【全国百强校】甘肃省天水市第一中学2017届高三上学期周考(9.21)英语试题

甘肃省天水市2018届高三英语上学期第一学段考试试题第I卷第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。

AChester City Library offers a range of Library Special Needs Services to people who don’t have access to our library service in t he usual way. As long as you live in Chester City, we’ll provide a wide range of library services and resources including:• Large printed and ordinary printed books• Talking books on tape and CD• DVDs and music CDs• Magazines• Reference and informatio n requestsHome delivery serviceLet us know what you like to read and we will choose the resources for you. Our staff will deliver the resources to your home for free. We also provide a service where we can choose the resources for you or someone instead of you choose the things from the library. You can also choose the resources you need personally. Talking books and captioned videosThe library can provide talking books for people who are unable to use printed books because of eye diseases. You don’t ha ve to miss out on reading any more when you can borrow talking books from the library. If you have limited hearing which prevents you from enjoying movies, we can provide captioned videos for you at no charge.Languages besides EnglishWe can provide books in a range of languages besides English. If possible, wewill request these items from the State Library of NSW, Australia.How to join?Contact the Library Special Needs Coordinator to register or discuss if you are eligible (合适的) for any of the services we provide-Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9am-5pm on 4297 2522 for more information.1. Library Special Needs Services are meant for .A. those who are fond of readingB. people living in Chester City with an illness or disabilityC. only those who have walking disabilitiesD. those who can’t get medical help in Chester City2. What can we learn from the passage?A. Few entertaining resources are offered here.B. People with limited hearing have to pay for captioned videos.C. Books with different languages are available.D. People have to choose what they need by themselves.3. To get home delivery service，you must .A. only choose printed books.B. have others choose the resources for you.C. pay the library ahead of time.D. register ahead of time.BChristmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $ 20. This was the 1970s, and $ 20 was quite a bit of money.But I saw it differently. My father trusted me to have the smart to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level, my father was giving me a shopping spree (狂欢) every year.. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and making me feel like a grown-up. He didn’t buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.My mother had a gift for giving me what I needed, usually right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I failed at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my previous job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I put on a good show, telling her I had started my own company.My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn’t until after she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with cash. She knew how desperately I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries, or offered to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much worse. The cold, hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the distance with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to fix my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own decisions, and the other was giving me a second chance when those decisions had cost me dearly.4. What can we learn about the author from the first two paragraphs?A. His family once celebrated Christmas happily.B. His father gave the author chances to make decisions.C. His best memories about Christmas were in the 1970s.D. He used to choose books as his father’s gift on Christmas.5. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 r efer to?A. money offered by his father.B. father generous with money.C. Christmas being important.D. the means of spending money.6. When he was 25 years old, the author .A. planned to open his companyB. became interested in showsC. gave his mother a giftD. was out of work7. Which word can best describe the author’s mother?A. sensitive.B. optimistic.C. considerate.D. determined.CThe popular smartphone application Instagram (照片分享) has changed the way we look at photography, even our world. The photo-worthy moments we share serve as an important function in cultivating the photographic artistic eye.Instagram has got people to start noticing the art in their everyday life. It has also allowed us to share the artful moments in our lives with others. Clearly, making people focus on beautiful moments in their lives and how to share them is a positive takeaway from Instagram.Not only has Instagram changed the way we look at things around us, but it has also changed the way people view professional photography. Instagram has turned everyone with a smartphone into an artist. Opening up art to the general community is a groundbreaking (创新的) aspect of this application. Making artistic attempts accessible for everyone to discover their artistic talents and explore creatively is something that has made people find the beauty in the everyday. However, this accessibility has also created questioning around art and respect deserved by professional photography.The art in a professional photograph versus an Instagram can sometimes be hard to notice at a quick glance. But photographs taken by true professional photographers hold something that Instagram’s can’t match in terms of photographic quality, or advanced compositional knowledge.This is not to say Instagram is a lesser art. Aesthetic qualities of art are a personal matter and how good an artwork is depends on personal preferences. Good is a very arbitrary term in the art world. For example, I may find one photo more pleasing than another, but not everyone has to agree with me.The point I am trying to make is that professional photography should not be lost, but instead approached with a new, enhanced level of respect and admiration—despite how accessible, common and fun Instagram now makes the taking and sharing of photos.8. What does the writer mainly tell us in the passage?A. The increasing popularity of Instagram.B. The advantages and disadvantages of Instagram.C. The changes that Instagram brings us.D. The differences between Instagram and professional photography.9. Why do people begin to doubt the art of professional photography?A. Because common people can take perfect photos easily.B. Because they show no respect for professional photographers.C. Because the artistic level of professional photography is reducing.D. Because Instagram has changed the way people look at the world.10. What does the writer think of professional photography?A. useful.B. valueless.C. helpless.D. absurd.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10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住选项。

