金山中学2017-2018年度高三第一学期期中考试题2017.10
英语
命题人:陈少焕 陈泽绚
本试卷共三部分,满分135分(120×1.125)。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项:
1.答卷前,考生务必分别将答题卷上的姓名、考试号用黑色字迹的签字笔填写,用2B铅笔将考试号对应的信息点涂黑。
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第一部分: 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。 A
The editor of the new Cool Camping Britain guide chooses some of his favorite new finds in England, Wales and Scotland.
Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides
Is this Britain’s most beautiful campsite? From the grassy point looking seaward to the mountains, it’s not hard for campers to see how the island inspired The Lord of the Rings author’s fantasy landscapes. The campsite itself is as wild and wonderful as its setting.
Open April - September, from £5 per tent per night.
Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, Suffolk
Deep in the wilds of north Suffolk, this seven-acre campsite has only been open for a few years, with two fields separated by a lake and surrounded by woodland. The position is perfect. It’s a great place to do nothing but get into nature. You can put up your tent in the bottom field or the woodland beyond.
Open Easter - October, from £10 per tent per night.
Pleasant Streams Farm, near St Austell, Cornwall
This site, by a lake, is all about simple pleasures. Located in the former mining village, it has a summerhouse(凉亭) with books and games for a rainy day. There are many animals including pigs, hens, goats and ducks on the farm and a pub just a 10- minute stroll away. There’s very little to do here, no bells and no whistles. Campfires are encouraged.
Open Easter - September, from £10 per tent per night.
Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Sciily
Its only campsite, Troytown, couldn’t be in a more remote position. Isolation is its greatest advantage — so bring plenty of books to read and don’t expect a phone signal. But at least one of life’s necessities is available. Lying on the hillside overlooking the bay and near the island of the Gugh, it might just win the prize for best beer garden view in England.
Open March - October, from £7. 50 per tent per night,
21. Which of the following is TRUE about Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides?
A. It has been open for a few years. B. A beautiful lake surrounds it.
C. It offers the longest service. D. The rent of a tent per night is the lowest.
22. Which place can you choose if you like a simple farm life?
A. Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides.
B. Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, Suffolk.
C. Pleasant Streams Farm, near St Austell, Cornwall.
D. Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly.
23. In Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, you can’t ________.
A. contact others by phones B. view the bay from the hillside
C. get everyday necessities D. relax yourself by reading
B
Here is an astonishing and significant fact: Mental work alone can’t make us tire. It sounds absurd. But a years ago, scientists tried to find out how long the human brain could labor without reaching a stage of fatigue (疲劳). To the amazement of these scientists, they discovered that blood passing through the brain, when it is active, shows no fatigue at all! If we took a drop of blood from a day laborer, we would find it full of fatigue toxins(毒素) and fatigue products. But if we took blood from the brain of an Albert Einstein, it would show no fatigue toxins at the end of the day.
So far as the brain is concerned, it can work as well and swiftly at the end of eight or even twelve hours of effort as at the beginning. The brain is totally tireless. So what makes us tired?
Some scientists declare that most of our fatigue comes from our mental and emotional(情绪的) attitudes. One of England’s most outstanding scientists, J.A. Hadfield, says, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin. In fact, fatigue of purely physical origin is rare.” Dr. Brill, a famous American scientist, goes even further. He declares, “One hundred percent of the fatigue of sitting worker in good health is due to emotional problems.”
What kinds of emotions make sitting workers tired? Joy? Satisfaction? No! A feeling of being bored, anger, anxiety, tenseness, worry, a feeling of not being appreciated---those are the emotions that tire sitting workers. Hard work by itself seldom causes fatigue. We get tired because our emotions produce nervousness in the body.
24. What surprised the scientists a few years ago?
A. Fatigue toxins could hardly be found in a laborer’s blood.
B. Albert Einstein didn’t feel worn after a day’s work.
C. The brain could work for many hours without fatigue.
D. A mental worker’s blood was filled with fatigue toxins.
25. According to the author, which of the following can make sitting workers tired?
A. Challenging mental work. B. Unpleasant emotions.
C. Endless tasks. D. Physical labor
26. We can infer from the passage that in order to stay energetic, sitting workers need to _____
A. have some good food. B. enjoy their work
C. exercise regularly D. discover fatigue toxins
27. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Too much mental work will make people tired.
