湖北省部分重点高中2014届高三十一月联考

英语试题

时间：2013年11月16日 下午：14:30-16:30

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

做题时,先将答案划在试卷上。 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，共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 are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A hobby. B. A plan. C. Music.

2. Where are the speakers?

A. At a clinic. B. At a drugstore. C. At a vegetable market.

3. What can we learn about Jane?

A. She wasn’t hurt. B. She had an accident. C. She wore her seat belt.

4. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She was washing her face. B. She was driving. C. She was hurt.

5. How much does the woman weigh now?

A. 153 pounds. B. 160 pounds. C. 163 pounds.

第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面五段对话或独白。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。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、7题。

6. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At a clinic. B. At a restaurant. C. At a drugstore.

7. What restaurant did the woman go to first last night?

A. Chinese. B. Italian. C. American.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What is the trouble with British education?

A. Students. B. Subjects. C. Teachers.

9. What is the man’s attitude towards British school education?

A. More classrooms should be built.

B. Students need more time to learn to live.

C. Students shouldn’t be kept busy.

10. What opinion does the woman support?

A. Teachers should learn more about real life.

B. Better subjects should be offered.

C. Teachers should be old.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Who probably is the woman?

A. A mountaineer. B. A sportswoman. C. A pilot.

12. What caused the accident?

A. The woman hurt her arm. B. The woman lost her way. C. The woman landed the wrong way.

13. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She is weak. B. She failed only twice. C. She’ll recover in about two months.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. Where most probably are the speakers?

A. In a hospital. B. In a classroom. C. At a restaurant.

15. What is the main symptom according to the man?

A. Pain in the chest. B. Throwing up. C. Aches in bones.

16. What does the man say about his throat?

A. It’s a bit hard for him to swallow. B. He has a dull pain in it. C. It’s been hurt.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the purpose of the talk?

A. Offering some advice on sleeping problems.

B. Stressing physical exercise.

C. Telling people how to exercise.

18. Why is it useless to keep turning around when you can’t sleep?

A. It’s tiring. B. It makes you worry. C. It increases heart rate.

19. Which of the following can cause sleeplessness?

A. Eating cheese before going to bed.

B. Lack of sleep on weekends.

C. Too much exercise in the evening.

20. What can we learn about sleeping pills?

A. It’s of great use. B. It prevents sleeping. C. It’ll help relax.

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. For the last couple of years we have consistently run ______ through social media to help raise public awareness of the issue drawing people’s attention nationwide.

A. assumptions B. campaigns C. preferences D. demonstrations

22. Poorer families often lack _____to a car, which they would need to drive their children to a more successful school outside their own district.

A. commitment B. motivation C. access D. affection

23. We are constantly introducing novel schemes and ______ options designed to suit individual circumstances and the current financial climate.

A. tentative B. relevant C. beneficial D. flexible

24. Don't take it for granted that parents should show their unconditional love to you. You should also understand and be ______ to their feelings.

A. sensitive B. optimistic C. contradictory D. particular

25. We have many cases where hard work as well as good communication skills have ______ one's chances of success in the past years.

A. condemned B. multiplied C. estimated D. highlighted

26. With the information explosion in science and technology, more and more new terms will _____ and need to be defined.

A. consist B. occupy C. resolve D. emerge

27. ______ a divorce is really a terrible experience for Mr. Taylor, and that may be the reason why he has been upset lately.

A. Focusing on B. Bringing down C. Going through D. Getting over

28. The Tiger Woods participated in a golf game, other top players would stop trying as hard and thus perform worse, as if his superstar status ______ the competitions.

A. sped up B. held back C. applied for D. marked out

29. The virus came without people’s being aware of it and it was ______ assumed to be a common one. But with more cases reported, it proved wrong.

A. precisely B. relatively C. initially D. purely

30. According to the agreement, _____ you shall get preferred shares accounting for 8% of the whole income for your investment.

