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四川师大附中 2019 -2020 学年度(下期) 3 月考试试题
高 2018 级 英语学科
第 I 卷 选择题（共 70 分）
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，并在答题卡上将该选
项涂黑。
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Below is a housing guide for students going to London.
1. What is the advantage of using Loot?
A. It has more offers from accommodation agencies than Renting.
B. It gives you personal information about other co-renters.
C. Their website is designed mainly for students.
D. There are some good bargains.
University accommodation office
Many university accommodation offices have their own list of registered landlords . Others also
provide information on accommodation agencies and other housing organizations. The advantage of
using your university accommodation office is that you can get some support if you have a problem.
The disadvantage is that they are unlikely to have enough registered landlords to house all their
students.
Property papers: Loot and Renting
Loot is an important source of information about private housing for co-renters. The offers are
from private landlords, agencies and individuals looking for other co-renters. They also have a
website: www. loot. com. The advantage of using Loot is that there are some excellent bargains. The
disadvantage is that there is no quality control over the offers.
Renting is another useful paper. The offers in this paper are mainly from accommodation
agencies. Their website is at www. renting.co.uk.
Accommodation agencies
The majority of rented accommodation in London is probably advertised through accommodation
agencies. The advantage of using accommodation agencies is that you will have access to a large
number of accommodations. A good agent will listen to your requirements and can save you time in
looking for the right accommodation. The disadvantage is that they will make a range of charges to
potential renters.
Noticeboards
Around the universities you will find a number of noticeboards where offers of accommodation
will be posted. These will either be from landlords or from students. Some universities will also have
online noticeboards where students can advertise to other students. Advertisements from students can
be an excellent way to find accommodation. However, advertisements from landlords can be
problematic.
Word of mouth
Some of the best housing in London is never advertised but is passed on from one group of
students to another by word of mouth. It might be that you can find out about good offers from final
year students. However, don't suppose that just because you have found out about housing from a
friend it is necessarily going to be better than that found through any other source.
Family
Faced with the very high rents charged in London, some students and their parents will consider
buying as an alternative. In some cases this might be a good choice.2
2. The information passed on by word of mouth is important because .
A. it is better than that found through any other source
B. it helps you find some of the best housing never advertised
C. the final year students always offer better information
D. the landlords have little valuable information
3. For students going to London for the first time, which of the following provides the most
reliable information?
A. University accommodation offices. B. Loot and Renting.
C. Noticeboards. D. Family.
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Give yourself a test. Which way is the wind blowing? How many kinds of wildflowers can be
seen from your front door? If your awareness is as sharp as it could be, you’ll have no trouble
answering these questions.
Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults. A child’s day is filled with
fascination, newness and wonder. Curiosity gave us all a natural awareness. But distinctions that
were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb(麻木的）to new stimulation(刺激),
new ideas. Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes
practice and requires breaking some bad habits.
The first step in awakening senses is to stop predicting what we are going to see and feel
before it occurs. This blocks awareness. One chilly night when I was hiking in the Rocky
Mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream. The
students began complaining about how cold it would be. We reached the stream, and they
unwillingly walked ahead. They were almost knee-deep when they realized it was a hot spring.
Later they all admitted they’d felt cold water at first.
Another block to awareness is the obsession(痴迷) many of us have with naming things. I
saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a
"ruby-crowned kinglet" and checked it off. They no longer paid attention to the bird and never
learned what it was doing.
The pressures of "time" and "destination" are further blocks to awareness. I encountered
many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before
dark. It seldom occurred to them to wander a bit, to take a moment to see what’s around them. I
asked them what they’d seen. "Oh, a few birds," they said. They seemed bent on their
destinations.
Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait. Next time you take a walk, no matter
where it is, take in all the sights, sounds and sensations. Wander in this frame of mind and you
will open a new dimension to your life.
4. According to Paragraph 2, compared with adults, children are more ____________.
A. anxious to do wonders B. sensitive to others’ feelings
C. likely to develop unpleasant habits D. eager to explore the world around them
5. What idea does the author convey in Paragraph 3?
A. To avoid jumping to conclusions. B. To stop complaining all the time.
C. To follow the teacher’s advice. D. To admit mistakes honestly.
6. Why do the hikers take no notice of the surroundings during the journey?
A. The natural beauty isn’t attractive to them.
B. They focus on arriving at the camp in time.
C. The forest in the dark is dangerous for them.
D. They are keen to see rare birds at the destination.3
7. In the passage, the author intends to tell us we should __________.
A. fill our senses to feel the wonders of the world B. get rid of some bad habits in our daily life
C. open our mind to new things and ideas D. try our best to protect nature
C
They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories (配饰). Yet these are not
girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would
once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favouring the same high street looks worn by those
half their age.
Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert, said, “Women over 75 are now shopping for
clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s. In the 1960s buying a
coat for a woman was a serious matter. It was an expensive item that they would purchase only
every three or four years—now you can pick one up at the supermarket whenever you wish to.
Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly.”
Professor Twigg analysed family expenditure ( 支 出 )data and found that while the
percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the same — at 5 or 6
per cent of spending — the amount of clothes bought had risen sharply.
The professor said, “Clothes are now 70 per cent cheaper than they were in the 1960s
because of the huge expansion of production in the Far East. In the 1960s Leeds was the heart of
the British fashion industry and that was where most of the clothes came from, but now almost all
of our clothes are sourced elsewhere. Everyone is buying more clothes but in general we are not
spending more money on them.”
Fashion designer Angela Barnard, who runs her own fashion business in London, said
older women were much more affected by celebrity (名流) style than in previous years.
She said, “When people see stars such as Judi Dench and Helen Mirren looking attractive
and fashionable in their sixties, they want to follow them. Older women are much more aware of
celebrities. There’s also the boom in TV programmes showing people how they can change their
look, and many of my older customers do yoga to stay in shape well in their fifties. When I
started my business a few years ago, my older customers tended to be very rich, but now they are
what I would call ordinary women. My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a
way she would never have done ten years ago.”
8. Professor Twigg found that, compared with the 1960s, _________________.
A. people spend 30% less than they did on clothes
B. the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6%
C. the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%
D. the amount of clothes bought has risen by 5% or 6%
9. What can we learn about old women in temps of fashion’?
A. They are often ignored by fashion designers.
B. They are now more easily influenced by stars.
C. They are regarded as pioneers in the latest fashion.
D. They are more interested in clothes because of their old age.
10. It can be concluded that old women tend to wear the latest fashions today mainly
because_______________.
A. they get tired of things more quickly
B. TV shows teach them how to change their look
C. they are in much better shape now
D. clothes are much cheaper than before4
11. Which is the best possible title of the passage?
A. Age Is No Barrier for Fashion Fans B. The More Fashionable, the Less Expensive
C. Unexpected Changes in Fashion D. Boom of the British Fashion Industry
D
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy),
was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found
photographs” — a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的) prints discovered in a
junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The
German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has
gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going
project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs;
teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫) found
photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when
Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper( 雨 刷 ) an angry note intended for
someone else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for
Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as a
poster discovered in your drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the
most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found
photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What
was the cowboy in Prince’s Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone?
Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the
back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we
also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we
all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will
they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our mind
an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
12. The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.
A. remind readers of found photographs
B. advise reader to start a new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D. show readers the value of found photographs
13. According to the passage, Joachim Schmid _________.
A. is fond of collecting family life photographs
B. found a complaining note under his car wiper
C. is working for several self-published magazines
D. wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs
14. The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to __________.
A. the readers B. the editors
C. the found photographs D. the self-published magazines5
15. By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that ________.
A. memory of the past is very important to people
B. the back-story of found photographs is puzzling
C. found photographs allow people to think freely
D. the real value of found photographs is questionable
第二节 七选五（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。
The personality is the typical pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaviors that make a person
unique. 16 When we say that someone has a "good personality", we mean that they are
likeable, interesting and pleasant to be with.
17 . To that end, having a good personality is vital- probably even more so than
good looks. In fact, approximately 85 percent of your success and happiness will be a result of
how well you interact with others. Ultimately, it is your personality that determines whether
people are attracted to, or shy away from you.
Contrary to what you may think, you can improve your personality! We now know that not
only can we improve the personality, but also develop it in ways we previously did not understand,
or believe possible!
18 What that mean is that we are what we are and we cannot change. In 1890
William James, the famous Harvard psychologist, wrote in his influential work The Principles of
Psychology, that personality was"set in plaster" by early adulthood 19 However, the idea
that personality is more changeable has gained ground over time. We are now at the point where
we realize that we have influence and control over which characteristics we want to develop or
improve. While we can only improve our looks to a certain degree, we have the ability to improve
the personality as much as we want. 20
A. This view stayed for over a century.
B. Everyone wants to be attractive to others.
C. So what is it like to have a good personality?
D. Having a good personality can help in your social life.
E. Do you often wonder how to improve your personality?
F. For a long time it was believed that personality is permanent
G.We can develop or integrate (使融入) into our personalities any characteristic we think fitting
and agreeable.
