湖北省荆州市部分重点中学2020届高三英语12月联考试题注意事项：1．答卷前，考试务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。
2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应的题目的答案标号涂黑。
如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。
写在试卷上无效。
3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分：听力理解（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。
每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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. Why does the man fix the car himself?A. Because he himself can repair it.B. Because he wants to save money.C. Because there is nothing wrong with the car.2. What is the relationship between the two speakers?A. A teacher and a pupil.B. An artist and a student.C. A house painter and an owner.3. How will the man probably go downtown?A. He is likely to take a bus.B. He is likely to take a taxi.C. He is likely to take the underground.4. What does the woman mean?A. She lost her notes.B. She didn’t take the notes.C. A friend has borrowed her notes.5. When will the shirts be finished?A. Friday morning.B. Saturday afternoon.C. Friday afternoon.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 happened to the woman?A. She felt sad.B. She had a talk with Lucy.C. She quarreled with the man.7. What is the man trying to do?A. Help to make up.B. Apologize to each other.C. Make friends with the woman.8. How does the woman feel at last?A. She hates Lucy.B. She agrees that she herself is wrong.C. She is satisfied with the man’s suggestion.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. What are they talking about?A. Their summer vacation.B. How to drive a tractor.C. How to do farm work.10. Where did Jane spend her summer holiday?A. On a farm.B. At home.C. In a fruit garden.11. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Harry’s mother was ill.B. Jane did much housework.C. Harry drove a truck on the farm.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12. Why has the man hardly seen the woman lately?A. She had a traffic accident.B. She moved to another place.C. She is working unusual hours.13. Where does the conversation take place?A. In an office.B. At a bus stop.C. In an apartment.14. What do the speakers agree to do soon?A. Go out together.B. Take care of each other.C. Share the same apartment.听第9段材料,回答第15至17题。
15.When will someone come to check the hot water?A.This afternoon.B. Tomorrow.C. At the weekend.16. How did the students know about the flat?A. From a friend.B. From a newspaper.C. From a house agency.17. What will the woman do to settle the problem about the fridge?A. Order one on the Internet.B. Get someone to fix the old one.C. Pay the students for the new one.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the speaker?A. A weather reporter.B. A hotel manager.C. A tour guide.19. What does the speaker suggest doing?A. Bringing warm clothes.B. Doing some sunbathing.C. Borrowing skis from others.20. What is mentioned in the passage?A. The weather is changeable.B. People can’t eat local food nearby.C. Travelers have a chance to taste local food.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。
AParticipants in an online forum were asked whether space exploration was worthwhile. Here are some of the comments they posted:Planet Girl 7.17 pmOur world is ravaged by war, famine and poverty. Billions of people struggle just to survive from day to day. Meanwhile the US space agency has US$16 billion to play with every year. We must deal with the world’s urgent problems. Space exploratio n is a luxury we cannot afford.Dragon 7.18 pmThat $16 billion spent on space is nothing compared to the $370 billion spent on the military.JJ 7.20 pmExploring space is investing in the future. Everyone knows we’re running out of resources. There’s massive over-population too. The solar system has heaps of resources we can use for mining, and maybe we can colonise other planets. If we don’t do it now, it might be too late.Planet Girl 7.22 pmWe have to tackle problems of over-population and resource depletion here on Earth, instead of chasing science fiction dreams. Otherwise we will just export our unsustainable lifestyle to another planet. We might consume the whole universe!!JJ 7.23 pmSpace explorers rock! They know what they are in for, and they still do it anyway. That’s what I call courage! We humans have always struggled to expand our horizons. We want to know what else is out there. Who knows, maybe we’ll discover the solution to all our problems out there!Switched-on 7.25 pmSpace exploration has had a huge effect on our lives. Want to talk to someone halfway around the world? Sure. Get the weather forecast? Coming right up. Check exactly where you are? Absolutely. It’s all possible, thanks to satellite technology, global positioning systems, and the rest. If there was no space exploration, we’d be sitting around in the dark, not talking online!Penny 7.50 pmSatellites are launched by private companies —for profit. Planet Earth doesn’t always benefit. Exploring remote planets certainly does not contribute to life on Earth.21. From the online forum Planet Girl means that space exploration is______.A. expensive but necessary.B. expensive and unnecessaryC. very important but too expensive.D. not very important but affordable.22. What is the most likely reason that JJ does not discuss the cost of space exploration?A. He agrees that space exploration costs too much.B. He does not know how much space exploration costs.C. He thinks space exploration is worthwhile, whatever the cost.D. He knows Planet Girl is wrong about the cost of space exploration.23. What is one point that Planet Girl and JJ are most likely to agree about?A. Earth’s resources are fast disappearing.B. Spending money on war is unnecessary.C. Space exploration encourages creativity.D. Living on other planets is a real possibility.BThere once lived a rich businessman who had a lazy son. The businessman wanted his son to be hardworking and responsible. One day he said, “Today, I want you to go o ut and earn something. If you fail, you won’t have your meal tonight.”He went crying straight to his mother. Her heart melted at her son’s eyes. She gave him a gold coin. When the father asked his son what he had earned, the son presented him with the gold coin. The father asked him to throw it into a well.The next day, he asked his son to earn something again. This time he went crying to his sister who gave him a coin. When he showed it to his father he again asked him to throw it into a well. Then the father asked him to earn more money.This time since there was no one to help him, the son was forced to go to the market. One shopkeeper told him he would pay him two coins if he carried his trunk to his house. He did so and sweated plenty. As he returned home he was asked to do the same. The son almost cried out. He could not imagine throwing his hard-earned money like that. He