河北衡水中学2018届高三二调
第I卷(选择题共90分）
第一部分听力（共两节，满分20分）
第一节（共5小题;每小题1分，满分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. Where are the speakers going to meet?
A. In a cafe.
B. In the station.
C. At the post office.
2. Who was the last one to show up?
A. Mary.
B. Daniel.
C. Ann.
3. What does Miss Green think of Tom?
A. Stupid.
B. Naughty.
C. Lazy.
4. What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Give her a lift.
B. Carry the ladder for her.
C. Clean the windows.
5. What will the speakers do probably?
A. Go for a bike ride.
B. Run around the park.
C. Borrow another bike.
第二节（共15小题;每小题1分，满分15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，各个小题将给出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 are the speakers probably doing?
A. Walking to school.
B. Studying in a classroom.
C. Exercising in a gym.
7. What does Charles look like?
A. He has big eyes and brown hair.
B. He has small eyes but big ears.
C. He has a big nose but small eyes.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What kind of tickets can be bought?
A. Standing tickets on August 29.
B. Standing tickets on August 30.
C. Tickets for seats on August 30.
9. How will the speakers go to Beijing?
A. By car.
B. By train.
C. By air.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What’s the relationship between Grace and Teresa?
A. Roommates.
B. Colleagues.
C. Sisters.
11. Why did the woman come to London?
A. To travel.
B. To work.
C. To visit friends.
12. Where are the speakers?
A. In a class.
B. At a meeting.
C. At a party.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What happened in Pullman’s life in 1954?
A. His father died in a plane crash.
B. His father became a pilot.
C. His mother remarried.
14. What did Pullman decide to do after he moved to Australia?
A. Travel around the world.
B. Publish novels about Superman.
C. Write fantasy novels when he grew up.
15. What was Pullman’s university life like?
A. He was a top student.
B. He never took part in activities.
C. He didn’t like the English course.
16. When was Pullman’s first novel published?
A. In 1972.
B. In 1986.
C. In 1993.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When did the extreme heat wave strike Greenland in 2012?
A. In August.
B. In July.
C. In June.
18. What happened at one scientific research station?
A. Flags fell over.
B. The ice runway broke.
C. Supply planes crashed.
19. How much of the island’s surface ice melted for a short time this summer?
A. 79 percent
B. 90 percent
C. 97 percent
20. What is Marco Tedesco worried about?
A. Greenland may lose its ice forever.
B. Melts may occur in other seasons.
C. Greenland may become greener.
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
The Coolest Inventions
An Oceans Vacuum
There’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to star t in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42 % over 10 years.
Easy-On Shoes
In 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the FlyEase. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike FlyEase shoes sells for $ 130.
An Airport for Drones (无人机）
As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goals is to m ake it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.
21. What’s the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum?
A. It can be a money-saver.
B. It can grow year by year.
C. It can tear plastic into pieces.
D. It can be put into wide use soon.
22. What do we know about Nike?
A. It offers free shoes to the disabled.
B. It is designing new shoes frequently.
C. It provides customer-friendly services.
D. I t responded to Matthew’s request passively.
23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”？
A. Because road travel there is rough.
B. Because there are too many drones.
C. Because they’re easier to construct than roads.
D. Because they are receptive to new technology.
B
I spent most my twenties working for the National Park Service, and I lived a wide variety of government housing, including several shabby but appealing old houses where the wild creatures outnumbered humans. Sometimes I wondered, lying awake at night, how many hearts beat inside those walls. With all that lovely national park habitat protected for their use, why did the animals need to live in my house?
My latest essay “The indoor wilds at outdoor parks,” revisits my experiences with wild (non-human!) roommates and officemates in Rocky Mountain National Park. At first, they were considered annoying but not dangerous. Attitudes changed dramatically when hantavirus (汉他病毒) came on the scene, and suddenly those cute, non-housebroken deer mice became a threat. When I moved on to Canyonlands National Park, I found that every effort had been made to seal off my house from four-footed intruders (入侵者). These efforts mostly worked and later employees moved into new housing. But somehow a rat still managed to chew its way through the floor and drown i tself in my toilet. I’m not even going to get started about my coworkers’ experiences with other much scarier animals.
The Beaver Meadows Vistor Center in the story was designed by Tailiesin Associated Architects, Frank Lloyed Wright’s firm, after Wright’s death. Working there, I always thought the building was strange. I recently revisited the building while researching a children’s book I am writing about the park. I think I get it now, at least a little.
