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武昌区
2020
届高三年级四月调研考试
英语试卷
本试卷共
150
分，考试用时
120
分钟。
★祝考试顺利
★
注意事项：
1.
答题前，考生务必将自己的学校
、班级、姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡指定位置。
2.
选择题的作答：选出答案后，用
2B
铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需
改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答
案标号。答在试题卷上无效。
3.
非选择题的作答：用黑色墨水的签字笔直接答在答题卡上的每题所对应的答题区
域内。答在试题卷上或答题卡指定区域外无效。
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分
30
分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答
案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共
5
小题；每小题
分，满分
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
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
和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1.
What is the man going to
do
A. Have a conference.
B.
Attend class.
C. Have a test.
2.
Who did the woman want to
call
A. James.
B. Drake.
C. Daniel.
3.
What will the woman do
A. Fix her
phone.
B. Wait for somebody.
C. Go to see a movie.
4.
Where does the conversation probably
take place
A.
On a plane.
B. On a train.
C. On a bus.
5.
What does the man really want to do
A.
To read the
advertisement.
B.
To meet the manager.
最
题
C. To take up the job.
第二节（共
15
小题；每小题
分，满分
分）
听下面
5
段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的
个小题，每小题
5
秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出
遍。
听第
6
段材料，回答第
6
至
7
题。
A
、
B
、
C
三
个
各
两
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
5
秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读
6.
What does the
man like to do in the evening
A.
Do exercises.
B.
Listen to the
radio.
C.
Read
newspapers and magazines.
7.
What does the man suggest doing to the
advertisements in the newspaper
A.
Skipping them.
B. Turning
them off.
C. Putting up with
them.
听第
7
段材料，回答第
8
至
10
题。
8. What does Mr. Bridges ask for
A. Orange juice.
B. Sugar.
C.
Toast.
9.
What happened
to Mr. Bridges
A.
He had a bad weekend.
B.
His dog ran
away.
C.
He lost
his hat.
10.
How
does the woman know Mr. Bridges
A.
She works with
him.
B.
He is a
regular customer.
C.
They always eat in the same restaurant.
听第
8
段材料，回答第
11
至
13
题。
11.
What is the woman
’
s real problem
A.
She gets a
headache.
B.
She
feels very stressed. C.
She becomes
frightened.
12. What food
is considered as low stress food
A. Apples and
grapes.
B. Hamburgers.
C. French
fries.
13. What is the
woman going to do
A. To eat
less.
B. To drink tea.
C. To change her diet.
听第
9
段材料，回答第
14
至
16
题。
14.
Why will the
man get late
A.
He had an accident.
B.
He was stuck
in traffic.
C.
He
didn
’
tmake it onto the
bridge.
15.
When
is the plane scheduled to leave
A. In
30 minutes.
B. In 45
minutes.
C. In 2 hours.
16. How does the man
probably feel
A.
Positive.
B. Apologetic.
C. Stressed out.
听第
10
段材料，回答第
17
至
20
题。
17.
How did the
speaker deal with his pocket money
A.
He saved most
of it.
B.
He
spent half on sweets.
C.
He gave some to his brother.
18.
What was Mrs.
Bartlett
’
sattitude toward
children
A. Patient.
B. Generous.
C.
Rude.
C.
19. What did Bernard buy
A. Sweets.
B. Balls.
Cards.
C.
20. How
did the speaker feel after getting his pocket
money
A. Overjoyed.
B. Confused.
40
分）
Annoyed.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分
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
并
在答题
卡上将该项涂黑。
和
D
）中
，选出最佳选项，
A
Welcome to ASU
Robotics Camps 2019!
ASU Robotics Camps
are designed for students who intend to pursue a
science and
engineering career. The
program is administrated by Arizona State
University. Camp instructors
will teach the latest engineering
design concepts and computing technologies. The
robots built
by students will enter a
robotics challenge and demonstration at the end of
the camp.
7Up RobotCamp , to , 2019
(except Saturday and Sunday), from 8:30 am to
4:30 pm. This camp is designed for
students entering grades 7 and 8. Exceptional
entering grade 6 can be
considered. Students will learn
students
programming,
design and
construct
robots, learn EV3 robotics
programming, and participate
in the robotics
challenge at
the level
of difficulty
similar to FIRST Lego League (FLL) Robotics
Competition. Online Enrollment: Open
on
.
9Up RobotCamp , to , 2019 (except
Saturday and Sunday), from 8:30 am to
4:30 pm. This camp is designed for
students entering grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The
program will
cover robot construction,
visual programming, language programming, phone
app programming,
and a robotics
challenge. Online Enrollment: Open on .
As a session in 7Up and 9Up RobotCamps,
we also train school teachers who are involved
in courses or clubs in computing, game
programming, and robotics in their schools. Please
also
contact us for details at.
The camps will be taught by Dr. Chen
and his teaching assistants. Dr. Chen is a
computing
and robotics expert, who led
ASU teams to win two champion titles in the
“
Ultimate Architecture
Sumo-Robot Competiti
on
”
in Las Vegas in 2005 and
in 2006, and he has organized and instructed
all the previous ASU Winter Robotics
Camps since 2006.
Tuition
The tuitions for both 7Up Camp and 9Up
Camp are $$650.
Contact and Registration
Camp Website: SCIDSE Robotics Camps,
Arizona State University, . Box 7-8809, Tempe,
AZ
85287-8809
General Inquiry: Call (480) 965-3199 or
email
Accommodations: Special Needs
If your child has a disability and has
a need for an accommodation in order to
participate in this
program, please
notify Lori Borsheim at The School of Computing,
or (480) 965-3199 to discuss
your child
’
s needs.
