1、2018 届河北省刑台市高三 12 月质量检测 英语第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转写到答题卡上。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 are they talking about?A. Giving tips. B Reducing the price. C. Order
2、ing a dinner.2. What time should Jenny come here?A. At 1: 50 pm. B. At 2:00 pm. C. At 2:30 pm.3. Where are the two speakers?A. At home. B. At school. C. In a library.4. How much did they pay for the repair of the bike?A. 25 yuan. B. 50 yuan. C. 100 yuan5. Why will Tom be invited to the party?A. Beca
3、use the woman likes him.B. Because he is the mans good friend.C. Because the mans mother wants him to come.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. What size di
4、d the woman wear last year?A. 6. B. 7. C. 8.7. Why have the womans feet been hurting?A. Her shoes are the wrong size.B. She walks too much each day.C. Her shoes are of very low quality.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Where is the woman going?A. To her house. B. To an appointment. C. To West 22nd Street.9. Wha
5、t can we learn from the conversation?A. The woman is in a rush.B. It is going to rain soon.C. The traffic is heavy at the moment.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Who are the speakers?A. Girlfriend and boyfriend. B. Teacher and student. C. Director and actor.11. How does the man appear to the woman?A. Hurt
6、. B. Mad. C. Happy.12. What does the woman want the man to do?A. Express his sad feelings. B. Show more anger. C. Take a break.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where did the woman meet the man?A. At the Berlin bus station.B. At the London bus station.C. At the womans apartment.14. How long was the mans tr
7、ip?A. An hour and a half. B. Nine hours. C. Nineteen hours.15. Why did the man choose to take a bus?A. To save money.B. To enjoy the country view.C. To be environmentally friendly.16. What did the woman say about the man?A. He doesnt look well.B. He could have taken a faster bus.C. He should care mo
8、re about the environment.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. Who is the speaker?A. A TV hostess. B. A radio hostess. C. A professor.18. What did the Harvard university study find?A. Fast readers get the best grades.B. Parents education is important to kids success.C. More books at home mean success in schoo
9、l.19. According to the speaker, what is the best part of reading?A. Its a fun activity.B. Its relaxing at bedtime.C. Its a great way to communicate.20. When should parents start to read to their kids?A. As early as possible.B. When their kids learn to speak.C. As soon as their kids can hold a book.第
10、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）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.AThe Summer Holiday Activities for Families in the UKWhile the Astronaut spacewalk, Manchester last year remains in the memory of some families, our week-by-week guide to the school summer break his year features
11、a host of special events and outdoor fun for kids, from open-air cinema and live music to coming face to face with dinosaurs.Polar fun, EdinburghDynamic Earth in Edinburgh is keeping cool this summer with lots of polar-themed activities, including family science shows on the Arctic and Antarctic, ic
12、y experiments, and craft designs where kids can make their own penguin, walrus or polar bear.Until 28 August, 15 adults, 9.50 children, dynamicearth. Co. uk.Dinosaur events, various locationsDinosaurs in the Wild is a vivid, walk-through experience taking visitors back 67 million years to the late C
13、retaceous period. Dinosaur Badies is an exhibition of dinosaur embryos and eggs, plus a model nest. Dinosaurs of China displays fossils and skeletons never before seen in Europe.Until 23 August, NEC in Birmingham, then 7 October to 7 January, Event City Manchester, 29.50 adults, 26 children, dinosau
14、rsinthewild. Com.Proud Country House kids fest, BrightonJust 15 minutes from the centre of Brighton, this 18th century Georgian manor house in Stammer Park has a packed programmed of events and activities on throughout the summer, including storytelling in the forest, guided bike rides, tree climbin
15、g and family yoga.1 July10 September, prices vary, usually from 510，booking for events required but house and gardens can be visited without booking, stammer house. co. UK / kids fest.21. In which event can you see the fossils found in China?A. Polar fun, Edinburgh.B. Dinosaur events, various locati
16、ons.C. Proud Country House kids fest, Brighton.22. How much will a couple with two children spend at most if they attend all the activities?A. 180. B. 220. C. 200. D. 160.23. What can kids do in Proud Country House kids fest, Brighton?A. Tree climbing and family yoga.B. Craft designs and tree climbi
17、ng.C. Guided bike rides and icy experiments.D. Storytelling in the forest and seeing dinosaur eggs.BNot long ago. I tried convincing my tree daughters that the worlds secrets are hidden inside silence. The girls looked at me skeptically. Surely silence is nothing?Sitting there at the dinner table, I
