湖北2012英语模拟考 A卷.doc

试卷类型：A2012年高考英语模拟试题本试卷共150分，考试用时150分钟。 祝考试顺利 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。例：How much is the shirt? A.19.15.B.9.15.C.9.18.答案是B。1.How much will the man pay for the tickets? A.7.5. B.15. C.50.2.Which is the right gate for the mans flight? A. Gate 16. B. Gate 22. C. Gate 25.3.How does the man feel about going to school by bike? A. Happy. B. Tired. C. Worried.4.When can the woman get the computers? A. On Tuesday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Thursday.5. What does the woman think of the shirt for the party? A. The size is not large enough. B. The material is not good. C. The color is not suitable.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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What can we learn about Mr. Brown? A. He is in his office. B. He is at a meeting. C. He is out for a meal.7. What will the man probably do next? A. Call back. B. Come again. C. Leave a message.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What kind of room does the man want to take? A. A single room. B. A double room. C. A room for three.9. What does the man need to put in the form? A. Telephone and student card numbers. B. Student card number and address. C. Address and telephone number.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Fellow clerks. B. Boss and secretary. C. Customer and salesperson.11. What does the man like about his job? A. Living close to the office. B. Chances to go abroad. C. Nice people to work with.12. What do we know about the woman? A. She likes traveling. B. She is new to the company. C. She works in public relations.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. When will the visitors come? A. In March. B. In April. C. In May.14.How many visitors are coming? A. 8. B.10. C.12.15. What will the visitors do on the second day? A. Go to a party. B. Visit schools. C. Attend a lecture.16. Where will the visitors go on the final day? A. To London. B. To Scotland. C. To the coast.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the first word the baby tried to say? A. Truck. B. OK. C. Duck.18. How old was the baby when he learned to say that word correctly? A. About 18 months. B. About 21 months. C. About 24 months.19. What did the father do when the baby screamed that word at the airport? A. He corrected the baby. B. He tried to stop the baby. C. He hid himself somewhere.20. Why did the mother pretend not to know the baby? A. She got angry with the father. B. She was frightened by the noise. C. She felt uneasy about the noisy baby.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。21.Global population growth alone should ensure the overall number of smokers does not until 2040 at the earliest.A. deny B.refuse C.reject D.decline22.At home, one early test of his willingness to reunite his country will be whether he will any Democrats to his new cabinet.A. entertain B.appoint C.employ D.attract23.Driving too fast can create a wave strong enough to crack the ice, especially as you the shore.A. approach B.accompany C.abandon D.approve24.A few years ago it was virtually impossible to find quality coffee in local shops.A. suitable B. superior C. capable D. qualified25.Personal success or failure is of no , but the future of man cannot be ignored AconsequenceBindependenceCcompetenceDintelligence26.Relaxation methods, such as meditation, are useful ways to bring your into balance.A. emotions B. principles C. regulations D. opinions27.Once each year the craft will be awakened for about 50 days to test the systems, make course corrections and calibrate its scientific instruments. A. widely B. thoroughly C. entirely D. extensively28. right now is not just our ability to solve this problem, but our ability to solve any problem. A.At risk B.At stake C.At present D.At best29.China had asked the United States to the deal, saying it would damage U. S. -Chinese cooperation. A.call off B.set off C.go off D.pay off30.He loves his parents so much that his mum has the prime position in his mind after his dad . A.passed down B.passed through C.passed by D.passed out第二节：完型填空（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。People often drop into a dim life and are unable to pull themselves out. There once was a poor and frustrated salesman who always 31 every day that there was no platform for him to display his ability and the fate was often 32 his legs.At Christmas Eve, every family 33 their houses with lanterns and colored paper and it was very festive everywhere. But he sat alone in a bench in a park and 34 the past. It was on the same day last year when he was also alone 35 his Christmas day away, without new clothes, new shoes, 36 a new car and a new house. “Damn! I have to spend this Christmas day with these old shoes again.” He 37 and began to take off the old shoes. Suddenly, he 38 at a young man in a wheel chair passing by him with his hands difficultly pushing the wheel forward. It 39 on him that he was so lucky to have shoes to wear while that man did not even have the 40 . Afterwards, the sales man did anything with a 41 mood and cherished every opportunity to improve himself. He worked hard and tried his best to make progress every day. Several years later, he 42 changed his life totally and became a millionaireIf you 43 , you will find there are so many people who were born 44 in the society but they are confident in life and never complain about the 45 fate. They are also not to beg others charity. Instead, they constantly strive to make themselves stronger and more excellent to 46 the society. By contrast, we should feel ashamed. We are born healthy, but we are 47 with life; we complain about our colleagues and 48 with our jobs. Maybe all of us would feel afraid when we realize we have fallen into such 49 state of life, but 50 is you even do not realize you have fallen into such a dangerous situation. 