高考英語湖北省黃岡市高三模擬試卷

1、湖北省黃岡市高三4月調(diào)研考試英 語 試 題笫二部分：英語知識使用（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）第一節(jié)：多項填空（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分） 從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出能夠填入空白處的最佳選項，井在答題卡上將該項涂黑。21Beyonce, a leading_ in the music industry, gave birth to her daughter on SaturdayAstatue Bfigure Cbrand Dattraction22 The south of France has positive _for me as I used to holiday there

2、with my grandparents and cousins as a childAassociation Bcompliment C promotion Dconsequence23You can depend on it that the background of the novel is to the last detail A acute B authentic C apparent D incredible24Regardless of how you think of yourself, your social habits can easily become the thi

3、ng that you Aqualify Bjustify Cidentify Dclarify25Keeping healthy, with easy access to affordable medical care, is still a dream for many people with medicine prices rising_ Aheavily Bseriously Csharply Dstrongly26After the recent scandal（丑聞）, the Chinese Red Cross is expected to do the thing uncove

4、r the truth and try to regain public trust A deliberate Bdelicate Cdynamic Ddecent27On the annual International Volunteers Day, the world the work of millions of people who give their time to help others A abolishes Baccompanies Cacknowledges Dassesses28After that, he knew he could any emergency by

5、doing what he could to the best of his abilityAget away with Bget on with Cget through Dget across29You cant be a perfect parent, build an amazing career, make tens of money, spend a lot of time with your friend, daily at the gym and have enough time for self- growth and hobbiesAturn out Bstand out

6、Chang out Dwork out30 the phenomenon of bystander effect in the Yueyue event, most Chinese strongly believe that there still exist love and warmth in peoples heartsAIn spite of BIn addition to CBecause of DOn behalf of第二節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出能夠填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項

7、涂黑。 In the fall of 1985I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming for a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court benchTwenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed 31 and one with quite a different tale to tellMy grandma, a （n） 32 woman, graduated from college

8、 at the age of 65She was the first in our family to reach that 33 But one year after I entered college, she developed cancerI made the choice to withdraw from college to 34 herIt meant that school and my personal dream would have to 35 Then I got married with another dream： building my family from a

9、 36 of adoptd and biological childrenIn 1999, we adopted our first sonA year later came our second adopted boy 37 ,the following year ,we adopted son number three , In 2003, I gave birth to another boyYou can 38 how tolally occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of eightOur home was a co

10、mplete zoo-a joyous zooNot surpringly, I never did 39 it back to college full-timeBut I never 40 my dream either I had only one choice： make it workThat meant taking as 41 as one class each semesterThe hardest part was feeling 42 about the time I spent away from the boysThey often wanted me to 43 ho

11、me with themThere certainly were times I wanted to 44 But I knew I should set a（n ） 45 for them to follow through the rest of their livesIn 2007, I graduated from the University of North CarolinaIt took me over 21 years to get my college degree！I am not 46 just single-mindedIt always 47 me that from

12、 the 48 , challenges look huge, but when youre in the midst of them, the same ones seem 49 Not everything you want arrives in your life in one dayIts a （n） 50 ：Remember；little steps can lead to big dreams31Ajudge BstudentChousewifeDdreamer32AsensitiveBordinaryCamazingDcurious33AplanBgoalCdecisionDre

13、cord34Acare forBsearch forCcare aboutDstand for35AdropBwaitCexpectDkeep36AconnectionBrelationCcombinationDcomparison37AThereforeBThenCOtherwiseDFinally38AimagineBhopeCimplyDdoubt39AtakeBmakeCmanageDget40Aput upBpicked upCcleaned upDgave up41AfewBlittleCmuchDmany42AsatisfiedBinspiredCconfusedDguilty4

14、3AgoBleaveCreturnDstay44AbreakBcontinueCquitDrelax45AleaderBalarmCexampleDchallenge46AproudBspecialCresponsibleDusual47AhurtBoccurredCstruckDtroubled48AendBbottomCoutsideDinside49AnormalBfunnyCunbearableDstrange50AexperimentBsolutionCperformanceDprocess第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分,滿分40分） 閱讀下列短文，從每篇短文后所給各題的

15、四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the US is just 16thA new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer（暗談） future than those born in Hong Kong, Ireland and even CanadaThe EIU, a sister co

16、mpany of The Economist, attempted to measure how well countries will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in years to comePeople born in Switzerland will tend to be the happiest and have the best quality of life judged in terms of wealth, health and trust in public

17、institutions, according to the analysisThe Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark also all make the top five in a quality-of-life index （指數(shù)）where it is best to be born next yearOne of the most important factors is being rich, but other factors come into play including crime, trust in p