18、 suddenly remembered their curiosity as children, their wondering about what might be hiding behind a door and their amazement as they stared at a light switch and asked me to “open the light”, But now they are 13,16 and 19 and wonder less and less. If they still wonder at anything, they quickly pul
19、l out their smart phones to find the answer. None of them have any interest in discussing with me. To attract their attention, I told them about two friends of mine who had decided to climb Mount Qomolangma.Early one morning they left base camp to climb the south-west wall of the mountain. It was go
20、ing well. Both reached the summit, but then came the storm. They soon realized they would not make it down alive. The first got hold of his pregnant wife by satellite phone. Together they decided on the name of the child that she was carrying. Then he quietly passed away just below the summit. My ot
21、her friend was not able to contact anyone before he died. No one knows exactly what happened on the mountain in those hours. Thanks to the dry, cool climate 8km above sea level, they have both been freeze-dried. They lie there in silence, looking no different.The girls remained quiet, listening. It
22、seemed as though they had got something.It is easy to assume that the essence(本质)of technology is technology itself, but that is wrong. The essence is the time we spend with our family and how much freedom we have by technology.24. Whats the real purpose of the authors telling the story?A. To entert
23、ain the girls.B. To attract the girls attention to technology.C. To encourage the girls to explore the worlds secret.D. To share a viewpoint about the essence of technology.25. Why are the girls unwilling to discuss problems with the author when they are puzzled?A. Because they dont want to solve th
24、em.B. Because they can urn to the smart phone.C. Because they feel ashamed for their problems.D. Because they think it difficult to talk with others.26. How would the author think of the outcome of the storytelling?A. Its effective.B. Its unacceptable.C. Its embarrassing.D. Its discouraging.27. What
25、 does technology really bring us according to the text?A. The answers to the puzzling problems.B. The time with our family and freedom.C. The information of learning the outside world.D. The choice of communicating with our friends.CWe all have different ways to navigate（导航）when lostwhether asking a
26、 stranger for help, consulting an old-school map or simply following our nose. But on a bike, the risks are higher. One wrong garn or that youre in a traffic jam with two lanes between your bike and the nearest pavement may ruin your good mood. Although cyclists, of course, managed to navigate befor
27、e smart phones, cyclists can make two choices: a few stay calm and embrace getting lost, and the rest turn to a navigation app.Google Maps added a directions function for cyclists in 2015 in the US and Canada, and two years later across Europe. And while there are dozens of other apps now offering a
28、 similar service, Google Maps has the demerits for many, so the app seems to be falling behind expectations.As someone with o sense of direction, I knew it wouldnt be easy when I started cycling earlier this year. I appreciated that the app gave me two warnings before I needed to turn off a road, an
29、d automatically recalculated my route if I accidentally went off course. But still, it wasnt a smooth process. Google Maps thought I could cut across a double carriageway with no breaks in its barrier, assumed I knew what it meant when it told me to “head west”, and thought nothing of taking me the
30、wrong way down a busy one-way street.Cyclists dont just want safetythey want convenience. Londoner Rosen Smith regularly cycles between Clap ham and the City of London and would like to see Google Maps calculate routes where his bike is allowed on public transport and more choice of the type of rout
31、es he can take. “Google tends to calculate the most common and comfortable cycle routes. It would be better to have an option which included the fastest route, regardless of comfort,” he says.For this reason, Robson says he uses the app Cycle Streets instead. It offers a choice of four different rou
32、te modes, based on the type the user wants, and saves previous routes. It also tells you how many calories a route burns, how many traffic lights you will encounter, and how busy it is.28. What higher risks may happen to cyclists according to Paragraph 1?A. Losing the way to their destinations.B. St
33、aying still in the same place for a long time.C. Making wrong plans about the directions.D. Taking wrong turn or being caught in a traffic jam.29. What does the underlined word” demerits” in Paragraph 2 mean?A. Defense. B. Shortcomings. C. Existence. D. Techniques.30. Whats Robsons opinion on Google