24. What does the underlined word “their” in Parag raph 1 refer to?
A. Some park visitors’.
B. Endangered animals’.
C. The author’s coworkers’.
D. The author’s wild roommates’.
25. Why did people show a change in attitude towards deer mice?
A. Because a virus was spreading.
B. Because people were hurt by them.
C. Because people saw a really cute one.
D. Because they protected people’s houses.
26. What can we infer about the living conditions of the author’s coworkers?
A. They were unknown to the author.
B. They were acceptable to the author.
C. They were no better than the author’s.
D. They were much better than the author’s.
27. After visiting the Beaver Meadows Vistor Center again, the author .
A. could appreciate it better
B. finished a children’s book
C. did research on national parks
D. knew it was designed by Wright
C
Increasing numbers of airports, especially in Europe, are promoting a “silent airport” idea. It is to reduce noise pollution, such as airport-wide announcements, without sacrificing timely and helpful updates of information.
International airports were once characterized by their high voices, competing gate announcements and so on.
This is all changing.
Angela Gittens, director general of Airports Council International (ACI), says there is a growing desire among airports and airlines they serve to “create a calm, relaxed atmosphere” without being disturbed by announcements.
“Passengers can relax while they wait for their flight to board in the common airside lounges (休闲区), and food and drink areas,” she says.
In June, Helsinki Airport in Finland —a country where the tourism slogan is “Silence, Please” —became the most recent airport to adopt the silent concept.
As part of its commitment to quieting things down, announcements for flights are made only in boarding gate areas.
Lost track of time in the shop?
Too bad.
Nobody’s going to call you to your flight, as announcements i n all terminals will be made only in exceptional emergency circumstances.
Heikki Koski, vice president of Helsinki Airport, says that improved flight information display systems and interactive kiosks (交互式自助服务机), together with advances in mobile technology, are changing the way airports communicate with passengers.
At Munich Airport, InfoGate kiosks allow for video-based, face-to-face conversation with a live customer service representative in the t raveler’s language of choice. Interactive signs, on the other hand, give directions at the touch of finger. Passengers can tap a “you are here” display to get directions and approximate walking times to their destinations.
Of course, an airport will never be as silent as a temple.
There will continue to be a need for airport-wide emergency announcements, along with boarding calls.
But at silent airports, the latter can be restricted to specific gates, as has been adopted in Helsinki.
28. What is Angela Gittens, opinion on the silent airport concept?
A. It makes airport noise-free.
B. It is intended for passengers’ benefit.
C. It has changed international airports’ reputation.
D. It has encouraged the catering industry in airports.
29. What should passengers pay close attention to at Helsinki Airport?
A. Their boarding time.
B. Finland’s tourism slogan.
C. The shops’ opening hours.
D. The “you are here” display.
30. Why is Munich Airport mentioned in the next?
A. To show its popularity.
B. To introduce InfoGate kiosks.
C. To prove Heikki Koski’s words.
D. To be compared with Helsinki Airport.
31. What is the best title for the text?
A. Silence, please. This is an airport!
B. Can airports be as quiet as temples?
C. Silent airports all around the world
D. Technology helps airports become interactive
D
Is any economist so dull as to criticize Christmas? At first glance, the holiday season in western economies seems a treat for those concerned with such vagaries (奇想) as GDP growth. After all, everyone is spending; in America, retailers make 25% of their yearly sales and 60% of their profits between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even so, economists find something to worry about in the nature of the purchases being made.
Much of the holiday spending is on gifts for others. At the simplest level, giving gifts involves the giver thinking of something that the recipient would like — he tries to guess her preferences, as economists say — and then buying the gift and delivering it. Yet this guessing of preferences is not easy; indeed, it is often done badly. Every year, ties go unworn and books unread. And even if a gift is enjoyed, it may not be what the recipient would have bought if they had spent the money themselves.
Interested in this mismatch between wants and gifts, in 1993 Joel Waldfogel, then an economist at Yale University, sought to estimate the difference in dollar terms. In a research, he asked students two questions at the end of a holiday season: first, estimate the total amount paid (by the givers) for all the holiday gifts you received; second, apart from the sentimental value of the items, if you did not have them, how much would you be willing to pay to get them? His results were gloomy: on average, a gift was valued by the recipient well below the price paid by the giver.
In addition, recipients may not know their own preferences very well. Some of the best gifts, after all, are unexpected items that you would never have thought of buying, but which turn out to be especially well picked. And preference can change. So by giving a jazz CD, for example, the giver may be encouraging the recipient to enjoy something that was ignored before. This, a desire to build skills, is possibly the hope held by many parents who ignore their children’s desires for video games and buy them books instead.
