武汉市2018届高中毕业生四月调研测试

武汉市2018届高中毕业生四月调研测试

英语试卷

本试题卷共12页,72题。全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟

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When I graduated from the University of lowa last year, I did something my friends did not understand. I left lowa,，where I had friends and stability, to live on a small houseboat near San Francisco. At school, I had found a job driving a school bus so people asked, "Why on earth are you leaving”

Well，at graduation I was presented with two things — a degree in psychology and a question. It was the same one that many in my generation got:：" What do I do now" It was as difficult as it was common .That's because many people at my age were raised with the same words, repeated over and over by parents, teachers and TV, that you “can be whatever you want to be”As a young boy, every time when I was puzzled about my future, they would say that they would be happy if I was happy. However, what I needed was concrete advice but not a vague idea, for example, "be a doctor, or be a bus driver."

My experience was by no means universal. Many Americans are taught by their parents that the only purpose in life is to attain money and power. As a goal, this seems much easier and clearer than finding "happiness" or "gentleness". The result of this upbringing is that many of my classmates did not specialize in any particular skill, rather assuming that something would magically happen to overcome their problems. They often get a real shock when they enter the

“real world” and find that their options are very limited. Many of my friends have taken jobs as waiters or cooks after graduating, or have moved back in with their parents.

My life on the boat is hard at times, especially during storms. But this is my small attempt to be happy on my own. I'm not buying into my nation’s idea of limitless possibilities because I feel that stops the growth of today’s youth.

was the friends confused about the writer’s leaving

A. He was tired of driving

B. He suddenly quit school

C. He would lose his friends

D. He would lead a changing life.

26. What does the author think of the guidance he got from American society

A. It's specific

B. It’s wrong

C. It's general

D. It’s correct

27. What directly caused a lot of Americans to have jobs lower than their expectations

A. Their achievable goals.

B. The practical guidance.

C. Being shocked by the real world.

D. Lacking professional competence.

28. Which of the following can be the best title for the text

A. Stay where you are.

B. Be whatever you want to be.

C. Blind faith in an industrial society.

D. Mistaken belief in limitless possibilities.

D

When a mathematics student was examined in the hospital, Dr. John Lorber discovered that he had almost no brain at all. Normally, the condition is quite severe in the first months of childhood. Even when someone survives he or she is usually seriously disabled. Somehow，though, the student had lived a perfectly normal life and went on to gain a degree in mathematics. This case is by no means as rare as it seems.

Professor Lorber has identified(确认) several hundred people who have very small brains but who appear to be normal intelligent people. Some of them he describes as having "no detectable brain", yet they have scored up to 120 on IQ tests.

No one knows how people with "no detectable brain" are able to function at all, let alone graduate in mathematics. One suggestion is the old idea that we only use a small percentage of our brains anyway—perhaps as little as 10 per cent. But more recent research shows this idea is a misunderstanding dating from research in the 1930s in which the functions of large areas of the brain could not be determined and were named "silent", while in fact they are linked with

important functions like speech and abstract thinking.

The other interesting thing about lorber's findings is that they remind us of the secret of memory. At first it was thought that there is a part in the brain for memory, like the memory chips in a PC. But further research of the brain has turned up the surprising fact that memory does not depend on any particular area in the brain. As one scientist put it ，“Memory is everywhere in the brain and nowhere.”

But if the brain is not a place for classifying and storing experiences and analyzing them to enable us to live our lives,

then what on earth is the brain for And where is the seat of ht

then what on earth is the brain for And where is the seat of human intelligence Where is the mind

29. What will usually happen to a very young baby without brain

A. It will die.

B. It will survive

C. It will be intelligent

D. It will become disabled

is the new finding of the functions of brain

A. Much of the brain is useful

B. The brain is in fact of no use

C. The brain determines one's IQ.

D. Only a small part of the brain

七选五

These days when someone says a computer has a bug（臭虫）in it，usually they means that there’s a problem with one of its programs. Maybe your computer crashed when you were in the middle of a game. 36 .

But back in the early days of computers, a woman named Grace Hopper was part of the team that discovered the very first computer bug.

37 She had been invited to help program a new computer. The job of which was to quickly deal with the math problems ships used to find their way. 38 .Then it translated the patterns of holes into the math problems it was supposed to solve.

One afternoon in 1947 Hopper and her team were running a program. But the computer wasn't giving them the right results. 39 They finally ended up taking the computer apart，looking for problems. What did they find It was a dead moth(飞蛾)! The moth was blocking some of the holes on the paper— no wonder the computer didn‘t know what to do.

Hopper knew that the term "bug" had been used before when there were problems with machines. But this was the first time a computer had ever had a bug. 40 Some people think Hopper was the first person to use the word "debug" to mean "get rid of the problems in a computer”.

A What could be wrong

B. Hopper was a mathematician

C. Who had operated the computer

D. Hopper was a hardworking scientist

E. She thought it was funny that it was a real one.

F Or you got an error message when you tried to go to a website

G. The computer worked by reading instructions from a long piece of paper with holes in it

短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

I once had a bad experience. One day several years ago, I went shop with my friends. As l entered a small shoe store, but I saw two women selecting shoes. Suddenly they raise their voice and began to talk loudly about how beautifully the shoes were and how low the price was. Just then an old couple walked onto the s hop. The two women urged her to buy a pair .When the couple left a store with the shoes, I noticed the shop owner give the two women some cashes. He also promised offer them more unless more people bought his shoes.

完形填空(共20小题;每小题分,满分30分)

Justin knew there was only one way out of his neighborhood- basketball. So he 41 hard, running with the ball like the 42 dogs were chasing(追逐) him. He could defeat any of the guys at the 43 ，and he saw his way out and he ran for it..

One day when Justin was playing basketball, he 44 his right knee badly. The doctor said he might never play 45 . Justin was extremely sad. Every day Justin just 46 in bed, watching TV and eating potato chips. When he 47 like a balloon, his sister came home from the university on holiday, bringing exciting 48 of a faraway land called college.

Justin was 49 by the dorm room stories and campus(校园)50 that she told, but he could 51 believe any of it. It was as if she were telling him about some 52 land high above the clouds.

Justin was a pretty 53 guy, but his sister had a way of 54 him to do things that nobody else could. So while she was home on 55 , they studied together, and they talked ，and they worked, and Justin felt 56 than he ever had before.

After spending those 57 with his sister, Justin realized that he didn't want to feel bad for himself any more ,and he didn't want to quit Basketball 58 be his thing, but now there was only 59 . Using the study skills Justin had acquired from his sister, he scored 60 in every exam. The university that he applied to accepted him.