18、ublic institutions and the health of family lifeIn total, the index takes into account 11 factorsThese include fixed factors such as geography, others that change slowly over time such as demography（人口學(xué)）social and cultural characteristics, and the state of the world economyThe index also looks at in

19、come per head in 2030, which is roughly when children born in 2013 will reach adulthoodSmall economies dominate the top 10 countries, with Australia coming second and New Zealand and the Netherlands not too far behindHalf of the top 10 countries are European, but only one, the Netherlands, is from t

20、he eurozoneThe crisis-ridden south of Europe, including Greece, Portugal and Spain, lags behind despite the advantage of a favourable climateInterestingly, the largest European economies Germany, France and Britain do not do particularly wellNigeria has the unenviable（不值得羨慕的） title of being the wors

21、t country for a baby to enter the world in 201351According to the passage, the happiest people live in ADenmarkBSwitzerlandCGermanyDNigeria52The factors of telling the best place to be born dont include AeconomyBgeographyCtrust in public institutionsDpollution53From the passage, we know Athe Economi

22、st Intelligence Unit is a companyBthe Economist attempted to measure the best place to liveCthe Scandinavian countries are hardly at the top of the list Dhalf of the top 10 countries are from the eurozone54The purpose of the text is to show people Athe best place to be born in 2013Ba new study made

23、by the EIUCthe worst country to be born in 2013Dthe factors of measuring the best place to be bornBLast week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and I wished her every successBut part of me didnt I actually wanted her to fail in some ways becauseI believe that failure can be good for our learnin

24、g processSuccess is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which can often be a problematic victoryFirst-time success is usually a fluke（僥幸）First-time failure, by contrast, is expected to be the natural order of thingsFailure

25、is how we learnIn Africa they describe a good cook as “She who has broken many pots”If youve spent enough time in the kitchen to have broken a lot of pots, probably you know a fair amount about cookingI once had dinner with a group of cooks, and they spent time comparing knife wounds and burn scarsT

26、hey knew how much credibility their failures gave themI earn my living by writing a daily newspaper columnEach week I am aware that one column I write will be my worst I dont set out to write it; I try my best every dayI have learned to cherish that columnA successful column usually means that I am

27、discussing my familiar topic, writing in a style I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in a fancy wayMy younger daughter is a trapeze artistShe spent three years putting together a show, and she did it successfully for yearsThere was no reason for her to change it but she did any

28、wayShe said she was no longer learning anything new and she was boredAnd if she was bored, there was no point in subjecting her body to all that stressShe risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soulMy granddaughter is a perfectionisShe will feel her failures, and I wil

29、l want to comfort herBut I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next timeI hope I can tell her, though, that its not the end of the worldIndeed, with luck, it is the beginning55Why did the author want his granddaughter to fail?ASuccess is boring though benefic

30、ialBShe would learn more from failureCIts impossible to do everything successfullyDHe wanted her to be strong enough to face hardships56Whats the authors attitude toward his daughter changing her show?ANegativeBWorriedCPositiveDExcited57The author develops the article mainly by Agiving examplesBfoll

31、owing the time orderCcomparing different opinionsDpresenting a cause and analyzing its effects58The writer talked about his own experience to show that Awe cannot depend on luck to live a good lifeBwe should try every possible way to avoid failureCpast failures made him dare not take risks in writin

32、gDthe thought of failure will make you work even harderCWhat exactly is intelligence? There arent any easy answersDespite the progress that has been made in genetics and psychology, human intelligence has remained one of the most controversial areas of modern science，until now, that is, for the disc

33、overy of a gene（基因） linked to intelligence has made the experts think againRobert Plomin of the Institute of Psychiatry in London and his colleagues in the US have been looking into genetic make-upFrom their research, they have discovered that a slightly different gene is more common in those with a

34、 high IQPlomin analyzed DNA from two groups of 51 children aged between 6 and 15What he found was that the first group had an IQ of 136, putting them in the top 5% of the population, while the other group had an average IQ of 103An analysis of their genes showed that 32% of children in the higher gr

35、oup had the gene in question, while only 16% in the second group didHowever, there is a lot more research to be done, and Plomin himself is cautious at this early stageHe suggests that there are probably many genes that contribute to intelligence, rather than just oneHe suggests that there are proba

36、bly many genes that contribute to intelligence, rather than just one Several studies have shown a strong link between IQ and career success, although some psychologists remain unconvinced about thisProfessor Michael Rowe, who has written a book called Genius Explained, is one of these“The people wit

37、h the highest IQs are not usually the ones who do best in their careers”Many psychologists now believe that when it comes to intelligence, IQ isnt everythingMany alternative views have been put forward recentlyOne example is the idea of multiple intelligences, which was developed in the 1980s by Har

38、vard psychologist Howard GardnerThis offers a much broader view than the IQ theory, including creativity and communication skills as relevant factors（因素） in intelligenceTony Buzan, brain expert and author of Master your Memory, is enthusiastic about this belief, arguing that true geniuses（天才） do ind

39、eed appear to combine high levels of each type of intelligenceHe lists Alexander the Great, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein as examplesAt the same time, Buzan believes that everyone can develop their intelligence, only if they take the trouble to exercise their brainPerhaps theres hope for us all!

