1、绝密启动前 选取日期英语试卷武汉市 2018 届高中毕业生四月调研测试英语试卷本试题卷共 12 页,72 题。全卷满分 150 分。考试用时 120 分钟权考试顺利注意事项：1.答题前,先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上,并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2.选择题的作答:每小题选出答案后,用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答題区域均无效。3.非选择题的作答:用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4.考试结束后，本试卷和答题卡一并上交。BWhen I graduated fr
2、om the University of lowa last year, I did something my friends did not understand. I left lowa,，where I had friends and stability, to live on a small houseboat near San Francisco. At school, I had found a job driving a school bus so people asked, “Why on earth are you leaving?”Well， at graduation I
3、 was presented with two things a degree in psychology and a question. It was the same one that many in my generation got:： “ What do I do now?“ It was as difficult as it was common .Thats because many people at my age were raised with the same words, repeated over and over by parents, teachers and T
4、V, that you “can be whatever you want to be” As a young boy, every time when I was puzzled about my future, they would say that they would be happy if I was happy. However, what I needed was concrete advice but not a vague idea, for example, “be a doctor, or be a bus driver.“My experience was by no
5、means universal. Many Americans are taught by their parents that the only purpose in life is to attain money and power. As a goal, this seems much easier and clearer than finding “happiness“ or “gentleness“. The result of this upbringing is that many of my classmates did not specialize in any partic
6、ular skill, rather assuming that something would magically happen to overcome their problems. They often get a real shock when they enter the“real world” and find that their options are very limited. Many of my friends have taken jobs as waiters or cooks after graduating, or have moved back in with
7、their parents.My life on the boat is hard at times, especially during storms. But this is my small attempt to be happy on my own. Im not buying into my nations idea of limitless possibilities because I feel that stops the growth of todays youth.25.Why was the friends confused about the writers leavi
8、ng?A. He was tired of driving B. He suddenly quit schoolC. He would lose his friends D. He would lead a changing life.26. What does the author think of the guidance he got from American society ?A. Its specific B. Its wrongC. Its general D. Its correct绝密启动前 选取日期英语试卷27. What directly caused a lot of
9、Americans to have jobs lower than their expectations?A. Their achievable goals. B. The practical guidance.C. Being shocked by the real world. D. Lacking professional competence.28. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. Stay where you are. B. Be whatever you want to be.C. Blind
10、 faith in an industrial society. D. Mistaken belief in limitless possibilities.DWhen a mathematics student was examined in the hospital, Dr. John Lorber discovered that he had almost no brain at all. Normally, the condition is quite severe in the first months of childhood. Even when someone survives
11、 he or she is usually seriously disabled. Somehow，though, the student had lived a perfectly normal life and went on to gain a degree in mathematics. This case is by no means as rare as it seems.Professor Lorber has identified(确认) several hundred people who have very small brains but who appear to be
12、 normal intelligent people. Some of them he describes as having “no detectable brain“, yet they have scored up to 120 on IQ tests.No one knows how people with “no detectable brain“ are able to function at all, let alone graduate in mathematics. One suggestion is the old idea that we only use a small
13、 percentage of our brains anyway perhaps as little as 10 per cent. But more recent research shows this idea is a misunderstanding dating from research in the 1930s in which the functions of large areas of the brain could not be determined and were named “silent“, while in fact they are linked withim
14、portant functions like speech and abstract thinking.The other interesting thing about lorbers findings is that they remind us of the secret of memory. At first it was thought that there is a part in the brain for memory, like the memory chips in a PC. But further research of the brain has turned up
15、the surprising fact that memory does not depend on any particular area in the brain. As one scientist put it ， “Memory is everywhere in the brain and nowhere.”But if the brain is not a place for classifying and storing experiences and analyzing them to enable us to live our lives,then what on earth
16、is the brain for? And where is the seat of htthen what on earth is the brain for? And where is the seat of human intelligence? Where is the mind?29. What will usually happen to a very young baby without brain?A. It will die. B. It will surviveC. It will be intelligent D. It will become disabled30.Wh
17、at is the new finding of the functions of brain?A. Much of the brain is useful B. The brain is in fact of no useC. The brain determines ones IQ. D. Only a small part of the brain七选五These days when someone says a computer has a bug（臭虫）in it，usually they means that theres a problem with one of its pro
18、grams. Maybe your computer crashed when you were in the middle of a game. 36 .But back in the early days of computers, a woman named Grace Hopper was part of the team that discovered the very first computer bug.绝密启动前 选取日期英语试卷37 She had been invited to help program a new computer. The job of which wa
19、s to quickly deal with the math problems ships used to find their way. 38 .Then it translated the patterns of holes into the math problems it was supposed to solve.One afternoon in 1947 Hopper and her team were running a program. But the computer wasnt giving them the right results. 39 They finally
20、ended up taking the computer apart，looking for problems. What did they find? It was a dead moth(飞蛾)! The moth was blocking some of the holes on the paper no wonder the computer didnt know what to do.Hopper knew that the term “bug“ had been used before when there were problems with machines. But this
21、 was the first time a computer had ever had a bug. 40 Some people think Hopper was the first person to use the word “debug“ to mean “get rid of the problems in a computer”.A What could be wrong?B. Hopper was a mathematicianC. Who had operated the computer？D. Hopper was a hardworking scientistE. She
22、thought it was funny that it was a real one.F Or you got an error message when you tried to go to a websiteG. The computer worked by reading instructions from a long piece of paper with holes in it短文改错(共 10 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 10 分)I once had a bad experience. One day several years ago, I went shop with m
23、y friends. As l entered a small shoe store, but I saw two women selecting shoes. Suddenly they raise their voice and began to talk loudly about how beautifully the shoes were and how low the price was. Just then an old couple walked onto the shop. The two women urged her to buy a pair .When the coup
24、le left a store with the shoes, I noticed the shop owner give the two women some cashes. He also promised offer them more unless more people bought his shoes.完形填空(共 20 小题;每小题 1.5 分,满分 30 分)Justin knew there was only one way out of his neighborhood- basketball. So he 41 hard, running with the ball li
25、ke the 42 dogs were chasing(追逐) him. He could defeat any of the guys at the 43 ， and he saw his way out and he ran for itOne day when Justin was playing basketball, he 44 his right knee badly. The doctor said he might never play 45 . Justin was extremely sad. Every day Justin just 46 in bed, watchin
26、g TV and eating potato chips. When he 47 like a balloon, his sister came home from the university on holiday, bringing exciting 48 of a faraway land called college.绝密启动前 选取日期英语试卷Justin was 49 by the dorm room stories and campus(校园 ) 50 that she told, but he could 51 believe any of it. It was as if s
27、he were telling him about some 52 land high above the clouds.Justin was a pretty 53 guy, but his sister had a way of 54 him to do things that nobody else could. So while she was home on 55 , they studied together, and they talked ，and they worked, and Justin felt 56 than he ever had before.After spe
28、nding those 57 with his sister, Justin realized that he didnt want to feel bad for himself any more ,and he didnt want to quit Basketball 58 be his thing, but now there was only 59 . Using the study skills Justin had acquired from his sister, he scored 60 in every exam. The university that he applied to accepted him.
