宜昌市第一中学2017届高三11月阶段性检测英语试题试卷满分：150分考试用时：90分钟第I卷第一部分听力（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，共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 is the man planning to do?A. Make some cheese.B. Go on a trip.C. Find a job in Paris.2. What is the time now?A. 8 o’clock.B. 10 o’clock.C. 12 o’clock.3. What are the speakers talking about?A. A local artist.B. The man’s salary.C. An apartment to let.4. How does Dr. Heath spend most of his time?A. Giving lectures.B. Conducting research.C. Doing office work.5. Why does Elaine call Peter?A. To borrow his notes.B. To explain her absence.C. To discuss the presentation.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面五段对话或独白。

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。

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 Julia doing?A. Asking about her order.B. Reporting a computer problem.C. Confirming a visit to a company.7. When will the chairs arrive today?A. At about 10 am.B. Around 12 noon.C. By 4 pm.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What is the conversation mainly about?A. Course design.B. Course registration.C. Course evaluation.9. What course did the woman choose?A. International Trade.B. Modern History.C. Chemistry.10. What will Jack do to take mathematics?A. Wait for an opening.B. Apply to the department.C. Speak to Professor Anderson.听第8段材料, 回答第11至13题。

11. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a shop.B. In a canteen.C. In an office.12. What bothers the woman?A. Her computer is down.B. Her paper is missing.C. Her hand is aching.13. When is the woman’s report due?A. Wednesday.B. Friday.C. Next Monday.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What is the man doing?A. Writing a book.B. Preparing a lecture.C. Searching for references.15. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Make his topic more specific.B. Get a complete reading list.C. Read at least six books.16. What is the man going to focus on?A. Hollywood in the 1920s.B. 20th-century Hollywood movies.C. Golden Age Hollywood comedies.17. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Student and teacher.B. Reader and librarian.C. Customer and shop assistant.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What will the weather be like in high places this evening?A. There’ll be showers.B. There’ll be heavy mist.C. There’ll be strong winds.19. How will the day start in coastal areas tomorrow?A. Cloudy.B. Rainy.C. Sunny.20. When can holiday makers expect good weather?A. This weekend.B. End of this month.C. Next month.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。

AI left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfya deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.It takes confidence to make a new start—there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.Then I met an agent who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal—that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck—of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract of the publisher—to be a published writer—is unbelievably rewarding.21. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?A. I was waiting for good fortune.B. I was trying to find an admirable job.C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.22. The author decided to write a novel .A. to finish the writing courseB. to realize her own dreamC. to satisfy readers’ wishD. to earn more money23. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?A. Disturbed.B. Ashamed.C. Confident.D. Uncertain.24. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?A. It pays to stick to one’s goal.B. Hard work can lead to success.C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.BA man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all-milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk. She buys it. But she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband’s niece. Then she gets coffee for breakfast, ice cream for dessert and remembers stamps to mail the bills. And don’t forget soap for the bathroom.And that is the difference between the female and male brains simply explained in a grocery store.Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. A recent study has confirmed what we have known all along—men and women think differently.Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain images of 949 people aged from eight to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain, or hemisphere(大脑的半球). In the female brains, they found more activity and connections between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of “reason”. The right hemisphere is known as the “creative” side.Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-wrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult, they might use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain. As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. There is a strong connection between the “understanding”and the “action”parts of their brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain when solving a problem. Women take a less direct path to find a solution.25. The author mentioned the shopping in Paragraph 1 to ___________.A. show women’s carefulnessB. prove men’s quick actionC. object to an opinionD. bring up the topic to be discussed26. The main idea of Paragraph 4 is that ___________.A. women have two same brains on both sidesB. men have more complicated brains than womenC. different kinds of brain images have been studiedD. men’s structure of brain is different from women’s27. What causes the difference between men’s and women’s behavior?A. Watching things from different sides.B. Having different attitudes towards life.C. Using different parts of the brain to think.D. Reacting at different speeds to problems.CIs beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive(主管的) circle, beauty can become a disadvantage.While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required.This is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,”says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 college students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.28. In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness ________.A. makes women look more honest and capableB. strengthens the manly qualities requiredC. often enables women to succeed quicklyD. is of no importance to women29. Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness________.A. turns out to be a disadvantage to menB. has as little effect on men as on womenC. affects men and women alikeD. is more of a disadvantage to women30. According to the passage, people’s views on beauty are often ________.A. practicalB. one-sidedC. old-fashionedD. supportive31. The passage is mainly about ________.A. the advantages of being attractiveB. the disadvantages of being attractiveC. equal rights for womenD. the importance of appearanceDThe young boy was sitting on the ground in the refugee(难民) camp playing with an empty tin. Other children were standing around watching him with envious eyes.Envy? Of an empty tin?This tin was indeed no worthless piece of rubbish—it was a splendid truck, complete with wheels and grille(铁栅) and floor. The vehicle even had remote control, a piece of string from the “engine” to the hand of the owner.The tin had lost all its original markings. But its first load had probably been sardines(沙丁鱼). Later the tin had been left with other rubbish behind the refugee camp clinic, and the boy had found it on one of his daily expeditions into the “big world”.For thousands of refugee children, a tin 1ike this rates high on their list of wants. It can be used for many purposes, as jewellery, as a toy, for drinking or as a medicine box.Many refugee children would consider it the happiest day of their lives if they received a handful of marbles as a present.They dream of gifts which children in developed countries take for granted. Maybe a book to read or a pencil and an exercise book of their very own.Their imagination can create toys, but it cannot create books. Someone else must provide them. A more costly and valuable gift they cannot imagine.32. How do you think the young boy may feel when he gets something to read?A. depressedB. frustratedC. excitedD. frightened33. Other children envied the young boy because the boy ________.A. had something to play withB. got some sardines to eatC. received a handful of marblesD. had a real truck toy34. What is implied in the last paragraph?A. The society should donate some toys for the refugee children.B. The refugee children are more imaginative rather than creative.C. The refugee children are more creative rather than imaginative.D. The society should offer the refugee children things for study.35. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. An Enviable Toy PresentB. Sardine Tin—A Precious ToyC. A Splendid Truck ToyD. A Poor Refugee Camp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。