湖北剩州市届高三英语上学期第九次周考试题.docx

1、湖北剩州市届高三英语上学期第九次周考试题湖北省荆州市2018届高三英语上学期第九次周考试题第一部分 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.How much does the man pay? A. $8.7. B. $41.30 . C. $50.2.What is the weather like today? A. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Su

2、nny.3.Where does the conversation take place? A. At a store. B. At a hotel. C. At the mans house.4.What does the man think of the goalkeeper? A. Important. B. Cold-hearted. C. Weak.5.What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A celebration. B. Clothes. C. Performances.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听

3、第6段对话，回答第6、7题。6.What is the womans problem? A. She doesnt know Darryl. B. She doesnt want to have lunch. C. She doesnt have enough money for lunch.7.What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Ask someone else for help . B. Try to find her wallet. C. Get to know Darryl.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.What do we kno

4、w about the woman? A. She is overweight. B. She likes lemon juice a lot. C. She has a heart disease.9.What can the woman eat besides vegetable salad? A. Sugar. B. Seafood. C. Beef.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Why can the woman keep slim? A. She seldom eats chocolate. B. She does much exercise. C. She goes on

5、 a diet.11.How often does the basketball club meet? A. Once a week. B. Once two weeks. C. Once a month.12.What are the speakers going to do next? A. Look for running machines. B. Buy an exercise bike. C. Go to the gym.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The womans hobb

6、ies. B.The woman s future job. C. The womans work experience.14.What is the man interested in? A. What the woman likes doing. B. What the woman used to work as. C. What useful skills the woman has got.15.What does the woman dislike? A. Playing tennis B. Swimming C. Teaching16.What does the man advis

7、e the woman to do? A. Work hard. B. Make a decision at once. C. Learn about more information.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.When does the speaker give this talk? A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.18.What is the camp manager expected to do? A. Prepare dinner and sleeping places. B. Give

8、 details about the camping trip. C. Organize the music festival.19.What will the campers do at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow? A. Have breakfast. B. Attend the festival. C. Start work.20.How long can the campers see the bands play? A. One hour. B. Two hours. C. Three hours.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节：（共15小题，每小题2分，

9、共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。ABelow is a selection from a popular science book.If blood is red, why are veins (静脉) blue?Although blood looks red when outside the body, when sitting in a vein near the surface of the skin, its more of a dark reddish purple colour. At the right depth, thes

10、e blood-filled veins reflect less red light than the surrounding skin, making them look relatively blue.Which works harder, your heart or your brain?That depends on whether you are busy thinking or exercising. Your heart works up to three times harder during exercise, and shifts enough blood over a

11、lifetime to fill a supertanker. But in the long run, your brain probably tips it, because even when youre sitting still your brain is using twice as much energy as your heart, and it takes four to five times as much blood to feed it.Do old people shrink as they age?Yes and do. Many people do get sho

12、rter as they age. But when they do, it isnt because theyre shrinking all over. They simply lose height as their spine(脊柱) becomes shorter and more curved due to disuse and the effect of gravity. Many (but not all) men and women do lose height as they get older. Men lose an average of 3-4 cm in heigh

13、t as they age, while women may lose 5 cm or more. If you live to be 200 years old, would you keep shrinking till you were, like 60 cm tall, like a little boy again? No, because old people dont really shrink! It is not that they are growing backwards-their legs, arms and backbones getting shorter. Wh

14、en they do get shorter, its because the spine has shortened a little. Or, more often, become more bent and curved. Why does spinning(旋转) make you dizzy?Because your brain gets confused between what youre seeing and what youre feeling. The brain senses that youre spinning using special gravity-and-mo

15、tion-sensing organs in your inner ear, which work together with your eyes to keep your vision balance stable. But when you suddenly stop spinning the system goes out of control, and your brain thinks youre moving while youre not!Where do feelings and emotions come from?Mostly from an ancient part of

16、 the brain called the limbic system. All mammals have this brain area from mice to dogs, cats, and humans. So all mammals feel basic emotions like fear, pain and pleasure. But since human feelings also involve othernewer bits of the brain, we feel more complex emotions than any other animal on the p

17、lanet.If exercise wears you out, how can it be good for you?As far as your body is concerned, its use it, or lost it”! Its not that exercise makes you healthy; its more that a lack of exercise leaves your body weak and easily affected by disease.21. What is the colour of blood in a vein near the sur

18、face of the skin?A. Blue. B. Dark reddish purple.C. Red. D. Light yellow.22. Why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age?A. Because their spine is in active use.B. Because they are more easily affected by gravity.C. Because they keep growing backwards.D. Because their spine becomes mor

19、e bent.23. Which of the following statements about our brain is true?A. When our brain senses the spinning, we will fell dizzy.B. In the long run, our brain probably works harder than our heart.C. The brains of the other mammals are as complex as those of humans.D. Our feelings and emotions come fro

20、m the most developed area in our brain.24. What is the main purpose of the selection?A. To provide information about our body.B. To challenge new findings in medical research.C.To give advice on how to stay healthy.D.To report the latest medicaldiscoveries.BI am a strong believer that if a child is

21、raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way. Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he should concentrate better

22、. He sat but seconds later, as if he didnt even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting annoyed, but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and more accurate when he stood up. Could he be more absorbed while standing up?This made me start questioning myself a

23、nd what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to lead to success. This child would have the willpower to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life. Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born wi

24、th their own sets of DNA and personality qualities, and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids best cheerleaders, guiding them and helping them find their ways.I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concen

25、trate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesnt mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being personal and unique. It makes us free and hap

26、py and thats just the way I want my kids to live their own lives.25. Time and again the author got his son seated in order to make him . A. work fast B. keep attentive C. stay relaxed D.go polite 26. The underlined “it” in the first paragraph probably refers to . A. his disappointment with his activ

27、e child B. his failure in keeping his son under control C. his own experience as a school boy D. his sons doing better while standing up27. By this passage,the author attempts to tell other parents to . A. respect and trust their kids ways of behaviors B. correct their kids manners from the early ag

28、es C. not worry about kids behaviors D. encourage kids to learn by themselves28. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?A. The study of kids behavior B. Kids success in their own styles C. Adult influence on teen growth D. A new attitude towards kidsCAccording to sociologists,

29、 every modern industrial society has some form of social stratification (阶层). Class, power and status are important in deciding peoples rank in society. Class means a persons economic position in society. A commonly used classification is lower class, middle class and upper class. While sociologists

30、 disagree on how these terms should be exactly defined, they do describe societies like the United States quite well. One study shows that 53% of Americans belong to the lower class, 46% the middle class, and 1% the upper class. Interestingly, a surgeon earning 500,000 a year and a bus driver earnin

31、g 50,000 a year both regard themselves as the middle class! Power refers to the amount of control a person has over other people. Obviously, people in positions of great power (such as governors) exercise (行使) big power, but people who take orders from others have less power. Power and class do not

32、always go hand in hand, however. For example, the governor of a state has great power, but he or she may not belong to a corresponding economic class. Generally, however, there is a relationship between power and class. To our knowledge, there arent too many people who arent millionaires in the U.S. Senate! Status is the honor or respect attached to a persons positi