中原名校2014-2015；学年上期第一次摸底考试

高三英语试题

编审：联谊会英语命题工作组 责任学校：漯河高中

（考试时间：120分钟　　　 试卷满分：150分）

第I卷

注意事项：

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2.每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对痘题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试卷上。

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，选出最佳选埙，并在答题卡

上将该项涂黑。

A

Dear Highlights

Ask a question!

E-mail it to Letters@Highlights.com.

Gift Giving

I'm going to China and everyone in my class is asking me to buy them something. What should I do?

Reply from the Highlights Editors

Your classmates are probably just excited about your trip. Most likely they don't expect you to buy gifts for everyone. Sending a few postcards to the entire class during your trip would be a wonderful wav to share your experiences. The pictures on the cards and your words of description will be the best gift of all. .

Dog Begging

My dog always begs for food at the dinner table. I really want to feed him, but my mom says l can't. I'm afraid he won't like me anymore. What should I do? '

Reply from the Highlights Editors

Your doe loves you for many more reasons than just for what you feed him. You can show him that you care about him by playing With him. by petting him and speaking kindly to him and by making sure he has fresh water. It might be best if your dog is not near the dinner table while you are eating. You could teach him to Stay in another room.

Being Bilingual (会说双语的)

My aunt insists that we speak our language (Tagalog) at home and English outside the house. Do you think she is right? '

Reply from the Highlights Editors .

It is a great gift to have someone in your family who is willing to take the time to teach you another language. It's a good way to keep family traditions alive, and it helps. to develop your language skills. Your ability to use both English and Tagalog will help you learn a third and fourth

language later in life. So it sounds like a great idea!

1. The Highlights editors suggest the student who is going to China_______

A. send postcards as the gifts to the class

B. give each classmate a picture as a gift

C. buy gifts for some of the classmates

D. make phone calls to all the classmates

2. According to the Highlights editors, if your dog begs for food at the dinner table, you'd better

A. feed him immediately B. speak loudly to him

C. provide him with fresh water D. teach him to stay in another room

3. What is the Highlights editors' attitude towards being bilingual?

A. Opposed B. Tolerant C. Supportive D. Doubtful

4. The Highlights editors give the replies to _

A. show their readers how to write a good story

B. offer their readers advice on personal problems

C. help their readers to solve problems in writing

D. tell their readers about their interesting work

B

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was born in Budapest on September 16, 1893. In 1911 he entered his uncle's laboratory where he studied until the outbreak of World War I when he was mobilized. He served on the Italian and Russian fronts, and he was discharged（准许离开） in 1917 after being wounded in action. He completed his studies in Budapest before he went to Hamburg for a

two-year course in physical chemistry. In 1920 he became an assistant at a university in Leiden. the

Netherlands and from 1922 t0 1926 he worked with H. J. Hamburger at the Physiology（生理学）

Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands. www. -

In 1926. Szent-Gyorgyi was ready to end his own life after an embarrassing problem in his

career. The scientist, thirty-two. had written a paper and handed it to his boss for approval t。

publish. His boss threw it in the dustbin. Concluding his life was a failure. the young researcher

quit. Unable to support his wife and child. he sent them home to her parents. His final wish was to

attend one last scientific meeting. to be among scientists, to have one last good time. So he went to

the 1926 International Physiological Society Congress in Sweden.

Sitting in the audience. lost in self-pity, Szent-Gyorgyi listened to the president of the society, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, refer to the fine work of a researcher: Szent-Gyorgyi! After the speech. collecting his courage, he introduced himself to Hopkins. The great man invited the young scientist to Cambridge to do further work.

Szent-Gyorgyi's life changed. He discovered the oxidation-preventing (防院氧化的) action of vitamin C. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He accounted for his success by saying that discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen but thinking what nobody else has thought.

