湖北省2016届高三上学期第一次八校联考英语试题

湖北省2016届高三上学期第一次八校联考英语试题第二部分阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AWe do not usually think about how our language works. Talking is such a natural, everyday activity that we do not often stop to consider how it actually works. When we do study our language, though, we are often surprised that we are able to understand our conversations. Words can mean so many different things. However, it turns out that the speaking situation helps a lot in making language work.F irst, the speaking situation helps make words more particular. For example, the word “dog” can describe a dog that a speaker saw in a dream. It can also be used to discuss a neighbor’s dog. No language has a separate word for the idea “dog that I saw yesterday” and another word for the idea “dog that I saw in a dream.” This is because the speaking situation makes it clear what speakers mean when they use words. So, when you have a conversation with your neighbor, the knowledge that you have a dog tells your neighbor what the word “dog” probably means in that situation.The speaking situation also helps make language clearer. For example, the word “bank” has two possible meanings. It can mean “a place where people keep money,” but it can also mean “the side of a river.” So the sentence “I went to the bank” is not clear. It could mean I went to the side of the river or it could mean I went to the place where my money is kept. However, if the speaker is talking about fishing or going to the mountains, others probably know that “bank” means “the side of a river.”The things that speakers say may not always be clear. Sometimes the words are not very particular, but the speaking situation can provide the meaning. Other times words may have many meanings. Then the speaking situation limits the right meaning. This extra knowledge from the situation is very important to understand language.21.The passage is mainly about _____.A.the best time and place to talk to othersB. how speaking situation helps language workB.what to say in difficult situations D. how our language works22.According to the passage, we can safely say that _____.A. a speaking situation does not affect the meaning of wordsB. speaking is not very natural for most peopleC. a speaking situation is not importantD. people often do not consider how talking works23. By using the example of the word “dog”, the writer wants to show that _____.A. a word may need to be explained in a conversationB. a word may have different meaningsC. speaking situation helps people understand the particular meaning of a wordD. the meaning of words is not particular24. According to the passage, we can know the meaning of the word “bank” by referring to _______.A. the time and the place where the conversation happensB. the occupation of the person who uses the wordC. earlier or later parts of the conversationD. a reliable dictionaryBI turned 16 on Friday, but the Driver’s License Office i n my small hometown was only open on Tuesday, so I had to wait through that extremely long weekend and an endless Monday before going in for my examination.I came to the Driver’s License Office half an hour earlier that Tuesday morning, pacing back and forth on the worn porch waiting for the office to open at eight. I reviewed the driver’s manual for the hundredth time. I was ready. I knew the manual backward and forward; I had made an “A” in my driver’s training course, and I was a genius behind the wheel. Finally, the door opened and a weary-looking man in a brown uniform let me in.“Let me guess. You want to take the driver’s test.” his voice was not enthusiastic.“Yes!” I answered in excitement.“Ok, fill this out, and if you pass we’ll go for a drive.”I grabbed the test and rushed to the desk where I filled it out in record time. A quick check showed that my paper wasperfect.“Let’s get in the car.” He tossed me a set of keys, and I slid behind the wheel. Everything was going smoothly as we pulled out of the empty parking lot. I signaled a right hand turn, and we were on a deserted street. This was going to be easy.“Turn left and go up Young Blood Hill,” he ordered. My hometown is in the mountains, and Young Blood Hill was almost vertical. As I eased up the steep hill and came to a stop at the top, I heard the car’s engine die. My heart sank. I would have to start it again without rolling back down the hill. I swallowed hard and turned the key; as I moved my foot from the brake, the car began to roll. I suppose I could have rolled all the way back to the bottom except for one thing. There was something behind me which stopped my roll with a rough shake and crash of glass—a police car.The policeman wrote me a ticket as I looked over the damage, and the man from the Driver’s License Office slid behind the wheel. I waited until we had parked before I asked how long a person had to wait before taking the test again.25. What time does “that Tuesday morning” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. The morning when he made an “A” in his driver’s training course.B. The morning when he knew the driver’s manual perfectly well.C. The first Tuesday morning immediately after his16th birthday.D. The Tuesday morning right before his 16th birthday.26. Why didn’t the car roll back to the bottom?A. The engine died.B. It hit a police car.C. The writer braked it hard.D. The man from the Driver’s License Office helped make it stop.27. From the underlined sentence “I grabbed the test and rushed to the desk where I filled it out in record time”, we can know that ______ .A. the writer didn’t like the man from the Driver’s License Office.B The writer was excited and eager to go for the driver’s test.C.time for the test was tight.D.the test paper was very easy.28. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. The man from the Driver’s License Office got a ticket.B. The policeman drove the car away after the accident.C. The writer failed the driving test.D. The writer didn’t want to take t he driving test again.CNANJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou will shake hands in their historic meeting scheduled in Singapore on Saturday, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday.The two-part meeting includes one session open to the media and another behind closed doors, said Zhang Zhijun, who is also head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, when interviewed at the Zijinshan Summit for Entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait.According to Zhang, Xi and Ma, as "leaders of the two sides" of the Taiwan Strait, will exchange views during the closed-door meeting.After the meeting, press conferences will be held by both sides. Later, the two leaders are expected to attend a dinner, said Zhang.Zhang said the meeting will lift cross-Strait communication to a new high.The landmark meeting is a breakthrough in face-to-face exchange and communication between the leaders across the Taiwan Strait after the relationship became strained following the events of 1949.Zhang said the meeting will improve mutual trust and allow for an exchange of opinions on handling the cross-Strait ties.In addition, the meeting will help strengthen the 1992 Consensus(共识), which was reached in talks between the two sides in 1992 and recognizes the one-China principle, and safeguards the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties, according to Zhang.Zhang added that the scheduled meeting will also benefit regional peace and stability.Also at Wednesday's summit, Chiang Pin-kung, former chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation, hailed the upcoming meeting between the two leaders as a milestone for cross-Strait ties.Chiang told the media that he believed the meeting will give a boost to the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.29. According to the article, the meeting of the two leaders will _____.A. be held at the Zijinshan Summit for Entrepreneurs across the Taiwan StraitB. be the first face-to-face communication between people across the Taiwan StraitC. improve mutual trust and benefit regional peace and developmentD. be all open to the media30. Which of the following statements about the 1992 Consensus is not true?A. It was reached in 1992.B. It recognizes the one-China principle.C. It safeguards the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.D. It is an agreement between China and Japan.31. Which of the following can best substitute the word “hailed” in the last paragraph but one?A. sang high praise forB. was concerned aboutC. was impressed withD. got well prepared for32. Which might be the right sequence of the following events?a. The two leaders shake hands in front of the media.b.The two leaders hold press conferences.c.The two leaders exchange views during the closed-door meeting.d.The two leaders have dinner together.A. a; b; c; dB. a; c; b; dC. a; d; b; cD. b; a; c; dDResearchers found that women who had given birth might have a reduced risk of death from several common conditions than those who had not, according to a study released Friday by the Imperial College London (ICL).The study, led by ICL researchers, was published in the journal BMC Medicine. It investigates the association between the so-called reproductive factors -- such as having children and breastfeeding -- and a woman's risk of death.Researchers analyzed data from 322,972 women across 10 countries, including the UK, France, Germany and Sweden, with an average age of 50.Each woman was followed for an average of 12.9 years. During this period, there were 14,383 deaths overall, which included 5,938 deaths from cancer and 2,404 deaths from circulatory system diseases, according to the study.The team compared reproductive factors with risk of death from several common conditions, such as breast cancer, stroke and heart disease.The researchers found that women who had given birth had a 20 percent reduced risk of death than those who had not. It was also found that there was a reduced risk of death (eight percent) in women who had breastfed compared to those who did not.The risk of death from cancer was lower in those that had given birth compared to those that had not. Within this group, the risk was reduced even further in women that gave birth to two or three children in comparison to those who had only one child."Hormonal mechanisms may explain the lower risk of death that we observed with breastfeeding, and having given birth, as these factors are associated with changes in hormone levels," said Dr Melissa Merritt from ICL, who led the study.33.According to the passage, the risk of death from cancer is the lowest in women who _______.A.have given birth to no child.B. have given birth to one child.B.have given birth to more than one child. D.have breastfed.34.According to the research, if a woman has given birth and breastfed, her risk of death will decrease by_____.A.20%B. 28%C. 12%D. 16%35.Which of the following might be one of the findings of the research?A.Several common conditions lead to women’s death.B.Reproductive factors are associated with changes in hormone levels.C.Women who have given birth live longer than those who have not.D.Having children might reduce women’s risk of death from some diseases.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。