山西省高三英语上学期第四次月考试题

山西省实验中学2016-2017学年度高三年级第四次月考试题（卷）英语说明：1. 考生务必将自己所在班级、姓名、准考证号等信息填写在密封线内的相应位置。

2. 本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共8页。

答题时间100分钟，满分150分。

3. 答卷时考生务必用蓝、黑色墨水笔或圆珠笔作答。

第I卷客观题（100分）第一部分:阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。

AResearcher s at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes. “Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers,” the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues (非语言暗示) with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear.”Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits (特质) detected in the study include a person's general age, income, political tendency, and other personality traits, including someone's emotional stability. Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone's shoes. In the study, 63 students from the University of Kansas looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. Participants in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.So, what do your shoes say about your personality? Some of the results were expected: people with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by outgoing people. However, some of the more specific results are interesting. For example, “practical and functional” shoes were generally worn by more“friendly” people, while ankle boots were more closely connected with “aggressive”personalities. The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking”shoes tend to have “calm” personalities.And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety,”spending too much time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.The researchers noted that some people would choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers pointed out that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.1. By looking at a person’s shoes, it’s possible for people to_____.A. know the wearer thoroughly and accuratelyB. form an opinion about the wearer’s characterC. have exact cues about the wearer’s social statusD. judge the wearer’s educational background2. What can we know about the passage?A. Wealthy people tend to choose shiny shoes.B. Friendly people are likely to wear ankle boots.C. Calm people prefer shoes with uncomfortable appearance.D. Outgoing people always wear shoes with practical functions.3. Taking exceptional care of new shoes shows that _____.A. the owners care much about others’ opinions on their appearanceB. the owners are in a relaxed stateC. the owners are particular about their appearanceD. the owners have too many shoes to choose fromBPapa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then. So, the world became his school. With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown. “There's so much to learn,”he'd say. “Though we'reborn stupid, only the stupid remain that way.”He was determined that none of his children would be denied an education.Thus, Papa insisted that we learn at least one new thing each day. Though, as children, we thought this was crazy, it would never have occurred to us to deny Papa a request. And dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned. We would talk about the news of the day; no matter how insignificant, it was never taken lightly. Papa would listen carefully and was ready with some comment, always to the point.Then came the moment—the time to share the day's new learning.Papa would push back his chair and pour a glass of red wine, ready to listen.“Felice,” he'd say, “tell me what you learned today.”“I learned that the population of Nepal is ....”Silence.Papa was thinking about what was said, as if the salvation of the world would depend upon it. “The population of Nepal. Hmm. Well . . . .”he'd say. “Get the map; let's see where Nepal is.” And the whole family went on a search for Nepal.This same experience was repeated until each family member had a turn. Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders. Our family, however, was growing together, sharing experiences and participating in one another's education. And by looking at us, listening to us, respecting our input, affirming(肯定) our value, giving us a sense of dignity, Papa was unquestionably our most influential teacher.Later during my training as a future teacher I studied with some of the most famous educators. They were imparting(传授) what Papa had known all along—the value of continual learning. His technique has served me well all my life. Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.4. What do we know from the first paragraph?A. Those born stupid could not change their life.B. The author's father was born in a worker's family.C. The poor could hardly afford school education.D. The town elders wanted to learn about the world.5. It can be learned from the passage that the author ____.A. appreciated his father's educational techniqueB. felt regret about those wasted daysC. knew very well about NepalD. enjoyed talking about news6. What is the greatest value of "dinner time" to the author?A. Showing talents.B. Continual learning.C. Winning Papa's approval.D. Family get-together.7. The author's father can be best described as ____.A. a participant willing to share his knowledgeB. a teacher strict about everything his students didC. an educator expert at training future teachersD. a parent insistent on his children's educationCA man is in a serious condition after being bitten by a shark in northern NSW. The 52-year-old man from Evans Head, named in media reports as Craig Ison, is undergoing surgery after suffering injuries to his legs and hands when the shark attacked him at around 6a.m. on Friday.Detective Inspector Cameron Lindsay told reporters in Ballina the quick thinking of another surfer and beach walkers who stemmed the flow of blood may have saved Isons life.Two surfers initially helped him, using towels and tourniquets until emergency services arrived at the beach.Lindsay said Ison spotted the shark in the water and warned the other surfers.As the group tried to paddle away from the animal it then attacked Ison, he said.