2016高三武昌调考英语试卷.doc

武昌区2016届高三年级元月调研考试英 语 试 卷本试卷共150分，考试用时120分钟。祝考试顺利本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。注意事项：1.答题前，考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡指定位置，认真核对与准考证号条形码上的信息是否一致，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2.选择题的作答：选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。答在试题卷上无效。3.非选择题的作答：用黑色墨水的签字笔直接答在答题卡上的每题所对应的答题区域内。答在试题卷上或答题卡指定区域外无效。4.考试结束，监考人员将答题卡收回，考生自己保管好试题卷，评讲时带来。第 I 卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，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 the exhibition?A. In a park. B. In a school. C. Near the mans house.2. Who is the woman most probably talking to?A. Her boss. B. An accountant. C. A policeman.3. Why did the man get home so late?A. There was a train strike. B. The bus had an accident.C. The motorway was closed.4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Their jobs. B. Their children. C. Their TV sets.5. What does the man mean? A. The walls should be painted a different colour.B. The woman can hang some pictures on the walls.C. Some furniture in the living room should be rearranged.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。听完每段对话或独白前，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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a shop. B. In a grocers. C. In a restaurant.7. Why cant the man get the discount? A. He came late. B. He mistook the date. C. He didnt see the sign.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What will the man do tomorrow morning?A. Write a report. B. Have a meeting. C. Meet Mr. Black.9. When will the man leave for Hong Kong?A. On Wednesday afternoon.B. On Thursday morning.C. On Friday afternoon.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What does the man want to do? A. Put off his trip. B. Change a ticket. C. Ask about the ticket.11. How long does it take the man to get to Amsterdam from Liverpool? A. Two hours. B. Three hours. C. Four hours.12. What do we know about the man? A. He has to change a flight halfway. B. He will arrive in London at 7:25 a.m.C. He will leave on the morning of the 24th.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the weather like today?A. Snowy and windy. B. Windy and cloudy. C. Rainy and cloudy. 14. What will the temperature be tonight? A. -3. B. -5. C. -8.15. When does the conversation take place? A. Before the winter vacation. B. During the winter vacation. C. After the winter vacation.16. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The man cant find pleasure during cold winter. B. Cold weather has caused the woman a lot of trouble. C. Snowy scenery appeals more to the woman in winter.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When is Wildlife On Three usually on? A. At 7:30. B. At 6:45. C. At 6:00.18. What is the program India Live about? A. Desert. B. Wildlife. C. Rivers.19. What is the failure of the project on Macquarie Island? A. The natural balance was destroyed. B. No good food was provided for the rabbits. C. Too much sea water was allowed to flood in.20. Why were the defences built? A. To protect the wildlife. B. To hold back the water. C. To create an area of wetland.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。 AOxfords Department for Continuing Education runs over 1000 courses per year, offered on a part-time basis. Programmes include Oxford awards and degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level, online short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend events, continuing professional development and summer schools.Oxford awards & degreesOver 50 undergraduate and postgraduate Oxford qualifications: certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas, Masters and Doctoral degrees, offered part-time, in the arts, social sciences, diplomatic studies, human rights law, health care and biomedical sciences, which involve overseas students. Course duration ranges from one year to several years part-time. The Department also runs a Graduate School to provide the support and guidance needed by those following part-time graduate programmes. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/qualificationsOnline & distance learningChoose from over 90 courses across a range of disciplines. Most are short courses of 5-10 weeks, accredited (officially approved). A few longer courses result in Oxford qualifications.www.conted.ox.ac.uk/onlineWeekly classesApproximately 500 part-time accredited classes, open to all, and held in Oxford, Reading and other locations. Topics are studied in depth over a period of 10 or 20 weeks.www.conted.ox.ac.uk/weeklyDay & weekend eventsCourses of 1 or 2 days, usually held at weekends and taught by lecturers and speakers who are noted authorities in their field of research. Many courses are offered in combination with national organizations. Over 150 offered per year.www.conted.ox.ac.uk/dayweekendProfessional development courses200 courses per year, ranging from day schools to short refresher courses to full degree programmes. Subjects include health sciences, public policy, diplomatic studies, nanotechnology, electronics, historic conservation, environmental sciences, public administration, higher education leadership and more.www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpdSummer schoolsAccredited and non-accredited courses of between one and three weeks, with over 120 to choose from. Most are designed for the general public; others are designed to allow professionals to update skills.www.conted.ox.ac.uk/summerschools21. What type of writing is this text?A. A course guide.B. A book review. C. An advertisement. D. An official report.22. Which programme will you choose if you want to learn from the famous top experts in your field?A. Summer schools. B. Online&distance learning.C. Day&weekend events. D. Professional development courses.23. Which website is useful to foreign students?A. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd B. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/qualificationsC. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/dayweekend D. www.conted.ox.ac.uk/summerschoolsBBrooke Martins golden retriever(金毛猎犬) Kayla hated being left alone or separated. She would howl, pace, and chew on things. Brooke learned that other people had the same problem with their pets. She wondered: “What if you could talk to your dog if you were gone?” Working with her father in their garage, the 16-year-old came up with several ideas. Finally, she invented a device that allowed pet owners to video chat with their pets! She calls the device iCPooch. “The dog doesnt have to answer the call,” explains Brooke. “It comes up immediately on the screen on their end. Its a two-way audio and videoyou can see and hear each other.” With a click of a button you can even send the dog a treat! Her invention has earned her a spot competing against nine other finalists in a young scientist competition for middle-school students. These finalists, selected based on their short video presentations, are working with mentors over the summer before heading to the final competition in St. Paul, Minn.After Martins video put her among the 10 finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, she was paired with Delony Langer-Anderson, a product development scientist in 3Ms consumer health care division. “I just lead her down the product development path,” Langer-Anderson told Live Science. This path includes guidance on how to test the potential product, which combines a video chat device that answers immediately on the dogs end with a dog treat device the owner can remotely activate. “One thing I have thought about a lot is, what happens if while the device is on the floor, what if your dog knocks it over, or scratches the screen?” Martin said. She and Langer-Anderson discussed this, and Martin is now testing materials at a local dog shelter by taping them to the dog house floors to see how well they withstand sharp teeth and claws.The finalists create models they can test, with the guidance from a mentor. Their projects include a fuel cell that transforms cut grass into electricity and an app that rewards drivers for not texting or calling. Langer-Anderson tries to help the students work through the scientific method, testing their hypothesis, in a determined way, “so the kids dont get buried in data.” she said. 24. Which of the following would be the best title of the text?A. “iCPooch” wins in a young scientist competition. B. A 16-year-old girl invents a device for dog hunger.C. A man-made device lets people chat with their pets.D. A kid-invented device calm dogs separation anxiety.25. “iCPooch” calms pet dogs by _.A. allowing video chatB. making dogs sleepC. answering the callD. giving them food26. What is the probable meaning of the underlined word “mentor”? A. competitor B. assistant C. instructor D. companion27. What do the inventions of the finalists have in common?A. They are all new inventions dealing with pets.B. They are possible solutions to everyday problems.C. They cope with the problems related to computers.D. They are all accomplished through individual work.CIf you never read the classic F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby, now is your chance to catch up by watching the latest film adaptation. Because if theres one sentence to sum up the film, it would be, as Fox News says in its review, “Its just like the book.”Director Baz Luhrmanns main challenge was “either to find a visual equivalent(相等物) for Fitzgeralds elegant essay the open secret of the books staying power or to bend the material to his own exotic(异国的) strengths,” a Time magazine review says. He tries it both ways, with varying degrees of success.Considered to be Fitzgeraldsrepresentative work,The Great Gatsbyexplores themes of idealism, resistance to change, social change, and excess, creating a portrait of theJazz Ageor theRoaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding theAmerican Dream. Nick, the narrator, moves to New York for the summer to visit his cousin Daisy. His next-door neighbor is Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), who rarely contacts with others and is rumored to be a hero of the Great War. Gatsby claims to have attended Oxford University, but the evidence is suspect. As Nick learns more about Gatsby, every detail about him seems questionable, except his love for the Daisy. Though Daisy is married, Gatsby still adores her as his “golden girl.” They first met when she was a young lady from a wealthy family and he was a working-class military officer. Daisy promised to wait for his return from the war. However, she married Tom, a classmate of Nicks. Having obtained a great fortune, Gatsby sets out to win her back again.