2019届高三上学期英语第三次阶段性测试试卷真题

2019届高三上学期英语第三次阶段性测试试卷一、阅读理解1. 阅读理解More than great drinks, great rewardsEnjoy all the benefits and more with your membership to ourLoyalty Program! Whenever you pay with your membership account, you’ll earn aStar.Collect more Stars, earn more rewards.Three ways to join usBuy a Starbucks Card handy to create anaccount.Track your Stars online, and we’ll send an email when you’veearned a reward.You can also join from your phone.Download the Starbucks’ App.One of the most exciting benefits of being a member is usingour mobile app to: pay for purchases; view your Stars and rewards; accessiTunes’ Pick of the Week; see current offers.Or you can join with specially markedcoffee purchased at the grocery store.Enter your Starcode .Look for th e Starcode symbol on specially marked Starbucks’productswhere you buy groceries.Three levels with increasingly greater rewardsTo reach each level in our Loyalty Program, you need tocollect more Stars.Welcome levelTo earn your first rewards, just register a Starbucks Card.Birthday drink or treat on us; birthday coupon for 15% off a purchase at .Green levelCollect 5 Stars within 12 months and you’ll be in the Greenlevel.What is included in the Welcome level plusFree in-store refills onhot or iced brewed coffee or teaGold levelCollect 30 Stars within 12 months and you’re at the Goldlevel.What is included in the Green level plusA free food or drink item after another12 Stars earnedPersonalized Gold Card（1）Which of the following is a way you can apply for membership?A . To enter a Starcode from specially marked Starbucks’ products.B . To buy a Starbucks Card over the phone.C . To update the Starbucks’ App from the official website.D . To buy a drink at a Starbucks on weekends.（2）With the Starbucks’ App, you can ________.A . change the pricesB . earn a StarC . pay for rewardsD . view current offers（3）With a Starbucks Card of Green level, you will get ________.A . a free cakeB . personalized Green CardC . free in-store refillsD . all purchases 15% off2. 阅读理解For years I have had no idea what I have been doing with mylife. I was a 30-year-old lawyer in New York. But being a lawyer was never mydream or goal in life. I honestly wanted to be a writer. I have a greatimagination and would write amazing stories in my head. But I always knew thatbeing a writer was never possible for me because it was a better financialdecision to stay a lawyer.Recently, I couldn’t fall asleep at my usual time of 10 p.m. and when I did fall asleep I had the same dream over and over again. Thedream starts with me in the ocean trying to go for a swim and I’m searching forsomething, but I start to drown and have no control over my body. Then a lightshines through the waters and when I look up all I can see is myself in abright white room writing a novel. Then I hear a voice say repeatedly, “Now isthe time to try something new!”It wasn’t just a dream; it was my opportunity to makesomething good out of my life. That afternoon, I quit my job at the law firmand I couldn’t have been any happier. My life started at 30, and everyday since that point I haven’t stopped enjoying life. I started to write andhave been on the best-sellers list for the last two months. Things have definitelyturned around.Change is a good thing; it gives us an opportunity to take achance. So my two favorite words I live by and so should you are “change andchance”.（1）From the first paragraph, we can know that ________.A . the author is now 30 years oldB . It is impossible for the author to become a writerC . a lawyer can be likely to earn more than a writerD . the author prefers to be a lawyer rather than a writer（2）The second paragraph mainly talks about the author’s ________.A . difficulty in sleeping at night.B . strong desire to become a writerC . wish to have a swim in the watersD . terrible swimming experience in the ocean.（3）The underlined part in the 3rd paragraph probably means the author ________.A . regretted having quitted his job as a lawyerB . was unhappy after giving up his job as a lawyerC . was upset because he had to give up his job as a lawyerD . was pretty happy when he quitted his job as a lawyer（4）The best title of the text might be _________.A . Lawyer or WriterB . Change and ChanceC . Change and RegretD . Risk or Opportunity3. 阅读理解As free as they make us, mobile phones still need to stayclose to a power source. Soon that may change with “green” power.Three Chilean students got the idea for a plant-powereddevice to charge their cellphones, whilesitting in their school’s outdoor courtyard during a break from exams, withdead mobile phones. Then, one of them had an “aha” moment.“It occurred to Camila to say about plants,” said inventorEvelyn Aravena.“‘Why don’t you have a socket, if there are so many plants? ‘Afterthat, we thought, ‘why don’t they have a charging outlet? Because there are somany plants and living things that have the potential to produce energy, whynot?’”Their invention—a small biological circuit calledE-Kaia—uses the energy plants to produce during photosynthesis. A plant uses only a small part ofthat energy and the rest goes into the soil, and that’s where the E-Kaiacollects it. The device plugs into the ground and then into your phone.