高三英语上学期周练试题（11_4）.doc

河北定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高三英语周练试题（8）一、单项选择题1 Studying in our newly-built school is so wonderful a period _ every one of us will treasure forever.A. that B. as C. which D. when2 It was sad to me that they, so poor themselves, _ bring me food.A. might B. would C. could D. should3 Shall I open the window to let some fresh air in? No，_ .A. Id rather not B. Id rather you notC. Id rather you didnt D. Id like not to4I _ along the pavement yesterday when some stranger came up and asked me the way to the nearest hospital.A. am wandering B. was wanderingC. has wandered D. had wandered5There is no power like _ power of confidence, and there is no student as competitive as _ student who trusts his own abilities.A. the; a B. a; the C. /; a D. the; /6The speaker mentioned many examples people lived through hard times and succeeded at lastAwhich Bwhose Cwhen Dwhere7Not only the USA and Russia but also China _ manned satellites to circle the earth.A.has sent up B. has been sent upC. have sent up D. had been sent up8 Little Jim to my home after he broke my mobile phone by accident.A. dared not to come B. dared not comingC. dared not come D. didnt dare coming9- What a speech he has delivered!- Really good! I could hardly imagine myself to make a speech in public.A. make B. to make C. making D. being made10The job is not very rewarding _ money, but he is getting valuable experience from itAin memory of Bin terms ofCin charge of Din search of11When is Amy flying to Beijing on Saturday?Her flight at 7:00 a.m.A. takes off B. took offC. taking off D. take off12_, the idea of having to work under a woman was more than he could stand.A. Wanting the job very muchB. Though he wanted the job very muchC. Although wanting the job very muchD. He wanted the job badly13The pianist _ a love for music when he was a little boy.A. develops B. has developedC. developed D. had developed14I didnt expect Jack was absent from my birthday party yesterday.As far as I know, he _ to see his parents in Shanghai at the weekends.A. goes B. wentC. has gone D. had gone15-Well, guess what! I came across my primary school teacher when I was visiting the Frick Collection in Manhattan.- Really? _.A. Its really a piece of cake.B. Its a small world.C. Its a long time.D. Its a once-in-a-lifetime chance.16In your life, sometimes you might end up back_ you started.A. which B. when C. where D. who17Jack tried to play a trick _ his sister but she wasnt taken _ .A. by; on B. in; inC. on; in D. on; on18One more day, Ill get everything resdy.A. or B. while C. and D. but19While shopping, people sometimes cant help_ into buying something they dont really need.A. to persuade B. persuadingC. be persuaded D. being persuaded 20 Never before in our country _.A. has such a thing happened B. such a thing has happenedC. has so a thing happened D. so a thing has happened二、阅读理解The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “Im sorry, I cant sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”“I cant write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”I noticed every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I looked down on the computer and asked her, “What do all you people do?”“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”“Thats good, sir.”“How long will the computer be down? I wanted to know.”“I have no idea. Sometimes its down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. Theres no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since its down it wont answer us.”After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said. “Lets forget the computerWhat about your planes? They are still flying, arent they?”“I couldnt tell without asking the computer.”“Maybe I could, just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he is flying to Washington,” I suggested.“I wouldnt know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldnt take you if you didnt have a ticket.”“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”“I wouldnt know,” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only IT knows. It cant tell me.”By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The words soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.21Where do you often hear the frightening words “Our computer is down”?Aat the airport. BAt the gate.COn business DIn the ticket office22What could the girl in the ticket office do without asking the computer?AShe could do nothing.BShe could write out a ticket.CShe could still sell a ticket.DShe could answer passengers questions.23What does the underlined word “down” in Paragraph 1 mean?AWhite BBroken CBlack DDark24We can learn from the last paragraph that .Aa modern computer wont be downBcomputers can take the place of humanCthere will be great changes in computersDsometimes a computer may bring suffering to peopleTwo people have died after two separate university shootings in Texas and Arizona, just hours apart One person was killed and three injured in the first shooting at Northern Arizona University early on Friday Later that morning a shooting at a student complex near Texas Southern University left one person dead In Arizona, police named the gunman there as Steven Jones, an 18-year-old first year student at Northern Arizona UniversityMr