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荆州中学2016级高三第三次双周考试卷
英 语
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. What is woman confused about?
A. The time. B. The painting. C. The road.
2. What does the man do?
A. A seller. B. A waiter. C. A fisherman.
3. What is the man worried about?
A. His cat. B. His angry mother. C. The coming math exam.
4. How much are the shoes on the lower shelf?
A. $60. B. $100. C. $120.
5. What will the man probably do tonight?
A. Float on a boat. B. Go to a concert. C. Have a feast.
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，各个小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. What is the man probably doing now?
A. Printing documents. B. Drawing up a contract. C. Drinking coffee.
7. What will the man get as a reward?
A. A salary raise. B. A paid vacation. C. A promotion.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. Where does the man get the story?
A. From the Internet. B. On a book. C. In the church.
9. What is God like in the story?
A. Generous. B. Cruel. C. Humorous.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What do we know about the woman?
A. She needs $6,800.
B. She will go to USA next week.
C. She paid for the man’s laundry fee last month.
11. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Bank clerk and client. B. Laundry owner and customer. C. Roommates.
12. What will the woman do this afternoon probably?
A. Watch a video. B. Play a computer game. C. Go shopping.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the speed limit in the residential area?
A. 25 km per hour. B. 30 km per hour. C. 40 km per hour.
14. Why does the man praise the woman?
A. She remembers to turn on the signal light.
B. She doesn’t overspeed.
C. She keeps her eyes on the road.
15. Where does the man ask the woman to stop the car?
A. At the parking lot. B. At the garage. C. Beside
the sidewalk.
16. What’s the result of the test?
A. A success. B. A failure. C. Not sure.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Which is NOT the official United Nations language?
A. Arabic. B. French. C. German.
18. What questions did Bella answer in foreign languages in the show?
A. School courses.
B. Some small talks.
C. Her language learning experience.
19. How old was Bella when she learned her first foreign language?
A. One year old. B. Two years old. C.Three years old.
20. What does the expert suggest Bella do?
A. Keep practicing.
B. Learn more languages.
C. Focus on one language.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，每小题2分，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、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Flying can be fun and exciting, no matter what you choose to do. But have you ever thought about what happens on the plane?
Here are some of the most interesting things that happen.
Do planes drop human waste while in flight?
When you flush （冲）a toilet on a plane at an altitude of 30,000 feet, there must be a question in your mind: “Is this about to land on a farmer’s house?”
Take it easy. A plane’s toilets cannot be emptied in the sky. The waste is stored
in tanks on board and can only be operated by the ground crew.
However, why is news like “blue ice falling out of a plane” reported? Is blue ice human waste? Stories about blue ice are true but rarely happen. The FAA said some toilet holding tanks have a blue chemical in them. If a tank leaks high in the air, the water freezes once it hits the outside air, and melts before it lands on the ground.
Is turbulence (颠簸) dangerous?
It’s scary, uncomfortable and spills your drink. But is turbulence something you really need to worry about?
Absolutely not. It’s part of flying, and it isn’t dangerous. Turbulence is caused when two masses of air hit one another at different speeds. Wind, thunderstorms and closeness to mountains are all possible reasons. Despite how dangerous it feels, turbulence won’t crash your plane. Even in extremely rough air, the wing is not going to break off.
Why are plane windows round?
If you have traveled by plane before, you may have noticed that every plane window has a round design. This isn’t to make the plane look good. It’s for the safety of everyone on board.
As the airplane flies higher and higher, the outside atmospheric pressure gets lower and lower. In the end, the pressure inside the plane becomes greater than the pressure outside. At this time, windows that can resist pressure are needed.
Square windows can crack. The different pressure inside and outside put stress on the right angles. However, rounded corners help to reduce these stresses by spreading them around the window.
21. It can be learned from the passage that _______.
A. passengers’ waste falls onto the land directly
B. blue ice frequently falls out of planes
C. blue ice from a plane is a great safety threat
D. passengers’ waste is dealt with on the ground
22. According to the passage, turbulence _______.
A. is very dangerous B. seldom happens during flying
C. may crash a plane D. can be caused for many reasons
23. The plane window has a round design for the purpose of _______.
A. economy B. security C. beauty D. convenience
24. The passage is meant to _______.
A. tell us some interesting facts about flying B. inform us of flying safety tips
C. warn us of the danger of flying D. introduce us the design of a plane
B
Times are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when we’re facing difficult times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmother’s recipes. She taught me to cook.
When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mother’s parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go hunting with my grandfather on mornings, I found myself more and more in the kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands.
