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1、 2019届湖南省岳阳县第一中学高三上学期期中考试英语试题注意事项：1.本试卷共150分。共10页。考试时间120分钟。2.请将各题答案填在答题卡上。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。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
2、 、C 和 D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWhether she loves pets, books, make-up, music, or all of the above, theres a perfect gift for your number one mama.For the bookwormFor the woman who took you to the library to get your very first card, show how much you appreciate her love of language and words with on
3、e of these book-themed mugs for a Mothers Day gift. You can choose from a good old fashioned library card, a funny banned books motif, or ones featuring your favorite literary characters, including Edgar Allen Poe and Alice in Wonderland. These are some of the most meaningful Mothers Day gifts moms
4、have ever received.Library Card Mug, $18.49, AFor the perfume wearerScent is the strongest sense tied to memory, so you can likely close your eyes and know exactly how your mom smells, no matter how far away you are from her. Consider signing her up for this perfume subscription service as a Mothers
5、 Day gift. Shell get a 30-day supply of designer perfume each month, from Dior to Bvlgari and 450 more.Scentbird, $14.95 per month, For the music fanIf your mom has Spotify playlists or a knack for DJing, singing or dancing, gift her this sweet bluetooth speaker inside of a beautiful wooden cabinet.
6、 Choose from hickory, white or black, and fill your dinners together with her top jams, which might just make her cry.Como Audio Solo, $299, For the cat momNow that her litter has found their way to different states, your moms attention has turned toward her fur baby: your family cat. Though you mig
7、ht be a tad jealous of the TLC the kitty receives, theres nothing more your cat-loving mama will enjoy than a gift for her new pal. With places to sleep, play and more, you might wish the Vesper Minou came in human-size, too.Vesper Minou Bench Scratcher, $61.99, A21. Where can you buy a gift if your
8、 mom loves perfume? A. At A. B. At . C. At . D. At A. 22. Vesper Minou may be a good choice for . A. the cat mom B. the music fan C. the perfume wearer D. the bookworm 23. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To celebrate Mothers Day. B. To explain reasons for gifts.C. To advertise gifts for mom.
9、D. To introduce ways to send gifts.BTimes are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when were f
10、acing difficult times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmothers recipes. She taught me to cook. When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mothers parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather t
11、han go hunting with my grandfather on mornings, I found myself more and more in the kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands. My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As the eldest daughter, she was expected to take on all of the
12、housework while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldnt
13、do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste. Now I understand that her food was sacred (神圣的). I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when Im in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conqueri
14、ng starvation of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day. From grandmother I learned to take real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say: “Do you know what this would cost at the restaurant?” I ne
15、ver knew what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and years of practice, I can. 24. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because _.A. she wants to try out her grandmothers recipes B. she is quite particular about foodC. the food in restaurants is unhealthy D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially 25. According to th
