新课标2016年高三英语寒假作业3
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新课标2016年高三英语寒假作业3
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第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。
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The world’s premier spelling bee ended Thursday in the U．S．for a second year in a row after an in-tense
lo-round showdown between two young competitors to deal with some of the English language’s most
obscure（生僻的）words.
Vanya }hlvaShankar，13，and Gokul Venkatachalam，14，together raised the gold trophy（奖杯）in
the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee．
Shivashankar，the sister of 2009 champion Kavya Shivashankar，initially gathered confidence as she
went easily through such words as cytopoiesis，bouquetiere and thamakau．Venkatachalam，a basketball fan，also managed such tongue-twisters as poblacion，caudillismo and nixtamal．
But as their eight fellow finalists failed one by one，the tension grew until they stood alone on stage·
When Shivashankar，in the fourteenth round，correctly spelled scherenschnitte，the German一derived（源自德语的）word for artistic paper cutting, official bee pronouncer Jacques Bailly, broke the news to．
Venkatachalam . contest，Bailly said，was about to run out of words，and if Venkatachalam spelled his
next word correctly，he and his rival（对手）would be declared joint winners一a repeat of last year’s
surprise．
The winning word came so easily to the eighth-grader from the branch St．Louis，Missouri suburb of
Chesterfield that he skipped the bee contestant’s routine of asking for the word’s origin，meaning and usage
in a sentence·“N一u一n一a一t一a一k，”the devoted LeBron James fan said，spelling the Inuit-derived
word for an icy island as easily as if he was spelling d一。-g or c-a-t．
Asked afterwards what went through his mind upon hearing the word，Venkatachalam frankly replied：“Me and Vanya are going to be champions．” 24 ．How many contestants took part in the final？
A. Only two.
B. Four.
C. Eight.
D. Ten.
25 ．It can be inferred from the passage that
A ．last year’s spelling bee also ended in a tie
B ．Kavya Shivashankar was last year’s champion
C ．the spelling bee is held every two years
D ．the pronouncer decides the contest result
26 ．The underlined word“the eighth-grader” refers to
A. Vanya Shivashankar
B. Gokul Venkatachalam
C. Kavya Shivashankar
D. Jacques Bailly
27 ．Joint winners of the contest were made because
A ．Vanya and Gokul were equal to each other
B ．it was previously planned by the organizer
C ．producers and sponsors made the final decision
D ．there’s no more word prepared for contestants to spell
B
In learning a foreign language, one should first pay attention to speaking. It is the groundwork of
reading and writing. You’d better try your best to speak. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. But be careful
not to let them keep you from improving the language. While you are doing this, a good exercise is to
write—keep a diary, write notes, letters or articles, then if you can, ask someone to go through what you
have written and tell you where is wrong. Many mistakes in your speaking will be easily found when you
write. Through correcting the mistakes, you can do better in learning a language. If you are slow in speaking, don’t worry. One of the helpful ways is reading, either aloud or to yourself.
The important thing is to choose something interesting to read. It can’t be too difficult for you. When you
are reading in this way, don’t stop to look up the words if you can guess their meanings or if they have
nothing important to do with the sentence. You can do that some other time.
56. From the passage we know the groundwork is _________ while you are learning a foreign language.
A. reading B. writing C. speaking D. listening
57. To improve the language, one has to _________.
A. pay attention to speaking only
B. try not to make mistakes
C. correct mistakes only
D. keep a diary and write notes, letters or articles
58. The best title of this passage might be _________.
A. How to Learn a Foreign Language B. How to Improve Reading
C. How to Learn Writing D. More Reading, Less Speaking
C
The history of the computer keyboard started way back in 1714, when the first typewriters were
manufactured. Then, they looked more like sewing machines, since they were designed by Remington,
which also used to manufacture sewing machines. They were not used for commercial purposes but to
produce legal documents that were neat. 1868 was the year when Christoper Latham Scholes created the
typewriter that is common today and was later mass marketed in 1877.
Before the typewriter advanced to become the modern-day keyboard, there were a few developments
that led to it. First there was the combination of the typewriter with the telegraph to create a teletype. Key
