高中英语限时练七(附答案)

英语限时练
（总分100分时间40分钟）
一、完形填空
I was really honoured to be one of the students sent to South Korea to improve the relation between our city, Zibo, and our sister city—Gwangju (光州) City. When my teacher told me that I was chosen, I was happy and surprised and an image of the country appeared in my dreams several times. Also, many 1 ran through my mind, such as how would we communicate?
2 I saw the friendly faces of our South Korean partners waiting outside the hotel, all my questions floated off to the Pacific Ocean. We
3 a warm welcome organized by the government and settled into the Aria House Hotel.
4 the next seven days, we visited many places, including Never Land, the biggest park in South Korea and the Seoul World Cup Stadium (汉城世界杯体育场).
But what 5 me most was the experience I had in their school. The school was built on a hill, so we had a very wonderful 6 from the top. But I paid 7 attention to their classrooms. Obviously, the situation was 8 . In China, there are usually more than sixty students in one class but in Korea their classrooms had just thirty seats.
As I went to the front of the class, something really 9 me. Was I in South Korea, one of the most developed countries in the world? I saw lots of 10 chalk, too small to be held, saved for 11 . In our country, 12 lots of children can’t receive education because of the lack of 13 , nobody ever uses the bits of chalk like that. I couldn’t 14 thinking about the clean roads, the neat paper money and the cars running on the roads in South Korea. It is the 15 that makes South Korea a strong country, something we lost for years.
In South Korea, I saw many old buildings built in the 16 style. Moreover, the people were very interested in Chinese traditional culture. I saw many books written by Confucius and other Chinese philosophers. Also, learning Chinese is part of students’ curriculum.
China has 5000 years’ splendid history and thousands of renowned sch olars. Not only should we study our glorious (光荣的) 17 in class, but we must put it into 18 . 19 a civilized and developed country, I think it is necessary to 20 our culture back to life.
1. A. doubts B. questions C. problems D. nervousness
2. A. As long as B. As far as C. As soon as D. At once
3. A. earned B. delivered C. accepted D. received
4. A. Over B. For C. On D. Along
5. A. surprised B. taught C. impressed D. excited
6. A. scene B. sight C. time D. view
7. A. great B. little C. more D. a little
8. A. interesting B. different C. strange D. better
9. A. puzzled B. inspired C. shocked D. interested
10. A. bits of B. pieces of C. heads of D. coloured
11. A. future use B. spare use C. collection D. cleaning
12. A. though B. while C. as D. where
13. A. sources B. development C. money D. help
14. A. stop B. help C. keep D. avoid
15. A. hard work B. culture C. people D. spirit 16. A. traditional B. modern C. Chinese D. familiar
17. A. history B. past C. tradition D. culture
18. A. effect B. practice C. action D. service
19. A. For B. Building C. With D. In order to be
20. A. take B. make C. lead D. bring
二、阅读理解
A
On 23rd December, 2013, Michael Schumacher —the famous Formula-One race car driver —received serious brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while downhill skiing with his son. The accident happened during a family holiday in the French Alps. Although he was wearing a helmet, which broke apart on impact, the F1 celebrity was moving at speeds of up to 62 mph and skiing outside the off-piste safety demarcations (滑雪场地外的安全区). Doctors reported that he would have died on impact if he hadn’t bee n wearing a helmet. He has been in a coma (昏迷) since arriving at a nearby hospital where he was airlifted to from the site of the accident.
Michael Schumacher grew up in frugal (简朴的) conditions and started what would become his remarkable professional career when his working class father — a bricklayer — built him a go-kart from where he started participating in competitions. He started his adult career racing for Formula Ford in 1988 and later raced for Formula One Ford, Ferrari, and Mercedes AMG. He holds numerous F1 world records including most race victories, fastest laps, and most races won in a single season. According to the Formula One website, he is “statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen”. Also notable are his contributions to charity, during the peak of his career he has given away more than 50 million Euros to a variety of charity organizations, most to help children around the world.
Millions of Europeans and other fans around the world are holding their breath and waiting for information about his hopeful recovery. We wish him and his family the best.
【小题1】Michael Schumacher is in a coma after ________.
A. crashing in an airlift accident
B. a Formula One Ford car crash
C. a skiing accident during his holiday
D. a bump onto a rock in a skiing race
【小题2】What is a go-kart most likely to be?
A. A medical instrument.
B. A small car-racing field.
C. A racing-car driver’s safety helmet.
D. A small motor vehicle used for racing.
【小题3】From the passage we can learn that Michael Schumacher ________.
A. is recovering quickly at the Alpine Hospital in France
B. gave all his money to charity during the height of his career
C. raced for Ferrari and Mercedes before becoming a celebrity
D. came from humble origins to become the greatest F1 driver ever
B
Hacking our senses to boost learning power
Some schools are pumping music, noises and pleasant smells into the classroom to see if it improves exam results. Could it work? Why do songs stick in our heads? What does your school smell like? Is it noisy or peaceful?
It might not seem important, but a growing body of research suggests that smells and sounds can have an impact on learning, performance and creativity. Indeed, some head teachers have recently taken to broadcasting noises and pumping smells into their schools to see whether it can boost grades. Is there anything in it? And if so, what are the implications for the way we work and study?
There is certainly some well-established research to suggest that some noises can have a harmful effect on learning. Numerous studies over the past 15 years have found that children attending schools under the flight paths of large airports fall behind in their exam results. Bridget Shield, a professor of acoustics (声学) at London South Bank University, and Julie Dockrell, from the Institute of Education, have been conducting studies on the effects of all sorts of noises, such as traffic and sirens (汽笛), as well as noise generated by the children themselves. When they recreated those particular sounds in an
experimental setting while children completed various learning tasks, they found a significant negative effect on exam scores. “Everything points to a bad impact of the noise on children’s performance, in numeracy, in literacy, and in spelling,” says S hield. The noise seemed to have an especially harmful effect on children with special needs.
