高三英语试卷

高三英语测试本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。

满分135分，考试用时120分钟。

Ⅰ语言知识及应用(共两节，满分45分)第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you are feeling that life just cannot be any worse for you, it can be challengingto think positive thoughts. When we are stressed, depressed, 1 , or in anegative state of mind because we feel that "bad things" 2 happening to us, itis important to change those 3 thoughts into something positive. If we don't,we will only attract more "bad things."It is often very hard to think positive when so many things are negative, butI am 4 that someone, somewhere is worse off than you. We can choose tothink 5 by beginning with the smallest of steps.If you start with one small, positive thing and 6 it during the course ofyour day, you will begin to move into a more positive 7 : positive thoughts,feelings, opportunities. With practice, you will change your outlook and choose to be8 , regardless of the events around you.Here are a few examples for you to 9 . Begin and end each day with a"Thank you for this wonderful day!" When you see the gas prices hiking, say "I amglad that I have a 10 in which to get around." If you are having healthproblems, be grateful for what does work: "I really do 11 my eyes that see,my ears that hear, my mouth that tastes, my legs that walk, my 12 that write.Write down what you're grateful for each day. When you're feeling really down, readwhat you 13 beforehand. This will help uplift your spirits. If you practice this14 , you will find that your list will get longer and longer.The 15 to make it a moment of joyful peace is to move yourself into apositive thought and keep it there long enough. The more you practice, the happieryou'll be.1 A.upset B.healthy C.serious D.terrible2 A.stop B.try C.keep D.avoid3 A.relative B.negative C.sensitive D.positive4 A.disappointed B.sure C.sad D.interested5 A.carelessly B.stubbornly C.actively D.differently6 A.catch B.repeat C.speak D.sing7 A.situation B.conclusion C.attention D.ambition8 A.happy B.sad C.moved D.confused9 A.take B.make C.learn D.practice10 A.ship B.car C.plane D.bike11 A.perform B.put C.appreciate D.know12 A.knees B.hands C.head D.arms13 A.talked B.heard C.wrote D.saw14 A.quickly B.specially C.slightly D.regularly15 A.design B.performance C.trouble D.key第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15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卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。

Once there were two mice,a city mouse and a country mouse.They were distantrelatives. One day the city mouse, 16 lived in a big house wrote a letter to thecountry mouse inviting him for a visit.Delighted, the country mouse accepted the 17 (invite) and came to the citymouse's house. He was greeted by the city mouse cheerfully. The country mouse wassurprised 18 big the house was. The city mouse was pleased 19 ledthe country mouse to the kitchen.When 20 climbed up the table, there were alarge piece of bread, fruit and cheese 21 it.But just as they began to eat, theyheard 22 great noise. The city mouse cried, " Run! Run! The cat 23(come)!" They ran away quickly and hid.24 (breath)heavily after hiding in the mouse-hole, the country mouse saidto the city mouse, "I should go back to my house in the country. Even if I eat nothingbut beans, I can live 25 (peace). Why don't you come with me to the country?It is nicer to be poor and happy, than to be rich and afraid."Ⅱ阅读(共两节, 满分50分)第一节阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AWhen I walked into the house after school, the first thing I noticed was a box withitems I recognized from my dad’s off ice.“What are you doing home already?” I asked casually.“Andrew, I was laid off today,” he answered, quietly.I was sure he was joking. “No, you weren’t. Why are you really home?”Then I noticed his seriousness and realized he was telling the truth. My father hasalways been a hard worker and prided himself on his career. Providing for our familyhas been his joy, and I guess I had taken his work for granted.My father’s unemployment created many changes in our lives. For starters, hewas home all the time, which meant my bed had to be made, my room cleaned up, and my homework done right after school. I would come home every day to find him at the computer searching for jobs. I began to notice how down he seemed, and how losing his job had affected his self-esteem, though he tried to be optimistic. For the first time, I saw my dad as vulnerable. He asked my brother and me to spend less. I gave up my allowance, which even though it wasn’t much, felt like the right thing to do. I also found a part-time job.After several difficult months of searching, my dad decided to go in a totally different direction. He explained that he never wanted to be laid off again, so he was going to start his own business. Day by day, I watched him build it, and I admired how much time and energy he expended.One evening I asked if he needed help.