湖北省部分重点中学2017高三第一次联考高三英语试卷.doc

湖北省部分重点中学2017高三第一次联考高三英语试卷
湖北省部分重点中学2017届高三第一次联考高三英语试卷
考试时间：2016年11月4号下午14:00-16:00   试卷满分:150分
第I卷
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）
1.Where is the ATM machine?
A. On the left of the department store. B. Opposite the traffic lights. C. Across from the cinema.
2.What will the man do at 4:00?
A. Have a class.       B. Take a test.        C. Visit a doctor.
3.When can the man probably speak to Mr. Hammond?
A. At about 2:30.        B. At about 1:30.     C. At about 1:00.
4.What is the weather like?
A. Cool.             B. Warm.         C. Cold.
5.What is the man going to do?
A. Drop out of school. B. Try to get a scholarship. C. Continue his studies.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。  
6. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues.   B. Husband and wife. C. Salesman and customer
7. What does the woman want to do?
A. Paint the wall.    B. Buy a computer. C. Get some furniture.
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。
8. What is the woman angry about?
A. The time to keep borrowed books. B. The fine for delaying returning books.
C. The number of borrowed books at a time.
9. What does the man think of the new policy?
A. Stupid. B. Troublesome. C. Understandable.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What do we know about the man?
A. He gets hotel information on the internet. B. He loves seeing musicals very much.
C. He thinks it easy to get tickets.
11. What does the man mean in the end?
A. The woman can travel by car with him. B. The Hotel Ritz is in a convenient place.
C. He can act as the woman’s guide.
12. What are the speakers probably going to do?
A. Book a hotel near Broadway. B. Go to see a show in Tokyo. C. Take a trip to New York.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Some great teenagers. B. Some websites. C. Some photos.
14. What did Charlie Watson do?
A. He created a websites. B. He had his own soccer club. C. He earned a billion dollars at 16.
15. What is said about Anna Philipova?
A. She put out a fire by herself. B. She saved her two brothers from a fire.
C. She climbed the highest mountain in the Andes.
16. How did Malik Monroe raise money?
A. By organizing concerts. B. By working in hospitals. C. By collecting money in the streets.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Who does the speaker say skydive in the USA?
A. People of all ages. B. Crazy young people. C. Brave teenagers. 
18. When did the speaker skydive for the first time?
A. When she was a teenager. B. When she was a university student. C. When she worked as a lawyer.
19. What prevented the speaker from going skydiving regularly?
A. Fear of heights. B. Shortage of money. C. Lack of free time.
20  Why does the speaker go skydiving?
A. To reduce her stress. B. To face up to her fear. C. To forget her problems.
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。
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Tens of thousands of tourists flooded into Brazil this summer for the biggest sporting event in the world—the Olympic Games. But apart from the sporting excitement, there are plenty of other things for people to explore in the south American country. Below, we have picked three interesting aspects of frazil. Let’s take a look.
Music& Dance
  The most popular form of music and dance is no doubt samba. With its special rhythm and style of dance, it is viewed as Brazil’s national musical style. If you want to experience real samba then go to Rio de Janeiro, where the music and dance styles have been growing since 1917. As the birthplace of samba, the city is always the best place to enjoy it. Every year, during the carnival, the samba parade is held and 12 of the top local samba schools try their best to win the championship title. Brazilians’ love for samba is so great that even the way they play soccer is believed to be similar to samba.
Food
Just as interesting as its culture, Brazilian food shares characteristics with food from Portugal, some other European countries and other cultures. But Brazilian food is also different in each region. In the northern part, people use more spices, seafood and fruits in their food; meanwhile, southerners eat more pasta and meat due to the Italian influence.
When talking about Brazilian dishes, many local people may recommend feijoada, calling it national dish. Feijoadais a thick bean stew with pieces of beef and pork added to it. This dish is usually served with rice and peeled and sliced oranges. Because of its heavy ingredients and rich flavors, feijoada is also called Brazilian soul food. But there are some differences in this Brazilian dish depending on where you eat it.
