甘肃省兰州第一中学高三上学期期中考试英语试题及答案.doc

英 语 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将本试卷和答案卡一并交回。注意事项： 1答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案标号框, 不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分 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)阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑A Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someones life?If yes, dont care about sex or age! Come and join us, then youll make it!Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant (No Pay with Free Meals)Place: ManchesterHours: Part TimeWe are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Dont miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!Role:You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.Skills and Experience Required:You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since youll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.1. The text is meant to _.A. leave a noteB. send an invitationC. carry an advertisementD. present a document2. What does the underlined part mean?A. Youll arrive home just in time from this job.B. Youll make others lives more meaningful with this job.C. Youll earn a good salary from this job.D. Youll succeed in getting this job.3. The volunteers primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities _.A. to get some financial supportB. to properly protect themselvesC. to realize their own importanceD. to learn some new living skills4. Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?A. The one who has done similar work before.B. The one who can drive a car.C. The one who has patience to listen to others.D. The one who can use English to communicate.BWealth starts with a goal saving a dollar at a time. Call it the piggy bank strategy(策略). There are lessons in that time-honored coin-saving container. Any huge task seems easier when reduced to baby steps. I f you wished to climb a 12,000-foot mountain, and could do it a day at a time, you would only have to climb 33 feet daily to reach the top in a year. If you want to take a really nice trip in 10 years for a special occasion, to collect the $15,000 cost, you have to save $3.93 a day. If you drop that into a piggy bank and then once a year put $1,434 in a savings account at 1% interest rate after-tax, you will have your trip money. When I was a child, my parents gave me a piggy bank to teach me that, if I wanted something, I should save money to buy it. We associate piggy banks with children, but in many countries, the little containers are also popular with adults. Europeans see a piggy bank as a sign of good fortune and wealth. Around the world, many believe a gift of a piggy bank on New Years Day brings good luck and financial success. Ah, but you have to put something in it. Why is a pig used as a symbol of saving? Why not an elephant bank, which is bigger and holds more coins? In the Middle Ages, before modern banking and credit instruments, people saved money at home, a few coins at a time dropped into a jar or dish. Potters(制陶工) made these inexpensive containers from an orange-colored clay(黏土) called “pygg,” and folks saved coins in pygg jars.The Middle English word for pig was “pigge”. While the Saxons pronounced pygg, referring to the clay, as “pug”, eventually the two words changed into the same pronunciation, sounding the “i” as in pig or piggy. As the word became less associated with the orange clay and more with the animal, a clever potter fashioned a pygg jar in the shape of a pig, delighting children and adults. The piggy bank was born. Originally you had to break the bank to get to the money, bringing in a sense of seriousness into savings. While piggy banks teach children the wisdom of saving, adults often need to relearn childhood lessons. Think about the things in life that require large amounts of money- college education, weddings, cars, medical care, starting a business, buying a home, and fun stuff like great trips. So when you have money, take off the top 10%, put it aside, save and invest wisely. 5. What is the piggy bank strategy? A. Paying 1% income tax at a time. B. Setting a goal before making a travel plan. C. Putting aside a little money regularly for future use. D. Aiming high even when doing small things. 6. Why did the writers parents give him a piggy bank as a gift?A. To delight him with the latest fashion. B. To encourage him to climb mountains.C. To teach him English pronunciation. D. To help him form the habit of saving.7. The piggy bank originally was _. A. a cheap clay container B. a potters instrument C. an animal-shaped dish D. a pig-like toy for children8. The last paragraph talks about _. A. the seriousness of educating children B. the enjoyment of taking a great trip C. the difficulty of starting a business D. the importance of managing moneyC The behaviour of a buildings users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放）by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero-carbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its own though extremely important- is not enough to achieve such reductions: the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too. The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率)，which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything,explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher，consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design. In other words，old habits die hard, even in the best-designed eco-home.Another part of the problem is information. Households and bill-payers dont have the knowledge they need to change their energy-use habits. Without specific information，its hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反馈） facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors，could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.Social science research has added a further dimension (方面），suggesting that individuals behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted whether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒温器) , for example.Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behaviour in them.9.As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of_.A.the behaviour of building users B. zero-carbon homesC.sustainable building design D. the reduction of carbon emissions10.What are Katy Jandas words mainly about?A.The necessity of making a careful building design.B.The importance of changing building users habits.C.The variety of consumption patterns of building users.D.The role of technology in improving energy efficiency. 