“It’s the most amazing project I’v e ever seen in mylife, plain and simple. They brought this original model, and it worked —andthat’s when it all changed, at least from my personal point of view and I beganto support them.” said Mauricio Cifuentes.The device solved two problems for the engineering students—they needed an idea for a class project, and an outlet to plug in theirphones.“Looking for a place to charge the notebook, which hadno power, and the mobile phones, we weren’t able to find anything because allthe other students were in the same state of madness trying to find a place tocharge their devices,” said Aravena.But plants are everywhere, and the bio－circuit makes thebest of their excess power.The E-Kaia doesn’t carry much charge but it’spowerful enough to completely recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.The student inventors have applied for patents on theirtechnology, andexpect the E-Kaia to go on sale in December 2016.（1）How could the students get the “green” power idea?A . By carrying out an experiment.B . Just from an occasional thought.C . With the support of their professors.D . Inspired by the information in a science book.（2）The device collects power by using _____________.A . photosynthesisB . a small biological circuitC . energy plantsD . the electricity stored in the device（3）What can we learn from what Mauricio Cifuentes said?A . He intended to buy the patent.B . He invented the original device.C . He showed great interest in the device.D . He attempted to produce the device in large numbers.（4）What might be the best title for the passage?A . A New Device to Change the WorldB . Green Power - A New and Potential SourceC . Chilean Students Find A Green Way to Charge PhonesD . A New Device Invented by Chilean Students Will Be on Sale4. 阅读理解Eudaimonia is an Ancient Greek word, particularly stressedby the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, which deserves far more attention thanit has because it corrects the shortfalls in one of the most central, buttroubling words in our modem language: happiness.When we nowadays try to clearly express the purpose of ourlives，it is the word “happiness”that we commonly turn to. We tell ourselves and othersthat the most important principlefor our jobs, our relationships and the conduct of our day-to-day lives is thepursuit of happiness. It sounds like an innocent enough idea, but too muchreliance on the term means that we frequently unfairly tend to quit or, atleast, heavily question a great many challenging but worthwhile situations. TheAncient Greeks did not believe that the purpose of life was to be happy; theyproposed that it was to achieve Eudaimoni a, a word which has been besttranslated as “fulfilment”.What distinguishes happiness from fulfilment is pain. It isvery possible to be fulfilled and—at the same time—under pressure, sufferingphysically or mentally, overburdened and, quite frequently, in an irritable mood. This is a slight psychologicaldifference that is hard for the word “happiness” to capture, for it’stricky to speak of being happy yet unhappy, or happy yet suffering. However,such a combination is readily accommodated within the respected andnoble-sounding idea of Eudaimonia.The word encourages us to trust that many of life’s mostworthwhile projects will sometimes be in conflict with contentment, and yetwill be worth pursuing. Properly exploring our professional talents, managing ahousehold, keeping a relationship going, creating a new business venture orengaging in politics... none of these goals are likely to leave us cheerful andgrinning on a daily basis. They will, in fact, involve us in all manner ofchallenges that will deeply exhaust and weaken us, provoke and wound us. And yet we will perhaps,at the end of our lives, still feel that the tasks were worth undertaking.Through them, we’ll have achieved something deeper and moreinteresting thanhappiness.With the word Eudaimonia in mind, we can stop imagining thatwe are aiming for a pain-free existence—and then blaming ourselves unfairly forbeing in a bad mood. We’ll know that we are trying to do something far moreimportant than smile all the time: we’re striving to do justice to our fullhuman potential.（1）What do we know about “Eudaimonia” from the passage?A . It was first created by two Greek philosophers.B . It has received a lot of attention from the public.C . It still has some shortfalls that need to be corrected.D . It was regarded as the purpose of life in ancient Greece.（2）According to Paragraph 3, happiness ____.A . is the opposite of fulfillmentB . is free from physical or mental painC . stresses the psychological differenceD . serves as a respected and noble life goal（3）We can learn from the passage that ____.A . aiming for happiness may lead to wrong self-blamingB . goals that wound and weaken us result in happinessC . challenges leading to contentment are worth undertakingD . feeling fulfilled means we should avoid tough situations（4）The passage encourages the readers to ____.A . find fulfillment with all effortsB . seek for a pain-free existenceC . keep optimistic whatever happensD . balance happiness and suffering二、任务型阅读5. 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。