湖北省荆州中学2020届高三英语上学期第五次双周考试题（PDF）.pdf
高三双周考（三）英语试题第 1页A. 19.15.B. 9.18.C. 9.15.答案是 C。1. What does the man offer to do?A. Go to 7th street.B. Show another shirt.C. Call another branch.2. What is the cause of the womans quietness?A. The violent film.B. Her tiredness.C. The crowded theater.3. How does the man know about animals?A. From books.B. On TV.C. Through the Internet.4. Where are the speakers?A. At a shop.B. In a restaurant.C. At home.5. What does the woman do?A. A nurse.B. A waitress.C. A saleswoman.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. When was the woman promoted last time?A. Three years ago.B. Four years ago.C. Five years ago.7. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The woman will keep this job.B. The man will raise the womans salary.C. The woman would like to work with the man.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What was the worst thing for the man after the operation?A. He had a great pain.B. He couldnt eat anything.C. He had to take the medicine.9. What does the woman ask the man to do?例：How much is the shirt?每段对话仅读一遍。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。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，第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分)题卡上。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第一部分：听力（共两节，满分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分）分）时间：120 分钟满分：150 分荆州中学荆州中学 2019-2020 年度上学期高三英语双周考（三）年度上学期高三英语双周考（三）高三双周考（三）英语试题第 2页A. Eat out with her.B. Stop eating some food.C. Make a list of his favorite food.听笫 8 段材料.回符第 10 至 12 题。10. What does the woman think of the visit at first?A. Tiring.B. Unworthy.C. Amazing.11. What animal did the man fail to see?A. Sharks.B. Tree frogs.C. Butterflies.12. What does the man suggest doing in the end?A. Visiting some birds.B. Taking a rest at the basement.C. Learning more about wild animals.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. How does the man feel about joining the association?A. Uninterested.B. Relaxed.C. Worried.14. How much is the one-year membership fee?A. 5.B. 10.C. 35.15. How often do guest speakers meet?A. Once a month.B. Twice a month.C. Once a week.16. What is peer coaching about?A. Students doing sports after study.B. Senior students helping other students out.C. Students making speeches on various topics.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is the talk mainly about?A. A town.B. A hospital.C. An organization.18. What does the speaker say about the project this year?A. It is successful.B. It is interesting.C. It is difficult.19. What is required to become a volunteer for MSF?A. The ability to cook food.B. The ability to handle pressure.C. The ability to cope with emergency incidents.20. What kind of volunteers are in urgent need?A. Doctors.B. Building engineers.C. Food experts.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）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。AA painting of a famous artist could cost several million dollars in the market. This is why manyartworks -even those that are housed inside highly guarded museums-go missing. Here is a list of some of高三双周考（三）英语试题第 3页the most famous paintings that were lost, stolen or destroyed.Vincent Van Goghs Poppy FlowersThis artwork was housed at the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo. It was first lost in 1977,but was recovered 10 years after. The second time this same Vincent Van Gogh painting was stolen was inAugust of 2010. The painting is estimated(估价)to be worth something between $50 and $55 million.Pablo Picassos Le Pigeon Aux PetitsStolen on May 20, 2010, this painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is worth $28 million. It wasstolen at the MuseedArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, along with five other artworks. However the thievesthrew the painting away in a trashcan when they were caught. But that container was emptied before theauthorities got there. It was feared that the painting was already destroyed.Paul Cezanne s View of Auvers Sur OiseLost on December 31 1990 this artwork that used to be on exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum inOxford was stolen the night before the citys Millennium celebration. The thieves planned the robbery intime with the fireworks exhibition during peak of the celebrations. This artwork is estimated to be worth $5million.Govert Flinck s Landscape with an ObeliskStolen on March 8 1990 this artwork was at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston.This painting by Govert Flinck was previously believed to be a Rembrandt creation. A huge cashreward of $5 million will be given to the person who can provide information leading to the recovery of thepainting.21. In which of the following cities was Le Pigeon Aux Petits stolen?A. CairoB. ParisC. OxfordD. Boston22. Who was mistakenly thought to create Landscape with an Obelisk?A. Pablo Picasso.B. Paul CezanneC. Govert FlinckD. Rembrandt23. What can we infer about the four artworks mentioned in the text?A. They are given an approximate