2017-2018学年高三学年上学期期中英语试题第I卷第一部分（共两节，满分40分）第一节阅读理解(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AJonathan Cranwell sat on a hard bench behind the long narrow des and watched the flies fly laily in the sun. The drone of the younger boys reading letters and the older boys reciting Latin verbs made him sleepy. Jonathan had to force his eyes to stay open. He wanted to learn something new!He looed up at the schoolmaster’s high des in the front of the room. The new teache r was from Harvard College. Jonathan’s father had been impressed with him. The boys had already had several other teachers, but none of them seemed to inspire Jonathan. So far, there was nothing to show that this one was special , though he’d only been there two days.“It’s too hot to sit and memorie lessons,” the schoolmaster said. “We’ll move outdoor s for the net part of our lesson.” He led the group of boys into the schoolyard. “You younger boys, dig for grubs and beetles ( 幼虫和甲虫). Count their feet. See if you can describe their shells”Jonathan watched the teacher surrounded by laughing young students. No one had ever used the schoolyard itself for a classroom. “What net ?” he thought. H e didn’t have time to thin about the younger boys, for he was running after butterflies and dragonflies himself.Jonathan and his friends lied this new way of learning.“It will be a clear night tonight. Go outside and loo at the sy,” said the schoolmaster. “Loo at the stars and notice their brightness and the patterns they mae. These patterns have names from Gree mythology(神话), names lie Orion, Aries, and others. Tomorrow we will learn about the ancient stories on them.”“How is the new schoolmaster ?” ased Jonathan’s father that evening, when Jonathan announced he was going out to loo at the sy.“He’s different from any other schoolmaster we’ve had,” Jonathan admitted. “He seems interested in everything around him, and he wants us to be curious too. He even used the schoolyard as a classroom!”“So Mr. John Adams and his new ways mae school useful to you after all,” joed Jonathan’s father.“I believe he has,” said Jonathan. “I now I won’t forget the lessons he has taught us!”1. What does the underlined word “drone” in Paragraph 1 mean ?A. Clear speaing voicesB. Continuous low dull soundsC. Enthusiastic responsesD. High spirits2. Which statement shows that the new schoolmaster understood the children ?A. “Go outside and loo at the sy,… ”B. “ See if you can describe their shells.”C. “ It’s too hot to sit and memorie lessons,…”D. “Tomorrow we will learn about the ancient stories…”3. From the last but one paragraph, we can learn that __________.A. Mr. Cranwell had met the new schoolmasterB. Jonathan had previously complained about schoolC. Mr. Cranwell was not satisfied with the new waysD. Jonathan had shown his father his homewor4.What is the main idea of this story?A. Science is all around us.B. School provides us with the best education.C. Homewor is an important part of education.D. There is more than one way to learn.BFor the business traveler who is all about efficiency Chec out these hotels that will get you in and out with a minimum of trouble. When you are pressed for time on a business trip, nothing can infuriate you more than a slow hotel chec-in process. On your net trip, try these hotels that offer a speedier chec-in process.1. Yotel New YorThe self-service ioss at this high-tech New Yor hotel wor just lie the ones you’d see at an airport. There are just five-steps to register and obtain your card ey. There is even a robotic luggage bellboy. You tap in the number of bags you are carrying and sies, then wait for a robot arm to swing down and store your luggage in a locer (say, for a day trip). This also speeds up the chec-in process if the first thing you need to do, lie me, is head to a series of meetings.2. Marriott Detroit AirportAnother option for business travelers in a hurry Marriott is rolling out its mobile chec-in app to 325 hotels this year, including the Marriott Detroit Airport hotel. (I’ve tested the app itself but not for a real visit quite yet.) Here is the basic idea you download the iphone or Android app. The night before, you can “chec-in” virtually. When you arrive, you get an alert that the room is ready and your ey, which is already tied to your reservation, is waiting for you at the des.3. Hyatt Regency MinneapolisI happened to stay at this hotel recently and lied how fast the ios chec-in wors. Lie the Yotel, the ios ass you to insert your credit card, similar to an airport terminal. The whole process too about three minutes, when I left, I was equally impressed with the fast chec-out. An agent meets you in the lobby with an ipad and ass for an email to use for a receipt. The big advantage you never have to wait in line.4. Radisson LaCrosseThe Radisson is trying to mae the ios process even faster, at a few select hotels lie the Radisson Lacrosse in Wisconsin, you use a mobile app to register and then receive a barcode by email or tet. When you get to the ios, you scan the barcode to get your ey without any other steps required. It’s super fast. You can find this new chec-in system at the Radisson hotels in Salt Lae City, Seattle, and Phoeni as well.5．Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to chec in?A. Yotel New Yor and Marriott Detroit Airport.B. Marriott Detroit Airport and Radisson LaCrosse.C. Marriott Detroit Airport. and Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis and Radisson LaCrosse.6．Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?A. Yotel New Yor.B. Marriott Detroit Airport.C. Radisson LaCrosse.D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.7．