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鄂南高中
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
2018
届高三第二次联考
英语试题
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A
Choosing where to live may be one of
the biggest decisions you’ll make when you move to
Sydney, but you’ll
have
plenty of help.
Temporary
arrival accommodation
Before you move
to Sydney, we recommend that you book a temporary
place to stay. Once you get here, you can look
for longer-term accommodation.
--/accommodation/short-term
On-campus-residential colleges (fully
catered
饮食全包的
)
The
University has eight residential colleges on the
Camperdown/Darlington Campus, including
International House, a
residential
community of global scholars. Colleges provide
comfortable, fully furnished single rooms and
daily meals,
along with sporting,
cultural, leadership and social programs. They
also include on-site
tutorials(
辅导课
) in addition
to
campus-based classes.
--/colleges
On-campus
residences (self-
catered
饮食自理的
)
The
University
has
two
self-run
residences
—
Queen
Mary
Building
(QMB)
and
Abercrombie
Student
Accommodation
—
on
the Camperdown/Darlington Campus. Both just under
a year old, they house up to 1000 students.
These
residences
provide
modern
single-study
rooms
with
large
common
living,
learning
and
study
spaces,
shared
kitchens, a theatre,
gyms, soundproofed music rooms, art studios, sky
lounges and rooftop gardens.
--/campus-
life/accommodation/
Off-campus living
More
than
90
percent
of
our
students
live
off
campus.
The
University
is
close
to
many
dynamic
and
multicultural
suburbs such
as Annandale, Newtown, Chippendale and Glebe. A
great place to search is our large online database
of
properties.
--/campus-
life/accommodation/
21.
Where can you find a place to live
temporarily?
A.
On “/colleges”.
B.
On “/accommoda
tion/short
-
term”.
C.
On
“/campus
-life/accommodation/live-
on-
”.
D.
On
“/campus
-life/accommodation/live-
off-
”.
22.
What do
students living in QMB have access to?
A. Their own kitchens.
B.
On-site tutorials.
C. Daily meals.
D. Gyms.
23. What is the most
popular choice among students?
A.
Living off campus.
B. Living in host
families.
C. Living in self-catered
flats on campus.
D. Living in fully
catered houses on campus.
B
Everyone should be so lucky as to have
a friend like Francia Raisa. On Thursday, singer
and actress Selena Gomez,
25, used
Instagram to explain why she was “laying
low”
this summer. She posted a photo of
herself in a hospital bed
with
her
friend
Francia
Raisa
holding
hands.
She
said
she
recently
received
a
kidney transplant
from
her
best
friend
because of
complications(
并发症
) from
lupus(
狼疮
), an autoimmune
disease, which means it is the result of the
immune
system attacking normal tissue,
including the kidneys, brain, heart and lungs.
People with lupus may first experience
tiredness, joint pain or a little bit of
rash(
皮疹
) on their bodies and
can go
for
a
long
time
before
their
doctors
realize
it
is
more
serious.
Many
people
see
two
or
four
doctors
before
the
real
problem is picked up. According to Dr.
Kyriakos Kirou, roughly a third to one-half of
people with lupus develop kidney
disease, and up to one in five of them
will eventually need a transplant, sometimes
because they weren’t treated with
effective drugs to prevent the immune
system from attacking the kidneys. Though Gomez
said that she was “very well
now,” she
warned about the dangers of not taking medical
diagnoses seriously, like she initially did.
Her Instagram post also
called attention to two major health topics: the
need for living organ donators and the fact
that Gomez represents three groups more
likely to be diagnosed with lupus and lupus-
related kidney disease. Nine out of
10
people diagnosed with lupus are women, and most
develop the disease between the ages of 15 to 44.
And lupus is two
to three times more
common among women of color, including Hispanic
women, according to the Lupus Foundation.
Raisa
is
Latina,
and
Gomez’s
father
is
of
Mexican
o
rigin.
While
it’s
not
essential
that
the
organ
donator
and
receiver be of the same
ethnicity, people who share a similar background
sometimes are better matched, according to
data from the United Network for Organ
Sharing.
24. What can we learn about
Francia Raisa?
A. She is lucky.
B. She is selfless.
C. She
is optimistic.
D. She is encouraging.
25. What is lupus like at its early
stage?
A. It is deadly.
B.
It is hard to recognize.
C. Its
symptoms are psychological.
D. It
reminds you of a kidney disease.
26.
Wh
at does the underlined
word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. People with lupus.
B.
Colored women lupus patients.
C. Lupus
patients with kidney disease.
