are scaling back and dropping out of the workforce in high numbers.29. why were the writers grandma and her sisters called “girlie”?a. they had not yet got their given names.b. they were highly valued by their elders.c. they shared apparent similarities in many ways.d. they were regarded as less important than boys. 30. what conclusion can we draw about the writers grandmother? a. she was an extraordinarily able and tough woman. b. she was full of ideas for solving various problems. c. she benefited greatly from her family background. d. she had special ways of teaching her own children.31. by writing the passage the writer intends to reveal _. a. the necessity of womens education b. the importance of womens liberationc. the existence of gender discrimination d. the lives of three generations of women dgiven how valuable intelligence and automation (自动化) are, we will continue to improve our technology if we are at all able to. at a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are. once we have machines that are smarter than we are, they will begin to improve themselves. and then we risk what the mathematician ij good called an intelligence explosion”. the process could get out of control.the concern is really that we will build machines that are much more competent than we are. and the slightest divergence (分歧) between their goals and our own could destroy us.just think about how we relate to ants. we dont hate them. we dont go out of our way to harm them. in fact, sometimes we take pains not to harm them. we step over them on the sidewalk. but whenever their presence seriously conflicts with one of our goals, we will kill them without hesitation. the concern is that we will one day build machines that, whether theyre conscious or not, could treat us with similar disregard.the bare fact is that we will continue to improve our intelligent machines. we have problems that we desperately need to solve. so we will do this, if we can. the train is already out of the station, and theres no brake to pull. if we build machines that are more intelligent than we are, they will very likely develop in ways that we cant imagine, and exceed us in ways that we cant imagine.so imagine we hit upon a design of super intelligent ai that has no safety concerns. this machine would be the perfect labor-saving device. it can design the machine that can build the machine which can do any physical work, powered by sunlight, more or less for the cost of raw materials. so were talking about the end of human labour. were also talking about the end of most intellectual work. so what would apes like ourselves do in this circumstance?what would some nations do if they heard that some company in silicon valley was about to deploy a super intelligent ai? this machine would be capable of starting war, whether terrestrial or cyber, with unbelievable power.given that the companies and governments building super intelligent ai are likely to perceive themselves as being in a race against all others, and that to win this race is to win the world, it seems likely that whatever is easier to do will get done first unless it is destroyed in the next moment.but the moment we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, we have to admit that we are in the process of building some son of god. now would be a good time to make sure its a god we can live with.32. what message does paragraph 3 convey?a. intelligence and automation are very valuable.b. the improved machines will get away from us.c. the presence of machines does conflict with our goals.d. future intelligent machines could treat us without mercy.33. which of the following sayings has similar meaning with the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?a. time and tide wait for no man.b. rome wasnt built in a day.c. tomorrow is another day.d. shot arrows will not come back.34. how is the passage mainly developed?a. by making comparisons.b. by giving assumptions.c. by showing valid evidence.d. by analyzing statistics.35. which of the following statements can best summarize the authors viewpoint towards ai?a. human beings will no doubt be destroyed by ai in the future.b. super intelligent ai will put an end to human labour eventually.c. we should keep the development of ai within humans control.d. human beings should stop the development of super intelligent ai.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。what type of college is right for you?when deciding what colleges to apply for, you may feel stressed about what type of campus you want to live and study on. 36 do you want to know everybody at your school, or are you looking for more of a college town experience where you meet new people every day? 37 are you looking for a liberal arts (文科) school or a more stem (science, technology, engineering and math) focused college? maybe you want to attend a school more specific to what you may want to do in the future, like a music or art based school. another aspect or factor into your decision is the kinds of activities the college offers. 38 once you start collecting a list of places you are thinking about, the next thing to do is to consult your college counselors and start your applications. when applying to college, make sure to get help and advice from the college counselors, who always have their doors open to keep students on track when it comes to the college process. 39 keeping them up to date on how far along you are in the process will help the college counselors get their job done and make your application a success. once those applications are in, the hardest part comes next: waiting. 40 as soon as the results come out, you will know which school is right for you, whether it is your top choice or something else do