2018湖北省高三4月调考英语试题复习过程
第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)
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。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C。
1. What does the woman think about the food in China?
A. It’s not good.
B. It’s fatty.
C. It’s delicious.
2. What is Frank looking for?
A. His money.
B. A film ticket.
C. An envelope.
3. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A Sunday plan
B. A sports meeting.
C. A school trip.
4. Where is the man going to?
A. The Zoo Road.
B. The Park Road.
C. The King Road.
5. How is Alice’s weekend?
A. Dull.
B. Average.
C. Interesting.
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。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。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Which room does Susan stay in?
A. Room 302.
B. Room 305.
C. Room 310.
7. What is Susan?
A. A clerk.
B. A guard.
C. A tour guide.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What time will they go to see the Smiths?
A. At 4:15.
B. At 4:00.
C. At 3:30.
9. Where will they meet?
A. At the bus stop.
B. At Jack’s sister’s.
C. Opposite the cinema.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What does the man think of Professor Holt’s class?
A. It’s boring.
B. It’s attractive.
C. It’s ordinary.
11. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Teacher and student.
B. Colleagues.
C. Schoolmates.
12. What do we know about Professor Vance and Professor Holt?
A. They’re the same.
B. They’re different.
C. They’re outstanding.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the girl going to rent?
A. A house.
B. A room.
C. A flat.
14. How would the girl like to go to school?
A. By car.
B. By bus.
C. On foot.
15. What was the girl’s feeling about the first year in the university?
A. It was amazing.
B. Life was boring.
C. The food was terrible.
16. Who does the university provide accommodation for?
A. All the students.
B. The second year students.
C. The first year students.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How many women drivers wear sunglasses while driving?
A. 12 million.
B. 12.8 million.
C. 14.4 million.
18. What do experts suggest?
A. Buying thick sunglasses.
B. Considering safety first.
C. Wearing pink sunglasses.
19. What percentage of women drivers are against the law due to sunglasses?
A. 7 %.
B. 82%.
C. 10%.
20. What is the probable reason for women to buy sunglasses?
A. Road safety.
B. Practical use.
C. Better appearance.
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Taking your English into the real world
There is nothing quite like trying out your English in a country where the natives speak it fluently. Chen Yuan, a 24-year-old senior from Fudan University, Shanghai, faced a series of challenges while visiting Europe, Australia and the US.
What was the first thing you noticed when you arrived?
When I first arrived, my big gest problem was that I didn’t know any slang terms (俚语). I was greeting people with, "How are you?" while everyone else was saying, "What’s up?" I was finding it hard to communicate with local people even when they used simple words.
What were the differences between the English you learned in the classroom, and the English you had to use abroad?
In the classroom I would remember patterns of speech. I knew that when someone asked, "How are you?" I should reply, "Fine, thank you. And you?" The probl em came when people replied to me in different ways. I didn’t know how to continue the conversation.
What was the hardest thing to adapt to?
Life in the West is very different. In the US I found it hard to travel about, as there was not much public transport. In New York there may be a subway, but it was hard to find a bus. In some smaller cities, everyone drove a car. It is not easy for a backpacker to travel around these places. I also didn’t enjoy a lot of the food, because I think I was too used to Chinese cooking.
Tell us a funny story from your time abroad
When I first arrived in Britain, I wanted to buy some shoes, but didn’t know the word for pigskin or leather. I asked the salesman, "Are the shoes made of beef or pork?" I still remember the look on his face.
21. What was Chen Yuan’s biggest barrier when she first arrived abroad?
A. How to communicate.
B. How to travel.
C. What to eat.
D. What to buy.
22. What probably was the root of her communication problems?
A. The way she greeted people
B. The way people replied to her
C. The way she started a conversation
D. The way she learned English in class
23. Which means of transport worried Chen Yuan in New York ?
A. Bus.
B. Car.
C. Subway.
D. Railway.
24. Where can we most probably find this article?
A. In a travel brochure.
B. In a daily newspaper.
C. In a historical novel.
D. In a fashion magazine.
B
I had an unannounced visit from an unwelcome guest last night. My PC was hit by a virus and I spent all night dealing with the mess it caused. I don’t really know when it happened but the problems just started coming out suddenly last night.
Luckily I had just backed up all my documents a week before but I’m still working on getting the operatin g system up and running. When I set up the computer a few years ago I went through and created recovery CDs, so I’m trying to use those to recover the PC back to the way it was out of the box.
I’m not exactly sure how the virus came onto my PC but I was be hind on both my anti-virus updates and Windows updates so I imagine that had something to do with it. This was not exactly the way I was planning on spending my evening and morning. I absolutely hate wasting time on productivity (生产率) black holes like this. I wonder how many hours of productivity are lost each year due to the effects of viruses.
Anyhow, it may be a day or two before I’m back up and going again. Needless to say there will be some upcoming mails on backing up your data, keeping current (现在的) on your updates, and a review of the best anti-virus software.