price.B. They are stolen when on exhibition.C. Some of them are lost nearly 30 years.D. Some of them have been found so far.BI realized something this morning. I have been writing now for 34 years. It all started when I was just18 years old. As a boy I had read literally hundreds of books. I had a thirst for knowledge that seeminglycould never fade. Then suddenly I found I had something I wanted to share. I tried to ignore it, but as anywriter will tell you once the ideas awaken inside of you they wont leave you alone until you write themdown. I didnt have a computer, a word processor, or even a typewriter. Still, I grabbed a pen and linednotebook paper and wrote everything that was burning inside of me.When I was done I didnt know how to share it. There was no internet back then, no smart phones, andno social media. I sought out the editor of my local county newspaper and asked him to print what I hadwritten. He was a good man full of both wisdom and kindness. He not only printed my first story but agreedto publish anything else I was willing to write. I continued to write new articles each week and shared themfirst with other local papers and later online as well. Years later at the urging of my readers I evenself-published two collections of my stories in book form.Through my writing I slowly became more than I was. In my writings I encountered my highest self. Inmy writings I discovered the goodness and light that lies in us all. In my writings I found great love and joy高三双周考（三）英语试题第 4页and encouraged others to choose love and joy as well. I also found that we all are writers whether we put pento paper or not. With every choice we make, with every thought we hold, and with everything we do we arewriting our own life story.Lance Wubbels once wrote: “I hope you realize your life is truly your life. It belongs to you. It is yourstory to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well.”24. What did the author do when the author found he had something to share as a boy?A. He wrote it down.B. He ignored it.C. He shared it on social media.D. He told it to a writer.25. How did the author begin his writing career?A. He was hired as a newspaper editor.B. He put his stories online by himself.C. He self-published two books.D. He was helped by a local newspaper editor.26. What does the author think of writing?A. Writing takes practice and efforts.B. Writing can benefit oneself and others.C. Writing helps people tell right from wrong.D. Only with a pen can one write his life story.27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. AWay to be a WriterB.AWay to Share IdeasC. Living is WritingD. Writing is the Source of LoveC“While extroverts(性格外向者)often make great first impressions with their outgoing manner andlively personalities in interviews, their value and reputation at work diminish( 缩 减 )over time,” saysCorinne Bendersky, an associate professor of Management.“Extroverts disappoint us over time when they are part of a team,” Bendersky says. “On a team youreexpected to work hard and contribute a lot. But they are often poor listeners, and they dont collaborate.”“On the other hand, introverts(性格内向者）work hard on a team because they care what others thinkof them. They dont want to be seen as not pulling their weight or contributing 100%,” Bendersky says.So while companies may be attracted to hiring extroverts because they impress managers greatly in jobinterviews, bosses also may want to consider whether the extrovert they are considering will be a valuableteam player, Bendersky says.Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins, two writers agree and say managers should recognize thestrengths of introverted employees, such as their ability to put themselves in someone elses shoes.“These team members are often easy-going, which can make them good advisers to more junior staff orparticularly good sounding boards(参谋)when you interact with them in one-on-one situations,” Su says.“Managers must try to help introverts find their voice,” Wilkins says. “Help them see that speaking upis not about self-promotion or being in conflict but rather about offering the team key insights, making betterdecisions or increasing the efficiency for all.”What about those extroverts who never seem to be at a loss for words? Should managers cut them off?Managers definitely should weigh in on how an extrovert is affecting others. Wilkins suggests sayingsomething in private to make adjustments.28. What do we know about outgoing people according to Bendersky?A. They are good listeners.B. They are good at cooperating.C. They often make great contributions.D. They tend to perform well in interviews.29. Which can best replace the underlined part “pulling their weight” in Paragraph 3?