5. Which of the following is the correct order of the events relevant to Szent-Gyorgyi?

a finished his studies in Budapest b. served during WWI

c. worked with Hopkins d. studied in Hamburg

A. b. c.a. d B. b. a d. c C. a c. d. b D. a b. d. c

6. Why did Szent-Gyorgyi want to end his own life in 1926?

A. His pride was hurt by his boss

B. He was not satisfied with his paper

C. He couldn't support his wife and child

D. His boss stopped him attending a conference

7. What inspired Szent-Gyorgyi to continue with his research work?

A The great labs in Cambridge B. Winning the Nobel Prize

C. The publication of his work D. Hopkins' praise

8. The text is organized in the pattern of______

A cause and effect B. comparison and contrast

C. time and events D. definition and classification

C

Wild animal encounters aren't rare in southern Idaho, but one type stands out as especially special. Almost everyone who has lived in Magic Valley has had close encounters with a skunk-a black and white animal with relatively short. well-muscled legs and long front claws for digging, which gives off an unpleasant smelling liquid if it is frightened or attacked.

The struggle against skunks is nothing new. Twin Falls resident Dennis Haynes remembers an encounter when he worked in the police office. One afternoon he noticed a baby skunk, cute enough and kittenlike, wandering into his office through an open door. He quickly caught the baby. and then decided to take it home to surprise his wife and daughters.

His wife wouldn't let him into the house with the skunk which bit his finger after his barking dog frightened it. He took it to his sisters where they put it in a basket. When Haynes tried to stop the skunk from escaping. it spurted his uniform and shoes. His uniform smelt so bad that he buried it in his backyard under a foot of dirt.

Sounds annoying? In fact. skunks are reluctant to use this weapon, as they carry just enough of the chemical for five or six uses - about 15 cc- and require some ten days to produce another supply. Skunks tend to be very friendly. loving. entertaining and playful, that is. quite

mild-tempered. and only defend themselves only when cornered or attacked. What's more. Skunks are also beneficial to fanners. gardeners. and landowners because they feed on large numbers of agricultural and garden pests.

9. In southern Idaho, skunks are______.

A.common B. well-protected C. rare animals . D. dying out

10. Haynes buried his uniform in his backyard because_____

A. His uniform was broken into pieces '

B It is difficult to get rid of the skunk's smell

C. He was afraid of being blamed by his leader

D. The smell from the skunk would probably spread disease

11. What do we know about skunks according to the passage?

A. Skunks are easy to attack people

B. Skunks usually use his back legs to dig

C. Skunks can easily deal with as many as ten enemies once

D. Skunks are popular with local farmers . gardeners and landowners

12. The underlined expression "spurted" (paragraph 3) probably means_________ .

A. bit B. kicked C. sprayed D. felt

D

Should I heat the water on the stove or in the electric kettle? Do I start the washing machine in the afternoon or after 10 at night? How do I lower CO2 emissions（排放） by the way I use energy?

Answers to such and similar questions are provided by the online game -RED"-which is the short form for -Renewable Energy Drama." Researchers from IDMT in Erfurt, Germany, have developed the Web application. The experts see great potential in online games for teaching the subject of "Saving electricity at home" in an entertaining manner and to show that one's own behavior can affect how much electricity costs.

The software is aimed at adults and young people interested in renewable energies who want to know how they can save energy. "How much energy do individual household appliances

consume. which ones are the 'energy robbers' and are the high bills the results of price increases-RED supplies the answers. The user does not even have to spend a great deal of time. for the game takes only about ten to 15 minutes," says a researcher.

RED leads you through the daily life of an imaginary family of three. The screen shows all the rooms in a house. The user goes into each room and is able. via mouse click, to do the regular housework such as cooking food or doing laundry.

In a second module, the online game informs the-users how they can save electricity by using "Smart Meters." Taking the time of day into account ,they measure the exact actual usage of electricity This is how the consumers can find out the potential for savings and start his dishwasher only at night - when electricity is particularly cheap.

The -Saving electricity at home" module will