2017-2018学年度上学期高三年级英语学科
命题：高三英语组审题：高三英语组练习时间：100分钟
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 ）中出最佳选项，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
It’s 5:00 in the morning when the alarm rings in my ears. I rol l out of bed and walk blindly through the dark into the bathroom. I turn on the light and put on my glasses. The house is still as I walk downstairs while my husband and three kids sleep peacefully. Usually I go for a long run, but today I choose my favorite exercise DVD insanity. Sweat pours down my face and into my eyes. My heart races as I face my body to finish each movement. As I near the end of the exercise, I feel extremely tired, but a smile is of my face. It’s not a smile because the DVD is over, but a smile of success from pushing my body to its extreme limit.
Some people enjoy shopping, smoking, food, work, or even chocolate. But I need exercise to get through each day. Some shake heads when they see me run through the town. Others get hurt when I refuse to try just one bite o f their grandmother’s chocolate cake. They raise their eyebrows, surprised by my “no thank you,” or by my choice to have a salad. Over the years, I have learned it’s okay to just say “no.” I shouldn’t feel sorry for refusing food that I don’t want to eat.
So what drives me to roll out of bed at 5:00 a.m.? What gives me the reason to just say no to ice cream? Commitment. A commitment to change my life with a way that reduces daily anxiety, increases self –confidence and energy, extends life and above all improve my body shape. This is the point where a smile appears on my face as I look at myself in the mirror or try on my favorite pair of jeans that now fit just right. It’s through commitment and sweat that I can make a difference within myself inside and out.
1.Why is there a smile on the author’s face in the morning?
A. Because she sees her family sleeping peacefully.
B. Because she finishes her favorite exercise
C. Because she enjoys the interesting DVD
D. Because she feels a sense of achievement
2. What does the underlined word “commitment” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Good health
B. Firm belief
C.A strong power
D.A regular habit
3. What can we learn about the author from the text?
A. She acts in a strange way
B. She wants to look different from others
C. She aims to develop a good body shape
D. She has difficult getting along with others
B
Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York--he was in computers, she was in special education. "Teaching means everything to us," Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose.
Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton' s foundation that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer's home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire," Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, "as a reminder."
Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination library .com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.
The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didn’t want to give the children rubbish,” says Linda. The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series.
Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of .”
The Richters spend about ＄400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”
4.What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?
A. His health problem. B .His love for teaching.
C. The influence of his wife. D .The news from the Web.
5.According to the text, Dollly Parton is_______. .
A. a well-known surgeon
B. a mother of a four-year-old
C. a singer born in Tennessee D .a computer programmer
6.Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?
A. To avoid signing up online.
B. To meet Dollywood board members.
C. To make sure the books were the newest.
D. To see if the books were of good quality.
7.What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph?
A. He needs more money to help the children.
B. He wonders why some people are so busy.
C. He tries to save those waiting to die.
D. He considers his efforts worthwhile.
C
In Western countries people have been using the installment (分期付款) plan since the first half of the twentieth century. Today, a large number of families in Great Britain buy furniture, household goods and cars by installments. In the U.S.A., the figure is much higher than in Great Britain, and people there spend over 10 percent of their income on the installment plan.
The price of an article bought on installments is always higher than the price that would be paid by cash. There is a charge for interest. The buyer pays one quarter or one third of the price as a down payment (预付定金) when the goods are delivered to him. He then makes regular payments, weekly or monthly, until the full price is paid up. The legal ownership of the goods remains with the seller until the final payment has been made.
Installment buying has advantages and disadvantages. It can help couples with small incomes to furnish their homes and start housekeeping. It increases the demand for goods, and in this way helps business and employment. There is, however, the danger that when business is bad, installment buying may end suddenly, making business much worse. This may result in a great increase in unemployment. If the people on the installment plan lose their jobs, they will probably not be able to make their payments. If great numbers of people are not able to pay their installment debts, there is a possibility that businessmen cannot collect their debts and will therefore lose money. If businessmen lose money or fail to make a satisfactory profit, it becomes more likely to have a depression (萧条). This is why, in some countries, the government controls the installment plan by fixing the amount of the down payment and installments to discourage people from buying more than they can pay for on the installment plan.
8. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the installment plan?
A. A lot of British families use the installment plan.
B. More than 10 percent of American families buy things on installments.
C. Americans depend more on installment than British people do.
D. Americans spend one tenth of their income on installment buying.
9. Goods bought on installments are more expensive than goods bought by cash because _____.
A. the buyer has to pay extra money as interest
B. the delivery of the goods charges extra money
C. the buyer has to pay a down payment
D. the service offered by installment plan charged extra money
10. The advantage of installment buying might include all the following EXCEPT that _____.
A. purchasing power is strengthened.
B. employment might be increased
C. people develop a good habit of saving money
D. young couples are able to furnish their homes
11. In some countries, the governments control the installment plan to _____.
A. increase employment
B. avoid depressions
C. ensure that businesses make good profits
D. ensure that people can pay for what they buy
D
Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladian, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy people. Palladian received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael. Bloomberg, New York's mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects t o follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
12. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?
A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D. To compare old and new boiler rooms.
13. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
A. Lower running costs.
B. Costing less in construction.
C. Less air to be lost in hot days.
D. Better prices for homeless people.
14. It can be learned from the text that,_____________.
A. New York City is seriously polluted .
B. people’s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C. a great number of people i n New York City don't have houses to live in
D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
15. What is the main purpose of this text?
A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.
第二节(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10)
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。选项中有两项项为多余选项。(E=AB, F=AC, G=AD)
There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. __16__ The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. __17__ Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don't have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.
The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader's understanding.__18__ Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here“learning”means understanding more, not remembering more information.
What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding. __19__ Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.
__20__. It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.
A.The writer should have a better communicating skill.
B.Such communication between unequals must be possible.
C.We can get access to the content of those materials easily.
D.The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.
E.Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.
F.Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.
G.Besides gaining information and understanding, there's another goal of reading entertainment
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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As soon as you’re aware that you’re going off the road and into a body of water, place both of your hands on the steering wheel (方向盘) in the “ten and two” posit ions. The impact your car makes could 21the airbag system in your car and any other position could 22 serious injury in such an event.
23the cell phone call. Your car isn’t going to wait for you to make the call and 24, a lot of people have 25their lives trying this. Get busy 26.
Open the window as soon as you hit the 27. Leave the door 28at this stage and concentrate on the 29. Try the method of opening it electronically first. Many people don’t30of the window as an option for escape 31because of panic, lack of using the window for the exit normally, or 32they’re focused on lots of misinformation about doors and sinking.
If you aren’t able to33the window, or it only opens halfway, break it. If you have no 34or heavy objects to break it with, use your feet or high heels; these might 35when placed at the corners of the window. The sooner it is open, the sooner you will be able to 36 directly through the broken window. Don’t even try the windshield (挡风玻璃). Side and rear windows are the best options for escape.
If you have a heavy object, aim for the 37of the window. A rock, hammer, 38, laptop, large camera, etc., might all serve as suitable objects. Even the keys might work if you’re39 enough. If you’ve already thought ahead, you might have a window breaking tool handy in the car.
Take a 40, and swim out through the broken window as soon as you’ve broken it.
21. A. get off B. set off C. show off D. cut off
22. A. prevent B. stop C. cause D. suffer
23. A. Make B. Answer C. Forget D. Check
24. A. luckily B. sadly C. hopefully D. surprisingly
25. A. saved B. lived C. led D. lost
26. A. looking out B. turning up C. standing up D. getting out
27. A. record B. car C. water D. road
28. A. alone B. open C. calm D. safe
29. A. door B. window C. seat D. airbag
30. A. think B. talk C. bother D. care
31. A. either B. neither C. both D. all
32. A. when B. unless C. because D. once
33. A. break B. open C. close D. touch
34. A. energy B. strength C. methods D. tools
35. A. hurt B. change C. work D. benefit
36. A. look B. escape C. drive D. rush
37. A. outside B. surface C. corner D. center
38. A. umbrella B. handkerchief C. bag D. glove
39. A. fast B. old C. brave D. strong
40. A. step B. seat C. breath D. rest
第二节语篇填空（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（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary part of the learning process. 41.____________all too often as parents and teachers , we do not allow our children to have the same right. We convey 42.___________ by words or by actions that failure is something to be ashamed of, and 43.___________ nothing but top performance lives up to our expectations.
