高三期末考试英语试题

2017—2018学年度第二学期期末考试

高三英语

本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间100分钟。

考生注意：

1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡的指定位置上，认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡的指定位置上。

2.选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂，如需改动时，必须用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案的标号；非选择题答案使用0.5毫米中性（签字）笔或碳素笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。

3.请按照题号在各题的答题区域（黑色线框）内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效。

4.保持答题卡卡面清洁，不折叠，不破损。

5.做选考题时，考生按照题目要求作答，并用2B铅笔在答题卡上把所选题目对应题号涂黑。

6.考生不得在答题卡四周的标记处做任何标记，否则按“0”分处理。

Ⅰ卷（选择题共70分）

第一节阅读理解（每题2分共40分）

A

On the night of November 14, 1978, a six-year-old Korean boy was flying to the United States. All he knew was that he was on a plane heading for somewhere. The plane landed at Kennedy International Airport, where he was greeted by a family. This young boy was me.

I have grown up in a town where there were few Asians, so I stuck out in the crowd. I made friends quickly and they treated me just like anyone else. You may ask if anyone made fun of my appearance. Well, of course, I met that kind of person. I just shrugged it off.

As an adopted child, I have something that others don't have.

I have had the benefit of two families. I'm lucky to have got a chance to start a new life. But we must try never to forget our past. Some day I will go back to Korea to find out what kind of culture I left behind.

There is only one thing that I regret about being adopted. When I argue with my parents and they realize they are losing the argument, they sometimes wonder what I would be doing if I was back in Korea. I don't understand this because I thought the purpose of adopting someone was to give them a better chance of growing up in a family. Some day when I am older, I want to adopt a girl and raise her the way my parents have raised me, but I would do it better, for I know what went well and what did not. 21. We learn that when the writer was on the way to his new family,.

A.he was with his own parents

B.he was very happy and excited

C.he was about ten years old then

D.he didn't know he was going to be adopted

22. If someone sticks out in the crowd, it means that he/she.

A.is very good-looking

B.is very kindhearted

C.is easily noticed by others

D.is disliked by others

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23. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A.The writer wants to forget his past.

B.The writer isn't sad about being adopted.

C.The writer isn't interested in Korean culture.

D.The writer doesn't know anything about Korea.

24. What does the writer want to do when he is older?

A. Go back to live with his parents in Korea.

B. Tell his parents what they have done wrong.

C. Find out how to raise children in a better way.

D. Adopt a girl and raise her in a good way.

B

Would it surprise you to learn that, like animals, trees communicate with each other and pass on their wealth to the next generation?

UBC Professor Simard explains how trees are much more complex than most of us ever imagined. Although Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard shows just how wrong he was. In fact, the opposite is true: trees survive through their co-operation and support, passing around necessary nutrition "depending on who needs it".

Nitrogen (氮) and carbon are shared through miles of underground fungi (真菌) networks, making sure that all trees in the forest ecological system give and receive just the right amount to keep them all healthy. This hidden system works in a very similar way to the networks of neurons (神经元) in our brains, and when one tree is destroyed, it affects all. Simard talks about "mother trees", usually the largest and oldest plants on which all other trees depend. She explains how dying trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important minerals to young trees so they may continue to grow. When humans cut down "mother trees" with no awareness of these highly complex "tree societies" or the networks on which they feed, we are reducing the chances of survival for the entire forest.

"We didn't take any notice of it" Simard says sadly. "Dying trees move nutrition into the young trees before dying, but we never give them chance." If we could put across the message to the forestry industry, we could make a huge difference towards our environmental protection efforts for the future.

25. The underlined sentence "the opposite is true" in Paragraph 2 probably means that trees _________.

pete for survival

B.protect their own wealth

C.depend on each other

D.provide support for dying trees

26. "Mother trees" are extremely important because

they__________.

A.look the largest in size in the forest

B.pass on nutrition to young trees

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