Customs
A very useful tip for travelers is “When in Rome, do as the Romans do' Otherwise, you might get into some unnecessary trouble. Therefore, just do as the Brazilians do while traveling in Brazil. A common feature of Brazilian customs is that the custom is not the same for both genders.
The differences in customs between men and women exist in many different aspects of life. Take dressing up as an example. Brazilians take dressing well very seriously and have different dress codes for men and women. Men wear dark-colored business suits and dress conservatively. As for women, they wear beautiful, feminine dresses and are expected to have manicures and pedicures. So if you travel to Brazil, make sure you are aware of the dress code there and bring suitable outfits.
21.According to the article, which of following statements is TRUE about samba?
A .Brazilians love samba music and dancing more than soccer.
B. Portuguese culture has had a great influence on the style of samba.
C. Rio de Janeiro is the best place for visitors to enjoy samba.
D. Any samba school can compete for the championship title during the Rio carnival.
22. We can conclude from the article that______.
A. the food in southern Brazil has been influenced by Italian culture
B. Brazilians in the north eat more meat than those in the south
C. The main ingredients of feijoada are meat and oranges
D. Feijoada cooked with black beans is the most popular dishin Brazil
23. Which of the following is NOT an example of following Brazilian customs?
A. Women having a manicure before meeting a friend.
B. Men wearing colorful shirts and short pants.
C. Women wearing fancy dresses in public places.
D. Men wearing black business suits when travelling.
B
When you think of children’s literature, endless picnics with lots of strawberry jam and ginger beer might pop into your mind. But British author Roald Dahl went down a different path, satisfying children’s appetite for the dark, violent and greedy.
Sept 13 marked what would have been Dahl’s 100th birthday. To date, his books are estimated to have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. In 2013, he beat Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling to be named the best children’s author of all time by British parents and their children. And movie adaptations of his works continue to hit the big screen, including US director Steven Spielberg’s take on The BFG (《吹梦巨人》），which will come out in China on Oct 14th.
According to The Independent newspaper, Dahl’s books have been successful in part because he wrote from the viewpoint of children and allowed them to lead the stories, act on their own and even act against the wishes of adults.
His dark descriptions appeal to young readers, although there is also dark humor in the books. For example, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of Dahl’s famous stories, is a black comedy with the naughty children having terrible revenge(复仇）taken on them. In The BFG, there is a witching hour, which he wrote is “a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves” .
The darkness came from Dahl’s own life, “He lost his father young. Then his mother sent him away to boarding school where he was badly beaten,” British author Michael Rosen told the BBC. He was then a naughty child and sometimes even a troublemaker. Dahl would later describe his school years as “days of horrors” that were filled with “rules and still more rules to be obeyed”. His own experience inspired some of his dark fiction.
And he was a fighter pilot during World War II. “Very few people have quite that fierceness，”British book critic Amanda Craig told the BBC. “He’s one of the few children’s authors who’s actually killed people. That is going to have an effect on how you see people and the world: ”
“His books reflect the everyday injustices that people see and experience, ” Jocelyn Schmidt, vice president of the Penguin Young Readers book company, told the TNS website. “Yet through invention and a little bit of mischief, the kids in the books win the day. They’ re courageous, they’ re inventive and they're the ones who are empowered . ”
24. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. Differences between Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling. B. The great achievements of Roald Dahl.
C. Roald Dahl’s impact on the film industry. D. Steven Spielberg’s The BFG.
25. Dahl’s books appeal to young readers partly because        .
A. they involve a lot of dark humor B. they were written from the point of view of children
C. they tell stories of Dahl9s own experiences D. they tell children that they should act on their own
26. What do the books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG have in common?
A. They are both about revenge.        B. They are both light comedies.
C.They both contain dark descriptions.  D. Their plots are both based on Dahl’s life.
