鄂州市2019届高三摸底考试英 语

鄂州市2019届高三摸底考试 英 语

第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分40分） 第一节：多项选择（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 21. —Flight 331 is being ________. I’d better be on my way. Goodbye. —Bye. Happy landing! A. appealed B. announced C. commanded D. delivered 22. Unemployment is on the increase. A growing number of young people, ________, are finding themselves out of work. A. in case B. all in all C. in particular D. in total 23. I feel sorry for those young people who don’t ________ their aged people as I do mine. A. send for B. take for C. look for D. care for 24. It was reported that 115 miners ________ in the flooded mine for eight days were pulled out alive at last. A. transformed B. trapped C. defeated D. stained 25. Nowadays, to lose weight, more wise ladies prefer to ________ regularly rather than take expensive weight-losing pills. A. hang out B. turn up C. work out D. figure up 26. The doctor told Mary that too much ________ to the sun is bad for the skin. A. exposure B. extension C. exhibition D. expansion 27. With the help of some witnesses, three criminals were caught and asked to aid in the ________. A. interview B. investigation C. question D. request 28. It’s likely that she will be ________ from punishment, as our teacher has been convinced by her excuse. A. absent B. distant C. distinct D. desperate 29. “Separate” is the most ________ misspelt word in the English language, according to a new study of 3,500 Britons. A. badly B. casually C. definitely D. commonly 30.The conference was _______ fixed for the 10th, August, but later the unexpected landslide(泥石流) in Zhouqu in Gansu province, made us put it off. A. normally B. obviously C. originally D. presently 第二节：完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles, it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story. When James was a teenager, his father 31 him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The 32 was to get James a job. James entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the 33 had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the 34 were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying, 35 a thickened air, and the workers, 36 the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles 37 the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster .James could hardly 38 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t 39 at him, too. During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him, 40 if there was any work for his son. But 41 there was hardly enough 42 for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he took a job. Thus, for James, it was a 43 . He hated the place. He made a 44 that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought 45 to someone else, and he would never allow himself to 46 money off the seat of others. “What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him. “I don’t know,” he 47 say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like 48 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the 49 of blood. “What will you do?” 50 , my best professor I ever had became—he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody. 31. A. sent B. carried C. took D. admitted 32. A. idea B. condition C. situation D. way 33. A. lights B. walls C. chances D. doors 34. A. goods B. workers C. vehicles D. machines 35. A. sending B. creating C. taking D. disturbing 36. A. collecting B. pulling C. sewing D. drawing 37. A. as B. after C. if D. though 38. A. see B. breathe C. walk D. hear 39. A. scream B. scold C. rush D. attack 40. A. doubting B. asking C. questioning D. demanding 41. A. even B. still C. yet D. also 42. A. time B. office C. work D. occupation 43. A. comforting B. blessing C. regretting D. forgiving 44. A. request B. arrangement C. plan D. promise 45. A. injury B. harm C. damage D. inconvenience 46. A. make B. save C. pay D. let 47. A. should B. might C. could D. would 48. A. police B. lawyers C. judges D. government 49. A. sense B. feel C. sight D. scenery 50. A. Eventually B. Luckily C. Generally D. Basically

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A A new research has uncovered that culture is a determining factor when interpreting facial emotions(情感). The study reveals that in cultures where emotional control is the standard, such as Japan, focus is placed on the eyes to interpret emotions. Whereas in cultures where emotion is openly expressed, such as the United States, the focus is on the mouth to interpret emotion. “These findings go against the popular theory that the facial expressions of basic emotions can be universally recognized,” said University of Alberta researcher Dr. Takahiko Masuda. “A person’s culture plays a very strong role in determining how they will read emotions and needs to be considered when interpreting facial expression.” These cultural differences are even noticeable in computer emoticons(情感符号), which are used to convey a