湖北省武汉市两校高二英语10月联考试题.doc

湖北省武汉市两校2017-2018学年高二英语10月联考试题考试时间：2017年10月10日下午19: 30-21:30 试卷满分：150分注意事项：答卷前，考生务必将姓名、准考证号等在答题卡和答题卷上填写清楚。选择题答案用2b铅笔直接填涂在答题卡上，非选择题用0.5mm的黑色签字笔在每题对应的答题区域内做答，答在试题卷上无效。第i卷（选择题）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，你将有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 the woman not satisfied with? a. the design.b. the color. c. the price.2. what is the mans most favorite activity?a. watching tv. b. reading a book. c. listening to music.3. where will the woman go first?a. to the accounting office. b. to the shipping department. c. to a thai restaurant. 4. whats the weather probably like today? a. rainy. b. cloudy. c. fine.5.whydoesthemancometothewoman?a.totakeapictureofher. b.toaskforanewidcard. c.to get a social security number.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面五段对话或独白。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秒钟作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。6. what is the date this friday? a. july 9th.b. july 10th. c. july 11th.7. what does the man find surprising? a. his friends are coming.b. anna often throws parties.c. the woman is leaving america.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. where did the woman buy the prints?a. in boston. b. in new york. c. in washington.9. what is the woman going to do?a. make another museum tour. b. organize an exhibition of art.c. visit some european painters.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. why has the man been invited to the program? a. to advertise his driving school. b. to talk about learning to drive. c. to share his driving experience.11. how does the man usually get his customers? a. through friends. b. through newspapers. c. through the internet.12. why does the man have so many customers now? a. he works very hard. b. he teaches one-to-one. c. he offers lower prices.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. what is no longer part of the course?a. weekly tests. b. monthly reports. c. the midterm exam.14. what does the woman say about the term paper?a. it is mainly about magazines. b. it is ten pages long at the most.c. it can focus on any period in history.15. what should be discussed with the woman in advance?a. certain paper topics. b. where to do the research. c. using interviews as sources.16. which month is it now probably?a. september.b. october.c. december. 请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. what will the temperature be at the bottom of the grand canyon four hours later? a. 26c.b. 41c.c. 43c.18. what is the most important thing to bring when hiking? a. some medicine.b. enough water.c. comfortable clothes.19. what is the most common cause of death in the grand canyon? a. heat exhaustion.b.falling into it.c.getting bitten by snakes.20. how many persons will go hiking together?a. three.b. four.c. five.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。ahere is a list of some of the best museums for children in america.please touch childrens museumthis museum lies in philadelphia. it offers alice in wonderland exhibits where young children can play with giant flowers and have tea parties. kids can also play on musical instruments and babies can crawl on lily pads, which make musical sounds.the childrens museum of indianapolisthis museum lies in indiana. it holds a fair share of dinosaur fossils (化石). there are many fossils like the t. rex, bucky and many others in an 8,000-square-foot area. around 10,000 man-made objects, including a 55-ton steam engine and a 33-foot tall water clock, are there in the 365,000-square-foot area. it also offers activities like dinosaur building, camps and classes featuring space themes and other educational programs.boston childrens museumthis museum lies in massachusetts. the exhibits here are of health, art, science, culture and environment. in this museum, children also learn about japanese culture. activities like play lab, new balance climb and the recycle shop bring out the creativity in children.national museum of playthis museum, which lies in rochester area of new york, has a wide collection of dolls, games, toys and other home crafts dating back to the 19th century. here, educational tours include stories of machines and other toys. kids can walk in sesame street exhibit and cook food at play or tv studios.childrens museum of houstonthis museum lies in texas. termed as the best playground for mind, this museum offers scores of activities for kids of every age. it even offers free family adventure events where families with their kids are encouraged to work on math activities and games. children also learn about broadcasting activities and preserving ecosystems.21. one who has interest in environmental protection can choose to visit .a. national museum of play or childrens museum of houstonb. boston childrens museum or childrens museum of houstonc. please touch childrens museum or boston childrens museumd. the childrens museum of indianapolis or national museum of play22. while visiting national museum of play, you can take part in .a. dinosaur buildingb. new balance climbc. playing with giant flowersd. cooking food at play or tv studios23. who might be most interested in this passage?a. parents. b. students. c. teachers. d. researchers.b one of the biggest social issues in japan is the increasingly low marriage rate among young people and the small birth rate, which led to an aging and eventually shrinking