1、1江西省南康中学、于都中学 2019 届高三英语下学期第二次联考试题第卷（选择题 共 100 分）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,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 will the woman do about the dress? A. Shell change it. B. Shell return it. C. Shell buy it.
2、2. What are the speakers talking about? A. Buying DVDs. B. Borrowing DVDs. C. Sharing DVDs. 3. What did the woman think of Danas speech? A. Boring. B. Important. C. Well-prepared. 4. What does the man mean? A. He is unable to give help. B. He will carry the boxes later. C. He refuses to pay for boxe
3、s. 5. When is Simon supposed to arrive? A. 7:30. B. 8:00. C. 8:10.第二节（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。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 题。6. Where do the speakers plan to go? A. The womans hom
4、e. B. A museum. C. A library.7. Why does the woman want to go on Saturday afternoon? A. To enjoy nice weather. B. To sleep late in the morning. C. To 2avoid the crowd.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 10 题。8. Why did the man borrow the womans computer last time? A. He needed it for his paper. B. His computer was bro
5、ken.C. He used it for his computer class.9. Why does the woman feel happy? A. The man can lend her a computer now. B. The man will use his own computer.C. The man will study better.10. What has the man been doing with his new computer? A. Doing homework. B. Searching for information. C. Watching DVD
6、s. 听下面一段对话，回答第 11 至第 13 题。11. Where did Tom get the idea of becoming a businessman? A. From the grown-ups around him. B. From his high school teachers. C. From his college friends.12. How much does Tom own of the company he works for? A. 60%. B. 18%. C. 6%.13. What mistake did Tom and his company ma
7、ke in the past? A. Making all the products themselves. B. Wasting lots of materials. C. Producing simple things.听下面一段对话，回答第 14 至第 17 题。14. What kind of jobs seems to be in short supply? A. Writers. B. School teachers. C. Newspaper reporters.15. Where is Sharon most likely to go? A. New York. B. Bost
8、on. C. California.316. What does James plan to do if he cant find a job? A. Continue his education. B. Start a newspaper. C. Write a book.17. Who are the speakers? A. Fellow students. B. Laid-off workers. C. High school teachers.听下面一段独白，回答第 18 至第 20 题。18. Why does the university offer the two progra
9、ms? A. To keep students safe walking late or alone. B. To provide better health care for students.C. To help visitors tour around the college.19. When can students call Campus Safety Office? A. From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. B. Anytime of the day. C. From midnight to 7 a.m.20. To whom is the speaker mainly t
10、alking? A. Tourists at the college. B. New teachers. C. Parents of students.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 35 分）第一节（共 10 个小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe Build-Your-Own Alka-Rocket CompetitionIf youve ever dreamed of building a rocket and sending it skyward, dream no mor
11、e! Maybe just dream a little smaller. Scientific American Custom Media and our partners at Bayer are hosting the BUILD-YOUR-OWN ALKA ROCKET COMPETITION for backyard craft powered by water and effervescent tablets (泡腾片).The winner will become famous overnight and walk away with a $1,000 prize. So pic
12、k up some effervescent tablets and get busy building. History awaits you.4Entry: Going for the prize is easy. Build an Alka-Rocket. Send it skyward with fuel made only of effervescent tablets and water. And record it all in a video, which you share over social media with the Alka-Rocket Challenge. S
13、o we can keep track. Please also email the links to your social media posts to alkarocket .Entry Period: From June 27th, 2018 until October 1st, 2018.Rocket Requirements: Rockets must be less than one foot in height and six inches in width. They must use only effervescent tablets and water as fuel.