11.The information gap in energy use _. A.affects the study on energy monitorsB.can be bridged by feedback facilities C. brings about problems for smart metersD.will be caused by building users old habits12.What does the dimension added by social science research suggest?A.The social science research is to be furthered.B.The education programme is under discussion.C.The behaviour preference of building users is similar.D.The behaviour of building users is unpredictable.DThe kids in this village wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet, and some can make words. The key to their success: 20 tablet computers(平板电脑) dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child. The goal is to find out whether kids using todays new technology can teach themselves to read in places where no schools or teachers exist. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say theyre already amazed. “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,” said Matt Keller, who runs the Ethiopia program. The fastest learnerand the first to turn on one of the tabletsis 8-year-old Kelbesa Negusse. The devices camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker of accomplishment in Ethiopia. With his tablet, Kelbasa rearranged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. “Seven months ago he didnt know any English. Thats unbelievable,” said Keller. The project aims to get kids to a stage called “deep reading,” where they can read to learn. It wont be in Amharic, Ethiopias first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs. 13. How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village? A. It contributes to their self-study. B. It trains teachers for them. C. It helps raise their living standards. D. It provides funds for building schools. 14. It amazed Keller that with the tablet Kelbesa could _. A. draw pictures of animals. B. learn English words quickly. C. write letters to researchers. D. make phone calls to his friends. 15. What is the aim of the project? A. To offer Ethiopians higher paying jobs. B. To make Amharic widely used in the world. C. To assist Ethiopians in learning their first language. D. To help Ethiopian kids read to learn in English. 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。Evaluating (评价) Sources of health Information Making good choices about your own health requires reasonable evaluation. A key first step in bettering your evaluation ability is to look carefully at your sources of healthy information. Reasonable evaluation includes knowing where and how to fins relevant information, how to separate fact from opinions, how to recognize poor reasoning, and how to analyze information and the reliability of sources. 16 Go to the original source. Media reports often simplify the results of medical research. Find out for yourself what a study really reported, and determine whether it was based on good science. Think about the type of study. 17 Watch for misleading language. Some studies will find that a behaviour “contributes to” or is “associated with” an outcome; this does not mean that a certain course must lead to a certain result. 18 Carefully read or listen to information in order to fully understand it.Use your common sense. If a report seems too good to be true, probably it is. Be especially careful of information contained in advertisements. 19 Evaluate “scientific” statements carefully, and be aware of quackery(江湖骗术). 20 Friends and family members can be a great source of ideas and inspiration, but each of us needs to find a healthy lifestyle that works for us.Developing the ability to evaluate reasonably and independently about the health problems will serve you well throughout your life.A. The goal of an ad is to sell you something.B. Make choices that are right for you. C. And examine the findings of the original research.D. Be sure to work through the critical questions. E. Distinguish between research reports and public health advice.F. The following suggestions can help you sort through the health information you receive from common sources.G. Be aware that information may also be incorrectly explained by an authors point of view.第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每题1. 5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I had worried myself sick over Simons mother coming to see me. I was a new   21  , and I gave an honest account of the students work. In Simons case, the grades were awfully low. He couldnt read his own handwriting.    22    he was a bright student. He discussed adult subjects with nearly adult comprehension. His work in no way reflected his   23    .So when Simons mother entered the room, my palms(手掌心) were sweating. I was completely   24   for her kisses on both my cheeks. “I came to thank you,” she said, surprising me beyond speech.   25   me, Simon had become a different person. He talked of how he  26    me, he had began to make friends, and for the first time in his twelve years, he had   27    spent an afternoon at a friends house. She wanted to tell me how grateful she was for the 28   I had nurtured(培养) in her son. She kissed me again and left. I sat, stunned (惊呆), for about half an hour,   29   what had just happened. How did I make such a life-changing difference to that boy without    30    knowing it? What I finally came to    31   was one day, several months before, when some students were    32   reports in the front of the class, Jeanne spoke   33   , and to encourage her to raise her voice, L had said, “Speak up. Simons the expert on this. He is the    34   one you have to convince, and he cant hear you in the    35   of the room.” That was it. From that day on, Simon had sat up straighter, paid more attention,   36  more, and became happy. And it was all because he   37  to be the last kid in the last row. The boy who most needed    38   was the one who took the last seat that day.It taught me the most  39   lesson over the years of my teaching career, and Im thankful that it came   40   and positively. A small kindness can indeed make a difference.21. A. cleaner B. reporter C. teacher D. monitor22. A. Or B. And C. So D. But23. A. abilities B. courage C. feelings D. dream24. A. desperate B. responsibleC. unsuitable D. unprepared25. A.