2017四川省高考英语试题

2017四川省高考英语试题

2017四川省高考英语试题

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2017四川省高考英语试题

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，并在答题卡该项涂黑。

A

For the Travel section, writers and editors selected special

items to profile from a dozen cities.

Brussels: Chocolate

Nearly half the chocolate consumed in the world is eaten in

Europe, and Belgium — with average consumption of 14.99

pounds per person a year — certainly covers its fair share. While

Brussels, the country’s capital, is home to hundreds of chocolate

makers, what makes a visit necessary is the rich heritage of

traditional chocolate makers.

Budapest: Paprika (红辣椒)[:.]

The job of preparing Hungarian paprika was once considered

too dangerous for mothers to do. A woman who touched her

children upon returning from work risked burning them, so only

the elderly and unmarried were allowed the delicate task of

separating the skin from the flesh. But by the early 20th century,

sweeter varieties and a machine turned paprika into a common feature of all Hungarian cuisine.

Lisbon: Tiles (瓷砖)

Is there a bluer country than Portugal? The blue sky and

Atlantic Ocean embrace the land. The blue moods of Fado, the

dark folk music, form the national soundtrack. And all across

Portugal, the typically blue designs of azulejos — ceramic tiles —

are spread across churches, castles, palaces, university halls,

parks... The result is a beautiful land of Christian saints,

Portuguese kings, historical glories, aristocrats (贵族) at leisure,

seascapes and so on.

Madrid: Guitars

Walking into one of Madrid’s storied guitar makers’

workshops can feel like stepping into the past. Curly wood

shavings, from the palest pine to ebony, fall onto the floor as

artisans (工匠) turn some humble wood into works of art. It’s

painstaking work — all done by hand — with classical guitar

models and the methods of making them changing little over the

last century.

1. What does the job of preparing Hungarian paprika suggest?

A. The popularity of Hungarian peppers.

B. The difficulty of processing peppers.

C. The unique tradition in Budapest.

D. The hot level of Hungarian peppers.[:,]

2. Which city can be a splendid setting for a film?

A. Brussels. B. Budapest. C. Lisbon. D. Madrid.

3. What’s the similarity of the four items?

A. They’re all treasures of a city.

B. They all date back several centuries.

C. Their production processes are all painstaking.

D. They all win popularity in most European countries. B

About 150 years ago, a village church priest, Patric Bronte, in

Yorkshire, England, had three lovely, intelligent daughters but his

hopes fell entirely on the only male heir, Branwell, a youth with

remarkable talent in both art and literature.

Branwell’s father and sisters saved their pennies to pack

him off to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, but if art was his

calling, he dialed a wrong number. Within weeks he hightailed it

home, a penniless failure.

Hopes still high, the family landed Branwell a job as a private

tutor, hoping this would free him to develop his literary skills and

achieve the success and fame that he deserved. Failure again.

Still, the selfless sisters squelched their own goals, farming

themselves out as teachers and governesses in support of their

increasingly indebted brother, convinced the world must

eventually recognize his genius. As failure multiplied, Branwell

turned to alcohol, then opium, and eventually died as he had

lived: a failure. So died hope in the one male — but what of the

three sisters?

During Branwell’s last years, the girls published a book of

poetry at their own expense (under a pen name, for fear of

reviewers’ bias against females). Even Branwell might have

laughed: they sold only two copies.

They didn’t give up. Instead, they continued in their spare

time, late at night by candlelight, to pour out their contained

emotion, writing of what they knew best, of women in conflict

with their natural desires and social condition, in reality, less

fiction than autobiography! And 19th century literature was

transformed by Anne’s Agnes Grey, Emily’s Wuthering Heights,

and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre. But years of sacrifice for Branwell had eventually ruined their

health. Emily took ill at her brother’s funeral and died within 3

months, aged 29; Anne died 5 months later, aged 30; Charlotte

lived only to age 39. If only they had been nurtured instead of

sacrificed.

No one remembers Branwell’s name, much less of his art or

literature, but the Bronte sisters’ tragically short lives teach us

even more of life than literature.

4. According to the passage, what can we learn from the

story of Branwell?

A. Gift is not necessarily a guarantee of success.

B. Gift is a burden for a person.