湖北省八校第一次联考英语试题

2019

届湖北省八校高三第一次联考

英语试题

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A

Traveling

to

a

foreign

country

can

make

you

frightened

if

you

don’t

know

the

local

language

.

Mr.

Thibault has a number of tips to help

travelers manage in a destination when they don’t speak the native

tongue, based on his own experience. Here are a few of them.

Download a Language Translation App

Mr. Thibault tends to rely on Google Translate and suggests that travelers find an app that works for

them. Ideally, find one that specializes in the language you need to translate especially if the language uses a

character set you’re not familiar with, or have difficulty pronouncing.

Speak with Your Hands and Head

Pointing

with

your

hands

and

nodding

or

shaking

your

head,

Mr.

Thibault

said,

are

easy

ways

to

communicate with locals in the country you’re in. “Gestures are

all universally understood,” he said.

Learn a Few Key Words

Knowing

basic

words

and

phrases

like

“hello,”

“thank

you”

and

“I’m

sorry,

I

don’t

speak

your

language

, do you speak English?”

is a must, Mr. Thibault said. Showing that you care enough to learn some

of the language before you go

, and at least enough to acknowledge that you don’t know more, is a form of

respect and will go a long way to be liked by locals.

Work with a Local Travel Agent

If

you

feel

particularly

uncomfortable

in

the

country

you’re

headed

to,

and

you

have

to

go

anyway,

relying

on

a

local

travel

agent

who

knows

both

your

and

your

destination’s

language

can

be

incredibly

useful.

Hire a Local Tour Guide

A

tour

guide

can

help

you

get

a

better

grasp

of

the

local

language

and

is

a

good

person

to

practice

words and phrases with. Whenever Mr. Thibault visits a new country, he books a sightseeing tour with a

guide

on

t

he

first

day

of

his

trip.

“I

use

this

day

to

learn

about

my

destination

and

get

familiar

with

the

language,” he said.

21. In what situation should a language translation app be applied while traveling abroad?

A. When you have trouble pronouncing the words.

B. When you want to acknowledge your ignorance.

C. When you want to practice the local language.

D. When you feel uncomfortable in the country.

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22. What is the easiest way to communicate with foreigners according to the text?

A. Downloading a language translation app.

B. Learning a few key words.

C. Using body language.

D. Working with a guide.

23. How can you better understand the local language?

A. By speaking with your hands and head.

B. By learning a few key words.

C. By downloading a language translation app.

D. By hiring a local tour guide.

B

A New Jersey couple and a homeless man have been accused of making up a feel-good story that raised

more than $$400,000 through GoFundMe.

The

couple,

Kate

McClure

and

Mark

D

’Amico,

and

the

man,

Johnny

Bobbitt

Jr.,

face

a

charge

of

second-degree theft, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said Thursday.

The couple said they met Bobbitt when he gave his last $$20 to McClure, who was

stranded

on Interstate

95 in Philadelphia, so she could put gas in her car, then started the GoFundMe campaign as a way to thank

him.

The paying-it-forward story that drove this fundraiser might seem too good to be true, Coffina said at a

press conference.

Unfortunately, it was. The entire campaign was based on a lie.

After fees, the money

of the campaign netted about $$367,000, all deposited into McClure’s accounts,

Coffina said. Bobbitt received $$75,000, and within months McClure and D’Amico had

wasted their share on

buying a car, high-end handbags and trips, Coffina said. They also used it at casinos

（赌场）

, he said.

Coffina stressed that while Bobbitt, a veteran

（退伍老兵）

, deserves thanks for his service to the country

and

sympathy

for

his

situation;

he

was

fully

involved

in

the

crime,

making

media

appearances

to

help

According to Coffina, McClure and D’Amico first met Bobbitt at an off

-ramp

（驶出匝道）

near a casino

they regularly went, at least a month before the GoFundMe campaign went live.

They went

back to the spot a month later, Coffina said. D’Amico took a picture of McClure and Bobbitt

that became the face of the GoFundMe campaign that they started hours later, Coffina said.

24. What the actual purpose GoFundMe campaign started by the couple?

A. To express thei

r appreciation for Bobbitt’s help.

B. To help Bobbitt pay off his heavy debt.

C. To raise money for their own benefit.

D. To make people believe in Bobbitt’s generosity.

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25. What does the underlined word “stranded” in Paragraph 3

mean?

