湖北省武汉市部分学校届新高三起点调研考试 英语试题 Word版含答案Word文件下载.docx

1、答题区域内。 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。例:How much is the shirt? A. 19. 15. B. 9. 15. C. 9. 18.答案：Bl. Wherc cloes

2、the conversation probably take place？ A. In a photoshop. B.At the airport. C. At the post office.2.What does the man offer to do? AGo to the bookstore. B. Lend the woman his book. C. Underline the important parts.3. How does the woman feel about the mans report? A. Satisfied. B.Disappointed. C.Puzzl

3、ed.4. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Call for a taxi. B.Lock the suitcases. C.Pack the clothes.5What is the woman? A.A driver. B.A policewoman. C.A passenger.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ABC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

4、。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6.What does the man have to do today? A. Visit his lawyer. B.Co to the doctor. C.Make an appmntment.7.What will the woman probably do for the man? A. Answer his phone. B.Call his lawyer. C.Take notes at the meeting. 昕第7段材料，回答第8.9题。8. What are the speakers mainly talking a

5、bout? A.A new city library. B.Their math homework. C.Their college library.9.Whats the probable reason for the mans going for coffee? AFeeling tired. B. Missing the old days. C. Meeting the math professor there. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where are the two speakers probably? A. On the street. B.In a shop.

6、 C.At the Lost and Found.11. What kind of backpack is it? A.A sports one. B.A leather one. C.A childish one.12. Whats the mans opinion of the woman? A. Responsible. B.Tricky. C.Strict.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where did the woman work as a costume designer? A.In Vermont. B.In San Diego. C.In Hollywood.14

7、. What is the womans main interest？ A. Museum. B.Theater. C.Fashion.15. Why is the woman moving to New York City? A. Its where she grew up. BThere is a job offer. C. She wants to be near her parents.16. What does the woman intend to do? A. Live with her parents. B.Apply for a job. C.Buy an apartmnen

8、t. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the aim of the program? A. To keep trainees in shape. B. To develop leadership skills. C. To improve public relations.18. What will the trainees do during the program? A. Make plans for a journey. B. Prepare reports for the company. C. Attend lectures on management.1

9、9. How long will the program last? A.8 days. B.12 days. C.20 days.20. What should people do to join the program? A. Sign on a piece of paper. B.Pay for the program. C.Take a test in advance.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） 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，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。A USAs participation i

10、n World Warbrought major changes to the lives of American women. Before the war,there had been a huge pool of female labour,consisting largely of young,single women. Many jobs were closed to them and they were effectively restrictetl to working in domestic service and selling-goods business. Wartime

11、 production requirements,however,combined with the loss of the men who entered the military,provided women with the opportunity to move into a far wider range of jobs. The response to the US govemments request for more women workers was amazing and the changes marvelous.ln 1941,there were 14.6 milli

12、on women workers; by 1944 the number had grown to over 19.4 million. At one point during those wars,more than 50 percent of American women worked and by 1945 half of all women workers were over 35 years old. Women were particularly active in the defense industries. Between 1940 and 1944 women workin

13、g in enterprises that produced goods increased by 141 percent. In Detroit in 1943 ,omenmade up 91 percent of the new hirings in 185 war plants. Over 10 percent of all shipbuilders were women. Most of these jobs came with a pink-slip attached,as women understood that they would be dismissed when the

14、men returned from the war. Women were also frustrated by unfair pay differentials,for men were paid more money for doing the same job. With the end ofthe war and armymen being sent home,women were released twice as fast as men. In 1945,three-quarters of the women in aircraft and shipbuilding were le

15、t go,and women in the carindustry decreased from 25 percent t0 7 percent. Although women found their work satisfyingand liberating,postwar publicity focused on womens duty to help the returning soldiers fit inwith society by making him the man of the home again. When the war ended,many womenleft wor

16、k to take up the duties of homemaking and raising children.21. Before World War II,women in the USA had jobs mostly related to . A. aircraft production B. shipbuilding C. sales business D. defense industries22. When women were offered jobs in industries,they knew that their jobs would be _ A. tempor

