湖北省八校高三下学期第二次联考英语试卷

The video, Under the Dome, has rapidly pushed the public______about air pollution and encouraged people to join in efforts to make a difference.

If you can’t trust your friend to have a relationship with another person you consider a friend, it’s a clear ______ of a problem in your friendships.”

Busy with their business, they had no time to ______ their wedding, so they had it organized by a company.

As well as teaching soccer's basic skills and rules, the introduced textbooks will ______  team spirit and sense of responsibility.

There is a beautiful Chinese song called I Came Over the Ocean to See You. Why not do that in reality on this Valentine’s Day? Keep your plan a secret and ______suddenly.

The Spring Festival is the most joyful time of the year, but it can also be ______ . With all the traveling, visiting relatives, and gift-buying, the holiday can become a tense time for many families.

The electronic red-packet has been so ______ that AliPay and Tencent Wechat compete against each other openly and secretly since the beginning of this year.

You are to meet with frustration in the pursuit of success and through greater effort and hard work your dream will definitely come true. Put it ______ , “No pains, no gains.”

The writer conveyed a positive attitude through his works.______, his readers are motivated and are themselves becoming a source of motivation for others.

In my class, there was a really weak-looking guy. I don’t       know if his name was Vit or Wit. I will       him as Wit in this story of mine. He was a pale, thin guy. Not only his build looked weak, the way he       was also weak. He walked slowly but he tried to stay off of everyone’s way. The friends in my class, Jean and Ingrid,  would      him. Truth to be told,
I       them as well. We did things like taking his stuff, like his pens and pencils, and       them somewhere in the school.
Wit was also really      of insects, even butterfly. Jean, Ingrid, and I often put beetle on his clothes and he would run around, trying to      it off. There were many beetles in the school so that was the       insect we used to scare him with. Other insects such as butterfly were hard to        so we pretty much gave up on it. We would often take the       when Wit was off-guard and put the insects on him.         it was on him, he would run around or jump about. He was too scared to         it and pull it off.
Suddenly one day, we were       by the school. When I walked into the room, Wit’s mother, as well as Ingrid’s mother, Jean’s father, and mine were        in the room silently. Wit’s mother said that Wit went home and        the sandbag shouting “Jean!!! Ingrid!!! Archer!!!”      every day. I wanted to laugh but didn’t with all the        she was putting on us .She asked many things, including things I had no idea about such as “Who put Wit’s bag in the girl toilet?” Apparently, it was Jean who did it. Jean seemed to have bullied Wit quite a lot and got quite a(n)        from Wit’s and her own mother.
I think it should have been quite guilty for        to see us scolded by the parents. However , we decided to stop bullying Wit and be friendly to him.

