江苏省沭阳中学高三上学期英语能力训练(十九) Word版含答案

江苏省沭阳中学高三英语能力训练（十九）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
When I was a young teenager, about 14, I was already ready to work. My father was a dairy man and he had been working his entire life. For him, getting up at 5 a.m. and working a couple of hours before I went to school, and then 1 more after school until there was not enough __2 __ to see, were normal.
My father considered putting good work ethics in me to be very 3 . He began to show me these, not through 4 , but through his actions. He would not 5 a job until it was done. He 6 put his all into everything he did. However, he showed me this not just in working, but in everything. Like when I was in soccer, I wanted to 7 a game once, and he explained to me that I had made a 8 and that even if I just skipped one game, then I did not __9 to play the rest of the games.
So the day I started my first job at the age of 14, I was 10 to show my father that I could do it well, and that I was not going to 11 . My entire 12 was to make my father proud of me. I knew that 13 I did, he would not say it in words, but he would show it. My first job was doing 14 for a company. As most of you know, construction is not an easy job, especially being so 15 . When someone as young as I started working, they would either 16 or get stronger. I got stronger. I worked the 17 I had been taught and I gave that day everything I had. In the end, my boss was 18 . He even called to tell my parents what a good worker I was, and my parents’ eyes19 . From that day on I have worked every job to my full 20 __, because that day defined my life. It defined how I was going to work, and I will always stick to it in the rest of my life.
1. A. going B. working C. learning D. playing
2. A. time B. chance C. light D. strength
3. A. ridiculous B. easy C. absolute D. important
4. A. facts B. words C. practice D. assessment
5. A. quit B. find C. do D. finish
6. A. might B. would C. could D. should
7. A. enjoy B. defeat C. skip D. take
8. A. commitment B. improvement C. devotion D. compromise
9. A. decide B. submit C. resist D. deserve
10. A. prepared B. shocked C. delighted D. interested
11. A. stick B. leave C. fail D. play
12. A. problem B. world C. trick D. goal
13. A. in case B. now that C. even if D. as though
14. A. regulation B. construction C. communication D. reception
15. A. weak B. poor C. delicate D. young
16. A. break B. struggle C. pause D. object
17. A. manner B. moment C. way D. method
18. A. impressed B. surprised C. inspired D. excited
19. A. stared B. shone C. lifted D. opened
20. A. occupation B. potential C. spirit D. skill
第二部分阅读理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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Life can be difficult, particularly for adolescents. Many young people get through the troubled years of adolescence and emerge into adulthood reasonably safe and sound. Too many youngsters, however, feel confused and ignored. Unable to climb out of the dilemma, these youngsters are socially and emotionally “at-risk”. They may suffer from such painful symptoms as anxiety, depression or anger.
Many parents, in an honest attempt to help their adolescent from emotionally drowning, seek professional treatment. They put a great deal of faith in professional clinicians to find a way out for their child. However, many of these parents begin to recognize that solving the problem is more complex than they had initially realized. It has been my clinical experience that some parents who bring their resistant youngster for treatment see their child as being solely responsible for the problem. In many cases, the adolescent feels angry and defective for being pushed into treatment.
We can gain some insight if we look at things through the eyes of the adolescent. The child is usually reluctantly brought by the parents to clinicians as what I call the “identified patient”.
The youngster waits anxiously as the parents lay out the problem with the clinicians with remarks such as, “I don’t know what’s happening to my child lately, but he’s not his old self. He doesn’t listen to me anymore, has been getting failing grades, acts out at school, and stays in his room all t he time.’’ Such descriptions at the beginning of treatment by the parents may strengthen feelings of incompetence on the part of the child. Such a pattern at the beginning sets up an intention of resistance and leaves the potential for a positive outcome at risk.
What many parents fail to realize is that the adolescent’s problem serves as a symbol for what is happening within the family system. Unknowingly, a youngster may become rebellious or depressed as a way of attempting to calm the psychic pain experienced by his family. To some degree, the child’s behavioral problems represent an effort to distract attention away from the unstable state within his family. In such cases it represents a courageous attempt by the teen to minimize home-related problems. Eventually the problems become too troublesome for the child and he continues to sacrifice himself for the sake of the family. Many times youngsters go to clinicians in the hope that treatment will aid in healing the entire family system.
In my clinical experience, I have found that the troubled adolescent is more likely to find emotional healing if the parents are actively involved in the treatment process. In such cases where family members are involved in treatment, the adolescent’s expectation for change tends to improve. With parental involvement, the teen begins to feel more competent, as other family members take the risk to explore difficult family issues.
