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河溪中学2013-2014学年度第二学期质量检测高三级英语试卷（满分135分，时间120分钟）I. 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分)第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从115各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并将答案填在答题卡标号为115的相应位置上。Freshmen are always fearful when learning they are to live with a roommate of a different race assigned by the computer casually. They are full of _1_ at the uncertainties. Now several studies have found that _2_ a room with a man of another race is a mixture of hope and fear. It decreases _3_ and forces students to make friends with those of different races, meanwhile causes more conflicts. AnOhioStateUniversitystudy found that black students living with a white roommate saw higher _4_ success at college. Sam Boakye the only black student on his freshman year floor said “if youre _5_ by whites, you have something to prove like a good score in study.”However, researchers also observed _6_ in this case. According to two recent studies, compared with two white roommates, roommates of different _7 may experience such big conflicts that one has to move out and live _8_.Grace Kao, a professor at Penn said she was not _9_ by the findings. In her opinion, this may be the first time that some of these students have _10_ with someone of a different race.”At Penn, students are not asked to mention race when applying for their 11 . In this way, students are thrown together _12_.“In the past two years, Ive experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students,” said one Penn resident advisor (RA). To give a better picture, she _13_ that some conflicts provided more multicultural acceptance, but some showed unpleasant differences. Besides, these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the _14_ race.Kao said it was _15_ to conclude from any one of the above studies, saying scientists must study more students background characteristics.1.A. disappointmentB. worry B. expectationD. ambition2.A. sharingB. decoratingC. managingD. renting3.A. prejudiceB. expenseC. dependenceD. understanding4.A. athleticB. economicD. academic C. social5.A. controlledB.attackedC. surrounded. D. blamed6.A. practicesB. chancesC. changesD. problems7. A. races B. nationsA. positionsD. majors8.A. angrilyB. separatelyC. closelyD. happily9. A. surprisedB. satisfiedC. confusedD. convinced10.A. playedB. worked C. livedD. learned11.A. accountB. scholarshipC. housingD. course12.A. secretlyB. randomly C. forcefullyD. terribly13.A. approvedB. arguedC. addedD. adopted14.A. sameB. friendlyC. competitiveD. peaceful15.A. unsuccessfulB. unscientific B. unnecessaryD. unusual第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）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的相应位置上。Do you know there are 1,800 kinds of earthworms(蚯蚓) in the world? Most earthworms only live two or three years, _16_some may live as long as nine years.The _17_(good) time to see earthworms is at night, especially a cool, damp night. Thats when they come up from their burrows (地洞) to search_18_ food. Earthworms dont like to be in the sun. They must come out of the earth if it rains a lot because they cant breathe in their water-filled burrows. What a(n)_ 19_ (danger) life!Earthworms dont have eyes, but they have special places on their skin that are sensitive_20_ light. Those spots tell_21_ its light or dark. But earthworms are blind to red light. Earthworms dont have ears either, but they can hear by_22_(feel) movements in the earth.Some people think that if _23_ earthworm is cut in half, each half will grow back the missing part and there will be two earthworms. This is not quite true about what happens. If a small piece of the earthworms front part _24_（cut）off, it can grow a new head. The new front part may be shorter than the old one, but _25_will even grow a new brain.II. 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,并在答题卡上将该项填写。A Following some of the tips for green living helps save our planet. All of these involve just a few changes to our daily habits.Just walk and limit the use of your car. One of the poster images of pollution is our vehicles. It burns fuel. It is not as efficient as we hope it could be, and we use it every single day. To lessen the effects of the air pollution caused by our vehicles, we should limit their use. If we can walk to our destination then just let us go. Not only do we lessen our carbon dioxide emissions, but we also get a good exercise out of it.Use a laptop instead of a computer desktop. Laptops are more energy efficient compared to their bigger counterparts. A laptop is generally 50 percent more efficient in using electricity. Aside from that there are other benefits of a laptop. It is portable so you can work anywhere you like and that you get powerful features without the large size of desktop units.Turn off the faucet while you are brushing your teeth. It is always a better idea to use a glass when we are brushing our teeth and not to just let the faucet keep on running. Therefore，there is less water to waste while we are cleaning our pearly whites. Simply turn off the faucet when you are