A．briefly B．abruptly C．actually D．constantly

A．think of B．focus on C．laugh at D．refer to

A．acted B．operated C．attacked D．responded

A．get close to B．look up to C．get tired of D．make fun of

A．betrayed B．joined C．teased D．rejected

A．hid B．distributed C．threw D．preserved

A．fond B．scared C．cautious D．ashamed

A．see B．set C．shake D．take

A．only B．acute C．main D．rare

A．find B．recognize C．raise D．capture

A．chance B．risk C．trouble D．order

A．While B．Though C．Once D．Unless

A．attach B．touch C．sniff D．defend

A．picked out B．called in C．spied on D．kicked off

A．staring B．sighing C．sitting D．weeping

A．carried B．threw C．filled D．hit

A．nearly B．hardly C．merely D．approximately

A．burden B．pressure C．duty D．doubt

A．forgiving B．understanding C．praising D．scolding

A．Ingrid B．Jean C．Wit D．Mother

One of those big social networking sites, Facebook, has attracted over 58 million members. Commentator Melody Cramer is no longer one of them. Here is what she shares with us about her story.
I deleted all 1,281 of my co­workers, second­grade classmates and people who I don’t know at all. I shut down my account, completely. I’m 30, and I’ve been on Facebook since March of 2004, which makes me one of the website’s earliest users.
At first, I used it obsessively. If I had a free moment, I’d log on to see whether my friends had updated their profiles. I’d sit alone scrolling through these updates and then run into someone at a coffee shop and have nothing to say because I already knew everything about them, and they knew everything about me.
In November, I went to my ten­year high school reunion and was not pleasantly surprised. Lauren became a model, Josh went to law school, Dina was a teacher. I hadn’t talked to any of them since graduation, but I knew exactly what they were doing, both now and last week. But lately, I’m overwhelmed(应接不暇). Facebook opened up to everyone, not just college students, and my co­workers started to join, which meant they now knew what I was doing when I wasn’t at work.
And as a rule: you can NOT make friends with your coworkers because then they’ll ask you the next day. But I thought we were friends. And you are friends but not the kind of friends who tell each other what they do outside of work. So now the people you work with can see what you did last night, and you’re constantly worrying what people might say about what you did last night instead of actually doing anything tonight. So Iquit. I became a 30­year­old Luddite, a person who is strongly against technology development. I’ve retuned to how the world worked when I was 20, before I knew when my friends and co­workers were counting down the seconds to vacation or entering a complicated relationship. I’m hoping life will be a lot simpler now. People will be more mysterious now that I actually have to talk to them to find out their favorite books or hobbies or neurosis(神经症). I don’t know when my college roommate goes to the supermarket, and I think I’m a better person for not knowing. In fact, you could say getting off a social network was the best thing I’ve done this week.
Melody Cramer decided to quit Facebook mainly because ______.

We can learn from the passage that Melody Cramer ______.

Which of the following about Melody Cramer is TRUE?

The best title for this passage can be _____.

Dyslexia is a learning disorder, it interferes with the ability to recognize words, and for some readers to understand what they have read. Experts say dyslexia affects about five to ten percent of the population of the United States. Researchers have long known that people with dyslexia write or read words and letters backwards in the wrong order.
But a new study shows that people with dyslexia may have trouble redirecting their attention betweensenses, from seeing something to hearing something. The study suggests something that might help dyslexic people learn more quickly - play video games.
Vanessa Harrar of Britain’s University of Oxford led the study. She reported the findings in the journalCurrent Biology. The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear.
In the study, Doctor Harrar tested 17 people with dyslexia, and 19 others without reading problems. The volunteers were asked to push a button as quickly as possible when they heard a sound, saw a light or experienced both together. Doctor Harrar compared the speed of their reactions. She found that people with dyslexia were just as fast as the others when they saw only a picture or heard only a sound. But the Dyslexicshad a slower reaction time when they heard a sound and saw a picture at the same time, this may have an effect on how dyslexic children are taught how to read.
Doctor Harrar feels like playing video games could help dyslexic people shift from seeing to hearing more quickly. She adds that images in video games force the eyes to move and focus quickly. “Video game types of things pop out of here and there, they move your eyes around the screen quite quickly in response to things quite quickly, and the more you play a video game the faster you get that kind of thing. So, the video game is really training the attention system to move quickly,” said Harrar. When children learn the alphabet, they usually see the letter first and then hear the sound, or they see and hear the letter at the same time. The study shows that Dyslexics might learn more quickly if they hear the sound of a letter or word first before seeing it.
According to Doctor Harrar’s study, the dyslexic people have difficulty in______.

Which factor affects the way dyslexic children are taught to read?

How does the author suggest Dyslexics are taught based on the research finding?

What can be the best title of the passage?

For high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find an internship (实习). In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far behind.
Research shows that if high schools provide career-related courses, students are likely to get higher earnings in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education.
In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people get the education they need for future employment.
But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education school professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place all graduates directly on the four-year college track. Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the country’s most vulnerable(易受影响的)kids with no jobs and no skills.
Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teach them valuable practical skills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example ,encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job
experience in those fields while they’re still at high school.
However, even for teens whose schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting. In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row.
“The risk is that if teenagers miss out on the summer job experience, they will become part of this generation of teens who had trouble in landing a job,” said Michael, a researcher in the US.
In the author’s opinion, German high school leavers ______.

