湖北省八校2016届高三第二次联考英语试题
考试时间：2016年3 月 30日下午15:00-17:00 试卷满分：150分 考试时长：120分钟
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。
2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。
3. 选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，在选涂其他答案标号。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。
4. 语法填空、短文改错和短文写作的作答: 用0.5mm黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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 do we know about the weather?
A. It’s cold. B. It’s warm. C. It’s cool.
2. What does the man mean?
A. His wife likes watching CCTV5.
B. His wife’s tears are really exciting.
C. The programs often make his wife very excited.
3. Who will be taken there?
A. Alice. B. Jack. C. Eric.
4. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. Linda left here half a year ago.
B. The woman has covered a long way.
C. Linda has lived here for half a year.
5. How does the woman probably feel?
A. Regretful. B. Happy. C. Disappointed.
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至8题。
6. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Waiter and customer.
B. Passenger and conductor.
C. Shop assistant and customer.
7. What does the woman prefer?
A. Wool gloves.
B. Leather gloves.
C. Fur gloves.
8. What can we know about the woman?
A. The woman bought a pair of gloves.
B. The woman didn’t buy anything.
C. The woman bought a pair of glasses．
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A basketball match.
B. A football match.
C. A volleyball match.
10. Who scored all the goals?
A. Rudolf. B. Steven. C. Geoff.
11. Why didn’t the man score any goals?
A. He didn’t enter the game.
B. His ankle was hurt.
C. He was a new member.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12. What should the girl do first before she goes out to play?
A. Housework. B. Homework. C. Nothing.
13. What does the girl want to do?
A. Clean the bathroom and the toilet.
B. Scrub the bathtub.
C. Clean the family room.
14. What’s the man’s work?
A. Cleaning rooms.
B. Cleaning the yard.
C. Preparing lunch.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. What’s the man’s unpleasant situation?
A. He wonders whether to go to New Zealand or not.
B. He couldn’t get the scholarship.
C. His girl friend wants to break up with him.
16. Why didn’t the woman accept the job in Thailand?
A. She didn’t like the job.
B. She didn’t like Thailand.
C. Her husband didn’t like the idea.
17. What did the woman advise the man to do?
A. He should give up the idea.
B. He should go to the university.
C. He should go somewhere else.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What will the young elephant’s mother do after they part?
A. Return to her normal life.
B. Return to the forest.
C. Return to school.
19. How long does the elephant school take?
A. 7 months.
B. 8 months.
C. 9 months.
20. Why are the young elephants trained?
A. To adapt to the life there.
B. To attend school.
C. To put on performances.
第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
When you're on the go, your best friend and resource can be your phone. In the age of smart phones, apps are like guiding stars: They can point you in the right direction for a hotel, list expenses, send postcards, and much more. When used together, these apps can be the basic travel tool, placing a wealth of information at your fingertips no matter where you are on the planet. U.S. News Travel has picked the essential travel apps, known for their utility and reliability. Best of all, they cost absolutely nothing.
Trip It
Your Personal Travel Agent
Be your own travel agent and plan every detail of your trip—from car rental to accomadating restaurants—with Trip It. You can make travel schedule by hand, or simply forward the email confirmations of your flight, rental car, train tickets, and hotels to plans.
Weather Free
Your Go-To Meteorologist(气象学者)
Stop trying to explain the weather forecast on the evening news (particularly when it's in a foreign language). The Weather Free app informs you (in English) of the climate in various locations. It features the local weather, and other key factors that will inform your decision about what to wear before stepping outside.
Goby
Your Event Guru
When you're in a foreign city, you sometimes look around and ask: Where are all the people? Goby has the answer. This app pinpoints the neighborhood hot spots (including museums, hotels, eateries, and more) in your neighborhood. But its true value comes in finding nearby events. You'll discover concerts, plays, and more right around the corner.
