中午30分钟强化训练十九熊堂升.doc

襄阳四中2016届高三下学期中午30分钟强化训练 十九 熊堂升
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When I look back at my decision to be a working mom, I realize that I didn’t think I had any other choice. Hubby and I had been a two-income family 1 the time we were married. It didn’t occur to me that we would be anything else though it’s hardly news that the choice has its 2 .
Hubby traveled a lot when our kids were young, and I often was a weekday single mom. I had an understanding boss，who allowed me to work a(n) 3 schedule for about 12 years. My 32-hour work week provided the chance to 4 in my kids’ kindergarten classrooms.
The woman who cared for the kids in our 5 was truly a gift from God. Nan and I 6 values and parenting styles.
Never underestimate (低估) the value of 7 . When Dad was away, the kids knew the drill. Though sports activities and piano lessons 8 interrupted our schedules, generally we got up, fed and out without much commotion (混乱) and back in, fed and 9 with a little time left over for a game or a favorite TV show. Mom got a few minutes of 10 before crashing herself (睡觉).
Looking back on the past, I realize we could have made other 11 . We could have been vegetable gardeners. Lots of families 12 on one income. But I think we would have lost something just as important as my 13 .
My work at the News Sentinel has been 14 and exciting. I’ve worked with people I never would have met had I been at home. I’ve spent my career 15 sentences and stories and learning and passing along information about our community. My coworkers are my Tennessee family.
My work has been 16 to me in important ways, and I think it has made me a more interesting and satisfied 17 and parent. And our family has learned to 18 the time we do have together.
19 , if I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t change my decision to be a working mom. And I wouldn’t change a single thing about the kids who 20 it.
1. A. from B. before C. at D. by
2. A. benefits B. challenges C. shortcomings D. privileges
3. A. extended B. packed C. reduced D. regulated
4. A. interfere B. compete C. study D. volunteer
5. A. separation B. absence C. adjustment D. conflict
6. A. influenced B. suspected C. ignored D. shared
7. A. routine B. independence C. cooperation D. schedule
8. A. systematically B. effectively C. occasionally D. adequately
9. A. entertained B. exercised C. bathed D. worked
10. A. silence B. excitement C. panic D. peace
11. A. choices B. fortunes C. achievements D. mistakes
12. A. fail B. manage C. squeeze D. part
13. A. passion B. children C. income D. life
14. A. dull B. tiring C. fun D. demanding
15. A. reading B. shaping C. reciting D. digesting
16. A. meaningful B. optional C. original D. stressful
17. A. employer B. breadwinner C. learner D. partner
18. A. kill B. value C. spend D. save
19. A. Therefore B. Meanwhile C. However D. Otherwise
20. A. pushed for B. centered around C. catered to D. lived through
二 阅读理解
A
The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a potential hunger crisis in poor countries and an energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past two years. And oil prices have increased more than three times since the start of 2004. These food-price increases, combined with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even affect political stability. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.
Here are three steps to ease the current food crisis and avoid the potential for a global crisis. The first is to promote the dramatic success of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity. Malawi’s harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion altogether.
Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed payment of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol(乙醇) changed from corn. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods—tree crops, grasses and wood products—but there's no case for the government to pay to put the world's dinner into the gas tank.
Third, we urgently need to weather-proof the world's crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond—which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather—can make the difference between a good harvest and a bad one. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation hind to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise.
21. What is the cause of global food crisis?
A. Hunger crisis in poor countries. B. Increasing food prices.
C. World leaders’ failure to think ahead. D. Increased energy costs.
22. An international fund based on the Malawi model would______.
A. cost each of the developed countries $10 billion per year
B. aim to double the harvest in southern African countries in a year
C. decrease the food prices as well as the energy prices
D. give poor farmers access to fertilizer and highly productive seeds
23. With the second step, the author expresses the idea that ______.
A. it is not wise to change food crops into gas
B. it is misleading to put tree crops into the gas tank
C. we should get alternative forms of fuel in any way
D. biofuels should be developed on a large scale
24. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. A rain-collecting pond is a simple safeguard against dry weather.
B. A Climate Adaptation Fund has been established to help poor farmers.
C. The world has made a serious promise to build farm ponds.
D. It makes a great difference whether we develop wood products or not.
25. In the passage, the author calls on us to______.
A. slow down but not to stop economic
B. develop tree crops, grasses and wood products
C. achieve economic growth and political stability
D. act now so as to relieve the global food shortage

