2018湖北省高三4月调考英语试题
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 biggest 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 problem 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 operating 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 behind 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 starts 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. The Sun’s energy output.
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文容，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?
The Bank of English was started in 1991 by Collins and the University of Birmingham.
What is it used for?
Users can search for patterns of word combination, check word frequencies, see examples of all the uses of particular words and analyze these results so that the information which is recorded in dictionaries and other reference works is authoritative and backed up by hard evidence wherever possible. 40
A. Why was it created?
B. What goes into it? And why?
C. New data is acquired continuously.
D. The Bank of English is sold through the WordbanksOnline service.
E. It contains up-to-date English language from thousands of different sources.
F. It contains 524 million words and it continues to grow with the new material.
G. Teachers and students can use it as a basic resource for their studies and professional activity.
第三部分语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart disease.
Aunt Edith doesn’t accept defeat 41 . She began studying medical 42 in the library and found an article in a magazine about a 43 heart surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the 44 of someone with the same disease. The article said Dr. DeBakey’s fees were very high. Aunt Edith couldn’t 45 pay them. But could he 46 her of someone whose fee she could pay?
So Aunt Edith 47 to him. She simply listed her 48 for wanting to live: her three children, who would be on their 49 in three or four more years, her little girl’s 50 of traveling and seeing the world. There wasn’t a word of 51 --- only warmth and humor and the 52 of living. She mailed the letter, not really expecting an answer.
A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didn’t 53 to come in; she stood in the hall and 54 aloud: “Your beautiful letter 55 me very deeply. If you can come to Houston, there will be no 56 for either the 57 or the operation. Signed --- Michael DeBakey.”
That was seven years ago. Since then, Aunt Edith has been around the world. Her three children 58 married. For her age, she is one of the youngest, most 59 people I know --- all because of an open heart surgeon who knew how to 60 his profession, and how to open his own heart.
41. A. naturally B. simply C. clearly D. easily
42. A. reports B. history C. records D. condition
43. A. generous B. rich C. famous D. poor
44. A. life B. money C. world D. operation
45. A. always B. possibly C. certainly D. frequently
46. A. remind B. convince C. accuse D. tell
47. A. went B. wrote C. pointed D. talked
48. A. ideas B. explanations C. reasons D. expectations
49. A. behalf B. feet C. own D. way
50. A. dream B. pleasure C. tragedy D. achievement
51. A. self-confidence B. self-pity C. self-awareness D. self-centeredness
52. A. hardship B. stress C. standard D. joy
53. A. hesitate B. wait C. bother D. pause
54. A. shouted B. cried C. read D. laughed
55. A. held B. influenced C. affected D. moved
56. A. fare B. price C. charge D. cost
57. A. cure B. treatment C. doctor D. hospital
58. A. happily B. suddenly C. gradually D. fortunately
59. A. successful B. energetic C. desperate D. hardworking
60. A. honor B. join C. leave D. learn
第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号单词的正确形式。
Moving to a new school had been tough for Janie, but things were finally turning around. She was making 61 (friend) and she even received an 62 (invite) to Angie's pool party. There was one problem: Janie didn't know how to swim. Janie felt like 63 (admit) this might risk her new friendships. So she decided to go to the party and pretended that she knew how to swim. The first hour of the party went by 64 (smooth). Janie floated on a large raft (皮筏) and talked with 65 other girls. Then the girls started doing dives. Bridget did a jackknife. Angie did a can-opener. Now all eyes were fixed 66 Janie. Bridget started teasing her, "Let's see 67 you can do, Brainy Janie!" Janie didn't know how to respond. Then Angie egged her on, "Come on, Janie." Janie felt that this heavy pressure 68 (build), so she paddled to the edge of the pool and climbed out. How hard could it be? Janie thought. Angie and the other girls were eager 69 (see) what kind of wild jump Janie would attempt. Little 70 they know how wild things were going to get.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分35）
第一节短文改错(10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（ ），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Once an old man was eating a large meal at the restaurant in London. The waitress tried to provide him excellent service. Therefore, every time she brought him a dish, he was not satisfying. First he thought that the soup was too many cold when it was hot. Then he says that his steak was dry when it was soft. Later he shouted that one of her yellow hair was in the soup, but the hair was actually grey like his own. She remained patiently and continued to try to help him unless the end of the meal. When he left her a penny for a tip, she replied politely on her way out, "Thank you for the generous tip, Mister."
第二节书面表达(满分25分)
假定你是华，英国高中生Peter在中国研学时曾住在你家。Peter回国后给你寄来一本英文书，并附信感你家的热情招待，以及对你家三世同堂表示很惊讶。请你写一封信，对赠书表示感，并解释他的疑惑。
容包括：
1. 感赠送书籍；
2. 解释中国人三世同堂现象。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
2018年高三4月调考英语试题参考答案
阅读理解：ADAB DAB CABC BCDC FBECG
完形填空：DACAB DBCCA BDBCD CDABA
语法填空：
61. friends 62. invitation 63. admitting 64. smoothly 65. the
66. on 67. what 68. was building 69. to see 70. did
短文改错：
1.the—a
2. 在him后加with
3. Therefore—However
4. satisfying—satisfied
5. many去掉
6. says—said
7. hair—hairs 8. patiently—patient 9. unless—until/till
10. her—his
书面表达：
Dear Peter,
I’m so delighted to receive your letter and know you are safe back. Thank you for sending me the book, which is really a feast of western culture. I enjoy reading it very much.
Since you seem to be surprised at the fact that in China, three generations---grandparents, parents and children, often live together, it will be my pleasure to explain this phenomenon to you. As our
living conditions improve, it’s unnecessary for several generations to live together any more. However, many Chinese still tend to live together because they can help and care for each other. Besides, by living together, all family members can develop a strong sense of belonging, as well as strengthen their emotional bonds.
Hope to host you in China again. Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua