湖南省三湘名校教育联盟2018届高三第三次联考
英语试题
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5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。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 does the man plan to do in the holiday?
A. Stay at home.
B. Have a picnic.
C. Go swimming.
2. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a restaurant.
B. In a gym.
C. In a store.
3. When is the woman’s birthday?
A. Next Monday.
B. Next Tuesday.
C. Next Sunday.
4. Who has difficulty in learning English?
A. Lempel.
B. Linda.
C. Jockey.
5. What are the speakers doing now?
A. Waiting for someone at the station.
B. Booking tickets for their trip.
C. Talking about their plan.
第二节（版权：百强校英语解析团队专供）（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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 is the woman?
A. A company secretary.
B. A hotel waitress.
C. A tourist guide.
7. What does the man think of the place?
A. Everything there is satisfying.
B. He isn’t satisfied with the city.
C. It would be good without the insects.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. According to the man, what is the basic thing of studying Chinese?
A. Practice.
B. Grammar.
C. Confidence.
9. What are they mainly talking about?
A. The advice to be confident.
B. The trouble of learning Chinese.
C. The way to succeed in learning Chinese.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Whom will Anna travel with during the summer holiday?
A. Her friends.
B. Her classmates.
C. Her relatives.
11. What is the island’s official language?
A. English.
B. Tahitian.
C. French.
12. What does the woman most care about the island?
A. Its beaches.
B. Its food.
C. Its culture.
听第9段材料，回答13至16题。
13. Who is the man?
A. Anderson’s teacher.
B. Anderson’s father.
C. Anderson’s classmate.
14. What does the woman want Anderson to do?
A. Take some pictures.
B. Joke around with others.
C. Speak up a little more in class.
15. Why was Anderson hurt at school?
A. The kids stole his phone.
B. The kids made fun of his appearance.
C. The kids ignored him in class.
16. What will the kids do tomorrow?
A. Apologize to Anderson.
B. Buy Anderson a new shirt.
C. Write some good comments on Facebook.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why do the media pay much attention to Ivanka?
A. She is running her own successful business.
B. She is the daughter of president.
C. She has some developments in her personal life.
18. What was Ivanka before working in the land development business?
A. A politician.
B. A businesswoman.
C. A model.
19. What was the reason for being forced to stop carrying Ivanka’s brand?
A. Her political stage.
B. Her father’s unpopularity.
C. Her successful business.
20. In which part of Ivanka’s business went wrong?
A. The strategy.
B. The sales.
C. The products.
第二部分阅读共两节，满分40分）
第一节阅读埋解（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 best tool needed for survival in the event you get lost when you travel is your skill of advanced planning. You must expect the unexpected and plan accordingly. Even if you are going out for just a few hours, pack enough essentials that you can stay hydrated (体内水分), fueled and prepared for any type of weather. Your essentials should include at least:
? M ore than enough food and water for the activity you plan.
? A compass that you know how to use. You may want a GPS device, but those sometimes do not receive a signal or the battery fails. Cell phones also likely will not work because of a lack of signal.
? Appropriate maps. Study the terrain (地形) and your planned route. Know where you are going and how you will return.
? Comfortable hiking boots, clothes that you can wear depending on the weather conditions and additional socks in case the ones you arc wearing get wet.
? A blanket, flashlight, matches kept in a water-resistant container, and other items that will help you survive overnight if necessary.
? Cheek with the local forest office for special warnings, such as fires in the area, bear sightings, flooding, trail or road closures, etc.
It’s also important that once you have planned your outing, tell someone. Give them exact details of where you are going, the trail you plan to follow, when you will return, the vehicle you are driving (and where you plan to park) and how many people will go with you—do not go alone.
If you do become lost, your most important tool is keeping a positive mental attitude.
21. What docs Paragraph 1 mainly tell us?
A. Getting lost outdoors is common in life.
B. Surviving in the wild is really a tough thing.
C. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
D. Advanced planning can prevent future troubles.
22. What probably is continued with the text?
A. The means as to traveling around.
B. The story of the author having a tour.
C. The ups on how to be positive when in trouble.
D. The details of how to reach for rescue.
23. Where docs the text probably originate from?
A. A sports magazine.
B. A tourist guide.
C. A grocery list.
D. A science instruction.
B
In America, each of the states likes to promote itself with a slogan (口号). I currently live in Utah, where the slogan is ‘“Life Elevated”. It’s a nod to outdoor entertainment in the hill country, including the ski industry. I previously lived in Colorado, a land with red dm. great mountains and golden plains. The slogan there is ‘‘Colorful Colorado”. Years ago I lived in the “Peach State” of Georgia, and I grew up in New Mexico as a little boy, whose slogan is “Land of Enchantment (魔力)”.
