湖南省十校高三12月联考试卷英语

1、2016届高三12月联考试题英 语分值：150分 时间：120分钟第I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. When did Sue leave home? A. At 4:30. B. At 5:00. C. At 5:15.2. What does the man prefer? A. Foreign languages. B. Science.

2、C. Politics.3. What will the weather probably be like over the weekend? A. Rainy. B. Sunny. C. Snowy.4. Where are the speakers? A. On a train. B. On a ship. C. In a hotel.5. What has the woman been doing? A. Traveling. B. Exercising. C. Relaxing just a bit.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

3、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。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What does the woman say about the boy? A. He did as great as she expected. B. He did a better job this time. C. He didn't try as hard as he could.7Who are the speakers? A. Bo

4、ss and employee. B. Mother and son. C. Teacher and student. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. When does the conversation probably take place? AAt the end of a term. B. In the middle of a semester. C. At the beginning of a school year.9. What do we know about the man? A. He is deciding between two places. B. He lik

5、es diving in the ocean. C. He has been to Australia before.10. What do the woman's parents care about? A. Money. BHoliday activities. C. Spending time together with their family. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What has the woman been studying? A. International culture. B. Business management. C. English w

6、riting.12. How many books can the woman borrow in all? A. Twelve. B. Ten. C. Eight.13. What will the woman do after the conversation? A. Take an exam. B. Have a class. C. Go to the man's office. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. Who were arguing last night? A. The speakers. B。Two strangers. C. The speakers&#

7、39; neighbors.15. When was the man woken up? A. At 2:00 a.m. B. At 3:00 a.m. C. At 4:00 a.m.16. What is the woman's new routine? A. Having a cup of coffee every day. B. Drinking some soy milk every morning. C. Doing some exercise every morning. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What will take place in the m

8、ain theater next week? A. Some professors will give lectures there. B.A student film festival will be held there. C. There will be an art exhibition there.18. What is the collection in the Picture Gallery about? A. Life of local artists. B. History of the university. C. Students' social activiti

9、es.19. What will the audience visit next? A.A museum. B. An art gallery. C. The entertainment building.20. How soon will everyone meet again? A. In half an hour. B. In an hour. C .In an hour and a half.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。AWashington Sightseei

10、ng Guide White House-Public tours of the White House have been offered since Thomas Jeffersonwas president, but you can't just drop in. Visits to the White House are in high demand, andyou must make your request through your member of Congress（国会）up to six months, andno fewer than 21 days, befor

11、e your visit. Be sure to check the White House tour-info Web siteto make sure about the personal identification you'll need. And before the day of your visit,call 202-456-7041 to confirm the tour schedule. Lincoln's Cottage-Lincoln's Cottage, the hilltop home where President Lincoln live

12、dduring part of the Civil War, is simply furnished but features lighting effects and actors'recordings that reveal Lincoln's thoughts on slavery and the war. "In the library you canactually see the ghost lines of where the library shelves would have been," says cottagedirector Erin

13、 Carlson Mast. "We haven't re-created the bookshelves because that was such anamazing moment of discovery for us that we wanted to preserve that so people can have thatmoment of discovery themselves. " Library of Congress-The Library of Congress is housed in three buildings: the Thomas

14、Jefferson Building, James Madison Memorial Building and the John Adams Building.Although trying to see all of it in one day is possible, it's probably best to do a little thinkingahead and figure out which areas you'd really like to explore (i. e. when your feet start tohurt, you won't f

15、eel so bad about not catching everything). The most popular visitordestination is the Thomas Jefferson Building, but there are things worth seeing-murals(壁画) , sculptures, performances-elsewhere in the complex.21. Which is true about the White House? A. It is a new tourist attraction. B. It is open

16、only to members of Congress. C. A reservation for a visit is required. D. You should call 202-456-7041 during your visit.22. In Lincoln's Cottage, you can . A. see actors giving performances B. see the bookshelves in the study C. hear the recorded voice of Lincoln D. learn about Lincoln's op

17、inions on slavery23. The paragraph about the Library of Congress implies that . A. there is so much to see there B. there are so many visitors there C. you needn't spend so much time there D. you should drive there instead of walking B Mother's Day is coming up. Maybe your gift is wrapped an

18、d your dinner plans booked formom, step-mom, grandmother-whoever the person is who fed, cared for, taught andloved you. But there are other people who said their most special Mother's Day memories rarely dealtwith beautifully wrapped objects, but rather, the ways people showed they cared. Mother