population. most young japanese women simply dont seem interested in having many children.now what began in japan is happening globally. as david brooks wrote, birth rate is becoming smaller in much of the world, from iran一1.7 births rate per woman一to russian, where low birth rates connected with high death rates mean the population is already shrinking. and this includes us, which has long had higher birth rates than most developed nations. aging countries will face the burden of caring for large elderly populations without a larger resource of young workers.its true that global aging is going to present some major challenges. who will take care of the elderly? will an older world be less active and slower to change and adapt? its all true. sometimes i worry about a coming generational war over resources, just as i worry about how i will take care of my own parents in their old age, just as i worry about who might take care of me.but heres the thing: an older world may have less pressure on the environment. as we all know, the environment is the real victim of over population.so maybe a world that grows slower and grows older will put less pressure on the environment, and buy us a few more years to ensure our energy use, along with our birth rates, reaches a sustainable(可持续的)level. after all, were supposed to get smarter as we get older. hopefully that holds true for the planet as well.24. the population issue in japan was mentioned to_.a. show young peoples preference to marriageb. emphasize the revolution of japanese womenc. indicate the deeper cause of japans depressiond. introduce the topic of global birth rate becoming smaller25 which of the following statements is true according to david brooks? a. the birth rates all over the world are becoming smaller b. the most developed countries have higher death rates. c. birth rates becoming smaller means a great risk to aging countries. d. america is the only most developed country with higher birth rate.26. which will be caused by low birth rates according to the passage? a. aging society. b. high death rates. c. low employment rates. d. environmental problems.27. whats the authors attitude to the worldwide birth rates becoming smaller? a. anxious. b. hopeful. c. doubtful. d. disappointed.c traditionally, across the world, boys and girls attend a mixed school, where they study together. but boys schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music.boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to correspond to(和相符) the boy code of hiding their emotions to be a real man.the findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.tony little, headmaster of eton, warned that boys were being failed by the british education system because it had become too focused on girls. he criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.the research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when girls do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.but in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the studys author, abigail james, of the university of virginia.teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with boy-focused approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them. because boys generally have more acute vision, learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given hands-on lessons where they are allowed to walk around. boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine（女性的） and prefer the modern genre （类型） in which violence and sexism are major themes, james wrote.single-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel that they had to be masterful and in charge in relationships. in mixed schools, boys feel forced to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means, the study reported.28. the author believes that a single-sex school would _.a. force boys to hide their emotions to be real menb. help boys to be more competitive in schools.c. encourage boys to express their emotions more freelyd. naturally strengthen boys traditional image of a man29. it is commonly believed that in a mixed school boys _.a. behave more responsibly.b. grow up more healthily.c. perform relatively better.d. receive a better education.30. according to abigail james, one of the advantages of single-sex schools is _.a. teaching can be tailored to suit the characteristics of boysb. boys can focus on their lessons without being distractedc. boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested ind. teaching can be designed to promote boys team spirit31. what does the underlined word “acute” in paragraph 8 mean?a. lovelyb. sharpc. seriousd. dull d pigeons may only have a brain the size of a thimble (顶针), but it appears that pigeons can categorize and name objects in the same way human children learn new words.a new study from the university of iowa has shown that the birds are capable of learning to categorize 128 different photographs into 16 basic categories.scientists taught three pigeons to sort out different kinds of dogs or types of shoes, for example by using a particular symbol in exchange for a reward. when they were shown black and white pictures of previously unseen dogs or shoes, the birds were able to correctly match these with the corresponding symbols.the scientists behind the project say this is a similar approach taken by young children when they are first learning words for objects. however, the researchers said