张掖二中2015—2016学年度高三月考试卷(10月)

高 三 英 语

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分，考试用时100分钟。

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1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。

2. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，填涂在本试卷上无效。

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，从每题所给四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

The writings of Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britain. His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university.

Shakespeare’s work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400-year-old version of English that is about as inviting as toothache.

Still, in Britain schools, it is compulsory to study the bard (诗人), and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment (憎恨)or both.

This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them.

I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught it in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There is something in literature that people want, even if they don’t read books. You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point. These popular adaptations may help increase people’s interest in the classics.

Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare’s actual play. If that is the case, then I welcome the trend. But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a poet. His greatness is in his language. Reading someone else’s rewriting of his work is like peeling a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin. Take on the original. It really is worth the effort.

1．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．The language used in classics is no longer in use today.

B．British students usually find compulsory reading dull.

C．Only those studying literature read Shakespeare’s works.

D．For British people, Shakespeare’s works are no longer classics.

2．According to the passage, the writer ________.

A．has liked literary classics since an early age

B．was forced to read the classics for a PhD

C．turned to literature to seek answers in his teens

D．thinks only people who read books like literature

3．The popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works may help people ______.

A．learn more about tradition B．get a PhD in literature

C．seek their answers about the world D．become more interested in the classics

4．The underlined phrase “a case in point” in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “_______”.

A．a great hit B．a good example

C．a movie adaptation D．a popular phenomenon

5．What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．The fruit of a banana is more useful than its skin.

B．The rewriting trend does more harm than good.

C．Readers should try to read the original versions.

D．Readers need to learn the language in the classics.

B

For Kim LeBlanc, knowing that her son Tyler’s organs, eyes and other tissues have given life or healing to others is helping her cope with the loss of her child, who was struck by a truck in Guelph on May 31.

Tyler was believed to have been texting a friend when he stepped onto a high-traffic road against the green light and was struck by the truck. Then he was sent to a Hamilton hospital. Surgery was performed to ease the pressure in his brain, but .the family was told he would not recover.

“With all of his injuries, I just prayed all night for a miracle. And I was granted a miracle, but not in the way I’d expected,” says LeBlanc, her voice choked by emotion.

The family decided to donate Tyler’s organs, a choice she believes her kind and considerate son would have made on his own. It’s also a choice that transplant programs wish would be made more often, because the need for donor organs is far more than the supply worldwide. More than 1,500 people in Ontario are on the waiting list for life-saving organs, and one dies every day because an organ has not become available in time. Across Canada, the gap between donations and the need for organs continues to widen. At the end of 2010, more than 4,400 Canadians were on the waiting list for donor organs, including 3,362 needing a kidney. That year, 229 died before the organs they needed became available.

LeBlanc recalls the morning when her son was taken off life support and his organs were removed. Despite living what she calls a parent’s absolute worst nightmare, LeBlanc says she has got the strength to bear such an unbearable loss. “He’s still there. He’s still living. And he’s still breathing. And he’s brought so much joy to families,” she says. “He’s my hero. He really is my hero.”

6．Tyler was struck by the truck mainly because________.

A．he broke the traffic rule B．he was talking with his friends

C．the truck ignored him D． the truck ran at a high speed

7．The figures in paragraph 4 show that ________.

A．more people begin to donate their organs

B．more people are dying during organ transplant operations

C．many people don’t know how to donate their organs

D．many people are in great need of organ transplant worldwide

8．It is implied in the last paragraph that ________.

A．LeBlanc was desperate about Tyler’s death

B．LeBlanc will never forget Tyler’s contribution

C．LeBlanc felt relieved with Tyler’s organ donated

D．LeBlanc has never thought that Tyler will be a hero

C

Nowadays more and more people are talking about genetically modified foods ( GM foods). GM foods develop from genetically modified organisms (有机体), which have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise where an organism is exposed to chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. For many people, the high-tech production raises all kinds, of environmental, ethical(伦理的), health and safety problems. Particularly in countries with long farming traditions, the idea seems against nature.

In fact, GM foods are already very much a part of our lives. They were first put on the market in 1996. A third of the corn and more than half the cotton grown in the US last year was the product of biotechnology, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 65 million acres of genetically modified crops will be planted in the US this year. The genetic genie is out of the bottle.

However, like any new product entering the food chain, GM foods must be subjected to careful testing. In wealthy countries, the debate about biotech is not so fierce by the fact that they have a large number of foods to choose from, and a supply that goes beyond the needs. In developing countries desperate to feed fast-growing and under fed populations, the matter is simpler and much more urgent: do the benefits of biotech outweigh the risks?

The statistics on population growth and hunger are disturbing. Last year the world’s population reached 6 billion. The UN states that nearly 800 million people around the world are unhealthy. About 400 million women of childbearing age don’t have enough iron, which means their babies are exposed to various birth defeats. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness.

How can biotech help? Genetic engineering is widely used to produce plants and animals with better nutritional values. Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortage are caused by crop damage attributable to drought, poor soil and crop viruses.

9．The passage mainly talks about _______.

A．the world’s food problem B．the development in biotech

C．the genetically modified foods D．the way to solve food shortage

10．According to the passage, GM foods ________.

A．will replace naturally grown foods

B．are far better than naturally grown foods

C．may help to solve the problem of poor nutrition

D．can cause serious trouble in developing countries

11．The underlined sentence “The genetic genie is out of the bottle.” in paragraph 2 probably means that _______.

A．GM foods are available everywhere

B．the technology in producing GM foods is advanced

C．genetic technology may have uncontrollable powers

D．genetic technology has come out of laboratories into markets

12．What’s the writer’s attitude towards GM foods?

A．Enthusiastic. B．Cautious.

C．Disapproving. D．Unbelievable.

D

If you start each day desperately wishing for an extra hour in bed, the following is likely to leave you feeling even grumpier.

Scientists have identified a sleepless elite—a small group of people for whom a lie-in is a waste of time. Rather than being tired and bad-tempered underachievers, they are an energetic, outgoing and optimistic group who can happily and healthily get by on just four of five hours of shut-eye a night.

If that is not tiring enough, they tend to be able to hold down two jobs at the sane time, and breeze through their extra-long days without needing caffeine pick-me-ups or catnaps. Working out how the gene cuts sleep without any obvious impact on health could help in the design of drugs that give us all a few extra hours in our day. The bad news is that while many of us get by on a few hours’ sleep a night, just one to three people in 100 qualify to be part of the sleepless elite.

The research team is now appealing to members of the lucky group to come forward to allow their DNA to be studied. University of California researcher Ying-Hui Fu said, “My long-term goal is to someday learn enough so that we can control the sleep pathways without damaging our health.”

“Everybody can use more waking hours, even if you