湖北省荆州中学2021-2022学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题.docx

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1、荆州中学2019级高三上学期期末考试英语卷第一部分听力（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 the girl doing?A. Playing a video game.B. Watching TV.C. Brushing her teeth.2. Where will the speakers probably go tonight?A. To a

2、 golf course.B. To the gym.C. To the cinema.3. How does the man probably feel?A. Hopeless.B. Happy. C. Surprised.4. When will the man see the doctor?A. On Monday.B. On Tuesday.C. On Friday.5. What might be the woman be?A. A tourist.B. A cleaner.C. A guide.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

3、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. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a gift shop.B. In a food store.C. In a travel agency.7. What does the woman buy?A. A cup. B. A shirt.C. The key chains.听第7段材料，

4、回答第8至10题。8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Where to go to college. B. How to make money.C. Where to travel.9. When will the young woman start her plan?A. In a year.B. In two years.10. How many countries has the man mentioned?A. Two.B. Three.C. In three years.C.Four.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11

5、. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Co-workers. B. Coach and athlete. C. Husband and wife.12. What do we about the woman?A. Her weight is the same as before. B. She is lighter than before.C. She is heavier than before.13. What will the man do next?A. Go running with the woman

6、.B. Book a badminton court. C. Buy the exercise bike. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What does the woman want to be?A. A doctor.B. A teacher.C. An engineer.15. Who does the man admire most?A. His brother. B. his father.C. his grandfather.16. Where would the man like to travel?A. To Asia. B. To Europe. C. To N

7、orth America.17. What will the woman do this summer?A. Find a job. B. Go on a trip.C. Take extra classes.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. How long has the speaker been teaching the painting course?A. For two years.B. For three years. C. For ten years.19. What will happen to the students after the 6th week?A. T

8、hey will get more homework.B. They will have to work together.C.They will create their own artwork.20. Where will the exhibition take place?A. In a local gallery. B. In Hereford College of Arts.C. In the classroom.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5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

9、答题卡上将该项涂黑。AFor those who have never been to Harbin theres almost an endless list of things to do. Here are several activities that have to be included.Turning water into instant iceOne cant go to the Ice Snow World without stopping by the Sun Island Snow Expo. After all, the former is for appreciati

10、ng illuminated （照亮的）ice at night, and the latter is for checking outsnow in the daytime. Tourists from the south might be astonished by the bright sunshine reflected in the snow, so dont forget the sunscreen.This is also a good place to toss water and watch it turn into ice instantly. Find a safe pl

11、ace with no one nearby, and enjoy the unique phenomenon.Snow tubing （雪地滑轮胎）on the Songhua RiverIn winter, the Songhua River turns into thousands of miles of ice and becomes a natural ice-skating rink. The frozen river offers opportunities for many different winter activities. But make sure the ice i

12、s solid before going stomping （跺脚）in the snow.Speeding down Yabuli Ski ResortOne place you shouldnt miss when visiting Harbin is Yabuli Ski Resort, where you can ski down splendid snow-covered mountains. The snow is thick and moderately hard. There are junior, middle and senior ski runs. Professiona

13、l staff are available to improve your skiing ability.21. Which is a good place to enjoy a night scene?A. The Songhua River.B. The IceSnow World.C. Yabuli Ski Resort.D. The Sun Island Snow Expo.22. What can visitors do in Harbin?A. Get professional guidance for free while skating.B. Choose different

14、routes based on their skiing ability.C. Go down the worlds longest ice slide on Songhua River.D. Toss water and watch it turn into ice wherever you want.23. In which column of a magazine can we find this article?A. Travel.B. Health. C. EntertainmentD. Business.BHave you ever imagined that your simpl

15、e T-shirt could cool you down by up to 5 on these hot summer days? Thanks to a recent discovery, the possibility is getting closer. While there are many alternatives that manage to keep the body warm, this amazing invention aims to offer real relief for those who are eager to feel comfortable and fr