When I see a child subject to this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie. He was 44.____________ shy and nervous perfectionist. His fear of failure 45.___________(keep) him from classroom games that other children played with joyous abandon. He seldom answered questions for fear that he might be wrong. He seldom finished his work because he 46._____________( repeat) checked with me to be sure he 47.____________(not make) a mistake. I tried my best to build up self--confidence. And I frequently asked God for direction. But nothing changed until midterm, 48.____________ Mary Anne, a student teacher, was appointed to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils , Donnie49._____________(include), adored her. 50.____________her frequent encouragement, Donnie became confident.
41.____________42.____________43.____________44.____________45._____________ 46._____________47.____________48.____________49._____________ 50.____________
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）
文中共有10处语言错误，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，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限1词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Recently, there have been several droughts and floods in many parts of China, left us wondering what to do for our common home---the earth. My answer was: learn to share and care.
We must take responsibilities and tender care for her in our daily life. First, we can cut off energy consumption by turning off air conditioners for a while, switching off unnecessary light and walking or cycling instead of driving. However, we should refuse to live in a throw-away society by using less one-off product. But most important, public awareness of sharing and caring are to be further promoted.
In general, only when we share and care we protect our home and live comfortably. Otherwise, they may become homeless, living like vagabonds(流浪汉).
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是学生会主席李华，为了让外国人了解中国传统文化，学生会将进行“唐诗吟诵大赛”(Tang Poetry Recitation Contest)，特邀请学校国际部学生参加，请你根据提示写一则通知。
主要内容包括：
1. 大赛目的和意义；
2. 主办方：校学生会；时间：2017年12月30日；地点：校报告厅(assembly hall)；
3. 范围：唐诗三百首(Three Hundred Tang Poems)。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文流畅。
Notice
Do you want to have a further knowledge of Chinese culture? ______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
答题纸
语篇填空：
41.____________42.____________43.____________44.____________45._____________ 46._____________47.____________48.____________49._____________ 50.____________
短文改错：
Recently, there have been several droughts and floods in many parts of China, left us wondering what to do for our common home---the earth. My answer was: learn to share and care.
We must take responsibilities and tender care for her in our daily life. First, we can cut off energy consumption by turning off air conditioners for a while, switching off unnecessary light and walking or cycling instead of driving. However, we should refuse to live in a throw-away society by using less one-off product. But most important, public awareness of sharing and caring are to be further promoted.
In general, only when we share and care we protect our home and live comfortably. Otherwise, they may become homeless, living like vagabonds(流浪汉).
书面表达：
Notice
Do you want to have a further knowledge of Chinese culture? ______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________
2017-2018学年度上学期高三年级英语学科参考答案
阅读理解1---3、DBC 4—7、ACDD 8—11、BACD 12-15 CABD 16-20 ECBDG 完形填空21-25 BCCBD 26-30 DCABA 31-35 ACBDC 36-40 BCADC
语篇填空
41. But 42. either 43. that 44. a 45, kept 46. repeatedly 47. hadn’t made 48. when 49. included 50.With
短文改错
1. left--leaving
2. was--is
3. tender--tenderly
4. off --down
5. light--lights
6. However-Besides, Furthermore, Moreover
7. importantly
8. are--is
9. care they之间加can 10. they --we
书面表达：
Notice
Do you want to have a further knowledge of Chinese culture? Here comes your opportunity: the Student Union will organize a Tang Poetry Recitation Contest. I'd like to share with you some details.
As scheduled, the contest is to be held on Dec 30th, 2016. You are supposed to get prepared before the contest. Above all, it's recommended that you should read Three Hundred Tang Poems, and learn to appreciate the beauty of ancient Chinese culture. Whoever feels interested and has a passion for Chinese culture, please sign up for the contest as soon as possible. If you want to attend, please come to the school assembly hall. Don't miss the chance of being a winner, and some appealing prize is eagerly waiting for you.
Don't hesitate to take part! I'm sure you will benefit a lot and your Chinese will gain much progress.