河南省郑州一中2018届高三上学期阶段测试(四)英语试卷(含答案)

18 届高三阶段测试（四）

英语试题

第一部分听力（略）

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，满分30 分）

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It’s four o’c lock on a W ednesday at a private swimming pool in the W ashington, D.C. area.

T wo fathers talk about getting their kids ready for a baseball-themed birthday party that evening. Both fathers are trying to get their sons dried, dressed and ready to get in the car. When I ask one of the fathers if he is a stay-at-home dad, he quickly answers, “no.” But, then he adds that he did lose his job six weeks ago. He says he is temporarily a stay-at-home Dad.

The other father, RJ Respress, has been a stay-at-home dad for the past 10 years. He has a 10-year-old son named Ben and a 7-year-old daughter named Sophie. Being a stay-at-home dad now, he says, is much different than it was 10 years ago. “… and so when I first started staying home, there weren’t a lot of dads around. It wasn’t a thing yet. And being home as a dad at that point you definitely stood out. I stood out. But now, I don’t think it makes a lot of difference, honestly. The stay-at-home dad phenomenon, if you will, I think, everyone seems to know about it. It’s not peculiar. Y ou see them all the time.”

He is right. Families in the U.S. are changing. A new study finds that in the U.S. more than two million fathers are staying home to take care of the house and family. This number is twice that of 25 years ago. In 2012, 16 percent of all parents in the U.S. were stay-at-home dads.

Gretchen Livingston is with the Pew Research Center. She says the number of stay-at-home dads is only going to grow.

She says in the last 25 years there have been changes as far as dads taking on more care giving responsibilities and mothers taking on more bread-winner responsibilities. She adds that the number of hours a day that dads spend caring for their kids has tripled in the past decades. That is a huge change.

The study finds that disability, sickness and unemployment are among the reasons that fathers stay home. But, some fathers do so simply to spend more time with their children. 21. What would be the best title for this passage? A.

The peculiar phenomenon in U.S.

B. The changing roles of the families in U.S.

C.

Fathers are the key role in families.

D. Families become more important in U.S.

22. From Paragraph3 we can infer that .

A. there is a slight change of attitude toward a stay-at-home Dad between the past decades and now

B. the stay-at-home dad phenomenon was peculiar in the past

C. to be honest, RJ Respress does not want to be a stay-at-home dad

D. there are a lot of differences between a stay-at-home Dad and a working-out Dad

23. What does the underlined word “tripled ” mean in the six paragraph? A.

Three times. B. T wice.

C. More than.

D. Multiply

B

At a few minutes past five, Dave noted that the blanket of darkness was lifting. He was

just able to make out the heavier masses that eventually appeared as the familiar trees that lined the road at the base of the hill. The upper reaches of the sky showed lighter shades of gray.

Dave got out of bed quietly and dressed quickly . He mixed a spoonful of instant chocolate

into a glass of cold water, and his impatience forced him to finish the drink in gulps.

As he walked down toward the lake, Dave paused to reach for the fishing pole

and gear box on the bench where he had left them the night before.

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had spread over the surface of the water. He stepped into the boat, sat down, and rowed out of the weed beds that lined the edge of the shore. The outer fringe （ 边 缘 ） o f the lake disappeared as the boat moved forward noiselessly . All he could see was the enveloping whiteness. He could not tell where the boat and the surrounding air met the surface of the lake. Dave rowed steadily ahead, relying of a mental picture of the surroundings. Then the mist began to rise, slowly it soon rested inches above the still surface of the lake. The heavy silence was now being broken by the fish breaking through the surface as they leaped out of the water for low-flying insects.

The magic time had arrived. Dave raised his pole. Dawn was broken. He was excited with expectancy . 24. Dave got up early in the morning to . A. enjoy the scene of the lake B. seek adventure at the lake C. go fishing in the lake