2019-2020学年常德市一中高三英语模拟试题及答案

2019-2020学年常德市一中高三英语模拟试题及答案

第一部分 阅读（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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项

A

Electric Shocks Can Be Fatal

Government statistics recently showed that in theUK, more than 3,000 people a year experience electric

shocks in their homes. A smaller number of people are killed after they touch the power lines outside their homes.

Electric shocks can cause a person's heart or breath to stop and are potentially fatal. It is essential for people to

learn basic techniques to deal with such emergencies.

What to do?

● If you are the first person to reach someone who has an electric shock, don't touch him or her!

● If the victim is still holding the appliance that gives him or her the shock (e.g. a hair dryer), unplug it or turn

off the power at its source.Under no circumstances can you try to move the appliance with your hands!

● Ifyou can't turn off the power, use a piece of wood, like a broom handle or a chair, to separate the victim

from the appliance or the power source. You may even be able to do this with a folded newspaper.

● The victim must remain lying down. If he or she isunconscious, the victim should be placed on his or her

side. But he or she should not be moved if there is a possibility of neck or spine injuries unless it is ly necessary.

● It is essential to maintain the victim's body heat, so make sure you cover him or her with a blanket before

you do anything else. If the victim is not breathing, apply mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (人工呼吸). Keep the

victim's head low until professional help arrives.

● If the electric shock has been caused by an external power line, the dangers to the victim and to anybody

providing first aid are much greater.

1. What kind of passage is it?

A. An advertisement. B. A horror story.

C. A news report. D. First aid emergency advice.

2. The underlined sentence implies that ________.

A. you should move the appliance

B. you should pick up the appliance and turn off the electricity

C. it is very dangerous to touch the appliance with your hands D. it is unnecessary to unplug the appliance with your hands

3. When a person has got an electric shock, you should ________.

A. separate the victim from the appliance and let him sit up

B. keep the victim warm and help him or her breathe again

C. move the victim onto his or her side if he or she has got neck injuries

D. keep the victim's head high until professional help arrives

B

When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west

bank of Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboat man. We had temporary ambitions of other sorts, but they

were only temporary.

My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death over all men

and could hang anybody that offended him. This was distinction enough for me as a general thing；butthe desire

to be a steamboat man kept intruding, nevertheless. One of our boys in town, who went away and was not heard

of for-a long time, turned up as apprentice engineer on a steamboat. This thing shook the bottom out of all my

Sunday—school teachings. That boy was notoriously worldly, and I was just the opposite. There was nothing

generous about this fellow in his greatness. He would always manage to have a rusty nail to scrub while his boat

stopped at our town, and he would sit on the inside guard and scrub it, where we could all see him. And wherever

his boat was laid up he would come home and show off in the town in his blackest and greasiest clothes, so that

nobody could help remembering that he was a steamboat man; and he used all sorts of steamboat technical terms

in his talk, as if he were so used to them that he forgot common people could not understand them.

This creature's career could produce but one result, and it was speedily followed. Boy after boy managed to

get on the river. Despite many choices, pilot was the grandest position of all. The pilot, even in those days of trivial

wages, had a princely salary—from 150—250 dollars a month, and no board payment.But our parents would not

let us and our worry was the next year would find us hunting for jobs with low pay again. So by and by I ran away. I

said I never would come home again till I was a pilot and could come in glory.

4. Why does the writer mention his father's job in Paragraph 2?

A. To show that his father was in power. B. To show that his father is cruel.

C. To emphasize the job he prefers. D. To emphasize his love for his father.

5. Which of the following can best conclude the writer's attitude toward the boy?