We never seemed to get away from dust in New Mexico, so I appreciate the story of a newcomer to the Land of Enchantment who learned about dusty wind. She was visiting an antique shop and the owner wiped down every item before showing it. The newcomer said, “Everything gets dusty here pretty quickly, doesn’t it?” “That’s not dust, honey,” the shop owner replied, “That’s ENCIIANTMENT”. That made the problem more acceptable or at least can be live with. An escalator (自动扶梯) broke, so he posted a sign to warn customers. He chose not to use the traditional “Out of Order” or “Do Not Use” warnings. Instead, his sign read, “This Escalator Is Temporarily a Stairway”. He turned a minus into humor and made it a plus.
And in fact there arc sonic things, like the weather, we can’t change. All we can change is our ways that we think and feel about them. I believe one of the best techniques to do this is to find some humor in the situation. Finding something amusing or enjoyable of difficulty, a troublesome problem can be one of the most creative and effective things we can do. Sometimes the only sense you can make of a situation is a sense of humor.
24. How many places has the author lived in from the first paragraph?
A. 2.
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5.
25. How would the newcomer probably feel after hearing what the shop owner said?
A. Angry.
B. Relaxed.
C. Curious.
D. Nervous.
26. What’s the purpose of writing the text?
A. To encourage people to find the funny side in their daily life.
B. To show the effects of using slogans to raise the position.
C. To explain the skills of turning a disadvantage into humor.
D. To tell the strange experience of a bargain in an antique shop.
27. What dose the underlined word “it” in the Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Dust on items.
B. The antique shop.
C. An item for sale.
D. The Land of Enchantment.
C
The Island Rule is one of the best explanations scientists could give to the observable phenomenon that animals and humans have evolved (演变) depending on the resources available in their habitat (栖息地). Through time, scientists have noticed through fossil (化石) records that some large animals from mainland habitats have dwarf (矮小的) versions in bland habitats.
A report from BBC described the existence of what scientists call “hobbit island” off a small island somewhere in Indonesia. It was given such a name because fossil records of tiny, humanlike creatures have been found in the region. What they called as “hobbits” or “Homo Floresiensis”, are only as tall as one meter and arc small versions of early human species with tinier brains.
Though scientists cannot perfectly trace the origin of the “Homo Floriensis”, they believe that they arc human relatives, but it is the “island life” that has caused them to evolve as they have. Scientists have noticed through fossil records and existing organisms (有机体) today that it seems if large animals grow small in islands while small animals grow large in larger islands.
In theory, animal and human bodies have adjusted to the available food and fresh water in their habitats. Since there is no opportunity for them to leave their island, they might as well adapt.
New York Magazine explained that islands usually have fewer predators (捕食者) than mainland ecosystems. However, it is the lack of resources that cause the death
of many animals. As a means of natural adaptation, the bodies of these animals have evolved smaller than their ancestors, making their bodies require fewer resources.
A report from Web Ecoist listed down a few examples of animals that have shrunk significantly compared with their ancestors. Some of these include the Bali tiger as small as leopards (豹).
28. How did the name “hobbit island” come from?
A. Scientists discovered dwarf people living on the island.
B. One meter tall human being made a living on these islands.
C. Scientists found human species with tinier brains on an island.
D. Evidences showing tiny, human-like creatures on the island were found.
29. What do you know about “Homo Floricnsis”?
A. They used to only live somewhere in Indonesia.
B. They were the earliest ancestor of human beings.
C. They look small compared with normal humans.
D. They gradually grew larger on the larger islands.
30. According to New York Magazine, .
A. animals on island lack enough food to live on
B. many animals died off for no apparent reason
C. too many predators will do damage to the ecosystem
D. predators make island animals turn smaller
31. What can be inferred from the text?
A. More predators can help animals grow stronger and larger.
B. Bali tiger turns small because of adaptation to the environment.
C. More food resources should be provided lo islands.
D. Animals on mainland arc fiercer than those on islands.
D
When asked how technology might improve the lives of people with vision impairments (视力障碍), Joann Becker presented a misleadingly simple challenge. “Well,” the vision impairments tech specialist recalls saying. “I’d like to be able to find my bus slop through Be My Eyes”.
Be My Eyes, which went live in 2015, establishes a direct video connection between visually impaired users and sighted volunteers. The assumption is simple: Many people who are blind don’t need any actual assistance in completing their daily tasks, but merely need a little help.
