省扬高中2015届高三英语第二次学情调研.doc

2014-2015学年高三年级第一学期第二次学情调研
英 语 试 卷 2014.10.23
命题人 王蓓 审核人 王琴

第一部分 听力(共两节,满分20分)

第二部分：英语知识运用
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. — Jimmy had a lot of parties recently.
— Yes, that might ______ why he didn’t do well in the test.
A. sum up B. account for C. push for D. make for
22. ______ by a greater demand of vegetables, farmers have built more greenhouses.
A. Being driven B. Driven C. To drive D. Having driven
23. some female college students have been killed while making trips, it is necessary to increase students’ awareness of self-protection.
A．Supposing B．Considering C．Supposed D．Considered
24. The lucky fans will be picked out rather than chosen beforehand to perform with the singer during the concert.
A. by accident B. on earth C. at random D. on average
25. —I wonder what makes you a good salesperson.
—I _______ as a waiter for three years , which contributes a lot to my today’s work.
A. serve B. have served C had served D. served
26. I’ll share a story with you this class, one music can touch one’s soul and change one’s life.
A．that B．which C．when D．where
27. I had been looking for the book for two days _____ I found it at last.
A. until B. when C. before D. while
28. The actor ______ increasing popularity, but he was too shallow ______ drugs.
A. could gain; to take B. could have gained; to take
C. could have gained; as to take D. could have gained; and took
29. The song, created by a famous singer, has great melody and good lyrics, which quickly and can be heard everywhere.
A. keeps on B. takes on C. catches on D. holds on
30. 　　　　 I saw Linda, she was playing the piano attentively.
A. At the first time B. For the first time
C. By the first time D. The first time
31. When asked what original intention led them to volunteer, about half of _______ said they were willing to devote themselves.
A. whom B. whose C. them D. who
32. “Freeze, you guy! ____, and I’ll shoot you.” an old man with a gun in his hand shouted at me.
A. If you go for one more step B. Going for one more step
C. One more step D. You going for one more step
33. I tried to come closer to watch the bird, but as soon as it noticed me, ________ into the woods.
A．away it flew B．away flew it C．did it fly away D．did away it fly
34. There are many famous cultural relics in our country, many ______ thousands of years ago.
A. dated back to B. date back to C. dating back to D. were dated back to
35. —He is a very hard-working student.
—______ . As far as I know, he often burns the midnight oil.
A．You can say that again. B．Absolutely not C．Heaven knows D．No way.

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces. Each of us must choose which we want to 36 our future and our expectations. We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or 37 . It’s our decision: From which perspective do we want to view life? Will we look up in 38 or down in desperation? I believe in the upward look. I choose to 39 the positive and skip right over the negative.
An optimistic attitude is not a luxury; it’s a(n) 40 . The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, and how well you will get along with other people. 41 , negative thoughts, attitudes, and expectations 42 themselves; they become a self-fulfilling prophecy (预言). Pessimism creates a dark place where no one wants to live.
　　Years ago, I drove into a service station to get some gas. It was a beautiful day, and I was feeling great. As I walked into the station to pay for the gas, the attendant said to me, “How do you feel?” That seemed like a(n) 43 question, but I felt fine and told him so. “You don’t look well,” he replied. This 44 me completely by surprise. A little 45 confidently, I told him that I had 46 felt better. Without hesitation, he continued to tell me how bad I looked and that my skin appeared yellow.
　　By the time I left the service station, I was feeling a little 47 . About a block away, I 48 over to the side of the road to look at my face in the mirror. How did I feel? Was I affected with jaundice(黄疸)? Was everything all right? By the time I got home, I was beginning to feel a little nauseous(恶心). Did I have a bad liver? Had I 49 some rare disease?
On another beautiful day, when I went into that gas station, feeling 50 again, I figured out what had happened. The place had recently been painted a bright, distasteful 51 , and the light reflecting 52 the walls made everyone inside look as though they had hepatitis（肝炎）! I wondered how many other folks had 53 the way I did. I had let one short conversation with a total 54 change my attitude for an entire day. He told me I looked sick, and before long, I was actually feeling sick. That single 55 observation had a great effect on the way I felt and acted.
The only thing more powerful than negativism is a word of optimism and hope. When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished.
36. A. shape B. decide C. preview D. transform
37. A. forgive B. curse C. praise D. regret
38. A. vain B. anger C. action D. hope
39. A. highlight B. analyze C. evaluate D. introduce
40. A. necessity B. opportunity C. quality D. identity
41. A. Actually B. Consequently C. Accordingly D. Contrarily
42. A. rely on B. feed on C. go on D. take on
43. A. familiar B. ordinary C. odd D. easy
44. A. got B. took C. stopped D. made
45. A. more B. less C. quite D. too
46. A. never B. ever C. once D. always
47. A. uneasy B. unconcerned C. unsatisfied D. unaffected
48. A. got B. came C. took D. pulled
49. A. come up B. brought up C. picked up D. put up
50. A. fine B. upset C. sick D. calm
51. A. gray B. blue C. yellow D. red
52. A. in B. over C. off D. through
53. A. quit B. adapted C. answered D. reacted
54. A. liar B. onlooker C. attendant D. stranger
55. A. positive B. negative C. careful D. rigid