My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As the eldest daughter, she was expected to take on all of the housework while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldn’t do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste.
Now I understand that her food was sacred (神圣的). I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when I’m in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conquering starvation — of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day.
From grandmother I learned to take real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say: “Do you know what this would cost at the restaurant?” I never knew what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and years of practice, I can.
25. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because _______.
A. she wants to try out her grandmother’s recipes
B. she is quite particular about food
C. the food in restaurants is unhealthy
D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially
26. According to the passage, the author’s grandmother _______.
A. learnt to cook because of the Great Depression
B. was good at cooking as well as careful in budgeting
C. preferred chicken to beef
D. had to walk a long way to learn cooking in a restaurant
27. It can be inferred from the passage that the author _______.
A. liked to compare her grandmother’s food with that in restaurants
B. learnt something more precious than cooking from her grandmother
C. hasn’t found the joy in cooking though she can cook like her grandmother
D. feels connected to her grandmother when making country food in the kitchen
28. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Cook like my grandmother B. My grandmother’s sacred food
C. My grandmother’s recipe D. Joy and pleasure in cooking
C
What Cocktail Parties Teach Us
You’re at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分贝) level. Yet among all those distractions, you can tune your attention to just one voice from many. This ability is what researchers call the “cocktail-party effect”.
Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have found where that sound-editing process occurs in the brain — in the auditory cortex (听觉皮层) just behind the ear, not in areas of higher thought. The auditory cortex boosts some sounds and turns down others so that when the signal reaches the higher brain, “it’s as if only one person was speaking alone,” says investigator Edward Chang.
These findings, published in the journal Nature last week, explain why people aren’t very good at multitasking — our brains are wired for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inborn ability has helped humans survive in a world buzzing with visual and auditory stimulation (刺激). But we keep trying to push the limits with multitasking, sometimes with tragic (悲剧的) consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get into traffic accidents as those who aren’t.
Many of those accidents are due to “inattentional blindness”, in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they aren’t focusing on. The more attention a task demands, the less attention we can pay to other things in our field of vision. Images land on our retinas (视网膜) and are either boosted or played down in the visual cortex before being passed to the brain, just as the auditory cortex filters sounds, as shown in the Nature study last week. “It’s a push-pull relationship — the more we focus on one thing, the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.
Studies over the past decade at the University of Utah show that drivers talking on hands-free cell phones are just as influenced as those on hands-held phones because it is the conversation, not the device that is distracting their attention. Those talking on any kind of cell phone react more slowly and miss more traffic signals than other motorists.
Some people can train themselves to pay extra attention to things that are important — like police officers learn to scan crowds for faces and conductors can listen for individual instruments within the orchestra as a whole. Many more think they can effectively multitask, but are actually shifting their attention rapidly between two things and not getting the full effect of either, experts say.
29. What have scientists in University of California found about “the cocktail-party effect”?
A. Usually there is only one person who is speaking alone.
B. All kinds of annoying sounds drive up the decibel level.
C. The higher brain processes sounds and images selectively.
D. Sounds are sorted out before reaching the higher brain.
30. What do we learn from the passage?
A. We are biologically incapable of multitasking.
B. We survive distractions in life by multitasking.
C. We cannot multitask without extra attention.
D. We benefit from pushing the limit with multitasking.
31. Which of the following is an example of “inattentional blindness”?
A. A careless driver lost his eyesight after a car accident.
B. Police scanned the crowds and located the criminal.
C. A manager talked on a hands-free phone with his client.
D. A pedestrian had a car accident because of phubbing (低头).
D
Like toolmaking, teaching was once thought to be an exclusive(独有的)capacity of the human mind. It is not true.
“Teaching” requires this: one individual must take time from their own task to demonstrate and instruct with effort and the student must learn a new skill. That’s a tall order.
When a young chimpanzee watches a skilled adult and then imitates (模仿), that’s learning. But the adult has not taken time specifically to instruct, so it is not teaching. In the honeybees’ amazing dance, the dancer takes time to indicate information about a source of food, but observers learn no new skill. They do take time to show, but they do not pass on new skills to learners.
Dolphins teach. Atlantic spotted dolphin mothers sometimes free a caught fish in the presence of their youngsters and let their youngsters chase it, catching it again
if it’s getting away. Dolphin youngsters also position themselves alongside mothers who are scanning sandy bottoms for hidden fish, and the mother spends extra time demonstrating.