B. Mental work is of great importance to our health.
A. It is hard work that makes people feel tired easily.
B. People get tired when working because of emotional problem
C
Times 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 we're facing lean times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmother's 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 mother's parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go hunting with my grandfather on frozen 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 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 couldn't do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste.
Now I understand that her food was sacred. I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when I'm in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conquering 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 never 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.
28. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because__________.
A. she wants to try out her grandmother’s recipes
B. she and her husband are quite particular about food
C. she enjoys cooking at home
D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially
29. What does the underlined word “lean” mean in the first paragraph?
A. with a bad harvest B. with little money
C. with little energy D. with little work
30. According to the passage, the author’s grandmother__________.
A. learnt to cook throughout the Great Depression B. was careful in budgeting
C. preferred chicken to beef D. was careful in cooking vegetables
31. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Cook like My Grandmother B. My Grandmother’s Sacred Food
C. My Grandmother’s Recipe D. Joy and Pleasure in Cooking
D
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
32. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .
A . repeated without any change B. treated as a joke
C. made some changes by the parent D. set in the present
33. The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.
A. makes them less fearful B. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
C. develops their power of memory D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs
34. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.
A. fairy stories are still being made up B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays
35. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.
A. they are full of imagination B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross gained worldwide honor for her dedication to easing human suffering and earned the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield.”
Barton was born into a liberal freethinking family in 1821. Her elder brothers and sisters happily tutored her in math and reading, so when she entered school at three years old, she could read and spell three-syllable words. 36
Concerned about Barton's difficulty in making friends, her parents sent her to a boarding school, hoping it would make her more comfortable with her peers. 37 Barton lost her appetite and cried constantly. After only one term, she had to be brought home. Then, Barton stayed out of school
to nurse her older brother through a serious injury and also volunteered to care for poor families during a smallpox (天花)outbreak.
In 1861, the Civil War broke out. The sight of wounded soldiers touched Barton deeply. She began to collect and distribute food, bandages, medicines, and other supplies for the Union army. 38 There, with little concern for her own safety, she cooked meals, assisted surgeons, and comforted wounded soldiers.
Eventually,because of working too hard,Barton collapsed ill with typhoid fever. 39 It was there that she learned of an organization based in Switzerland一called the International Red Cross, whose work mirrored her own.
Shortly after Barton arrived back home in 1873,her sister died. 40 When recuperating(休养) at a health facility in New York,she began planning for the establishment of an American wing of the International Red Cross. Although at first the government resisted, her efforts finally paid off. The American Red Cross was officially organized on May 21, 1881. Her influence lives on today in the work of the organization she founded.
A. Barton fell into a deep depression.
B. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect.
C. Many people felt sorry for the loss of her sister and her own health.
D. Barton risked her life to transport wagonloads of supplies to the front lines.
E. When she recovered, her doctors prescribed a long, restful trip to Europe.
F. Barton spent the following several months learning basics about Swiss Cross.
G. She easily kept up with the older children academically but did not fit in socially.
第二部分: 语言知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。
“Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those!”I said this after seeing the Capital Dancing Company perform when I was three. It was the first time that my 41 took on a vivid form and acted as something important to start my training. As I grew older and was 42 to more, my interests in the world of dance 43 varied but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a 44 in the company never left me. In the summer of 2005 when I was 18, I received the phone call which made that dream a 45 ; I became a member of the company 46 back to 1925.
As I look back on that day now, it surely 47 any sense of reality. I believe I stayed in a state of pleasant disbelief 48 I was halfway through rehearsals (排练) on my first day. I never actually 49 to get the job. After being offered the position, I was completely 50 . I remember shaking with excitement.
Though I was absolutely thrilled with the change, it did not come without its fair share of 51 . Through the strict rehearsal period of dancing six days a week, I found it vital to 52 up the material fast with every last bit of concentration. It is that extreme 53 to detail (细节) and stress on practice that set us 54 . To then follow those high-energy rehearsals 55 a busy show schedule of up to five performances a day, I discovered a new 56 of the words “hard work.” What I thought were my physical 57 were pushed much further than I thought 58 . I learned to make each performance better than the last.