“He actually fought off the shark, we’re told, and has made it to the shore with the help of the other surfers,” he said.Ison was then transported to Lismore hospital in an ambulance driven by a police officer as paramedics frantically work on him in the back.The beach, south of Ballina, is not patrolled in winter and would remain closed, a Surf Life Saving NSW spokeswoman said.Local resident Bart Easdown says in the past week locals have reported many sightingsof four-meter and five-meter sharks nea r Ballina and Lennox Head. But he says nothing will stop surfers. “I’m not quite that brave, but they (local surfers) are, and they just love doing it,” Mr. Easdown told reporters. “The majority of people say they will be back in the water and that there is always something looming.”On Sunday beaches around Ballina were closed after two sharks were spotted off the coast, a Surf Life Saving ZNSW spokeswoman said. Earlier this month a bodyboarder was mauled by a shark at Ballinas Lighthouse Beach, suffering serious injuries to his lower legs. In February, a large great white shark tore the legs off 41-year-old surfer, Tadashi Nakaharaa, in a fatal attack at neighbouring Shelly Beach.On Sunday a man was killed by a shark while diving for scallops with his daughter near Maria Island, off Tasmania’s east coast.8. It is learned from the text that ____.A. Ison was sent to the nearest hospital by surfersB. other surfers had an easy escape from the sharkC. the attack happened during surfing at noonD. the shark’s attack left Ison seriously hurt9. According to Bart Easdown, we know that ____.A. there are reported sightings of sharksB. sharks appear in large numbers near BallinaC. locals are brave enough to surf with sharksD. there are no enough guards near Ballina and Lennox Head10. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?A. Why sharks attacked.B. Examples of recent attacks.C. What caused sharks to attack.D. When different attacks happened.11. What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?A. To describe serious diving accidents.B. To remind surfers of safety issues.C. To report a surfer’s misfortune.D. To call people’s attention to sharks.DThe brain, rather than our eyes, may be more important for sight, researchers studying fruit flies(果蝇) have discovered. The discovery could change the way we think about vision.Researchers in the University of Virginia have found that the very simple eyes of fruit fly larva(幼虫), with only 24 total photoreceptors (the human eye contains more than 125 million), provide just enough light input to allow the animal’s large brain to make that input into images. Their discovery shows that vision may be less important to “seeing”than previously thought—and in fact it is the brain’s ability to process points of light into complex images that is key.“It blows open how we think about vision.” said Barry Condron. “This tells us that visual input may not be as important to sight as the brain working behind it.”Condron’s graduate students, Elizabeth Daubert, Nick Macedonia and Catherine Hamilton, conducted a series of experiments to test the vision of fruit fly larvae. They found that when a larva was tied to the bottom of a dish, other larvae were attracted to it as it attempted to free itself. After several further experiments to understand how they sensed the motion, the researchers learned that the nearly blind animals likely were seeing the action.“The answer must be in the brain of these animals.” Condron said. “They are able to take just a couple dozen points of light and then process that into recognizable images, something like when an astronomer with a small telescope is able to use techniques to improve a limited image into useful information about a star.” Condron believes the animals are able to assemble useful images by rapidly scanning their heads and, in doing so, gather up enough light points to allow the brain to compose an image clear enough to “see”.The researchers tested this by presenting larva with a video (therefore no sound and no smell), and found that the larvae still sensed and sought out the struggling larva on the video. This provides us with a good model for trying to understand the role that the brain plays in helping organisms, including humans, to process images, such as recognizing faces.12. The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.A. people should depend on brain rather than eyes for sightB. the brain may be more important for sight than people thoughtC. using the fruit fly larva to test the eyes is the best wayD. some methods can keep our eyesight accurate and normal13. Condron used the example of “an astronaut with a small telescope” in Para5 to show _____.A. how the larvae gather up enough light pointsB. why the larvae moved their heads side-to-sideC. how we can get useful information about a star with a small telescopeD. the brain helps process the light points into images14. Why is a video used by the researchers?A. Because it helps to understand the part the brain plays.B. Because it is able to provide certain sound and smell.C. Because it turns visual inputs into a complete picture.D. Because it makes the larvae seek out the struggling larva.15. The underlined word “assemble” in the fifth paragraph may mean “_________”.A. choose proper equipmentB. receive useful informationC. put together separate partsD. observe enough actions第二节 (共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分)根据短文内容，从短文后选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。