2018届广东省揭阳市第一学期高三学业水平(期末)考试试卷与答案

{正文}2018届广东省揭阳市第一学期高三学业水平（期末）考试英语试题第Ⅰ卷第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A◇Share Flats Happy Valley big flat 1 room ready for use immediately. Quiet and convenient, fully furnished, park view. $6, 800 including bills. With maid. Female nonsmoker. No pet. Sara 25720836 or 10077809.◇Moving Sale 2 armchairs, red/brown at $400 each; coffee table, black, wood, $800; oil painting, big, $900; Tianjin carpet, green 3 ?7, $600; double bed, $500; mirror, big, square, $500; fridge, big, double-door, $1000; old pictures, $140, up, each; plants, big and small. Tel: Weekend, 2521-6011/Weekday, 2524-5867.◇Part-time Laboratory Assistant Wanted Required by busy electronics（电子）company to help with development of computer. Should have an electronics degree and some practical experience of working in an electronics laboratory. Hours 9:30 am.-1:00 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fourteen days paid leave. Salary ￥6598-10230 dependent on experience. Letter of application to: Mrs. G Chan, NOVA ELECTRONICS, 45 Gordon Rd, Hung Hom Kowloon.21．The one who put on the first ad probably wants to _______.A．rent a beautiful flat of her own in Happy ValleyB．find another lady to share the cost to rent a flatC．share her room in a flat with whoever has no petD．take on a maid to look after herself and the flat22．According to the ads, you may _______.A．buy an old picture for $150B．call at 25720836 and see a beautiful parkC．buy two armchairs for $ 400D．hire a maid by paying $6 80023．Once you can get a part-time job in NOVA ELECTRONICS, _______.A．you have to work at least 4 hours a dayB．you should write a letter to Mrs. G ChanC．you will be given 14 days off each year besides weekendsD．you will get no more than $6 598 each monthBImagine you went to a restaurant with a date, had a burger, paid with a credit card, and left. The next time you go there, the waiter or waitress, armed with your profile data, greets you with. "Hey Joe, how are you? Mary is over there in the seat you sat in last time. Would you like to join her for dinner again?" Then you find out that your burger has been cooked and your drink is on the table. Forget the fact that you are with another date and are on a diet that doesn't include burgers. Sound a little bizarre? To some, this is restaurant equivalent of the Internet. The Net's ability to profile you through your visits to and interactions at websites provides marketers with an enormous amount of data on you—some of which you may not want them to have.Almost every time you access a website you get a "cookie". A cookie on the Internet is a computer code sent by the site to your computer—usually without your knowledge. During the entire period of time that you are at the site, the cookie is collecting information about your interaction, including where you visit, how long you stay there, how frequently you return to certain pages, and even your electronic address. Fill out a survey to collect free information or samples, and marketers know even more about you—like your name, address, and any other information you provide. While this may sound scary enough, cookies aren’t even the latest in technology.A new system called I-librarian Alexa—named for the legendary third century B．C． library in Alexandria, Egypt—does even more. While cookies track what you are doing at one site, Alexa collects data on all your Web activity, such as which sites you visit next, how long you stay there, whether you click on ads，etc. All this information is available to marketers, who use it to market more effectively to you. Not only do you not get paid for providing the information, you probably don’t even know that you are giving it.24．The author makes up the restaurant story in order to _______。

A．show the good service offered in some Web restaurantsB．criticize some restaurants for too considerate serviceC．show the Internet’s ability to collect data on youD．prove the incredible power of the Internet25．What can be learned about “cookie” from the second paragraph?A．It was first created by Mrs. Reid.B．It collects information on you without your knowing itC．It’s some information sent to your computer about yourself.D．It’s the latest in technology.26．What can be learned about "Alexa" from the second paragraph?A．Alexa is named after an ancient hero in EgyptB．Alexa is installed in libraries.C．Alexa can collect all the necessary data on you.D．Alexa can provide more data for marketers than a cookie.26．Which of the following words can best reflect the author's attitude to cookies and Alexa?A．CriticalB．Suspicious.C．Objective.D．Optimistic.CMany private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all deserve to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there are low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply because they exist.But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial squeeze, with no way to reduce rising costs or increase revenues（收入）significantly. Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenue, for each time tuition goes up, the enrollment（入学人数）goes down, or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up. Schools are bad businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of mismanagement but because of the nature of the enterprise. They lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt （破产）either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad business.It is such colleges, thriving but threatened, I worry about. Low enrollment is not their chief problem. Even with full enrollments, they may go under. Efforts to save them, and preferably to keep them private, are a national necessity. There is no basis for arguing that private schools are inherently（固有地）better than public schools. Examples to the contrary abound. Anyone can name state universities and colleges that rank as the finest in the nation and the world. It is now inevitable that public institutions will be dominant （处于支配地位的）, and therefore diversity is a national necessity. Diversity in the way we support schools tends to give us a healthy diversity in the forms of education. In an imperfect society such as ours, uniformity of education throughout the nation could be dangerous. In an imperfect society, diversity is a positive good. Enthusiastic supporters of public higher education know the importance of sustaining private higher education. 28．According to the author's opinion, schools are bad businesses because of _______.A．mismanagementB．too few studentsC．financial squeezeD．their characteristics29．The author used the phrase “go under" in Para. 3 to mean "_______".A．get into difficultiesB．have low enrollmentC．have little moneyD．bring in more money30．We can reasonably conclude from this passage that the author made an appeal to the public in order to support_____A．public institutionB．private schoolsC．uniformity of educationD．diversity of education31．Which of the following ways could possibly save private schools?A．Raising tuition.B．Full enrollment.C．National awareness and support.D．Reduction of rising costs.DIt was 3:21 a.m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the cracking（爆裂声）of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island.With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn.The nine-year-old boy raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother’s room. He found it impossible to wake her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boyre mained calm and, as a fireman said later, “acted with all the self control of a trained adult.”On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?Grasping firmly a ball of string from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother’s room. Tying one end of the str ing to her hand he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan: “The string will lead you to Mother.” Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.32．Why did Glenn run downstairs first?A．He wanted to find out what was happening.B．He was worried about his mother’s safety.C．He wanted to save his sister and his brother.D．He went to see if his father had come back from work.33．How did Glenn help the firemen to save his mother?A．By throwing water all over her and her bed.B．By carrying her to safety with his brother.C．By pushing and pulling at her.D．By tying a string to her hand.34．Who called the fire brigade and ambulance service?A．Glenn. B．Glenn's father. C．Glenn's sister. D．Glenn's neighbor. 35．Glenn saved his family because ________ .A．his father had taught him to do so on the phoneB．he had learned something about the first aidC．he had dealt with the emergency calmly and wiselyD．he had followed his mother’s instruction第二节（共5小题,每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。