湖南省雅礼中学届高考命题中心第二次调研考试英语试题 Word版含答案.docx

1、湖南省雅礼中学届高考命题中心第二次调研考试英语试题 Word版含答案湖南省雅礼中学2016届高考命题中心第二次调研考试 英 语 第一部分： 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）1. What is the woman going to do this evening?A. Go to the dinner party. B. Go to the park. C. Visit her sister.2. What time is it now?A. 8:45 B. 8:30 C. 8:153. What does the

2、 man mean?A. He had a good time at the party. B. He doesnt want to see his friends again.C. He didnt enjoy the party at all.4. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Go on a diet. B. Talk to her sister. C. Introduce himself first.5. Where is Mr. Black now?A. In the office. B. Out for lunch. C. At

3、 the Friendship Hotel.第二节（共15 小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听第 6 段材料，回答第 6-8 题。6. What are the two speakers doing?A. They are talking in the mans office.B. They are talking over the phone. C. They are talking at a university.7. How did the woman learn about the job?A. A friend told her about it. B. She saw the

4、 advertisement on TV.C. She read the advertisement in newspaper.8. Why is the woman interested in the job?A. Because it paid well. B. Because it is in a university. C. Because it is near her home.听第 7 段材料，回答第 9-11 题。9. Where is the man going?A. He is going to the Palace Museum. B. He is going to the

5、 Palace Hotel.C. He is going to the railway station.10. How is he going?A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By train.11. How long does it take?A. Half an hour. B. 13 minutes. C. 40 minutes.听第 8 段材料，回答第 12-14 题。12. What will happen on Saturday?A. There will be a football match. B. There will be a baseball ma

6、tch.C. There will be a basketball match,13. Who will they play against?A. A team from Iowa. B. A team from Michigan. C. A team from Chicago.14. What will the man do next?A. He will go to have a good rest in bed.B. He will go on practicing. C. He will go to see some films of games.听第 9 段材料，回答第 15-17

7、题。15. Why cant the man find Susans home?A. Because he hasnt been told how to get there.B. Because he forgot to bring the map Susan gave him.C. Because he is so forgetful that he cant remember her address.16. Where is the bank?A. It is next to the bus stop. B. It is on the corner beside the bus stop.

8、C. It is on the corner across the street.17. Where is Susans house?A. It is the seventh house from the corner on the mans right.B. It is the seventeenth house from the corner on the mans left.C. It is the seventeenth house from the corner on the mans right.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18-20 题。18. How many countrie

9、s did Mr. Bell visit last summer?A. Only one. B. Three. C. Four.19. Why did Mr. Bell feel very tired after returning home?A. He visited too many places in a hurry.B. His holiday was not long enough for him to travel in Europe.C. He was on the train or on a bus all day long during his holiday.20. Wha

10、t will be a good idea to spend a two-week summer holiday?A. Visiting only one city by the sea with a friend.B. Visiting only a few cities near the sea with some friends.C. Visiting some museums and famous places in different cities.第二部分： 阅读理解（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）ADo successful bu

11、sinessmen need an office? Increasingly the answer seems to be no. Chris Ward, author of the book Out of Office explains how President Barack Obamas first inauguration (就职) speech was written by 27-year-old Jon Favreau sitting in Starbucks (星巴克); how Richard Tait, creator of Cranium, started the boar

12、d game in a coffee shop; how Michael Acton Smith invented the childrens virtual world Moshi Monsters in his local Caff Nero; and how JK Rowling, the novelist behind Harry Potter, believes a caf is the best place to write. It is a convincing view, and for basic start-ups it makes much more sense to w

13、ork from home and public spaces such as cafs than renting an expensive office. Offices are hard to find, costly to decorate and involve much tiring administration. Moreover, by staying independent you avoid the misery（痛苦） of a daily commute(往返上下班), which for many is the worst part of a job. Thanks t

14、o mobile communications, WiFi and cloud storage, together with the increasing heavy-duty equipment such as photocopiers, fax machines and desktop PCs, the traditional office is becoming redundant(多余的) for many sorts of organizations and workers. Of course, factory managers, surgeons, chefs and indus

15、trial chemists are still tied to special locations. But many of us from software engineers and copywriters to architects and fashion designers can operate almost anywhere. That freedom, and a willingness to adapt, can make ones career more enjoyable and, sometimes, more efficient. 21. The second par

16、agraph mainly wants to tell us_. A. Obama didnt write his inauguration speech by himselfB. People dont have to work in an office C. A caf is the best place to writeD. Many writers like to write in a coffee shop22. Which of the following careers is tied to special locations? A. Software engineers. B.

