湖南省衡阳市第八中学2017届高三实验班第三次质检英语试题(附答案)$775289

衡阳八中2017届高三年级第三次质检试卷

英语（试题卷）

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1.本卷为衡阳八中高三年级实验班第三次质检试卷，分两卷。其中共72题，满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。

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第I卷选择题（共100分）

一.听力（每题1.5分，共30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.What’s the woman crazy about?

A. The bad traffic in the morning.

B. The early working time in her office.

C. The construction in front of the building.

2.What is the woman doing?

A. Recommending some places to the man.

B. Asking for advice from the man.

C. Leaving on her trip to Asia.

3.What is the man going to do?

A. Talk to more soldiers.

B. Organize the information.

C. Collect more information.

4.What will the speakers do tonight?

A. Prepare for an exam.

B. Go to a celebration.

C. Go to a hospital.

5.Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At a clinic.

B. At a furniture store.

C. In a gym.

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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.What class will the man have this afternoon?

A. Politics.

B. History.

C. Biology.

7.What does the woman say about the cafeteria?

A. She likes the variety of food there.

B. She doesn’t think the food there is too bad.

C. She thinks it is too crowded there.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8.Where does the conversation take place?

A. At the airport.

B. At the Lost and Found.

C. At a railway station.

9.How many pieces of luggage does the woman have?

A. Two.

B. Three.

C. Four.

10.What color is the large suitcase?

A. Brown.

B. Gray.

C. Blue.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11.What does the woman ask the information for?

A. For some surveys.

B. For a meeting.

C. For a class project.

12.What sport is the 36-to-45 age group’s second choice?

A. Jogging.

B. Tennis.

C. Skiing.

13.In which age group are men a bit more active than women?

A. The 18-to-26 age group.

B. The 27-to-35 age group.

C. The 46-to-55 age group.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14.How does the man know the shop?

A. From a friend.

B. From the newspaper.

C. From the Internet.

15.Who does the man like most?

A. Jimi Hendrix.

B. Jimmy Page.

C. Fender.

16.Why is the Jimmy Page’s guitar so expensive?

A. His signature is on it.

B. It was played at his 1970 show.

C. It is the only Fender in the store.

17.What does the man plan to buy?

A. A Fender used by Jimmy Page.

B. A latest model of classic guitar.

C. A small guitar for a beginner.

听第10段材料，回答18至20题。

18.What should international students do when they get to college in America?

A. Take out a medical insurance policy.

B. Ask the college to recommend a doctor.

C. Get a check-up.

19.According to the man, what is the standard form of medical care in America?

A. Public clinics.

B. College clinics.

C. Private doctors.

20.What should international students bring when they go to America?

A. Their health records.

B. The contact information of their doctors.

C. Medicine

二.阅读理解（每题2分，共40分）

第一部分阅读下面的文章，从每题后面所给的四个选项中选出正确的一项。

A

Sometimes the best advice doesn’t come from a book, a microphone, from behind a desk in Washington or even from the people who are the leaders in their fields. Sometimes the best life lessons are found deep in the roots of where we came from. My father passed away years ago, but

I always remember the lessons he taught me. Three of them particularly shape my perspective day after day.

The first one is that little things make big things happen. To the best of my memory, when I was young, we needed to build a new shed. Those were the days when stores like Home Depot and Lowes didn’t exist. Brand-new timber (木料) was expensive, so folks often reused the materials that others in the community didn’t need. That summer, Dad and I used the boards from an old abandoned barn. We pulled them down one by one, drew the nails out and took off the tin and straightened it in order to reuse it. We got our supplies back to our yard and got to work. I don’t know how much of a help I really was, but I chose to stay beside Dad the entire period, working along with him.

The sun was hot that day, and sweat formed and ran down our faces. I stood there and handed him the nails one by one, which were hammered into that shed. Dad made me feel proud of my work. Even though I just handed him the nails, he repeatedly emphasized how we built the new shed “together”. He taught me that when you’re willing to do hard work, even in little things, big things come together.

The second one is that we should honor our promises. As a young man, my father always carried a pocket-sized Bible in his chest pocket. Shortly before the invasion of Normandy in 1944, he prayed for God’s protection and promised God that if he made it home, he would make sure his family attended church every Sunday. Well, he made it home and he kept that promise. I cannot remember a Sunday when Dad did not take my mother, my siblings and me to church — even when we were away on vacation. I now have my Dad’s pocket Bible. It is one of my most treasured possessions, and it serves as a constant reminder of my dad’s service to his country. However, it also serves as a visual represe ntation of my dad’s firm determination to keep his promises.