19、's Day 2012 was the last one Jannet Walsh was able to celebrate with her mother,Margaret, who had a stroke (中风) in 2009. In her last few years, Walsh always shot photosand videos of their visits together, and with Walsh's West Highland White Terrier, Andrew. "My mother had a dog just li

20、ke him, so I would tell her it was her dog, and she would hold ontohis leash, even in bed up to the last few weeks before she passed away," Walsh said. As Mother's Day approached, Walsh wanted a way to remember her mother and "bestfriend". She decided to build the memories she cap

21、tured during those last few years into avideo memorial-images of her mother with Andrew or quiet moments at her gravesite. "I thought it good to tell the story with few words, just show my mother as she was-happy, and loved till the end," Walsh said. Mother's Day was not a light-hearte

22、d subject for Wendy Bowers in the past. Her momhad walked out when she was 18, and Bowers had tried for years to become pregnant withoutsuccess. She had almost convinced herself she wasn't meant to be a parent. But three years after she gave up on having a baby, Bowers discovered that she waspre

23、gnant. Six weeks earlier than expected, little Nathan arrived. That first year, Nathan, only 10 months old, was sick with a stomach bug. Bowers saidshe spent the day holding him between loads of laundry. "I would not have been anywhere elsein the world that day," she said. "I wouldn&#

24、39;t trade that first Mother's Day for anything, andI'm pretty sure Mother's Day will always be a reminder to me of just how lucky I am to evenbe a mom. "24. What does the underlined word "Andrew" refer to? A. Walsh's child. B. Walsh's mother. C. Walsh's dog. D

25、. Walsh's mother's dog.25. The purpose of what Walsh did for her mother before Mother's Day was to . A. bring her mother what she wanted B. show she would be loved till the end C. celebrate her last Mother's Day D. remember her and share her story26. How does Bowers feel about what h

26、appened on her first Mother's Day as a mother? A. It was worth it. B. It was unlucky. C. It was unexpected. D. It was unbearable.27. What is the text mainly about? A. Painful memories of Mother's Day. B. Plans for Mother's Day. C. Tips for a special Mother's Day. D. Special ideas for

27、 Mother's Day. C Like people, plants experience stress. And also, like people, the response to that stresscan determine success. Bad environmental conditions, such as drought, flood, heat and other stresses, affectyields(产量 ) more than crop pests and diseases. We are trying to find a way to equi

28、p plantswith the ability to tolerate environmental stress and maintain high yields, said StephenHowell, a professor of genetics and cell biology. Plant cells produce proteins （蛋白质) and ship them to different parts of the cell. Undernormal conditions, these proteins are folded into their normal, heal

29、thy structures as they areproduced. When a plant is under stress, its cells produce poorly folded or unfolded proteins.Then a built-in system senses this and "sets off an alarm in the cell," said Howell. In response to the alarm, another protein (IRE1) starts working and creates a differen

30、tprocess which activates (激活) the stress response genes whose products bring about defensivemeasures that help the plant survive. "As it turns out, responses that are activated under stress conditions actually inhibit thegrowth of plants," said Howell. "This allows them to preserve th

31、eir energy to survive thestress conditions. " For plants in the wild, this response is a help for survival, he said. In production ofagriculture crops, however, this response reduces yields. "You don't want crop plants to stop growing," Howell said. "You want them to continue

32、to grow and produce even though they are under stress. " With the new understanding of this stress response, the next step may be to silence thealarm system, said Howell. "What may be important is to disable some of these stressresponses. That may make the plant more productive under stres

33、s conditions. "28. According to the text, an alarm in the plant cells is caused by A. the folded proteins B. the changed proteins C. the defensive measures D. the stress response genes29. The energy preserved in the plants under stress conditions . A. helps the plants to survive B. helps to mai

34、ntain high yields C. keeps the plants growing D. helps to produce proteins30. The underlined word "inhibit" in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by "_. ". A. prevent B. start C. continue D. promote31. How does Howell intend to make crop plants maintain high yields under stress conditio

35、ns? A. By making crop plants keep more energy. B. By making crop plants stop growing. C. By making the alarm system stop working. D. By making the alarm system respond quickly. D Sometimes ideas do not appear when you are concentrating your attention andmysteriously appear when you are not. Modern s

36、cience recognizes this as a result of incubating（酝酿) the problem in your subconscious(潜意识) yet can't account for why it occurs. When you quit thinking about a subject and decide to forget it, your subconscious mind doesn'tquit working. Your thoughts keep making associations. This is why you&