cried, “My entire body is aching. You are asking me to throw the money into the well.”At this moment, the businessman told him one feels the pain only when the fruits of hard labor are wasted. On earlier two occasions he was helped and therefore had no pain in throwing the coins into the well. The son had now realized the value of hard work. He promised never to be lazy and safely k eep the father’s wealth. The father handed over the keys of his shop to the son and promised to guide him through the rest of the life.24. We can learn from the passage that the father is ______.A. lazy and strictB. clever and experiencedC. courageous and confidentD. humorous and responsible25. According to the passage, the father wanted his son to realize ______.A. the value of moneyB. the value of hard workC. the importance of money .D. the importance of hard labor26. Who helped the son the third time he was asked to earn something?A. His mother.B. His sister.C. Himself.D. A shopkeeper.27. According to the passage, we can predict that the son was likely to ______.A. become successfulB. look for a good jobC. use up his father’s wealth .D. hate his father in the futureCMore young children know how to operate a computer mouse than ride a bike as technology tightens its grip o n the nation’s youth, researchers warn. And, while seven out of ten youngsters aged between two and five are comfortable playing on-line games, less than two in ten could swim unaided. The figures show that the traditional milestones which a child would expect to achieve are being replaced by digital ones. Parents are either too busy or too lazy to help their offspring to learn practical and physical skills—from riding a bike to tying their laces—often finding it simpler to sit them in front of a screen. Instead of experiencing the real world, children are copying their parents by tapping away on phones or keyboards—at the expense of their social and physical well-being. Child development expert Sue Palmer said that the figures showed we are “cooping childre n up inside” more than ever.According to the study, 23 percent of children between two and five can make a call on a mobile phone and a quarter can navigate between websites with ease. One in five knew their way around smart phones or even an iPad. Two thirds knew how to turn a computer on and 73 percent said they could work a mouse. When it came to real-life matters, however, the picture was very different. Just 48 percent knew their own home address and only a third were able to write their first and last names.“By encouraging them to live a virtual screen-based existence we are deadening their developmental drive and dumb them down,” she said. “They get used to the quick fix and the easy rewards of communicating with technology and don’t learn how to invest the emotional effort that is necessary for real relationships. What they needis real play with real people in order to develop properly”.28. Which is true according to the passage?A. Experts create commuters to make children addicted.B. Grown-ups are rewarding children’s success in games.C. Children are fixing on the emotional effort without help.D.Parents often let their children alone, caring little for the practical ability.29.What does the underlined word in Par. 1 probably mean according to the context?A.Motivate.B.Develop.C.Encage.D.Destroy.30. Living in a virtual world may get children ______.A. to lose the motivation to developB. to be unable to communicateC. to be easily rewarded by the societyD. to learn to cope with real people31. Sue Palmer suggests that children should ______.A. live in a virtual worldB. communicate with technologyC. devote little to emotionD. experience the real things around themDEarthquakes are massive in their force, damaging in their impact and, despite intensive scientific research, still largely unpredictable. If we could predict earthquakes reliably and early, we could warn people and hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved. Many people (including some scientists) hold out hope that predicting earthquakes will soon be achievable—not by creating advanced, super-sensitive equipment but by observing the natural behaviour of animals.Perhaps this hope is being built on shaky ground. There are certainly many reports of animals behaving strangely before earthquakes: dogs running away, cats hiding, caged birds growing restless, wild birds moving their eggs from their nests,hibernating snakes waking up, zoo animals howling.These behaviours, however, are generally reported after the event. How trustworthy are these reports? Before massive leaving are authorised on the basis of animal behaviour and before hundreds of thousands of people can be convinced to move grea t distances at a moment’s notice, we need to be reasonably confident of two things: If an earthquake is about to happen, certain animals will act strangely. If an earthquake is not about to happen, these animals will act normally. At the moment, we can’t be sure of either of these things.There seems to have been strange behaviour by snakes, birds, cows and rats before the earthquake in Haicheng, China in 1975. However, in the same region the next year, when another earthquake caused the death of more than 200,000 people, the animals displayed no such behaviour.There are animals all over the world that are behaving strangely at this very moment—nervous dogs, odd snakes, messy ants—but tomorrow, after the ground has remained stubbornly still, no one will r ecall this behaviour and think, “Strange!” Let an earthquake happen, though, and listen for the cries of “Rover knew!” and “Those ants are smarter than scientists!”Continue the research into animal behaviour by all means, if only because it may show up interesting evidence about how animals sense changes in the physical environment. But don’t start building up hopes that will almost certainly come completely down.32.What do the underlined words in Par. 1 suggest about this method of predicting earthquakes?A.It is highly disputed.B.It is likely to be achieved soon.C.It is gaining more support all the time.D.It is most often supported by non-experts.33.Why is the second earthquake mentioned in Par. 4 particularly important to the argument?A.It happened long after the earlier one.B.It happened soon after an earlier earthquake.C.It happened before unusual animal behaviour.D.It happened in the same region as an earlier earthquake.34.What does Par. 5 suggest about how some people treat evidence?A.They are not interested in evidence.B.They notice evidence that scientists ignore.C.They provide scientists with false evidence.D.They explain evidence according to their own ideas.35.What is probably the best title of the passage?A.Causes of EarthquakesB.Animals and EarthquakesC.Animals Save Human LivesD.Animals’ Sense of Disasters第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。