湖南省常德市届高三高考模拟考试二英语试题含答案.docx

1、湖南省常德市届高三高考模拟考试二英语试题含答案英 语本试卷分为四个部分，共12页。时量120分钟。满分150分。第I卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）（澧县一中）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. 9.18 C. 9.15答案是

2、C。1. What will the man do first? A. Learn more about prices. B. Do reports. C. Find a supplier.2. When will the meeting be held? A. At 12:00. B. At 1:00. C. At 11:30. 3. Why is the woman leaving work early? A. To pick up a car. B. To post a package. C. To take care of her mother. 4. What are the spe

3、akers talking about in general?A. A trip. B. Food. C. The weather.5. What relation is the man to the woman? A. Her customer. B. Her co-worker. C. Her boss.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。听每段对话或独白后，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秒钟的做答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。听

4、第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What will the woman do on Saturday afternoon? A. Watch a game. B. Enjoy a concert. C. Do her homework. 7. Where will the woman go on Sunday? A. To the mans house. B. To a hospital. C. To a park.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What is the womans opinion about the computer screen? A. Big. B. Nice.

5、C. Stylish. 9. What brings the man a bit of trouble? A. The screen. B. The keyboard. C. The mouse.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What is the purpose of the call? A. To accept a position. B. To advertise a job opening. C. To check on a job application. 11. For what day is the mans appointment scheduled? A. Tue

6、sday. B. Thursday. C. Friday. 12. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Call her later. B. Wait at the front desk. C. Meet with Victoria Smith.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Which city does the man book a shuttle bus for? A. London. B. Milton. C. Toronto. 14. What is the woman doing? A. Conducting an inte

7、rview. B. Offering the flight timetable. C. Taking the mans information.15. When will the man probably leave for Milton? A. At 11:30. B. At 12:00. C. At 12:30. 16. What does the woman advise the man to do? A. Have some coffee.B. Collect his luggage first. C. Book his return ticket in advance. 听第10段材

8、料，回答第17至20题。17. Why did Fagin come to the speaker? A. To buy her house. B. To rent her house. C. To decorate her house. 18. Why was the speaker hesitant about Fagins offer? A. She disliked him. B. The money was not much. C. Theyd damage some of her belongings. 19. How long did it take to prepare the

9、 house for the film? A. Four days. B. A month. C. Two months. 20. What did the speaker do when the crew left? A. She watched a film. B. She visited her relatives. C. She repainted the living room. 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A （芷兰）Univers

10、ity accommodation（住所） officesMany university accommodation offices have their own list of registered landlords (房东). Others also provide information on accommodation agencies and other housing organizations. The advantage of using your university accommodation office is that you can get some support

11、 if you have a problem. The disadvantage is that they are unlikely to have enough registered landlords to house all their students.Property papers: Loot and RentingLoot is an important source (来源) of information about private housing for co-renters. The offers are from private landlords, agencies an

12、d individuals looking for other co-renters. They also have a website: www. loot. com. The advantage of using Loot is that there are some excellent bargains. The disadvantage is that there is no quality control over the offers.Renting is another useful paper. The offers in this paper are mainly from

13、accommodation agencies. Their website is at www. Renting.co. uk.Accommodation agenciesThe majority of rented accommodation in London is probably advertised through accommodation agencies. The advantage of using accommodation agencies is that you will have access to a large number of accommodations.

14、A good agent will listen to your requirements and can save you time in looking for the right accommodation. The disadvantage is that they will make a range of charges to potential renters.NoticeboardsAround the universities you will find a number of noticeboards where offers of accommodation will be

15、 posted. These will either be from landlords or from students. Some universities will also have online noticeboards where students can advertise to other students. Advertisements from students can be an excellent way to find accommodation. However, advertisements from landlords can be problematic.Wo

16、rd of mouthSome of the best housing in London is never advertised but is passed on from one group of students to another by word of mouth. It might be that you can find out about good offers from final year students. However, dont suppose that just because you have found out about housing from a fri