14、For more on how to build a basic Alka-Rocket, you can watch the handy video.Judging Criteria: The judges will award the winner and two runners-up on the basis of creativity of rocket design, the launch and video submission.Safety(super important!): Rockets can be dangerous even ones powered by effer
15、vescent tablets. Any project considered remotely dangerous to humans or the environment will be immediately disqualified.Notes: Competitors must be American citizens and aged 13 or older. And any competitor under the age of 18 needs to email us a signed parental permission form when he or his team s
16、ends us the links to social posts.If you have questions, submit them to alkarochet and well do our best to get back to you.Enter and reach for the stars!21. What is required for the competition?A. Emailing signed parental permission forms.B. Launching Alka-Rockets in front of the judges.C. Building
17、 Alka-Rockets less than one meter high.D. Sharing the rocket launch video over social media.22. Compared with other rockets, Alka-Rockets are probably_.A. safer B. heavier C. riskier D. faster23. Who can enter the competition?A. An English engineer B. An English parent.5C. An American teenager. D. A
18、12-year-old American.BA newly married woman called Gilleece, saying she lost her wallet at his bar with her wedding ring inside. Gilleece looked through camera videos, watching the womans every step in the bar until she went to sit on a bench bar outside and left when her ride arrived. Then a young
19、man approached the bench and put something in his pocket. Gilleece posted several pictures on the bars Facebook page, asking if anybody knew the guy.Within hours, Gilleece got a text from 17-year-old Prather. Prather admitted having taken the wallet because he hadnt eaten in two days. He said he saw
20、 the ring but just took the money and threw the wallet off the public docks(码头) into the ocean.Gilleece, unsure whether he believed Prather, told the teen to meet him at the bar. There, Prather said that, not getting along with his family, he had been living in the woods for a week. Gilleece saw him
21、 as a kid rather than a criminal. But the police were already on the case, and because of the missing ring, Prather could face prison. Gilleece planned to employ two divers to search for it. Meanwhile, the police wanted Gilleece to bring the teen to the station. He called them and said, “Hes going t
22、o be at the docks with me tomorrow.”The next day a crowd gathered to watch the two divers search in the waters Prather mentioned. Finally a diver appeared with the wallet, and inside was the ring. Cheers burst from the crowd. The wallets owner immediately dropped the charges against Prather. But tro
23、ubled by Prather sleeping in the cold woods, Gilleece told the teen he could stay with him and his family until he stood on his own feet. He also gave the kid a job at his bar.“Most people would have given the videos to the police, but he chose to help me,” Prather told CBS News.24. What happened to
24、 the newly married woman?A. She lost the wallet at the bar. B. She regretted 6charging Prather.C. She left her wallet on a bench. D. Her wallet was stolen by Prather.25. Why did Gileece take Prather to the docks?A. To find the ring he had thrown. B. To help he police to catch him.C. To help pay for
25、the womans loss. D. To let him apologize to the woman.26. What did Gilleece do after the case was over?A. Rid Prather of the charge. B. Talk with Prathers family.C. Help free Prather from prison. D. Get Pratber to work in his bar.27. Which can be the best title for the text?A.A wedding ring was reco
26、vered. B. A wallet changed a teens life.C. Anyone can make a difference. D. A kind woman saved a teen.CA study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important. These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often hav
27、e higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion connections in the brain of a three-year-old child. Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing differe
28、nt sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern “A-B-B”. Another order was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern “A-B-C”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for s
29、peech was more active during the “A-B-B” 7pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. “Posit
30、ion is key to language,” she says. “If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference: John caught the bear. is very different from The bear caught John.”Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, o
31、r Smartphones no matter how educational doesnt appear to be enough for childrens brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group whod watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-
32、face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio learned nothing.28. What
33、 makes connections in a babys brain?A. Experiencing new information. B. Having a higher IQ. C. The connection with other babies. D. The babys early age.29. What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?A. Word order is relevant to meaning. B. Babies identify different sound patterns.C.