Finally, there are items that a recipient would like to receive but not purchase. If someone else buys them, however, they can be enjoyed guilt-free. This might explain the high volume of chocolate that changes over the holidays. Thus, the lesson for gift-givers is that you should try hard to guess the preference of each person on your list and then choose a gift that will have a high sentimental value.
32. The word “sentimental” in Paragraph 3 is close to “.”
A. intelligent
B. emotional
C. social
D. practical
33. According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Price is nothing but the factor when you give gifts.
B. Chocolates will be blamed when people receive them as gifts.
C. The receivers often overestimate the values of gifts.
D. Wants do not always correspond to needs in gift-giving.
34. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the text?
A. The gift-giver tries to neglect the actual needs of the receiver.
B. The best gifts are well picked by the givers.
C. In gift-g iving, guessing preference is often a failure, so it’s the thought that counts.
D. You have to take money into consideration when giving a gift.
35. The text is most likely taken from a .
A. users’ handbook
B. medical journal
C. travel magazine
D. consumer-related report
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入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Organic produce has become increasingly popular in recent years. However, “organic” does not mean “pesticide-free” (无农药的) or “chemical-free”. In fact, or ganic farmers are allowed to use a wide variety of chemical sprays and powders on their crops.
36 It means that these pesticides, if used, must be got from natural sources, not synthetically (人工合成地) manufactured. Also, these pesticides must be applied using equipment that has not been used to apply any synthetic materials for the past three years. 37 What’s more, most organic farmers, and even some conventional farmers, employ mechanical and cultural tools to help control pests.
Many people believe organic produce is healthier and safer. Nobody bothered to look at whether natural chemicals are harmful. 38 But when the studies were done, you found that about half of the natural chemicals studied could cause cancer. 39 We assume that “natural” che micals were better and safer than synthetic materials, but we were wrong. 40
A. And the land being planted cannot have been treated with synthetic materials for that period either.
B. Thus, we should be more cautious in our acceptance of “natural” as be ing harmless.
C. There are many choices and decisions that we, as consumers, are asked to make.
D. It should be noted that we don’t know which system is more harmful.
E. This is a case where everyone made the same dangerous mistake.
F. That was because it was assumed that they posed little risk.
G. So what does organic mean?
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分40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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
That was my first ballet performance and I was the lead role. A huge black curtain 41 me from the crowd. My heart raced so rapidly that it would 42 out of my chest. A rush of 43 shot through my body when the music began and I took my 44 at the center of the stage. I pushed off the floor as hard as I could and 45 into the air. Then I started to come 46 for my landing, preparing to jump again, and yet my foot 47 . I fell, face-first. For a moment I couldn’t 48 , wondering if I should go on. 49 , trained for thousands of hours for twelve years, my muscles ignored the 50 of my mind and I 51 myself back on my feet. I finished the part and left the stage. Bending over a table, I tried to 52 tears. I didn’t want to go back to finish the last twenty minutes. I didn’t 53 the lead role.
Then came my te acher. “The 54 thing on stage is to fall. You’ve gotten it, so what’s left to 55 ? Just go and give it all.” Her words 56 me. Minutes later, I went back onstage and completely let go of 57 . I just danced, letting the music guide me through the movement.
Now, as a Principal Dancer, I often think about that performance. We fall when we try our hardest. There is no 58 , only pride. Falling is 59 and sometimes it is easier just to stay on the 60 . But if we never get up, we never experience what it is like to fly.
41. A. covered B. hid C. protected D. drove
42. A. beat B. drop C. run D. shout
43. A. amazement B. excitement C. joy D. contentment
44. A. time B. turn C. place D. order
45. A. flew B. spun C. rose D. looked
46. A. out B. in C. down D. off
47. A. slipped B. stopped C. stepped D. advanced
48. A. think B. cry C. move D. believe
49. A. Therefore B. However C. Otherwise D. Instead
50. A. loss B. pain C. relief D. hesitation
51. A. found B. dragged C. accustomed D. allowed
52. A. dry up B. wipe out C. burst into D. fight back
53. A. play B. deserve C. get D. finish
54. A. unexpected B. awkward C. common D. worst
55. A. go B. do C. lose D. say
56. A. awoke B. enriched C. excited D. surprised
57. A. the music B. myself C. the teacher D. others
58. A. excuse B. fear C. benefit D. shame
59. A. shocking B. interesting C. rare D. terrible
60. A. spot B. road C. ground D. stage
第Ⅱ卷(非选择题共60分）
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and 61 (step) outside the room. It was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, I did not go towards the stairs. 62 , I went in a wrong direction. The smoke grew much 63 (thick) and I could see 64 (burn) wood all around me. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But 65 I could reach it, one of my 66 (foot) was caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing that made me fall like a bundle (包) of clothes, and I picked it up 67 (protect) my face from the smoke and heat.