第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Ryo Desmidt is in his first year at a kindergarten in Hong Kong and seems like an especially gifted child. That’s because his parents say he can communicate in three languages. He is three years old．Since he was ten months old，his mother, Momoe，has been taking him to Learn parole five times a week in a center where he is taught to listen, speak and interact in English, Mandarin and Japanese. He attends a language school in the city that offers courses for children as young as a few months old.
Some parents will even pay a tutor to speak in a particular language for an hour in the belief that their baby will absorb this. This is just one of the many examples of how parents in Hong Kong are trying to get ahead of the game by giving their children a competitive edge in the race for limited school places.
With a large expatriate（移居外国者）community and an increase in mainland Chinese parents wishing to send their kids across the border to school, Hong Kong’s world-class educational system is under siege （被包围）with applications．And this pressure is being felt by parents, many of whom are starting early and trying their best to outshine thousands of other applicants for limited pre-school opportunities, believing it will give them an advantage when it comes to getting a primary school place.
At this time of year，parents go into a frenzy（疯狂）queuing for application forms at schools across Hong Kong. In the city’s northern district, Hong Kong and mainland parents have even camped out overnight to get their hands on the right admission forms. According to Fung Kai Kindergarten in the city’s Sheung Shui district, around 2,000 people queued up to apply for only 240 available spaces on October 7—the police were even called in to deal with complaints about people cutting the queue.
In Hong Kong，where formal pre—school education begins at the age of three，many prospective parents begin mapping out education plans before their children are born. Desmidt, an expatriate mother living in Hong Kong, revealed she started looking for potential kindergartens and playgroups during her pregnancy. “In Hong Kong, if you don’t get into a good pre-nursery or kindergarten, it’s really difficult to get into a good primary school, and that’s why you already have to have a plan when you are pregnant.”
56．It can be inferred that parents in Hong Kong .
A．think education in kindergarten is very necessary
B．spend much on their children’s language learning
C．try their best to help children with study
D．try to set examples for others in children’s education
57．Why is it more difficult to apply for Hong Kong’s schools?
A．Because more kids in the mainland are studying there.
B．Because education in Hong Kong is the best of the world.
C．Because children in Hong Kong are outstanding.
D．Because the education starting point in Hong Kong is high.

B
Richard Allen, a lecturer in psychology at Leeds University, has worked on many final year dissertations（论文）, and considers them one of the most rewarding and productive experiences that university offers students. If students plunge in（投入）blindly, all options not considered, the final semester of university can be very bleak indeed.
“The process embeds（深入）the students in the research experience, encourages them to take ownership of their work, and develops a range of specific and transferable skills that can be used in their future careers,” he says.
“This extended process of cooperation between students and supervisor（论文导师）is therefore a key part of a degree’s training, and is certainly preferable to just running yet another taught module. Even for me personally (15 years afterwards), I have detailed memories of working on my final year dissertation, but do not remember what any of my final year taught modules were!”
On contact hours and the benefits for individuals he adds, “It does depend on the strengths of the student, and the support available from the supervisor, with the latter varying with the subject, university, department, individual, and workload, which is, unfortunately, ever-increasing.”
The decision holds the same conflicts as any module choice. Good marks and employability will always be priorities（优先事项）, and in the final year the pressure is on to make the most of a degree.
Lewis Buxton, a third year at University of East Anglia (UEA), will write a creative writing dissertation. He said of the opportunity to work with his tutor, “It is possibly one of the few times in my life that I will work with one person in private on a collection of poems and have the time and the resources to do whatever I want with it.”
“I do not always agree with independent study as it is marketed by the university but I definitely hope that this is a situation where I am supported and yet allowed a lot of freedom to do what I want with my work.”
The anxious third-year gives surprisingly heartening insight; stress is rarely founded in hatred of hard work. It is the fear of not doing themselves or their topic justice. Where dissertations are undertaken, they are devoted to, enthused over, and become a unique, valuable project. But that only happens when the question, the tutor, and the university policies are right.
58．Richard Allen thinks that working on dissertations .
A．during holidays is not worthwhile B．helps develop professional abilities
C．must be carried out under the tutor’s guide D．has nothing to do with taught modules
59．We can infer from the passage that Richard Allen .
A．graduated from university in the late 1990s
B．is too busy to help and support his students
C．taught how to write dissertations at school
D．worked on dissertations in university for fifteen years
60．What do you know about Lewis Buxton?
A．He thinks the dissertation is an independent job.
B．He wrote a collection of poems on his own.
C．He sometimes agrees to cooperate with others in studies.
D．He thinks others’ help may spoil his freedom.
61．About stress of dissertations the author thinks that it .
A．appears when you desire to be successful
B．doesn’t matter once you don’t care about it
C．gets more serious if you’re sick of hard work
D．comes from doubting whether you are equal to dissertations writing

C
Why should mankind explore space? Why should money, time and effort be spent exploring and researching something with so few apparent benefits? Why should resources be spent on space rather than on conditions and people on Earth?
These are questions that, understandably, are very often asked.Perhaps the best answer lies in our genetic makeup(基因构成) as human beings. What drove our ancestors to move from the trees into the plains, and on into all possible areas and environments? The wider the spread of a species, the better its chance of survival. Perhaps the best reason for exploring space is this genetic tendency to expand wherever possible.
Nearly every successful civilization has explored, because by doing so, any dangers in surrounding areas can be identified and prepared for. Without knowledge, we may be completely destroyed by the danger. With knowledge, we can lessen its effects.
Exploration also allows minerals and other potential resources to be found. Even if we have no immediate need of them, they will perhaps be useful later. Resources may be more than physical possessions. Knowledge or techniques have been acquired through exploration. The techniques may have medical applications which can improve the length or quality of our lives. We have already benefited from other spin-offs including improvements in earthquake prediction, in satellites for weather forecasting and in communications systems. Even non-stick pans and mirrored sunglasses are by-products of technological developments in space, the chance to save ourselves might not exist.
While many resources are spent on what seems a small return, the exploration of space allows creative, brave and intelligent members of our species to focus on what may serve to save us. While space may hold many wonders and explanations of how the universe wa