34、A certain brain region processes language. D. Babies can well understand different words.30. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?A. Words have different sounds. B. Different languages have different grammar.C. Different orders have different meanings. D. Grammar is important in lea
35、rning languages.831. What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?A. Babies shouldnt watch a lot of television.B. Foreign languages help babies brain develop.C. Listening to different languages develops babies brain.D. Social communication improves babies brain development.DWhen i
36、t comes to focusing at work, there is no lack of things to take responsibility for our wandering minds. Refreshing Twitter, scanning the news, talking with colleagues about small beer. But theres one possible cause of frequent distraction. Our work isnt complex enough, and there isnt enough of it.Th
37、is idea isnt popular, especially with those who feel theyre already working busily. Actually complex tasks demand more of our working memory and attention, with little mental distraction. We get bored when our skills go beyond the demands of our work. And we feel anxious when the demands of a task g
38、o beyond our skills. Understanding your skill level, and matching this with a worthy task will make you more likely to be fully devoted to your work. Besides questioning the complexity of tasks, its worth reflecting on whether you have enough work to do in general. If not, youre inviting distraction
39、.Think back to your last deadline. That timeline offers you no distractions like using social media. Our workload tends to expand to fit the time available for the completion of work. Small tasks that should take two hours will take an entire workday if we have that time available. Distractions are
40、to blame for this time trap.A few years ago, after I finished a report on a tight deadline, I continued to be just as busy. I entered my social media accounts when I should have been working. I checked new emails constantly. I felt guilty when I wasnt busy, and I alleviated this guilt by filling my
41、time with busy work.Later I realized busy work couldnt really bring the relief, for the guilt came from the fact that I was working without intention. When we have more to 9do, choosing what we do ahead of time becomes necessary. Therefore, if you have distraction, consider that you might need to wo
42、rk harder on projects that will fill your days and enrich your life.32. What do people usually blame for being distracted?A. The absence of work complexity. B. Their colleagues lack of teamwork.C. Social media or chats with colleagues. D. The tiredness after hours of hard work.33. When will we feel
43、anxious at work?A. When we dont have enough tasks to do.B. When our ability cant meet job requirements.C. When we are busy with work for a long while.D. When we spend too much time on social media.34. Which of the following can best explain “alleviated” underlined in paragraph 4?A. Transformed. B. R
44、esearched. C. Deepened. D. Eased.35. Whats the authors suggestion on dealing with distraction?A. Balance our work and social activities.B. Work hard with the intention to fill our life.C. Expand our workload to fit the time available. D. Remove the sense of guilt about minds wandering away.第二节（共 5 小
45、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 人 空 白 处 的 最 佳 选 项 。 选 项 中 有 两 项 为 多余 选 项I did not go on my first hike until my mid-30s. I could blame it on the fact that I grew up on the Great Plains of South Dakota and North Dakota. 36 Having never gone, I didnt see the value and always sho
46、ok my head when asked.37 At the urging of my wife, and with my two young kids, we walked a beautiful forest path on a cool August morning. I carried a small backpack with 10water and snacks. When we reached the top, we ate lunch together overlooking a perfectly still pond and a scenic Vermont.A few
47、weeks ago, my 11-year-old son, my 61-year-old dad, and I hiked Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. Last weekend, I hiked down the Grand Canyon with my son along the South Kaibab trail. And later this week, my wife and daughter will join us to walk the Waterfall Trail in the White Tank Mountains. 38 . Now
48、, just to be clear, by no means would I classify myself as an expert hiker. 39 And I have no plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro or walk the Appalachian Trail. But waking early on a Saturday morning to walk 35 miles along a forest path with lunch in the backpack is a journey Id recommend to anyone.It i
49、s healthy physical exercise that creates wonderful memories. 40 And given the chance, hiking teaches us important truths about life.A. Most of our hikes only last 2 hours.B. Ive fallen in love with climbing mountains.C. I love the stillness and calm of an empty path.D. But mostly, to be honest, I just wasnt interested.E. If you can climb a mountain, you can do anything.F. It provides an opportunity to slow down and disconnect.G. I went on my first hike a few years back
