（整理版高中英语）十二校高三第一次联考

1、湖南十二校高三第一次联考英 语 试 题Part I Listening Comprehension 30 marksSection A 225 marksDirections: In this section you'll hear six conversations between two speakersFor each conversation, there are several questions and each question is followed by 3 choices marked A, B and CListen carefully and then choo

2、se the best answer for each questionYou will hear each conversation TWICEConversation 11What are the speakers doing most probably?AHaving an interviewBWorking in the officeCAsking for information2What will the woman do next Monday?AVisit the man's officeBGo to see her colleagueCHand over charge

3、of her officeConversation 23What might the man be?AThe lady's husbandBA school teacherCA warm-hearted taxi driver4Why is the man so worried?AHis car has broken downBHis leg is injuredCHe needs to send the lady to the hospitalConversation 35What does the man use the Internet for?AEditing articles

4、BContacting clientsCCommunicating with readers6When does the woman stop using the computer?AWhen she is eating an appleBWhen she is drinking some waterCWhen she is answering the phoneConversation 47What's the man doing when the woman calls him?AReading a poem BWriting a book CReading a novel8Why

5、 doesn't the woman like reading novels?ABecause it takes too much timeBBecause it requires less attentionCBecause novels don't tell deep meanings9What does the man like least?ANovels BPoems CShort storiesConversation 510What did the man want to buy at first?AA mini burger BA dragon twister C

6、A medium coke11How much does the man need to pay for the coke with the large fries?ANine yuan BFourteen yuan CTwenty-four yuan12Where does the man want to go?ATo the bank BTo the post office CTo the supermarketConversation 613Where does the conversation most probably take place?AAt an airportBAt the

7、 woman's homeCAt the office14Who has booked the ticket for Jack?AThe woman BTom CHe himself15When is Jack invited to dinner?AThis Friday BThis Thursday CNext ThursdaySection B 75 marksDirections: In this section, you will hear a short passageListen carefully and then fill in the numbered blanks

8、with the information you've heardFill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDSYou will hear the short passage TWICEPart II Language Knowledge 45 marksSection A15 marksDirections: Beneath each of the following sentences there are 4 choices marked A, B, C andDChoose one answer that best complet

9、es the sentence21I got to know later that it was three o'clock _ he left thereAthat Bwhen Csince Dbefore22Mo Yan grew up listening to folk tales that _ for centuries in his hometownAhad been told Bhas been toldChave been told Dhad told23_ such a good chance, why not have a try?AGiving BHaving gi

10、venCGiven DTo be given24Young people who have got jobs may realize that university lessons can't be the only preparation for all of the situations _ appear in the working worldAwhere Bwhat Cthat Dwhen25We _ the difficulty together, but why didn't you tell me?Ashould face Bmight faceCmust hav

11、e faced Dcould have faced26Some of the rubbish, such as food, paper and iron, _ away over a long period of timeArot Brots Cis rotting Dare rotted27Who did the teacher _ the article?TomAhave write Bhave writtenChad written Dhas writing28What do you think has caused his heart attack?It is_Abecause of

12、his overweight Bdue to his being overweightChis being overweight Dhe is so overweight29He lost his job last week, but he seems happyI think he _ to put on a brave faceAis trying Btries Ctried Dhas tried30_we promise continuous increase in rural incomes _improve the whole people's well-beingAOnly

13、 if; we can BIf only; can weCOnly if; can we DUnless; we can31It is better to lose one's life than _Aif you lose your spirit Bto lose one's spiritClosing his spirit Dyour spirit getting lost32The writer and professor, who I often refer to at the meetings,_popular among those peopleAwere Bare

14、 Cwas Dis33Here is a notebook, in which _ the names of the visitorsAwrite Bwas written Cwere written Dwritten34We should respect food and think about the people who don't have _we have here and treat food nicelyAwhat Bwhich Cthat Dwhether35I don't think the lady can complete the difficult jo

15、b alone, _?Adon't I Bdo I Ccan't she Dcan sheSection B 18 marksDirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B,C andDFill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the contextAn old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his yo

16、ung grandson Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table 36 his Bhagavat Geeta 薄伽梵歌His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he couldOne day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavat Geeta just like you but I don't unders

17、tand itand I forgot what I did understand as soon as I closed the bookWhat 37 does reading do?"The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water"The boy did as he was told, but all the

18、 water 38 before he got back to the houseThe grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little more 39 next time" Then he sent the boy back to the river with the basket to try againThis time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was 40 before he returned home41 ，he told hi

