2019届河南省郑州市一中高三上学期入学摸底测试英语试题含答案(2018.07)

19 届（高三）上期入学摸底测试

英语科目试题

说明：1．本试卷分不包含听力，满分120 分，考试时间100 分钟。

2．将选择题答案代表字母填（涂）在第Ⅱ卷的答题表（答题卡）中。

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）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The Costa Book A wards consistently pick winners that are both of the moment and subsequently endure. It’s our pleasure to confirm this year’s Category Winners.

F i r s t Novel Award W i nn e r

Book: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Author: Gail Honeyman

Eleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins again on a Monday. Between, her only company will be two bottles of vodka and her own solitary, unique wit . It is contentment, of a kind, but an unexpected shared experience suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader expectations with a living, breathing character, Gail Honeyman’s debut is a funny and moving diamond.

Biography Award

W i nn e r Book: In the

Days of Rain Author:

Rebecca Stott

The Exclusive Brethren were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born Rebecca. Her father had been an influential Brethren Minister. As her father lay dying, he begged her to help him write the memoir. He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect.

Poetry Award

W i nn e r Book:

Inside the W ave

Author: Helen

Dunmore

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead —the underworld and the human living world – and the acutely intense being of both.

C h il d r e n's Award W i nn e r

Book: The Explorer

Author: Katherine Rundell, Hannah Horn

Four children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon jungle, but for Fred and his friends it’s only the beginning of a cruel battle for survival. Brimming with adventure and a real command of character and incident, Rundell has few peers in superb children’s fiction.

21. What kind of life does Eleanor lead?

A. boring and lonely.

B. funny and

touching. C. exciting and complex. D. ordinary and

happy.

22. Why did Rebecca Stott write In the Days of

Rain?

A. T o introduce beliefs of the Exclusive

Brethren. B. T o help her father fulfill his last

wish.

C. To share the life of fundamentalist

Christians. D. To pass on her family

traditions.

23. For a young adventurous soul, which book seems more

appealing?

A. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

B. In the Days of Rain

C. Inside the W ave

D. The Explorer

B

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The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7 am to 1 pm, rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries; the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened( 蔓上成熟的)promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they're unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown's Grove Farm's stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal—and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New Y ork I wouldn't be experiencing again for