1、届高三英语上学期第三次双周考试题荆州中学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.
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 c
3、oncert. 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
4、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
5、 the woman? A. She needs $6,800. B. She will go to USA next week. C. She paid for the mans laundry fee last month.11. Whats 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. Wat
6、ch 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 doesnt overspeed. C. She keeps
7、 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. Whats 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.
8、 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 t
9、he 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。AFlying can be fun and exciting, no matter what you choose to do. But have you ever thought about what happ
10、ens 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 farmers house?”Take it easy. A planes toilets c
11、annot 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
12、 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?Its scary, uncomfortable and spills your drink. But is turbulence something you really need to worry about?Absolutely not. I
13、ts part of flying, and it isnt 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 wont crash your plane. Even in extremely rough air, the wing
14、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 isnt to make the plane look good. Its for the safety of everyone on board. As the airplane flies higher and higher, the outside atmospheri
15、c 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
16、 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 grou
17、nd22. 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 reasons23. 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 u
18、s some interesting facts about flying B. inform us of flying safety tipsC. warn us of the danger of flying D. introduce us the design of a planeB 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 raindr
19、ops and make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when were facing difficult times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmothers recipes. She taught me to cook. When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent
20、long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mothers 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-grandmot
21、her 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
22、small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldnt 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 Im in
23、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 bea
24、m 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
25、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 grandmothers recipes B. she is quite particular about foodC. the food in restaurants is unhealthyD. she and her husband are embarrassed financially 26. According
26、to the passage, the authors grandmother _.A. learnt to cook because of the Great DepressionB. was good at cooking as well as careful in budgetingC. preferred chicken to beefD. 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 t
27、o compare her grandmothers food with that in restaurantsB. learnt something more precious than cooking from her grandmotherC. hasnt found the joy in cooking though she can cook like her grandmotherD. feels connected to her grandmother when making country food in the kitchen 28. Which of the followin
28、g can be the best title of the passage? A. Cook like my grandmother B. My grandmothers sacred foodC. My grandmothers recipe D. Joy and pleasure in cookingCWhat Cocktail Parties Teach UsYoure at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分贝) l
29、evel. 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 audito
30、ry 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, “its as if only one person was speaking alone,” says investigator Edward Chang.These findings, published in the journal
31、 Nature last week, explain why people arent very good at multitasking our brains are wired for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inbornabilityhas helped humanssurvivein a world buzzing with visual and auditory stimulation (刺激). But we keeptryingto push the limits with multitasking, sometimes withtragic(悲剧的) consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get intotrafficaccidents as those who arent.Many of those accidents are due to “inattentional bl