17、 Copywriters. C. Surgeons. D. Fashion designers.23. The traditional office is becoming redundant due to the following EXCEPT_. A. mobile communications B. WiFi and cloud storageC. heavy-duty equipment D. the misery of a daily commute24. What can we infer from the text? A. Many people hate commuting

18、daily. B. The tradition office will no longer exist.C. Working in public places will reduce efficiency. D. Chefs can work anywhere. BThe ruins of Moore, Oklahoma, a town destructed for the fourth time in 14 years by a major tornado（龙卷风）, are a reminder that current building codes(规范) cant do much to

19、 prevent property destruction and loss of life, especially when a powerful tornado cuts through town. But the total death number can be reduced when people take shelter in underground storm bunkers（碉堡）and hardened safe rooms.The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives.

20、Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes warning, residents fled town or took refuge（避难）in the firmest corners of their homes. The luckiest were able to climb into shelters or move to safe rooms. In Moore those rooms saved lives. But at two schools destroyed by Mondays

21、 tornado, no such shelter was available. Leslie Chapman Henderson is CEO of a non-profit group called the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes. Shes an advocate for tornado safe rooms. “The safe room is an interior（内部）room of the home that has been reinforced（加固）and tested to withstand high wind. In fact

22、, weve already heard of stories of survival of people who were in safe rooms, either above or below ground,” she said. Better storm forecasts give people more time to react. But they need someplace safe to go. Buildings can be built to resist strong winds, but not like those in the F-5 tornado that

23、touched down in Moore. Chapman Henderson says even the building codes that do exist are not widely adopted or enforced. As its residents prepare to rebuild, Moores mayor is pushing for an order to make safe rooms compulsory in all new construction. Similar proposals were made following each of the p

24、revious tornado strikes, but none were adopted.25. According to Chapman Henderson, which of the following does she probably agree with? A. Building codes make a difference in preventing property destruction.B. If people take shelter in safe rooms, nobody will die.C. It is urgent to build tornado saf

25、e rooms. D. Safe rooms can be built only underground.26. What can we infer from the text? A. Moore has gone through tornado 4 times in total. B. Chapman Henderson is Moores mayor.C. Mondays tornado took 24 lives at two schools. D. The Moores proposal might not be approved.27. The underlined word “wi

26、thstand ” in paragraph 4 probably means_.A. oppose B. resist C. prevent D. defeat CBlind tasting is a very strange activity. Contrary to what many imagine, it has nothing to do with blindfolds. It involves tasting a wine without seeing the label and it can deliver shocking surprises. I tasted seven

27、champagnes(香槟) blind with a group of professionals recently. There was a shock when they discovered the wine most of them preferred carried a label they regarded as their least favorite. That sort of result is especially common with champagne, the most image-driven rather than quality-driven wine of

28、 all. But it happens all the time when wine is tasted blind. Because Im interested in how wines really taste instead of how I think they should, I taste wine blind as often as I can, especially when assessing similar young wines. But blind tasting when you know absolutely nothing about the wine in f

29、ront of you is something completely different. The most difficult Master of Wine exams include three sessions during which you have a dozen glasses in front of you and nothing more helpful than a printed exam paper asking you to identify (鉴定) each wine as closely as possible, and assess its quality.

30、 Now that the MW is behind me, I taste wine completely blind only very rarely, and never in public. So my blind tastings these days are round the dinner table with good friends and once a year when I act as a judge, with Hugh Johnson, in the Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting competition. This is the m

31、ost extraordinary match, always held before the Boat Race but taken just as seriously nowadays. This years taste-off took place at the end of last month, as usual in the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Pall Mall in London. 28. Which of the following is true about Blind tasting?A. Blind tasting is the p

32、rofessional way to identify a wine.B. Blind tasting usually has the right result.C. Blind tasting means tasting a wine with ones eyes covered.D. Blind tasting is tasting a wine without seeing the label.29. Why did the professionals get shocked at the result of their blind tasting? A. They got all the results correctly. B. They didnt recognize their favorite at all.C. The writer made no mistakes. D. Champagnes can not be