2016高三英语月考卷
2016届高三英语综合试卷
第Ⅰ卷（100分）
第一部分听力（略）
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）
A
About 30 years ago, I left Cuba for the United States with my son. After getting settled finally in Brunswick, New Jersey, I enrolled (注册) my son in kindergarten. Several weeks later, my son’s teacher asked me to meet him at his office.
In the teacher’s office, and exchange of greetings was followed by his questions: “Is your son mentally retarded (弱智的)? Does he suffer from any kind of mental disability?”
Was he talking about my wonderful Scola? NO, no, it can’t be. What a helpless, lonely moment! I told him that Scola was a quiet, sweet little boy, instead. I asked him why he was asking me all these questions.
My son could not follow the teacher’s directions, he told me, and thus, Scola was disrupting the class. Didn’t he know my son did not speak English yet?
He was angry; “Why hasn’t your son been taught to speak English? Don’t you speak English at home?”
No, I didn’t speak English at home, I replied. I was sure my son would learn English in a couple of months, and I didn't want him to forget his native language. Well, wrong answer! What kind of person would not speak in English
Acting on a sudden impulse (凭冲动行事), an elderly woman, whose husband had been killed in the Civil War, went into a photographer’s to have her picture taken. She was seated before the camera, wearing the same hard, forbidding look that had made her fearful to the children living in the neighborhood when the photographer said suddenly, “Bri ghten the eyes a little.” She tried but failed.
“See here,” the elderly woman said sharply, “if you think an old woman who is dull can look bright, or the one who feels cross can become pleasant every time she is told to, you don’t know anything about human nature. It takes something from the outside to brighten the eye and the face.”
“Oh, no, it doesn’t! It’s something to be worked from the inside. Try it again,” said the photographer good-naturedly.
She tried again and this time with better success. “That’s good! You look twenty years younger.” She went home with a strange feeling in her heart. It was the first compliment she had received since her husband passed away and it left a pleasant memory behind.
When she went home, her neighbors soon remarked the change.
“Why, Catherine, you are getting younger. How did you manage it?”
“It is almost all done from the inside. You just brighten up inside and feel pleasant.”
Every emotion tends to shape the body into beauty or into ugliness. Nothing we ever do is
wiped out. The way to be beautiful without is to be beautiful within.
Men complain because God puts thorns with roses; wouldn’t it be better to thank God that he puts roses with thorns? We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. This is what happens in real life.
24. The old woman went to the photographer’s to ________.
A. have her picture taken
B. get her husband’s photo
C. complain to the photographer
D. make herself look younger
25. What can we know about the old woman?
A. She missed her children very much.
B. Kids in the neighbor always looked up to her.
C. She hesitated to go to the photographer’s.
D. The photographer’s manner inspired her a lot.
26. What does the underlined word “compliment” mean?
A. Praise.
B. Comment.
C. Comfort.
D. Relief.
27. What is the message conveyed in the story?
A. Ignore ugliness when going after success.
B. Friendship is built on respect for each other.
C. Accept reality and take things as they are.
D. Watch out for difficulty on their way to success.
C
Many science fiction stories tell about explorers arriving in a new world who use some kind of high-tech device to test for breathable air or signs of life. But here on Earth, science fiction is becoming reality through a new sampling technology called environmental DNA (eDNA). Scientists can use it to identify rare species, or estimate fish populations with just a little air or water. Scientists study the genetic material released by living creatures. Essentially they can take a sample of soil, air or water, and they can sequence (排序) the DNA out of it and tell you what is there.
EDNA can be used to identify the creatures that live in a certain place. Besides, it can confirm the presence or lack of a specific creature. The cost of gene sequencing has reduced greatly in recent years, which makes DNA testing more widely available.
Caren Goldberg, who heads the new eDNA lab at Washington State University, is one of the first biologists to take the technology from the testing period to actually using it.
“It is extremely useful for species that are really hard to find. I have spent many hours looking for species that I was pretty sure were there—looking under rocks, looking in water, doing all kinds of surveys.”
Caren Goldberg sees eDNA as a way to get answers more efficiently, safely and with less destruction compared to traditional survey techniques. Until recently, scientists depended on netting or using an electric current to temporarily catch fish.
This newer way is becoming popular around the world. Animal experts in Vietnam are using the eDNA to find the last, wild Yangtze giant softshell turtles. On the Caribbean island of Trinidad, it is being used to find endangered golden treefrogs.
Scientists working with it say they do not expect robots to replace field biologists anytime soon. But the old-fashioned field work could soon be more targeted. A related research goal is to show how long environmental DNA can last and how far it can travel in different environments.
28. DNA testing is widely used mainly because ________.
A. its cost has reduced greatly
B. its result is more accurate
C. its procedure is easy to run
D. it frees biologists of hard work
29. What is Caren Goldberg’s opinio n on eDNA?
A. It’s hard to put it in actual use.
B. It's helpful only in a limited way.
C. It takes more time to get the results.
D. It may cause less damage to species.
30. What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?
A. The old-fashioned field work would be more popular.
B. The old-fashioned field work would face more difficulties.
C. More research will be made on the old-fashioned field work.
D. It is still uncertain to confirm the effects