1、湖北省部分重点中学届高三英语联考试题湖北省荆州市部分重点中学2020届高三英语12月联考试题注意事项：1答卷前，考试务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应的题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在试卷上无效。3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分：听力理解（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。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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
2、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. Why does the man fix the car himself?A. Because he himself can repair it.B. Because he wants to save money. C. Because there is nothing wrong with the car.2. What is the relationship between the two speakers?A. A teacher and a pupil. B. An artist and a student.C. A
3、house painter and an owner.3. How will the man probably go downtown?A. He is likely to take a bus.B. He is likely to take a taxi.C. He is likely to take the underground.4. What does the woman mean?A. She lost her notes. B. She didnt take the notes. C. A friend has borrowed her notes.5. When will the
4、 shirts be finished?A. Friday morning. B. Saturday afternoon. C. Friday afternoon. 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，各小题给出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8题。6. What happened to the woman?A. She felt sad. B. She had a
5、 talk with Lucy. C. She quarreled with the man.7. What is the man trying to do?A. Help to make up.B. Apologize to each other. C. Make friends with the woman.8. How does the woman feel at last?A. She hates Lucy.B. She agrees that she herself is wrong.C. She is satisfied with the mans suggestion.听第7段材
6、料，回答第9至11题。9. What are they talking about?A. Their summer vacation.B. How to drive a tractor.C. How to do farm work.10. Where did Jane spend her summer holiday?A. On a farm. B. At home. C. In a fruit garden.11. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Harrys mother was ill.B. Jane did much housewo
7、rk.C. Harry drove a truck on the farm.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. Why has the man hardly seen the woman lately?A. She had a traffic accident.B. She moved to another place.C. She is working unusual hours.13. Where does the conversation take place?A. In an office. B. At a bus stop. C. In an apartment.14. Wha
8、t do the speakers agree to do soon?A. Go out together.B. Take care of each other.C. Share the same apartment.听第9段材料,回答第15至17题。15. When will someone come to check the hot water?A. This afternoon. B. Tomorrow. C. At the weekend.16. How did the students know about the flat?A. From a friend. B. From a n
9、ewspaper. C. From a house agency.17. What will the woman do to settle the problem about the fridge?A. Order one on the Internet.B. Get someone to fix the old one.C. Pay the students for the new one.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. What is the speaker?A. A weather reporter. B. A hotel manager. C. A tour guide.1
10、9. What does the speaker suggest doing?A. Bringing warm clothes. B. Doing some sunbathing.C. Borrowing skis from others.20. What is mentioned in the passage?A. The weather is changeable.B. People cant eat local food nearby.C. Travelers have a chance to taste local food.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；
11、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。AParticipants in an online forum were asked whether space exploration was worthwhile. Here are some of the comments they posted: Planet Girl 7.17 pm Our world is ravaged by war, famine and poverty. Billions of people struggle just to survive
12、 from day to day. Meanwhile the US space agency has US$16 billion to play with every year. We must deal with the worlds urgent problems. Space exploration is a luxury we cannot afford. Dragon 7.18 pm That $16 billion spent on space is nothing compared to the $370 billion spent on the military. JJ 7.
