第二学期质量检测 Melody

河溪中学2013-2014学年度第二学期质量检测高三级英语试卷（满分135分，时间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，并将答案填在答题卡标号为1~15的相应位置上。

Freshmen are always fearful when learning they are to live with a roommate of a different race assigned by the computer casually. They are full of __1__ at the uncertainties. Now several studies have found that __2__ a room with a man of another race is a mixture of hope and fear. It decreases __3__ and forces students to make friends with those of different races, meanwhile causes more conflicts.An Ohio State University study found that black students living with a white roommate saw higher_4__ success at college. Sam Boakye —the only black student on his freshman year floor —said “ify ou‟re __5__ by whites, you have something to prove like a good score in study.”However, researchers also observed __6__ in this case. According to two recent studies, compared with two white roommates, roommates of different _7 may experience such big conflicts that one has to move out and live __8__.Grace Kao, a professor at Penn said she was not __9__ by the findings. In her opinion, this may be the first time that some of these students have __10__ with someone of a different race.”At Penn, students are not asked to mention race when applying for their 11 . In this way, students are thrown together __12__.“In the past two years, I‟ve experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students,” said one Penn resident advisor (RA). To give a better picture, she __13__ that some conflicts provided more multicultural acceptance, but some showed unpleasant differences. Besides, these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the __14__ race.Kao said it was __15__ to conclude from any one of the above studies, saying scientists must study more students‟ background characteristics.1. A. disappointment B. worry B. expectation D. ambition2. A. sharing B. decorating C. managing D. renting3. A. prejudice B. expense C. dependence D. understanding4. A. athletic B. economic D. academic C. social5. A. controlled B.attacked C. surrounded. D. blamed6. A. practices B. chances C. changes D. problems7. A. races B. nations A. positions D. majors8. A. angrily B. separately C. closely D. happily9. A. surprised B. satisfied C. confused D. convinced10. A. played B. worked C. lived D. learned11. A. account B. scholarship C. housing D. course12. A. secretly B. randomly C. forcefully D. terribly13. A. approved B. argued C. added D. adopted14. A. same B. friendly C. competitive D. peaceful15. A. unsuccessful B. unscientific B. unnecessary D. unusual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。

Do you know there are 1,800 kinds of earthworms(蚯蚓) in the world? Most earthworms only live two or three years, ____16____some may live as long as nine years.The ___17___(good) time to see earthworms is at night, especially a cool, damp night. That‟s when they come up from their burrows (地洞) to search____18______ food. Earthworms don‟t like to be in the sun. They must come out of the earth if it rains a lot because they can‟t breathe in their water-filled burrows. What a(n)____ 19____ (danger) life!Earthworms don‟t have eyes, but they have special places on their skin that are sensitive___20_____ light. Those spots tell____21_____ it‟s light or dark. But earthworms are blind to red light. Earthworms don‟t have ears either, but they can hear by___22___(feel) movements in the earth.Some people think that if ___23____ earthworm is cut in half, each half will grow back the missingpart and there will be two earthworms. This is not quite true about what happens. If a small piece of theearthworm‟s front part __24____（cut）off, it can grow a new head. The new front part may be shorter thanthe old one, but ___25______will even grow a new brain.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填写。

