1、2017 届湖北省浠水县实验高级中学高三 11 月检测英语试题命题人：高三英语备课组本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。考试时间 120 分钟，共 150 分。第 I 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. Where does the woman want to go?A. To Oxford. B. To
2、Liverpool. C. To London.2. How many people will go to the tennis game?A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.3. What does the woman ask the boy to do after school?A. Put away his school bag. B. Move the kitchen table. C. Hang up his coat.4. What do we know about Linda Rivera?A. She went traveling. B. She started a compan
3、y. C. She was fired.5. What does the man mean?A. He prefers cold weather. B. He has had a difficult week.C. The temperature was good last week.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
4、遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. How will the man choose the music?A. By allowing everyone to bring a piece. B. By asking people for their advice.C.By letting a person decide on it. 7. What is the woman going to do?A. Tell the man a phone number. B. Help prepare for the party. C. Ask Sonia for some informati
5、on.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What will the woman do first?A. Go shopping. B. Wash a car C. Do her homework.9. When does the conversation take place?A. On Monday. B. On Sunday. C. On Saturday. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Colleagues. B. Brother and sister. C
6、. Schoolmates. 11. What does the woman think of the show?A. Inspiring. B. Unusual. C. Cool.12. Which part did the woman like best about the show?A. Designer wear. B. Clothes recycling. C. Live models.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. French music. B. French clo
7、thes. C. French teens.14. What does Veronique like to do in her spare time?A. Collect albums. B. Visit music stores. C. Enjoy French songs.15. What does Veronique usually have for lunch?A. Hamburgers. B. Sandwiches. C. Chips.16. Why does Veronique like the silver jacket?A. Its up-to-date. B. Its uni
8、que. C. Its classic and lovely. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is being held in the new sports stadium?A. A match. B. A meeting. C. A concert. 18. What is the disadvantage of the City Theatre?A. Its air-conditioning doesnt work. B. Its too old to look good. C. It has limited space. 19. Which place
9、 is normally out of the route of the Cititours bus?A. The City Theatre. B. The Market Place. C. Victoria Park.20. What does the speaker recommend visitors do in the end?A. Visit some shops. B. Go to the High Street.C. See animals in the city centre.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，满分 30 分
10、） 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。APoteet Strawberry FestivalPoteet, Texas, USAApril 11 - April 13Description:The Poteet Strawberry Festival is one of the oldest, most popular events in the state and is recognized as the largest agricultural festival in Texas as well as one of the most exciting
11、, dynamic festivals in the Greater Southwest. The 100-acre site, which is located on Hwy. 16, 20 minutes south of San Antonio, offers free parking, clean public restrooms, handicapped accessibility, complete RV facilities, and tent covered activities during the fun filled Festival Weekend.The Poteet
12、 Strawberry Festival includes fourteen areas of continuous, family entertainment featuring concerts with nationally known Country Western and Tejano stars, dancers, gunslingers, clowns, puppets, regional bands, various contests, and rodeo performances. These activities are included in the price of a
13、 $10.00 admission ticket. Children aged 12 and under are admitted free of charge as well as active, reserve and retired military with proper ID.Performers:Craig Morgan, Pam Tillis, Rick TrevinoLocation:Poteet, TexasDirections: 30 miles south of San Antonio on Hwy. 16Times:The Festival Grounds will o
14、pen at 6:00 pm Fri. and at 10:00 am both Sat. Anne died 5 months later, aged 30; Charlotte lived only to age 39. If only they had been nurtured instead of sacrificed.No one remembers Branwells name, much less of his art or literature, but the Bronte sisters tragically short lives teach us even more
15、of life than literature.24.According to the passage, what can we learn from the story of Branwell?A. Gift is not necessarily a guarantee of success.B. Gift is a burden for a person.C. A persons success is largely due to the support of his family.D. Too many choices may lead to success in none.25.Wha
16、t might lead to the tragedy of the three Bronte sisters?A. That to be a writer was a really tough road to go.B. The social prejudice against women in those days.C. Their poor family.D. The failure of their brother. 26. Which word is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “squelched”in paragra
17、ph 4 ?A. carried outB. lived out C. set asideD. stuck to27. Were Patric Bronte alive, what might he regret most?A. Not taking good care of his children.B. Intending his son for an artist or a writer.C. Putting all of his eggs in one male basket.D. Sacrificing too many pennies for his son. CThe walle
18、t is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping, where you hand over notes and count out change in return, now happens only in the most minor of our retailers (零售商), like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint o
19、f milk from a corner shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge (前沿的) retail stores, Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance, you dont go and stand at any ki
20、nd of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.Across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe Im just old-fashioned. But earning money isnt quick or easy for most of us. Isnt it a bit weird that
21、 spending it should happen in half a blink (眨眼) of an eye? Doesnt a wallet, that time-honored Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness, represent something that matters?But Ill leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in
22、 our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet, the way the materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets, is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of
23、 a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble. Instead of digging through pieces of paper, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.28. What is happ
24、ening to the wallet?A. It is disappearing. B. It is becoming costly.C. It is being fattened. D. It is changing in style.29. How are businesses done in big modern stores?A. Individually. B. In the abstract.C. Electronically. D. Via a cash register.30. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays
25、?A. Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.B. The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.C. Earning money is getting more difficult.D. Spending money is so fast and easy.31. What can we infer from the passage about the author?A. He is resistant to social changes.B. He is against technological