13、20 pm Exploring space is investing in the future. Everyone knows were running out of resources. Theres massive over-population too. The solar system has heaps of resources we can use for mining, and maybe we can colonise other planets. If we dont do it now, it might be too late. Planet Girl 7.22 pm
14、We have to tackle problems of over-population and resource depletion here on Earth, instead of chasing science fiction dreams. Otherwise we will just export our unsustainable lifestyle to another planet. We might consume the whole universe! JJ 7.23 pm Space explorers rock! They know what they are in
15、 for, and they still do it anyway. Thats what I call courage! We humans have always struggled to expand our horizons. We want to know what else is out there. Who knows, maybe well discover the solution to all our problems out there! Switched-on 7.25 pm Space exploration has had a huge effect on our
16、lives. Want to talk to someone halfway around the world? Sure. Get the weather forecast? Coming right up. Check exactly where you are? Absolutely. Its all possible, thanks to satellite technology, global positioning systems, and the rest. If there was no space exploration, wed be sitting around in t
17、he dark, not talking online! Penny 7.50 pm Satellites are launched by private companies for profit. Planet Earth doesnt always benefit. Exploring remote planets certainly does not contribute to life on Earth. 21. From the online forum Planet Girl means that space exploration is_. A. expensive but ne
18、cessary. B. expensive and unnecessaryC. very important but too expensive. D. not very important but affordable.22. What is the most likely reason that JJ does not discuss the cost of space exploration? A. He agrees that space exploration costs too much. B. He does not know how much space exploration
19、 costs. C. He thinks space exploration is worthwhile, whatever the cost.D. He knows Planet Girl is wrong about the cost of space exploration. 23. What is one point that Planet Girl and JJ are most likely to agree about?A. Earths resources are fast disappearing. B. Spending money on war is unnecessar
20、y. C. Space exploration encourages creativity.D. Living on other planets is a real possibility. B There once lived a rich businessman who had a lazy son. The businessman wanted his son to be hardworking and responsible. One day he said, “Today, I want you to go out and earn something. If you fail, y
21、ou wont have your meal tonight.”He went crying straight to his mother. Her heart melted at her sons eyes. She gave him a gold coin. When the father asked his son what he had earned, the son presented him with the gold coin. The father asked him to throw it into a well.The next day, he asked his son
22、to earn something again. This time he went crying to his sister who gave him a coin. When he showed it to his father he again asked him to throw it into a well. Then the father asked him to earn more money.This time since there was no one to help him, the son was forced to go to the market. One shop
23、keeper told him he would pay him two coins if he carried his trunk to his house. He did so and sweated plenty. As he returned home he was asked to do the same. The son almost cried out. He could not imagine throwing his hard-earned money like that. He cried, “My entire body is aching. You are asking
24、 me to throw the money into the well.”At this moment, the businessman told him one feels the pain only when the fruits of hard labor are wasted. On earlier two occasions he was helped and therefore had no pain in throwing the coins into the well. The son had now realized the value of hard work. He p
25、romised never to be lazy and safely keep the fathers wealth. The father handed over the keys of his shop to the son and promised to guide him through the rest of the life.24. We can learn from the passage that the father is _. A. lazy and strict B. clever and experienced C. courageous and confident
26、D. humorous and responsible25. According to the passage, the father wanted his son to realize _. A. the value of money B. the value of hard work C. the importance of money . D. the importance of hard labor 26. Who helped the son the third time he was asked to earn something? A. His mother. B. His si
27、ster. C. Himself. D. A shopkeeper.27. According to the passage, we can predict that the son was likely to _.A. become successful B. look for a good jobC. use up his fathers wealth . D. hate his father in the future CMore young children know how to operate a computer mouse than ride a bike as technol
28、ogy tightens its grip on the nations youth, researchers warn. And, while seven out of ten youngsters aged between two and five are comfortable playing on-line games, less than two in ten could swim unaided. The figures show that the traditional milestones which a child would expect to achieve are be
29、ing replaced by digital ones. Parents are either too busy or too lazy to help their offspring to learn practical and physical skillsfrom riding a bike to tying their lacesoften finding it simpler to sit them in front of a screen. Instead of experiencing the real world, children are copying their par
30、ents by tapping away on phones or keyboardsat the expense of their social and physical well-being. Child development expert Sue Palmer said that the figures showed we are “cooping children up inside” more than ever.According to the study, 23 percent of children between two and five can make a call o
31、n a mobile phone and a quarter can navigate between websites with ease. One in five knew their way around smart phones or even an iPad. Two thirds knew how to turn a computer on and 73 percent said they could work a mouse. When it came to real-life matters, however, the picture was very different. J
32、ust 48 percent knew their own home address and only a third were able to write their first and last names.“By encouraging them to live a virtual screen-based existence we are deadening their developmental drive and dumb them down,” she said. “They get used to the quick fix and the easy rewards of communicating with technolo