As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave out 68 thin cry. I nearly dropped
69 in my surprise. Then I found myself in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in her night dress and
a 70 (borrow) man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running to me madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
第四部分写作（共三节，满分50分）
第一节基础知识测试(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分）
71?80题单词拼写（每空一词）
71. I believe that this meeting will surely (增强) our ties.
72. There are some striking (相似) between the two plays.
73. A visit to Morocco is really an (难忘的) experience.
74. I’m (真诚地，确实，确切) sorry that things had to end like this.
75. She gave the word its French (发音).
76. (fortune), the restaurant he recommended fell far short of our expectations.
77. The company saw it as part of its social (responsible) to provide education for its workers.
78. She got great (satisfy) from helping people to learn.
79. The (wealth) you are, the less generous you are.
80. The solution (strike) me immediately.
81?85题请根据提示完成句子(不限词数)
81. “The interest be divided into five parts, according to the agreement made by both sides.” declared the judge.(语法)
82. But for my classmates’ help, I (not finish) the work in time.(语法)
83. It is impossible to avoid (influence) by advertisements in a modern city.
84. From the outside, it may have loo ked like they “made it overnight”, but they (put) in 13 years of hard work before they eventually achieved success.
85. As John Lennon once said, life is happens to you while you are busy making other plans.(语法)
第二节短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dr. Stefan Klein has found that be happy is a skill that can be learned like a foreign language, and one way to train ourselves to be happy is to write down the little things that cheer us up each day. Also, Dr. Klein says that decade of study into happiness has shown that people who are depressed often believe in there are no sources of joy in their lives. But recent study found that when patients were asking to keep diaries of events that made them happy, it helped them a lot to get better.
According to Dr. Klein, to make us more aware for the moments, we just need to sit down in the
evening and write down the moments where we feel happy. Even in states of severely depression there are moments of happiness. And unless you decide to take Dr. Klein’s advice, you can make yourself even happy by recommending the technique to others.
第三节书面表达(满分25分）
你校学生会需招聘一名留学生做英语学习顾问，请你以短文形式写一则招聘启事。内容主要包括：
1.母语是英语，汉语流利者优先
2.解答英语学习问题，协助组织英语活动
3.每周4小时，报酬面议
4.联系人：李华（Tel:130 **** ****）
注意：1.词数100—120左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.启事标语和结尾已为你写好。
English Advisor Wanted
Student Union
Yucai High School
河北省衡水中学2018届高三上学期二调考试
英语试题答案
第一部分听力
1?5: CBCBB 6?10: CBBCA 11?15: BCACC 16?20: ABACC
第二部分阅读理解
21?23:ACA 24?27:DACA 28?31: BACA 32?35:BDCD 36?40: GAFEB
第三部分英语知识运用
第一节完形填空
41?45: BABCA 46?50: CACBD 51?55: ADBDC 56?60: ABDDC
第二节语法填空
61. stepped 62. Instead 63. thicker 64. burning 65. before 66. feet 67. to protect 68. a 69. it 70. borrowed
第四部分写作
第一节基础知识测试
71. strengthen/ promote 72. similarities 73. unforgettable 74. truly/ sincerely 75. pronunciation 76.
Unfortunately
77. responsibility 78. satisfaction 79. wealthier 80. struck 81. shall 82. wouldn’t have finished 83. being influenced
84. had put/put 85. what
第二节短文改错
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第三节书面表达
One possible version:
English Advisor Wanted
The Student Union of our school decides to invite an international student to work as an English Study Advisor next term. The main responsibilities of the advisor include helping students to practice their oral English, answering their questions, and helping organize activities such as singing English songs, English evenings, or lectures on interesting topics.
The applicant should be a native speaker of English. Fluency in Chinese is preferred. The advisor is
expected to work 4 hours per week.
If you are interested, please call Li Hua at 130******** for an interview. Payment for the service will be discussed during the interview.
Student Union
Yucai High School