31A. explainedB. remarkedC. complainedD. commented32A. pullingB. pushingC. raisingD. lifting.33A. designedB. decoratedC. builtD. Founded34A. forgetB. recalledC. remindedD. told35A. toastingB. drivingC. celebratingD. drinking.36A. let aloneB. let downC. let outD. let be37A. signedB. whisperedC. sighedD. whistled38A. glaredB. staredC. fixed.D. glanced39A. hitB. struckC. dawnedD. counted40A. chanceB. shoeC. fateD. luck41A. anxiousB. overjoyedC. calmD. depressed42A. eventuallyB. completelyC. entirelyD. wholly.43A. turn around.B. show roundC. get roundD. look around44A. frustratedB. healthC. disabledD. lame45A. unfairB. ordinaryC. unusualD. specific46A. reserveB. deserveC. serveD. preserve47A. caught upB. tiredC. contentedD. fed up48A. blameB. dissatisfyC. delightD. load49A. annoyingB. tiringC. excitingD. exhausting50A. betterB. wellC. worseD. bad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。AFed up with huge mortgage payments, Simon Dale decided to take matters into his own hands. Armed with only a chisel, a chainsaw and a hammer, the 32-year-old moved his family to a hillside in Wales and started digging。The result is a wooden eco-home constructed in four months and costing just 3,000 which would look perfectly at ease alongside the Hobbit houses in The Lord Of The Rings。Mr Dale, who has no experience in carpentry or architecture, created his sustainable family home using scrap wood for floors, materials scavenged from skips and by diverting water from a nearby spring。He said: Being your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass-produced box designed for maximum profit and the convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic(致癌) poisons that fill most modern buildings。The family struck lucky searching for a site for their dream project. In return for looking after the area, the owner of the woods gave them their plot for free。After digging into the hillside, Mr Dale with the help of his father-in-law, a builder first constructed the buildings timber frame。The roof, which came next, has a layer of straw bales for insulation and is covered with sheets of plastic to make it waterproof. Finally it is covered with a layer of earth, which ensures the house blends perfectly into its surroundings。Once the outer shell was complete, the family made an interior wall from straw bales stacked on dry-stone walling and staked together with hazel sticks。As well as being made from sustainable material the Hobbit house, as it is dubbed by locals, has lime plaster on its walls instead of cement, a compost toilet, a fridge cooled by air from beneath the foundations and solar panels for power。51.Why did Simon Dale decide to dig an eco-home in a hillside?A. He was fed up with the life of city.B. He hardly afforded to buy a houseC. He preferred to live in a hill caveD. He was an environmental activist52.The underlined words have-a-go in Paragraph 5 probably means_A. taking turns B. launching an attack C. having a try . D. going freely.53.The owner of the woods gave the Simons the plot for free because _A. the plot was deserted and was worth nothing.B. he was deeply struck by their dream project.C. The home to be built resembled the Hobbit house a lot.D. The Simons promised to take care of the area.54.It can be inferred from the passage that the Hobbit houses_A. dont exist in the real world at allB. belong to the lord of The Kings.C. lie in a lonely area of WalesD. are a kind of environmental friendly houses created by Simon DaleB.It is not just humans that get stuck in their ways. Scientists have discovered that old bees have trouble finding their way to new hives as their learning behavior becomes increasingly inflexible。Bees are typically impressive navigators, able to wind their way home through complex landscapes after visits to flowers far removed from their nests. But researchers from Arizona State University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences found that aging damages the bees ability to extinguish the memory of an unsuitable nest site even after the group has settled in a new home。To test how old bees adapt to a changed home location, researchers trained bees to a new nest box while their former nest was closed off. Groups composed of mature and old bees were given several days in which to learn the new home location and to extinguish the bees memory of their unusable former nest box. The scientists then tore down the bees new home and forced groups of mixed-age bees to choose between three alternative nest locations, including the former nest box。Old bees began flying toward the former nest site, despite the experience that should have told them that it was unusable. Although many old bees fail in learning tasks, we also discovered that a few still perform with excellence, explains Daniel Minch, lead author of the study and a senior life sciences researcher in Norway。