Other teachers include: housecats who bring back live prey and let their young learn to catch it, and meerkats (猫鼬)who first bring to their growing young dead scorpions (蝎子), then disabled ones, to demonstrate how to remove the poisonous part on their tails.
Like toolmaking and teaching, imitation is also considered to reflect high intelligence. In South Africa lived a baby dolphin named Dolly. One day while she was just six months old, Dolly was watching a trainer standing at the window smoking a cigarette, blowing puffs of smoke. Dolly swam to her mother, got a mouthful of milk, then returned to the window and released a cloud of milk that surrounded her head. The trainer was “absolutely astonished”.
Somehow Dolly came up with the idea of using milk to represent smoke. Using one thing to represent something else isn’t just imitation. It is art.
32. What does the underlined phrase “a tall order” probably mean in paragraph 2?
A. A clear instruction. B. A high risk. C. A difficult requirement. D. A useful purpose.
33. What do we know about honeybees’ dance?
A. Presenting. B. Learning. C. Imitating. D. Teaching.
34. What can we infer about animals that can teach?
A. Bees show their dance to younger generations.
B. Housecats teach in a way similar to dolphins.
C. Young dolphins must learn how to free a fish.
D. Meerkats have poisonous parts on the tails.
35. Why does the author use Dolly’s example?
A. To prove smoking can affect other animals.
B. To explain dolphins are capable of making art.
C. To show animals can be surprisingly intelligent.
D. To stress milk is to dolphins what smoking is to men.
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。
New research helps to explain why screaming is disturbing and useful.
Screams, like those we hear in horror movies, have a special quality that separates them from other noises we make and hear. These screams are recognized by people all over the world.
36 Every kid in every culture screams. Every adult in the context of a true fear responds with screams. So it's just a feature of the human mind and brain．
David Poeppel is a neuroscientist at New York University. He wondered why screams were recognized the same way by people all around the world. So, he and his colleagues set up an experiment.
They recorded screams from movies and from volunteers who took part in the research. 37 Instead, they measured how quickly the sounds in the scream changed in volume. It was in this area-the change in volume that screams stand apart from other sounds.
When the volume of a sound changes that quickly it has a quality called “roughness”. 38 David Poeppel and his team found that car alarms, sirens, and alarm clocks also have this quality, this “roughness”.
The scientists then studied how this "roughness" changed brain activity. They asked the volunteers to listen to different types of screams and alarms in an MRI scanner. The researchers found that the greater "roughness" of a sound. the more it activates the amygdala. 39 The amygdala acts like a gauge（计量器） that says ‘wow, this sound has a lot of roughness in it; that’s particularly alarming and scary. ’"
Screams, it turns out, are a direct link to the part of our brain that tells us whether we should be afraid or not. 40 Now, we know why a scream gets so much attention, So quickly.
A. People who hear these rough sounds are also more likely to react to them very quickly.
B. People of all cultures and languages hear the same thing in a scream: fear.
C. A scream is to say ‘I’m in trouble and I need help.’
D. The amygdala is an area deep in the brain that answers to fear.
E. The more roughness a sound has, the more worrying it is
F. Screams played a very important evolutionary role in our survival
G. The scientists, however, did not measure the screams for loudness.
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（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。
“Don’t you want to consider studying business?” It was 2003 and I was in Grade 10. Why did Papa ask me that? He knew I wanted to be a 41 .
“If you’re thinking of studying mass media after Grade 12,” Papa added, “business should be more helpful than science.”
“But I 42 to be a cardiologist（心脏病学家), Papa!” I protested.
“ 43 that’s where your heart really lies, I’m sorry I 44 this up,” he said.
In 2006, after I had spent two difficult years trying to study science, I brought up the 45 again with my father, a teacher who 46 his own training institute in Ujjain, MP. “What made you 47 I’d make a better journalist than a doctor?” I asked Papa.
“You have been my 48 , too,” he said, smiling.
I was just eight years old when I 49 evening classes at his institute. It was very different from regular school. We shared anecdotes, made presentations, staged plays, listened to and watched tapes from the BBC.
Always thinking about his students, Papa 50 takes leave but when he absolutely has to, he feels guilty. It 51 him when a student doesn’t show the same enthusiasm.
Every year, Teacher’s Day, the 5th of September, is like a 52 in our house. The phone 53 ringing. Papa takes every call 54 it were the only one he got.
It 55 to be journalism and not cardiology for me. In June 2006, when I joined St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, for my 56 degree in mass media,
it felt like Papa’s classes. Soon I was writing regularly for the news magazine Outlook. In 2009, it was Papa again who 57 me decide not to take a postgraduate degree in mass media.