27. In which column of a newspaper could we find this passage?
A. Art           B. Life    C. Story    D. People
C
This time last year I entered two long-distance mass-participation swimming events, including the Jubilee River 10 km swim. At the last minute, just before both swims, I decided to pull out.
The reality is, I live in fear of coming last.
When you have swum the English Channel, people think you are somehow superhuman and fearless. Many years have passed since my Channel swimming days, but my expectations are still high.
Last year, in the run-up to the two events, I realized that I couldn’t cope with coming last. I had looked at the swim times of those who had completed the previous year and calculated that, at my current swim pace, I would probably have come last.
But when January 2016 came around, I decided to enter those same events again.
For a few months, I trained hard, but I didn’t get any faster. Then it was June 5，the day of the Jubilee River 10 km. The event started at 9:30 am, and the swimmers anxiously hovered, eager to start. As I swam along, the river was quiet and clean and everything was peaceful. The sun shone, Meadows (草地）rolled by and every now and again someone would wave or peer at the scene unfolding in the water.
As the day wore on, somehow I didn’t mind that, predictably, almost everyone was ahead. There were at least some swimmers still near me, and although we shared the same fiver we quietly occupied our own spaces. As I concentrated on doing my own thing, watching the sky, the bank, the other swimming caps passing or not passing, I realized I was enjoying myself.
In the end，four hours and 29 minutes after I ’ d started，I staggered out of the water and was greeted with a smile and a “well done” from the race organizer. I glanced back over my shoulder toward the water and noticed that there were a small handful of swimmers who were still to finish, behind me, out of a field of around 300. But it didn’t  matter. I was just relieved, proud and happy to finish.
As I drove away, my thoughts turned to my next long race of the season and how much I was looking forward to it, my fears of coming last gently receding.
28. What caused the author to give up the swimming events last year?
A. The lack of time for training.       B. The high expectations from other people.
C. The pressure from other competitors. D. The fear of being the last.
29. how did the author feel when she competed in the Jubilee River 10 km race?
A. Patient.    B. Discouraged.   C. Delighted.     D. Anxious.
30. What does the word “receding” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Arising.    B. Quitting.      C. Fading.       D. Strengthening.
31. What message does this article mainly convey?
A. Never should we give up. B. Constant dripping water wears away the stone.
C. The process is more important than the result. D. A good beginning is half done.
D
Why do we cry? The main reason, say scientists, is because we are human.
As far as they can tell, no other creature cries emotional tears the way we humans do, despite a number of reports of an elephant or gorilla not just making sad sounds but actually flowing tears.
Interested by one such report of an Indian elephant crying after being caught, Charles Darwin sent;a co-worker to check it out, but he couldn’t confirm it.
If emotional tears are indeed a uniquely human act, there must be an evolutionary advantage to crying, possibly a big one, but what?
Psychologist Robert R. Provine at the US’s university of Maryland carried out some research. In a paper published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, he reported that tears may have evolved to giv蛟 more charms to facial expressions of emotions, including sadness.
In an experiment, Provine * s team asked 80 college students to rate the intensity of facial expressions of sadness. Half of the pictures showed a person with tears flowing down his or her face, while the other half were the same pictures but with the tears digitally removed. These pictures were shown to the students with “distractor” pictures of people with other facial expressions.
The students overwhelmingly ranked the pictures showing tears as revealing more sadness than the same faces without tears.
The fact that animals probably don, t cry emotional tears and the fact that it takes newborns several months to add tears to their crying support the researchers' belief that emotional crying is a recent evolutionary development.
And in a paper published in Evolutionary Psychology in response to Provine’s work, Israeli evolutionary biologist Oren Hasson at Tel Aviv University said that emotional tears may also act as a call for help and for bonding. 
But there’s another reason why emotional tears may have evolved, said William H. Frey, a US biochemist. MHumans evolved the ability to shed tears as a means to reduce stress, and evolution favors this because it has survival value, says Frey.
Viewing tears not just as communication signals but also as stress relievers may help explain why people don’t just cry when there’s an audience, but also cry alone when there’s nobody around to receive t