甘肃省天水市第一中学2015-2016学年高一上学期第二学段段中考试英语试题（满分：100分时间：90分钟）第I 卷选择题(共50分)第一部分阅读（共两节，满分30分）第一节阅读理解（每小题2分, 共20分）AToday, roller skating is easy and fun. But a long time ago, it wasn’t easy at all. Before 1750, the idea of skating didn’t exist.That changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin. Merlin’s work was making musical instruments. In his spare time he liked to play the violin. Joseph Merlin was a man of ideas and dreams. People called him a dreamer.One day Merlin received an invitation to attend a fancy dress ball. He was very pleased and a little excited. As the day of the party came near, Merlin began to think how to make a grand entrance at the party. He had an idea. He thought he would get a lot of attention if he could skate into the room.Merlin tried different ways to make himself roll. Finally, he decided to put two wheels under each shoe. These were the first roller skates. Merlin was very proud of his invention and dreamed of arriving at the party on wheels while playing the violin.On the night of the party Merlin rolled into the room playing his violin. Everyone was greatly surprised to see him. There was just one problem. Merlin had no way to stop his roller skates. He rolled on and on. Suddenly, he ran into a huge mirror tha t was hanging on the wall. Down fell the mirror, breaking to pieces. Nobody forgot Merlin’s grand entrance for a long time!1．The text is mainly about __________.A. a strange manB. an unusual partyC. how roller skating beganD. how people enjoyed themselves in the 18th century2．People thought Merlin was a dreamer because he __________.A. was full of imaginationB. was a gifted musicianC. invented the roller skatesD. often gave others surprises3．Merlin put wheels under his shoes in order to __________.A. show his skill in walking on wheelsB. arrive at the party soonerC. test his inventionD. impress the party guestsBDon’t be surprised if you see a group of people dancing or shouting on the square. They are a flash mob (快闪族). Confused by their name? Actually, a flash mob, organized with the help of the Internet or other digital communications networks, is a group of people who gather suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as exchanging books, coming together to look at the sky, waving their hands and shouting something at the top of their lungs for 30 seconds, and then quickly disappear before the police can arrive.Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May 2003 and the first successful flash mob gathered on June 3, 2003 at Macy’s department store involving 100 people gathering on Macy’s Department Store. Following this, about 200 people flooded the lobby of the Hyatt hotel, applauding in one voice for fifteen seconds, and next participants pretending to be tourists on a trip invaded a shoe shop in Soho.A later mob saw hundreds of people in Central Park making bird noises.Wasik claimed that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to tease hipsters (追逐时尚的人), and highlight the cultural atmosphere of agreement and of being part of “the next big thing”. Many web logs, chat rooms and Web groups are devoted to the craze. Though flash mobs were originally regarded as useless, the concept has already developed for the benefit of political and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the efficiency of communicating information on Websites and by email, and protesters can similarly use the “on and off” concept to be involved in political even ts. Such flash mob gatherings can sometimes shock or frighten people who are not aware of what is taking place. They also have enormous economic potential, such as using flash mobs to advertise a product.The flash mob is now becoming more and more popular. People use it to do many things. For example, in 2009, hundreds of Michael Jackson’s fans took part in a flash mob to remember him, gathering outside the railway station in Liverpool, singing and dancing Michael’s famous song, beat it together. In anoth er example, some people took part in a flash mob to warn people against negative words. Flash mobs give people from all walks of life an opportunity to come together to create a memory.4. A flash mob is most likely to .A. give out leaflets of a brand bicycle to the passers-byB. gather in public places performing and leave quicklyC. plan to go mountaineering on the first day of Horse YearD. sit for days in front of the city hall for higher wages5. According to the passage, what contribute(s) most to the popularity of the flash mob?A. Harper’s MagazineB. the governmentC. political eventsD. digital networks6.The purpose of the writing is .A. to amuse and interestB. to argue and adviseC. to describe and introduceD. to question and commentCThere are many older people in the world and there will be many more. A lime-known fact is that over 60 percent of the older people live in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization，by 2020 there will be 1 billion，with over 700 million living in developing countries.It is a surprising fact that the population ageing is particularly rapid in developing countries. For example，it took France 115 years for the proportion of older people to double from 7 percent to 14 percent. It is estimated（估计）to take China a mere 27 years to achieve this same increase.What are the implications（暗指）of these increased numbers of older folk？One of the biggest worries for governments is that the longer people live，the more likelihood there is for diseases and for disability. Attention is being paid to the need to keep people as healthy as possible，including during old age，to lessen the financial burden on the state.Another significant problem is the need for the younger generations to understand and value the older people in their society. In some African countries，certainly in Asia，older people are respected and regarded as the oneswith special knowledge. Yet traditions are fading away daily，which does not ensure the continued high regard of older people. As society changes, attitudes will change.Much needs to be done to get rid of age discrimination (歧视) in employment. Life-long learning programs need to be provided to enable older people to be active members in a country’s development.Social security policies need to be established to provide adequate income protection for older people. Both public and private schemes are vital in order to build a suitable safety net.To achieve equality in such matters will take considerable time and effort. One thing is sure：there is no time to be lost.7.The proportion（比例）of older people________.A. is bigger in developed countries than in developing countriesB. is one seventh of the population in developing countriesC. will increase much faster in China than in FranceD. will be sixty percent in developing countries by 20208．According to the passage，which of the following are governments most worried about?A．The diseases and disability of older people.B．The longer life and good health of people.C．The loss of taxes on older people.D．The increasing respect for older people.9．Which of the following measures is NOT mentioned to solve the population ageing problem?A．Getting rid of age discrimination in employment.B．Ensuring adequate income protection for older people.C．Providing free health care for sick older people.D．Supplying life-long learning programs to older people.10．The author concludes in the last paragraph that________.A．governments have spent lots of time in solving the ageing problemB．population ageing is a hard problem，but it needs to be solved urgentlyC．people are too busy to solve the population ageing problemD．much time and effort will be lost in solving the ageing problem第二节阅读填空（每小题2分, 共10分）.根据内容, 从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

甘肃省天水一中2017-2018学年高一上学期开学考试英语试题Ⅰ.单项选择（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）1.A bank is the place they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.A. whenB. thatC. whereD. there【答案】C【解析】C【命题动向】考查定语从句。

解析一：where引导限制性定语从句，在从句中作地点状语，修饰先行词the place。

判断的关键是看从句中是否缺句子成分，很明显，此处是缺少的状语成分，句子主干完整。

解析二：本句意为：“银行是在晴天借给你雨伞，而在天开始下雨时又要吧伞收回的地方”。

根据语境，所填的词应该是定语从句的引导词；根据成分，应选用关系副词，表示地点，故选C项。

2.The days are gone physically strength was all you needed to make a living.A. whenB. thatC. whereD. which【答案】A【解析】试题分析：分析句子结构可知该处为定语从句，修饰先行词the days，the days在定语从句中作时间状语，要用关系副词when引导定语从句，故选A。

考点：考查定语从句3. volleyball is her main focus, she is also great at basketball.A. SinceB. OnceC. UnlessD. While【答案】D【解析】考查让步状语从句。

根据主句内容可知，她也擅长打篮球，由此可知排球是她的强项，故选while“尽管”引导让步状语从句。

不少考生不知while有此含义，容易误选其他选项。

4.One Friday, we were packing to leave for a weekend away ______ my daughter heardcries for help.A. afterB. whileC. sinceD. when【答案】D【解析】试题分析：句意：一个星期五，我们正在收拾东西准备离开一周时，突然听到我的女儿在哭着寻求帮助。

2018届高三级第一次阶段检测考试英语试题第Ⅰ卷（共70分）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

