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广东省汕头市潮师高级中学2014届高三英语下学期期中试题新人教版本试卷 满分135分 考试时间120分钟 一、语言知识及应用 （共两节）第一节 完形填空 （共15小题） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的a、b、c和d项中选出最佳选项。people think children should play sports. sports are fun, and children keep healthy while playing with others. however, playing sports can have 1 effects on children. it may produce feelings of 2 self-respect or aggressive behavior in some children. according to research on kids and sports, 40,000,000 kids play sports in the us. of these,18,000,000 say they have been 3 at or called names while playing sports. this leaves many children with a bad 4 of sports. they think sports are just too aggressive. many researchers believe adults, 5 parents and coaches, are the main cause of too much aggression in childrens sports. they believe children 6 aggressive adult behavior. this behavior is then further 7 through both positive and negative feedback. parents and coaches are powerful teachers because children usually look up to them. often these adults behave aggressively themselves, sending children the message that 8 is everything. many parents go to childrens sporting events and shout insults at other players or cheer when their child behaves 9 . as well, children are even taught that hurting other players is 10 or are pushed to continue playing even when they are injured. in addition, the media makes violence seem exciting. children watch adult sports games and see 11 behavior replayed over and over on television. as a society, we really need to face up to this problem and do something about it. parents and coaches in particular should act as better 12 to children. they also need to teach children better 13 .they should not just cheer when children win or act aggressively. they should teach children to enjoy themselves whether they win or not. besides, children should not be allowed to continue to play when they are 14 . if adults allow children to play when injured, this gives the message that 15 is not as important as winning. 1. a. restrictive b. negative c. active d. instructive2. a. poor b. high c. special d. unusual3. a. knocked b. glanced c. smiled d. shouted4. a. impression b. concept c. taste d. expectation5. a. roughly b. especially c. luckily d. surprisingly6. a. question b. understand c. copy d. neglect7. a. proved b. expressed c. strengthened d. learned 8. a. winning b. practising c. fun d. sport9. a. proudly b. ambitiously c. aggressively d. bravely10. a. acceptable b. capable c. possible d. accessible11. a. impolite b. strong c. powerful d. violent 12. a. conductors b. examples c. guides d. partners 13. a. techniques b. means c. values d. directions14. a. lost b. tired c. hated d. injured15. a. body b. fame c. health d. spirit 第二节 语法填空 （共10小题）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1625的位置上。travel can be stressful, so it is not unusual for airports to offer a room for relaxation. 16 san francisco airport has taken 17 idea one step further, offering a yoga(瑜伽) room for passengers in need of a good stretch before their flights. with blue walls and a rule of silence, the room in terminal(航站楼) 2 18_ (design) at the suggestion of a passenger during an open meeting. airport yoga lovers are directed to the room 19 the usual means a picture, one 20 features a figure 21 (seat) in a full lotus position.airport director, john l. martin, called the room, which opened last week, another leap forward in providing our travelers with the opportunity and space to relax and reduce pressure on 22 own terms. the architects set the lights low and warm, and constructed a floating wall 23 (symbolize) a light spirit and enlightened mind. yoga teacher, tamal dodge said, “how amazing it will be to stretch out 24 you get on a plane for a 12-hour flight! you are now given the opportunity to 25 (real) relax and prepare your body for something as tiring as sitting in an airplane seat for hours on end.二、阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节 阅读理解 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的a、b、c、和d项中选出最佳选项。anot long ago the movie 2012 came into screen. the people were threatened by those scenes of destroying flood, severe earthquake, terrifying hurricane and constructions representing human civilization being destroyed and even swallowed by disasterluckily, they are just the director s imagination, but the present situation is not heading a positive direction, eithertake my own experience in alaska as an example. once i took a trip to the glacier. along the way there stood signposts marking the snow lines of different years. they started from the foot of the mountain, but it was at the top when i finally saw melting glaciers（融化的冰川）. my heart ached seeing the beautiful blue ice melting at every secondsad but true, they are the effects of global warming and the result of our human impact. furthermore, each year the rising sea level will kill 56 million people, and that s about the population of the entire italy. according to studies, if the temperature keeps on rising like this, by the year 2050, some islands and coastal cities including new york, shanghai, tokyo and sydney will be drowned in waterour fortune is in our own hands. it depends on us to shape our future, to reduce future human impact and find ways to form a peaceful relationship with our environment. therefore, its time for actions to be taken right now. contribute a little to energy saving by using more efficient light bulbs and less hot water. let recycle become our habit by thinking twice before throwing something away. let us take public transportation as our first choice when going to a certain place. it might cost more time for now, but it s to the benefit of a permanent future. take care of every tree and grass around us by watering them or simply just avoid destroying them in a word, small drops of water make a big ocean. the earth does not belong to us. on the contrary, we belong to the earth. please bear in mind that the earth is our home. it is our responsibility to build a brighter and better future of our planet and prevent what happened in the movie 2012 from becoming reality26why does the author talk about the movie 2012 in the passage ?ato give examplebto lead into the topiccto make predictiondto provide the evidence27 how did the author feel when he took a trip to the glacier?aworried b puzzled c scared d bored28 it can be inferred from the third paragraph that .a56 million people in italy have been killed owing to the rising sea levelbsome islands and coastal cities will be drowned in water by the year of 2050chuman being will be in danger if we dont take actions to prevent the global warmingdit is certain that what happened in the movie 2012 will come into reality29 according to the passage, you are advised to .adrive our own private cars instead of taking buses to some placebrecycle everything that is usedcgo to see the movie 2012 at oncedwork together to take good care of our planet30 what does the author mean by saying small drops of water make a big ocean?athink twice before taking action, bits our duty to protect the oceanceveryone together can make a differencedits important to save every drop of water bit was thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home i was busy preparing the traditional thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. i opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.“any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.i was busy. i wanted to say “no” until i looked down at their feet. they were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.