湖北省黄冈市黄冈中学高三英语4月适应性考试试题.doc

湖北省黄冈中学2015年4月高三年级适应性考试英语试题考试时间：150分钟满分：120分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）略第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分30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。21at the conference, president obama wants congressional(国会的) _ of using force against islamic. he also wants congress to agree on limits on the use of ground troops.aagreement bprotectioncapproval dobjection22contrary to our expectations, google has determined that grades are worthless as a _ for hiring and test scores dont predict anything.aqualification bchallengeccriterion dingredient23in nepal, despite the improvement of peoples living standards, public access to media, traditional or online, remains far from being _.auniversal bfavorablecattractive dgenerous24in order to ensure the safety of accounts online, experts recommend that people should use long and _ passwords, especially for accounts that contain critical information.aflexible bcomplexcsimpledconcrete25on winning the championship against his opponent ma long at 4 to 3, zhang jike _ his victory by kicking two advertising boards, which cost him 45, 000 dollars.aconfirmed bcongratulatedctoasted dcelebrated26conservation is an issue which gets a lot of attention these dayswhether it means _ old buildings, or protecting the environment.arecovering breservingcpreserving dpolishing27with the losses _, the chances for the team to make the post season aye slipping away, which disappoints its fans.apicking up bpiling upcturning up dspeeding up28after the mh17 incident, the un security council adopted a resolution and _ a thorough and independent international investigation.acalled for blooked throughctook in dgave away29waiting _ to be reunited with the son he had not seen in 13 years, phil baker took a stroll along tee beach with his wife to ease his nerve.aenthusiastically bgratefullyccautiously danxiously30it is always awkward when someone you dont know come up and talk to you like they have known you forever, when _ youve never met.ain particular bin conclusioncin reality din return第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，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。there was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love. one day, she was walking in the woods31she found two starving songbirds. after she took them home and put them in a small round cage, she32them with love and the birds grew strong. every morning they33her with such a wonderful song that she felt great love for them.one day, the girl left the door to the cage34so that the larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cage. the girl was frightened that he would35. as he flew close, she grasped him36. her heart felt glad at her37in capturing him. suddenly she38the bird go limp(软绵绵的). she opened her hand and stared39at the dead bird. her desperate40had killed him.she41the other bird moving back and forth on the42of the cage. she could feel his great need for43. he expected to soar into the clear and blue sky. so she lifted him from the cage and44him softly into the air. the bird circled once, twice, three times.the girt watched delightedly at the birds45. her heart was no longer46with her loss because she wanted the bird to be happy. all of a sudden, the bird flew closer and47gently on her shoulder, where it sang the48melody that she had never heard.the fastest way to49love is to50it too tight while the best way to keep love is to give it wings.31auntil bwhile cas dwhen32aserved bfed cattended dcured33agreeted bcheered camused dapproached34aclosed bopencempty dsecure35apass away bbreak away cfly away drun away36awildly bgently csoftly dhardly37afailure bsuccess cattempt dcommitment38afelt btouched csawdjudged39ain surprise bin relief cin peace din horror40aeffort bcare clove durge41arealized bnoticed cstopped dacknowledged42aborder bedge ccorner dsurface43afreedom bspace caffection daccess44astruck bkicked cthrew dexposed45aattachment bfascination cenjoyment dconfusion46aconcerned bashamed csatisfied dassociated47adropped blanded cfell drose48asweetest bclearest cloudestdsharpest49aabandon bobtain csave dlose50acatch up with bfit in with chold on to dsettle down to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。ai looked at my beautiful christmas tree and sighed. it was time. the new year was a week old and my tree still stood in the corner of our room with its collection of memories proudly displayed in a shower of colorful lights. id procrastinated long enough.i got up, went to the garage and dragged all the boxes into the room. i prepared the boxes, and carefully placed the decorations of the tree in their protective packaging, pausing every few minutes to admire a favorite. “hey, little santa!” i held the santa from my childhood. “thanks for being my friend for almost fifty years.” he was a little ragged but still gives me a flood of wonderful memories. “until next year, my dear friend.”there was collection of handmade ones. my children made in their first years of school, more than twenty years ago. made by tiny hands, they are far from perfect in design, but every year they go on my memory treememories of young giggles on christmas morning and a smiling face when they handed them to me when i came home from work. “look what we made, daddy!” “oh! it is beautiful. lets find a special spot on the tree for it.” every year since, they are displayed.a few hours after i started, the filled boxes were back in the garage. the room was vacuumed and i sat staring at a barren corner. the room