高三双周考（三）英语试题第 5页A. Making good choices.B. Holding the team back.C. Doing their full share of work.D. Trying to share their thoughts.30. What is Sus attitude towards Benderskys words?A. Critical.B. Tolerant.C. Doubtful.D. Approving.31. What does Wilkins advise managers to do?A. Promote more introverts.B. Learn to work more efficiently.C. Encourage introverts to speak up.D. Avoid conflict among employees.DWild animals are known to listen to each other for warnings that predators are near. Some birds, forexample, flee when neighbors make a loud noise to announce a snakes presence.The fairy wren is a small Australian songbird. It is not born knowing the “languages” of other birds. Butrecent research says it can learn the meaning of a few important sounds.Andrew Radford is a biologist at the University of Bristol in England and co-writer of the new reportpublished in early August in the journal Current Biology. He told the Associated Press, “We knew before thatsome animals can translate the meanings of other speciesforeign languages,but we did not know how thatlanguage learningcame about.”Birds have several ways of learning life skills. Some knowledge is genetically passed down by theirparents and some comes from direct experience with the world. But Radford and other scientists areexploring a third kind of knowledge: information from fellows.Radford and researchers at the Australian National University carried out the study in the countrysNational Botanic Gardens in Canberra. They attached to their bodies specially-designed, sound-producingequipment called “tweeter speakers.” They wanted to see if fairy wrens would react to sounds of other birdseven if they could not see them.The scientists first played the birds two recorded sounds that they likely had never heard before. Onewas a warning cry of a thornbill, a bird not native to Australia. The other was a computer-generated birdsound called “buzz”.When the 16 fairy wrens in the study first heard the sounds, they had no special reaction. The scientiststhen tried to train half of the birds to recognize the thornbills cry as a warning sound. They tried to train theother half to recognize the computer-generated “buzz” as a warning call.After three days, the scientists tested what the birds had learned-and their students passed the test. Thefairy wrens trained with the thornbills cry, fled when they heard it. The group trained with the buzz, fledwhen they heard that sound. Neither group reacted to the sound taught to the other.32. What does the underlined word “predators” in the first paragraph mean?A. enemiesB. neighborsC. birdsD. snakes33. Which is the right order of the experiment?a. The fairy wrens were divided into two parts.b. The fairy wrens made no reaction to the strange sounds.c. The fairy wrens wore sound-providing equipment.d. The fairy wrens were trained separately.e. The fairy wrens passed the test successfully.A. abcdeB. cbadeC. cebadD. acedb34. From the study, we knew the fairy wrens_.高三双周考（三）英语试题第 6页A. were not good “foreign language” learnersB. made no reaction to the sounds all the timeC. took both of the sounds as warningsD. fled when hearing the sound trained with35. Where is the passage probably taken from?A. Abiology textbookB. Ascience magazineC.Ascience fictionD. Awildlife brochure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。Chalk used in school classrooms comes in thin sticks. Lessons are often presented to entire classes onchalkboards (or blackboards, as they were originally called) using sticks of chalk.36As found in nature, chalk has been used for drawing since prehistoric times. And it helped to createsome of the earliest cave drawings. Later, artists of different countries and styles used chalk mainly forsketches(素描), and some such drawings have survived.37The method was to grind(碾碎)natural chalk to a fine powder, then add water, clay, and various dry colors. It was then rolled into stickshape and dried.38Class sizes began to increase at that time. Therefore, teachers needed a convenient way ofconveying information to many students at one time. Not only did instructors use large blackboards, butstudents also worked with personal chalkboards, complete with chalk sticks and a sponge or cloth to use asan eraser. These small chalkboards were used for practice, especially among the younger students.An important change in the nature of classroom chalk brought a change in chalkboards. Blackboardsused to be black, because they were made from true slate(石板). While some experts advocated a change toyellow chalkboards and dark blue or purple chalk to simulate writing on paper, when makers began tofashion chalkboards from synthetic(合成的)materials during the 20th century, they chose the color green,arguing that it was easier on the eyes.39Almost all chalk produced today is dustless. Earlier, softer chalk tended to produce a cloud of dust thatsome feared might contribute to breathing problems.40Its just that the dust settles faster.A. Dustless chalk still produces dust.B. Yellow became the preferred color for chalk.C. Thats because this method has been proven cheap and easy.D. Chalk was first formed into sticks for the convenience of artists.E. Baking chalk longer to harden it more helps to produce less dust.F. Chalk didnt become standard in schoolrooms until the 19th century.G. A