“All of Fitzgeralds original creation finds its way into this film, even going as far to include quite a bit of the original dialogue,” US film critic Justin Taroli writes in his review. “The cast is beautiful as is the script, and the scenes are a visual feast.”Taroli adds.DiCaprio does a good and professional job as the socialite by re-creating Fitzgeralds description of Gatsbys charm. “He can look at someone for an instant and understand how, perfectly, he or she wants to be seen,” David Denby, a film critic for The New Yorker, says in his review.The use of music is almost reason enough to see the film. “Luhrmann is at his best mixing visual and musical styles together to create something wholly original,” the Fox News review said.For example, in one of the most outstanding scenes in the film, the first party scene, Nick walks quickly from one party guest to another party guest trying to explain all the gossip about Gatsby until he is finally introduced to the man himself, while the most stirring version of Rhapsody in Blue (composed by American musician George Gershwin in 1924) is played in the background.28. What did Baz Luhrmann do to make the film a success?A. He adapted the story in the novel as he wished.B. He made the film more powerful than the book. C. He mixed his style with the elegance of the essay.D. He showed the elegance of the pictures in the film.29. What is Tarolis attitude towards the film?A. Favorable. B. Sceptical. C. Amazed. D. Unconcerned.30. What are the characteristics of Gatsby?A. Faithful and warm-hearted. B. Charming and professional. C. Selfish and stubborn. D. Mysterious and devoted. 31. Why does the author give the example of the first party scene in the last paragraph?A. Unfold the fact that Nick wants to know more about Gatsby.B. Show the version of Rhapsody in Blue matches the film well.C. Prove that the director is good at combining visual and music.D. Convince us that the first scene is perfectly shot by the director.D Our planet is home to about seven billion people. Since the 1990s, population experts have predicted the number would grow to nine billion before it begins to slow down and possibly decrease. But a new report predicts the worlds population is likely to increase to almost 11 billion by 2100. Based on the most modern statistical tools, the new report makes use of government records and considers expert predictions, including death rates, birthrates and international migration, or people moving across borders. The report says during the rest of this century, Africas population will grow from about 3.5 billion to 5.1 billion over the next 85 yearsJohn is director of the United Nations Population Division. He says that in the past, researchers thought population growth in Africa would be similar to that of other areas. They expected slower growth rates as birth control use became more widespread. But he says those ideas were wrong. “The level of contraception use has continued to increase but slowly more slowly than expected, and birthrate therefore has been falling less rapidly than expected, and the population therefore continues to grow somewhat more rapidly than we expected.” The new findings are based on a joint research project of the United Nations and the University of Washington.The researchers believe the population of Asia will reach five billion by 2050. That is up from the current 4.4 billion. And then begin to decline. The researchers also believe that North America, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean area will have a total population of below one billion. John says the pressure of feeding the rising population is likely to be less than that might be expected.“The relatively good news is that the world has been winning the race between population growth and food production. If you look back historically over the last 50 years, certainly for the world as a whole and for many, most individual countries and regions, the increase in food production has outpaced the increase of population.”32. Which area will experience the largest increase in population at the end of the century?A. Asia. B. Africa.C. Europe. D. North America.33. “Contraception use” in the fourth paragraph refers to _. A. a method of expert predictionsB. a way of avoiding growth in populationC. a joint research into the rising populationD. a potential technology for food production34. Why is the pressure of feeding the rising population less than expected according to John? A. Expert predictions are not exactly like what the facts happen.B. Birthrates have always been falling less rapidly than we expected.C. The population grows less rapidly than population experts expected. D. The increase in food production has outpaced the increase of population. 35. What can be inferred from the passage? A. The worlds population will increase constantly. B. The population of Asia will rise by 5 billion by 2050. C. John is optimistic about feeding the rising population. D. Population growth in Africa was much slower than expected.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。 How to relax your mindNowadays，people everywhere seem to find less and less time available to them, and more and more things to achieve. Its quite common to find people running around like headless chickens meeting deadlines that they create. One doesnt have to live this way, in stress and struggle. 36 Breathing I cant stress enough the importance of learning how to breathe properly, and not only when youre stressed, but at all times that you can. Learning how to breathe properly at all times is essential. You should try to deepen and lengthen your breath to lower the stress level and promote relaxation. 37 Relaxing We often think that just going to the gym and working out is the right way to go to relax ourselves. 38 A good hard workout is good from time to time, but you are still running at full steam ahead and not giving yourself time to relax. So lighting some fragrant candles, taking a slow hot bath or a shower, or meditating for even 10 minutes will do wonders to help you relax your mind and get out of the stress zone.Let it all out 39 So calling or meeting up with a person who can listen and empathize with us, is often a great way to relax. Its important that we dont go into victim mode and get too negative. When we let out our frustrations, it should be done in a positive manner, and with lightheartedness, even joking a