seemed so empty. it took me two days of work to assemble and decorate my tree, but only a few hours to take it apart.my tree is a good marriage or a great friendship. like the tree, they take a long time to assemble and decorate with memories, but can be torn down quickly. all it takes is an unkind word or a thoughtless act, and what once stood proudly in the glow of love comes falling down.every, year i have to put my tree away, but not my marriage or friendships. i take great care of those. they get to glow in the corner of my life for as long as i live. i get to analyze my tree and find memories for a few weeks every year. i can do the same with the loves in my life every day. when i held the santa, a flood of wonderful memories returned. the same happens when i hold my wife or see the smile of a friend across the room.take great care of your friendships and your marriage. once they come down, they arent as easy to put back together as a christmas tree, if at all. stand them in that special spot in the corner of your heart and admire their glow.51the underlined word “procrastinated”(in para 1.) means _.aprepared bdelayedcarranged ddecorated52which of the following can best describe the authors feeling while he was packing up the christmas tree？acasual buncaringccontent dunwilling53the author expresses his opinion about marriage and friendship by _.aquoting words from other peoplebcomparing them to the christmas treecdescribing the christmas tree and its decorationsdillustrating his experiences of dealing with them54as to marriage and friendship, the author advises _.ataking them as they comebtreating them with great carecputting them in the first placedtreasuring them at all costsbthe summer of 2001 saw. australians win the cycling tour de france, beat the world at cricket and rugby, and have a player in the final of the wimbledon tennis tournament for the eighteenth time.many countries would be amazed at that kind of success. for australia, it was just a typical sporting summer. at the 2000 olympics, australia came fourth in the medals table. that does not sound great, yet australia has a population of only 19 million. there are more olympic medal winners per head of population in australia than any other country.what is it that makes australians a sporting people？ this is a question that many people participating in sports have asked themselves over the years.some of the answers are simple. sports need space. australians have 7.4 million square kilometers of space to play sports in. many other countries are either too crowded or too small to encourage everybody to take part. besides that, australia is a warm, dry country. this encourages people to go outdoors to enjoy themselves. furthermore, since 85 percent of australians live near the sea, they learn water sport early; and since sharks swim off the coasts of australia, they also learn to swim very fast.other reasons go deep into the history, culture and economy of the country. when the british first found australia they decided that it would be a great place to send criminals to. life for the first australians was very tough, so they had to be independent and develop a will to win just to survive. yet they also had to be able to trust each other and be willing to help each other out. in other countries, coaches train people in mental toughness and team building. in australia, these qualities are part of the general social environment.from the cultural perspective, being far away from europe also means that australians are far away from the centers of western arts and cultures. as a result, sport itself has become a way of cultural expression and part of australian nationality. an english football fan wants to see the national team do well, but really cares about his local club. for an australian, representing the nation is the most important of all. everything else is just good practice. being good at sports is part of what it means to be an australian.55what can we learn from para. 2？aaustralia has the most medal winners in the world.bthe achievement made in 2001 is abnormal for australia.caustralia has a smaller population than any other country.dthe performance of australia in sports is great in relation to its population.56according to para. 4, the following factors make australians a sporting people except _.aclimate bplaygroundcadvertisement dgeography57supposing you are an english football fan, you are most delighted that _.ayou will watch a live football matchbthe club you support wins the matchcyou will see a football star in the fleshdthe national team defeats its competitor58in the following paragraph, the author is probably to _.aexplain the reason in economybintroduce the sports stars in clubscforesee the future of sports in australiaddescribe the competition in the olympicscwhat will the future be like？answers can be very varied. according to popular science fiction, though, the future is not rosy. from the hunger games to dawn of the planet of the apes, hollywood has presented us a rather bleak picture of the future, where human beings have to either fight against oppression and poverty, or battle super apes for world domination.the dark settings can create heroic stories. their negative visions of the future, however, “are limiting peoples abilities to dream big or think outside the box,” according to ed finn, founding director of the center for science and the imagination at arizona state university(asu). science fiction, he told the bbc, should do more.