湖北省黄冈市高三年级3月测试英语试卷

Selig formally announced on Thursday his intention to retire in January 2015. “It remains my great______to serve the game I have loved throughout my life.” he said.

Telling twins apart as an adult is hard enough, but what happens when a baby meets someone who____exactly her dad?

Nokia has    a family    of low-cost mobile phones based on Google's Android operating system.

Every time I take part in a friend’s big party. I always go to talk to those who just sit alone so that they don’t feel_____.

Nowadays, Internet shopping will really_____when people are  sure   that it is safe.

In the eyes of a policeman, it's a usually very dangerous to get close to the _____criminal. He may do anything he would to escape.

According to the latest research, getting enough sleep is _____to maintaining good health and reducing stress.

Life is stressful, and complaining may be considered by many as an extension of being________normal.

In the bubble years, lending standards slipped ______,allowing   many people to put far too much of their income into paying for their housing.

It is necessary to explain your theory _____, otherwise the  audience won't make sense of what you are trying to get across.

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The other night as I was leaving my son's room. I noticed a hockey puck(冰球)sitting on his desk. It       me not only of an exciting hockey game he and I had       several years ago. but of a life lesson he had learned       .
During spring vacation from school,a friend gave us two       to a New York Rangers hockey game at Madison Square Garden. My son was very       because he is an avid Rangers fan,so we attended it.
The roar of the crowd was right from the moment the puck was       dropped. When the Rangers       first, the crowd cheered. My son got caught up in the moment and       joined in the crowd. When the Rangers scored a second time, it seemed as if the building would       from the noise. Three young men       in the row in front of us, probably in their early 20s, caught my       as my son sang along with the crowd. They smiled at us. We were all one happy and excited hockey       .
For my son, the victory was exciting. But that is not what he remembers about that night,       that's not his primary recollection. After the winning goal had been scored,the losing team's goalkeeper       the hockey puck out of the net behind him, and       it into the crowd. One of the three young men before us caught the puck and,       in one motion after catching it, threw it back to my son.
My son looked at the puck as if he had been given a golden      . "Why did that man give me the puck?"  I explained to my son that the man had given him the puck because he knew how       it would make him to have a souvenir from the game, and not just any souvenir, but the puck that had been the       goal in a shootout. It was obvious that he knew it would       more to my son than it would to him.

A．warned B．informed C．cheated D．reminded

A．missed B．played C．attended D．undertaken

A．as usual B．as well C．as a rule D．as a consequence

A．fans B．nets C．tickets D．pucks

A．excited B．surprised C．disappointed D．inspired

A．visibly B．incredibly C．reliably D．availably

A．scored B．won C．defeated D．ranked

A．unfortunately B．blindly C．amazingly D．enthusiastically

A．explore B．pour C．fill D．explode

A．sitting B．looking C．taking D．lying

A．hand B．shoulder C．eye D．head

A．team B．crowd C．coach D．family

A．at times B．at most C．at least D．at last

A．picked B．chose C．got D．kept

A．divided B．threw C．turned D．changed

A．even if B．as if C．until D．unless

A．goal B．medal C．treasure D．target

A．happy B．curious C．sorrowful D．horrible

A．losing B．winning C．catching D．remembering

A．strike B．touch C．direct D．mean

It's time to remind myself what I love about life here in California,USA, to remember what I desperately miss when I go home.
Real radio
In the USA there are so many radio stations that those iPod tuner things don’t work at all. There is, simply, no dead air. It took me a while to discover the USA's many public radio stations, which don't broadcast any advertisements. KCRW is my favorites station, for its blend of indie music and current affairs. But I also listen to KJAZZ and KPCC. But before you feel jealous — it’s all online. My favorites: American life Snap Judgement and Henry Rollins live every Saturday night. Take listen online for free News? Well, there's not a lot of news from South Africa, and when it is, it's bad and full of fear, so I ignore it. But I care about any place I live in, and that includes the USA. And on public radio, the USA is covered in depth, from the perspective of individual stories rather than statistics.
The festivals
I’m jealously watching tweets and Facebook boasts and reviews from SXSW — seems like half the people I used to work with in South Africa are there,meeting Grumpy Cat and watching bands they’ve always wanted to see live. It’s great to know that these 1000s of festivals are so close, and that one day,if film school schedule ever allows me to leave campus for more than a few days, I can go to one or two of them. I have already exchanged my much loved Ford Mustang for a bigger, less sexy car — a car spacious enough to sleep in — so that next year I can be there, not just dream of it.
The famous people
When I go back to SA, I'm often asked if I’ve spotted any famous people. It's awkward for me. I feel the the same way about it as I feel when an American asks me if there are lions in the streets. Except yes, I have. No,not lions. I have met some famous people. I chatted to RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad outside a dub in West Hollywood. Many of my professors are famous directors. The problem is, once you meet these famous people, they're just people, FFS. This feels disappointing at first, like you're missing a Jesus moment of some sort. But if you think about it, it's inspiring. What it means, is that I, litlle me (right now, also "just a person") could be a famous just-a-person person one day, and get to make all the films I just dream of now.
The underlined sentence "There is,simply, no dead air." probably means____.