16、esh in the outdoors on extremely hot days.Its inventors, engineers Ma Yaoguang of Zhejiang University and Tao Guangming of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, took a completely innovative approach. They designed a special textile （纺织物）that can absorb body heat and re-emit （重发出）it

17、s energy into space as mid-infrared radiation （MIR）. This textile cools both the objects and their surroundings through a technique that is known as radiative cooling. Science reveals. This means that even when it looks like you are wearing a regular shirt, you are actually wearing a device that wor

18、ks like a mirror.Research conducted at Stanford University in 2017 had already managed to cool the wearer by 3 , but this previous trial was limited. So researchers still need to test the new approach to determine how effectively the new fabric cools while the wearers are standing or walking, and no

19、t directly facing the sky, like in their trials. They also need to examine and measure how well it works when T-shirts are no in close contact with the skin.Inventors Yaoguang and Guangming are now looking out for textile manufacturers and clothing brands that are interested in using their fabric. T

20、hey estimate that the new material will increase clothing manufacturing costs by just 10 percent. We can make it with mass production, which means everybody can get a T-shirt and the cost is basically the same as their old stuff/ Yaoguang said.So if you are an athlete or simply someone that has to d

21、eal with the extremely high temperatures, be patient because your days of feeling hot and bothered may be coming to an end!24. What is the purpose of the new invention?A. To warm up peoples body.B. To cool people off in hot weather.C. To detect the wearers9 temperature.D. To protect clothes from bec

22、oming wet.B. By sending out absorbed heat.D. By using light colors to reflect sunlight.B. The previous studies lack evidence.25. How does the special product work? A. By turning sunlight into energy. C. By keeping heat out completely.26. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?A. The invention needs fu

23、rther testing.C. The new fabric has a good cooling effect. D. The new fabric applies to various situations.27. Which of the following statements can best describe the invention of the T-shirt?A. barking up the wrong treeB. robbing Peter to pay PaulC. achieve two things at one strokeD. putting the ca

24、rt before the horseAs Covid-19 spread through the United States in the spring of 2020, previously busy cities fell silent. A new study shows that the dip in noise in the early months of the pandemic （大流行病）led to an increased abundance of birds in cities.The flock to cities ranged from birds like haw

25、ks and eagles all the way down to small songbirds and even hummingbirds1 says Michael Schrimpf, study co-author and postdoctoral flow at the University of Manitoba*s Natural Resources Institute.To see if and how birds were using now-quiet cities differently, the team of researchers analyzed more tha

26、n 4.3 million bird observations of more than 80 bird species recorded on the community science app eBird. They looked at more than three years of observations taken by experienced birders before and through the first few months of the pandemic.Scientists found significant changes in birds* migration

27、 patterns and use of urban habitats （栖息 地），like bravely getting closer to usually-noisy areas like roads and airports. It was also revealed that white-crowned sparrows adapted their tune when San Francisco streets fell quiet. Bird abundance increased in cities overall, especially during spring and f

28、all migration.North America has lost almost a third of its birds in recent decades due to a combination of factors, including climate change, predation （捕食）by stray cats, and habitat loss, so any information scientists can obtain about how to make urban environments more bird-friendly is significant

29、. The studys authors note that one of the most remarkable findings is that many different birds benefited from a reduction in noise, which doesnt have to be limited to pandemic lockdowns.There is an opportunity to adjust how we live, n says Schrimpf. We hope that it might be a lesson for us that we

30、can take away in a post-pandemic world.28. What does the underlined word dip in Paragraph 1 mean?A. Decrease. B. Increase. C. Effect. D. Change. 29. How did the researchers conduct the research?A. By observing varieties of birds in nature.B. By doing an experiment on different kinds of birds.C. By a

31、nalyzing bird observations recorded by birders.D. By studying past researches on bird behavior.30. What do the findings of the study indicate?A. All birds benefited from the reduction in noise.B. The overall bird population increased worldwide during the pandemicC. Birds would often go to noisy area

32、s like roads and airport.D. Some birds sang differently in a quieter environment.31. What message does the author want to convey in his article?A. People should slow down to appreciate birds in nature.B. People should be banned from any activities harmful to natureC. People should adjust her lifesty

