玉溪一中2016届高三年级下学期第八次月考试卷

英语学科试卷

命题人： 玉溪一中 李银燕 金家雄

本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

考试时间：100分钟，满分120分。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共70分）

注意事项：

答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、班级、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚，每小题选出答案后，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。答在试题卷上的答案无效。

第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；第一节15小题，第二节5小题，每小题2分；满分40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。

A

Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or, skating or skiing in winter. It may be a game of some kind—football, hockey, golf, or tennis. It may be mountaineering(登山).

Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure(闲暇).

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man- made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man- made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.

A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps(阿尔卑斯山). They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

1. Mountaineering lovers may suffer from the following except____________.

A. cold　　　　B. hardship C. risk　　　　　　　D. astonishment

2. The difference between a sport and a game has to do with the kind of__________.

? A. activity　　　　　　　B. time C. uniform　　　　　D. rules

3. Mountaineers compete against__________.

A. nature B. each other C. other teams D. international standards

4. The best title for the passage might be___________.

A. Mountaineering Is Different from Golf and Football

B. Mountaineering Is Less Attractive than Other Sports

C. Mountain Climbers D. Mountaineering

B

Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too, according to a new study.

Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected(反映) in the gestures people made .Dr Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol’s Department of Experimental Psychology(心理学）,showed the cartoon to a group of native English, Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the action they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to describe the same event, which appeared to reflect the way the structure of their languages expressed that event. For example, when describing a scene where the cat swings on a rope, the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory(弧形轨迹） and the Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing the motion but not the arc.

Dr Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no proper verb to express the English meaning “to swing”. While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily express the change of location and the arc－shaped readily, Japanese and Turkish speakers cannot as easily express the idea of movement with an arc trajectory so they use the straight gesture.

Dr Kita said, “My research suggests that speakers of different languages cause different spatial(空间的）images of the same event in a way that matches the expressive possibilities of their own language. In other words, language influences spatial thinking at the moment of speaking.”

5. Researchers used a cartoon cat because they wanted to know_________.

A. how language was reflected in people’s gestures

B. whether they could express the same idea

C. whether they could describe what they had seen

D. how the structure of language changed

6. After watching the gestures of the speakers of the three different languages, Dr Kita concluded that________.

A. Japanese and Turkish people couldn’t express the meaning of “swing”

B. English was obviously better than Japanese and Turkish

C. every language had its own special way to describe things

D. no word in Japanese and Turkish could express some ideas of English

7. Where does this text probably come from?

A. An advertisement　　 B. A Scientific Research Report

C. A Scientific Fiction　　　 D. An Announcement

8. What is mainly discussed in the text?

A. Differences between languages.

B. Differences between gestures.

C. How people use different gestures to express the same event.

D. Language influences the way people think.

C

Blind from birth, I have never had the opportunity to see myself and have been completely dependent on the image I create in the eye of the observer. To date, it has not been narcissistic(自我陶醉的).

There are those who think that since I can’t see, I obviously also cannot hear. Very often people will talk with me at the top of their lungs, pronouncing each word very carefully. Conversely, people will also often whisper, thinking that since my eyes don’t work, my ears don’t either.

For example, when I go to the airport and ask the ticket agent for assistance to the plane, he or she will invariably(总是) pick up the phone, call a ground hostess and whisper: “I, Jane, we’ve got a blind passenger here.”

On the other hand, others know that of course I can hear, but believe that I can’t talk. Often, therefore, when my wife and I go out to dinner, a waiter or waitress will ask my wife if “he would like a drink” to which I respond that “indeed he would”.

The toughest misconception(误解) of all is the view that because I can’t see, I can’t work. I was turned down by over forty law firms because of my blindness, even though my qualifications(资格) included a cum laude(以优等成绩毕业者) degree from Harvard College and a good ranking in my Harvard Law school class.

Fortunately, the attitude towards the disabled is beginning to change.

9. When people talk to the writer, they usually____________.

A. talk softly B. talk loudly C. take pity on him D. feel worried about him

10. The word “conversely” in the second paragraph means____________.

A. in an opposite situation B. meanwhile

C. in a noisy place D. regardless of my misfortune

11. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that the writer____________.

A. is very old and weak B. has many friends in the airport

C. does not like what the ticket agent does D. appreciates what the ticket agent does

12. It is implied in the last two paragraphs that blind people______________.

A. are cleverer than others B. usually work harder than others

C. should have equal opportunities as others D. should receive equal pay as others

D

Camp Illahee was founded as an all-girls camp in 1921 by Hinton McCloud, a Mississippi educator, and his wife. Their purpose was to give campers some exercise, skills and truth to respect the natural world and all its wonders. Illahee usually accepts more than 250 campers from more than 30 states, but it keeps its staff-to-child ratio (比例) at 1 to 3.

The camp offers six periods throughout the summer, ranging from five days to four weeks. Camp tours are offered to new parents and campers twice daily at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. For more information or to schedule a tour, call 828-883-2181, or click here.

The Typical Camp Illahee Daily Schedule

7:30 a.m. - Wake-up Bell

8:30 a.m. - Breakfast

9:15 a.m. - Gymnastics

9:45 a.m. - Arts & Crafts

11:45 a.m. - Horseback Riding

1 p.m. - Lunch

2 p.m. - Rest Hour

3 p.m. - Choice Period

4 p.m. - Canoeing （划艇）

5:05 p.m. - Rock Climbing

6:15 p.m. - Dinner

7:30 p.m. - Evening Program

9:30 p.m. - Bedtime

Sports activities offered at Illahee include swimming, tennis, horseback riding, basketball, and gymnastics. Arts and crafts activities offered include drawing, jewelry making, painting, woodworking, basket weaving, paper making, needlecraft, watercolor, cooking, drama, dance and singing. The camp wants parents to feel totally secure sending their children off for the summer and offers a lot of Questions and Answers on our website. Please click to find answers to the questions in which you are interested.

13. Camp Illahee limits its campers to _____.

A. students from Mississippi B. girls and their parents

C. nature lovers D. girls only

14. Campers can choose to participate in the activities they like _____.

A. between 2:00-3:00 pm B. between 3:00-4:00 pm

C. between 9:15- 9:45 am D. between 7:30- 8:30 am

15. We can learn from the text that _____.

A. the camp lasts about a month at most

B. campers can learn different languages in the camp

C. newly-arriving parents can tour the camp at any time

D. parents have to answer questions in order to get registered

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。选项中有两项为多余选项。

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