17、end it is necessarily, going to be better than that found through any other source.FamilyFaced with the very high rents charged in London, some students and their parents will consider buying as an alternative. In some cases this might be a good choice.Below is a housing guide for students going to

18、London.21. What is the advantage of using Loot? A. There are some good bargains. B. Their website is designed mainly for students. C. It gives you personal information about other co-renters. D. It has more offers from accommodation agencies than Renting. 22. A good agent can help you . A. know more

19、 people B. find cheap accommodation C. get the right accommodation quickly D. get free information about most accommodations23. For students going to London for the first time, which of the following provides the most reliable information? A. University accommodation offices. B. Loot and Renting. C.

20、 Noticeboards. D. Family. B （安乡朱彩霞名师工作室）The flu season arrives so predictably, and affects so many of us, that its hard to believe that scientists have had very little idea why cold weather helps germs to spread. Worldwide, up to five million people catch the illness each flu season, and around a qu

21、arter of a million die from it. Part of its power comes from the fact that the virus changes so quickly that the body is hardly prepared. “The antibodies weve built up no longer recognize the virus so we lose our immunity,” says Jane Metz at the University of Bristol. It also makes it harder to deve

22、lop effective vaccines, and even if one comes out, governments often fail to persuade enough people to take it up.The hope is that by understanding better why flu spreads in winter, but naturally fades in summer, doctors could find simple measures to stop its spread. Previous theories had centred on

23、 our behaviour. We spend more time indoors in the winter, meaning that were in closer contact with other people who may be carrying germs.Another popular idea concerned our physiology(生理机制）: the cold weather weakens your bodys defenses against infection. In winter, without much sunlight, we may run

24、low on Vitamin D, which helps power the bodys immune system. Moreover, when we breathe in cold air, the blood vessels in our nose shrink, which affects the normal function of white blood cells, allowing viruses to slip past our defenses unnoticed. While such factors both play some role, analyses sug

25、gested another ignored cause may have been lying invisible in the air that we breathe. Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics（空气热力学）, cold air can carry less water vapor before it reaches the “dew point” and falls as rain. So while the weather outside may seem wetter, the air itself is drier as it los

26、es the moisture. And researches in the past few years has shown that these dry conditions seem to offer the perfect environment for the flu virus to flourish.In wetter air, the epidemic struggles to build strength, while in drier conditions it spreads like wildfire. And comparing 30 years climate re

27、cords with health records, Jeffrey Shaman at Columbia University found that flu epidemics almost always followed a drop in air humidity.24. What can we infer from the second paragraph ?A. We lose immunity due to the absence of our antibodies. B. The antibodies fail to function due to variation of vi

28、rus.C. Government should come up with better ways to persuade people.D. One in four of the infected die from the influenza each flu season.25. What is the purpose of understanding better why flu spreads in winter?A. To help develop effective vaccine. B.To seek ways to treat people infected with flu.

29、C. To figure out ways to cut off its transmission.D. To explore how to defend our immune system. 26. In what weather condition a flu epidemic is more likely to occur ? A. Destroying bodies immune system.B. Powering our bodies immune system. C. Killing numerous viruses that we take in. D. Stopping us

30、 acquiring enough Vitamin D.27. What is the best title of the passage?A. Ways to prevent infection of flu B. Flu-A disease not so hard to preventC. A predictable flu season D. Why germs spread in winterC（市一中宋文辉）Rivers are the veins (静脉) of the Earth, transporting the water and nutrients needed to su

31、pport the planets ecosystems, including human life. In Asia, some of the worlds largest rivers flow from the highest mountain ranges to vast floodplains below and finally into the ocean. Like veins these rivers connect the rocks in the mountains to the sediment (沉淀物) at the bottom of the ocean and g

32、ive life to everything in between. While many nutrients are essential to the survival of life, there is one element transported by water in rivers that holds the key to life and to the future of our planet carbon.Carbon is everywhere and understanding the way it moves and is either released or stored by the Earth system is a complex science in itself. C