According to Robert Schwartz, high school students should _________.

The underlined word “daunting” in Paragraph 6 most probably mean “______”.

What’s the main idea of the text?

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.
Men often discover their affinity (密切关系) to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old      proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite  author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best urn(瓮) of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world ofa man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, if remembered and cherished, become our constant companions andcomforters.
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.
Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effects of time have been to filter out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.
A good book may be among the best of friends because_____.

“Love me, love my book” in paragraph 3 probably means _______?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

The best title for this passage can be.

Imagine a house that keeps itself warm in the wintertime. Think of the savings in terms of fuel bills and unfriendly emissions. Such houses in fact exist, called “passive houses”. The concept of these highly energy-efficient buildings took root in the 1990s, before slowly consolidating as a niche construction (生态位构建) concept in the 2000s. Are passive houses now actively moving into the mainstream as sustainable buildings?
For Brian Mc Garry, an economics lecturer who built a family house based on passive housing criteria in the Pyrenees this year, the arguments look convincing. As his first full winter in the low energy house draws in, we asked him to keep us informed. Do passive houses work?
I had never heard of a passive house in February 2012, when I purchased a plot of land. Nor did I expect that I would be persuaded to build a pre-constructed, custom-designed house based on energy-efficient passive house criteria. It promised to be easier and quicker to build, cheaper to run, and more comfortable to live in. The objective was to incorporate the fundamental concepts of passive energy management into my project: an airtight and highly insulated building envelope; large south facing double or triple-glazed windows (if possible, filled with argon gas) that passively capture the energy of the sun; a heat recovery ventilation system to provide fresh air; and a simple, low-cost heating system consisting of a modern wood-burning stove, a bathroom heater and a portable radiator backup for when the sun doesn’t shine and temperatures decline. No significant limitations were placed on the design, and it had excellent environmental credentials. Moreover, the cost was no more than a conventional build.
After six months in use, the house is proving to be both cheap to run and remarkably comfortable–staying cool in the hot summer was effortless, as long as the windows were shuttered or shaded from the sun. Nowstaying warm in the cold, high-altitude December climate also seems easy, so far.
Winter arrived in force in the Pyrenees in November, with abundant snowfalls and temperatures as low as minus 8° Celsius. Though early days, the house has responded well: the stove is lit during cold evenings but the portable radiator has not yet been needed. This type of construction seems not only to make economic and environmental sense, but to enhance our quality of life, too.
We can learn from Paragraph one that passive houses __________.

Regarding the passive energy management, the houses have characteristics EXCEPT _______

How did Brian McGarry find his self-built passive house?

What is the writer’s attitude towards the passive housing?

___________________ her daughter from the smog, Chai Jing shuts her daughter at home. (protect)
为了保护女儿不受雾霾的影响，柴静把女儿关在家里。
Basic goods, as well as up to RMB￥90,352,800, __________________ to the Red Cross Society by March 3^rd, 2015, in Zhongshan City, where the charity campaign was launched.   (donate)
You ___________________ the flowers; the weather forecast says it’s going to rain in the following three days. (water)
Anyone ___________________ a cellphone in their pocket in the classroom during the examination will be declared cheating. (carry)
J. K. Rowling has written a lot of novels, some of them ___________________ several foreign languages. (translate)
Since the new cellphone app of NPC and CPPCC was developed, the delegates have received ___________________ advice as they did last year. (twice)
If people ___________________environmental protection while developing economy in the past few decades, China might have a better ecological environment now. (pay)
After the air crash, many journalists rushed to the airport to inquire ___________________. (come)
Not until Mr. Green was diagnosed with cancer ___________________ how precious health was. (realize)
The issue of fair and equal education has aroused widespread concern, __________________ for more students from less-developed areas to be enrolled in universities. (make)

People are always looking for someone to look up to and imitate. You can set the example by becoming the person that people want to be like. You can help change the world by changing yourself.
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