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华师一附中
黄冈中学
黄石二中
荆州中学
孝感高中
襄阳四中
襄阳五中
鄂南高中
2020
届高三八校第二次联考
英语试题
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。
1.
Who does the
man want to see?
A. Dr. Edmunds.
B. Dr. Edgar.
C. Dr. Brown.
2.
What will the woman probably do this
afternoon?
A. Give the man some advice.
B. Go for a job interview.
C. Ask the man for help.
3.
Why does the
man want to know how to take care of babies?
A. He wants to be a baby sitter.
B. He is going to be a brother.
C. His wife is going to have a baby.
4.
What's the
woman going to do?
A. Do the typing.
B. Read the
paper aloud.
C.
Check for typing errors.
5.
What does the man advise Mary to do?
A. Go out to work.
B. Listen carefully to
Henry.
C. Be calm and
patient.
第二节（共
15
小
题；每小题
1.5
分，满分
22.5<
/p>
分）
听第
6<
/p>
段材料，回答第
6
、
7
题。
6.
Why is the
woman so happy?
A. Because of the man's
invitation.
B. Because of the cabin.
C. Because of the good weather.
7.
What is the
woman's plan for the weekend?
A. To
spend time with three friends.
B. To
invite the man to the island.
C. To
visit Tina's parents.
听第
7
段材料，回答第
8
至
10
题。
8.
When will the
party be held?
A. This Friday
afternoon.
B. Next Friday night.
C. Next Friday afternoon.
9.
What kind of
party is the woman having?
A. A fancy-
dress party.
B. A relaxing lunch party.
C. A formal dinner party.
1
10.
How many guests has the woman invited?
A. Four.
B. Five.
C. Ten.
听第
8
段材料，回答第
11
至
13
题。
11.
Why does the woman look pale?
A. She is probably sick.
B.
She feels bored with her work.
C. She
works too hard with her new students.
12.
How many
foreign students does the woman have in her class?
A. Three.
B. Four.
C.
Five.
13.
What is
the possible relationship between the two
speakers?
A. Doctor and patient.
B. Headmaster and teacher.
C. Teacher and student.
听第
9
段材料，回答第
14
至
17
题。
14.
What does the
woman call the flat manager for?
A. A
broken window.
B. A lost
child.
C. A fallen tree.
15.
What's the
woman's evidence?
A. A Teddy bear.
B. Footprints.
C.
A baseball.
16.
Where was the woman when that happened?
A. She happened to be out.
B. She was in the kitchen.
C. She was in the living room.
17.
Who would pay
for the damage?
A. The man.
B. The woman.
C. Someone
else.
听第
10
段材料，回答第
18
至
20
题
。
18.
What can we learn from the monologue
(
独白
)?
A. The pass
can be used for 12 months.
B. The route
is from Sydney to Alice Springs.
C.
People can only visit important cities.
19.
In which city
of Australia can you start using the pass?
A. Sydney.
B. Any city.
C. Melbourne.
20.
Where can you
go diving?
A. In Alice Springs.
B. In Ayers
Rock.
C. In
Cairns.
第二部分
阅读理解
(
共两节，满分
< br>40
分
)
第一节
(
共
15
小题；每小题
2
分，满分
30
分
)
A
Each year the Hay Festival attracts
some of the world’s leading writers, artists and
think
ers,
to talk, share
their thoughts and ideas and meet audiences.
Ensuring guests are warmly received
and
well looked after during their stay has always
been a top
mission and one of the
Festival’s key
jobs.
All
events management student volunteers need to be
attentive and helpful. In return, they get
the
chance
to
meet
some
amazing,
creative
people,
and
experience
the
daily
running
of
a
fast-moving international
festival, where time-keeping is important and,
above all, performers and
2
audience leave having had a
thoroughly enjoyable, stimulating
(
启发性的
) and thought-inspiring
day.
We require volunteers
in two areas:
Events Management
Events
management
student
volunteers
help
out
with
a
wide
range
of
duties
including
meeting and
greeting authors, assisting with book signings,
accompanying artists to events, stage
management assistance and manning
reception desks.
Creative
Workshops
Creative workshops student
volunteers assist authors, illustrators and
workshop leaders in the
setting up and
running of workshops. These roles may interest
those who have a particular interest
in
visual arts and/or illustration.
Dates
The 2020 festival dates are Thursday 21
May
–
Sunday
31
May. Applicants will need to be
available for the duration of the
festival.
Who can apply?
We
are looking for 24 young people between the ages
of 18 and 25, who can demonstrate a
passion for the arts and interest in
events management.
Please
send
a
CV
and
a
short
covering
letter
to
ellen@
(for
Events
Management), or
adrian@ (for Creative Workshops).
