浙江省湖州市南浔中学2013届高三第一次质量检测英语试题

南浔中学2013届高三第一次质量检测英语试题本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分,共120分,考试时间120分钟。第一卷(共两部分,满分90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）1. -Im going to San Francisco for a couple of days. -_. I wish I could get away for a while.A. It doesnt matterB. Forget itC. I really envy youD. I cant agree more2. If you grow up in _ large family, you are more likely to develop _ ability to get on well with _ others.A. /; an; theB. a; the; theC. the; an; theD. a; the; /3. -George and Lucy got married last week. Did you go to their wedding? - No, I _. Did they have a big wedding?A. hadnt been invited B. have not been invitedC. was not invitedD. didnt invited4. - Id like to go on a journey to Africa because I can see a lot of wild animals there. - Yes, its a region _ in wildlife.A. beneficialB. abundantC. annualD. sharp5. Once or twice my next-door neighbour has had difficulty making decisions on his own, but _ he is an independent man.A. in allB. in other wordsC. or ratherD. all in all6. I wonder how long it will be _ the engineer could adapt to the new work.A. thatB. whenC. beforeD. since7. The travel agent has recently _ golf to provide himself with some relaxation.A. taken onB. taken upC. taken overD. taken off8. I dont remember how many years ago _ I last showed you around the farm.A. was it thatB. it was thatC. was it whenD. it was when9. The lessons in Book 7 are more difficult to learn than _ in the first 6 books.A. the oneB. that C. themD. those10. The hearing-impaired girl remembered clearly _ many times in hospital.A. being testedB. testingC. to be testedD. to test11. They are shocked that in this town the traffic rules are not strictly _.A. recommendedB. declared C. concernedD. obeyed 12. Ill always remember the day _ I witnessed how the killer helped the whalers catch the huge whales.A. whichB. in whichC. on whichD. whenever13. Young people like hanging out together to enjoy the _ of their peers.A. comfortB. companyC. fellowD. companion14. The little girl was scared _ the fierce dog because she was scared _ by it.A. to approach; of being bitten B. of approaching; to biteC. of approaching; to be bittenD. to approach; to be bitten15. You should try to _ new circumstances as quickly as you can.A. settle inB. adapt toC. sit aroundD. test out16. _ several computer games, the deaf student went to university for his graduation certificate.A. InventingB. InventedC. Having inventedD. Being invented17. The reason why many rivers in this area have _ recently is _ the fact that many trees have been cut down.A. dried up; relevant toB. dried out; content toC. stuck out; free ofD. stood out; opposed to18. Had they known what was coming next, they _ second thoughts.A. may haveB. could haveC. must have hadD. might have had19. He was lacking in money for his business and badly in _ of financial help.A. caseB. faceC. need D. term20. _ is worse is _ we dont have adequate time to work on the solution.A. It; thatB. What; thatC. What; ifD. It; why第二节：完形填空（共20 小题，每小题1 分, 满分20分）Last year I was put into a low-level math class at school. The reason I was in this class had 21 to do with my intelligence. I am blind. The school 22 that it would be better for me to learn at a lower level because it takes me a great deal longer to complete school tasks.The only problem with being in this class was that I was 23 by “at-risk” students, who did not perform well in school and were 24 in trouble with the school and the law. On Monday mornings, the kids talked about what they had done during the past 25 . I tried not to listen, but it is almost 26 not to. I heard things in that classroom that shocked me. 27 the teacher was in the room, that didnt stop my classmates from 28 their stories of drugs and violence.29 I was tired of their rude words. I even began to 30 the fact that I had to be here. One Tuesday morning, I went to a Christian Student Union meeting before school, where a guest speaker talked to us about praying for our 31 no matter how much we hated them. I thought a lot and began to pray for the kids in my class, asking God to 32 them for they werent bad kids; they were just 33 .34 what I did was automatic. When I heard their voices in class, I would pray, “ God, please bless so-and-so ” But as I continued, something was growing 35 my heart for them. My classmates gradually became more than just annoying kids to me. They began to feel like family, and I was learning to love them in a way I 36 thought possible.I now see that praying is such a 37 act. When I pray for those around me, it also 38 my life, and it changes my understanding of others. I realized Gods blessings enabled me to see the world through 39 eyes. The prayers I said for others 40 to help me the