“a good science fiction story can be very powerful,” finn explained. “it can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to get together to do something that they want to do.”in fact, it is not hard to spot once-imagined technology that has come true in our everyday lives. french writer jules verne(18281905), widely considered the father of science fiction, imagined many fascinating items in his work, such as submarines, air conditioning, helicopters, and missiles.indeed, you can already see the influence of science fiction in modern research, braden allenby, professor of engineering, ethics and law at asu, told the bbc.“why do we end up with the technologies we do？ why are, people working on, for example, invisibility cloaks(隐身斗篷)？ well, its harry potter, right？ thats where they saw it,” he said.science fiction is not just creating interesting ideas and innovations(革新). srikanth saripalli, an asu roboticist, believes that this writing can help to shape the future. “if the government has to decide what to fund and what not to fund, they are going to get their ideas and decisions mostly from science fiction rather than whats being published 1n technical papers,” he said.finn told the bbc that he has already changed how he sees whats next for society.“i do feel more positive about our future,” finn said. “we desperately need better stories. if we want to have better futures, we need to have better dreams.”however, its not only the job of science fiction writers to create a blueprint for the future.writers should work together “with the reader to think about how people working together might overcome problems,” finn said.59according to para. 2, the future presented by hollywood is _.ainspiring bpromisingcdiscouraging dconfusing60in ed finns opinion, a good science fiction story can _.aunite people to work togetherbinspire people to create heroic storiescencourage people to predict the futuredmotivate people to imagine the impossible61the author mentions jules verne, the father of science fiction to _.aintroduce his works to readersbcriticize his absurd imaginationcprove the impact of science fiction on modern researchdexplain the reasons for the popularity of science fiction62the passage is probably taken from _.aa popular magazine ba science reportca news page da movie brochuredlife is filled with regrets. ask anyone around you what their regrets are and they usually have no difficulty coming up with many items on their “regret list”. and for some reason our twenties are ripe for a field of regrets. perhaps its because as we get older we look back on that period of adulthood as the height of freedom and autonomy. as we move into middle age, we look back and wish that we had made better choices and taken more opportunities. heres a list of things that we regret not doing in our 20s.1traveling morei regret not travelling more, and so does nearly everyone that i have asked. before kids, and mortgages and marriages, when our commitments and expenses are lower, the opportunities for travel are much greater, but tor some reason many of us think wed have time for travel later. we dreamed of visiting the pyramids of egypt, surfing off the hawaiian coast, dining at a parisian caf, drinking espresso in rome, trekking through the rainforest, and so much more. sadly, many of us never made these journeys and the opportunities passed by.2making an earlier investmenthow many times have we kicked ourselves for not starting our 40l ks in our twenties, for not putting our excess cash in long term investment, for not investing in our future early. no matter how much we try, we can never get back to the head start that we have missed. playing catch-up in our 40s and 50s is very difficult.3better planningi regret not focusing more on where i wanted to go in life, what i wanted to do, who i wanted to be and what it would take to get there. with some more planning in our 20s, wed be further ahead in our 40s and perhaps a bit happier as well.4_i wish i had learned to ski and paint, speak italian and tango. i regret not living somewhere else before settling down. others have said they regret not pursuing their hobbies or learning to skydive or climbing mountains. i prefer to stay on the ground, but i do regret not learning more, not trying new things.5pursuing a more meaningful careermany of us wish we had taken more career risks, opted for meaning over money, pursued the career path we wanted instead of what we were expected to do or simply following the path that was laid out before us. how much better to have explored our options and pursued meaningful work in our 20s than to have spent 20 years doing something we dont love.life is good; dont misunderstand. few of us walk around every day pining for our youth, at least i hope not, but we do occasionally look back with a wistful sigh and wish that we had planned more, lived more, and stretched ourselves more when we had the freedom and energy to do so.63according to the passage, why do our twenties become a field of regrets？abecause we lack social experience.bbecause we are short of opportunities.cbecause we tend to make wrong decisions.di because we dont make good use of that period.64which of the following statements is true according to the passage？aits never too late to make all investment.bwe should follow the path laid out before us.cits better to travel more after getting married.dthe earlier we plan in our 20s, the happier we become.65whats the best subheading for para. 5？aseizing more experiencesbdeveloping more habitscplaying outdoors moredhaving a better time66whats the authors main purpose of writing the passage？ato advi