2016届黑龙江双鸭山第一中学高三上学期12月月考英语试卷
黑龙江
高三
阶段练习
2015-12-18
55次
整体难度:
适中
考查范围:
语篇范围、主题
一、阅读理解 添加题型下试题
Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals
“In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病) . Believing my career was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason why I should stop training and competing. That was it — the encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believe in myself. I am not saying that it isn’t difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.”
Karen Pickering
Swimming World Champion
“I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success—you can’t follow a career in any field without being well-organized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you’ll be a step closer to achieving them.”
Kirsten Best
Poet & Writer
“When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can’t achieve something. Then, there are other distractions, such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as ‘calm’, ‘peace’ or ‘focus’, either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can become second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological tool.”
1. What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?
A.Difficulties influenced his career |
B.Specialists offered him medical advice. |
C.Training helped him defeat his disease. |
D.He overcame the shadow of illness to win. |
A.Her achievements | B.Her daily happenings |
C.Her training schedule | D.Her sports career |
A.Ways that help one to focus. |
B.Activities that turn one’s attention away. |
C.Words that help one to feel less tense. |
D.Habits that make it hard for one to relax. |
A.Hard work. | B.Devotion. |
C.Courage. | D.Self-confidence. |
Eleven-year-old Evan Green doesn’t want to save just one tree — he wants to save a whole rainforest!
In the Redwood City, Calif, a boy started a group called the Red Dragon Conservation Team four years ago to do just that. So far, the team’s members have raised $4,500. That’s enough to purchase and protect more than 16 acres of rainforest in Costa Rica through the Center for Ecosystem survival.
Every year, thousands of square miles of rainforest are destroyed worldwide. Logging and farming are mostly likely to blame, scientists say. The loss is terrible news for animals and people. Even though rainforests cover less than 2 percent of the earth, they are home to half the world’s plants and animals. Rainforests also provide water and help control the earth’s climate.
Evan’s work to save the rainforests recently earned him a Barron prize for Young Heroes. The prizes are given to children or teenagers who have made a positive difference in the world. Evan’s goal is "to save enough rainforests to last forever". He won’t have to do it alone. His actions have already inspired other kids to chip in. One girl asked for donations instead of presents on her birthday. She raised $850. Other kids are starting their own conservation teams.
Evan says everyone can help the planet — even by taking small steps such as recycling. He and his family try to make a difference every day. "We recycle, we try to limit our garbage — we’ve been walking a little more, and we buy local food," Evan said.
5. Evan started the group ____________.A.to help the poor | B.to make himself well-known |
C.to win the Barron prize | D.to save the rainforest |
A.About $ 4,500. | B.About $ 850. |
C.About $ 1,000. | D.About $ 280. |
A.actions speak louder than words |
B.we can all do something to protect the earth |
C.we should learn to recycle from now on |
D.a good beginning makes a good ending |
A.Evan Green — a famous teenager |
B.The Red Dragon Conservation Team |
C.Boy gathers support for rainforests |
D.Rainforests are being destroyed |
The school-to-work program is built around a partnership. For example, Eastman Kodak, a major employer in Colorado, introduces students to business by helping them construct a model city using small pieces of wood. “The children use the models to decide on the best place to set up schools,” says Lucille Mantelli, director for Eastman Kodak in Colorado. Kodak introduces math by teaching fifth graders to use their pocket money properly. They also provide one-on-one job watching experiences and offer chances of practice for high school juniors and seniors. “Students come to the workplace two or three hours a week,” explains Mantelli. “They do the job for us. We pay them and they get school credits (学分). We also give them our views on their performance and developmental opportunities.”
In these partnerships, everybody wins. The students tend to take more difficult courses than students in schools that don’t offer such programs. Business benefits by having a better prepared workforce needed in future years. “It’s a way for us to work with the school systems to develop the type of workforce we’ll need in future years,” Mantelli continued. “We need employees who understand the basics of reading and writing. We need them to be good at math and to be comfortable working on a team.”
“Our theory is that they can learn as much outside the classroom as in. All students have the ability to change the world, not just to live in it. To do that, they have to know how to solve problems and use critical thinking skills. We need to encourage them to dream about jobs that go beyond what they see today,” concludes a school-to-work program organizer.
9. Using the example of Eastman Kodak in Colorado, the writer shows us ____.
A.what role the business plays in the program |
B.why the students get paid for their jobs |
C.where the students have their math class |
D.what the school decides to do |
A.make what students learn in school related to the workplace |
B.introduce new job opportunities to schools |
C.improve relations between students and teachers |
D.offer students more difficult courses |
A.a math teacher |
B.a company manager |
C.a school designer |
D.a program organizer |
【知识点】 学校生活
If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal (夜间活动的) species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal (白天的) creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don’t think of ourselves as diurnal beings. Yet it’s the only way to explain what we’ve done to the night: We’ve engineered it to receive us by filling
The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences — called light pollution — whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. III-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and completely changes the light levels — and light rhythms — to which many forms of life, including, ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect or life is affected .
In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze (霾) that mirrors our fear of the dark. We’ve grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night — dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadow on Earth, is wholly beyond our experience, beyond memory almost.
We’ve lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further form the truth. Among mammals alone, the number of nocturnal species is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet (磁铁). The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being “captured” by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms. Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.
Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times righter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint including most other creatures ,we do need darkness .Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.
Living in a glare of our making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage — the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night .In a very real sense light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way — the edge of our galaxy arching overhead.
12. According to the passage, human being .A.prefer to live in the darkness |
B.are used to living in the day light |
C.were curious about the midnight world |
D.had to stay at home with the light of the moon |
A.The night. | B.The moon. |
C.The sky. | D.The planet. |
A.provide examples of animal protection |
B.show how light pollution affects animals |
C.compare the living habits of both species |
D.explain why the number of certain species has declined |
A.light pollution dose harm to the eyesight of animals |
B.light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages |
C.human beings cannot go to the outer space |
D.human beings should reflect on their position in the universe |
二、未知 添加题型下试题
A. Inventors are now working on steam cars as well as electric cars |
B. Americans know cars very well. |
C. However, some have realized the serious problems of the air pollution that is caused by cars. |
D. One way to get rid of the polluted air is to build a car that does not pollute. |
E. However, the number of vehicles has continued to increase in recent years. |
F. Americans won’t live without cars! |
G. Thus the problem of air pollution would become less important than that of unemployment. |
【知识点】 高中英语综合库