湖南省岳阳市2024届高三下学期考情信息卷英语试题.docx

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1、2024年岳阳市高考信息卷英语学科第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）（原创）第一节听下面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。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 will the man do next?A. Schedule an appointment.B. Have a check-up.C. Take some medicine.2. How did Susan go to work this morning?A. By subway.B. By bike.C. By car.3.

2、 When is the opening of the hotel?A. On April 21st.B. On April 23rd.C. On April 24th.4. What is the weather like in the afternoon?A. Sunny.B. Windy.C. Rainy.5. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a hotel.B. At a lab.C. At the customs.第二节听下面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

3、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. Why does the woman prefer print reading?A. To enhance the reading experience.B. To access content more conveniently.C. To avoid distractions from social media.7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A.

4、Schoolmates.B. A couple.C. Neighbors.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What can we say about the woman?A. She suffers from sleeplessness.B. She feels physically exhausted at work.C. She struggles to maximize her free time.9. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Stay away from electronic products.B. Develop a r

5、elaxing bedtime routine.C. Keep inactive half an hour before bedtime.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Who is probably the woman? A. An animal protection advocate. B. A wildlife biologist. C. A programmer.11. What is harder to achieve when people create a wildlife garden?A. Demanding food. B. Clean water resourc

6、es. C. Comfortable breeding places.12. What does the woman mean in the end?A. The program is rewarding.B. The program requires a certificate. C. Participation in the program needs community approval.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does the woman inquire about the job at the beginning?A. Its working hours.

7、B. Its responsibilities.C. Its workplace.14. What is the last job requirement according to the man?A. Minding the updates.B. Organizing exhibits.C. Assisting guests.15. What does the man think is of the same importance as education?A. On-the-job training.B. First-hand experience.C. Considerable phys

8、ical strength. 16. What do we know about the woman?A. She is a multilingual speaker. B. She didnt earn an undergraduate degree.C. She stands out from the other candidates.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Why does the speaker give the talk?A. To correct peoples attitudes to aging.B. To conduct a public opinion

9、survey.C. To share his report on population change.18. What percentage of people in Singapore care about the aging problem?A. 32%.B. 55%.C. 66%.19. What is the first problem mentioned brought about by the aging population?A. The rising tax burden.B. The huge demand for health care.C. The increasing

10、employment pressure.20. What is the speakers suggestion?A. Raising taxes. B. Providing satisfactory pensions.C. Giving full play to the elders advantages.第二部分 阅读（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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。ABritain is arguably the great walking nation. About two-thirds of us

11、 already head out to stretch our legs once a week. The following festivals offer a wealth of organized walks, but walkers should register in advance.Prestatyn and Clwydian Range festivalVisitors to Wales tend to move west, to either the well-worn tracks of Snowdonia or the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

12、There are 25 walks packed into the three days, with various options available, including a half-mile Roman-themed adventure, an eight-mile walk exploring the life of 18th-century Welsh naturalist and travel writer Thomas Pennant and a 21-mile Offas Dyke challenge. All walks are free.Denbighshire, Wa

13、les, 19-21 MayOtley walking festivalThis local festival has grown from humble origins in 2000 into a busy schedule of 50 short-distance walks and events celebrating the lives and landscapes of Wharfedale in West Yorkshire. One might enjoy the Five Pubs Walk, Walking With Wine, Four More Pubs or Lost

14、 Pubs of Otley. All walks are free, though there is sometimes a small charge for transport.Otley, West Yorkshire, 24 June-3 JulyDartmoor offroading walking festivalDartmoor delights (使高兴) walkers because, while tracks are there to be followed, the lack of wire and other barriers, and the relatively

15、small number of farm buildings on the higher ground, create a sensation of freedom. The six free wheelchair walks, starting daily at 11am, explore Dartmoors industrial history, bronze age valuables and Victorian railway builders.Devon, 27 August-2 SeptemberGower walking festivalWith more superb walk

16、ing options inside a single landscape than perhaps anywhere else, the Gower peninsula (半岛) sometimes feels as if its all coast. The further information for this nine-day festival, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Wales Coast Path (WCP), has yet to be finalized. Half of the walks offered durin