21. From the first paragraph, we can learn youngsters probably find adolescence _________
A. particularly colorful and meaningful
B. full of various dangers and risks
C. especially difficult to get through
D. filled with anxiety and depression
22. What causes a child to resist treatment when brought to clinicians? ______
A. The child’s in creased feelings of incompetence.
B. Parents’ reluctantly bringing a child to clinicians.
C. The parents’ initial descriptions of the child’s problems.
D. The parents’ looking at things through the child’s eyes.
23. Which of the following is NOT parents’ misunderstanding? ______
A. Only their child is to blame for the problem.
B. Their child is concerned about family harmony
C. Their troubled adolescent is a “identified patient”
D. Solely pushing their child into treatment is the best way out
B
Half of t he world’s population lives in areas affected by Asian monsoons（季风）, but monsoons are difficult to predict. American researchers have put together a 700-year record of the rainy seasons, which is expected to provide guidance for experts making weather predictions.
Every summer, moist（潮湿的）air masses, known as monsoon, produce large quantities of rainfall in India, East Asia, Indonesia, Northern Australia and East Africa, which are pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.
According to Edward Cook, a weather expert at Columbia University in New York, the complex nature of the climate systems across Asia makes monsoons hard to predict. In addition, climate records for the area date to 1950, too recent and not detailed enough to be of much use. Therefore, he and a team of researchers spent more than fifteen years travelling across Asia locating trees old enough to provide long-term records. They measured the rings（年轮）or circles, inside the trunks of thousands of ancient trees at more than 300 sites.
Rainfall has a direct link to the growth and width of rings on some kinds of trees. The researchers developed a document—a Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas（地图集）. It shows the effect of monsoons over seven centuries, beginning in the 1300s.
Professor Cook says the tree-ring records show periods of wet and dry conditions. “If the monsoon basically fails or is very weak one year, the trees affected by the monsoon at that location might put on a very narrow ring. But if the monsoon is very strong, the trees affected by that monsoon might put on a wide ring for that year. So, the wide and narrow ring widths of the tree chronology（年表）that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability. ” Armed with such a sweeping set of data, researchers say they now can begin to refine climate computer models for predicting the behavior of monsoons.
“There has been widespre ad famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts. And on the other hand, if the monsoon is particularly heavy, it can cause extensive flooding,” said Eugene Wahl, a scientist who is with America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi nistration’s paleoclimate（古气侯）branch studying weather patterns over the history of the
Earth. “So, to get a knowledge of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for climate science.”
24. What’s the passage mainly about?
A．A breakthrough in monsoon prediction. B．The necessity of weather forecast.
C．The achievements of Edward Cook. D．The effects of Asian monsoons. 25．It is difficult for experts to predict Asian monsoons because______.
A．it is hard to keep long-term climate records
B．they are formed under complex climate systems
C．they influence many nations
D．there is heavy rainfall in Asia
26．What can be inferred from the passage?
A．The trees affected by monsoon grow fast if the monsoon is weak.
B．The Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas has a monsoon record for about 1,300 years.
C．Long and detailed climate records can offer useful information for monsoon research. D．The rainfall might be low although the monsoon is strong in monsoon- affected areas. 27．According to Professor Cook, the rings of the trees_________.
A．determine the regional climate
B．have a great influence on the regional climate
C．offer people information about the regional climate
D．reflect all kinds of regional climate information
28．Which of the following best describes the tone of this passage?
A．Friendly. B．Pessimistic. C．Humorous. D．Matter-of-fact.
C
As has been all too apparent in recent days at Balcombe, few issues cause greater concern than energy policy. Many village communities feel their countryside is being ruined by the power-producing machines of wind farms; yet they never take "direct action", even though the planning laws put them at a severe disadvantage. And the generous subsidies (财政补贴) , which encourage the expansion of wind power, are not favorable to the village communities and set landowners in conflict with other residents (居民) .
Those who disagree with the rapid expansion of wind farms state that the damage they cause is out of proportion(比例) to the benefits they bring, because their energy output cannot match that of the carbon-based power stations they are supposed to replace. Supporters insist that wind must be part of a mix of renewables, nuclear and carbon, and that the country is committed to meeting EU ( European Union) targets for non-carbon energy generation.
Against this background, the fact that there is an argument within the Government over whether to publish an official report on wind farms' impact on the countryside becomes even more extraordinary. The two parties in the coalition (联合) government are in disagreement over what it should say.
We have some advice for the two parties: publish the report, and let the country be the judge. Even if it contains evidence that wind farms are harmful, it will hardly be a pleasant surprise to people who do not like them. Equally, supporters must argue their case by acknowledging the concerns and explaining why they are either misplaced or worthy of much attention.
The suggestion that further negotiations are to take place to produce an "acceptable" report suggests that the politics of coalition government are doing the country harm in a certain way. Given the sensitivities involved, all the information should be available so that people can reach their own conclusions, rather than being left with the suspicion（猜疑）that facts are being replaced by political beliefs.