34、 Maps?A. It needs improving.B. It is difficult to operate.C. It can provide convenient courses.D. It offers the most common and fastest route.31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. The Different Apps in NavigationB. The Rise and Fall of Google MapsC. Planning the Future of
35、Google MapsD. The Disadvantages of Google MapsDFor many of us, talking about money is embarrassing, especially revealing our income and spending habits in public. So its no wonder that seeking investment advice from computer program is so popular.Consultancy firm Accenture found that 68% of global c
36、onsumers would be happy to use robot-advice to plan for retirement, feeling it would be faster, cheaper, and fairer than human advice. “Many of our customers say they feel awkward in face-to-face meetings, preferring an online experience where they dont feel nervous,” says Lynn Smith, a director of
37、robot-advice firm Wealth Wizards. So how does robot-advice work and is it really any better than traditional financial advice?Robot-adviser firms use algorithms（算法）to analyse your financial situation and goals and then work out an investment plan to suit you. Basically, you answer lots of questions
38、online about your income, expenses, family situation, attitude to risk and so on, and then the algorithm allocates（分配）your saving to a series of investments, from index funds that aim to imitate a particular stock market index or sector, to fixed-income bonds.Robot-advice is certainly growing in pop
39、ularity. But are we really happy to give up the human adviser completely?” No” is the short answer. Accenture finds that a significant proportion of us still want human interaction, particularly when our finances are complex. “When a customer needs advice surpassing a number of different regulatory
40、regimes, human advice will be required,” says John Perks, managing director of life and pensions at UK insurer LV, which launched its Retirement Wizard robot-advice service two year ago.The truth is that only about a quarter of funds managed by clever humans overcome the market as a whole, so when y
41、ou take into account the much higher management fees you pay for that kind of service, the performance difference is likely to be marginal（微不足道的）for most of us.The robots may be coming, but in this case at least, they seem to be on the side of the small investor trying to save for a comfortable reti
42、rement.32. What do we know about the robot-advice from the second paragraph?A. Its suitable for all.B. Its complex but fair.C. Its expensive but accurate.D. Its beneficial and relaxing.33. If you want to use robot-advice, you should first .A. consult human adviceB. work out an investment planC. answ
43、er lots of questions onlineD. analyze your financial situation34. What does the underlined phrase “that kind of service” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A. The allocation of retirement.B. The robot-advice service.C. Human fund management.D. The performance difference.35. Why do we still need the human advis
44、er according to the text?A. Because some clients face retirement.B. Because some finances are complex.C. Because human interaction is necessary.D. Because the human adviser offers better service.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.How to Pick the Perfect WatermelonI l
45、ove watermelon, but what I dont love about watermelon is picking them out. There is nothing worse than cutting into a watermelon and having it taste not sweet. 36 Evaluation: You need to evaluate your watermelon to make sure that the watermelon is symmetrical. Irregular shapes typically indicate the
46、 watermelon received inconsistent amounts of sunshine and water.Color and Appearance: The color of the surface is extremely important. 37 If its shiny, its not ripe yet. Another important thing is to look for the field spot. This will be a yellow spot on the underside of a watermelon. It should be a
47、 creamy yellow color. 38 Dont take the watermelon if the field spot is white or non-existent.39 For a sweeter and riper watermelon, there shouldnt be a visible stem(茎)on the surface. If heres a stem, it indicates that the eater melon doesnt fall off the vine on its own.Knock on it: Gently knock on t
48、he watermelon, and listen to the sound it makes. A ripe watermelon should have a full, deep, and hollow sound. 40 Make sure of the firmness of the melon when you knock on it. You want the surface to be hard and firm.A. Look at the stem.B. The darker the yellow, the sweeter the melon.C. Watermelon ca
49、n help you increase your brain power.D. While an under ripe melon will make a more dull one.E. The perfectly ripe watermelon should be dark green in color.F. Here are some helpful tips on how to pick the perfect watermelon.G. Watermelon is one of the most popular summer fruits that almost everyone loves.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分) 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。 I learned this lesson a couple of years ago. That day, I took a 41 to Grand Central