not using it.Make good use of natural light. We have a great and natural lamp - the sun, and we should learn how to take full advantage of it during daytime. So instead of turning on our lights or lamps even if it is still not evening, we should pull up the drapes and let the natural light come in from the windows. These are just some of the best tips for green living, but of course there are still many of these tips if you just search for them. But you can do your own variation any time just always prioritize how you can use less energy and produce even lesser trash and pollution.26. Whats the best title for the passage?A. How to Save Our Planet B. How to Change Our Daily HabitsC. Tips for Green Living Today D. Green Living and Serious Pollution 27. Compared with a computer desktop, a laptop _. A. less energy efficient B. faster at work C. easy to repair D. easy to carry 28. How many tips does the passage mention for green living today?A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six 29. The underlined word “prioritize” in the last paragraph can be replaced by the word _.A. decrease B. consider C. imagine D. guess 30. Which of the following is NOT true?A. A few changes to daily habits can help a lot.B. While washing teeth we should turn off the faucet.C. Vehicles bring pollution and we should try to avoid.D. In the daytime we should not pull up the drapes.BHolidays are really important. Many of us will have childhood memories of summer holidays where we were taken away from home to experience new environments and learn in different ways.But holidays are expensive and, for those on low wages or living on benefits, they are often unobtainable. Even the cheapest holidays require travel and other additional costs that are difficult for many families to meet.For working parents, the long summer break can be a very difficult problem for childcare. When an annual leave allowance amounts to only five weeks, there is a need to spread this across the year. Couples can find themselves taking leave in turn in order to care for children who are on holiday. For some this makes even an affordable family holiday difficult.The schools that I visit in Nottingham are full of experienced staff committed to giving our children a caring and inspiring learning environment. The number of children receiving free school meals is quite large in Nottingham and many schools have breakfast clubs to make sure that children get a healthy start to the day. Most schools undertake programs of group or individual educational support. Schools also have an important role in safeguarding childrens welfare through the ongoing touch and support with their pupils. During the long summer holidays, much of this is missed.While teachers are holidaying in the UK, many of their pupils spend the whole six weeks on the street where they live. The lack of free school meals for six weeks can result in pressure on a family budget and an inability to afford the inspiring experiences that help children to continue their learning.In setting out its plans for a five-term year, Nottingham City Council (委员会)is seeking to reduce the summer holiday down lo four and a half weeks, with a more balanced five terms of roughly eight weeks, each followed by a two-week break. We believe this will give real “down time for school staff and pupils alike but will be short enough not to cause a real break in learning.We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff, particularly whose own children are educated in other authorities. However, this must be weighed against the benefits for city children for whom we all have the greatest duty of care.31.The passage is probably written by .A. an experienced teacherB. a working parentC. an inspired studentD. a city council member32.The underlined word they in the second paragraph refers to .A. environmentsB. holidaysC. wagesD. benefits33.It is suggested in the passage that the summer break be reduced to.A. 2 weeksB. 4.5 weeksC. 5 weeksD. 6 weeks34.The plans for a shorter summer holiday will help students_.A.obtain the cheapest holidays without additional costsB.get a chance to spend six weeks a term with teachers in schoolC.benefit more from the caring and inspiring learning environmentD.have more school days to receive free school meals35.It can be inferred from the passage that_.A.working parents can enjoy a five-week break to care for their childrenB.the suggested plans for a five-term school year can hardly be carried outC.the long summer holiday gives teachers and students real down timeD.some school staff will say “ No to the plans for a shorter summer holidayCDrunken driving sometimes called Americas socially accepted form of murder has become a national epidemic (流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years.A drunken driver is usually referred to as one with 0.10-blood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken killing has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially concerning young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend (逆转潮流) in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teachthem to resist peer pressure to drink.Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already, to a marked drop in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national ban of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didnt stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption (腐败) and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution. ks5u36. What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey? A. Young drivers were usually bad. B. Drivers should not be allowed to drink. C. Some drivers didnt surprise the legal drinking age. D. The legal drinking age should be raised.37. The underlined word “lenient” in the first paragraph means _. A. seriousB. cruelC. mercifulD. determined38. Which of the following statements best shows the writers opinion of drunken driving? A. It is difficult to solve this problem. B. It may lead to organized crime. C. The new laws can stop heavy drinking D. There should be no bars to serve drinks.39. In America, the number of people killed by drunken drivers on average is _. A. 3 per dayB. 250,000 over the last 10 years C. 72 each dayD. less than 500 each week40. Drunken driving has become a major national problem because _. A. drinking is Americas socially accepted habit B. most Americans drink quite a lot C. not many people realized the severe subsequences caused by heavy drinking D. publicity did not pay much attention to road accidentsDChristopherThomas,27,wasawriterbynightandateacherbydaywhenhenoticedhewasalwaystiredandwaslosingweightfast.Diagnosedwithdiabetes(糖尿病)，Tomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that werent bad enough, he had no health insurance.Afteramonthoffeelingupset,Thomasdecidedhedbetterfindawaytofightback.HeleftCanton,MichiganforNewYork,gotajobwaitingtables,nicknamedhimselftheDiabeticRockstar,andcreated diabeticrockstar. com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved onesa place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources. JasonSwenckisson,Kody,wasdiagnosedwithtypediabetesatsix.Fatherandsonvisittheonline childrens forum together most evenings. Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over,” says Swencki, one of the sites volunteers.”They know what hes going through, so he doesnt feel alone.”Kodyisanythingbutalone:DiabetesisnowtheseventhleadingcauseofdeathintheUnitedStates,with24milliondiagnosedcases.Andmorepeoplearebeingdiagnosedatyoungerages.Thesedays,Thomassmainfocusishischarity,FightIt,whichprovidesmedicinesandsuppliestopeople225todatewhocantaffordadiabeticshugeexpenses.Fhasraisedabout$23,000inproductsandin cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.Evenwithastaffof22volunteers,Thomasoftendevotesupto50hoursaweektohiscause,while still doing his full-time job waiting tables. “ Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure,” says Bentley Gubar , one of Rockstars original members. “But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now.41.WhichofthefollowingistrueofChristopherThomas?A.Heneedstogotothedoctoreveryday.B.HestudiestheleadingcauseofdiabetesC.Hehasapositiveattitudetothisdisease.D.Heencouragesdiabeticsbywritingarticles.42.Dwascreatedfor_.A.diabeticstocommunicate B.volunteerstofindjobsC.childrentoamusethemselvesD.rockstarstoshareresources.43.Accordingtothetext,Kody_.A.feellonelybecauseofhisillnessB.C.helpscreatetheonlinekidsforumsD.writeschildrensstoriesonline44.WhatcanwelearnaboutFightIt?A.Ithelpsthediabeticsinfinancialdifficulties.B.Itorganizespartiesforvolunteeronceayear.C.Itofferslessexpensivemedicinetodiabetics.D.Itownsawell-knownmedicalwebsite.45.ThelastparagraphsuggeststhatThomas_.A.worksfull-timeinadiabetescharityB.employs22peopleforhiswebsiteC.helpsdiabeticsinhisownway D.tiestofindacurefordiabetes第二节 信息匹配（共5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。请阅读下列招聘信息A.Personal CompanionWealthy, eccentric writer, 68, seeks young attractive traveling companion and personal secretary, 18-30. Must have warm, cheerful personality. Opportunity to visit Europe and Japan and meet interesting people. 263-7693. Ask for Mrs. Arden.B.Kitchen Staff for HotelSummer positions available for assistant chefs and experiences kitchen help. Good salary. Shift work(6AM-2PM or 3PM-11PM ).Call 629-7748 ext. 110.C.Collection Agency Seeks men or women willing to work on evenings. Knowledge of karate or other self-defense useful skills. Good salary for the right person. No work on weekends. Call 257-3636 between 9:00 and 5:00 Mon.Sat.D.Good with Animals? Young person 18-25 wanted for work in animal hospital. Must be able to handle dogs, cats, birds, snakes, and other pets. Job includes some clerical work. Must have drivers license. Call 935-2201.E.Want to be Rich? New, expanding company seeks management trainees. Good salary and benefits. Excellent opportunities for promotion skills. Knowledge of French or Spanish plus not essential. No previous experience necessary. Call now at 439-2208. F.Excellent Math TeachersMath teachers wanted for a private school. Very good salary and 3-month-long vacation each year. Must be teachers with good knowledge of Math. Previous working experience as a teacher is not necessary but preferred. Call 831-3452. 请阅读以下人员信息，然后匹配人员与相