高三上学期英语第二次周练及其答案

崇仁一中2015届高三上学期第二次英语周练
命题人：审题人：高三英语备课组
时长：90分钟总分：120分
第I卷语言知识运用（80分）
第一节：语法填空（共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为1—10的相应位置上。

The Amber Room, the greatest gift from Frederick William, the King of Prussia to Russian people has an (1)________ (amaze) history. At first, it was not made to be a gift. It (2)________ (design) for the palace of Frederick WilliamⅠ. (3)________, the next king of Prussia didn't want to keep it and gave it to Peter the Great. (4)________ then on the room served as a small reception hall for important (5)________ (visit). Later, Catherine Ⅱowned the Amber Room and added more details to (6)________．In 1770, the room was completed the way she wanted. In September 1941, the time (7)________ Germany and Russia were (8)________ war, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. The Russians removed some valuable things from the Amber Room. But some Nazis (9)________ (secret) stole the room itself. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains (10)________ mystery. Recently, the Russians and Germans have rebuilt a new Amber Room.
第二节完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其段落大意，然后从36至55各题所给的四个选项A.B.C和D，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Family traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree.
“Dad, can we 11 when you trim（修剪）the tree?” My eldes t son, Dan, nine, and his seven-year-old brother John, asked.
“I won‟t be 12 this year,” my husband Bob said. “Dan, you and John are old enough to measure things. Do it all by yourselves. Think you boys can 13 it?”
Dan and John were very proud. “We can handle it,” Dan 14 . “We won‟t let you down.”
A few days before Christmas, Dan and John 15 in after school. They gathered the __16_ they‟d need and brought them out to the yard, where the tree 17 . I was cooking when I heard the 18 sounds as the boys carried the tree into the living room. Then I heard the sound that every mother knows is 19 : dead silence. I hurried out to them only to find the tree was cut too
20 . John crossed his arms 21 across his chest and his eyes were filled with tears.
I felt worried. The tree was 22 to our holiday. I didn‟t want the boys to feel 23_ every time they looked at it. I couldn‟t lower the ceiling, and I couldn‟t 24 the floor either. Suddenly, a thought came to my mind, which turned the 25 into the solution.
“We can‟t make the tree taller,” I said. “But we can put it on a 26 position.”
Dan 27 his head. “We could put it on the coffee table. It just might 28 ! Let‟s try it!”
When Bob got home and looked at the big tree on top of the coffee table, Dan and John held their 29 .
“What a good idea!” he declared. “Why didn‟t I ever think of such a thing?”
John broke into a grin (露齿笑). Dan‟s chest 30 with pride.
11. A. look B. see C.watch D. find
12. A. celebrating B. going C. buying D. cutting
13. A. handle B. measure C. take D.appreciate
14. A. thought B.promised C. permitted D. accepted
15. A. slipped B. looked C. wandered D. rushed
16. A. tools B.trees C. lights D. gifts
17. A. grew B.waited C. laid D. stood
18. A. happy B. violent C.loud D. terrible
19. A. trouble B. excitement C. chance D.pleasure
20. A. pretty B. ugly C. long D. short
21. A. fast B. high C. hard D. tight
22. A. important B. close C. proper D. useful
23. A. angry B. puzzled C. ashamed D. proud
24. A. raise B. sweep C. lower D. clean
25. A. situation B. concept C.problem D. tree
26. A. higher B. safer C. stronger D. larger
27. A. shook B. nodded C.dropped D. patted
28. A. make B. work C.fail D. enjoy
29. A. hand B. tool C. breath D. clothes
30. A. swelled B. held C. broke D. filled
第三部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2份，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
People should be warned against using mobile phones outdoors in stormy weather because they may “be struck by lightning”，according to doctors．
Three experts have described how a teenage girl was struck by lightning while using her phone in a large London park．The girl，aged 15，recovered，but a year later was still wheelchair-bound and found to be suffering complex physical and emotional problems.
The girl also had a perforate eardrum on the side where she had been holding the mobile phone．She was having general recovery in Northwick Park Hospital，Middlesex．Swinda Esprit，a doctor of the hospital, said that while the brain and muscle damage was similar to that of many lightning victims—who can experience heart attacks on being struck—the ear problems were not．
She said that the damages were particularly relevant for people who might be involved in less serious lightning incidents，who might otherwise recover, but would never get their full hearing back if struck while on the phone．
“We were shocked by the damage，which is why we wanted to draw attention to it，”Dr Esprit said．“A year on and she still was suffering these difficult hearing．”
They added that three other cases had been reported in newspapers in China，South Korea，and Malaysia．In the Malaysian case，a sales executive was killed by lightning while talking on his phone during a thunderstorm near Kuala Lumpur．
“All these events resulted in death，”the doctors wrote．“This rare phenom enon is a public health issue，and education is necessary to stress the risk．”
The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects，including cordless or mobile phones，should not be carried outdoors during thunderstorms．However, “th e
United States National Weather Service says on its website that both are safe to use “because there is no direct path between you and the lightening”．
Paul Taylor, of “the Met Office'‟，said the ear injuries were a consequence of mobile phones being metal，and not related to radio waves．