Today, I place great value on my family and my faith, undoubtedly because of my dad’s example. This lesson of promise has been introduced into all areas of my life.

The third one is that listening is a way to acquire wisdom. My dad and I kept ourselves busy doing a lot of things together. During the nights of late summer, after dinner, the whole family would gather on our small porch to talk as the sun went down. Sometimes an aunt or uncle would drop by, and at other times my grandparents would be there. They would talk about the neighborhood

news, the goings-on in modern Western society and politics — mostly ordinary things, but it was good to sit there listening and to be together. Moreover, sitting there on the porch as dusk faded into night, I learned the value of listening and observing. Sometimes taking a moment to pause gives us the best perspective and sometimes we find the best answers simply by listening.

Life in America becomes more complex. However, I like to think back to the simple lessons I learned from my father. They were the building blocks of my character and the values that still guide me today. Perhaps someone who has influence on your life taught you life lessons that helped for m your character. I’m convinced that our nation could gain a lot by applying these lessons today. If we did, I think we would be reminded that the reason why our nation has become great is not merely that we have had wise leaders or well-spoken elected officials. Our nation has become great because of those ordinary Americans like my father, who have pride in their work, place great value on honesty, character and commitments, and pass those lessons on to their children and grandchildren. And that is the reason why we are still great today.

21.While building the new shed with his father, the author .

A. managed to get in touch with some folks

B. realized how hard his father worked

C. tried his best to help his father

D. was curious about everything

22.Why does the author keep his father’s pocket Bible?

A. He has great faith in religion.

B. He takes it to church every Sunday.

C. It reminds him to keep his promises.

D. It reminds him of his father’s survival in the match.

23.What does the author intend to tell us in the passage?

A. The importance of keeping family values.

B. The factors making a country rich and strong.

C. The happy time he spent with his father.

D. Three lessons he learned from his father.

24.It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. wise leaders determine a country’s status

B. ordinary people have an effect o n a country’s future

C. the author’s father was greater than anyone else in his heart

D. the author dislikes the well-spoken officials

B

Every immigrant leads a double life. Every immigrant has a double identity and a double vision, being suspended between an old and a new home, an old and new self. The very notion of a new home, of course, is in a sense as impossible as the notion of new parents. Parents are who they are; home is what it is.

Yet home, like parentage, must be legitimized(合理) through love; otherwise, it is only a fact of geography or biology. Most immigrants to America found their love of their old homes betrayed: they did not really abandon their countries; their countries abandoned them. In America, they found the possibility of a new love, the chance to nurture new selves.

Not uniformly, not without exceptions. Every generation has its Know-Nothing movement. Its understandable fear and hatred of alien invasion is as true today as it always was, but in spite of all this, the American attitude remains unique. Throughout history, exile has been a disaster; America turned it into a triumph and placed its immigrants in the center of a national epic.

The epic is possible because America is an idea as much as it is a country. America has nothing to do with loyalty to a dynasty and very little to do with loyalty to particular place, but everything to do with loyalty to a set of principles. To immigrants, those principles are especially real because so often they were absent or viol ated in their native lands. It was no accident in the ’60 and ‘70s, when alienation was in flower, that it often seemed to be “native” Americans who felt alienated, while aliens or the children of aliens upheld the native values. The immigrant’s double vis ion results in a special, somewhat skewed perspective on America that can mislead but that can also find revelation in the things that to native Americans are obvious. Psychiatrist Robert Coles speaks of those “who straddle worlds and make of that very experience a new world.”

“Home is where you are happy.” Sentimental, perhaps, and certainly not conventionally patriotic, but is appropriate for a country that wrote the pursuit of happiness into its founding document. That continues for the immigrant in America, and it never stops, but it comes to rest at a certain moment. The moment is hard to pin down, but it occurs perhaps when the immigrant’s double life and double vision joint together toward a single state of mind. When the old life, the old home fade into a certain unreality: places one merely visits, in fact or in the mind, practicing

the tourism of memory. It occurs when the immigrant learns his ultimate lesson: above all countries, America, if loved, returns love.

