湖南省衡阳市第八中学2020届高三第三次月考(英语)(无答案)

湖南省衡阳市第八中学2020届高三第三次月考（英语）（无答案）

衡阳市八中2020届高三月考试题(三)

英 语

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号写在答题卡上，并认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号和科目。

2．考生作答时，选择题和非选择题均须作在答题卡上，在本试题卷上答题无效。考生在答题卡上按答题卡中注意事项的要求答题。 3．考试结束后，将本试题卷和答题卡一并交回。

4．本试题卷共8页。如缺页，考生须声明，否则后果自负。 5．时量120分钟，满分150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。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 will the woman probably do today?

A．Attend a wedding． B．Go over her lessons． C．Take an exam． 2．What will the weather be like tomorrow? A．It will rain． A．At 9：30． A．Canada

B．It will be cold B．At 9：35． B．Turkey．

C．It will be windy． C．At 10：00． C．Italy．

3．When will the next bus leave?

4．Where is the woman going for holiday this year? 5．What is the woman going to do this afternoon?

A．Attend a meeting． B．Go to a chess club． C．Watch a tennis match． 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。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 does the man remind the woman to do?

A．Turn down the heat． B．Bring her identification．C．Leave money for the children． 7．How are the speakers getting to the airport?

A．They are driving． B．They are taking a bus． C．They are getting picked up． 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

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湖南省衡阳市第八中学2020届高三第三次月考（英语）（无答案）

8．What is David trying to do? A．Watch a movie．

B．Work on his studies． C．Sing some songs．

9．Why is David annoyed about the last song? A．Anna sang it very badly． B．Anna sang it too much before．

C．Anna kept repeating the four words of it． 10．What is the relationship between the speakers? A．Classmates．

B．Brother and sister． C．Father and daughter．

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11．What has the woman’s aunt forbidden her to do? A．See the dolls．

B．Talk about the dolls． C．Touch the dolls．

12．What does the woman’s aunt think of the dolls?

A．They are uncomfortable．B．They are very valuable．C．They are old—fashioned． 13．How does the man probably feel in the end? A．Very worried．

B．Quite surprised． C．A little embarrassed．

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14．Who is the woman’s favorite soccer player? A．Ronaldo． A．During overtime．

B．Near the end of regular time． C．At the beginning of regular time．

16．Why did the 9-year-old fan want to get home early? A．She had homework to do． B．She wanted to sleep earlier． C．She needed to meet her teacher．

17．What does the woman seem to think about Salah? A．He always makes people happy． B．He really cares about his fans． C．He often misunderstands others． 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18．What is the weather usually like in October? A．Rainy．

B．Sunny．

C．Snowy． C．40 degrees． C．On Saturday．

19．What will the temperatures be during the wild storm? A．56 degrees． A．On Thursday．

B．45 degrees． B．On Friday．

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20．When will it be sunny again?

B．Salah．

C．Messi．

15．When did the 9-year-old fan want Salah to score?

湖南省衡阳市第八中学2020届高三第三次月考（英语）（无答案）

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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Running—or sitting—can change the shape of your heart

Scientists have long known that humans are built for endurance，with our shock—slowing joints and springy tendons．Now，a new study shows people’s hearts are also improved for endurance—though how much depends on whether we run，farm，or stay put on the couch．

To get to the heart of the matter，researchers examined the hearts of more than 160 adult men from four groups：long-distance runners，coach potato，highly trained football linemen(前锋)，and the Tarahumara，Native American farmers renowned for their running ability．For comparison，they also looked at the hearts of 43 adult male chimpanzees—one of our closest evolutionary cousins．

When researchers compared the thickest of the heart’s four rooms—the blood—pumping，strawberry—shaped left rooms—there were clear differences．Endurance runners and farmers had larger rooms with thin walls—qualities that help pump large volumes of blood for a long time，the researchers report today．The linemen，whose training emphasized short，high—intensity exercise，had shorter，wider rooms with thicker walls．So did the coach potato．The chimps，whose main activities are short bursts of high—intensity exercise like fighting or climbing，had the shortest，thickest rooms．

Because high—intensity activity causes blood pressure in the blood tubes to surge for a short amount of time，such small volume，thick walls，and rounder shapes are beneficial to the linemen and chimps，researchers say，by making sure enough blood is still flowing to the brain to maintain consciousness．But even without those evolutionary pressures，a couch potato lifestyle seems to result in the same kind of thickening．

Adaptations for endurance likely helped our early hunter—gatherer and farming ancestors．But they also would have led to fewer parallel adaptations for problems like high blood pressure．Ironically，therefore，the researchers suggest those early endurance adaptations may have made it harder for modern populations to deal with high blood heart disease．

But coach potato shouldn’t feel heartbroken—the researchers emphasized that heart shapes are likely reversible，by taking part in endurance activities like distance running and swimming over many years．That’s one way to undergo a change of heart． 21．What do we know from paragraph 3?

A．People with shorter room prefer to exercise more vigorously B．Larger rooms with thin walls fit runners well C．Chimps like fighting because of their heart shape

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湖南省衡阳市第八中学2020届高三第三次月考（英语）（无答案）

D．Runners are born with larger rooms

22．Which is not the reason why rounder shapes with thick walls help linemen? A．Making sure blood flowing to the brain B．Maintaining consciousness C．Causing blood pressure up at once D．Training more high-intensity exercise

23．What does the underline word“reversible”in paragraph 6 probably mean? A．trainable

B．believable C．changeable

B

The world’s largest rainforest and a crucial store of carbon dioxide gets most of its phosphorous，an important nutrient，from an unexpected source：fires in Africa．

Strange as it may seem，we thought that the Amazon got much of its phosphorus from dust whipped up from the Sahara Desert and transported across the Atlantic on the wind．

Cassandra Gaston at the University of Miami，US，and her colleagues had set out to quantify the effect of the phosphorous in Saharan dust on the Amazon’s growth．To do this，they collected and analyzed particles caught in filters from a hilltop in French Guiana，at the northern edge of the Amazon Basin．But at the same time，they used satellites to track smoke from fires in Africa—both people burning wood and natural forest fires—drifting Westwards across the ocean．It turned out that the arrival of patches of smoke coincided with high levels of phosphorous being detected in the filter．

Gaston and her team then estimated how much of the phosphorus placed on the Amazon Basin comes from African biomass burning．They found that，in Spring，smoke from the fires was responsible for most of the nutrient entering the Amazon Basin．

“Smoke from African biomass burning was a very important source of not just phosphorus，but solvable forms of phosphorus that are readily available for biological processes，”says Gaston．

This changed in autumn，when the dust travelling across the ocean dropped．

The findings suggest that people burning wood and other materials in Africa might have an impact on how much the Amazon grows and therefore how much carbon it stores in future．But it is not easy to predict what the effect might be．

At the moment，households in Sub—Saharan Africa overwhelmingly depend on wood for cooking and Gaston says that the growing population in Africa will probably result in an increase in burning．But at the same time there may be a drop in the number of wildfires as land use changes．

24．What’s the author’s attitude towards Gaston and her team’s findings? A．Positive

B．Negative

C．Indifferent

D．Objective D．achievable

25．Which of the following statement is true?

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