A. Impossible to finish.

C. Without any choice.

A. About $$ 292,000.

C. About $$325,000.

B. Unable to move.

D. Out of service.

B. About $$ 367,000.

D. About $$ 400,000.

26. How much money did the couple get from the cheating GoFundMe campaign?

27. What was Bobbitt accused of?

A. Pretending to be a veteran.

B. Robbing the couple of $$75,000.

C. Failing to serve his country.

D. Helping invent the story.

C

I’m

an

American

Born

Chinese.

I

wouldn’t

say

I’m

more

American

th

an

Chinese

or

vice

versa.

My

character

was equally

molded

by

both

cultures.

For

a

long

time,

I

was

comfortable

with

being

from

two

cultures. I was fluent in “Chinglish”.

However,

as

I

grew

up,

something

unexpected

rose,

causing

a

parallel

tension

between

the

two

corresponding cultures. During Chinese events when I was in China, the host would sometimes make fun of

America. My relatives would look at me and laugh, asking me how I felt. But how could I respond to a

question like that? If I said I was uncomfortable, it would just make me seem even more American in their

eyes. But I couldn’t pretend to laugh either. So, I often just stayed quiet and smiled.

Sometimes, I’d leave China feeling less Chinese than when I went in.

This past summer, on my way back to Rochester, a man at the airport kept asking my father and I where

we were from. When I told him I was from the United States, he didn’t seem to believe me.

He then went on to ask the terrible

question, “But like where are you really from, like, where we

re you

born?” And no matter how specific our answer

was, the man still seemed a little doubtful. He then went on

to

ask us if we knew where Tampa, Florida was and if we knew anything about it. It’s moments like these

when I realize that sometimes my appearance makes it hard for me to seem fully American.

These experiences made me question if I was more Chinese or American.

I felt like I was neither. So, if I wasn’t completely one culture or the other, what was I? In China, I would

feel more American, while in America, I would feel more Chinese There was no balance between my two

cultures.

But this doesn’t mean that I don’t embrace both my identities. I love both my Chinese cultural identity

and my American one. I just need to learn to love them together.

28. How did the author feel about his identity at the very beginning?

A. Special.

B. Confident.

C. Confused.

D. Ridiculous.

29. Why did the author feel less Chinese when he left China?

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A. Because he found it hard to remain quiet and keep smile.

B. Because he was unable to speak fluent Chinese at his hometown.

C. Because he had lost his face in front of his relatives and friends.

D. Because he was treated as an American by his Chinese relatives.

30. What made the man at the airport keep questioning where the author was from?

A. His cultures.

B. His experience.

C. His look.

D. His air tickets.

31. What could be the best title of the passage?

A. Being culturally homeless.

B. A Boy with two identities.

D. Better Chinese than American.

D

Pesticides

（杀虫剂）

might

just

be

a

bee's

worst

enemy.

They

harm

their

brains,

slow

down

their

reproduction, and even kill their buzz. Now it seems they damage their social lives and reduce their ability

to care for their young.

While previous studies have shown that commonly used neonicotinoi d

（新烟碱类）

pesticides make bees

sick

and

affect

how

they

search

for

food

and

navigate,

a

new

study

gives

more

of

an

idea

of

how

these

chemicals affect the internal workings of a colony. Studying these effects has proved difficult, so the team

employed

a

new

technique.

They

stuck

tiny

QR

codes

to

the

backs

of

bumblebees

and

tracked

their

movements using a robotic camera.

The researchers looked at 12 colonies housed in a lab, giving some the same level of imidacloprid

–

the

world's

most

commonly

used

pesticide

–

that

they’d

be

exposed

to

in

the

wild

while

keeping

others

pesticide-free

as

controls.

They

checked

on

them

for

a

few

minutes

12

times

a

day.

The

findings

are

published in the journal Science.

Unfortunately, the researchers found a number of obvious differences between the bees exposed to the

pesticide

and

the controls. The

bees

given

neonicotinoids

spent

less

time

interacting

with

other

bees

and

more time resting. This lull

（间歇期）

in activity tended to happen more at night, but the researchers aren’t

sure why.

生理节律

),

statement.

night,

we

could

see

that

they

were

crashing.

We

don't

know

yet

whether

the

pesticides

are

destroying

circadian gene regulation or if this is just some, maybe physiological feedback... but it suggests that, just

from

a

practical

perspective,

if

we

want

to

understand

or

study

these

compounds,

looking

at

effects

overnight matters a lot.

32. What happened to the bees exposed to the pesticide at night?

A. They forgot to feed the young.

B. They preferred communicating more.

C. They lost the ability to rest.

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C. A Chinese boy born in America.