Jones told police he was approached by a group of men and attacked He fled, produced a gun from his pocket and opened fire when the men caught up with him, Arizona police said Witnesses told police that the victims were unarmed The second shooting in Texas happened later on Friday morning at the University Courtyard Apartments on the edge of the Houston campus One student was killed, a freshman at the school, the university confirmed, and another person was wounded Two people have been arrested as suspects and a third is still at large, said Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva The attacks came as President Barack Obama visited families of victims of a college shooting in Oregon On arriving in Oregon, he was jeered(嘲笑) by gun rights activists who oppose calls he made for tougher gun laws after nine people were killed at Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, last weekAfter a private meeting with families, Mr Obama said he had strong feelings about gun control, adding: We are going to have to come together as a country to see how we can prevent these issues from taking place”On the edge of this little American town, a few hundred protestors gathered to tell their president he was not welcome Many were openly carrying handguns to hammer home their message The demonstrators blamed the shooting here last week on two things: a failure to treat mental health problems and the designation of Umpqua Community College as a gun-free zone Many of those we spoke to said they had travelled to Roseburg from elsewhere in Oregon to make their voices hear The hostility to the Democratic president here in Republican rural Oregon was not just political, it was personal25How many people were dead in these two recent university shootings?A OneB TwoC ThreeD Four26Which of the following is right about the Northern Arizona University shooting?A The gunman was about to graduateB It was the victims who started the fightC The gunman shot the victims out of hatrd D The victims attacked the gunman with knives27Mr Obama probably agreed that _A gun control is too strict in most parts of America, especially in universitiesB designation of Umpqua community college as a gun-free zone is a wrong decisionC Americans should be united to prevent criminal shooting from happening so frequentlyD A failure to treat mental health problems caused the shooting at Umpqua Community College28The underlined words in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _A emphasizeB digestC commitD respondCheaters called “pirates” often use camcorders(便携式摄像机) and cell phones to make illegal copies of blockbusters(大片) in the local theater. These pirates then sell those recordings on the street or over the Internet for very low prices. Some share them for free.“Its unfair for people to pirate movies, ” says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. Movie piracy “takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry,” she notes. Victims include famous actors and directors as well as local theater owners and their employees.Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaias idea uses infrared(红外线的) light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theater owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie. It would, however, distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cell phones as well as camcorders. During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes(发光二极管), or LEDs. The LEDs were embedded（植入的） in a certain place behind the movie screen. They gave out infrared light.Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on. It might be possible to use the LEDs to flash the date and time on the movie screen. The information would then appear in the illegal recordings. Theater owners or police might use the information to track down the pirates.Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theaters to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced arent profitable. They dont make enough money to recover how much was spent to make and market them. Such a poor payback can discourage filmmakers from producing anything but the types expected to become blockbuster hits. It might also keep smaller theaters from showing a wider variety of movie types.29From what Hadaia says in Paragraph 2, we can infer that _.A. she strongly criticizes those who video movies in the theaterB. the pirates dont have to pay for the movie ticketsC. theater owners will increase the price of movie ticketsD. most people spend less money on pirates moves30Infrared lights are put on the movie screens to _.A. adjust the brightness of the movie screensB. make sure the images of movies are darkC. make illegal copies of movies unpleasant to seeD. protect the eyesight of viewers in the darkness31What is the correct order of the steps in Hadaias test?a. She projected pictures on the screen.b. She used cameras to record the pictures.c. She turned on the LEDs placed behind the screen.d. She made a special box with a movie screen inside.A. bacdB. bcadC. dbacD. dcab32According to the last paragraph, we can know that _.A. small theaters often choose to show low-cost moviesB. forty percent of movies now are profitableC. more and more people go to theaters to fight movie piracyD. filmmakers prefer to produce