“come in and ill make you a cup of hot cocoa.”they walked over and sat down at the table. their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. i served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. then i went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.the silence in the front room struck me. i looked in. the girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. the boy asked in a flat voice, “lady, are you rich?”i looked at my shabby slipcovers. the girl put her cup back in its saucer carefully and said, “your cups match your saucers.” her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. they left after that, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. they hadnt said “thank you.” they didnt need to. they had reminded me that i had so much for which to be grateful. plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. but they matched.i tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady jobthese matched, too.i moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. the muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. let them be for a while, i thought, just in case i should begin to forget how rich i am.31. two children came to the writers front door because _.a. it was thanksgiving dayb. they were beggarsc. they wanted old papersd. they wanted a cup of cocoa32. why did the writer let the children in?a. she showed great pity on themb. she had old papers to sellc. she wanted to invite them to her thanksgiving feastd. she wanted them to see how rich she was33. the girl thought the writer was rich perhaps because _.a. she saw that the ladys room was comfortableb. she saw the cups matched the saucersc. the writers slipcovers were very newd. the writer was preparing a big meal while she was too hungry.34. from the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on _.a. how much money you have hadb. how you feel about your lifec. how you have helped othersd. what job your husband is doing35. the writer left the muddy prints of small sandals on the floor for a while to _.a. show her husband that someone had comeb. remind her that she had helped two childrenc. remind her that she was very rich in the neighborhood d. remind her how life should be cas prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself (diy) trend in the u. s. continues to grow. “we needed furniture for our living room,” says john ross, “and we just didnt have enough money to buy it. so we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” john got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at the time when the cost of living is very high. the rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house. jim hatfield has 3 boys and his wife died. he has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “i was deeply upset about it. now ive finished a car repair course, i should be able to fix the car by myself.”john and jim are not unusual people. most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. if you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to diy classes. and for those who dont have time to take a class there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself. 36. we can learn from the text that many newly married people_. a. find it hard to pay for what they need b. have to learn to make their own furniture c. take diy courses run by the government d. seldom go to a department store to buy things37. john and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to_. a. run a diy shopb. make or repair things c. save time and moneyd. improve the quality of life38. when the writer says that jim has a full-time job at home, he means jim_. a. makes shoes in his home b. does extra work at night c. does his own car and home repairs d. keeps house and looks after his children39. jim hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourselfer when_. a. his car repairs cost too much b. the car repair class was not helpful c. he could not possibly do two jobs d. he had to raise the children all by himself40. what would be the best title for the text? a. the joy of diy! b. you can do it too! c. welcome to our diy course! d. ross and hatfield: believers in diy! din the kitchen of my mothers houses there has always been a wooden stand（木架）with a small notepad（记事本）and a hole for a pencil.im looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book i am recommending to my mother. over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. surely it cant be the same pencil. the pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.“im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” i say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “you still use a pencil. cant you afford a pen?”my mother replies a little sharply. “it works perfectly well. ive always kept the stand in the kitchen. i never knew when i might want to note down an idea, and i was always in the kitchen in these days. ”immediately i can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. my mother smiles and says, “one day i was cooking and watching baby pauline, and i had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. one of the children must have taken the paper. so i just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. it turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem i was working on.”this storywhich happened before i was bornreminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. i feel embarrassed that i complain about not having enough child-free time to work. later, when my mother is in the bathroom, i go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks i recognize as mathematics. those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal. 41. why has the authors mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?a. to leave messages. b. to list her everyday tasks.c. to note down maths problems. d. to write down a flash of inspiration.42. what is the authors original opinion about the wooden stand?a. it has great value for the family. b. it needs to be replaced by a better one.c. it brings her back to her lonely childhood. d .it should be passed on to the next generation. 43. the author feels embarrassed for _.a. blaming her mother wrongly b. giving her mother a lot of troublec. not making good use of time as her mother did d. not making any breakthrough in her field44. what can be inferred from the last paragraph?a. the mother is successful in her career. b. the family members like traveling.c. the author had little time to play when young. d.the marks on the breadboard have disappeared.45. in the authors mind，her mother is _.a. strange in behavior b. keen on her researchc. fond of collecting old things d. careless about her appearance 第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。以下是几个国际节日的简要介绍：awharfedale festival of performing arts west yorkshire, the united kingdomyoung people are invited to compete in this performing arts festival with classes covering speech, guitar, dance, poetry and short story writing, and so onthe previous years winners are invited back to perform again at a special concertwith a long and well-known history behind it , this well-attended competition is a kind of forerunner of popular television talent contests such as pop idol.bsydney writers festival sydney, australiaheld at sydneys wharf 4/5, the annual sydney writers festival is the biggest literary event of its kind in australia and one of the biggest book fairs in the worldattracting a mix of authors, poets, editors, publishers and book lovers, this is a great event at which people can look through thousands of titles while enjoying workshops, book readings and seminars.cflipside festival singaporeas part of the singapore arts festival outreach programme, flipside aims to reach a much wider audience with three weeks of lively, fun street performancesflipside promises to bring out the adventurous side of you with a combination of physical theatre and mind games as well as free outdoor performances such as music performances from local singers.dhay festival hay on wye, the united kingdomthe little marked town, hay, has a population of 1500 and no fewer than 39 bookshopsit bills itself as the worlds first and most distinguished book town, and is, therefore, a perfect place for a literary festivalthe festival is a celebration of great writingthere are events including film screenings and musical concerts and the bookshops remain open throughout.ebergen international festival bergen, norwayfounded in 1953, the bergen international festival presents an impressive cast of outstanding int