B
As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods,” with a tone of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring. Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.
Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly—tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence(青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.
26. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.
A. spend their free time B. play golf and other sports
C. avoid doing their schoolwork D. keep away from their parents
27. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?
A. The activities in the woods were well planned.
B. Human history is not the result of exploration.
C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.
D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.
28. The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. calm             B. doubtful             C. serious               D. optimistic
29. From the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.
A. the author and his friends are of the same age
B. they stopped going to the woods because they were adults now
C. they usually didn’t go to the woods in winter
D. all high school students would go dancing on Friday evenings
30. How does the author feel about his childhood?
A. Happy but short.                       B. Lonely but memorable.
C. Boring and meaningless.            D. Long and unforgettable.

完形：36—40 ABCDB 41—45 DACCD 46—50 ABCCB 51—55 ADBAD
阅读：21—25 CDAAD 26—30 ADBCA
解析：21. C。细节理解题。文章第一段有“world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis”一句。
22. D。参照第二段原文“…promote the dramatic success of Malawi…which…established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity.”。
23. A。作者的观点很明确：“there's no case for the government to pay to put the world's dinner into the gas tank”。
24. A。参考文中语句：“…a farm pond—which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather”。
25. D。作者通过对现状的分析，提出“we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally”。26. A。细节判断题。文章开头就有““The woods” was our part-time address”一句。27. D。从文中第二段的“Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way”可知，作者在树林里的活动没有系统性，完全里came up along the way。
28. B。由“does that successfully”与“could never climb high enough”可看出它们之间的对立性，所以对于“does that successfully”要doubtful。
29. C。推理判断题。根据“the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter”一句的“again after winter”来判断。
30. A。推理判断。通过文章前面和后面的“…do whatever we feel like for a while…all of a sudden…we really were rather big to be up in a tree”来推断。

襄阳四中2016届高三下学期中午30分钟强化训练 二十 熊堂升
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A Deed a Day
It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat __36__ we had to take the girls to their next activity. My husband seemed a bit __37__ that dinner was not on the table. 
That night, I had a heavy __38__, thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line (流水线). We had become too __39__ in our own tasks and not very considerate towards those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would __40__ our own agendas and energize us toward the common good.
I bought a notebook, named it “Our Deed Diary” and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a __41__ for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our__42__. And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.
I thought one deed a day was too easy. However, it was actually __43__ than it seemed because it had to be something __44__what we had already done. Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not __45__.
We had a rough __46__. On some days, someone would forget to __47__ a good deed, while on other days, we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary. After a few weeks though, I found myself waking up in the morning trying to __48__what good deed I could do for someone that day. My daughters began to rush to me after school to __49_me the good deed they had done.
Now, after a year, I am happy to say that it is making a(n) __50__ in our lives. Instead of always __51__ what the day will bring for us, we think about what we can do for someone else. 
Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so 52 I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only __53__ by giving to someone else from your heart. The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for or expect anything in __54__. So, when someone does return the favor, it is an enormous and positive __55_.
36. A. though B. unless C. before D. while
37. A. annoyed B. puzzled C. embarrassed D. frightened 
38. A. shoulder B. stomach C. foot D. heart
39. A. absorbed B. interested C. confident D. successful 
40. A. repeat B. relate C. refocus D. recall
41. A. kindness B. task C. job D. copy 
42. A. room B. home C. school D. town
43. A. stranger B. sweeter C. harder D. bigger
44. A. beyond B. from C. about D. between
45. A. matter B. count C. last D. happen
46. A. time B. life C. start D. idea 
47. A. praise B. check C. record D. do
48. A. describe B. decide C. remember D. explain 
49. A. bring B. teach C. offer D. tell
50. A. effort B. choice C. difference D. fortune
51. A. forgetting B. believing C. knowing D. wondering 
52. A. tiring B. moving C. surprising D. rewarding
53. A. experience B. imagine C. predict D. exchange 
54. A. silence B. return C. time D. order 
55. A. effect B. bonus C. attitude D. contribution 
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36. C 37. A 38. D 39. A 40. C 41. A 42. B 43. C 44. A 45. B 
46. C 47. D 48. B 49. D 50. C 51. D 52. D 53. A 54. B 55. B

A
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