17、g the festival will be on the coastal path. 10 adults, over-sixes 6.Glamorgan, 2-10 September21.Which festival is friendly to the disabled?A. Prestatyn and Clwydian Range festival.B. Otley walking festival.C. Dartmoor offroading walking festival.D. Gower walking festival.22.What do we know about Gow

18、er walking festival?A. It has the most superb walking options.B. Half of the walks last for a whole week.C. Its aimed to advocate coastal protection. D. The final details remain to be confirmed.23.What do the listed festivals have in common?A. They are offered free of charge. B. They require prior r

19、egisteration.C. They take advantage of the coast. D. They are favored by antique enthusiasts.BIn 1975, a San Diego homemaker named Marjorie Rice came across a column in Scientific American about tiling (瓷砖). There is a problem which has interested mathematicians since ancient Greek times. After Rice

20、s chance encounter with tiling, family members often saw her in the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. “I thought she was just drawing casually (随意),” her daughter Kathy said. But Rice who took only one year of math in high school, was actually discovering never-before-seen patterns.Born in Florida,

21、 she loved learning and particularly her brief exposure to math, but tight budget and social culture prevented her family from even considering that she might attend college. “For Rice, math was a pleasure,” her son David once said.Rice gave one of her sons a subscription to Scientific American part

22、ly because she could read it carefully while the children were at school. When she read Gardners column about tiling as she later recalled in an interview: “I thought it must be wonderful that someone could discover these beautiful patterns which no one had seen before.” She also wrote in an essay,

23、“My interest was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. Lacking a mathematical background, I developed my own symbol system and in a few months discovered a new type.”Astonished and delighted, she sent her work to Gardner, who sent it to Doris, a tiling expert at Morav

24、ian College. Doris confirmed that Rices finding was correct.Later, Rice declined to lecture on her discoveries, citing shyness, but at Doriss invitation, she attended a university mathematics meeting, where she was introduced to the audience. Rice still said nothing of her achievements to her childr

25、en, but they eventually found out as the awards mounted.24.Why did Rice often draw shapes in the kitchen?A. To become a mathematician.B. To explore the secret of tiling.B. To fill her leisure time.D. To show her passion for drawing.25.What can we learn about Rice from Paragraphs 2 and 3?A. She longe

26、d to start a column. B. She was rejected from a college.C. She was good at designing patterns. D. She succeeded in developing a system.26.What is the text mainly about?A. The magic of math. B. The efforts of Rice.C. The humility of Rice. D. The patterns of tiling.27.What can we learn from the Rices

27、experience?A. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. B. Actions speak louder than words.C. Every cloud has a silver lining. D. Practice makes perfect.CFor decades, scientists thought of the brain as the most valuable and consequently most closely guarded part of the body. Locked safely behind the

28、blood-brain barrier, it was broadly free of the harm of viruses and the battles started by the immune system(免疫系统) . Then, about 20 years ago, some researchers began to wonder: is the brain really so separated from the body? The answer, according to a growing body of evidence, is no.The list of brai

29、n conditions that have been associated with changes elsewhere in the body is long and growing. Changes in the make-up of the microorganisms(微生物)in the digestive system have been linked to disorders such as Parkinsons disease. There is also a theory that infection during pregnancy could lead to brain

30、 diseases in babies.The effect is two-way. There is a lengthening list of symptoms not typically viewed as disorders of the nervous system,but the brain plays a large part in them.For example, the development of a fever is influenced by a population of nerve cells that control body temperature and a

31、ppetite. Evidence is mounting that cancers use nerves to grow and spread.The interconnection between brain and body has promising implications for our ability to both understand and treat illnesses. If some brain disorders start outside the brain, then perhaps treatments for them could also reach in

32、 from outside. Treatments that take effect through the digestive system, the heart or other organs, would be much easier and less risky than those that must cross the blood-brain barrier.It also works in the opposite direction. Study shows mice have healthier hearts after receiving stimulation to a

