严州中学2016届高三3月阶段测试英语试题

选择题部分（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和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。

1. —People should use public transportation more than private cars.

—________. The traffic is always so heavy.

A. Exactly B. I’m afraid not C. It depends D. That’s all right

2. Beijing has been _____ host city of 2022 Winter Olympics, bringing _____ great surprise to Chinese again.

A. a, a B. the, the C. a, / D. the, /

3. What really counts is not the _____ of life but the depth of life.

A. weight B. height C. width D. length

4. Words have power that _____ by few things in the world.

A. matches B. are matched C. is matched D. have matched

5. —Why are your red cherries so expensive?

—You see, the price of fruit always varies _____ the seasons.

A. from B. with C. in D. by

6. A law can’t be _____ for anyone, even for those in power.

A. turned B. bent C. beaten D. meant

7. —Is there any power left in your cell phone? Mine is dying.

—Oh, sorry! There is _____ left in my cell phone, either.

A. anything B. no one C. none D. nothing

8. Everyone in the world has a dream, a passion in their life _____ urges them to move forward.

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

9. As the price of housing _____ these years, Shanghai ranks 7th among the world’s top ten cities of price growing.

A. grows B. was growing C. has been growing D. has grown

10. —How do you find your first visit to your net friend Jane?

—Oh, wonderful! Her warm welcome left me completely _____.

A. at ease B. under attack C. beyond doubt D. in tears

11. People tend to think that if you want to achieve something big, you’ll have to _____.

A. make sense B. give way C. take risks D. lose face

12. Children acquire language more quickly than adults, simply by learning it _____—they listen, copy, and communicate.

A. fluently B. naturally C. carefully D. particularly

13. Some parents gave their children overtime homework on Sundays when they ____ themselves.

A. must have relaxed B. can’t have relaxed

C. needn’t have relaxed D. should have relaxed

14. A win-win solution to a problem is _____ allows everyone to feel good.

A. what B. that C. which D. how

15. The company is planning to hire a new manager to _____ the old one’s position.

A. take on B. take up C. take in D. take over

16. Twenty scientists were reported _____the top prize at the 2015 State Science and Technology Awards in Beijing on January 9th, 2016.

A. to award B. to be awarded C. to have been awarded D. to have awarded

17. The temperature fell to -6℃ in most part of Zhejiang last month, which shows that it _____ be freezing cold in Southern China sometimes.

A. can B. shall C. may D. will

18. A strong cold current hit South China in January, 2016, leading to most schools _____ for the sake of safety.

A. broke up B. breaking up C. broken up D. break up

19. Sam loves teaching. Seeing his students succeed is very _____, he says.

A. promising B. rewarding C. surprising D. challenging

20. —I failed in the maths exam.

—That’s one of those things. ________.

A. Practice makes perfect B. Think it more and do it again

C. Just look on the bright side D. Drop it and try other subjects

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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

I felt like a good mother on that summer morning. I’d 21 up early, made a picnic lunch,

22 my three-and five-year-old daughters into the car, driven to my friend’s house, packed her and her 23 into the car, and driven the hour and a half to the shore where we 24 our towels on the sands by 10 a.m.

Soon the girls began running. About 50 yards from us, a man, maybe 25 his late 50s, was fishing. The girls stood next to him and watched with their mouths open 26 he cast the lines. He smiled at them. They all ran back to us except my three-year-old Drew, who, 27 , just seated herself next to the white bucket where the man was 28 planning to put the fish he caught.

However, suddenly a 29 came to my mind. Is it dangerous for Drew to stay there with the stranger? Good moms should also teach daughters that the world is dangerous. Then, I watched them like there was a hidden 30 in the lifeguard chair filming the man as America’s Most Wanted. Every few minutes, I looked to my five-year-old to make sure she hadn’t been 31 out to sea, then back to Drew to make sure there was no 32 between her and the stranger.

When I looked at Drew again, she had started 33 with the man. She was probably telling him where we lived and how her father was away on 34 . He nodded. She kept talking. He nodded again, then they laughed.

A few seconds later, she ran back to us, with a toy fish in her hand. It must have been something 35 he used for bait(饵). The three other girls were 36 , so they didn’t try to

37 how eager they were to have one.

Just when I was at a loss, there he was: the man, standing right next to us. He was holding three more toy fish. He handed them to each of the girls. By their 38 , I realized that he was

39 a warm-hearted man, meaning no harm at all.

