湖北剩州市2018届高三英语上学期第九次周考试题.doc

湖北省荆州市2018届高三英语上学期第九次周考试题第一部分 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.How much does the man pay?A. $8.7.B. $41.30.C. $50.2.What is the weather like today?A. Rainy.B. Cloudy.C. Sunny.3.Where does the conversation take place?A. At a store.B. At a hotel.C. At the mans house.4.What does the man think of the goalkeeper?A. Important.B. Cold-hearted.C. Weak.5.What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A celebration.B. Clothes.C. Performances.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听第6段对话，回答第6、7题。6.What is the womans problem?A. She doesnt know Darryl.B. She doesnt want to have lunch.C. She doesnt have enough money for lunch.7.What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Ask someone else for help.B. Try to find her wallet.C. Get to know Darryl.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.What do we know about the woman?A. She is overweight.B. She likes lemon juice a lot.C. She has a heart disease.9.What can the woman eat besides vegetable salad?A. Sugar.B. Seafood.C. Beef.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Why can the woman keep slim?A. She seldom eats chocolate.B. She does much exercise.C. She goes on a diet.11.How often does the basketball club meet?A. Once a week.B. Once two weeks.C. Once a month.12.What are the speakers going to do next?A. Look for running machines.B. Buy an exercise bike.C. Go to the gym.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The womans hobbies. B.The woman s future job. C. The womans work experience.14.What is the man interested in?A. What the woman likes doing. B. What the woman used to work as.C. What useful skills the woman has got.15.What does the woman dislike?A. Playing tennisB. SwimmingC. Teaching16.What does the man advise the woman to do?A. Work hard.B. Make a decision at once.C. Learn about more information.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.When does the speaker give this talk?A. In the morning.B. In the afternoon.C. In the evening.18.What is the camp manager expected to do?A. Prepare dinner and sleeping places. B. Give details about the camping trip.C. Organize the music festival.19.What will the campers do at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow?A. Have breakfast.B. Attend the festival.C. Start work.20.How long can the campers see the bands play?A. One hour.B. Two hours.C. Three hours.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，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。ABelow is a selection from a popular science book.If blood is red, why are veins (静脉) blue? Although blood looks red when outside the body, when sitting in a vein near the surface of the skin, its more of a dark reddish purple colour. At the right depth, these blood-filled veins reflect less red light than the surrounding skin, making them look relatively blue.Which works harder, your heart or your brain? That depends on whether you are busy thinking or exercising. Your heart works up to three times harder during exercise, and shifts enough blood over a lifetime to fill a supertanker. But in the long run, your brain probably tips it, because even when youre sitting still your brain is using twice as much energy as your heart, and it takes four to five times as much blood to feed it.Do old people shrink as they age? Yes and do. Many people do get shorter as they age. But when they do, it isnt because theyre shrinking all over. They simply lose height as their spine(脊柱) becomes shorter and more curved due to disuse and the effect of gravity. Many (but not all) men and women do lose height as they get older. Men lose an average of 3-4 cm in height as they age, while women may lose 5 cm or more. If you live to be 200 years old, would you keep shrinking till you were, like 60 cm tall, like a little boy again? No, because old people dont really shrink! It is not that they are growing backwards-their legs, arms and backbones getting shorter. When they do get shorter, its because the spine has shortened a little. Or, more often, become more bent and curved. Why does spinning(旋转) make you dizzy? Because your brain gets confused between what youre seeing and what youre feeling. The brain senses that youre spinning using special gravity-and-motion-sensing organs in your inner ear, which work together with your eyes to keep your vision balance stable. But when you suddenly stop spinning the system goes out of control, and your brain thinks youre moving while youre not!Where do feelings and emotions come from? Mostly from an ancient part of the brain called the limbic system. All mammals have this brain area from mice to dogs, cats, and humans. So all mammals feel basic emotions like fear, pain and pleasure. But since human feelings also involve other newer bits of the brain, we feel more complex emotions than any other animal on the planet.If exercise wears you out, how can it be good for you? As far as your body is concerned, its use it, or lost it”! Its not that exercise makes you healthy; its more that a lack of exercise leaves your body weak and easily affected by disease.21. What is the colour of blood in a vein near the surface of the skin?A. Blue. B. Dark reddish purple. C. Red. D. Light yellow.22. Why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age? A. Because their spine is in active use. B. Because they are more easily affected by gravity. C. Because they keep growing backwards. D. Because their spine becomes more bent.23. Which of the following statements about our brain is true? A. When our brain senses the spinning, we will fell dizzy. B. In the long run, our brain probably works harder than our heart. C. The brains of the other mammals are as complex as those of humans. D. Our feelings and emotions come from the most developed area in our brain.24. What is the main purpose of the selection? A. To provide information about our body. B. To challenge new findings in medical research. C.To give advice on how to stay healthy. D.To report the latest medical discoveries.BI am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way. Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he should concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didnt even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting annoyed, but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and more accurate when he stood up. Could he be more absorbed while standing up?This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to lead to success. This child would have the willpower to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life. Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality qualities, and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids best cheerleaders, guiding them and helping them find their ways.I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesnt mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being personal and unique. It makes us free and happy and thats just the way I want my kids to live their own lives.25. Time and again the author got his son seated in order to make him . A. work fast B. keep attentiveC. stay relaxed D.go polite 26. The underlined “it” in the first paragraph probably refers to . A. his disappointment with his active childB. his failure in keeping his son under control C. his own experience as a school boy D. his sons doing better while standing up27. By this passage,the author attempts to tell other parents to . A. respect and trust their kids ways of behaviors B. correct their kids manners from the early ages C. not worry about kids behaviors D. encourage kids to learn by themselves28. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?A. The study of kids behavior B. Kids success in their own styles C. Adult influence on teen growth D. A new attitude towards kidsCAccording to sociologists, every modern industrial society has some form of social stratification (阶层). Class, power and status are important in deciding peoples rank in society.Class means a persons economic position in society. A commonly used classification is lower class, middle class and upper class. While sociologists disagree on how these terms should be exactly defined, they do describe societies like the United States quite well. One study shows that 53% of Americans belong to the lower class, 46% the middle class, and 1% the upper class. Interestingly, a surgeon earning 500,000 a year and a bus driver earning 50,000 a year both regard themselves as the middle class!Power refers to the amount of control a person has over other people. Obviously, people in positions of great power (such as governors) exercise (行使) big power, but people who take orders from others have less power. Power and class do not always go hand in hand, however. For example, the governor of a state has great power, but he or she may not belong to a corresponding economic class. Generally, however, there is a relationship between power and class. To our knowledge, there arent too many people who arent millionaires in the U.S. Senate!Status is the honor or respect attached to a persons position in society. It can also be affected by power and class, but not necessarily so. For example, a university professor may have a high status but not belong to a high social class or have a lot of power over others.29. What can we learn about “the middle class” from Paragraph 2?A. People generally consider bus drivers as the middle class.B. People earning 50,000 a year belong to the middle class.C. Nearly half Americans belong to the middle class.D. Sociologists have a clear definition of the middle class.30. According to the text, we know that _.A. people with high status have a lot of control over othersB. status refers to a persons economic position in societyC. power and class do not always correspond with each otherD. class is less important in deciding a persons social rank31. Which of the following shows the structure of the whole text?DThe search for beauty spans centuries and continents. Paintings of Egyptians dating back over 4,000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup. In 18th-century France,wealthy noblemen wore large wigs of long, white hair to make themselves attractive. Today, people continue to devote a lot of time and money to their appearance.There is at least one good reason for the desire to be attractive: beauty is power. Studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class,and are regarded as friendlier.But what exactly is beauty? Its difficult to describe it clearly, and yet we know it when we see it. And our awareness of it may start at a very early age. In one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs. The faces on the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students. In the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the unattractive ones.The idea that even babies can judge appearance makes perfect sense to many researchers. In studies by psychologists, men consistently showed a preference for women with larger eyes, fuller lips, and a smaller nose and chin while women prefer men with large shoulders and a narrow waist, according to scientists, the mind unconsciously tells men and women that these traits -the full lips, clear skin, strong shoulders-equal health and genetic well-being. Not everyone thinks the same way, however. “Our aesthetic(审美观) can be changed by all sorts of expectations-mostly cultural,” says C.Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan. What is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another. Look at most Western fashion magazines: the women on the pages are thin. But is this “perfect” body type for women worldwide? Scientists answer is no; what is considered beautiful is subjective and varies around the world. They found native peoples in southeast Peru preferred shapes regarded overweight in Western cultures.For better or worse, beauty plays a role in our lives. But it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what makes one person attractive to another. Although there do seem to be certain physical traits considered universally appealing, it is also true that beauty does not always keep to a single, uniform standard. Beauty really is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder.32.Peoples ideas about beauty . A. have little influence on a persons successB. can be easily describedC. have existed since ancient timesD. are based upon strict criteria33. In Paragraph 3, the babies in the study . A. were rated for their appearanceB. were entered in a beauty contestC. were shown photos of a group of college studentsD. were able to tell attractive faces from unattractive ones34. The underlined word “traits” in Paragraph 4 probably means . A. measurementsB. qualitiesC. judgments D. standards35. We can learn from the passage that . A. the ideas of beauty vary as people grow upB. the search for beauty is rooted in lack of confidenceC. the standards for beauty are based on scientific researchesD. the understanding of beauty depends on cultural backgrounds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最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。How to Cut Back on Playing Video GamesAs you get older and shoulder more responsibilities in your life, your gaming time might need to adjust. Heres what worked well for me.Start Tracking Your Gaming TimeOne of the reasons why video games eat up so much time is that theyre so engaging. I cant count how many times Ive sat down to play games for “a couple of minutes” and then looked up to see hours have gone by.Tracking your gaming time can help, says psychologist John M. Grohol. Prepare a spreadsheet or a piece of paper, and write down when you start playing a game and when you stop. 31 I found it helpful.Start Choosing Games Wisely 32 . MMOs and RPGs, for example, are major time sinks. I would probably cry if I looked at my total time spent during the golden age of World of War-craft.If youre having a hard time stepping away from these kinds of games because theres so much to do in them, cut them out of your gaming diet. 33 . That way, you can play in short bursts. I still indulge in these kinds of games occasionally, but I dont play as much as I used to.Figure Out What Youre EscapingVideo games are a fun way to de-stress and also one of the most advanced forms of escapism out there. To reduce my gaming thirst I started looking at my escapism habits from another angle. 34 .Video games do offer a nice respite from the harsh truths of reality. More often than not, I would be able to identify the things that were stressing me out and making me want to escape to virtual worlds in the first place. If work was getting me down, Id make a practical plan on how to improve it instead of grapping a controller. 35 . The real world doesnt always offer that, but it never will if you always run from the issues in your life.A. Why not get away from the game you are crazy about?B. Shift your focus to games that are more pick-up-and-play.C. Then add up your total gaming time at the end of each week.D. We find it hard to get rid ourselves of the addiction to gamesE. I asked myself “What am I hiding from?” and worked from there.F. Some games require a much bigger time investment than other games.G. We often run to video games because they make us feel powerful and in control.第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，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中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Last spring, I was fortunate to be chosen to participate in an exchange study program. In my application letter, I was careful to 41 how much I wanted to see France; evidently, my excitement really came through in my words. Once I 42 that I was going, all I could think about was the fun of foreign travel and making new and 43 friends. While traveling was inspiring and meeting people was 44 , nothing about my term in France was what I 45 .The moment I arrived in Paris, I was 46 by a nice French couple who would become my host parents. My entire experience was joyous and exciting 47 I received some shocking news from my program coordinator (协调人); there had been a death in my host parents extended family. They had to travel outside France for several weeks. That afternoon, I had to 48 out of one familys house and into another. The exchange coordinator told me Id have a 49 this time and asked whether I could share a bedroom with an English speaker. To avoid the temptation to 50 my native language, I asked not to be 51