33、brain area involved in positive emotion and motivation. Activation of the brain reward centre called the ventral tegmental area (VTA)seems to cause immune changes that contribute to it. Working out how this happens could help to destroy cancers, enhance responses to vaccines(疫苗)and even re-evaluate

34、physical diseases that, for centuries, have not been considered as being psychologically driven.28.What do the researchers focus on about the brain?A. Its protecting system. B. Its exposure to diseases.C. Its controlling function. D. Its connection to the body.29.How does the author support his idea

35、 in paragraph 2?A. By explaining a theory. B. By providing examples.C. By making comparisons. D. By presenting cause and effect.30.Which best describes treatments that do not cross the blood-brain barrier?A. Cheaper B. More specific C. Safer. D. More direct.31.What does the study suggest in the last

36、 paragraph?A. Brain health depends on immune changes.B. Brain stimulation leads to negative emotions.C. The brain can help enhance psychological health.D. The brain may be key to treating physical diseases.DEvolution(进化) can perform extraordinary makeovers: todays airborne songbirds evolved from the

37、 wingless, earthbound dinosaurs that wandered millions of years ago. But some organisms seem to be unchangedin other words, escape natural selection. The coelacanth, a modern-day fish, is nearly identical to its 410-million-year-old fossils.Scientists have long wondered how these species do so. It h

38、as been assumed that natural selection keeps some species unchanged by selecting for moderate or average qualities (stabilizing selection) rather than selecting for more extreme qualities that would cause a species to change (directional selection).But a study published in the National Academy of Sc

39、iences USA contradicts this idea, showing that evolution constantly favors different qualities in seemingly unchanging animals to improve short-term survival.In the long term,though, “all that evolution cancels out and leads to no change,”says the studys lead author, James Stroud.Stroud and his coll

40、eagues studied four lizard (蜥蜴)species, all relatively unchanged for 20 million years. The researchers caught members of these populations every six months for three years. They measured each lizards head size, leg length, mass and height, as well as the size of its sticky toes (脚趾头), noting which i

41、ndividuals survived. Stroud expected to observe stabilizing selection at work preserving moderate qualities. Instead he saw clearer evidence of directional selection: some lizards with unique characteristics, such as stickier toes, survived better.The study offers“a good explanation for why we see w

42、hat we think is stabilizing selection,”says Tadashi Fukami, an ecologist studying evolution at Stanford University. Many new qualities are evolving in the short term, but they dont provide a crucial advantage over the long term. In other words, species staying unchanged may simply have found the bes

43、t possible combination of qualities for lasting success in their environment. So what happens when the lizards environment changes more dramatically? To help answer this bigger question, Stroud is still making trips to visit the lizards.32.Why does the author mention the “coelacanth fish”in paragrap

44、h 1?A. To demonstrate the power of evolution.B. To add evidence to natural selection.C. To give an example of unchanged species.D. To prove species extraordinary makeovers.33.Whats the focus of paragraph 2?A. Unsolved mysteries. B. A common belief.C. A sharp contrast. D. Unique Characteristics.34.Ho

45、w did Stroud conduct his research?A. By analyzing lizard fossils.B. By tracking research objects.C. By illustrating stabilizing selection.D. By categorizing qualities of lizards.35.What will Stroud probably do in the future?A. Make trips to visit lizard experts.B. Summarize average features of lizar

46、ds.C. Reveal the best combinations of qualities.D. Examine lizards under extreme conditions.第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Do you think you need to shout at yourself to force yourself to finish your homework? If so, think again. 36 Research shows that practicing

47、self-compassion (自我关怀) improves our mental and physical well-being and supports long-term success.Self-compassion is the practice of being kind and supportive to ourselves. The opposite is being self-critical and mean to ourselves when we make a mistake. 37 These negative responses are related to de

48、pression, stress and reduced quality of life.A 2017 study found people who practice self-compassion tend to handle stress better. Their bodies have less of a stress response when, for example, they meet with difficulties at work or school. 38 Lets say they do poorly on a geometry test. Self-compassion helps them use the experien