湖北省荆州市2018届高三英语1月月考试题

湖北省荆州市2018届高三英语1月月考试题第一部分听力（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）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。

1.What does the woman ask John to do?A. Leave the room for a moment.B. Have a discussion with Pete.C.Get something to eat.2.How much will the speakers pay for the match?A.￡24.B.￡42.C.￡48.3.Why can't the woman pick up the man now? .A.Her car is under repair.B.She can't open the car door.C.She locked her car keys in her house.4.Where are the speakers?A.In a restaurant.B.In the man's office.C.In a theater.5.How does the man feel?A.Relieved.B.Worried.C.Angry.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，听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题。

每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出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.What are the speakers talking about?A.A notebook computer.B.A mobile phone.C.A new T-shirt.7.What can the tiny computers do?A.Receive messages.B.Switch lights on and off.C.Operate the air conditioner.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.What is the woman doing?A.Deciding on the time for a holiday trip.B.Learning about some festival customs.C.Looking through her schedule.9.When is Easter this year?A.April 6th.B.April 8th.C.April 9th.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.How will the man go to the Art Museum?A.By motorbike.B.By bus.C.By car.11.What should the man do when he comes to the third turning?A.Turn right.B.Turn left.C.Go straight.12.Where is the Art Museum?A.Opposite a bus station.B.Beside a hotel.C.Behind a bank.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.How often will the man be available to work?A.No more than two evenings a week.B.Up to three evenings a week.C.At least three evenings a week.14.Why does the man apply for a part-time job?A.To gain work experience.B.To improve his social skills.C.To earn money.15.What is the man good at?A.Solving problems.municating with people.C.Workingin a group.16.What will the man do on September 10th?A.Have a lesson.B.Work for the community.C.Meet thewoman.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.From whom did the speaker get the information of the project?A.Her neighbors.B.Her cousins.C.Her friends.18.Where did the speaker come from?A.China.B.Thailand.C.Australia.19.What does the speaker ask her family to do?A. Learn about sea animals.B. Recycle as much as possible.C.Take part in the cleaning project.20.What will One-Day Clean-up focus on January 11th next year?A. The woodlands.B. The seaside.C. he rivers. 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。