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. At Yotel New Yor, a robot will help you with all the chec-in process.B. With its chec-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a ey.C. The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast chec-in.D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis is close to an airport terminal.CYou may thin, salt is just a simple cooing element we shae on our food for a little etra taste. But salt is much more than that. Without salt our muscles would not move. Our nervous systems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat.But do not thin rubbing salt into a wound will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. “To rub salt in to a wound” is an idiom that means to purposefully mae a bad situation worse.Early humans got the salt they needed to stay alive from the animals they illed. But advances in agriculture led to a diet low in salt. So, humans needed to find other sources. Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucy. Those who did not had to trade for salt. In fact, people used salt as a method of payment in many parts of the ancient world. The word “salary” comes from the word “salt”.Salt also played an important part in population movement and world eploration. Eplorers understood that if they could eep food fresh, they could travel longer distances. So they used salt to preserve food and eplore the world.Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound for gold. Today, people still use the epressions “worth one's salt” or “worth one's weight in salt”. The epressions describe a person of value.A person might also be called “salt of the earth”. That description means he or she is dependable and trustworth y. However, when you say “I thin we should tae what he said with a grain of salt”you mean you accept it but maintain a degree of doubt about its truth.8. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Salt plays an important part in our life.B. Salt maes food tasty.C. Salt is considered to be part of our muscles.D. Salt is sure to damage nervous systems.9. A beggar’s bread was stolen last night, which means_________.A. salt of the earthB. rubbing salt in a woundC. a diet low in saltD. worth his salt10. If you describe a person as a great help, you mean_________ .A. he rubs salt in a woundB. he is often taen as a grain of saltC. he often uses salt to preserve meatD. he is worth his weight in salt11. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Salt Is More Than a Four-letter Word.B. Salt Is a Basic Element in Cooing.C. Salt Is a Word with a Long History.D. Salt Is Popular with Different People.DA new study has discovered that meditation（冥想）and oygen sport together reduce depression. The Rutgers University study found that this mind and body combination, done twice a wee for only two months, reduced the symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.“We are ecited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” said lead author Dr. Brandon Alderman. “It is the first time that both of these two behavioral ways have been looed at together for dealing with depression.”Researchers believe the two activities have an interactive effect on combating depression. Alderman and Dr. Tracey Shors discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.Rutgers researchers say those who participated in the study began with 30 minutes of focused attention meditation followed by 30 minutes of oygen sport. They were told that if their thoughts drifted to the past or the future they should refocus on their breathing, enabling those with depression to accept moment-to-moment changes in attention.Shors, who studies the production of new brain cells in the hippocampus—part of the braininvolved in memory and learning—says scientists have shown in animal models that oygen sport eercise eeps a large number of certain cells alive.The idea for the human intervention（干预）came from her laboratory studies, she says, with the main goal of helping individuals acquire new sills so that they can learn to recover from stressful life events.By learning to focus their attention and eercise, people who are fighting depression can acquire new learning sills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelming recollection of memories from the past, Shors says.“We now these treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be effective in improving mental health.” said Alderman. “The good news is that this intervention can be practiced by anyone at an y time and at no cost.”12. What made the research so different?A. Adopting a way of meaningful tal.B. Combining the two behavioral ways to treat depression.C. Treating depression with special medicine.D. Comparing the depressed with the non-depressed.13. The underlined word “combating” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by ______.A. fightingB. identifyingC. distinguishingD. eamining14. What did the participants do in the research?A. They did oygen sport half an hour before thining.B. They thought quietly and then too eercise.C. They too eercise longer than they thought.D. They too eercise while thining quietly.15. What is Shors’ main purpose of her studies?A. To find out certain brain cells of humans.B. To study the production of new brain cells.C. To offer people a new method to treat stress.D. To decide the lins between stress and eercise. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共1 0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。