Mr. Taylor said that mobile phones should be treated as another piece of metal，similar to carrying coins or wearing rings，and people need to be warned against the possible danger．31．From the passage we can know that the girl ________.
A. she completely recovered from being struck. B．She was struck by lightning at schoo1．
C. She had to press her ear all day．D．She still suffered from mental problems．
32.The underlined part “a perforate eardrum” in Paragraph 3 is closed in meaning to ________.
A. an emotional problem
B. a problem with the ear
C. an operation on the ear
D. an injury on the face
33．Why did doctors stress the risk about using phones outside in lightening?
A．Because more people are faced with it． B.Because lightning is harmful for the brain．C．Because some deaths have been caused．D．Because a teenage girl got killed．34．We can know from the last three paragraphs that .
A．opinions differ as to whether it is safe to use mobiles phones in lightning
B．there is no direct connection between lightning and ear injuries at all
C．ear injuries are the result of carrying coins or wearing rings in lightning
D．both cordless and mobile phones are safe to use outside in lightning
35．The purpose in writing this passage is .
A．to tell us the news that a teenage girl was struck by lightning
B．to focus on various damages done to lightning victims
C．to draw attention to the risk of using mobile phones in lightening
D．to stress the danger of making phone calls in lightning
B
Less than half of the children in America who are chosen for a free breakfast take advantage of the USDA-provided meal．A program called " Breakfast in the Classroom" is trying to get more lower-income students to eat breakfast．The program, managed by a group of organizations known as the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, brings food to the students in class after the morning bell．That way, students don't come to school early just to eat, and they aren't rushing to get to class, skipping breakfast on the way．The program was carried out in five school districts around the country and expanding to include ten more this school year．
Research suggests that there are educational benefits to eating breakfast at school, even over students who eat the meal at home．These include better attendance, behavior and higher standardized test scores．
Knox County School in Tennessee, which opened its doors to students on August 14, is a newcomer to the in-classroom meal program．
Jon Dick, the director of school nutrition for Knox County, told CNN that there are several advantages to eating breakfast in class．"The students are in their seats ready to learn as soon as the bell rings," Dick said．"It reduces discipline issues and provides an opportunity for teachers to develop relationships," he continued．
In Knox County, as in many other districts using the program, all the students are served
breakfast at no cost to the student, regardless of their family's income．Dick said doing that increases the percentage of students who eat breakfast overall, and leads to social benefits．" Relationships are developed when people have food together," Dick said．
The district's teachers say they also benefit from eating with their students, by building relationships and incorporating lessons into the morning meal．
Dick says that most parents are in favor of the program, too．The only negative comments he's heard are from parents who are concerned that providing free breakfasts uses local tax money that should be used for education．Dick says that these parents are mistaken．Most school nutritional services departments in U．S．, he says, are self sufficient．They rely on federal USDA money, state funds, and money that students spend on lunch．"We take no money locally and have to be financially sustainable," Dick says．
36 .What type of writing the article likely to be ?
A.A science report
B. A story of school life
C. A research experiment
D. A news report
37．We can find from the first paragraph that in USA ____．
A. students must go to school before breakfast
B．lower-income students never have breakfast
C．students from lower-income families need help
D．poor students usually live in the countryside
38．Jon Dick thinks that the program ____．
A．helps teachers to cooperate well B．makes teachers get up early
C．makes students get up early D．helps students to keep fit
39．The district's teachers also benefit from the program because ____．
A．they save a lot of money B．they can learn more about students
C．the breakfast is delicious D．they can learn something with students 40．Parents who are not in favor of the program worry that ____．
A．the school nutritional services lack of standards
B．more students will want to have free lunch
C．federal USDA money will not sustainable
D．providing free breakfasts uses education funds
C
Why laughter matters
Although most people believe that laughter is one of the nature‟s great treatments for a whole range of mental and physical diseases, it is still a serious scientific subject that researchers are trying to figure out.
“Laughter above all else is a social thing,” says Baltimore neuroscientist, Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for decades. “All laughter groups laugh …ha-ha-ha‟ basically the same way. Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. There is a pattern generator(发生器)in our brain that produces this sound.”
Laughing is our first way of communicating. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches them how to laugh. They just do. People may laugh at a trick on April Fools‟ day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather than to a joke. Deaf people laugh without hearing and people
on cell phones laugh without seeing, showing that laughter isn‟t dependent on single s ense but on social interactions.
And laughter is not just a people thing. Chimps tickle each other and even laugh when another chimp pretends to tickle them.