D. Women
between the ages of 15 to 44.
27.
What does the
last paragraph mainly tell us?
A. Raisa
and Gomez have a similar background.
B.
Gomez has fully recovered thanks to the kidney
from Raisa.
C. It is vital for the
donator and receiver to be of the same race.
D. The organ from the donator of the
same race matches the receiver better.
C
A few weeks ago, I called
an Uber to take me to the Boston airport for a
flight home for the holidays. As I slid into
the back seat of the car, the warm
intonations(
语调
) of the
driver’s accent washed over me in a familiar
way.
I learned that he was a
recent West African immigrant with a few young
children, working hard to provide for his
family. I could relate: I am the
daughter of two Ethiopian immigrants who made
their share of sacrifices to ensure my
success.
I
told
him
I
was
on
a
college
break
and
headed
home
to
visit
my
p
arents.
That’s
how
he
found
out
I
go
to
Harvard. An
approving eye glinted at me in the rearview
window, and quickly, we crossed the boundaries of
rider and
driver. I became his
daughter, all grown up
—
the
product of his sacrifice.
And then came
the fatefu
l question: “What do you
study?” I answered “history and literature” and
the pride in his
voice faded, as I knew
it might. I didn’t even get to add “and
African
-
American studies”
before he cut in, his voice thick
with
disappointment, “All that work to get into
Harvard, and you study history?”
Here I was, his daughter, squandering
the biggest opportunity of her life. He went on to
deliver the age-old lecture
that
all
immigrant
kids
know.
We
are
to
become
doctors
(or
lawyers,
if
our
parents
are
being
generous)
—
to
make
money
and
send
money
back
home. The
unspoken
demand,
made across generations,
which
my
Uber
driver
laid
out
plainly, is simple: Fulfill your role
in the narrative(
故事
) of
upward mobility so your children can do the same.
I used to feel anxious a
nd
backed into a corner by the questioning, but now
as a junior in college, I’m grateful for
their
support
more
than
anything.
This
holiday
season,
I’ve
promised
myself
I
won’t
huff
and
get
annoyed
at
their
inquiries.
I won’t
defensively respond with “but
I plan
to go to law
school!” when
I get unrequested advice.
I’ll just
smile and nod, and
enjoy the warmth of the occasion.
28.
What
disappointed the driver?
A. The
author’s attitude towards him.
B. The school that the author is
attending.
C. The author’s
major
s in history and literature.
D. The author’s interests in African
American studies.
29. Which
of the following can replace the underlined word
“squandering” in Paragraph 4?
A. wasting
B. creating
C. valuing
D. seizing
30. Why are immigrant kids expected to
be doctors or lawyers?
A. Their parents
want them to move upward in society.
B.
Their parents are high achieving as well.
C. They have more opportunities.
D. They are very smart in general.
31. How did the author
react to the driver’s questioning?
A. Getting upset.
B. Feeling
satisfied.
C. Defending herself.
D. Appreciating his concern.
D
What’s small, buzzes here
and there and visits flowers? If you said bees or
hummingbirds, you got it. You wouldn’t
be the first if you mixed the two up.
Now a group of researchers even say we should
embrace our history of considering
the
two together in the same group. The way scientists
study bees could help them study hummingbird
behavior, too.
Scientists first
compared the two back in the 1970s when studying
how animals search for food. The idea is that
animals
use
a
kind
of
math
to
make
choices
in
order
to
minimize
the
work
it
takes
to
earn
maximum
rewards.
Researchers at the
time focused on movement rules, like the order in
which they visited flowers, and where flowers were
located
relative
to
others.
It
was
“almost
like
an
algorithm(
算法
)”
for
efficient
searching,
said
David
Pritchard,
a
biologist at the
University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Hummingbirds and bees had similar solutions.
As
the
field
of
animal
cognition(
认知
)
appeared,
hummingbird
and
bee
research
parted.
Neuroscientists
and
behavioral ecologists
developed ways to study bee behavior in
naturalistic settings. Hummingbird researchers
compared
hummingbirds to other birds
and borrowed methods from psychology to study
their ability to learn in the lab. To be fair,
hummingbirds and bees differ. For
example, hummingbirds have more advanced eyes and
brains than bees. Honeybees
and
bumblebees are social; hummingbirds typically
aren’t.
But however they
perceive(
感知
) or process
information, they both experience similar
information, Dr. Pritchard
said.
In
day-to-
day
searching
for
food,
for
example,
hummingbirds
may
rely
on
more
of
a
bee’s
-eye
view
than
a