There are so many festivals that_____.

The author thinks the famous people in the USA _____.

The author is most likely to be _____.

Researchers conducting a study of hospital stays for over two hundred and eighty six thousand older folks found something interesting in their data.
The number of hospitalizations for heart disease and stroke went down significantly among a certain group of people at a certain time of year. What folks, and what time of year, you ask? Flu season and the lucky people were the ones who got flu shots(流感疫苗).
It’s generally recommended that people over fifty get their flu shots every year. Influenza(流行性感冒) is no small thing. it’s responsible for around thirty six thousand deaths a year in the U. S. alone. Getting the shots also cuts down on the chances of getting pneumonia(肺炎), which is especially dangerous in seniors.
But what wasn’t known was that there seems to be an added benefit to getting a flu shots in terms of warding off heart problems. The data,in fact, are quite strong in suggesting this is the case.
In this study, flu shots cut clown the number of hospitalizations for heart disease by nineteen percent. Stroke went down sixteen percent one season and a whopping twenty-three percent a second season.These are big results.
So what's the connection between getting a flu shot and having a stronger heart? It isn’t yet known.
Researchers speculate that the flu virus itself may do damage to blood vessels(血管), possibly making clots(血块)more likely. Blood clots in the heart can cause heart attacks, and blood clots in the brain can cause strokes.
Whatever the specific details are, there's one more good reason to follow your doctor’ s advice and get that annual flu shot.
According to the study, the number of hospitalizations for heart disease and stroke went down significanntly among the ones who _____.

The benefits of getting flu shots can be listed except that_____.

The underlined phrase "warding off" probably means_______.

According to the passage, we'd better ______.

Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say there's no scientific evidence that early musical training affects the intelligence of young people.
An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve children's abilily to learn or their performance in school. They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.
Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there's one thing musical training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvard's School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child's intellectual development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual arts—arts that can be seen.
"The evidence there is 'no'. We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music clases," said Mehr.Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of child's intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group.
The researchers comfirmed the results with a larger group of children and their parents.Mr Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, "We teach music because music is important for us."
According to the new study, musical training______.

Samuel Mehr may agree that______.

In order to confirm his view, Samuel Mehr______.

The artical may be taken from a report about _____.

The world's largest solar thermal plant(太阳热能发电站)is set to begin producing power in the United States by the end of the year. Wind and energy from the sun are generally considered clean, unlike energy from coal-burning power stations. However, environmentalists now worry that too much solar power development could harm the local environment.
A California company — BrightSource Energy is building a huge solar power plant in the Mojave desert, about 60 kilometers southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. The plant is known as the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Joe Desmond works for the company. "This is actually one of the highest concentrations of sunlight in the world, out here in Ivanpah." explained Desmond. BrightSource Energy will deploy 170,000 specially designed mirrors to direct solar energy towards boilers on top of three power towers. The steam produced in the boilers will drive turbine (涡轮) to make electricity. Joe Desmond says the steam can reach temperatures of more than 260 degrees Celsius. "We can store the sun's thermal energy in the form of molten salt, so we can produce electricity even when the sun goes down. There is a lot of interest in concentrating solar power around the globe in environmnents where you have lots of sun, such as China, South Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, explained Desmond.
Environmentalists generally support the idea of solar power, however, many are concerned about the effect of power plants on sensitive environment. Lisa Belenky is a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, a private group. She says environmentalists are specifically worried about the effect of the Ivanpah Solar Project on the sensitive plant and animal life in that part of Mojave desert. "Even though the desert seems big, when you start cutting it up, it can really affect how the species and the animals and the plants are able to survive in the long run,"said Lisa Belenky. BrightSource Energy has already spent more than $ 50 million to move endangered desert tortoises away from the power plant. but Lisa Belenky says this is not the answer. "We should be reusing areas that have a1ready been disturbed, like old mining sites, for example...either on homes, on businesses, parking lots." said Belenky.
There have also been reports of birds dying at the Ivanpah Plant and others like it.
Some birds die after colliding with solar equipment which the animals mistake for water. Other birds were killed or suffered burns after flying through the intense heat at the solar thermal plant. As solar projects increase, environmentalists and developers are considering what to do to reduce bird death.
Why is the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System being built in the desert?