25. How can we understand the underlined sentence in Para1?

A. Parents have nothing to do with home.

B. Home is irreplaceable just like parents.

C. New home can somewhat represent parents.

D. Parents and home are essentially different.

26. What’s the result of American’s unique attitude toward immigrants?

A. Immigrants have played an important role in America’s history.

B. Immigrants have endured more sufferings than those in other countries.

C. Immigrants have been a disaster to America’s development.

D. Immigrants have posed fear and hatred on America.

27. What does the underlined word “That” in Para5 refer to?

A. Traditional patriotism

B. Immigrants’ double life and vision

C. The pursuit of happiness.

D. Returned love from America

C

Exercise seems to be good for the human brain，with many recent studies suggesting that regular exercise improves memory and thinking skills．But an interesting new study asks whether the apparent cognitive benefits from exercise are real or just a placebo effect — that is，if we think we will be “smarter” after exercise，do our brains respond accordingly？The answer has significant implications for any of us hoping to use exercise to keep our minds sharp throughout our lives．While many studies suggest that exercise may have cognitive benefits，recently some scientists have begun to question whether the apparently beneficial effects of exercise on thinking might be a placebo effect．So researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign decided to focus on expectations，on what people anticipate that exercise will do for thinking．If people’s expectations jibe (吻合) closely with the actual benefits，then at least some of those improvements are probably a result of the placebo effect and not of exercise．

For the new study，which was published last month in PLOS One，the researchers recruited 171 people through an online survey system，they asked half of these volunteers to estimate by how much a stretching and toning regimens (拉伸运动) performed three times a week might improve various measures of thinking．The other volunteers were asked the same questions，but about a regular walking program．

In actual experiments，stretching and toning program generally have little if any impact on people’s cognitive skills．Walking，on the other hand，seems to substantially improve thinking ability．

But the survey respondents believed the opposite，estimating that the stretching and toning program would be more beneficial for the mind than walking．The estimates of benefits from walking were lower．

These data，while they do not involve any actual exercise，are good news for people who do exercise．“The results from our study suggest that the benefits of aerobic exercise are not a placebo effect,” said Cary Stothart，a graduate student in cognitive psychology at Florida State University，who led the study．

If expectations had been driving the improvements in cognition seen in studies after exercise，Mr．Stothart said，then people should have expected walking to be more beneficial for thinking than stretching．They didn’t，implying that the changes in the brain and thinking after exercise are physiologically genuine．

The findings are strong enough to suggest that exercise really does change the brain and may，in the process，improve thinking，Mr．Stothart said．That conclusion should encourage scientists to look even more closely into how，at a molecular level，exercise remodels the human brain，he said．It also should encourage the rest of us to move，since the benefits are，it seems，not imaginary，even if they are in our head．

28．Which of the following about the placebo effect is TRUE according to the passage？

A．It occurs during exercise．B．It has cognitive benefits．

C．It is just a mental reaction．D．It is a physiological response．

29．Why did the researchers at the two universities conduct the research？

A．To discover the placebo effect in the exercise．

B．To prove the previous studies have a big drawback．

C．To test whether exercise can really improve cognition．

D．To encourage more scientists to get involved in the research．

30．What can we know about the research Cary Stothart and his team carried out？

A．They employed 171 people to take part in the actual exercise．

B．The result of the research removed the recent doubt of some scientists．

C．The participants thought walking had a greater impact on thinking ability．

D．Their conclusion drives scientists to do research on the placebo effect．

31．What might be the best title for the passage？

A．Is it necessary for us to take exercise？B．How should people exercise properly？C．What makes us smarter during exercise？D．Does exercise really make us smarter？

D

The new Swedish gender-neutral (性别中立的) word “hen” was introduced at two Stockholm nurseries in 2012. It is used for describing either male or female, or someone not wanting to be described with those terms. Today “hen” is frequently used by Swedish children and adults alike. Now other European countries are joining the gender-neutrality trend.

“Fourteen major retailers(零售商) have made changes since we started our campaign almost two years ago,” reports Tricia Lowther, a mother-of-one in northern England and a member of the Let Toys Be Toys initiative, which lobbies for gender-neutral toy aisles. “They’ve taken down boys’ and girls’ signs. The blue and pink aisles remain, but things are happening.” The retailers doing away with boys’ and girls’ toy signs are major ones indeed: Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Boots. Marks & Spencer has gone even further, making its toy labelling gender-neutral.

In the efforts to achieve gender equality in the children world, no country has gone as far as Sweden. The nurseries that first introduced “hen” still use it, and others have joined them. “All children should be able to wear what they want. Dresses are not just for girls. And pink is a beautiful colour that should be available to everybody,” says Maria Hulth of a gender equality consulting firm.

“Sweden is really the pioneer,” says Lann Hornscheidt, a professor of gender studies. “No other country has made such an eff ort to break down gender barriers among children.”