ACome See Harvard for YourselfSummer 2015 scheduleFrom August 10, 2015 to August 21, 2015, all admissions information sessions and tours will originate at Agassiz House, 5 James Street, Cambridge, MA. The schedule will feature information sessions each weekday at 10 am and 2pm, followed by tours of the campus at 11am. and 3pm. During this particular period, we expect a high volume of visitors, potentially resulting in large information sessions and tour groups. Instead, you may prefer to choose a different point in the calendar, or opt to use one of our self-guided tour maps during your visit. Traditional points of interest such as Harvard Yard, Memorial Hall, the Fogg and Peabody Museums can be found easily on any of our campus maps.Information sessions and toursAdmissions officers, often with undergraduates, present information and answer questions about admission to the college, financial aid, academics, extracurricularactivities and residential life at Harvard. Tours are led by current undergraduates and provide a perspective on daily life on campus. Admissions tours last approximately 75 minutes and focus on undergraduate life at Harvard. They are intended for students considering entrance to the College. For historical tours, visit the Harvard Information Center.Virtual tour of Harvard CollegeWe know that many students will not be able to visit colleges before applying. As an alternative, we strongly recommend our virtual tour. Student guides lead you through the places in which they live and learn, including dorm rooms, classrooms, Widener Library, the freshman dining hall and more.21. Which of the following is the best time for you to attend an admissions information session?A. 10 am, a Sunday in August.B. 11 am, a Saturday in AugustC. 2 pm, a Wednesday in August.D. 3 pm, a Friday in August.22. Who are least likely to participate in the information sessions and tours?A. admissions officers .B. undergraduates.C. potential applicants.D. professors in Harvard.23. What is an alternative for the students who can not visit Harvard before applying?A. information from a guidebook.B. an online tour of the campus.C. a letter from admissions office.D. communication with undergraduates.BGrown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced still swim as well as ever since. A man when he gets back who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star", remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: Oncewe have learned something, additional learning trials increase the length of time we will remember it.In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.The multiplication tables（乘法口诀表）are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.The law of over learning explains why cramming（突击学习）for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one's future development.24. What is the main idea of paragraph 1?A. Stories for children are easy to remember.B. Poem reading is a good way to learn words.C. Children have a better memory than grown-ups.D. People remember well what they learned in childhood.25. The author explains the law of overlearning by_________.A. presenting research findingsB. setting down general rulesC. making a comparisonD. using examples26. According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_______.A. a skill to deal with math problemsB. a special case of crammingC. a result of overlearningD. a basic step towards advanced studies27. What is the author's opinion on cramming?A. It's helpful only in a limited way.B. It leads to failure in college exams.C. It's possible to result in poor memory.D. It increases students' learning interest.CWhile taking my boat down the inland waterway to Florida a few weeks ago, I decided to tie up at Georgetown, South Carolina, for the night and visit with an old friend. As we approached the Esso dock, I saw him through my telescope standing there awaiting us. Tall and straight as an arrow he stood, facing a cold, biting wind—truly a picture of a strongman, even though his next birthday will make him eighty-two. Yes, the man was our elder statesman (政治家), Bernard Baruch.We drove off to his famous Hobcaw Barony for dinner. We sat and talked in the great living room where many famous people and statesmen, including Roosevelt and Churchill, have sat. In his eighty-second year, still a human dynamic person, Mr. Baruch talks not of the past but of present problems and the future, disapproving of and criticizing our ignorance of history, economics, and psychology. What is the secret of this great man’s value to the world at eighty-one? The answer is his unsatisfied desire to keep being productive.Two of the hardest things to accomplish in this world are to acquire wealth by honest effort and to learn how to use it properly. Recently I walked into the locker room(更衣室) of a rather well-known golf club after finishing a round. It was in the late afternoon and most of the members had left for their homes. But a half-dozen or so men past middle age were still seated at tables talking aimlessly and drinking more than was good for them. These same men can be found there day after day and, strangely enough, each one of these men had been a man of affairs and wealth, successful in business and respected in the community. If abundant material were the chief necessity for happiness, then each one should have been happy. Yet, it seemed to me, something very important was missing. They knew, each one of them, that their productivity had ceased. When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit, it is dying. And it is even so with man.What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours? I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book of Genesis which caught my eye. The words were few, but they became memorably impressed on my mind: “In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread.”To me, that has been a challenge from my earliest memories. In fact, the battleof life, of existence, is a challenge to everyone. The great words of St. Paul, too, have been and always will be a great inspiration to me. At the end of the road I want to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course,I have kept the faith.28. The passage above is most probably taken from ______.A. a photography bookB. an autobiographyC. a science fictionD. a USA travel brochure29. We learn from the passage that Bernard Baruch _____.A. was a statesman who was out of conditionB. was fond of associating with famous peopleC. held a positive attitude towards an active lifeD. kept a secret of the reason why he was so strong30. Which of the following is indicated in the 3rd and 4th paragraph?A. It's hard to judge a person's success.B. Keeping being productive keeps a man alive.C. No way can be found to escape the realities of life.D. Wealth alone will bring people life-long happiness.31. What is implied in the passage by the writer?A. If you cease to struggle, you cease to live.B. Where there is a will, there is a way.C. To use wealth properly, eat, drink and be merry.D. As life is but like a dream, a man is like a tree.DOn the occasional clear-frost autumn night, I was hiking through the dark forest with my GMO wolf. Yes, my best friend is a genetically modified organism（转基因生物）; deliberate selection has produced the blunt-toothed, small-pawed wonder that walks by my side.Our world is changing rapidly. In the last five decades, global population has fully doubled, with 3.7 billion hungry mouths added to our planet. During this sametime span, the amount of land suitable for agriculture has increased by only 5%. However, this did not result in the great global famine(饥荒) one might have predicted.How do scientists alter（改变） a plant so that it makes more food than its parents did? We could treat each harvest like a litter of wolf pups and select only plants bearing the fattest, richest seeds for the next season. This was the method our ancestors used to engineer rice, corn and wheat from the wild grasses they encountered.During my childhood, advances in genetic technologies allowed scientists to identify and clone the genes responsible for shorter, stronger plants that could bear more seeds—the high-production crops that feed us today. The 21st century has brought with it a marvelous new set of high-tech tools with which to further quicken the process of artificial selection. Plant geneticists can now directly edit out or edit in sections of DNA using molecular(分子的) scissors. We can minimize a plant’s weaknesses while adding to its strengths, and we don’t have to wait for seasons to pass to test the result.It is the transformative potential of these techniques to quickly supply the next-generation crops required for upcoming climate change that has led me to believe in the safety and function of GMO plants in agricultural products. We need more GMO research to feed the world that we are creating.I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home. But I know that as a scientist, I am responsible first to humanity. We must feed, shelter and nurture （培养）one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must take advantage of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic alteration. We must continue as before, developing the future as we feed ourselves, and each year plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered. I keep the faith of my ancestors each night when I walk through the forest to my lab, and my GMO wolf does the same when she guards my way home.32. Why does the author mention the wolf in the 1st paragraph?A. To introduce a technology used to humans’ advantageB. To persuade readers to welcome the new technologyC. To change people’s attitude towards wolvesD. To advise people to keep wolves as pets33. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?A. GMO technology will help weatherproof(防风雨的) future crops.B. With GMO technology, famine has been wiped out.C. Artificial selections make high-yield plants possible.D. The author believes technology should contribute to future generations.34. What can be learned about modifying a plant?A. It takes scientists seasons to know whether their selection is correct.B. One way for ancestors to change a plant was to clone some genes.C. Modern techniques help speed up the artificial selection by altering DNA.D. The general public show strong faith in GMO plants.35. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A. GMO Technology—Turning Wolves into the Best PetsB. Engineered Food—Feeding Future GenerationsC. Engineered Food—To Be or Not To BeD. GMO Technology—A Driving Force in World Peace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。