most.21. A. somethingB. nothingC. everythingD. anything22. A. describedB. doubtedC. decidedD. defended23. A. laughedB. beatenC. trickedD. surrounded24. A. constantlyB. regularlyC. occasionallyD. especially25. A. holidayB. monthC. weekendD. party26. A. informalB. unnecessaryC. illegalD. impossible27. A. Only ifB. Now thatC. As thoughD. Even though28. A. sharingB. admiringC. learningD. creating29. A. No wonderB. Without doubtC. Without delayD. No sense30. A. proveB. refuseC. hateD. ignore31. A. friendsB. enemiesC. teachersD. relatives32. A. appreciateB. dismissC. promoteD. forgive33. A. lostB. forgottenC. cheatedD. disturbed34. A. In generalB. After allC. At firstD. On the whole35. A. beyondB. underC. aboveD. inside36. A. neverB. everC. evenD. once37. A. technicalB. powerfulC. typicalD. suitable38. A. reflectsB. satisfiesC. risksD. blesses39. A. lovingB. shiningC. brightD. blind40. A. turned upB. turned awayC. turned outD. turned over第二部分：阅读理解（共25小题；每小题2分，满分50分）第一节：阅读下列短文， 从每题所给的四个选项中， 选出最佳选项。AWelcome to one of the largest collections of footwear（鞋类）in the world that will make you green with envy. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see exhibits（展品）from all over the world. You can find out about shoes worn by everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars.Room 1 The celebrity（名人）footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum. Started in the 1950s, there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities choice of footwear extremely interesting.Room 2 Most of our visitors are amazed and shocked by the collection of “special purpose” shoes onExhibition here at the Museum of Footwear. For example , there are Chinese shoes made of Silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much!Room 3 As well as shoes and boots the museum also exhibits shoe shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For example, there is a metal lamp that resembles a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that like legs!The footwear Library People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library. Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.41. Where would you find a famous singers shoes?A. Room1. B. Room 2.C. Room3. D. The Footwear Library42. All exhibits in each room . A. share the same theme B. have the same shapeC. are made of the same material D. belong to the same social class43. Which of the following is true according to the text? A. The oldest exhibits in Room 1 were made in the 1950s.B. Room 2 is the most visited place in the museum.C. Room 3 has a richer variety of exhibits than the other two.D. Researchers come to the Footwear Library for data.44. The purpose of the text is to get more people to . A. do research B. design shoesC. visit the museum D. follow celebritiesBUntil I was twelve years old, I thought everyone in the world knew about the grinnies, if I thought about the term at all which is unlikely. After all, everyone in my family used the word quite naturally, and we understood each other. So far as I knew, it was a word like any other word like bath, or chocolate, or homework. But it was my homework which led to my discovery that grinnies was a word not known outside my family.My last report card had said that I was a “C” student in English, and my parents, both teachers, decided that no child of theirs would be just an average student of anything. So nightly I spelled words aloud and answered questions about the fine points of grammar. I wrote and rewrote and rewrote every composition until I convinced my mother that I could make no more improvements. And the hard work paid off. One day the teacher returned compositions, and there it was a big fat, bright red “A” on the top of my paper. Naturally, I was delighted, but I didnt know I was attracting attention until the teacher spoke sharply, “Helen, what are you doing?”Called suddenly out of my happy thoughts, I said “Oh, Ive got the grinnies!” The teacher and my classmates burst into laughter, and then I understood that grinnies were used inside my family. Other people were not so lucky.And it is really lucky to have the grinnies, an uncontrollable, natural state of great pleasure. Grinnies are shown on the outside by sparkling eyes and a wide, wide smile not just any smile, but one that shows the teeth and stretches the mouth to its limits. A person experiencing the grinnies appears to be all mouth. On the inside grinnies are characterized by a feeling of joyful anxiety. Grinnies usually last just a few seconds, but they can come and go. Sometimes, when life seems just perfect, I have occasional attacks of the grinnies for a whole day.The term originated in my mothers family. Her younger sister, Rose, who had deep dimples (酒窝), often expressed her pleasure with such a grin that the dimples appeared to become permanent. When Rose was about four, she started explaining her funny look by saying, “I have