HOLIDAY FUN AT THE POWERHOUS500 HARRIS STREET ULTIMO TELEPHONE (02)9270111Join in the holiday fun at the Powerhouse this month linked to our new exhibition, Evolution &Revolution: Chinese dress 1700s to now. DON’T FORGET our other special event, the Club Med Circus School which is part of the Circus（马戏团）！150 years of circus in Australia exhibition experience!◆Chinese Folk Dancing: Colorful Chinese dance and musical p erformances by The Chinese Folk Dancing School of Sydney. Dances include: the Golden stick dance and the Chinese drum dance. A feature will be the Qin dynasty Emperor’s count dance. Also included is a show of face painting for Beijing opera performances.Sunday 29 June and Wednesday 2 July in the Turbine Hall, at 11.30 am & 1.30 pm.◆Australian Chinese Children’s Arts Theatre: Well-known children’s play expertsfrom Shanghai lead this dynamic youth group. Performance includes Chinese fairytales and plays.Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July in the Turbine Hall, at 11.30 am & 1.30 pm.◆Chinese Youth League: A traditional performing arts group featuring performance highlights such as Red scarf and Spring flower dances, and a musician playing Er Hu.Sunday 6 to Tuesday 8 July in the Turbine Hall, 11.30 am to 1.30 pm.◆ Kids Activity : Make a Paper Horse: Young children make a paper horse cut-out. (The horse is a frequent theme in Chinese painting, including a kind of advancement.) Suitable for ages 8-12 years.Saturday 28 June to Tuesday 8 July in the Turbine Hall, 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm.◆Club Med Circus School: Learn circus skills, including the trapeze, trampoliningand magic. Not only for children over 5. There are 40 places available in each 1 hour session and these must be booked at the front desk, level 4, on the day.Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 July at 11:30 am & 1:00 pmEnjoy unlimited free visits and many other benefits by becoming a Family member of the Powerhouse. Our family memberships cover two adults and all children under the age of 16years at the one address.Members receive Powerline, our monthly magazine, discounts in the shops and restaurants, as well as free admission to the Museum. All this for as little as $50, 00a year! Call (02)9217 0600 for more details.1.When can you watch the Chinese drum dance?A． On July 2. B. On July 3. C. On July 6. D. On July 8.2.To learn the magic tricks, you can go to .A．Kids Activity B. Chinese Youth League. C. Club Med Circus School. D. Children’s Art Theatre3.What is required if you want to enjoy free visits to the Museum?A．Calling (02)92170600. B．Gaining family membershipC．Coming for the holiday fun D．Paying Powerline $50.00 a year.4.What is the main purpose of the text?A. To attract visitors. B．To present schedules. To report the performance. D. To teach kids Chinese arts.BHuman Cloning(克隆) is WrongI’m sure many of you have s een Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Multiplicity, or many of the other movies that describe cloning. Most of what you see in these movies is false. What you don’t know is that cloning could be dangerous, to the clone and to our society as a whole. It’s immoral to have a human clone.What about identity(身份)? Humans are promised the right to their own personality. What would happen if we i gnore those rights by giving them someone else’s genetic identity? True, personality is not fixed in someone’s genes(基因), but the clone would share any physical appearance or genetic fault of the cloned.Also, there is large power struggle here. Cloning means a degree of power and control over another person’s physical identity and that ignores their rights and their only personality. The person doing the cloning would have more power than any parent would have.Cloning would also deal with killing embryos(胚胎). You might not have known, but Dolly, the sheep that was cloned in 1996, was one of over 200 sheep embryos and hers was the only embryo that survived. The rest died or were thrown away. Imagine if the failure rate was t hat high when we started to clone humans. More than 200 embryos, the start of 200 human beings, would die for the sake of just one embryo that would have the same DNA as some one else.Cloning someone, at this present time, would be extremely dangerous to the birth mother and the clone. In studies done on cows, 4 out of 12 birth mothers died. There is very high failure rate, which is shown in the cloning of Dolly. Even if you had a few good embryos, failures have been noticeable in animal tests.So, should we work ahead in the world of cloning? I say no. The risks are greater than the benefits. It’s dangerous to the clone and to the birth mother. We would be killing human lives in the process. It would also be a violation(侵害) of the clones right to its own genetic identity and personality.5．The author thinks human cloning is wrong mainly for ___________ reasons.A．2 B．3C．4 D．5 6．According to the article, what is the author’s opinion about identity?A．Cloning itself gives parents great power over identity.B．People’s identity is completely determined by their genes.C．Government have the rights to confirm people’s identities.D．Cloning may prevent people from possessing their identities.7．From Paragraph 4 we can infer that _______________.A．human cloning is much difficult than animal cloningB．Dolly is the most successful one among 200 sheep embryosC．cloning means running the risk of wasting too much effortD．numbers of baby animals are likely to be created by cloningCThe writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as “Would you really marry a woman who works?” And today it’d be “Would you marry one who doesn’t?”The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. I t won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.8. The book Gone with the Wind was ______.A. first published on a newspaperB. awarded ten Academy AwardsC. written in “The Dump”D. adapted from a movie9. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is cl osest in meaning to______.A. be very pleased withB. be much taller thanC. show great respect forD. show little interest in10. We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that ______.A. her height made her marriage unhappyB. her interest in writing continued asan adultC. writing stopped her working as a reporterD. her life was full of hardship and sadness11. Which is the best title for the passage?A. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.B. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.D. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.DMany teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well their friends do. In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or many friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friend can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the following questions?Who choose your friends?Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?12Many teenagers think their _______ know them better than their parents do.A. friendsB. teachersC. brothers and sistersD.classmates13. When teenagers stay alone, the usual way of communication is to _________.A. go to their friendsB. talk with their parentsC. have a discussion with their familyD. talk with their friends on the phone14. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?A. Parents should like everything their children enjoyB. In all families, children can choose everything they like.C. Parents should try their best to understand their children better.D. Teenagers can only go to their friends for help.15. The main idea of this passage is that ___________.A. Teenagers need friendsB. Friends can give good adviceC. Parents often choose their children’s friends for themD. Good friends can communicate with each other第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10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，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。