“Only if it doesn’t interfere with school,” he said.I showed up at his office the next afternoon, and most afternoons after that for two months. I always knew he was a hard worker, but watching him in action really impacted me. Although this was one of the worst experiences for our family, it taught me a lot about dealing with adversity. Now I know that through creative problem-solving, I can always find Plan B, ask for help, and take risks. What I have learned from my dad’s understanding of business and his work ethic are two of the most important lessons I will ever learn, and will be my foundations for success.26. The author’s father stayed at home because __________.A. he had to he lp with the author’s lessonsB. his boss had stopped employing himC. heavy house work was waiting for him to doD. he wanted to search for new jobs on line27. What made the author know the truth?A. The box from his dad’s office.B. His father’s words.C. His father’s expression.D. Being informed by his family.28. The author’s attitude toward his father’s former job was __________.A. unconcernedB. sympatheticC. doubtfulD. tolerant29. By saying “Only if it doesn’t interfere with school,” the author’s father seemed ____________.A. to refuse the author’s advice on the new businessB. to show his discontent with the author’s schoolworkC. to have said yes to the author’s offer of helpD. to be looking forward to the author’s good behavior at school30. We can learn from the text that ___________.A. the author’s father was more optimistic to stay at homeB. the author couldn’t put up with his dad’s own businessC. the author’s father offered little allowance to the authorD. the author benefited from his father on how to deal with adversityBPhotos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy）, was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的）prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫）found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷）an angry note intended for some else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the s tarting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we i magine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理）, we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?31. The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.A. remind readers of found photographsB. advise reader to start a new kind of businessC. ask readers to find photographs behind sofaD. show readers the value of found photographs32. According to the passage, Joachim Schmid _________.A. is fond of collecting family life photographsB. found a complaining not under his car wiperC. is working for several self-published magazinesD. wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs33. The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to __________.A. the readersB. the editorsC. the found photographsD. the self-published magazines34. By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that ________.A. memory of the past is very important to peopleB. found photographs allow people to think freelyC. the back-story of found photographs is puzzlingD. the real value of found photographs is questionable35. The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as _________.A. criticalB. doubtfulC. optimisticD. satisfiedBSharks have lived in the oceans for over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared. There are now about 360 species of sharks, whose size, behavior, and other characteristics differ widely.Every year, we catch and kill over 100 million sharks, mostly for food and for their fins. Dried shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, which sells for as much as $50 a bowl in fine Hong Kong restaurants. Other sharks are killed for sport and out of fear. Sharks are vulnerable to overfishing because it takes most species 10 to 15 years to begin reproducing and they produce only a few offspring.Influenced by movies and popular novels, most people see sharks as people-eating monsters. This is far from the truth. Every year, a few types of shark injure about 100 people worldwide and kill about 25. Most attacks are by great white sharks, which often feed on sea lions and other marine mammals. They sometimes mistake human swimmers for their normal prey, especially if they are wearing black wet suits.If you are a typical ocean-goer, your chances of being killed by an unprovoked attack by a shark are about 1 in 100 million. You are more likely to be killed by a pig than a shark and thousands of times more likely to get killed when you drive a car.Sharks help save human lives. In addition to providing people with food, they are helping us learn how to fight cancer, bacteria, and viruses. Sharks are very healthy and have aging processes similar to ours. Their highly effective immune system allows wounds to heal quickly without becoming infected, and their blood is being studied in connection with AIDS research.Sharks are among the few animals in the world that almost never get cancer and eye cataracts. Understanding why can help us improve human health. Chemicals extracted from shark cartilage have killed cancerous tumors in laboratory animals, research that someday could help prolong your life.Sharks are needed in the world’s ocean ecosystems. Although they don’t needus, we need them. We are much more dangerous to sharks than they are to us. For every shark that bites a person, we kill one million sharks.36. Which of the following is NOT a reason why people kill sharks?A. People kill sharks for food.B. People kill sharks for sport.C. People kill sharks out of fear.D. People kill sharks because they often attack swimmers.37. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?A. There are many different species of sharks, but only a few of them are dangerous to humans.B. Sharks never get ill.C. Sharks are a valuable resource for human.D. Sharks play an important role in the ocean ecosystem.38. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.A. movies have given people the wrong impression of sharksB. most sharks are dangerous to humansC. sharks will attack anyone who is wearing blackD. it is dangerous to swim in the ocean39. The underlined word “prolong” in the last but one paragraph means ______.A. saveB. protectC. lengthenD. improve40. The best title for the passage would be _______.A. Are Sharks Dangerous?B. Sharks And HumansC. Sharks: Humans’ FriendsD. Sharks Help Save Human LivesDUncertainty spreads through our lives so thoroughly that it dominates our language. Our everyday speech is made up in large part of words like probably, many, soon, great, little. What do these words mean?Such verbal expression is not necessarily to be criticized. Indeed, it has a value just because it allows us to express judgments when a precise quantitative statement is out of the question.We have been trying to pin down by experiments what people mean by these expressions in specific contexts, and how the meanings change with age. For instance, a subject is told “There are many trees in the park” and is ask ed to say what number the word many mean to him. Or a child is invited to take “some” sweets from a bowl and we then count how many he has taken. We compare the number he takes when he is alone with the number when one or more other children are present and are to take some sweets after him, or with the number he takes when told to give “some” sweets to another child.First, we find that the number depends, of course, on the items involved. To mostpeople some friends means about five, while some trees means about twenty. However, unrelated areas sometimes show parallel values. For instance, the language of probability seems to mean about the same thing in predictions about the weather and about politics: the expression “is certain to” (rain, or be elect ed) signifies to the average person about a 70 percent chance; “is likely to”, about a 60 percent chance; “probably will” about 55 percent.Secondly, the size of the population of items influences the value assigned to an expression. Thus, if we tell a subject to take “a few” or “ a lot of” glass balls from a box, he will take more if the box contains a large number of glass balls than if it has a small number. But not proportionately more: if we increase the number of glass balls eight times, the subject takes only half as large a percentage of the total.Thirdly, there is a marked change with age. Among children between six and fourteen years old, the older the child, the fewer glass balls he will take. But the difference between a lot and a few widens with age. This age effect is so consistent that it might be used as a test of intelligence.41. What’s the right attitude towards the words like probably, many, soon?A. They are inaccurate and we should avoid them.B. They are necessary since we cannot be always precise.C. They should be criticized because there are too many of themD. Their value is not yet clear since we don’t know their meaning42. Why do we do experiments with the words “many” and “some”?A. To prove people are insensitive to these words.B. To prove the words dominate our everyday speechC. To find out how the meanings vary with age and contextsD. To find out whether the words can mean a precise quantity43. Which of the expressions means a larger chance in weather broadcast?A. PossibleB. ProbableC. Be likely toD. Be certain to44. Which of the following will least definitely influence the number of items a kid takes out of a box when he is invited to take “some”?A. whether the quantity of items is large or smallB. whether the items are candies or toysC. whether the kid is a toddler or a youngsterD. whether the kid is alone or accompanied by other children45. What will tell us about the intelligence of a child?A. The consistency of picking up a certain glass ballB. How many glass balls he will take when he’s asked toC. The difference between a lot and a few when he takes glass ballsD. Whether there are marked changes in his first pick and second one第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）请阅读下列文章和相关信息，并按要求匹配信息。