第二部分 英语知识运用（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。6
One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder. However, life can be
21 when you are not busy finding fault with it.
Several years ago I 22 a letter from seventeen-year-old Kerry, who described
herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always 23 by things. People were always
doing things that annoyed her, and 24 was ever good enough. She was highly self-critical
and also found fault with her friends. She became a really 25 person.
Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her 26 Her best friend was
seriously hurt in a car crash. What made it almost 27 to deal with was that the day before
the 28 , Kerry had visited her friend and had spent the whole time criticizing her 29
of boyfriends, the way she was living, the way she related to her mother, and various other things
she felt she needed to ___30___ It wasn't until her friend was badly hurt that Kerry became
31 her habit of finding fault. Very quickly, she learned to appreciate life rather than to 32
everything so harshly (刻薄) . She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her
33 as well.
Perhaps most of us aren't as extreme at fault-finding, 34 when we're honest, we can
be sharply 35 of the world. I'm not suggesting you 36 problems, or that you pretend
things are ___37___ than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are—
38 most of the time, and especially when it's not a really big 39 .
Train yourself to "bite your tongue" , and with a little 40 , you'll get really good at
letting things go. And when you do, you'll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.
21. A. lonely B. great C. quiet D. uneasy
22. A. received B. answered C. expected D. rejected
23. A. threatened B. interrupted C. bothered I). spoiled
24. A. anything B. everything C. something D. nothing
25. A. caring B. boring C. interesting D. surprising
26. A. attitude B. plan C. measure D. explanation
27. A. urgent B. unnecessary C. certain D. impossible
28. A. occasion B. event C. accident D. adventure
29. A. memory B. notice C. evidence D. choice
30. A. hear B. contribute C. express D. admit
31. A. aware of B. afraid of C. curious about D. confused about
32. A. discuss B. realize C. judge D. settle
33. A. family B. life C. career D. education
34. A. so B. or C. but D. for
35. A. proud B. sure C. hopeful D. critical
36. A. face B. create C. solve D. ignore
37. A. rarer B. better C. stranger D. worse
38. A. at least B. at last C. by far D. so far
39. A. task B. deal C. result D. duty
40. A. practice B. speech C. rest D pity7
第 II 卷 非选择题（共 30 分）
第二节 语法填空（共 10 分；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
A trend is sweeping the Internet where women are holding up pieces of 8.3-inch-wide A4
printer paper 41. (show) how tiny their waists are. To be 42. (narrow) than a
piece of A4 you need to have roughly a 25-inch waist or less, 43. is much thinner than
the 35-inch average American waist, 44. (practical) impossible for most human beings.
While many trends come and go, this one is particularly 45. (worry) as it is
absolutely focused on weight. Reviewers have severely criticized the strange trend for pressuring
women to try to reach an unachievable goal. For there 46. (be) no such thing as pretty
enough, skinny enough, attractive enough. Even the stars of Hollywood such as Jennifer Aniston
and Nicole Kidman lack confidence. It 47. (explain) why women who have cosmetic
surgery (整容手术）always want to do more. Perfection does not actually exist
Psychologists have all proven that confidence comes from knowing 48. (you), and
developing your talents. Not from one’s 49. (appear) or figure. In fact, spending time 50.
(focus) on your looks weakens your confidence. Everybody is beautiful, not just the thin ones,
because inner beauty shines brighter than any hair, skin, or teeth.
第三部分 短文改错（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 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 处错
误，每句中最多有两处。错误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：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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；
2．只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。
Last Monday, it hit me that my beloved grandmother birthday was around the corner. I
decided to make her an unique present. Without the slightest hesitation, I threw me into creating
this priceless album. I turned on the computer, carefully selected some photos, added up some
decorations, and designed each pages carefully. Eventually, an album of love produced. Looking
at my work with satisfy, I couldn’t help imagining how delightedly my grandma would be.
Soon, the big day arrived. At the birthday party, I presented the album to Grandma. The
moment she saw the special gift, she hugs me affectionately, tears rolling in her eyes, what made
my parents smile genuinely as well.
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