37、#39;ve experienced suddenlyremembering names, getting solutions to problems you've forgotten about, and ideas out of the bluewhen you are relaxing and not thinking about any particular thing. You may try solving a problem with your subconscious mind by writing a letter to it.Now let go of the pr

38、oblem. Don't work on it. Forget it. Do something else. This is theincubation stage when much of what goes on occurs outside your focused awareness, in yourunconscious. Open the letter in two days. The answer might magically pop into your mind. An advertising agency was under pressure to come up

39、with a marketing campaign. Bert,the creative director, wrote the following letter which he addressed to his subconscious mind. Secret Expert, I need to come up with a new marketing program to introduce a new season of televisionshows. I'm interested in some kind of campaign that will capture the

40、 audience's attention morethan one time. Is there something people need that we can advertise on? What kind ofproducts, foods and services should we investigate? I need your idea about a fresh approach toadvertising. Thanks, Bert Bert mailed the letter to himself and when he read what he had wri

41、tten, he got hisbrainstorm, which was to advertise on "eggs". Somehow an association between "foods","need" and "fresh approach" inspired the thought of using "fresh eggs to advertise. " Hearranged to put the ad for the television shows on eggs-some

42、thirty million. The consumers look at a single egg at least a few times, when they buy the eggs at thestore, when they transfer them to the refrigerator, and when they crack them open. It'sunlike any other ad medium in the world, because you're looking at it while you are using it.32. You re

43、member names though you are not thinking about them because your subconscious mind . A. stops working B. is still working C. is full of names D. improves your memory33. During the incubation stage, your focused awareness A. doesn't work B. controls your thoughts C. waits for an answer D. helps y

44、our unconscious34. Which of the following was included in Bert's letter to his subconscious mind? A. What he wanted it to do. B. When he would need its help. C. What product could be advertised. D. How the solution could be found.35. In what way did the ad put on eggs help? A. It greatly increas

45、ed the sales of eggs. B. It helped Bert to get a brainstorm. C. It made sure that consumers could get fresh eggs. D. It made the TV shows known to people repeatedly.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人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多于选项。 Make the Most of Your College Experience College is the turning point

46、in your lives where you grow from children to adults. Thereare many resources on campus that are in place for students to use. The college years areflying by quickly, so it is good for you to know the following information before entering yourideal college. Let's start with the fitness center. 3

47、6 Therefore, it is very important to make gooduse of the fitness center. Some campuses have swimming pools, tennis courts and rock-climbing rooms and most schools offer different fitness classes to the students free of charge. 37 From free books and expansive databases to the private study rooms and

48、sometimes around the clock operating hours, you will find it to be more than beneficial duringyour college years. 38 This is one place you should visit often. It helps you with everything frompreparing your resume(简历)to finding a job on and off campus. Make sure you stop by andfamiliarize yourself w

49、ith the staff working in the center and everything they offer. You willbenefit a lot from their work. Let's not forget about your advisor! Your advisor will be a professor in your academicarea of study. 39 As you build your relationship with your advisor, they get theopportunity to learn your we

50、aknesses and strengths and can help lead you into opportunitiesthat may be beneficial for your future career path. Cherish people around you. Everyone has their own strengths. 40 Besides, makingfriends in college is the best thing you can do to build your professional network.A. Enjoy yourself in th

51、e library.B. The first wealth is health.C. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.D. Another great resource on campus would be the career center.E. Most of them are absorbed in their academic research.F. Try to learn from your schoolmates, especially your friends.G. They will not only help

52、 you with your study, but also guide you towards your lifelong career.第三部分英语知识运用（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的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When I was in the sixth grade, we moved to Tipton and my dad went to work for ArdenFarms. He drove a milk truck, which 4

53、1 milk from the dairies（牛奶场）in and aroundTipton. He started to work in the very early morning hours and 42 in the evening, afterthe cows had been 43 Some days, he would 44 my brother and me go with him.1 was always thrilled to getto ride in the old 45 .I don't 46 how many l0-gallon cans were on

54、the truck, but I amguessing 50 or 60, and they were 47 with a big heavy cloth. I don't remember what timewe went to work, but I guess it was about five in the 48 .In winter, it would still be darkand sometimes very 49 and foggy. When we arrived at the first dairy, the milkers would already have finished milking.They must have 50 at about three in the morning. These were family-owned businesses,and the whole 51 worked. I remember one 52 we made, where all the 53 wouldbe out there working before leaving for school. My dad would unload the empty cans and then load the 54 ones on the