19、s grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket insteadThe old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of waterYou're just not trying hard enough" 42 he went out of the door to watch the boy try againThe boy again dipp

20、ed the basket into river and ran hard, but when he 43 his grandfather the basket was again emptyOut of breath, he said"See Grandpa, it's useless!""So you think it is useless?" The old man said, " Look at the basket"The boy looked at the basket and for the first time

21、 realized that the basket was 44 It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now 45 ,inside and out"Son, that's what 46 when you read the Bhagavat GeetaYou might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be 47 , inside and outThat is the work of

22、Krishna Guruji in our lives"36Ashowing Barranging Cwriting Dreading37Atask Bharm Cgood Dimportance38Aran away Bgot off Cset out Dleaked out39Aquietly Bquickly Cslowly Dcarefully40Aempty Bbroken Cheavy Ddirty41AHopefully BHappilyCOut of breath DOut of control42AThis time BAt a timeCAhead of time

23、 DAt the same time43Areached Bleft Cfollowed Dasked44Awet Bdifferent Cworn-out Dnew45Alight Bpopular Cclean Dcomplete46Ameans Bmatters Ctakes Dhappens47Ainstructed Bchanged Creminded DinterestedSection C C12 marksDirections: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one wordthat b

24、est fits the contextSome doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerousThey believe those who express anger violently may be 48_likely to develop heart disease, and they believe that those who keep their anger 49_ may face a greater danger of high blood pressureDoctors say 50

25、_ solution is learning how to deal with angerThey say the first step is to admit that you are angry 51_ to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide 52_ the cause is serious enough to get angry 53_If it is, they say, "Do not express your anger 54_ angryWait until your anger has cooled

26、down and you are able to express 55_calmly and reasonably"Doctors say a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angryThey say that laughter is much healthier than angerPart Reading Comprehension 30 marksDirections: Read the following three passagesEach pa

27、ssage is followed by several questions or unfinished statementsFor each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and DChoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passageAThere are records of fingerprints being taken many centuries agoThe ancient Babylonians pressed t

28、he tips of their fingerprints into clay to record business tradeThe Chinese used ink-on-paper finger impressions for business However, fingerprinting wasn't used as a method for identifying criminals until the 19th centuryIn 1858, Sir William Herschel was working as an official of the Hooghly di

29、strict in Jungipoor, IndiaIn order to reduce fraud 诈骗, he had people living in the district record their fingerprints when signing business documents A few years later, Scottish doctor Henry Faulds was working in Japan when he discovered fingerprints left by artists on ancient pieces of clayThis fin

30、ding inspired him to begin investigating fingerprintsIn 1880, Faulds wrote to his cousin, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, and asked for help with developing a fingerprint classification systemDarwin refused, but sent the letter to his cousinSir Francis Gallon, who was an eugenicist 优生学生家Gallon

31、 began collecting fingerprints and eventually gathered some 8, 000 different samples to analyze In 1892, he published a book called "Fingerprints", in which he outlined a fingerprint classification systemthe first existenceAround the same time, Juan Vucetich, a police officer in Buenos Air

32、es, Argentina, was developing his own version of a fingerprinting systemIn 1892, Vucetich was called in to assist with the investigation of the two boys murdered in Necocheaa village near Buenos AiresTheir mother, Francisca Rojas, accused a neighbour named VelasquezBut when Vucetich compared the fin

33、gerprints found at the murder scene to those of both Velasquez and Rojas, they matched Rojas' exactlyShe admitted her crimeThis was the first time fingerprints had been used in a criminal investigationVucetich called his system comparative dactyloscopy指纹鉴定法It's still used in many Spanish-spe

34、aking countriesSir Edward Henry, in charge of the Metropolitan Police of London, soon became interested in using fingerprints to catch criminalsIn 1896, he added to Gallon's technique, creating his own classification system, the Henry Classification SystemIt is the primary method of fingerprint

35、classification throughout most of the world56What is the text mainly about?AThe history of fingerprintingBDifferent uses of fingerprintsCCountries that first used fingerprintsDThe way to collect and analyze fingerprints57Herschel had people record their fingerprints so as to_Adevelop a fingerprintin

36、g systemBcollect and study fingerprintsCput them on pieces of clayDprevent illegal business58Who first came up with the idea of creating a fingerprint classification system?AHerschel BFaulds CDarwin DGalton59The underlined word "they" in Paragraph 4 probably refers to "_"Athe cri

37、mes Bthe two boysCthe fingerprints Dthe police officers60We can learn from the text that _AHenry's classification system is based on Gallon'sBFaulds collected many fingerprints while in JapanCDarwin showed great interest in studying fingerprintsDVucetich's fingerprinting system is still