26、 progress.C. He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.D. He feels insecure in the ever-changing modern world.DWeve been judging people based on the way they look for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks turned it into a science, “physiognomy”. As early as 500 BC, the mathematician Py
27、thagoras would look carefully at young mens faces to determine if theyd make a good student, not long after Aristotle wrote how large-headed people were mean. It was widely believed at the time that the animal a person resembled was a good judge of character.By the Middle Ages it was well and truly
28、mainstream. Professionals coined the phrase “stuck-up” to refer from the belief that those with upturned noses had an air of superiority, “high-brow” to refer to the high foreheads of nobles and “low-brow” to the less educated foreheads of the lower classes.Back in 2016, were still doing it. We view
29、 those who resemble Labradors (拉布拉多犬) as warm, while those who resemble lions as more of a ruler. We think of those with “resting moody face” as more aggressive, those who are less attractive as sick and expect people who look familiar to share our values. Many of these judgments occur in as little
30、as 50 milliseconds.To get to understand and find out why having a babyface is so great, first we need to know what happens when we recognize an actual baby.In fact, the features of babies and those universally considered “cute” are nothing more than a series of developmental accidents. Our eyes are
31、already fully grown by the time were born but our heads arent. Similarly, our bodies do a lot more growing later on than our heads. Babies have more body fat than adults, chubby (肥嘟嘟的)cheeks, for example. The list goes on.And regardless of whether youre very maternal (慈爱的) or find babies really anno
32、ying, were unconditionally to respond to their features by turning into gentle baby-talking fools. Most importantly, gazing into their innocent faces makes us less aggressive and more generous and helpful.So there you have it. Next time you find yourself staring affectionately into the eyes of a bab
33、y-faced friend, colleague or date, just remember, you may be the latest victim in a long-running systematic evolutionary trick.32. Whats the passage mainly talking about?A. The features of faces.B. The science of judging people by face.C. The trick of faces.D. The importance of judging people from t
34、heir looks.33. Whats the meaning of the underlined word “coined” in paragraph 2?A. made upB. looked up C. picked outD. figured out34. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. It is absolutely wise to judge people by the way they look.B. “Stuck-up” refers to the high fore
35、heads of nobles with an air of superiority.C. People make judgments of life-and-death importance in as little as 50 milliseconds.D. Its believed that the features of babies are universally considered cute.35. What message does the last paragraph suggest?A. You are sure to be easily cheated by a baby
36、faced friend, colleague or date.B. Unconsciously, you cant help showing affection towards one with a babyface.C. Many babyfaced people like to play tricks, which is obviously a result of evolution.D. Staring into the eyes of a babyfaced friend may make you a victim of a trick.第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分
37、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。 How long can human beings live? 36 However, 110 years is probably the longest that anyone could hope to live if he or she is extremely healthy and lucky. Some scientists even say we can live as long as 130 years! 37 They wear out, and as a result, we g
38、et old and eventually die.Even though we cant live forever, we are living a longer life than ever before. In 1900, the average American life-span was only 47 years, but today it is 75 years!38 Sixty-five may be out-of-date as the dividing line between middle age and old age. After all, many older pe
39、ople dont begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.People are living longer because more people survive childhood. 39 Now that the chances of dying young are much lower, the chances of living long are much higher due to better diets and health care.40 The changes in our pop
40、ulation will have lasting effects on our social development and our way of life. Some people fear such changes will be for the worse, while some see chances, not disaster. Many men and women in their “golden years” are healthy, still active, and young in mind if not in age. With long lives ahead of
41、older citizens, they need to stay active and devoted.A. When does old age begin then?B. On the whole, our population is getting older.C. As the society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.D. Yet, the cells in the human body simply cannot continue to reproduce endlessly.E. A re
42、cent research shows that cancer cells can multiply themselves like crazy at all times.F. Most scientists studying old age think the human body is designed to live no longer than 120 years.G. Before modern medicine changed the laws of nature, many children died of common childhood diseases.第三部分 英语知识运
43、用 （共两节，满分 45） 第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Over the last 15 years, as a doctor, I have had heart-to-heart conversations with countless patients near the end of their lives. The most common emotion they express is 41 . And thats 42 I
44、 came up with a project to encourage people to write a(n) 43 letter to their loved ones. Its a lesson I learned years ago from a memorable 44 patient.He was a retired 45 , who had lived on a staple diet of Semper Fi (永远忠诚) and studied silence all his life. He, a proud and reserved man, was admitted
45、to the hospital for unbearable pain from widely spread cancer. Every day, his 46 spent many hours at his bedside watching him watch television. She explained to me he had never been much of a 47 in their 50-plus years of marriage.But he seemed quite 48 to share his ideas with me, especially when it
46、became clear his days were 49 . He spoke of his deep regret for not having spent enough time with his wife, whom he loved very much, and of his great 50 in his son, who had joined the Navy in his fathers footsteps.One afternoon, when I mentioned these 51 to his wife and son, they looked disbelieving
47、ly at each other and then 52 at me. They thanked me for being so kind but 53 my patient was unlikely to express such feelings. To make sure his family could actually hear his 54 , I took my huge family video camera with me the next morning and with the patients 55 , recorded an open letter from him to his family. When I gave them the 56 letter, both his wife and son were moved to tears.The experience 57 an idea that has grown into the Stanford Friends and Family Letter Project, which can help people complete their life review tasks: remembering treasured