AFollowing some of the tips for green living helps save our planet. All of these involve just a few changes to our daily habits.Just walk and limit the use of your car. One of the poster images of pollution is our vehicles. It burns fuel. It is not as efficient as we hope it could be, and we use it every single day. To lessen the effects of the air pollution caused by our vehicles, we should limit their use. If we can walk to our destination then just let us go. Not only do we lessen our carbon dioxide emissions, but we also get a good exercise out of it.Use a laptop instead of a computer desktop. Laptops are more energy efficient compared to their bigger counterparts. A laptop is generally 50 percent more efficient in using electricity. Aside from that there are other benefits of a laptop. It is portable so you can work anywhere you like and that you get powerful features without the large size of desktop units.Turn off the faucet while you are brushing your teeth. It is always a better idea to use a glass when we are brushing our teeth and not to just let the faucet keep on running. Therefore，there is less water to waste while we are cleaning our pearly whites. Simply turn off the faucet when you are not using it.Make good use of natural light. We have a great and natural lamp --- the sun, and we should learn how to take full advantage of it during daytime. So instead of turning on our lights or lamps even if it is still not evening, we should pull up the drapes and let the natural light come in from the windows.These are just some of the best tips for green living, but of course there are still many of these tips if you just search for them. But you can do your own variation any time just always prioritize how you can use less energy and produce even lesser trash and pollution.26. What‟s the best title for the passage?A. How to Save Our PlanetB. How to Change Our Daily HabitsC. Tips for Green Living TodayD. Green Living and Serious Pollution27. Compared with a computer desktop, a laptop __________.A. less energy efficientB. faster at workC. easy to repairD. easy to carry28. How many tips does the passage mention for green living today?A. ThreeB. FourC. FiveD. Six29. The underlined word “prioritize” in the last paragraph can be replaced by the word _________.A. decreaseB. considerC. imagineD. guess30. Which of the following is NOT true?A. A few changes to daily habits can help a lot.B. While washing teeth we should turn off the faucet.C. Vehicles bring pollution and we should try to avoid.D. In the daytime we should not pull up the drapes.BHolidays are really important. Many of us will have childhood memories of summer holidays where we were taken away from home to experience new environments and learn in different ways.But holidays are expensive and, for those on low wages or living on benefits, they are often unobtainable. Even the cheapest holidays require travel and other additional costs that are difficult for many families to meet.For working parents, the long summer break can be a very difficult problem for childcare. When an annual leave allowance amounts to only five weeks, there is a need to spread this across the year. Couples can find themselves taking leave in turn in order to care for children who are on holiday. For some this makes even an affordable family holiday difficult.The schools that I visit in Nottingham are full of experienced staff committed to giving our children a caring and inspiring learning environment. The number of children receiving free school meals is quite large in Nottingham and many schools have breakfast clubs to make sure that children get a healthy start to the day. Most schools undertake programs of group or individual educational support. Schools also have an important role in safeguarding children's welfare through the ongoing touch and support with their pupils. During the long summer holidays, much of this is missed.While teachers are holidaying in the UK, many of their pupils spend the whole six weeks on the street where they live. The lack of free school meals for six weeks can result in pressure on a family budget and an inability to afford the inspiring experiences that help children to continue their learning.In setting out its plans for a five-term year, Nottingham City Council (委员会)is seeking to reduce the summer holiday down lo four and a half weeks, with a more balanced five terms of roughly eight weeks, each followed by a two-week break. We believe this will give real “down time" for school staff and pupils alike but will be short enough not to cause a real break in learning.We acknowledge that this change may be difficult for some school staff, particularly whose own children are educated in other authorities. However, this must be weighed against the benefits for city children for whom we all have the greatest duty of care.31. The passage is probably written by .A. an experienced teacherB. a working parentC. an inspired studentD. a city council member32. The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to " ‟.A. environmentsB. holidaysC. wagesD. benefits33. It is suggested in the passage that the summer break be reduced to ..A. 2 weeks B. 4.5 weeks C. 5 weeks D. 6 weeks34. The plans for a shorter summer holiday will help students_____ .A. o btain the cheapest holidays without additional costsB. g et a chance to spend six weeks a term with teachers in schoolC. b enefit more from the caring and inspiring learning environmentD. h ave more school days to receive free school meals35. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.A. w orking parents can enjoy a five-week break to care for their childrenB. t he suggested plans for a five-term school year can hardly be carried outC.the long summer holiday gives teachers and students real "down time"D. s ome school staff will say “ No" to the plans for a shorter summer holidayCDrunken driving —sometimes called America‟s socially accepted form of murder—has become a national epidemic (流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years.A drunken driver is usually referred to as one with 0.10-blood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken killing has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially concerning young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend (逆转潮流) in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already, to a marked drop in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar inMassachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national ban of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didn‟t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption (腐败) and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution. ks5u36. What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey?A. Young drivers were usually bad.B. Drivers should not be allowed to drink.C. Some drivers didn‟t surprise the legal drinking age.D. The legal drinking age should be raised.37. The underlined word “lenient” in the first paragraph means _____.A. seriousB. cruelC. mercifulD. determined38. Which of the following statements best shows the writer‟s opinion of drunken driving?A. It is difficult to solve this problem.B. It may lead to organized crime.C. The new laws can stop heavy drinkingD. There should be no bars to serve drinks.39. In America, the number of people killed by drunken drivers on average is _________.A. 3 per dayB. 250,000 over the last 10 yearsC. 72 each dayD. less than 500 each week40. Drunken driving has become a major national problem because _________.A. drinking is America‟s socially accepted habitB. most Americans drink quite a lotC. not many people realized the severe subsequences caused by heavy drinkingD. publicity did not pay much attention to road accidentsDChristopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he wasalways tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病)，Tomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that weren‟t bad enough, he had no health insurance.After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he'd better find a way to fight back. He leftCanton,Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar,and crea ted diabeticrockstar. com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones—a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.Jason Swencki…s son, Kody, was diagnosed with type diabetes at six. Father and son visit theonline children‟s forum together most evenings. " Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over,”says Swencki, one of the site‟s volunteers.”They know what he‟s going through, so he doesn‟t feel alone.”Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States,with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages. These days,Thomas's main focus is his charity, Fight It, which provides medicines and supplies to people—225 to date—who can't afford a diabetic's huge expenses. has raised about $23,000—in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause,while still doing his full-time job waiting tables. “ Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure,”says Bentley Gubar , one of Rockstar‟s original members. “But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now.41. Which of the following is true of Christopher Thomas?A. He needs to go to the doctor every day.B. He studies the leading cause of diabetesC. He has a positive attitude to this disease.D. He encourages diabetics by writing articles.42. was created for _________.A. diabetics to communicateB. volunteers to find jobsC. children to amuse themselvesD. rock stars to share resources.43. According to the text, Kody ______.A. feel lonely because of his illnessB. benefits from C. helps create the online kid…s forumsD. writes children…s stories online44. What can we learn about Fight It?A. It helps the diabetics in financial difficulties.B. It organizes parties for volunteer once a year.C. It offers less expensive medicine to diabetics.D. It owns a well-known medical website.45. The last paragraph suggests that Thomas ______.A. works full-time in a diabetes charityB. employs 22 people for his websiteC. helps diabetics in his own wayD. ties to find a cure for diabetes第二节信息匹配（共5题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。