“You’ll only study the 58 things again,” Papa explained. “Sociology is such a lively subject, and if you want to be a good journalist you 59 know about society and people.”
I got my MA in sociology two years later.
This Father’s Day, June 21, when I called him, I will have completed nearly four fruitful years working as a journalist, thanks to Papa’s 60 .
41. A. journalist B. doctor C. businessman D. sociologist
42. A. hesitate B. refuse C. want D. agree
43. A. If B. So C. When D. But
44. A. picked B. came C. brought D. gave
45. A. concept B. project C. consensus D. subject
46. A. supports B. runs C. holds D. shares
47. A. feel B. doubt C. hope D. prefer
48. A. son B. student C. fellow D. friend
49. A. chose B. taught C. attended D. received
50. A. sometimes B. always C. never D. hardly
51. A. hurts B. defeats C. strikes D. amuses
52. A. show B. lecture C. meeting D. festival
53. A. keeps B. begins C. continues D. stops
54. A. in case B. as if C. even if D. now that
55. A. turned out B. turned up C. worked out D. worked on
56. A. bachelor’s B. master’s C. doctor’s D. graduate’s
57. A. saw B. let C. found D. helped
58. A. different B. same C. general D. bad
59. A. may B. could C. would D. must
60. A. patience B. power C. guidance D. understanding
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Texting while walking is something that most of us are guilty of. We can’t help
61 (reply) to that message we just received. However, while 62 is fun to keep up with the latest news, we may actually be putting ourselves in danger. “I 63 (spot) a person in front of me walking very slowly and weaving, and I thought, ‘Is this person drunk?’ But it turned out that the person was just texting.” said Matthew Timmis. 64 (inspire) by this, Timmis and his team set out to seek the effects of phone use on 65 (passer-by). A group of 21 volunteers were asked to walk around a certain street. The participants traveled the course a total of 12 times each, either writing 66 reading a message, making a call, or with no phone at all. It took the volunteers 118 percent 67 (long) to complete the course when using a phone. They also focused 68 the path 51 percent more when they weren’t using a phone. Although there were no accidents, Timmis believes we should still be aware of 69 is going on around us. “You are not going to be able to respond to danger efficiently, 70 increases the risk of injury.” He added.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Every morning and evening, many people gather to dance in our community square, where is designed to improve living quality. Although dancing could do good to their health, but the long-time dancing and loud noise causing by the loudspeaker really brought the neighbors inconvenience. I couldn’t rest or sleep well, which made me terrible upset. I felt such sleepy in class that I performed badly in study. To solve a problem, I communicated with the organizers and suggested that they should shorten the dance time and reduced the music noise. Only doing so can they have fun and let others enjoy life. To their delight, they adopted my advices.
第二节 书面表达（满分 25 分）
假定你是李华，中秋节即将到来之际，你想请初来你校的英国交换生John一起体验这一传统节日。请你用英语给他写一封电子邮件。
内容包括：
1. 写信目的；2. 节日简介；3. 希望对方回复
注意：
1)词数100左右；
2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3)开头已为你写好。
Dear John,
I’m very pleased to invite you to enjoy a traditional Chinese festival — the Middle-Autumn Festival with my family.
荆州中学2016级高三双周考试卷
英语试题参考答案
听力：1-20 CBCAB ABACB CCBAC BCABA
阅读：21—24 DDBA 25—28 DBBA 29-31DAD 32-35CABC
36-40 BGEDA
完形：41—45 BCACD 46—50 BABCD
51—55 ADABA 56—60 ADBDC
语法填空
61. replying 62. it 63. spotted 64. Inspired 65. passers-by
66. or 67. longer 68.on 69. what 70. which
改错： 1. where→which 2.去掉but
3. causing→caused 4. terrible→terribly
5. such→so 6. a→the
7. reduced→reduce 8. doing so前加by
9. their→my 10. advices→advice
作文：
Dear John,
I’m very pleased to invite you to enjoy a traditional Chinese festival — the Middle-Autumn Festival with my family.
The Middle-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, which falls on August 15th in Chinese Lunar Calendar. On that day, people usually go back home to have a family reunion. The most popular food is moon cakes. Its shape is round as it symbolizes a big moon. In the evening, family members get together in the open air eating delicious moon cakes while appreciating the beautiful moon hanging in the dark sky. At that time, some old people would like to tell many past events and tell children a story about the rabbit on the moon while children dream of flying to the moon one day. What a great festival!
I would appreciate it if you could accept my invitation and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
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