Why can the plant make electricity at night?

According to Lisa Belenky, in order to reduce the effect,_____.
A. we should move all the plants and animals away from the solar plant
B. we should guide the bird not to hit the solar plant
C we should build the solar plant in disturbed areas
D. we should build the solar plant in the desert
The author’s attitude towards the solar projects is _____.

It's going to be a chaotic(混乱的)day. How do I know? It’s Monday. OK, joking. But, I do predict that today will be filled with the normal last-minute tasks, fire drills, and unforeseen events. So, how do you keep yourself from being swept away in the stream of chaos? How do you remain calm while others are rushing and panicking? There's a problem… Panic! When things don't go as planned, how do you react? Are you the calm one who works to fix things? Or the one running around like Chicken Little screaming that the sky falling? Getting upset or alarmed can seem like natural reactions to a problem.
Here are a few tips to kelp you remain calm in the face of the storm:
• Don't Panic  You are better able to find a solution if you   aren't panicking. If you can keep your head when others are losing theirs, you will be able to make a dear decision in the chaos.
• There Aren't Many True Emergenaes   My time as a Naval Officer taught me about true emergencies. In the military, when there is a problem, people can get hurt or die. This is not usually the case when the office copier or email server goes down. Keep things in perspective. There are very few true emergencies in life.
• Avoid the "Fight or Flight"   When you are stressed, your body will want to go into "fight or flight." Your body was designed to keep you safe from danger, but its natural reflexes aren't always the best solution against a project gone away. Keep your emotions in check and ensure that your physical reflexes don’t make bad decisions for you.
• Head Into The Problem    While everyone else is running away, true leaders walk into a problem. Sticking your head in the sand only makes things worse. Instead of trying to ignore the situition, get to the heart of the issue as soon as possible. Only then can you address it
How Will You React? When you find yourself ready to lose it, take a step back. Ask, "In this truly an emergcncy?" Keep your head when others are losing theirs. And you'll find that you are that much closer to a solution.
The author writes the first paragraph in order to______.

In order to make a wiser decision in the chaos, you should _____.

The example of the author's time as a Naval Officer is used to illustrate_____.

What would the best title for the passage?

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语句子，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
you pay    by cash or credit card in this store. (matter)
在这家商店，你是用现金还是用信用卡结账都没关系。
It rained for three weeks on end, completely _________________.    (ruin)
连续下了三个星期的雨，完全毁了我们的假期。
There is no sense ___________________now.Look  forward and    everything will be all right. (upset)  
你现在为这件事苦恼是没有意义的，向前看，一切都会好起来的。
"They didn’t take measures in time, otherwise the explosions __________________," some experts said. (happen)
“他们没有及时采取措施，否则就不会出现这几次爆炸，”一些专家说。
The house was greatly damaged by the truck and we'd better leave things________________________ until the police arrive. (be)
卡车严重损坏了这座房子，我们最好保待原样直到警察到来。
Research finds that social network users have more than _________________online as in real life. (many)
研究发现社交网络用户在网络上拥有的朋友是现实生活中两倍多。
What an annoyance!  Hardly__________________my computer    when a lot of advertisements came pouring in. (turn)
真烦人！我一打开电脑就有很多广告涌入.
Huo Zun said that his dream was_______________________to sing a song at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. (invite)
霍尊说他的梦想是受邀上中央电視台春节联欢晚会唱一首歌。
We have launched another man-made satellite,___________________intoday's newspaper. (announce)
我们发射了另一颗人造卫星，这件事在今天的报纸上被公布了。
China is attacked by such a terrible smog _____________________ "nuclear winter". (call) 
中国遭受着被称之为“核冬天”的可怕雾霾的袭击。

请根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
In our daily life, we'd like to receive whatever we can get. But it is often the case that giving is better than receiving.
注意: ①无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
④不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。