Jaak Panksepp, a Bowling Green University Psychology professor, studies rats that laugh when he tickles them. It turns out rats love to be tickled—they return again and again to the hands of researchers tickling them.
By studying rats, scientists can figure out what‟s going on in the brain during laughter. Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor, Jeffrey Burgdorf has found that laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepressant(抗抑郁药). He thinks the same thing probably happens in humans, too. This would give doctors a new chemical target to develop drugs that can fight depression.
Even so, laughter itself has not been proved to be the best medicine, experts said. Margaret Stuber, a professor at University of California, studied whether laugher helped patients. She found that distraction(分心) and mood improvement helped, but she could not find a benefit of laughter alone.
“No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit,” Provine said, largely because it‟s hard to separate laughter from just feeling good. But he thinks it doesn‟t really matter: “Isn‟t the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough?”
41. What is t he most important finding of Robert Provine‟s research?.
A. laughter is a social response shared by all creatures
B. laughter makes a person feel good
C. laughter is a quality people are born with
D. laughter depends on different senses
42. According to the passage, why did scientists study rats?
A. They wanted to find if they can laugh
B. They wanted to find if they like laughing
C. They wanted to find how rats react while being tickled
D. They wanted to find what laughter in rats produces
43. We know from the passage_________.
A. laughter is a means of communication as well as language.
B.patients will recover if they laugh enough.
C. a new medicine has been developed based on the laughter research.
D. scientists can know what is happening in a human brain when he laughs.
CP: Central point P: Point Sp: Sub-point(次要点) C: Conclusion
D
My six-year-old came home from school this week with two envelopes. One was for a donation to help people in the Philippines. The other was to help hungry families have a Thanksgiving meal.
“I‟ll put a check in each of these. Then you can add your own money from your piggy bank, oka y?” I said, thinking he‟d be so excited to put his own stamp on things.
“That‟s okay, mom. You put money in. I don‟t want to waste mine,” he sweetly sang as he colored. “I want to fill my bank all the way up.”
Ack! I guess I know what our dinnertime discussion will be about tonight, I thought.
I had figured that through watching his parents donate items, helping us take toys from time to time to needy kids and putting money in the basket at church, he would just understand why it was important to help people in need — and even want to do it himself.
But of course he doesn‟t really understand yet. “There‟s a big disconnect between the people …over there‟ and my piggy bank,” said parenting educator Vicki Hoefle.
“There‟s nothing wrong with the child. There‟s just no connection.”
As for having that conversation immediately, or forcing my son to put money into the envelopes: “Try not to do it now,” Hoefle said. Teaching a child about donating their own money or toys or time to people in need “should be a gentle i ntroduction into what we hope will be a way of life for our kids.”
She suggested these things to help children understand the importance of giving:
* Just talk about it. Then explore the issue from a perspective he can understand.
* Use the course of a yea r to introduce kids to opportunities. That way, they won‟t be shocked when you ask them to stuff their own money into an envelope （like this writer just did）.
* Pick a family charity for the year and have a conversation about how you all can help throughout the year.
* Think of this not as something you must teach, but as something to expose them to.
At her house, Hoefle said, “When you got something new, you gave something up.” Each birthday, her children would pick what toys they had outgrown and give the m away. “There was a comfort in it. It just became a natural part of the kids‟ lives.”
So I will fill those envelopes alone this time. But I‟ll make sure he understands why they should be filled—gradually.
45. When the writer asked her son to give money to help the poor, he __________.
A. sang a sweet song
B. seemed very surprised
C. put all his money in a bank
D. declined to donate
46.What does the author try to express in the underlined sentence ?
A. We should taught children about charity in practice gradually.
B. Children have nothing to do with charity.
C. Parents should be responsible for the children‟s not donating money.
D. It is right for children not to donate the money in their piggy banks.
47. Hoefle‟s attitude towards children‟s unwil lingness to donate money can be best described as
“___________”.
A.positive
B. critical
C. tolerant
D. worried
48. Which of the following is Hoefle‟s approach to educating kids about charity?
A. Giving courses about charity.
B. Giving children enough real life chances.
C. Setting a rule for children to give.
D. Inviting a lot of poor people home.
49. What can we learn about the writer from the passage?
A. She often makes donations for people in need.
B. She taught her son a lesson over dinner that evening.
C. She is at a loss as for what she should do next.
D. She invited a parenting educator home for advice.
50. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Kindness is lost in the young generation.
B. Why are kids unwilling to donate?
C. Kids, please help those in need.
D. How can we help kids learn generosity?
第二卷（非选择题满分40分）
第一节阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的词数要求）。

