江淮十校高三第三次联考英语试题教学文稿.doc

江淮十校2016高三第三次联考英语试题

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“江淮十校2016届高三第三次联考
英 语
第I 卷
第二部分 阅读理解( 共两节，满分40分)
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。
A
The following five destination shall never be missed
●Blue Lagoon(泻潮）：
Blue Lagoon geothermal(地热) spa is one of the most visited attractions in Iceland. The warm waters are rich in minerals and bathing in the Blue Lagoon is reputed to help some people suffering from skin diseases. The water temperature in the bathing and swimming area of the Lagoon averages 37℃ - 39℃(99F -102F). The Blue Lagoon also operates a research and development facility to help find cures for skin diseases using the mineral-rich water.
●Budapest:
Budapest holds the title “City of Spas” since the year 1934, as it has more hot and medicinal water springs than any other capital city in the world. There are 118 springs in Budapest, providing over 70 million liters of hot water a day. The temperature of the waters is between 22℃ and 40℃.
●El Tatio:
El Tatio is a geyser(间歇泉) field located within the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at 4,320 meters above sea level. With over 80 active geysers, the site is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. It is a major tourist attraction in Chile and is among the highest-elevation(高度) geyser fields in the world. The temperature of the waters goes between 70℃ and 85℃.
●Hokkaido:
Visitors to the Japanese island of Hokkaido have plenty of options. These range from top resorts with thermal baths like the Spa Resort Hawaiians to small traditional inns that have their own small hot pools with water temperature comfortable to skin. Some bathing spots are outdoors and are not associated with any spa or inn. The classic forest and mountain landscapes of this nature-rich island make it a great choice for those seeking a science setting for their baths.
21. What is the common feature of the four places mentioned above?
A.They are all located in the southern part of the globe.
B. The climate of all these places is mild most time of the year.
C. They provide water cure for people with hot springs.
D. They are all open-aired and close to rivers or valleys.
22. Which site of the spring has the greatest gap of water temperature?
A. Blue Lagoon. B. Budapest. C. El Tatio. D. Hokkaido.
23. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. The word “spa” in the passage refers to a kind of treatment with water.
B. El Tatio ranks third in the coverage of springs with highest altitude in the world.
C. Visitors to the Japanese island of Hokkaido come merely to enjoy hot baths.