Today, when I look at the unbelievable company that I have the great 59 of being a part of,
not only as a member, but as a dance captain, I see a 60 that has inspired not only generations of little girls but a splendid company that continues to develop and grow-and inspires people every day to follow their dreams.
41. A. hobby B. plan C. dream D. word
42. A connected B. expanded C. exposed D. extended
43. A. rarely B. certainly C. probably D. consistently
44. A. director B. trainer C. leader D. dancer
45. A. symbol B. memory C. truth D. reality
46. A. bouncing B. dating C. turning D. tracking
47. A. lacks B. adds C. makes D. brings
48. A. while B. since C. until D. when
49. A. cared B. expected C. asked D. decided
50. A. motivated B. relaxed C. convinced D. astonished
51. A. challenges B. profits C. advantages D. adventures
52. A. put B. mix C. build D. pick
53. A. attention B. association C. attraction D. adaptation
54. A. apart B. aside C. off D. back
55. A. over B. by C. with D. beyond
56. A. function B. meaning C. expression D. usage
57. A. boundaries B. problems C. barriers D. efforts
58. A. necessary B. perfect C. proper D. possible
59. A. talent B. honor C. potential D. responsibility
60. A. victory B. trend C. tradition D. desire
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
China launched the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft 61 Monday morning of October 17 to transport two astronauts to the Tiangong II space laboratory. The spacecraft 62 (send) skyward at 7:30 am atop (在…顶上) a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, 63 (carry) two male astronauts – Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong. After the launch, the spacecraft will travel two days before docking(对接) with the Tiangong II, 64 was lifted from the Jiuquan center in mid-September. Then the astronauts will enter the space lab and stay there for 30 days, and it will be the longest space stay by Chinese astronauts.
The main 65 (task) of the Shenzhou XI mission are to test docking technologies for the country's 66 (plan) space station, to verify the life-support capability of the spacecraft-space lab combination as well as conduct 67 (science) research.
China is 68 third country in the world that has 69 (depend) fulfilled manned spaceflight following the former Soviet Union and the United States. Its space program aims 70 (place) a permanent manned space station into service around 2022.
第三部分: 写作(共两节;满分35分)
第一节 短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
My high school life has made me learn many things. Between them teamwork is the most significantly for me. In fact, I didn’t realize its importance after I was elected monitor. In the begin, I did almost all the duties myself. However, others students cared little about class activities. Therefore, I worn out and depressed. Then I turned to my head teacher but he advised me to cooperate with others. Gradually, I realized the strengths of my classmates and managed to have everyone to play a part in class. It is working in teams instead of on my own which has freed me from trouble and make my work more efficient.
笫二节 书面表达(满分25分)
假如你是李华,你的英国朋友Edward正在学习汉语,希望你推荐一个适合他学习汉语的网站。请你根据以下内容,给他回复邮件。
推荐网站:www.edchinese.com
网站内容:
1. 网络课程的内容;
2. 其它相关资源;
3. 有在线老师答疑,全部免费。
注意: 1. 词数100左右; 2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
金山中学2017-2018年度高三第一学期期中考试题
英语 参考答案
阅读理解:21—23 DCA 24—27CBBD 28—31 DBBA 32—35 CABB
七选五阅读填空:36—40 GBDEA
完形填空:41-45 CCBDD 46-50 BACBD 51-55 ADA AC 56-60 BADBC
语法填空:
61. on 62. was sent 63. carrying 64. which 65. tasks
66. planned 67. scientific 68. the 69. independently 70. to place
短文改错:
1.Between-Among 2.significantly-significant
3.after- until/before 4.begin-beginning
5.others-other 6. I后加was
7.but-and 8.去掉to
9.which-that 10.make-made
书面表达:
Dear Edward,
I’m more than pleased to know that you are learning Chinese. I’d like to recommend www.edchinese.com to you. It’s a good website for non-Chinese speakers who are learning Chinese, especially for beginners.
Firstly, it provides you with a variety of online courses, such as Chinese idioms, dialogues and customs. Through these courses, you will have a good understanding of the Chinese language as well as its culture. Besides, it will help you learn Chinese in interesting and effective ways. Here you can learn to sing some Chinese songs, enjoy Tang poems and watch Chinese movies. More importantly, there are teachers online whom you can turn to for help. And all this is free of charge.
I hope you will find this website attractive and helpful. Wish you a happy learning time!
Yours,
Li Hua