The
closing date for both applications is 28 February
2020, and we will let applicants know
whether they’ve been successful as
early as p
ossible in March 2020. Please
indicate which role
you are applying
for or express a preference. If
shortlisted
（入围）
, you’ll need
to be available for
a short Skype
interview.
21.
What is the priority of the Hay
Festival’s duty?
A. To meet creative people.
B. To exchange
ideas.
C. To receive more visitors.
D.
To serve guests well.
22.
What must be mentioned in the
application letter?
A. Available Time.
B. The desired role.
C. A covering letter.
D.
Personal interests.
23.
What is the deadline for the
application?
A.20 March, 2020.
B.21 May, 2020.
C. 28 February,2020.
D. 31
May, 2020.
B
I was 16 years
old the day I skipped school for the first time.
It was easily done: Both my
parents
left for work before my school bus arrived, so
when it showed up at my house on that cold
winter morning, I simply did not get
on. The perfect crime!
And
what did I do with myself on that glorious stolen
day, with no adult in charge and no
limits on my activities? Did I get
high? Hit the mall for a shoplifting extravaganza
(
狂欢
)?
Nope. I built a warm fire in the wood
stove, prepared a bowl of popcorn, grabbed a
blanket,
and read. I was thrilled and
transported by a book
—it was
Hemingway’s
The Sun Also
Rises
—
and
I just
needed to be alone with it for a little while.
I ached to know what would happen to
Jake
Barnes
and
Lady
Brett
Ashley
and
Robert
Cohn.
I
couldn’t
bear
the
thought
of
sitting
in
a
classroom taking another biology exam
when I could be traveling through Spain in the
1920s with
a bunch of expatriates
(
异乡客
).
I spent that day lost in words. Time
fell away, as the room around me turned to mist,
and my
3
role
–
as a
daughter, sister, teenager, and
student
—
in the world no
longer had any meaning. I had
accidentally
come
across
the
key
to
perfect
happiness:
I
had
become
completely
absorbed
by
something I loved.
Looking back on it now, I can see that
some subtle things were happening to my mind and
to
my life while I was in that state of
absorption. Hemingway’s language was quietly
braiding itself
into
my
imagination.
I
was
downloading
information
about
how
to
create
simple
and
elegant
sentences, a good
and solid plot. In other words, I was learning how
to write. Without realizing it,
I
was
hot
on
the
trail
of
my
own
fate.
Writing
now
absorbs
me
the
way
reading
once
did
and
happiness
is their generous side effect.
24.
Why did the
author skip school on that day?
A.
Because her parents left home early.
B.
Because it was a cold winter morning.
C. Because she was fascinated by a
novel.
D. Because she hated to take the
biology exam.
25.
What did the author think is the source
of true joy?
A. Reading by the fire.
B. Travelling in Spain.
C.
Breaking the regulations.
D. Being occupied by one’s
passion.
26.
Which can best replace the underlined
phrase “
braiding itself
into
”
in the last paragraph?
A. Entering.
B.
Destroying.
C. Mending.
D. Blocking.
27.
What can we
infer from the passage?
A. I was tired
of my real-life roles.
B. I learnt how
to write on the internet.
C.
Hemingway’s style influenced me a lot.
D. Becoming a writer was my childhood
dream.
C
Anyone who commutes
(
通勤
) by car knows that
traffic jams are an unavoidable part of life.
But humans are not alone in facing
potential backups.
Ants also
commute
—
between their nest
and sources of food. The survival of their
colonies
depends on doing
this
efficiently.
When humans commute,
there
’
s a point at which
cars become dense (
稠密
)
enough to slow
down the flow of
traffic, causing jam. Motsch, a mathematician in
Arizona State University, and
his
colleagues wanted to know if ants on the move
could also get stuck. So they
regulated traffic
density by
constructing bridges of various widths between a
colony of Argentine ants and a source
of food. Then they waited and watched.
“The goal was to try to find out at what point
they are
going to have a
traf
fic jam.” said Sebastien
Motsch.
But it appears that
that never happened. They always managed to avoid
traffic jam. The flow
of ants did
increase at the beginning as ants started to fill
the bridge and then levelled off at high
densities. But it never slowed down or
stopped, even when the bridge was nearly filled
with ants.
The
researchers
then
took
a
closer
look
at
how
the
behaviour
of
individual
ants
impacted
traffic as a whole. And they found that
when ants sense overcrowding, they adjust their
speeds and
avoid
entering
high-density
areas,
which
prevents
jams.
These behaviours
may
be
promoted
by
pheromones, chemicals
that tell other ants where a trail is. The ants
also manage to avoid colliding
(
碰撞
) with each
other at high densities, which could really slow
them down. The study is in the
journal
eLife
.
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