D. Budapest gets its nickname of City of Spas because it has more springs than any other
place.
B
My aunt died back in about 2003. She was eighty-four and so was my uncle. When she passed he felt miserable. They had been married for over 60 years. After my aunt’s death, he attended his church more frequently and his mourning was nearly unbearable to witness. His only daughter lived clear across the country in the south so he had only himself to make a comfort.
My cousin talked him into selling the house that he and my aunt had built together about twenty-five years before. It was very hard to part with the home they built together. One day he called my cousin who was living in Texas and told her that he reconnected with a lady from a church that he and my aunt went to forty years previously. She played the piano and his church was looking for new music. Her husband had died about seven years previously. He said he just wanted someone to go out to dinner with and spend time with. We were happy for them but had no idea how it would turn out. They were both almost eighty-seven years old.
They were like lovebirds and spent as much time together as they could. They both had one child each, she a son, he a daughter.
The conflict in their relationship came one day when they neither wanted to leave their respective churches. Before too long they realized that they did not want to be apart. They would find a new church together. They planned to marry. When he took her to a jewelry store and bought her a diamond, the employees were so impressed that they had a big write up in our own local paper, “The ‘Truth for Valentines’ Day. ” They prepared for their wedding. They moved the wedding date up because neither wanted to wait any longer to “be together”.
They got married in her house, where her first marriage took place. It was such a beautiful refreshing thing to see, two people who you would have thought had pretty much lived their lives, were beginning a new one together.
24. Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage above?
A. Love me, love my dog B. Love is never too late
C. Love is blind D. Love at first sight
25. How many characters are mentioned altogether in the story?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
26. Which of the statements is true of my uncle?
A. He loved church activities more than anything else all his lifetime.
B. He lived in the south of the country, far away from his daughter living in Texas.
C. His wedding day fell on Valentines’ Day when he borrowed the lady a diamond.
D. His conflict with the lady arose in that they were both attached to their own churches.
27. Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?
A. When my aunt died, my uncle had been married for more than three score of years.
B. My uncle and my aunt built their love-nest most probably in the late 1980s.
C. When my uncle got to know the lady for the first time, they were already in their eighties.
D. After my uncle and the lady got married, they lived in a beautiful new house.
C
I’ve often wondered how exactly sleep, or lack of it, can have such an awful effect on our bodies and, guess what, how much we sleep switches good genes(基因) on and had genes off.
In the first half of 2013, the Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey found a direct link between hours spent sleeping and genes. Every cell in our bodies carries genetic instructions in our DNA that act as a kind of operating handbook. However, each cell only “reads” the part of this handbook it needs at any given moment.
Can sleep affect how a gene reads instructions? It’s a question asked by Professor Derk-Jan Dijk at the University of Surrey. He set up an experiment and asked his volunteers to spend a week sleeping around seven and a half hours to eight hours a night and the next sleeping six and a half to seven hours.
Blood samples were taken each week to compare which genes in blood cells were being used during the long and short nights. The results were rather surprising. Several hundred genes changed in the amount they were being used, including some that are linked to heart disease, cancer, and Type 2 diabetes. Genes to do with cell repair and replacement were used much less.
Sleep restriction(six and a half to seven hours a night) changed 380genes. Of these, 220 genes were down regulated (their power was increased). Those affected included body-clock genes which are linked to diabetes(糖尿病). One of the most downgraded genes is that which has a role in controlling insulin(胰岛素) and is linked to diabetes and insomnia(失眠). The most upgraded gene is linked to heart disease.
So changing sleep by tiny amounts can upgrade or downgrade genes that can influence our health and the diseases we suffer from when we sleep too little.
The important message is that getting close to eight hours of sleep a night can make a dramatic difference to our health in just a few days through the way it looks after our genes.
28. What kind of relation is directly discussed in the passage?
A. Sleeping hours and changes of genes. B. Sleeping hours and diseases.
C. Changes of genes and diseases. D.Genes and health.
29. What can we learn about Professor Derk-Jan Kijk’s experiment?
A. The experiment was carried out to find the answer to how genes affect sleep.
B. The experiment took a period of more than two weeks to reach a conclusion.
C. His volunteers were divided into two groups with two different sleeping patterns.
D. Blood samples of the volunteers were checked afterwards to decide how many genes
changed in sleeping.
30. Which of the following may be concluded from the passage?
A. The experiment was performed at the University of Surrey in early 2013.
B. Body-clock genes are associated with heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
C. Sleep restrictions may contribute to disease like diabetes, insomnia, and heart disease.
D. 7.5－8 hours’ sleep pattern makes little difference compared with 6.5－7 hours’ sleep
pattern.
31. Which of the following can be inferred from the findings of the sleep research?
A. When there is a sleep restriction, genes to do with cell repair and replacement function
less.
B. In a sleep, several hundred genes change in the amount. The more changes, the worse
results.
C. When genes are up regulated, they do good to health; when genes are down regulated ,
they do harm to health.
D. Eight hours of sleep a day can be beneficial to our health in that it looks after our genes.
D
When you meet someone for the first time, do you put across a good impression? And what do we mean by “good” in the context? According to Presence, a new book by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy, people assess you on two main criteria when they first meet you: 1. Can I trust this person? 2. Can I respect this person?
Your level of trustworthiness, or warmth, is the most important factor in how people initially admire you, Cuddy says－yet many mistakenly believe that the second factor,characterised as competence, is more important.“From an evolutionary aspect,”Cuddy writes,“it is more important to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust.”
While displaying competence is certainly beneficial, particularly in a work setting, Cuddy warns that focusing on winning people’s respect, while failing to win their trust, can backfire－a common problem for young professionals attempting to make a good impression early on in their careers.
“If someone you’re trying to influence doesn’t trust you, you’re not going to get very far”, Cuddy says, “A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits(博得) admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than a threat.”
In Cuddy’s book she also explains some of the science that can help you spot a liar.
When a person is lying there is likely to be differences between what they are saying and what they are doing, she suggests.
“Lying is hard work,” she writes, “We’re telling one story while suppressing another, and most of us are experiencing psychological guilt about doing this, which we’re also trying suppress. We just don’t have the brainpower to manage it all without letting something go－without‘leaking’.”
“It’s about how well or poorly our multiple channels of communications－facial expressions, posture, movement, vocal qualities, speech－co-operate,”she adds.
“When we’re consciously looking for signs of cheat or truth, we pay too much attention to words and not enough to the external body language,” the professor adds. “Truth reveals itself more clearly through actions than it does through our words.
32. According to Amy Cuddy, which is most significant in putting across a good impression?
A. Level of knowledge. B. Level of reliability.
C. Level of competence. D. Level of flexibility.
33. What is the meaning of the underlined word “backfire” in the passage?
A. Cause something unpleasant to happen.
B. Add more fuel to make a bigger fire.
C. Have an unexpected and undesired effect.
D. Walk backwards and make a fire.
34. Which of the following is NOT true of Professor Cuddy’s concepts?
A. Trust is more important than respect to win a good impression in meeting people for the
first time.
B. Young people tend to win people’s respect instead of winning people’s trust early in their
careers.
C. How far away a person goes depends on whether he or she establishes trust among people
around.
D. Liars are unlikely to be identified in that their words match their actions well.
35. What can be learned according to the passage?
A. Some people tend to think displaying competence to gain respect makes a good
impression.
B. A liar always experiences a feeling of guilt when a lie is leaked.
C. When multiple channels of communication co-operate poorly, a liar can hardly be spotted.
D. Words and actions are equally significant in deciding whether a person is trustworthy.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Improve Your Study Habits
Perhaps your are an average student with average intelligence. You do well enough in school, but you probably think you will never be a top student. 36 Yes, even students of average intelligence can be top students without additional work. Here are some tips for you:
1. Plan your time carefully. Make a list of your weekly tasks. Then make a schedule or chart of your time. Fill in committed time such as eating, sleeping, meetings, classes, etc. Then decide on good, regular times for studying. 37 It’s important to set aside time for relaxation, hobbies, and entertainment as well. Furthermore, it will enable you to plan your activities so that you have adequate time for both work and play.
2. Find a good place to study. Choose one place for your study area. It may be a desk or a chair at home or in the school library, but it should be comfortable, and it should not have distractions. When you begin to work, you should be able to concentrate on the subject.
3. 38 Listening to what the teacher says in class means less work later. Sit where you can see and hear well. Take notes to help you remember what the teacher says.
4. Study regularly. 39 Review important points mentioned in class as well as points you remain confused about. If you review your notes and textbook regularly, the material will become more meaningful and you will remember it longer. Regular review leads to improved performances on test.
5. Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t worry excessively about a single test. Tests provide more than grades. 40
A. Be volunteer to raise questions.
B. Make good use of your time in class.
C. Go over your notes as soon as you can after class.
D. Those who make the best of their time study with more ease.
E. They also let you know what you n