A sighted volunteer might be asked to help identify which of two cans contains tomatoes. In this case, the visually impaired user can cook a meal just fine on his/her own-all he/she needs is a quick confirmation that he/she has the correct can. The model appears to be working; more than 540,000 volunteers and nearly 40,000 people with low vision are registered on the app.
“An elderly woman can now help a visually impaired technician set up his computer,” says founder Hans Wiberg, who has very low vision. “She doesn’t need to know a thing about computers. She only needs to read what is presented on the screen. Then he can do the rest.”
Early assistive technology centered on dedicated devices (专用设备), because of the niche market (缝隙市场), which sold for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. But the smartphone, multipurpose and near-universal, has completely changed the economy of scale.
“There are larger market forces driving high-powered computation, high-quality engineering and high-quality battery management in the smartphone market than those in a specialty product,” says Aaron Steinfeld, a research professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
“The reality is, most sighted people don’t know somebody who is blind.” Becker says. “They think the solutions that a blind person needs arc far more exp ansive, it turns out, they need to be. I think these apps are enabling sighted people to see that blind people just need some simple clues to help them do any number of things in their lives.”
32. What is the first paragraph used for in the text?
A. Showing the main idea.
B. Introducing the topic.
C. Giving one example.
D. Making a conclusion.
33. How does the app Be My Eyes work?
A. By creating a video link between the dibbled and .sighted one.
B. By recognizing which of two cans have tomatoes and cooking.
C. By establishing a high-quality engineering and computation.
D. By flashing the everyday tasks of the technician and volunteers.
34. From the text we can know .
A. only people with low vision arc registered to use the app
B. slight assistance can help the blind free from some troubles
C. volunteers should be very familiar with high-tech computers
D. Joann Becker thinks it hard to find a bus stop using Be My Eyes
35. What do the 5th and 6th paragraphs mainly mean?
A. Smartphone market has great economic potential.
B. The smartphone becomes a special app.
C. Fine devices have changed the economy.
D. Cost matters when it comes to as5istivc technology.
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。
A memorable science project
If someone tells you to remember a phone number or address, it feels like an easy task at first. You repeat the numbers to yourself, either aloud or in your mind. But after just a few seconds you might find yourself starting to doubt your own memory.
36 Thus, it will try to throw away information that seems old or irrelevant. There are ways of helping our minds retain (记住) information, however, and in this activity you will explore ways that we lose and keep memories.
Short-term, or working memory, is a way of describing most people’s abilities to store a small amount of information for a brief period of time in a readily accessible form. 37 People don’t have to stop and think to remember something in short term memory.
38 Such techniques include visualizing (观察) the information in a surprising way or linking pieces of information together so that one reminds you of the other. In the case of visualizing information, this could be as simple as remembering you
parked your car on the fifth floor in the D section by picturing five dogs sitting in your car! 39 If you need to purchase cereal (谷物), milk, fruit, cheese and eggs, you could imagine the cereal in a bowl, with milk pouring over it and pieces of fruit on top. Then imagine cracking an egg over everything, and it’s full of melted cheese! These may seem simple or even silly. 40 In this activity you’ll test the recall of a few friends or family members, and learn a few tricks for improving memory!
A. There are many techniques for improving memory.
B. Our brain is always seeking new and useful information.
C. Short-term memory has a short duration but is quickly and easily accessed.
D. In addition, linking information could help you remember your grocery list.
E. Retaining that information over longer periods of time becomes difficult yet.
F. Your short-term memory has a limited amount of space to store information.
G. However, they are proved to be good ways for improving memory by scientist. 第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45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。
I was born an albino (白化病人) in Pennsylvania in 1945. No one in my family had
41 known what an albino was and what it meant to be an albino.
Like most albinos, I had terrible eyesight, but the fact that I could hardly see didn’t 42 me that much. Kids would tease me, calling me “Whit e y”. People 43 at me when I held reading material right at the tip (尖) of my 44 so that I could see it well enough. The 45 part for me was that because my 46 was so bad, I couldn’t play sports very well. I didn’t give up trying, 47 . I shot hoops (投篮) every day. And I studied harder.
48 , I got belter at school and loved it. By the time I got to college, I was double 49 , going to summer school and busying 50 with every activity I could find. I had learned to be proud of being an albino. I did my best to make “albino”
a 51 word. And I decided to make my living with my eyes and in 52 .
I couldn’t see very well to play sports,but with solid education and 53 to