[1]Many women write to me confused about why they can‟t form clo se friendships. They try new approaches, put themselves in all the right places, see therapists, and read relevant self-help books. They consider themselves interesting, loyal, kind and friend-worthy people. But for reasons unknown to them, they have a tough time forming close relationships. Many admit to not having even one close friend.
[2]A recent study published in the Journal of personality and Social Psychology offers some clues as to how both nature (personality) and nurture (experience) impact our friendships. Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of Toronto, Mississauga studied more than 7,000 American adults between the ages of 20 and 75 over a period of ten years, looking at the number of times these adults moved during childhood. Their study, like prior ones, showed a link between moves and adult well-being: The more times participants moved as children, the poorer the quality of their adult social relationships.
[3]But digging deeper, the researchers found that personality--------specifically being introverted（内向的）or extroverted（外向的）--------could either strengthen or weaken the effect of moving to a new town or neighborhood during childhood. The negative impact of more moves
during childhood was far greater for introverts compared to extroverts.
[4]“Moving a lot makes it difficult for people to maintain long-term close relationships,” stated Dr. Shigehiro Oishi, the first author of the study, in a press release from the American Psychological Association, “This might not be a se rious problem for outgoing people who can make friends quickly and easily. Less outgoing people have a harder time making new friends.”
[5]Families often have to move to different places -------- across town, across the country, or across the globe. Yet, i n many cases, their kids and young adolescents haven‟t yet built up a bank of friendships. So the traditional wisdom is to try to reduce moves as low as possible for the sake of your child, whenever possible , and to move at the end of the academic year.
51. What did the researchers find in their study?(no more than 9 words)
52. Why do moves during childhood have greater effect on introverts than extroverts?(no more than 16 words)
53. What nature strengthens the effect of moving?(no more than 2 words)
54. What is the purpose of Paragraph 5?(no more than 4 words)
55. What‟s the passage mainly about?(no more than 6 words)
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
为了更好地组织学生填报高考志愿，学校高考指导委员会上周举行一次高三学生准备填报高考志愿的调查，下面表格是对本次调查情况的分析。