it took their birds around 40 days to perfect the task of learning just 16 categories.professor edward wasserman, who led the work, said: “our birds rate of learning appears to have been quite slow. would children learn faster than pigeons? almost certainly. however, our pigeons came to the experiment with no background knowledge at all. thus, the more relevant comparison group may be newborn babies, who indeed take 69 months to learn their first words.”writing in the journal cognition, the researchers said their experiment was a very simple mirror of the way children are taught words by their parents pointing to pictures and asking them to name the object.pigeons are known to be smarter than many birds. professor bob mcmurray, who also took part in the study, said the results showed that human learning is not as unique as was previously believed.he said: “children are facing a huge task of learning thousands of words without a lot of background knowledge to go on. for a long time, people thought that such learning is special to humans. what this research shows is that the ways in which children solve this huge problem may be shared with many species.32. whats the main idea of this passage?a. pigeons and young children take a similar approach to learn words.b. pigeons are known to be smarter than newborn babies.c. pigeons recognize objects in the same way children learn words.d. pigeons are unique as they can learn like humans.33. why does the writer think newborn babies are the more relevant comparison group?a. they dont have any background knowledge.b. they learn relatively slow.c. pigeons and newborn babies learn at a similar speed.d. young children are smarter.34. from the passage, we can learn that .a. learning without background knowledge is unique to humansb. many species may be able to learn without background knowledgec. pigeons are able to solve many huge problemsd. pigeons are known to be the smartest birds35. the passage is intended to .a. introduce pigeons b. prove a fact c. support an opinion d. report a study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，选项中有两项是多余选项。 having a heart-healthy lifestyle doesnt have to be hard work. its just as easy as doing a 5-minutes-a-day strength training program while cooking coffee in the morning, or stopping to think for three seconds when the “youve got mail” alert sounds on your computer. 36 37 as you put on weight in adulthood, your weight gain is mostly fat rather than muscle. this extra weight can lead to conditions that increase your chances of heart disease. even a small weight loss of 10 percent can be helpful for you. we spend 22 hours a day sitting or lying down. 38 having a healthy heart means you need to fit movement back into your life, however busy you are. start by cutting down on convenient short cuts. doing cleaning by yourself, walking or biking to the corner store, or shopping at stores are all easy ways to get moving. fresh, whole foods dont have to cost more or take more time to prepare than the packaged stuff. these wholesome, delicious foods not only taste good, they also protect your heart by reducing blood fats, driving down elevated blood sugar, and fighting destructive chemicals. 39 it is quite possible that one may die of heart diseases if he or she smokes heavily. so we must keep away from nicotine. researchers show that friends and optimism are linked with healthier hearts. 40 so spend an evening curled up on the sofa with your partner instead of watching the night news alone. also, try these stress-saving solutions: give yourself a massage, or listen to some light music after a long days work.a. keep a healthy weight.b. good mood is quite important for keeping hearts healthy.c. however, our bodies are built for lots and lots of daily activity.d. hearts are healthiest and happiest when in the company of others.e. many things such as tobacco, fat, sugar and other polluted things are harmful to our hearts.f. hiring a cleaner, driving your car and shopping online may be your daily habits since you are always busy. g. including these small steps into your routine one at a time will help you develop a healthier lifestyle without even realizing it.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两小节，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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。i do voluntary work for an organization that helps the people in need in haiti. recently i took my son barrett there for a week, hoping to 41 him.before setting out, i told barrett this trip would be tiring and 42 . for the first two days, he said almost nothing. i worried the trip was too 43 for a 17-year-old. then on day three, as we were 44 over high rocky mountains, he turned to me and grinned（咧嘴笑）,“pretty hard.”after that there was no turning back. a five-year-old girl, wearing a dress several sizes 45 large and broken shoes, followed barrett around, mesmerized（着迷）. he couldnt stop 46 . later he said 47 . “i wish i could speak french.” i was 48 this from a boy who hated and 49 french classes throughout school.usually silent, he 50 gaby, our host, and kept asking questions about the country and its people. he blossomed（活泼起来）. 51 , the moment that really took 52 breath away occurred in a village deep in the mountains. i was 53 a woman villager for an article. 135 centimeters tall, she was small in figure but strong in 54 . through determination, she had learned