2019届辽宁省大连市高三3月双基测试英语试卷【含答案及解析】

2019届辽宁省大连市高三3月双基测试英语试卷【含答案及解析】

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1. We humans are superstitious, believing that Friday the 13th is bad luck and

finding a penny is good luck. Here, then, are three of the most common

superstitions.

Careful with that mirror

According to folktales, breaking a mirror is sure to bring yourself seven

years of bad luck. The superstition seems to arise from the belief that

mirrors don’t just reflect your image; they hold bits of your soul. That

belief led old American Southerners to cover mirrors in a house when someone

died, for fear that their soul might be trapped inside.

Like the number three, the number seven is often associated with luck. Seven

years is a long time to be unlucky, so people have come up with solutions

after breaking a mirror. These include touching a piece of the broken mirror

to a tombstone or powdering the broken mirror.

Knock on wood

This phrase is designed to break away from bad luck: “Breaking that mirror

didn’t bring me any trouble. Knock on wood.” The phrase may come from old

tales about good spirits in trees or from an association with the Christian

cross.

No umbrellas inside

…And not just because you’ll hurt someone’s eyes. Opening an umbrella

indoors is supposed to bring bad luck. The origins of this belief vary from a

story of an ancient woman who happened to have opened her umbrella moments

before her house fell to the tale of a British prince who accepted two

umbrellas from a visiting king and died within months.

1.What may bring good luck?

A. Dating on Friday the 13 th . B. Knocking on wood. C. Opening an umbrella inside. D. Breaking a mirror.

2.What should you do to drive bad luck away after breaking a mirror?

A. Hide the pieces for seven years. B. Put the pieces in a tombstone.

C. Cover the other mirrors in a house. D. Make the pieces into powder.

3.Which phrase may originate( 起源 ) from religion?

A. Careful with that mirror. B. Knock on wood.

C. No umbrellas inside. D. Lucky number seven.

2. When Paula Grzelak-Schultz spotted a piece of paper tucked under her

windshield( 挡风玻璃 ) wipers, she thought she was getting fined for leaving

her car in a bar parking lot overnight. With a heavy sigh, Grzelak-Schultz

removed the paper and unlocked her car.

Hardly had she unfolded the paper when she got shocked. It was a letter

from the manager of Original Joe’s Restaurant & Bar in Sherwood Park,

Canada.

“Just wanted to thank you for leaving your car parked overnight,” Jay

McLean, managing partner at Original Joe’s, wrote. “I’m not sure if you had

consumed alcohol at our restaurant or not, but we wanted to thank you for not

drinking and driving.”

Inside it,, Grzelak-Schultz also found a voucher （代金券） for 1 pound of

chicken wings.

“Please accept this as a thank you for being responsible,” McLean wrote.

“Life is valuable, have a great weekend.”

Grzelak-Schultz was touched.

“I was sure it was going to be a ticket or a scolding from someone for

leaving my vehicle there for so long,” Grzelak-Schultz told CBS News. “I was

truly surprised and so pleased that the manager took the time to acknowledge

my good judgment.”

She decided to share the man’s good deed on Facebook.

“Wow! I’m so impressed. Definitely going back,” Grzelak-Schultz wrote in a

Facebook post on Tuesday that has since gone widespread with nearly 8,500

shares. “Not just because of the voucher, but also because of how well this

guy treats his regular customers.”

Exactly a week later, Grzelak-Schultz returned to the restaurant to thank

McLean for his kindness, and discovered that she’s not the only customer to

receive this leter.

“He’s been doing it for over a year, with no expectations.” She explained.

“Just being a good guy.”

1.At first sight of the paper, Paul thought it was ______________ . A. a ticket B. a voucher C. a letter D. a thank-you card

2.What truly surprised Grzelak-Schultz?

A. She was not fined by the police.

B. She was not scolded for parking.

C. She was considered as responsible.

D. She got a voucher for chicken wings.

3.What can we learn about Jay Mclean?

A. He simply meant to be good.

B. He hoped to attract more customers.

C. He wanted to be popular on the Internet.

D. He intended to please regular customers.

4.Which can best describe the change of the author’s feelings?

A. sad—excited—surprised—relieved

B. sad—surprised—pleased—impressed

C. surprised—sad—disappointed—pleased

D. disappointed—surprised—excited—delighted

3. Whenever we see a button, we want to press it because we know that

something will happen. This is true in most cases, for example, on a doorbell.

But some buttons are actually fake( 假的 ), like the “close” button on a

lift.

Many people are in the habit of pressing the “close” button because they

don’t have the patience to wait for the lift doors to shut. But lifts’

“close” buttons are a complete trick, at least in the US － the doors will

not close any faster no matter how hard you press.

It started in the 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed

in the US, making sure that all lifts stayed open long enough so that people

with disabilities could enter. Only US firefighters and repairmen can use the

buttons to speed up the door-closing process if they have a code or special

keys.

But to normal lift riders, the buttons aren’t completely useless. According

to psychologists, fake buttons can actually make you feel better by offering

you a sense of control.

“A sense of control is very important. It reduces stress and increases well-being,” said Ellen J. Langer, a psychology professor at Harvard University.

Experts also added that a lot of buttons that don’t do anything exist in our

lives for this same purpose.

For example, pedestrian crosswalk buttons don’t live up to their names

either. Pressing them used to help make the traffic signals change faster, but