33、le to stay safe during the pandemic.D. People should reduce noise to create a better environment for birds.DThe proposal for a new Indonesian capital city has been on the cards ever since the country gained independence from the Dutch in 1945. The political and economic crises which followed have lo

34、ng delayed the plan, but current president, Joko Widodo, now appears determined to make the move a reality. The government officially confirmed that the capital will be moved from Jakarta to a new location within Kalimantan, part of the island of Borneo in Indonesia.A number of factors are likely to

35、 have influenced the decision to forge （又艮苦做成）ahead with the move, but it seems likely that Jakartas environmental problems are chief among them. Built on swampy （沼泽的）ground, Jakarta is sinking, in some parts at a rate of 20cm a year. Experts predict that most of northern Jakarta could sink beneath

36、the sea by 2050. Whats more, Jakarta is rarely mentioned without reference to its extreme levels of traffic jams and air pollution. There could be other reasons too. John McCarthy, an expert on land use in Kalimantan at the Australian National University Crawford School points to a potential desire

37、to spread wealth throughout Indonesia. Jakarta is the most highly developed core of Indonesia which sucks all the money and opportunities from other areas/ he says. I think theres logic in splitting the economic and political capital.But the location of this new political center is proving controver

38、sial. Some environmental groups are concerned that the chosen location in East Kalimantan will increase logging and destruction of nearby forests, home to orangutans and other endangered species. Indonesias planning minister previously told reporters that the new capital will be a sustainable forest

39、 city that wont result in the destruction of protected forest, but how exactly this would work has not yet been explained.Despite these challenges, the government is now putting its plan in motion. But even if this new capital is built, Jakarta will still need protection. Home to ten million people,

40、 the city simply cant be neglected.32. What is the Indonesian governments new plan?A. Building a forest city.B. Electing a new president.C. Relocating the capital city.D. Developing resources of Borneo.33. What may be the main reason fbr the governments decision?A. To reduce land pollution.B. To mak

41、e full use of swampy ground.C. To seek better living environment.D. To balance the economic growth betweencities.34. What worries some people about the governments choice?A. It may cost a lot of money.B. It may destroy the local ecosystem.C. It may disrupt many residents9 normal life.D. It may lead

42、the decline of the old capital city.35. What is the suitable title for the passage?A. Move to new.B. City built on swamp.C. Protect the Forest City.D. Abandon the home.第二节（共5小题；每小题25分，满分12.5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。Practicing with men players is a very effective strategy for success in women9s

43、 basketball. Nevertheless, most people are surprised to learn that the leading womens basketball college team in the United States use male practice players. Men playing on the same court as women? Arent they in control of the game?36 The men are there to make the practice session more demanding for

44、 the team than female practice players would.37 Most of them are volunteers who are good players, but who are not on the mens basketball teams. The NCAA, the athletic federation, approves of men practice players but they have to qualify for the team just as women players do. 38 Mostly, though, they

45、come to help the teams adapt and improve.Besides the distinction of practicing with top notch women players, are there lots of other advantages to being on the practice team? 39 For example, men never get to play in actual games and they dont get to travel with the team to away games. They cant rece

46、ive sports scholarships, although as registered college players, they have to keep up their academic grades. However, they get lots of indoor exercise. 40 A. Unfortunately, there arent many.B. How do men get to be practice players?C. Men practice players receive excellent sports scholarships.D. The

47、players who qualify come for exercise and to let off steam（发?世）.E. Players on the mens basketball teams look down on these volunteers.F. In the end, they know their participation contributes to the team9s success.G. No, they dont control the game even though they are typically larger and stronger.第三

48、部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。41One morning in 2001 Ellen phoned me and asked if I wanted to go to Bosnia. I was because it had just experienced a war.Ellen 42 and told me that UN was badly in want of volunteers there. I told her I would think it over. For the rest of the day, I was tom by 43 thoughts. Bosnia may be dangerous; do I really want to put myself in the peril? Then other 44 flashed into my mind. I liked challenges. And its a fairyland o