ordinary movies than blockbustersThe National Trust in Britain plays an increasingly important part in the preservation for public enjoyment of the best that is left unspoiled of the British countryside. Although the Trust has received practical and moral support from the Government, it is not a rich government department. It is a voluntary association of people who care for the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings of Britain. It is a charity which depends for its existence on voluntary support from members of the public. Its primary duty is to protect places of great natural beauty and places of historical interest.The attention of the public was the first drawn to the dangers threatening the great old houses and the castles of Britain by the death of the Lord Lothian, who left his great seventeenth-century house to the Trust together with the 4500-acre park and estate surrounding it. This gift attracted wide publicity and started the Trusts “Country House Scheme”. Under this scheme, with the help of the Government and the general public, the Trust has been able to save and make accessible to the public about 150 of these old houses. Last year, about 1.75 million people paid to visit these historic houses, usually at a very small charge.In addition to country houses and open spaces, the Trust now owns some examples of ancient wind and water mills, nature reserves, 540 farms and nearly 2500 cottages or small village houses, as well as some complete villages. In these villages no one is allowed to build, develop or disturb the old village environment in any way and all the houses are maintained in their original 16th century style. Over 4,000 acres of coastline, woodland, and hill country are protected by the Trust and no development or disturbances of any kind are permitted. The public has free access to these areas and is only asked to respect the peace, beauty and wildlife.Over the past 80 years the Trust has become a big and important organization and an essential and respected part of national life. It helps to preserve all that is of great natural beauty and of historical significance not only for future generations of Britons but also for the millions of tourists who each year invade Britain in search of a great historic and cultural heritage.33The National Trust is a _.A. government agency depending on voluntary servicesB. non-profit organization depending on voluntary servicesC. government department but is not richD. private organization supported by the government34The National Trust is devoted to _.A. preserving the best public enjoymentB. providing the public with free access to historic buildingsC. offering better services to visitors home and abroadD. protecting the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings35We can infer from Paragraph 2 that Lord Lothian _.A. donated all his money to the TrustB. started the “Country House Scheme”C. saved many old country houses in BritainD. was influential in his time36All the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT _.A. the Trust is more interested in protecting the 16th century housesB. many people came to visit the historic houses saved by the TrustC. visitors can get free access to some places owned by the TrustD. the Trust has a story which is longer than 80 years37The underlined word “invade” in the last Paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A. come in without permissionB. enter with invitationC. visit in large numbersD. appear all of a sudden三、完形填空 You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you are not able to understand this letter. But some day when you , I hope you will find something in what I am going to share with you.Life can be . There will be people in your life who wont be very nice. Theyll you because you are different, for no good reason. You will also face heartbreak and might be by those you love. I hope you dont have to face these too much, but such things .Be open to life anyway. Youll find cruelty and in your journey through life, but dont let that you from finding new things. Dont retreat(退却) from life, and dont or wall yourself off. Be open to new things, new experiences, and new people. Youll many times, but if you allow that to stop you from trying, you will many chances. Do remember failure is a stepping stone to .You will meet many people who will try to do than you, in school, in college and at work. Theyll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes, and so on. To , life is a competition. However, I believe life is a . If you always try your best to others, youre wasting your life. Learn to enjoy your life _ and you will make it a journey of , of learning, and of love.Finally, know that I love you and always will. You are a really wonderful journey, and I will always be there for you.38A. grow up B. show up C. cheer up D. calm down39A. familiar B. valuable C. normal D. interesting40A. unkind B. peaceful C. equal D. simple41A. end up with B. get on well with C. laugh at D. look after42A. if B. but C. so D. or43A. hurt B. found C. accepted D. impressed44A. matter B. work C. disappear D. happen45A. luck B. pain C. difference D. hope46A. protect B. encourage C. prevent D. choose47A. forgive B. struggle C. compete D. hide48A. leave B. prepare C. escape D. fai