湖南省双峰县2018届高三英语上学期第二次月考试题

2017-2018学年高三上期第二次月考英语试题总分：150分时间：120分钟注意事项:1．答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

3．第II卷必须用0．5毫米黑色签字笔做答，答案必须写在答题卡上各题目指定区域内相应位置，不能写在试卷上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不能使用涂改液、胶带纸、修正带。

不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。

考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. At the airport.B. At the bus stop.C. At the railway station 2．What is the weather like today?A．Fine． B．Cloudy． C．Rainy．3．What will happen on Sunday night?A．There will be some folk songs．B．A party will be held．C．Some old friends will graduate．4．What do we know about the woman?A．She can’t go to see her family．B．She is excited to leave her friend．C．She is eager to go back home．5．What happened to Tom ?A．He failed the exam． B．He followed the advice． C．He cried terribly．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。

每段对话或独自后有几个小题，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。

听每段对话或独自前，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 was wrong with the man?A．He caught a bad cold． B．He had an accident． C．He missed a good luck．7．When will the man go out of hospital?A．In no time． B．Half a month later． C．Two days later．听第7段材料，回答第8~9 题。

8．What will the man do?A．Call for a taxi． B．Check the room． C．Leave the hotel．9．Why will the man stop on the way?A．To buy something． B．To visit friends． C．To take photos．听第8段材料，回答第10~12 题。

10．Why doesn't the woman lend King Arthur and his Knights to the man right now? A．She doesn’t want to． B．She hasn’t finished it． C．She doesn’t like the man．11．What does the man think of Ulysses?A． Difficult． B． Interesting． C． Famous．12．What are the speakers talking about?A． Magazines． B． Books． C． Newspapers．听第9段材料，回答第13~16题。

13．What is the woman doing?A．Attending her husband．B．Discussing business． C．Asking for leaving．14．When will the woman probably come back to work?A．Tuesday． B． Wednesday． C． Thursday．15．What kind of person is the man?A．Considerate． B． Cautious． C． Confident．16．What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?A．Doctor and Patient． B． Employer and Employee．C． Husband and Wife．听第10段材料，回答第17~20 题。