25. What happened to the author’s computer?
A. The software was lost.
B. His documents were stored.
C. Someone came and stole it.
D. A deadly virus dropped by.
26. Why did the author hate productivity black holes so much?
A. His time was wasted.
B. They ruined all the files.
C. His PC was out of the box.
D. He was behind on updates.
27. What will the author have to do before the problem is solved?
A. Buying software.
B. Updating software.
C. Reviewing the data.
D. Creating recovery CDs.
C
We’re used to watching the price of oil mock gravity, but there’s an even more necessary product that’s also become scarcer and more expensive in recent months: Traders are paying record prices for wheat on world markets, thanks in part to shortages caused by a mix of droughts (干旱) and flooding. Canada, the second-biggest wheat producer after the U.S., looks set to harvest its smallest crop in five years, due to an unusually dry July, while production in the European Union and Australia may be down nearly 40% from last year after flooding rains followed long droughts. Growing global demand for biofuels is also eating up grain production, and putting up prices.
As a result of the supply squeeze, global stores of wheat — which makes up one-fifth of the world’s food intake — are expected to fall to their lowest level in 26 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Tighter supplies mean American consumers will be paying a few cents more for everything from bread to sandwiches to hamburgers, as meat supplies can be tied to grain prices. And, if the world warms as expected over the coming decades, the terrible farming year of 2016 may be just the beginning. As temperatures rise, many studies predict that crop productivity will decline, as the extreme droughts and floods that damaged this year’s wheat crops become more common. The richest land is likely to be found further north in response to the heat, opening up the possibility of agriculture in areas such as Siberia that has long been too cold for good farming. But the same effect could turn today’s bread-basket regions as the American Midwest into dust bowls.
28. Which of the following can best replace the underlined part “mock gravity” in Paragraph1?
A. change
B. close
C. increase
D. decrease
29. Which area is thought to produce the most wheat in the world?
A. U.S.
B. Canada.
C. Australia.
D. European Union.
30. What does the author suggest by mentioning Siberia in the last paragraph?
A. Food prices will shoot up.
B. Extreme weather might stay.
C. It used to be suitable for farming.
D. Farming methods have improved.
31. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Crop productivity.
B. Extreme weather.
C. Wheat shortage.
D. Severe droughts.
D
There have been claims that warming on Mars and Pluto is proof that the recent warming on Earth is caused by an increase in solar activity, and not by greenhouse gases. But we can say with certainty that, even if Mars, Pluto or any other planet has warmed in recent years, it is not due to changes in solar activity.
The Sun’s energy output has not increased since direct measurements began in 1978. If increased solar output really was responsible, we should be seeing warming on all the planets and their moons, not just Mars and Pluto.
Our solar system has eight planets, three dwarf planets and quite a few moons with at least a thin atmosphere, and thus a climate of sorts. Their climates will be affected by local factors such as orbital variations, changes in reflectance and even volcanic eruptions, so it would not be surprising if several planets and moons turn out to be warming at any one time.
One theory is that winds have recently swept some areas of Mars clean of dust, darkening the surface, warming the Red Planet and leading to further increases in windiness --- a positive feedback effect.
Observations of the thickness of Pluto’s atmosphere in 2002 suggested the dwarf planet was warming even as its orbit took it further from the Sun. The finding confused astronomers at the time, and the cause had yet to be determined.
It has since been suggested that this is due to a greenhouse effect: As it gets closer to the Sun, Pluto may warm enough for some of the methane ice on its surface to turn into a gas. This would cause further warming, which would continue for a while even after Pluto’s orbit st arts to take it away from the Sun.
32. What cause(s) the warming of some planets?
A. The solar system.
B. Their local factors.
C. Volcanic mountains.
D. The thin atmosphere.
33. What is the outcome of the recent winds on Mars?
A. They’ve cooled the planet.
B. They’ve left a clear sky.
C. They’ve caused more winds.
D. They’ve helped clean the planet.
34. What do we know about the thickness of Pluto’s atmosphere?
A. It remains mysterious.
B. It troubled astronauts.
C. It has become thinner.
D. It contributes to the warming.
35. Which of the following might lead to the warming on Earth according to the writer?
A. Solar activity.
B. Mars and Pluto.
C. Greenhouse gases.
D. T he Sun’s energy outpu t.
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The Bank of English is a collection of modern English language held on computer for analysis of words, meanings, grammar and usage.
How big is it?
36 Research by Collins Cobuild over the last twenty years has shown that very large samples of text are necessary for proper linguistic (语言学) study.
37
This huge collection consists of many different types of writing and speech. 38 Written texts come from newspapers, magazines, fiction and non-fiction books, brochures, reports, and websites. Spoken material comes from television and radio broadcasts, meetings, interviews, discussions, and conversations. The Bank of English provides evidence about the English which people read, write, speak and hear every day of their lives.
How is it updated and developed?
39 Material is downloaded from websites, and daily feeds are received from many newspapers.
When was it founded?