17、ary B. permanent C. frustrating D. highly paid23. When the war ended,media made women believe that . A. their work was satisfying B. their work was worthwhile C. they should help the army D. they should take care of the family The Great Plague（瘟疫） of London in 1665 was the last in a long senies of p

18、lague thatfirst began in London in June 1499.1t killed between 75,000 and 100,000. First suspected inlate 1664,it began to spread eastwards in April 1665 from the poor suburb of St. Giles to thecrowded and dirty communities on its way to the walled City of London.The Great Plague at Its Peak By Sept

19、ember 1665 ,the death rate had reached 8,000 per week. Helpless city authoritiesbegan to abandon quarantine（隔离） measures. Houses containing the dead and dying were nolonger locked. Londons mournful silence was broken by the noise of carts carrying the dead forburial in churches or public plague pits

20、. Well-off residents soon fled to the countryside,leaving the poor behind in poor oldcommun/ties.Thousands of dogs and cats were killed to remove a feared source of contagion （传染） ,and piles of rotting garbage were burned. Doctors cut swellings and bled black spots inattempts to cure plague victims.

21、 Plague Orders prohibited churches from keeping dead bodies in their buildings duringpublic assemblies or services,and camers of the dead had to identify themselves and could notmix with the public. Samuel Pepys: Eyewitness Accounts In his famous diary,Samuel Pepys,a member of Parliament,conveyed th

22、e sad image ofdesperate people wandering the streets in search of relief from the ruins of the plague. His notesduring 1665 indicated the severity of Londons Great Plague. In July,he mourned the sad newsof the death of so manv in the community,forty last night,the bell always going either for deaths

23、 or burials. A month lat.er,when Londons death rate rose sharply, Pepys noted thatsurviors are forced to carry the dead to be buried by daylight,the nights not enough to do itThe Plague Declines and the Government Reacts By February 1666,the Great Plague had nearly run its course.lt died out during

24、the GreatFire that same year and never returned. Central parts of London were rebuilt with wider streetsto relieve crowding and better waste water svstems to improve public cleanliness. New PlagueOrders were issued in May 1666,which banned the burial of future plague victims in churchesand small chu

25、rchyards, enforced the use of quicklime （生石灰） at chosen burial sites, andstrictly prohibited opening graves less than one year after burial as a safeguard against thespread of infection.24.1n the course o_f the Great PJague,it was a common practice to . A. keep dead bodies in the church buildings B.

26、 burn piles of rotting garbage in the streets C. carry the dead for church burials in the daytime D. unlock the houses containing the dead and dying25.lt can be inferred from the passage that _ . A. dogs and cats were certain to spread the piague B. doctors treatment of plague victims was effective

27、C. city authorities allowed rich residents to go to the countryside D. quarantine measures were powerless in preventing the plague26. How did Samuel Pepys feel when the bell was going all the night during the Great Plague? A. Frightened. B. Relieved. C. Sorrowful. D. Moody.27. Whats the main purpose

28、 of this writing? A. To blame poor public cleanliness for plague. B. To inform readers of what happened in the Great Plague. C. To show that plague was closely related to church activities. D. To prove that plague could be controlled by humans. C Famous writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote 70 poems and 66 s

29、hort stories during his life,butpublished only one novel. That book, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon, Pym of Nantucket,isfiction,focusing on Pyms bad luck on a whaling ship. The novel,published in 1838 ,involves an attempted rebellion of the whaling ship. Pym andtwo others drive back the rebels,killi

30、ng or throwing overboard all but one. The spared rebel,named Richard Parker,is kept aboard in order to help operate the ship. But as the shipoverturns,it has no adequate food. Parker suggests that cannibalism（食人） is the only wayout,and they draw straws to determine the victim. Parker loses and becomes dinner. But in 1846 a real-life Richard Parker died in a shipwreck（船难） . He and 20 0thers wereon board the doomed Francis Spaight, which sank, killing all on board. It was a merecoincidence,as it involved neither rebellion nor cannibahsm. In 188