17．What is the purpose of the speaking?A．To give suggestions for losing weight． B．To give advice on reducing stress． C．To give tips of keeping fit．18．Which exercise is the best for a quiet student?A．Ball games． B．Jogging． C．Walking．19．What will happen if you don't have enough sleep?A．You can' t focus your mind． B．You can't eat well．C．You can't get on with your classmates．20． How many tips does the speaker give?A．2． B．3． C．4．第二部分阅读理解（共两节，共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AHappy,angry,amazed—these are some of the emotions we like to express these days when we're sending a message on our smartphones.That's a quick way of telling someone how we're feeling.Yes,emojis have become a vital tool for communication.The emoji was first invented in Japan in the late 1990s and the word "emoji" comes from the Japanese words for "picture" and "character".The number of different images has dramatically increased since then and now we have a picture for every mood or situation.So now we are giving chis new creation the visual "thumbs-up" but have you thought why we've become so addicted to using emojis?Professor Vyv Evans has written a book called The Emoji Code,saying "increasingly,what we're finding is that digital communication is taking over certain aspects of face-to-face interaction...one of the reasons why emojis are so popular is that they really do enable us to express our emotional selves more effectively."Another advantage of emojis is that they are an international language—they don't use words but some pictures so they can be easily interpreted whatever your native language is.However,the emojis can sometimes be misinterpreted—if a friend sends you an emoji of a hammer,you may think he/she is angry when really he/she is saying he/she is clumsy!Emojis are a good way for showing similar feelings.But as linguist（语言学家）Neil Cohn says,"To many,emojis are an exciting evolution of the way we communicate,but to others,they are a linguistic Armageddon（大决战）."It does show there is a lot more to our communication than words alone but does this mean the decline in traditional writing?21．How do emojis help people in communication?A. They can interpret the foreign languages.B. They will take the place of face-to-face interaction.C. People can express their emotions effectively with emoijs.D. People can express themselves clearly with emojis at any time.22．Which of the following words can replace the underlined "thumbs-up"in Paragraph 3?A. doubtB. PraiseC. ignoranceD. attention23．What do you probably mean by sending your friend an emoji of B hammer?A. You are awkward.B. You need a hammer.C. He/She loses his/her temper.D. He/She should apologize to you.24．What is Neil Cohn's opinion on emojis?A. They are not used by linguists.B. They will take over the traditional writing.C. They will become an international language.D. They bring convenience and challenges to language.BIn my bag I always carry the same essential items: my keys, my purse, some loose change, my mobile phone and my little blue vocabulary notebook. This year I am living abroad in Germany and I am trying to learn as much German as possible. I always knew that living abroad would be a great way to learn a foreign language but one thing I didn’t realize was how many new words and phrases I would come across every day! I see and hear new words everywhere; the announcements in the train station; menus in cafes; on social media; on the local newspaper and of course from my German-speaking friends. At first I was slightly upset by the large amounts of German I didn’t understand. Speaking German in Germany is definitely very different from that in the classroom;I kept on looking up new words and by the end of the day I had forgotten most of them already. It was very frustrating. After a month of worrying that I would never be able to improve my language skills, I went to the stationery shop and bought a small notebook which easily fit into my handbag or even into my back pocket! I set myself the goal of writing five new words or phrases a day into my little blue book and soon enough it became one of my most valuable language-learning tools.I don’t have any rules about which words I write down. Most days I write down words that I learn from my colleagues at work, words that I don’t understand in reading or words that I have learned from seeing them in context. For example, I have learned the names of many fruits and vegetables from looking at their labels in the supermarket (a very unexpected source of vocabulary!) and I have learned many words that I have heard on TV or on the radio. It doesn’t even matter if I know how to spell a new word straight away. If I hear a word but I don’t know how to spell it, I write down how I think it sounds and look it up later.My little blue vocabulary book is now like my close friend. We go everywhere together. Setting this small daily goal has made me feel much more in control of my language teaming and I am already seeing an improvement. I will continue to use it for the rest of my stay in Germany and also when I return to university at home in September.25．What can we conclude from the first paragraph?A. New words are all around you in a foreign country.B. Walking in the street is a good way to learn a language.C. Life is really hard for anyone to live in a foreign country.D. The author is skilled in learning a second language.26．What was the author’s response when facing difficulty?A. He felt helpless and hopeless.B. He was terrified.C. He didn’t lake a negative attitude.D. He set a high goal for himself. 27．What words will the author put down in the notebook?A. The words that his teacher explained in classes.B. He has no rules about which words to write down.C. He asked his friends to tell new words and phrases.D. The words he noticed in the shop or supermarkets.28．What does the under lined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Learning German.B. My experience.C. The handbag.D. My notebook.CNEW DELHI—In India’s space center on the barrier island of Sriharikota, the white-jacketed scientists held their breaths.The country’s trusty red-and-white satellite launch vehicle had lifted off moments before and blasted into orbit.The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-37 was about to perform a delicate maneuver(操纵，任务)—carefully sending 104 satellites into the heavens, the highest number ever attempted in one mission. One Indian space analyst on television likened the complicated maneuver to dropping children at different bus stops.About 10 a.m. Wednesday, the announcement came: All the satellites had been successfully launched. The scientists breathed a collective sigh of relief, and backslapping and applause followed.“This is a great moment for each and every one of us. Today we have made history,” project manager B. Jayakumar said afterward. The total number of satellites far outstripped(超过) the previous record—37 at the same time sent into space by Russiain 2014.Wednesday’s launch was another success for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which is rapidly gaining a reputation globally for its effective yet low-cost missions.India had already sent up dozens of satellites, including 20 in one launch last year. In 2014, India became the first Asian nation to send a probe(探测器) into orbit around Mars, a $74 million effort that, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted at the time, cost less than what it took to make the Hollywood space movie “Gravity”.The fierce national pride that resulted after that success sent the Mars probe rocketing onto the face of the country’s new 2,000 rupee($30) currency note (钞票) in November.“Now India is showing its competitiveness in the $300 billion global space market,” said Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at the Observer Rearch Foundation in New Delhi.29．What does the underlined word “likened” me an in the 3rd paragraph?A. ContributedB. ComparedC. PreferredD. tied30．What does India’s Prime Minister Modi imply according to the 8th paragraph?A. The 104-satellite maneuver cost less money than the film “Gravity” did.B. Shooting a film is always more expensive than launching a rocket.C. The Mars probe rocketing is characteristic of being low in cost.D. All real explorations are cheaper than virtual ones.31．The way India adopted to show the significance of the Mars probe rocketing is equal to the way Chinese government use ________ in China.A. Chairman Mao Zedong’s portraitB. a picture of the Long-march rocketC. a picture of the Three-gorges(峡谷) projectD. President Xi Jinping’s portrait32．It can be inferred that after the success in the 104-satellite launch, India will ________.A. become No. 1 in the global space marketB. take up a larger market share in the futureC. show its ability among local competitorsD. have an order of $300 billionDMy mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.“Of course you can be a prodigy, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best at anything.” We didn’t immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films. My mother would poke my arm and say, “Ni kan” — You watch. And I would see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round O while saying, “Oh my goodness.”Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to a beauty training school and put me in the hands of a student who could barely hold the scissors without shaking. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. My mother dragged me off to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair.“You look like Negro Chinese,” she lamented, as if I had done this on purpose.In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And then you’ll always be nothing.”Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table.She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly. “What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story. All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown. “Nairobi!” I guess ed, saying the most foreign word I could think of. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.The tests got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London.And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror and when I saw only my face staring back—and that it would always be this ordinary face—I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.33．The underlined word “prodigy” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.A. talentB. ProfessorC. leaderD. superstar34．Why did the mother and the girl watch Shirley’s old movies on TV?A. Because the mother was a fan of Shirley Temple.B. Because Shirley Temple’s hairstyle was very popular among children.C. Because the girl resembled Shirley Temple in appearance.D. Because the mother wanted her daughter to be a Chinese Shirley Temple. 35．How did the girl feel about the tests she did every night?A. She felt confident and finished it smoothly.B. She got through the tests painfully.C. She failed the tests and began to lose confidence.D. She eventually sadly found herself ordinary and ugly.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。