29. We can learn from the first paragraph that__________.
A. energy policy catches much attention of the public
B. the residents are in favor of the expansion of wind farms
C. many village communities are satisfied with the subsidies
D. the planning laws offer great benefits to the residents
30. Supporters think that the expansion of wind power____.
A. is more rapid than that of carbon-based power
B. guarantees an increase in energy output
C. is expected to be much better than that of nuclear power
D. agrees with EU targets for non-carbon energy generation
31. It can be inferred from the passage that____.
A. an official report will settle the energy problem
B. the two parties are divided over the issue of wind farms
C. the two parties have agreed on a further negotiation
D. political beliefs concerning energy issue go against facts
32. Which of the following reflects the author's opinion?
A. Increase political impact on energy policy.
B. Release a statement of supporters on wind farms.
C. Let the nation judge the facts about wind power.
D. Leave the two parties to reach their own conclusions.
D
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose.
His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond.
The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II. During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was starting Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like.
When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting —7:00 PM at the Grand Central Station in New York. “You’ll recognize me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.” So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he’d never seen.
I’ll let Mr. Blanchard tell you what happened: A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive. I stared at her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose.
A s I moved, a small, attractive smile curved her lips. “Going my way , sailor?” she murmured.
Almost uncontrollably I made one step closer to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell. She was standing almost directly behind the girl. A woman well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes. The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away. I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own.
And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her.
This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful. I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment.
"I'm Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?"
The woman's face broadened into a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is about, son," she answered, "but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!" It's not difficult to understand and admire Miss Maynell's wisdom. The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. "Tell me whom you love," Houssaye wrote, "And I will tell you who you are."
33. What was the real Miss Hollis Maynell like?
A．She was a plump woman with graying hair．
B．She was a slightly fat girl, with blonde hair．
C．She was a middle - aged woman in her forties．
D．She was a young, pretty girl wearing a green suit．
34. When Blanchard went over to greet the woman, he was _________.
A. satisfied and confident
B. disappointed but well-behaved
C. annoyed and bad-mannered
D. shocked but inspired
35. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．A Test of Love B．The Symbol of Rose
C．Love is blind D．Don't Judge a Book by its Cover
第三部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分)
Telepathy（心灵感应）is the ability to communicate without the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). It's an instinct (本能) which can be woken up in times of emergency or need. When we feel that something is happening or about to happen by instinct, we're using resources within the unconscious mind. When the resources of two persons' unconscious minds link together into the same frequency, we call it Telepathy.
We can either send or receive Telepathy. If you know who is calling before you answer the ringing phone, you are probably a good receiver. If you think of a person and he/she calls you, you are most likely to be better at sending.
You can easily put your abilities to the test. Think of somebody and will him or her to contact with you. Be patient. The other person may not be a good receiver, but they should contact you much earlier than would normally be expected. Or whenever the phone rings, but try “feeling” who is contacting you. Don't guess, but try to feel it with your mind. However, if neither of these work for you, that doesn't mean that you have no ability of telepathy. As mentioned earlier, telepathy is most likely to turn up in case of emergency.
Telepathy dreams often contain telepathic messages. Two people may both dream of the other and find that their dreams had a clear connection. These people are probably linking to each other's unconscious mind.
There are many causes of the phenomenon. The more people spend time together, the more likely they are to be able to link up to the other's mind, especially when separated. There are two reasons for this. One is that they understand the other's mind through time spent together; the other is that there is usually a strong desire to communicate. A mother will often sense that her child is in danger. This is due to the child's eagerly wanting his or her mother, knowing that this is the person who would always want to be there for them, and the mother's eagerness to protect her child from harm.
Title: Telepathy
2015届高三英语能力训练（十九）答案
完型：BCDBA BCADA CDCBD ACABB
阅读：CAB ABCCD ADBC DBA
任务型阅读：
36. use 37.instinct 38. sender 39. test 40. touch 41. expected 42. guessing 43. necessarily 44. Reasons 45. eager
2015届高三英语能力训练（十九）答案
完型：BCDBA BCADA CDCBD ACABB
阅读：CAB ABCCD ADBC DBA
任务型阅读：
36. use 37.instinct 38. sender 39. test 40. touch 41. expected 42. guessing 43. necessarily 44. Reasons 45. eager
2015届高三英语能力训练（十九）答案
完型：BCDBA BCADA CDCBD ACABB
阅读：CAB ABCCD ADBC DBA
任务型阅读：
36. use 37.instinct 38. sender 39. test 40. touch 41. expected 42. guessing 43. necessarily 44. Reasons 45. eager。