1、湖北省黄冈市黄冈中学学年高三月考英语试题二 Word版含答案 黄冈中学2017-2018学年高三年级英语十二月月考试题注意事项：试卷分卷（选择题）和卷（非选择题), 满分150分。考试时间120分钟。第卷第一部分 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 will the man do next? A. Talk with Mr. Black. B.
2、 See an engineer. C. Attend a meeting.2. What will the woman probably eat? A. Some nuts. B. Some cookies. C. Some fruit.3. What did the man ask Justin to do? A. Bring some magazines. B. Design a magazine cover. C. Read the magazines on his table.4. When did the man get home last night? A. At 11:20.
3、B. At 11:30. C. At 12:00.5. Where is the woman going? A. To a lamp factory. B. To a repair shop. C. To a garage.第二节（共15小题；每题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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. What are the speakers
4、talking about? A. An exam. B. A course. C. A lecture.7. What topic did the essay question cover? A. Walt Whitmans poems. B. Mark Twains novels. C. Arthur Millers plays.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. Why does the woman make the call? A. To change her flight. B. To book an air ticket. C. To check her flight.9
5、. What is the actual flying time to New York? A. 9 hours. B. 14 hours. C. 16 hours.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. At a gas station. B. At a garage. C. At a car factory.11. Which part of the car exists potential risk? A. The tire. B. The radiator (散热器).
6、C. The windshield (挡风玻璃).12. How does the woman pay? A. In cash. B. By credit card. C. By check.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. What was the womans first job? A. A teacher. B. An actress. C. An artist.14. How did the children react towards the play about a lion? A. They were frightened. B. They laughed ab
7、out it. C. They complained to their parents.15. How does the womans daughter help her? A. Perform in the shows. B. Record the music for the shows. C. Give opinions on the new stories.16. What contributes most to the success of the womans shows? A. Her luck. B. Her passion. C. Her intelligence.听下面一段独
8、白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. How long did Dennis Tito stay at the International Space Station? A. 10 days. B. 14 days. C. 22 days.18. Where is Kate from? A. Canada. B. The UK. C. Australia.19. What does Ben want to do? A. Travel on earth. B. Take action to protect the earth. C. Explore in space and discover
9、its secrets.20. What does the speaker expect the listeners to do? A. Show respect for Dennis and Martin. B. Collect information about astronauts. C. Share opinions about space travel. 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, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。AIt was on the early afternoon of a
10、mid-October day in 2015. Bismark Mensah, who came to America several months ago, was collecting carts (手推车) outside a Wal-Mart in Federal Way. It was a part-time job for him. He earned $9.05 an hour by getting carts out of the parking lot.He was used to finding stuff in carts that customers had some
11、how forgotten keys, credit cards, wallets. And he turned them into a customer service. But a particular item stood out. It was a white envelope with a clear window in the middle, and there was a lot of cash in it, around $20,000. Mensah turned them into the customer service. Because of what he did t
12、hat afternoon, Mensah is now the winner of Wal-Marts national 2015 “Integrity (正直) in Action Award”.Bismark Mensah says that since the story ran, he has become the model for the youth in Ghana (his native country). He is now employed full-time at the Federal Way Wal-Mart, earning $10.95 an hour, up
13、from the $9.05 an hour he earned working part-time.Mensah, 33, no longer collects carts and such. He is in the backroom, dealing with inventory(库存). “I want to learn everything about operating a store like Wal-Mart store,” he says. He plans to return to Ghana to run some shops owned by his family. H
14、e also plans to go to college and earn a degree in business administration.21. What does Mensah do in Wal-Mart now? A. Collecting carts. B. Dealing with inventory. C. Checking out at a customer service . D. Ensuring Wal-Marts security.22. Whats Mensahs future plan? A. To teach in college. B. To run
15、his own shops. C. To earn a degree in arts. D. To work in a big factory.23. What can be inferred from the passage? A. Mensah comes from a poor family in Ghana. B. Mensah can hardly make himself understood in America.C. Mensah will help set up some Walmart branches in Ghana. D. Mensah has set an exam
16、ple for the youth in his own country.24. What lesson can we learn from the story of Mensah? A. Its never too late to learn. B. Dont judge by appearance. C. Honesty is a valuable quality. D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.解析：考点：日常生活类 记叙文难度系数：2.5文章大意：疑问叫做Bismark Mensah的加纳年轻人在美国一家沃尔玛超市上班，负