The scientists believe that their findings with bees offer a new means to model and understand the variability found in brain function between individuals, where some individuals memories remain complete, while others learning behavior becomes inflexible with age。55. What is the possible similarity between bees and humans according to the passage?A. The Aged Bees and humans always lose their waysB. Not all aged Bees and humans have difficulty finding their way to new home.C. Most aged bees and humans have trouble learning new knowledge.D. Bees and humans become inflexible with age in learning behavior56. It is concluded from the passage that bees _A. have a striking sense of directions.B. find it difficult to find their home through complex landscapesC. are attached to the way they used to live.D. prefer their former nest to a new nest57. Judging from the test ,which of the following is true?A. All old bees began flying toward the former nest site.B. Bees are more expert in finding a new home with age.C. The test result offers a new means to understand the variability in brain function between individuals.D. The bees ability to extinguish the memory of an unusable former nest site was damaged by the test.58. What does the passage mainly discuss?A. Not just humans get lost.B. Aged bees suffer from poor learning behaviorC. Aged bees also get stuck in their ways.D. An interesting research into aged bees.CMost Americans think the quality of life for adults under 30 years old, or Generation Y, wont be as good as it is for their baby-boomer parents, according to a new poll。More than 60 percent of people are pessimistic about the future, and 71 percent of young Americans under 30 said they would rather go back in time than leap to the future。Its interesting how strongly people feel things are getting worse, and how strongly people are backward looking, said Michael Hogan, 35, executive online editor at Vanity Fair which conducted the survey with CBS News。This is a time of high unemployment, people coming out of school with very few job prospects. The past probably seems more comforting, he added。Although the past may seem appealing for young Americans, only 50 percent of seniors over 65 said they wanted to travel back in time。The nationwide poll of 1,167 adults, which included questions about culture, lifestyle and politics, also revealed that if given the choice to take anything with them to the afterlife, 25 percent would take a pet, 47 percent would opt for a photo album but only nine percent wanted to take an IPhone or a Blackberry。Despite romancing the past, people believe in rewarding the forward-minded. Thirty-three percent of those polled believe Internet entrepreneurs are most deserving of their large salaries, followed by 15 percent for sports stars and 12 percent for bankers. Only eight percent felt movie stars should get the dollars they do。And despite a recent trip to the United States, more than three-quarters of people questioned could not identity David Cameron as the prime minister of Great Britain. Twenty seven percent might have confused him with Avatar director James Cameron when they thought he was a movie director。59. From this passage we learn that_A. Americans are dissatisfied with the quality of life at presentB. 71 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the future.C. Michael Hogan is executive online editor of CBS News.D. David Cameron isnt as popular in America as James Cameron60. Why do many Americans wish to go back to the past?A. Americans could live as they wished to in the past.B. The quality of life for them isnt good as it used to.C. They dont find jobs because of leaving out of school.D. They tend to Cherish the memory of the past.61. Who is highly respected in American from the plot.A. a politician B. a movie director C. an entrepreneurs D. a sports star62. Where can you find the passage in your opinion?A. On a newspaper . B. On a magazine. C. On a fair. D. On a website.D.Dont worry, be happy and, according to new research, you will also be healthy. It is estimated that over the course of one year, Americans suffer 1 billion colds. But new research shows that all it may take to avoid this common affliction is a positive and upbeat attitude.People who are energetic, happy and relaxed are less likely to catch a cold than those who are depressed, nervous or angry, finds a new study published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Healthy volunteers first underwent an emotional assessment in which they were asked to rate their tendency to experience positive and negative emotions-how often they felt pleased, relaxed, happy, or anxious, depressed and hostile. The subjects were next given a squirt up the nose of a rhinovirus, the nasty little germ that causes colds.Researchers then watched the volunteers to see who came down with a cold and waited to see how the unlucky ill manifested their cold symptoms. We found that people who regularly experience positive emotions, when exposed to rhinovirus, are relatively protected from developing illness, said Dr. Sheldon Cohen, lead author of the study and a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Increases in positive emotional styles were linked with decreases in the rate of clinical colds, but a negative emotional style had no effect on whether or not people got sick, Cohen said.So how can your em