38、used all over the worldBDo you know the following expressions?Homeric laughterThe "Homer" in this expression is the Greek poet who wrote The Iliad and The OdysseyPeople laugh differentlySome laugh silently, while others tend to laugh loudly"Homeric laughter" refers to laughter of

39、 the latter kindIt is at times uncontrollable, and the entire body shakes during the processThis kind of laughter is called Homeric laughter because this is how the gods laughed in Homer's classicsFaustian bargainAccording to most stories, Faust was a German scholar who was rather unhappy with h

40、is lifeThe devil魔鬼, Mephistopheles, promises him that in return for his soulhe will give Faust unlimited power and knowledgeFaust agrees and experiences all kinds of pleasures, but, in the end, his soul iscondemned to hell地狱A "Faustian bargain" therefore is a deal that finally results in o

41、ne's ruinIt means a bargain made for temporary gain without taking future consequences into considerationA three-ring circusWhen you refer to a situation as being a three-ring circus, you are saying that it is a situation of complete confusionThere are so many activities taking place all togethe

42、r that they leave you confused or annoyedThe expression comes from the world of entertainmentthe circusThe area where the artists perform their acts is called the "ring"In the past, some of the circuses were so grand that they had three acts taking place simultaneously in three different &

43、quot;rings"The audience had to decide which "ring" they wanted to focus onIn the swimof thingsWhen someone is in the swim of things, the individual is actively participating in the things happening around him, as in "I've been ill, but soon I'll be back in the swim of thi

44、ngs" In the world of fishing, fishermen use the word "swim" to refer to the section of the lake/river where fish can be found in plentySo, if you are a fish man and wish to catch a lot of fish, where would you be? You would be "in the swim"!61According to the text, Homeric l

45、aughter _Awas the way Homer laughedBmeans nervous, silent laughterCis a way to show disagreementDcomes from a Greek poet's works62If a person makes a Faustian bargain, _Ahe might come to a bad endBhe would be considered cleverChis life would become satisfyingDhe would gain power and knowledge63W

46、hat does the underlined word "simultaneously" most probable mean?AAll of a sudden BLittle by littleCAt the same time DOne after another64What do we learn about the expression "in the swimof things"?AIt means having a lot of things to doBIt has nothing to do with swimmingCOriginal

47、ly it was used to refer to "going fishing"DPatients use it to express their desire for health65What is the author's purpose in writing the text?ATo show the development of English phrasesBTo tell the readers some old, interesting storiesCTo explain some phrases' meanings and origin

48、sDTo correct some misunderstandings about wordsCThe forces that make Japan one of the world's most earthquake-prone有地震倾向的 countries could become part of its long-term energy solutionWater from deep below the ground at Japan's tens of thousands of hot springs could be used to produce electric

49、ityAlthough Japanese high-tech companies are leaders in geothermal地热的 technology and export it, its use is limited in the nation"Japan should no doubt make use of its resources of geothermal energy," said Yoshiyasu Takefuji, a leading researcher of thermal-electric power productionThe disa

50、strous earthquake and tsunami on March 11, caused a reaction against atomic power, which previously made up 30 percent of Japan's energy needs, and increased interest in alternative energies, which account for only 8 percentArtist Yoko Ono has called on Japan to explore its natural energy, follo

51、wing the example of Iceland which uses renewable energy for more than 80 percent of its needsFor now, geothermal energy makes up less than 1 percent of the energy needs in Japan, which has for decades relied heavily on fossil fuels and atomic powerThe biggest problem to geothermal energy is the high

52、 initial cost of the exploration and constructing the factoriesAnother problem is that Japan's potentially best sites are already being developed for tourism or are located within national parks where construction is forbidden"We can't even dig 10cm inside national parks" said Shig

53、eto Yamada of Fuji Electric, adding that regulations protecting nature would need to be relaxed for geothermal energy to growResearcher Hideaki Matsui said, "Producing electricity using hot springs is a decades-long projectWe also have to think about what to do for now as energy supplies will d

54、ecline in the short term"The Earth Policy Institute in Washington, US, believed Japan could produce 80000 megawatts 兆瓦and meet more than half its electricity needs with geothermal technologyJapanese giants such as Toshiba are already global leaders in geothermal technology, with a 70 percent market shareIn , Fuji Electric built theworld's largest geothermal factory in New Zealand66What percentage of Japan's energy needs is geothermal energy?ABelow 1% BAbout 8% CAround 30%DOver 80%67According to Shigeto Yamada, the growth of