河北省衡水中学2018届高三上学期二调考试英语试题
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?
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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.
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.
11. Why did the woman come to London? A. To travel.
B. To work.
12. Where are the speakers? A. In a class.
B. At a meeting.
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.
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.
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C. By air.
C. Sisters.
C. To visit friends.
C. At a party.
C. In 1993.
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。
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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 start 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 make 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.
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B. It can grow year by year.
C. It can tear plastic into pieces. 22. What do we know about Nike? A. It offers free shoes to the disabled. C. It provides customer-friendly services.
B. It is designing new shoes frequently. D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively.
D. It can be put into wide use soon.
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 itself 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 Paragraph 1 refer to? A. Some park visitors’.
B. Endangered animals’. D. The author’s wild roommates’.
C. The author’s coworkers’.
25. Why did people show a change in attitude towards deer mice? A. Because a virus was spreading.
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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. C. They were no better than the author’s.
B. They were acceptable to the author. 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 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 in 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
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C. did research on national parks