“Thank you”, I said, realizing that yes, there is evil in this world…but there is also good, and

40 in strangers, and lessons for mothers to learn that only three-year-olds could teach them.

21.

A. settled

B. woken

C. risen

D. turned



22.

A. combined

B. loaded

C. divided

D. gathered



23.

A. daughters

B. sons

C. nieces

D. nephews



24.

A. expanded

B. covered

C. spread

D. increased



25.

A. in

B. on

C. at

D. of



26.

A. while

B. as

C. though

D. if



27.

A. otherwise

B. therefore

C. instead

D. besides



28.

A. reasonably

B. hardly

C. merely

D. probably



29.

A. feeling

B. warning

C. greeting

D. saying



30.

A. recorder

B. radio

C. camera

D. computer



31.

A. swept

B. left

C. dropped

D. worn



32.

A. treatment

B. contact

C. agreement

D. link



33.

A. quarreling

B. arguing

C. debating

D. chatting



34.

A. vacation

B. business

C. leave

D. show



35.

A. what

B. which

C. that

D. where



36.

A. moved

B. disappointed

C. frightened

D. interested



37.

A. hide

B. tell

C. express

D. explain



38.

A. faces

B. fingers

C. arms

D. tongues



39.

A. usually

B. specially

C. actually

D. finally



40.

A. care

B. devotion

C. faith

D. kindness



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，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

A

I never make resolutions (important decisions made on important occasions). Every December 31st, at the stroke of midnight, my mind usually wanders from the resolution-making task and is more concerned with why I am not at a fantastic party, wearing an evening dress, and talking to a gentleman.

I mean, will all of my photos consist of New Year’s Eves, one after another, with me in my sweater, eating leftovers? All I want is one, just one, fantastic picture to hang on my wall so all the world can see what an exciting and enviable life I lead. Is that too much to ask?

One year, all of this depressing thought got me to think a lot. Why did I feel the pressure to have a perfect New Year Eve? Why did I care? Probably the same reason I felt like I should be settled in a career and married with three kids already. Throughout most of my life, I had been far from the normal; somehow, I still felt it necessary to make apologies.

But why? Where was this desperate need to please coming from? I had travelled the world, owned my own business, bought my first house, and started fulfilling my dream of writing, all before the age of 25. So what did I have to apologize for? Well, as previously stated, I was still single and unsettled about my career, which for a woman of my age was not considered “the normal”.

Then, suddenly, as I was about to celebrate the new year by doing some laundry, an insight shone down from the heavens. It was a lightning of realization. For my first resolution, I was going to decide not to care. Not to care about anyone else’s expectation but my own and to make no apologies for it. After all, I had gone wherever the road had taken me, and it had taken me to a lot of fantastic places, places I would have never been able to go if I had “settled down” already. Not to mention, I had probably be starring in Desperate Housewives.

And as far as my career went, being unsettled was just being honest. I couldn’t change who I was just because I didn’t fit into the social norm. At least I wasn’t going to watch my life go by as I punched the clock at a job I hated. Just to climb an uninteresting ladder for a higher position? No, thanks! If I didn’t try out my options, I would never discover my passions. And don’t we all want to do something we feel crazy about?

Of course, there were all great thoughts, but actually combining them into my everyday thinking process would be a whole other story…So, was I able to rise to the challenge of my first resolution?

Well, let’s just say that I have made the choice to be okay. Okay with my singlehood and my ever-changing career path, and okay that others might not be okay with it. I think that is the most important. And every New Year’s Eve, I make sure to clear my schedule, dress up in my ugliest sweater, eat some delicious leftovers and relaxed with my cat. Then as I tune in to watch the rest of the world create a perfect New Year’s Eve, I glance at the photos on my own wall and think, “What a beautiful year it has been!”

41. According to Paragraph 2, the writer expects to ______.

A. make an important decision on New Year’s Day

B. refuse a fantastic party with evening dress

C. hang a photo of her own on the wall

D. lead an exciting and enviable life

42. According to the text, ______ was once a great concern for the writer.

A. failing to travel around the world on her own

B. being still single and uncertain about career

C. starting to fulfill her dream of writing successfully

D. getting married to a man with three kids

43. Based on the passage, what would most probably be the writer’s final resolution?

A. To learn to ignore other’s expectation B. To make up