请你根据该表格内容写一篇简要介绍学生填报志愿的观点的看法，刊登在校刊上。

要求字数在100左右。

短文开头已给出，不计入总字数。

According to the survey done in our school last week, the students in Senior 3 have different opinions on how to choose the ir courses…
一、本文主要介绍了the Amber Room的相关情况。

1．amazing amazing意为“令人惊讶的”，形容词作定语。

2．was designed根据句意可知此处应用被动语态。

3．However前后是转折关系，且用逗号隔开，故用however。

4．From from then on从那时起。

5．visitors指去参观的“游客”。

6．it it指代前文提到的the Amber Room，避免重复。

7．when先行词the time在定语从句中作时间状语，故用when引导。

8．at be at war处于交战状态。

9．secretly副词修饰动词stole。

10．a mystery是单数可数名词，前面要加不定冠词a。

11-15CDABD 16-20.ABAAD
21-25.DACAC 26-30.ABBCA
31-35. DBCAC 36-40. DCABD
41-45. BDACD 46-50 ACBAD
【要点综述】C 篇“笑”既是人类也是动物的一种交际行为，多数人认为“笑”是治疗身体疾病和心理疾病的有效方式之一。

“笑”是否与健康有直接的联系，尚无科学定论，但是，“笑”能使你身心愉悦，这毕竟是一件好事。

1．B推理判断题。

根据最后一段“Isn't the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough？”可知B项正确。

2．D事实细节题。

根据第六段“…laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepressant(抗抑郁药)．”可知。

故D项正确。

3．A事实细节题。

根据第二段“All laughter groups
laugh‘ha-ha-ha’ basically the same way.”以及第三段“Laughing is our first way of communicating.”可知，“笑”
既是一种交际方式也是一种所有物种都能理解的语言。

故A项正确。

4．C篇章结构题。

文章第一节首先提出话题：尽管“笑”被认为是治疗身体疾病和心理疾病的方式之一，但是它仍旧是研究者们试图想弄明白的一个严肃的科研项目；接着文章从两个方面来论述主观点：(1)“笑”是人类的行为：①Laughter above all else is a social thing②Laughing is our first way of communicating；
(2)“笑”也是动物的行为：And laughter is not just a thing of people；最后得出结论：“笑”是否与健康有直接的联系尚无科学定论，但是，“笑”能使人身心愉悦，这毕竟是一件好事。

综上可知C项正确。

51. A link between moves and adult well-being.
52. Extroverts can make friends quickly and easily, while introverts have a harder time making new friends.
53. Being introverted
54. To draw a conclusion
55. how moves during childhood affect children.
书面表达：
According to the survey done in our school last week, the students in Senior 3 have different opinions on how to choose their courses.
About 30% of the students believe the choice should be based on their own interest. They say interest is
the mother of success. It is a miserable thing to have to spend most of your time studying what you have no interest in.
More students(around 45%), however, insist that consideration should be given to the needs of the society, for they argue, not everyone can find the job they like best. Besides, interest can be born and lost.
Interestingly, there are about 25% who find it too difficult a choice to make and would rather depend on their parents or teachers to make a decision for them.
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