the grinnies”. The term caught on, and it has been an important word in our family now for two generations.The occasion doesnt matter. Anything can bring on the grinnies just so long as one feels great delight. When my brother finally rode his bicycle without training wheels from our house to the corner and back, he came home with the grinnies. When I was little, my mothers announcement that we would have homemade ice cream for dessert always gave me the grinnies. My father had the grinnies when I was chosen to make a speech at the end-of-school-year ceremony. Grinnies can be brought on by a good meal, a sense of pride, a new friend, a telephone call from someone special, an achievement. Or sometimes one gets the grinnies for no reason at all: just a sudden sense of happiness can bring on a case. Whatever brings them on, an attack of the grinnies is among lifes greatest pleasures.In fact, now that I look back on the experience, I feel sorry for my seventh-grade teacher. I think its a pity that she didnt know the word grinnies. Its such a useful term for saying, “Im really, really pleased!”45. After the writer was twelve years old, she _.A. thought everyone knew the meaning of “grinnies”B. equaled “grinnies” to bath or chocolate in meaningC. got to know “grinnies” was used only inside her familyD. discovered the word “grinnies” through her mother46. When her English teacher called her name, the writer was _.A. looking at the big “A” on the top of her paperB. listening to her English teacher attentivelyC. too happy to notice whats happening around herD. busy rewriting and improving her compositions47. According to the writer, the word “grinnies” originates from_. A. her motherB. her aunt C. her brotherD. her father48. The writer feels sorry for her seventh-grade teacher because the teacher_.A. has no pity on her students B. should not have laughed at herC. doesnt have any luck to meet her parentD. has no idea of what “grinnies” is49. What method does the writer use to explain “grinnies”?A. Cause and effect.B. Examples.C. Comparison and contrast.D. Process.CWhich is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true nonbelievers?Once upon a time July 20, 1969, to be specific two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end. Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “bestest” in the whole wide world. Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did. However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The shows creator is a publicity hound (猎狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face. Anyway, NASAs publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASAs effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round I mean, that we had gone to the moon was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.) If NASAs not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (纪念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X. 50. We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _. A. moon landings were invented B. U.S. technology was the best C. moon landing ended successfully D. the Mojave Desert was the launching base51. According to the writer, which of the following is to blame for the story about the hoax? A. NASAs publicity campaign. B. The Fox television program. C. Buzz Aldrin. D. James E. Oberg.52. According to the writer, Mr. X _. A. told a faithful story B. was not treated properly C. was a talented creator D. had a bad reputation53. The believers think that NASAs publicity campaign is _. A. proof to hide the truth B. stupid and unnecessary C. needed to convince the non-believers D. important to develop space technology54. What is implied in the last paragraph? A. NASA should not bother with the non-believers. B. Armstrong was a very private and determined person. C. Armstrong should be as outspoken as Buzz Aldrin. D. NASA should send more astronauts to outer space.55. The tone of the article is _. A. angry B. conversational C. humorousD. matter-of-fact DHe came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.“whats the matter, Schatz?”“Ive got a headache.”“Youd better go back to bed.”“No, I am all right.”“You go to bed. Ill see you when Im dressed.”But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.“You go up to bed,” I said, “You are sick.”“Im all right,” he said.When the doctor came he took the boys temperature.“What is it?” I asked him.“One hundred and two degree.”Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. The germs of influenza(流感) can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia(肺炎).Back in the room I wrote the boys temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.“Do you want me to read to you?”“All right. If you want to,” said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed.I read aloud from Howard Pyles Book of Pirates; but I c