21. ASU Robotics Camps are mainly aimed
at students
A. with
disabilities
C. fond of game
designing
A. Join ASU teams
led by Dr. Chen. B.
.
B.
with exceptional grades
D. interested
in science and engineering
22.
What can a
grade 7 student do by joining ASU Robotics Camps
Enter
FLL Robotics
Competition.
C.
Learn EV3
robotics programming.
D. Get an award
in a robotics challenge.
23. What do ASU
Robotics Camps offer to every participant
A. An assistant robot
C. Free accommodations.
B. Various programming courses.
D. A 12-day learning experience.
B
When her grandmother
’
shealth began to worsen
last autumn, Mary would make the drive
from Washington, DC to Winchester, VA
every few days.
She hated highway
driving, finding it ugly and boring. She preferred
to take winding country
roads to her
grandmother
’
shospital. When
she drove through the rocky town of Harpers Ferry,
the beauty of the rough waters was
always appealing to her.
Toward the end
of her journey, Mary had to get on highway 81.
It was here that she
discovered a
surprising bit of beauty during one of her trips.
Along the shoulder of the highway,
there was a long stretch of wild
flowers. They were thin and delicate and purple,
and moved
back and forth in the wind as
if whispering poems to each other.
The
first time she saw the flowers, Mary was seized by
an uncontrollable urge to pull over
on
the highway and pull a bunch from the soil. She
carried them into her grandmother
when she arrived at the hospital and
placed them in a vase by her bed.
For a
moment her grandmother seemed more lucid
（清醒的）
than usual. She
thanked Mary
for the flowers, commented
on their beauty and asked where she had gotten
them. Mary was
overjoyed by the ability
of the flowers to wake something up inside her
sick grandmother.
Afterwards, Mary
began carrying scissors in the car during her
trips to visit her grandmother.
She
would quickly glide onto the shoulder, jump out of
the car, and clip a bunch of flowers. Each
time Mary placed the flowers in the
vase, her grandmother
’
seyes
would light up and they would
have a
splendid conversation.
One morning in
late October, Mary got a call that her grandmother
had taken a turn for the
worse. Mary
was in such a hurry to get to her grandmother that
she sped past her flower spot.
She
decided to turn around, head several miles back,
and cut a bunch.
’
sroom
Mary arrived at the
hospital to find her grandmother very weak and
unresponsive. She placed
the flowers in
the vase and sat down to hold her grandmother
’
shand. She felt a squeeze
on her
fingers. It was the last
conversation they had.
24. Why did
Mary prefer to take country roads to the hospital
A. To get on highway 81 more easily.
B. To enjoy the natural view along the
roads.
C. To pick wild flowers for her
grandmother.
D. To spend less time
driving to the destination.
25. When
Mary placed the flowers by her
grandmother
’
sbed, her grandmother
A. was overjoyed by the flowers
B. commented on Mary
’
sbeauty
C. came
alive at the sight of the flowers
D.
was curious about the type of the flowers
26. What do we know from the passage
.
A.
Mary discovered the wild flowers along the country
roads.
B. Mary
’
s last
conversation with her grandmother was a silent
one.
C.
Mary headed several miles back because she sped
past the hospital.
D.
Mary
’
s grandmother had
passed away before she arrived at the hospital.
27.
What does the
passage convey to us
A.
Beauty in nature can be powerful.
B.
Love has no
beginning or ending.
C.
Life is as beautiful as summer flowers.
D.
Flowers have
the magic to cure diseases.
C
Close to
the
North
Pole, remote
and
rocky
Plateau
Mountain
in the
Norwegian
archipelago of Svalbard seems an
unlikely spot for any global effort to safeguard
agriculture. In this
cold and deserted
environment, no grains, no gardens, no trees can
grow. Yet at the end of a
130-meter-
long
tunnel cut out of solid stone is
a room filled with humanity
’
smost precious
treasure, the largest and most diverse
seed collection more than a half-billion seeds.
A quiet rescue mission is under way.
With growing evidence that unchecked climate
change
will seriously affect food
production and threaten the diversity of crops
around the world, the
Svalbard Global
Seed Vault represents
a
major step towards ensuring the preservation
of
hundreds of thousands of crop
varieties. This is a seed collection, but more
importantly, it is a
collection of the
traits found within the seeds: the genes that give
one variety resistance to a
particular
pest and another variety tolerance for hot, dry
weather.
Few people will ever see or
come into contact with the contents of this vault.
In sealed boxes,
behind multiple
locked doors, monitored
by
electronic security systems, enveloped in below-
zero temperatures, and surrounded by
tons of rock, hundreds of millions of seeds are
protected
in their mountain fortress.
Frozen in such conditions inside the mountain,
seeds of most major
crops will remain
viable
for hundreds of years, or longer. Seeds of some
are capable of retaining
their ability
to grow for thousands of years.
Everyone can look back now and say that
the Seed Vault was a good and obvious idea, and
that of course the Norwegian government
should have approved and funded it. But back in
2004,
when the Seed Vault was proposed,
it was viewed as a crazy, impractical, and
expensive idea.
We knew that nothing would provide a
definite guarantee. But we were tired, fed up, and
frankly scared of the steady, greater
losses of crop diversity. The Seed Vault was built
by optimists
who wanted to do something
to preserve options so that humanity and its crops
might be better
prepared for change. If
it simply resupplied seed gene banks with samples
those gene banks had
lost, this would
repay our efforts.
The Seed
Vault is about hope and commitment
—
about what can be done if
countries come
together
and
work
cooperatively
to
accomplish
something
significant,
long-lasting,
and
worthy
of
who we
are and wish to be.
28.
What is the Seed Vault according to the passage