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1 塘桥高级中学高三读写练习二塘桥高级中学高三读写练习二 By wiseman 一 完形填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 20 分 On a cold winter day I waited in line to see my hero Jack Canfield the author of The Success Principles During his talk Jack 36 his wallet pulled out a hundred dollar bill and said Who wants this 37 shot up in the audience people leaned forward to see whom Jack would 38 But I jumped up ran up the 39 to the stage and grabbed the bill As I was launching myself in the air thoughts 40 through my mind was I about to be humiliated 羞辱 in front of 800 people Would they 41 security guards and take me from the stage 42 my desire for bold action was louder than any 43 voice As I got the bill from his hand he said That s it We can t wait for the 44 to come to us We must take action to 45 what we want After his talk I managed to formally meet Jack and boldly asked for his 46 e mail address Over the next months I sent him emails 47 my vision and dreams with him He kindly e mailed back lots of encouragement But my life got 48 with other things I stopped e mailing Jack A year later my dreams had worn away I thought Jack would inspire me into action like a giant 49 that would show me the way I e mailed him and then again but got no 50 As I sat down at my computer to check my e mails I 51 woke up What was I doing I was waiting Now I remembered the crowd most likely 52 that hundred dollar bill while they sat 53 to their chairs Usually we all have a Jack for whom we wait whether it s a person a place or a thing We 54 believe the gifts of life are just around the corner and that everything will come in a n 55 way So we don t try We give up But as Wayne Gretzky said You ll always miss 100 of the opportunities you don t take So I stopped waiting and started my writing career Now what are you waiting for 36 A stretched outB reached forC stuck toD handed in 37 A CheersB ShoutsC Heads D Hands 38 A offerB greetC like D choose 39 A pathB roadC stepsD route 40 A racedB startedC appearedD existed 41 A askB callC demandD order 42 A AndB SoC ButD Or 43 A carefulB doubtfulC meaningfulD helpful 44 A opportunitiesB timesC resultsD aims 45 A attractB acceptC restoreD create 46 A professionalB secretC publicD personal 47 A disclosingB describingC presentingD sharing 48 A quickB busyC fullD loose 49 A arrowB gateC exitD entrance 50 A newsB noticeC responseD reaction 51 A graduallyB suddenlyC immediatelyD slowly 52 A desiringB claimingC beggingD worshiping 53 A lostB gluedC opposedD devoted 54 A sincerelyB honestlyC falselyD correctly 55 A difficultB impressiveC early D natural 2 第三部分 阅读理解 共 15 小题 满分 30 分 A Tattoos 纹身 and body piercings 穿洞 have moved up on the trend list in recent years Around Western schools lots of teens are sporting new holes and flesh ink Like all other subjects we ll surely be faced with such situation To get a better view of what has happened in the West let s sit down and hear what they say Kerstin Otto from Washington The hotter it gets and the more layers of clothing disappear the more tattoos and piercings appear on various places of the human body I wouldn t be caught dead with a snake tattooed on my ankle or with a piece of metal stuck in my belly button Erin from Indiana I think body piercing is cool In most situations you don t really have to worry about it getting torn out I go to Noblesville High School I am a sophomore that is the l0th grade Body piercing can be cool only if it is not taken to too much of an extent I would not want to get my nose pierced just because I think I ll look bad But that is my personal opinion I guess that type of thing is a cultural difference Tiara from Indiana I personally think body piercing is sickening If there were supposed to be holes in your body you would have been born with them I do however think that ear piercing is not wrong There is a difference between ear piercing and belly button piercing Ear piercing is not nearly as dangerous I would be sick if someone stuck a needle in my belly button Lee from Illinois Hi I live in Illinois I am 23 I have 12 tattoos and three piercings I love my tattoos and consider myself an art collector You would be surprised at who has given me the thumbs up on my art work People on the street stop me to look at that on my leg Most of them don t know what it is They just think the work itself is great Subotai from California I m not prohibitive of self expression but when I see high school students getting these piercings I really wonder In some cases the drive is deeper and darker than mere fashion A friend of mine tried piercing her own tongue with a safety pin It got infected and she had a tongue the size of a cow s Nagib from Washington I wanted an earring My friends had them and it looked like a cool thing I wanted to get a nose ring but my mum wouldn t let me Now I m glad I didn t get it I just wanted a little stud but I wouldn t have looked good with it Jackson from Ohio I don t think it s wrong but when people do it all over the place like their face and everything I think that s ridiculous People who get the big dragons that cover your whole body I don t think that s necessary When I see naked chicks on guys I think You have no respect for women Brittney from New York You don t want to do stuff to your body You don t need to do that because you were made perfect You don t need to add piercings If it will make you feel beautiful and you really feel like you need to do it for yourself then okay If it really makes a big difference impacting your self esteem and how you are towards others then do it But otherwise don t mess with what you got Maybe you should try something more substantial 充实的 to find beauty in yourself 56 Who is wholeheartedly lost in tattoos and piercing A TiaraB ErinC Nagib D Lee 57 We can conclude that A tattoos and piercing are a new kind of elegant art 3 B all the teachers in the West are in favor of tattoos and piercing C everything is changeable with time going on D it is necessary to live with all different views of beauty 58 The best title for this passage is probably A Body Art or DamageB Damage to the Youth s Body C Young People s Different CuriositiesD A Great Anxiety About Young People C We all know that everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older but men s minds decline more than women s according to the results of a worldwide survey General differences seem to be natural in male and female brains Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills while women tend to excel 擅长于 at recalling information from their brain s files Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline people experience as they age but the results have been mixed Some studies found more age related decline in men than in women while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people and women live longer than men The men tested are the survivors so they re the ones that may not have shown such cognitive 认知的 decline said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England Scientists surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex related cognitive skills matching an object to its rotated form matching lines shown from the same angle typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time e g object usually colored gray and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing The first two were tasks at which men are usually good the latter are typically dominated by women Within each age group studied men and women performed better in their separate categories on average And though performance declined with age for both genders women showed obviously less decline than men overall 63 According to the passage which of the following can NOT be typed into the same category A cloud B sheep C trees D goose 64 Which of the following statements is true according the article A Men do better than women when it comes to learning English B Women stand out at remembering people s names C Women do well in dealing mathematic problems D Men excel at typing as many words as possible in the given time 65 One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that A women live longer than men B people surveyed are all old C the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline D people taking part in this test came from all over the world 66 The author aims to tell us that A women s minds perform better than men s B men s minds decline more with age C everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older D a survey on human s mind decline was done recently 第二卷 第四部分 任务型阅读 每小题 1 分 满分 10 分 请认真阅读下面短文 并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词 注意 每个空格只填 1 个单词 To cultivate one s taste in English prose 散文 the most effective way is to read English books extensively Yet one may be at a loss to choose the appropriate books especially as a beginner I would like to share some of my experience My first English novel was Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice recommended by many English teachers and professors as an ideal book for English learners But my experience was somewhat disastrous Stumbling along the lines I had great difficulty in understanding the novel let alone enjoying it It s not the vocabulary that troubled me but rather the way Austen constructs sentences and her way of thinking which seemed too remote to me at that time My fading 4 enthusiasm was much recovered after reading Hemingway s novel Farewell to Arms No long and complicated sentences And I particularly liked his concise and straightforward style So my first suggestion is as a beginner you d better choose contemporary novels instead of classical ones You can easily engage yourself in reading get fun out of it and gradually build up confidence I do not mean to exclude classical novels for ever Actually the second reading of Pride and Prejudice greatly pleased me probably the result of my improved English comprehension It is only that classical novels are less accessible to beginners due to their language styles and social background I d like to recommend three contemporary novelists to You Ursula Le Guin Ernest Hemingway and Doris Lessing However reading novels is not the only way to improve your English In fact if you restrict yourself to novels you will miss a lot of treasures English essays can at once inform you entertain you and refine your taste in English The best example is Bertrand Russell s work Its language is plain yet you cannot help feeling the elegance and the peculiar sense of humor His simple language enables his philosophy within the reach of ordinary people The same is true of George Orwell s work Here comes my second suggestion essays are necessary My last advice is never follow others recommendations and opinions blindly however famous or influential the person might be Some days ago I listened to the audio book of Somerset Maugham s autobiography The Summing up In a chapter he regards Edward Gibbon and Samuel Johnson s style as pompous Though I admire Maugham s prose I cannot agree with his view Probably one can label Johnson s work as pretentious but definitely not Gibbon s In fact his lucid style makes his works highly readable and you can hardly believe they were written over 200 years ago Therefore we should be open to various ideas but always think and determine for ourselves As a saying goes one man s meat is another man s poison With that in mind we are bound to find out our favorite writers through reading and develop our fine taste in English How to Choose English Books 71 of reading To cultivate one s taste in English prose Classical novels Readers cannot fully 72 the books not to mention enjoying them It is the language styles rather than the 73 that really trouble the readers The sentences are usually long and 74 Contemporary novels The sentences are usually 75 to understand Readers can easily engage themselves in reading the books have fun in reading them and gain more 76 Books to choose Essays The language is plain elegant and 77 which makes it possible for ordinary people to understand it The language makes 78 readers able to grasp the ideas 79 for beginners Don t choose classical novels but contemporary ones Read more English essays Be open to various ideas but think and make a 80 of our own 5 苏北四市联考参考答案 苏北四市联考参考答案 单项选择题 单项选择题