40、59What does the underlined word “This” in Paragraph 4 refer to?AThe development of intelligenceBThe idea of multiple intelligencesCIQ isnt everything for intelligenceDAlternative views have been put forward60Why does the author use data in Paragraph 2?ATo make a suggestionBTo draw a conclusionCTo pr

41、ove an ideaDTo give an example61What can we learn from the passage?ARobert Plomin confirms genes have something in commonBHoward Gardner thinks intelligence includes various factorsCMichael Rowe approves of a strong link between IQ and careerDTony Buzan agrees geniuses exercise brain to improve inte

42、lligence62What might be the best title of the passage?AThe relationship between genes and intelligenceBIQ benefits a lot from high intelligenceCHow to develop intelligenceDWhat makes intelligenceDPetroleum, consisting of crude oil（原油） and natural gas, seems to originate from organic matter in marine

43、 sediment（海洋沉淀物）Tiny organisms settle to the seafloor and gather in marine mudThe organic matter may partially break down, using up the dissolved oxygen in the sedimentAs soon as the oxygen is gone, decay stops and the remaining organic matter is preservedContinued sedimentation buries the organic m

44、atter and subjects it to higher temperatures and pressures, which change the organic matter to oil and gasAs muddy sediments are pressed together, the gas and small drops of oil may be squeezed out of the mud and may move into sandy layers nearbyOver millions of years, accumulations of gas and oil c

45、an collect in the sandy layersBoth oil and gas are less dense than water, so they generally tend to rise upward through rock and sedimentOil pools are valuable underground accumulations of oil, and oil fields are regions underlain by one or more oil poolsWhen an oil pool or field is discovered, well

46、s are drilled into the groundWhen the well reaches a pool, oil usually rises up the well because of its density difference（密度差） with water beneath it or because of the pressure of expanding gas trapped above itAlthough this rise of oil is almost always carefully controlled today, strong natural flow

47、s of oil were common in the pastGas pressure gradually dies out, and oil is pumped from the wellWater or steam may be pumped down neighboring wells to help push the oil outAs oil becomes increasingly difficult to find, the search for it is extended into more unfriendly environmentsThe development of

48、 the oil field on the North Slope of Alaska and the construction of the Alaska pipeline are examples of the great expense and difficulty involved in new oil discoveriesOffshore drilling platforms extend the search for oil to the oceans continental shelvesMore than one-quarter of the worlds oil and a

49、lmost one-fifth of the worlds natural gas come from offshore, even though offshore drilling is six to seven times more expensive than drilling on landOf course, there is far more oil underground than can be recoveredEven given the best exploration techniques, only about 30 to 40 percent of the oil i

50、n a given pool can be brought to the surfaceThe rest is far too difficult to reach and has to remain underground63Which of the following is true about petroleum formation? AMicroscopic organisms that live in mud produce crude oil and natural gasBLarge amounts of oxygen are needed for petroleum forma

51、tion to beginCPetroleum is formed when organic material in sediments combines with decaying organismsDPetroleum formation appears to begin in marine sediments where organic matter exists64What does the development of the Alaskan oil field mentioned illustrate? AMore petroleum is extracted from the s

52、ea than from land BDrilling for oil requires huge financial investmentsCThe global demand for oil has been increasing over the yearsDThe North Slope of Alaska has substantial amounts of oil65What does the author mainly intend to tell us in the passage? AThe formation, processing and exploration of p

53、etroleumBThe specific techniques involved in oil explorationCThe changing relationships between countriesDThe future intense situation in oil product markets66What can we infer from the passage? AAvailable exploration techniques serve our purpose of exploring oil very wellBMore and more public regio

54、ns will be further protected from being drilled in the futureCCountries may suffer from unpleasant relationships for respective benefits in exploring oilDPowerful flows of oil is a phenomenon which can be witnessed rarely nowEThe news that China bans time-travel TV dramas and movies got a lot of att

55、ention on the internet Yet, time travel in China is bit different from time travel in common senseIt is anything but science fiction and always goes backwards in timeThere is minimum imagination involved-no ever-ending circles that mess up present and future, no advanced technology, no new social or

56、ders or new human forms from the twenty-whatever century, everything is a known historical fact when you travel through in ChinaIt is not even called time travel ; rather the Chinese people refer it as time crossoverTime crossover has been an extremely popular theme for online novels for years （in fact , it is an indispensible part of Chinas online culture）, and didnt get picked u