17、责收集购物手推车。有一次他发现有人在手推车里遗失了大量现金，并且主动交给了服务台。他因为自己的正直而成为了家乡人的好榜样。21. 答案：B。考点：细节理解题。解析：由第四段Mensah, 33, no longer collects carts and such. He is in the backroom, dealing with inventory.可知答案选B。22. 答案：B。考点：细节理解题。解析：由第四段He plans to return to Ghana to run some shops owned by his family.可知答案选B。23. 答案：D。考点：推理判断
18、题。解析：由第三段he has become the model for the youth in Ghana (his native country).可知答案选B。24. 答案：C。考点：主旨大意题。解析：本文讲了Mensah拾金不昧的故事，可知答案选B，诚实是一个宝贵的品质。 B. At home, ordering food from a menu is a normal, everyday routine. I dont even give it a second thought. In China, its a whole other story! Here, ordering i
19、s a fun game of trial and error, and the adventure begins before the food is even served! Many restaurants in central Beijing advertise “English language menus”, but the translations can just add to the confusion. Although accompanying pictures can be a helpful relief, the translations often make th
20、e whole experience even more amusing. During my first few weeks in China I tried some delicious dishes with off-the-wall names. As an experiment, my friends and I would order things like “students addicted to chicken gristle (软骨)” and “red burned lion head”. It was always fun to see what landed on o
21、ur table. Eventually we learned that “lion head” was actually pork, and “students” are “addicted” to diced (切碎的) chicken with green pepper. Recently, I came across a busy restaurant down a narrow side street in a Beijing hutong. It was lunchtime and the small room was packed with people sitting on s
22、mall stools (凳子) eating noodles. I was hungry and cold, and the steaming bowls looked irresistible! I sat myself down and called out for a “caidan!” In response, the waitress pointed to a wall at the back of the restaurant. The wall was full of Chinese characters describing numerous dishes. There wa
23、s only one sentence in English: “crossing over the bridge noodles”. I had never heard of the dish and had no idea what it would taste like. I took agamble and ordered one bowl of “crossing over the bridge noodles”. A few minutes later the waitress carried over a heavy bowl full of broth (肉汤) and I q
24、uickly dug in. It was the best bowl of noodles I had ever tasted! I have been back again and again and each time I point at the one English sentence “crossing over the bridge noodles”. I always enter a restaurant in China feeling excited and a little nervous. Who knows what the next ordering adventu
25、re will show?25. How does the writer find the English-language menus in many of Beijings restaurants? A. Confusing but amusing. B. Easy to understand. C. Boring and annoying. D. Accurate and helpful.26. The underlined word “gamble” in the last paragraph probably means _. A. taste B. look C. step D.
26、risk27. The passage deals with _. A. the authors favorite Chinese dishes B. the fun the author had ordering food in Chinas restaurant C. a comparison between Western food and Chinese food D. the correct way to translate the names of Chinese dishes into English28. The passage is developed mainly in t
27、he form of _. A. examples and statements B. comparison and conclusion C. causes and effects D. time and description解析：考点：日常生活类 记叙文难度系数：3.5文章大意：作者在自己国家点菜是再普通不过的一件事，可是在中国，特别是有英语菜单的中国餐馆，点菜却是一个充满冒险的有意思的过程，并且举了几个点菜的例子。25. 答案：A。考点：细节理解题。解析：由第二段but the translations can just add to the confusion. 与the trans
28、lations often make the whole experience even more amusing.可知答案选A。26. 答案：D。考点：词义猜测题。解析：由第四段开头可知我没有听过“正在过桥的面条”这道菜，也完全无法想象这会是什么味道，接着说自己took a gamble并且点了一碗。没想到味道还非常不错。因此中间应该是想试试看的意思，选择D，冒险。27. 答案：B。考点：主旨大意题。解析：文章第一段结尾Here, ordering is a fun game of trial and error, and the adventure begins before the fo
29、od is even served!就点明了本文的写作目的。答案选B。28. 答案：A。考点：篇章结构题。解析：本文作者认为在有英语菜单的中国餐馆，点菜是一个充满冒险的有意思的过程，并且举了几个点菜的例子。注意不要看到第二段的during my first few weeks in China与第三段开头的Recently迷惑，而选择了D项。时间顺序的描写多指故事、历史事件、人物传记等的描写。 C. “You get excited about everything because you were born in the summer!” Does that sound like somet
30、hing your grandparents used to say to you? Of course, youre a learned person who doesnt believe in such things. But scientists now say that it might not all be superstition (迷信). Researchers from Semmelweis University in Hungary recently asked 366 university students to fill out a questionnaire. The
31、 answers given included things like “My mood often changes for no reason”, “I love to deal with new projects, even if theyre risky ”, and “I complain a lot”. They then compared students answers to their birthdays. They found that the season of your birth may have some effect on who you are. Researchers found that people born in the summer were more likely to quickly change between sad and happy emotions. People born in the winter, however, were less likely to become angry. Spring birthdays w
