桐乡第一中学等四校2015届高三上学期期中联考英语试题

第Ⅰ卷 (共80分)

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

Last month I was lucky enough to have a chance to make a trip into _____ space

with my friend Li Yan ping, _____ astronomer.

A. the; an B. the; the C. / ; the D. / ; an

2. I haven't finished my composition. I ________ for two hours and a half.

A. have written it B. have been writing it C. wrote it D. am writing it

3. —I’m terribly sorry I forgot your name just now!

—________—it happens to all of us!

You bet B. Think nothing of it C. Bingo D. Certainly not

4. ________ is the influence of TV that it can make a person famous overnight．

A. So B. As C. That D. Such

5. The traffic rule says young children under the age of four and ____ less than 40

pounds must be in a child safety seat.

A. being weighed B. to weigh C. weighed D. weighing

6. Living in a fast-paced world, we _______ get left behind if we stop learning.

A. should B. dare C. may D. need

7. Many road accidents _____________ from careless driving, according to the recent

reports from the police.

A. rise B. reduce C. increase D. arise

8. Mr. Black Shanghai in a few days. Do you know when the earliest plane ________ on Sunday?

A. leaves; takes off B. is leaving; takes off

C. is leaving; is taking off D. leaves; is taking off

9. We know that a smile is usually a sign _____ people feel friendly and happy, but _____ we don’t know who the new person is?

A. that; what if B. when; what C. when; how about D. if; how

10. Faced with a bill for $10,000, _____.

A. an extra job has been taken B. the boss has given John an extra job

C. John has taken an extra job D. an extra job had been given to John

11. During the reconstruction of the city, many modern tall buildings went up ______ old shabby houses were torn down.

A. which B. in what C. in which D. where

12. To deal with the global financial crisis, China has _______ a string of forceful measures over the past months.

A. worked out B. found out C. turned out D. made out

13. Graduation is a good time to thank those who have helped you ______ the tough years.

A. through B. up C. with D. from

14. Was it in the library ________he often went to do some reading ________he met the pretty girl?

A. that；that B. where；where C. where；that D. that；where

15. Usually a child’s behavior is a ________of his family environment.

A. recognition　　 B. reflection C. return D. record

16. Things go back to ______ since we paid off all our debts.

A. formal B. regular C. common D. normal

17. --- Isn’t it time you _____ down to _____ your own things?

--- I’m sorry for the delay, Dad.

A. get, pack B. get, packing C. got, pack D. got, packing

18. She had a pretty _______look indicating that she had done something wrong to Jim.

A. innocent B. guilty C. considerate D. disappointed

19. I have never _______ the view that schooldays are the happiest days of your life with a burden of homework.

A. contributed to B. appealed to C. referred to D. subscribed to

20．--You haven’t been to New Zealand, have you?

-- . How I wish I there.

A. Yes, I have；went B. Yes, I haven't；could have been

C. No, I have; would go D. No, I haven't; had been

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to 21 their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes 22 the sky like beautiful birds darting(俯冲) and 23 . As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a 24 kept them in check.

25 blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great 26 . They shook and pulled, 27 the control string and the long tail kept them in check, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites 28 and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They flew beautifully even 29 they fought the restriction(约束) of the string. 30 , one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”

Yet 31 from restraint simply put it 32 an unsympathetic breeze. It flew awkwardly to the ground and 33 in a wild mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”, free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown 34 along the ground, and to stuck lifeless against the first barrier.

How much like kites we sometimes are. The heaven gives us misfortune and restrictions, rules to 35 from which we can 36 and gain strength. Restraint is a 37 counterpart(对应物) to the winds of opposition. Some of us resist the rules so hard that we never fly high enough to reach the heights we might have obtained. We obey part of the rules and 38 rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each rise to the great heights, 39 that some of the restraints that we may be unhappy about are actually the steadying force that helps us 40 and achieve.

21. A. make B. play C. fly D. enjoy

22. A. covered B. transformed C. explored D. filled

23. A. singing B. dancing C. moving D. falling

24. A. chain B. rope C. string D. stick

25. A. Rather than B. Instead of C. Apart from D. Other than

26. A. widths B. lengths C. depths D. heights

27. A. and B. then C. but D. or

28. A. escaped B. struggled C. arose D. fought

29. A. as B. while C. before D. after

30. A. Gradually B. Finally C. Actually D. Obviously

31. A. Dependence B. Power C. Freedom D. Happiness

32. A. in favor of B. at the expense of C. in the charge of D. in control of

33. A. deserted B. landed C. grew D. dropped

34. A. helplessly B. senselessly C. carelessly D. hopelessly

35. A. break B. follow C. acknowledge D. interrupt

36. A. protect B. suffer C. grow D. survive

37. A. necessary B. possible C. probable D. likely

38. A. yet B. never C. ever D. then

39. A. considering B. attempting C. thinking D. recognizing

40. A. go up B. run away C. hurry up D. fly away

第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）

第一节 阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Amy Chua may well be very nuts. What kind of a mother will drag her then 7-year-old daughter’s dollhouse out to the car and tell her that it is going to be donated if the poor kid doesn’t master a difficult piano composition by the next day? What kind of a mother will inform her daughter that she is nothing but “garbage”? And what kind of mother will believe, as Chua tells readers, that “an A- is not always a good grade”? The only activities her children should be permitted to do are those in which they can eventually win a medal, which must be gold.

What kind of a mother she is? Why, a mother who is raising her kids in the typical Chinese way, rather than the Western way. In her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Chua tells her adventures in Chinese parenting, and — so nuts as she may be — she is also mesmerizing (迷惑的). Chua’s voice is that of a happy, knowledgeable serial killer — think Hannibal Lecter — who’s explaining how he’s going to cut his next victim, as though it’s the most self-evidently normal behavior.

There is another attractive aspect of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. There are methods to Chua’s madness, enough method to stir up self-doubt in those readers who support the more educating parenting styles. It is trusted that Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is going to be a book club and parenting blog phenomenon; there will be fevered debate over Chua’s tough love strategies, which include unchangeable bans on such Western indulgences (纵容) as sleepovers, play dates, and any after class activities except practicing musical instruments, which must be limited between the violin or the piano.

The back story to Chua’s book is this — she is the daughter of a couple of Chinese immigrants and is now a professor at Yale Law School and the author of two best-selling “big-think” books on “free-market democracy” and “the fall of empires”. When Chua married her husband, her fellow Yale law professor and a novelist Jed Rubenfeld, they agreed that their children would be brought up in “the Chinese way,” in which punishingly hard work, enforced by parents produces excellence; excellence, in turn, produces satisfaction. The success of this strategy is hard to debate. Their older daughter is a piano talent who played at Carnegie Hall when she was 14 or so. The second, a more rebellious (叛逆的) daughter, Lulu, is a gifted violinist. Chua rode the girls hard, making sure they practiced at least three hours a day even on vacations, when she would call ahead to arrange access to practice in hotel lobby bars and basement storage rooms.

Chua also rarely refrained (抑制) from criticizing her daughters. She explains Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, “Hey so fatty, lose some weight.” By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in treatment for eating disorders and negative self-image. ... Western parents are concerned about their children’s minds. Chinese parents aren’t. They assume strength, not weakness, and as a result they behave very differently.

41. The underlined word “nuts” in the first and second paragraphs most probably means _____.

A. intelligent B. crazy C. difficult D. eager

42. Which of the following practices a