甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学2015届高三级最后一摸

英语试题

?本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答案卡一并交回。

注意事项：

1．答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应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框,不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第I卷

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40分)

阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．

A

The adolescent girl from Tennessee was standing on the stage of a drama summer camp in New York．But the girl didn’t feel joyful．She was not the leggy，attractive Hollywood type．In fact，she described herself as stupid．

This girl was Reese Witherspoon，who had wanted to be a country singer and admired and respected Dolly Patton very much．

That day at the end of the camp her coaches told her to forget about singing．They suggested she think about another career．She took their words to heart．After all，why shouldn’t she believe the professionals?

But back at home in Nashville，her mother—a funny，happy，optimistic woman—wouldn’t let her feel depressed．Her father，a physician，encouraged her to achieve in schoo1．So she worked hard at everything and was accepted at Stanford University．

And at 19，she got a part in a low-budget movie called Freeway, which prepared for her role in the movie Pleasantville．But her big break came with Legally Blonde．

“If you can’t sing and you aren’t charming，play to your strengths．If you’re going to make it in this business，better focus on what you’re good at，”she told the interviewer later．

And then came the offer that took her back to her Nashville—playing the wife of a country star Johnny Cash，a singing role．

All of a sudden the old fears learned on that summer stage were back．She was so nervous on the stage．But she didn’t give up on the movie or herself．She spent 6 months taking singing lessons again．She learned to play the Autoharp．And the hard work built up her confidence．

Last March，Reese Witherspoon walked up on another stage，the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood，and accepted the Oscar as Best Actress for her heartbreaking，heartwarming singing role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line．

1．Why was Reese Witherspoon sad that day?

A．The experts advised her to give up singing． B．Dolly Parton told her to leave the stage．

C．The coaches described her as foolish． D．The professionals considered her ignorant．

2．How did Reese succeed in playing the singing role?

A．She did her best to make herself leggy and attractive．

B．She tried hard to forget about that summer stage．

C．She practised Autoharp lessons for more than 6 months．

D．She regained her confidence through hard work．

3．What can we learn from Reese’s experience?

A．Two heads are better than one． B．When in Rome，do as the Romans do．

C．Where there is a will，there is a way． D．Hope for the best，and prepare for the worst．

B

There is a saying “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” What one individual considers beautiful may not be beautiful to another. When we talk about beauty in people, we often refer to their physical attractiveness. Of course, a beautiful or handsome face is pleasant to look at. But to me, beauty is not only something that pleases the eyes, but also pleases the other senses and the mind. I think true beauty makes you see beyond the lovely sight. It will give you insight or realization of something interesting beyond just the outward appearance.

The most memorable “beautiful people” are those who have attractive personalities behind the pretty faces. In one of my previous classes, there were two beautiful girls, Sue and Lin. Both had almost perfect faces and slender figures. But Lin was used to getting her way. She felt that her looks could help her get anything she wanted, especially among the boys. Sue, on the other hand, treated her beauty in a matter-of-fact way and she was nice to everyone. She was also a member of the debating team. Her personality was mostly accepted by others and it made her a more outstanding beauty than Lin.

Inner beauty is another kind of beauty that attracts people greatly. People who have this kind of beauty have attained (达到) inner peace. They care about their fellow-men, and try to right the injustices in this world. Two well-known personalities who exemplify (以…为典型) this are Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa. Mandela is willing to sacrifice his life and freedom to obtain equal right for the blacks in South Africa. Mother Theresa’s mission (使命) is to help the poorest of the world’s poor. This inner look makes the world a better place.

5. When we talk about beauty in people, we often only refer to __________.

A. “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” B. something beyond the lovely sight

C. their attractive appearance D. the other senses

6. According to the passage, why did the author think Sue was more beautiful than Lin?

A. Because Sue had perfect face.

B. Because Sue was highly thought of by others.

C. Because Sue had slender figure.

D. Because Lin treated her beauty in a matter-of-fact way.

7. What’s the author’s opinion on beauty?

A. Beauty is a perfect face.

B. Beauty is something that pleases the eyes.

C. Beauty is an attractive personality behind the pretty faces.

D. Inner beauty doesn’t attract people.

C

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets.?When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People have been influenced to become technology addicted.?One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices.?One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life.?They have successfully created a cultural disease.?Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.

I see people trapped in a pathological (病态的) relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them.?I call this technology servitude.?I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.?

What is a healthy use of technology devices??That is the vital question.?Who is really in charge of my life??That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology.?When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology.?Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.”?But it’s time to discover that it does not work for technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.”?To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today’s overused technology.

8. The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A. advantage B. attraction C. adaption D. attempt

9. From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.

A. attract people to buy their products B. provide the latest information

C. improve people’s quality of life D. deal with cultural diseases

10. It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.

A. consider too much technology wonderful

B. have realized the harm of high-tech devices

C. can regain freedom without high-tech devices

D. may enjoy life better without overused technology

11. What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?

A. Neutral. B. Skeptical. C. Disapproving. D. Sympathetic

D

How long has 3-D technology been around? Most of us might think of crowds of teenagers in a 1950’s movie house watching Bwana Devil in 3-D. But 3-D technology made its first appearance on the scene in 1838 with the first stereoscope(体视镜). And the first actual 3-D movie was a 1903 film called Le Ariveed’un Train.

Although it has such a long history, the technology has still remained based on one simple principle-----to make 3-D effects you must find a way to project two slightly different pictures to each eye. Modern 3-D technology works by rapidly flickering(闪动) two versions of the movie and projecting them onto each eye. The brain does the rest of the work, combining the two pictures together into one and giving the show, the appearance of depth, the third dimension.

But does this exposure, especially long exposures, cause harm to the child’s developing brain and visual system? Unfortunately, long-term studies on new flicker digital 3-D technology and children aren’t yet available. We do not know if regular or daily 3-D viewing over years affects the developing visual system, although older 3-D methods basically do the same thing and are not considered harmful.

The question of possible harm in modern 3-D use in TV is really based on two facts: the amount of time children will now be watching 3-D TV each day and the sensitivity some children show in reaction to 3-D viewing. It is difficult to make actual lab studies of longer term 3-D viewing in children because of the possible harm of the experiment. Researchers will have to wait until 3-D TV technology is already in the marketplace for a number of years, then check heavy 3-D TV watchers and compare them with non-watchers.

With a 3-D television technology in the home, we will soon be able to answer the question of whether or not longer and more frequent periods of 3-D exposure cause more changes in the visual system. We may find that the bigger problem is the introduction of a new technology that leads to even mor