Whether background sounds are beneficial or not seems to depend on what kind of noise it is — and the volume. In a series of studies published last year, Ravi Mehta from the College of Business at Illinois and his colleagues tested people’s creativity while exposed to a soundtrack made up of background noises — such as coffee-shop chatter and construction-site drilling —at different volumes. They found that people were more creative when the background noises were played at a medium level than when volume was low. Loud background noise, however, damaged their creativity.
Many teachers all over the world already play music to students in class. Many are inspired by the belief that hearing music can boost IQ in later tasks, the so-called Mozart effect. While the evidence actually suggests it’s hard to say classical music boosts brainpower, researchers do think pleasant sounds before a task can sometimes lift your mood and help you perform well, says Perham, who has done his own studies on the phenomenon. The key appears to be that you enjoy what you’re hearing. “If you like the music or you like the sound — even listening to a Stephen King novel — then you do better. It doesn’t matter about the music,” he says.
So, it seems that schools that choose to prevent disturbing noises and create positive soundscapes could enhance the learning of their students, so long as they make careful choices. Yet this isn’t the only sense being used to affec t learning. Special educational needs students at Sydenham high school in London are being encouraged to revise different subjects in the presence of different smells — grapefruit scents for maths, lavender for French and spearmint for history.
【小题1】The four questions in the first paragraph are meant to ________.
A. create some sense of humour to please the readers
B. provide the most frequently asked questions in schools nowadays
C. hold the readers’ attention and arouse their curiosity to go o n reading
D. declare the purpose of the article: to try to offer key to those questions
【小题2】What does the conclusion of the studies of noise conducted by Bridget Shield and Julie Dockrell suggest?
A. Peaceful music plays an active role in students’ learni ng.
B. Not all noises have a negative impact on children’s performance.
C. We should create for school children a more peaceful environment.
D. Children with special needs might be exposed to some particular sounds.
【小题3】Ravi Mehta’s experiment indicates that ________.
A. students’ creativity improves in a quiet environment
B. we may play some Mozart music while students are learning
C. a proper volume of background noises does improve creativity
D. noise of coffee-shop chatter is better than that of construction-site drilling
【小题4】Towards the positive impact of appropriate background sound and smell on students’ learning and creativity, the author’s attitude is ________.
A. ambiguous
B. doubtful
C. negative
D. supportive
【小题5】Which of the following is most likely to follow up the research findings?
A. Experts’ research into other senses that can improve students’ grades.
B. More successful examples of boosting learning power by using music.
C. Suggestions for pumping lots of pleasant smells into school campuses.
D. Debat es on whether noises can really have positive effect on students’ performance.
三、七选五新题型阅读
C
Hollywood movies are regularly filled with sex and violence. They can be exciting films but sometimes all you want is a little light-hearted entertainment.
Have you heard of Bollywood? All singing, all dancing and unrealistic, it is the perfect alternative to normal Hollywood movies. Bollywood is the Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. 1 Yet Bollywood is the largest producer of films in the world. This year the Indian Filmgare Awards, Bollywood's Oscars, turn 50 years old.
The typical Bollywood movie usually has the following ingredients: a cup of romance, a tea-spoon of comedy, a dash of international sight-seeing, served with a huge slice of singing and dancing. There will also be one brave hero, one beautiful heroine and one baddie. 2
Bollywood films are full of ideal things and free of daily worries. 3 The actors change clothes and locations within a single song. But the audience don't mind. To Indian movie lovers, especially the poor, such films are a gateway to heaven and the stars are their gods. The films take them to a magical world away from their everyday troubles. The films tell them the impossible is possible and that true love conquers all.
4 Behind the beautiful scenes, Bollywood still emphasizes traditional family values. In most films, if two lovers want to break an arranged marriage, they can't just run away. They must win over their parents.
Bollywood is a decent refreshing replacement for those over-stimulating Hollywood films. 5 They will take you to a brighter, cheerier and more colorful world, where it's still cool to dance around a tree and sing a love song.
A．Bollywood has gradually won its reputation on the world stage.
B．There is never any mention of politics, poverty or war.
C．Most Chinese school kids have probably never seen an Indian film.
D．Bollywood films are mostly comic romances with light-hearted incidental music.
E. Bollywood pays great attention to traditional values.
F．The result is a fun-filled musical.
G．So if you're tired of all that Hollywood actions, check out the following Bollywood films.
D
The Internet has opened up a whole new online wor ld for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before.
But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on line. 1 Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes.
For anythin g you’re about to send: ask yourself, “Would I say this to the person’s face?” If the answer is no, rewrite and reread. 2
If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so. 3 If it was caused by a disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.
4 Offer advice when asked by newcomers, as they may not be sure what to do or how to communicate. When someone makes a mistake, whether it’s a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer, be kind about it. If it’s a small mistake, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything. Having good manners yourself doesn’t give you license to correct everyone else.
5 At the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those that you have offended.
It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex and marital status. Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information, don’t ask such questions.
A. It’s natural that there some people who speak rudely or make mistakes online.
B. Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying the words to the person’s face.
C. Everyone was new to the network once.
D. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated.
E. When you send short messages to a person online, you must say something beautiful to hear.
F. You should either ignore the person, or use your chat software to block their messages.
G. If you do decide to tell someone about a mistake, point it out politely.
参考答案：
一、完型填空：1~5 BCDAC 6~10 CDBCA 11~15 ADCBD 16~20 CDBDD
二、阅读理解：1-3 CDD 4-8 CCCDA 9-13CFBEG 14-18 DBFCG。