21. What is the advantage of using travel apps picked by the U.S. News Travel?
A. They can solve any problem you come across.
B. They reduce your travel budget.
C. They exercise your fingertips.
D. They are reliable and free of charge.
22. With the help of the travel apps used together, travelers can do the following things EXCEPT__________.
A. rent a car B. decide what to wear
C. look for a friend while traveling D. find the nearby museums
23. Where are the readers likely to read the passage above?
A. In a geography textbook B. In a science and technology magazine
C. On a popular website D. In a business report
B
Born in the State of New York on May 14th, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was an instant success. In his high school years, he was considered one of top students in the classics, before moving into the arts, sciences, and literature, again picking up high marks and receiving academic praise. It earned him admission to Harvard University.
As a rebellious yet relatively quiet student, he created a website called Facemash in the university– an instantly controversial website that encouraged students to rate each other based on appearance.
The site was controversial for several reasons. The first was its illegal use of photographs, which the university and students took issue with. The second was its controversial nature – not every student like being ranked based on their appearance. The third was its huge resource use – while it was hosted on Harvard servers, it was the most popular page in the university’s entire network.
Zuckerberg was soon forced to shut the site down, but its popularity and controversy had made him consider its future potential. He soon turned the simple site into a personal one for Harvard students, encouraging them to network with their peers at the college. It was then, together with his two friends, that they launched “The Facebook”, which immediately spread to other colleges and grew into a public service that anyone could access in the United States, whether to network with friends and family, or to play games.
The company has been criticized frequently, nevertheless, Zuckerberg has remained true to his initial vision – to create a website that the entire world can use to communicate openly and easily with one another and to keep the user experience clean and pure. The end result is one of the world’s biggest online businesses.
Although its true value is debatable, it’s safe to say that Facebook, and its creator Mark Zuckerberg, are two of the twenty-first century’s most influential, controversial, and potentially powerful figures.
24. When Mark Zuckerberg was a student, he_____________________.
A. was often praised by teachers for the website he created
B. had good academic performance
C. alone created a website called Facebook
D. encouraged students to set up business like him
25. The reason why Zuckerberg shut the site down was probably that__________.
A. his website was not popular
B. he was doubted for the way he used photographs
C. he needed time to reconsider his choice
D. he stole resource on Harvard server
26.Which words can best describe Zuckerberg?
A. easy-going and smart. B. quiet and shy.
C. talented and outgoing. D. rebellious and creative.
27. The best title of the passage should be________________.
A. Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook B. The Foundation of Facebook
C. A Talent from Harvard University D. The Development of Facebook
C
Have you ever found yourself in this situation: You hear a song you used to sing when you were a child – a bit of nostalgia(怀旧) or “blast from the past,” as we say. But it is not a distant childhood memory. The words come back to you as clearly as when you sang them all those years ago.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh studied the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They found that remembering words in a song was the best way to remember even one of the most difficult languages.
Here is what they did. Researchers took 60 adults and randomly divided them into three groups of 20. Then they gave the groups three different types of “listen-and-repeat” learning conditions. Researchers had one group simply speak the words. They had the second group speak the words to a rhythm, or beat. And they asked the third group to sing the words.
All three groups studied words from the Hungarian language for 15 minutes. Then they took part in a series of language tests to see what they remembered.
Why Hungarian, you ask? Researchers said they chose Hungarian because not many people know the language. It does not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish. After the tests were over, the singers came out on top. The people who learned these new Hungarian words by singing them showed a higher overall performance. They did the best in four out of five of the tests. They also performed two times better than those who simply learned the words by speaking them.
Dr. Katie Overy says singing could lead to new ways to learn a foreign language. The brain likes to remember things when they are contained in a catchy 3, or memorable 4, tune 5.
Dr. Ludke said the findings could help those who struggle to learn foreign languages. On the University of Edinburgh’s website Dr. Ludke writes, “This study provides the first experimental evidence that a listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area.”