A. in return B. in turn C. after all D. above all

第二节：完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分,满20分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、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。

I learned about life from an ant farm. When I was seven years old, my family tried to 31 an ant farm at home. First, we put clean sand in a thin glass box, and then we brought some ants from the backyard and placed them into the 32 home.

Shortly after the new 33 were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels. I was amazed that each one knew 34 what to do. After hours of staring, I realized that the ants had particular given jobs. With my mom’s help, I kept a journal of what happened each day and 35 the ants. My favorite was the biggest, Cinderella. I drew a picture of her in my journal, which I still have.

On day five a disaster 36 the ant farm. While I was 37 the ants, I had put my face so close to the structure that I accidentally tipped it over, 38 in all the tunnels. Although the ants 39 their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was 40 as I watched them give up their tunnel-building to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm. My mother reported that the ants were dying of “frustration”—feeling annoyed and impatient as they couldn’t control the situation. They simply could not 41 the reality that their tunnels had been destroyed. Cinderella was the last to die; she did so while carrying a dead ant on her back.

Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world, 42 it taught me much more. 43 the years, I came to realize the ants were a study in the benefits of 44 . Working together, they were able to create a(n) 45 world for themselves. I also learned that they should be 46 for their hard work. Day in and day out, each labored at their task. The ant farm demonstrated that teamwork and perseverance are indeed two key 47 to success. But there was an even larger lesson that I did not 48 until recently: Disaster is a natural part of life, and must be 49 . Unlike the ants, humans cannot give up when they face 50 . Unlike the ants, we have to realize that if a tunnel caves in, we just have to build another.

31. A. create B. purchase C. maintain D. abandon

32. A. empty B. new C. strange D. distant

33. A. guests B. settlers C. friends D. members

34. A. probably B. roughly C. exactly D. normally

35. A. named B. trained C. compared D. measured

36. A. affected B. struck C. kicked D. beat

37. A. removing B. teaching C. observing D. collecting

38. A. turning B. rushing C. filling D. caving

39. A. experienced B. predicted C. faced D. survived

40. A. annoyed B. horrified C. moved D. thrilled

41. A. reflect B. ignore C. confirm D. stand

42. A. and B. but C. so D. or

43. A. In B. For C. From D. Over

44. A. teamwork B. devotion C. responsibility D. organization

45. A. relaxing B. amusing C. moving D. amazing

46. A. supported B. inspired C. admired D. admitted

47. A. certificates B. approaches C. ingredients D. circumstances

48. A. give B. realize C. take D. adopt

49. A. accepted B. suffered C. achieved D. managed

50. A. anxiety B. confusion C. pressure D. disappointment

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。

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On a number of drives throughout my childhood, my mother would suddenly pull over the car to examine a flower by the side of the road or rescue a beetle from tragedy while I, in my late teens and early twenties, sat impatiently in the car.

Though Mother’s Day follows Earth Day, for me, they have always been related to each other. My mom has been “green” since she became concerned about the environment. Part of this habit was born of thrift (节俭). Like her mother and her grandmother before her, mom saves glass jars, empty cheese containers and reuses her plastic bags.

Mom creates a kind of harmonious relationship with wildlife in her yard. She knows to pick the apples on her trees a little early to avoid the bears and that if she leaves the bird feeders(给食器) out at night, it is likely that they will be knocked down by a family of raccoons (浣熊). Spiders that make their way into the house and are caught in juice glasses will be set loose in the garden.

I try to teach my children that looking out for the environment starts with being aware of the environment. On busy streets, we look for dandelions (蒲公英) to fly in the wind; we say hello to neighborhood cats and pick up plastic cups and paper bags. This teaching comes easily, I realize, because I was taught so well by example. Mom didn’t need to lecture; she didn’t need to beat a drum to change the world. She simply slowed down enough to enjoy living in it and with that joy came mercy and an instinct for protection.

I am slowing down and it isn’t because of the weight of