高三英语第四次周清

高三文科周测试卷2014.9.6

一、完形填空

One young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manger in a big company. The president did the final 1.

He discovered the youth was 2and felt satisfied. Then the president asked who paid for his school fees. The y outh answered, “My mother did. She worked as a clothes 3.”

The president requested the youth to 4his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. Then he asked, “Have you ever 5your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, “Never. My mother always wanted me to 6.”

“Go and clean your mother’s 7when you go back today, and then 8me tomorrow morning, ” the president said 9.

The youth felt his chance of getting the job was high, so when he went back, he 10 requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell 11he cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. It was the first time he had 12that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled(布满皱纹)and that there were so many bruises (伤痕) in her hands. After that, the youth didn’t say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother 13.That night, the mother and son 14for a very long time, longer than any talk before.

The next 15, the youth went to the president’s office. The president noticed the tears

in the youth’s eyes and asked, “Please tell me how you 16about helping your mother.” The youth said, “Number One, I know now what 17is. Without my mother, I wouldn’t be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I realize how 18it is to get something done. Number Three, I’ve come to realize the19of family relationship.”

The president said, “You are 20.This is what I am looking for to be my manager.”

1.A.election B.test C.interview petition

2.A.strong B.excellent C.humorous D.cute

3.A.maker B.cleaner C.mender D.seller

4.A.wash B.hide C.show D.dry

5.A.found B.let C.helped D.watched

6.A.study B.ignore C.work D.rest

7.A.clothes B.hands C.feet D.shoes

8.A.see B.move C.recognize D.answer

9.A.on purpose B.in patience C.by chance D.at last

10.A.carefully B.nervously C.happily D.shyly

11.A.after B.until C.because D.as

12.A.believed B.sensed C.noticed D.expected

13.A.quietly B.sadly C.excitedly D.angrily

14.A.thought B.slept C.sat D.talked

15.A.morning B.noon C.afternoon D.evening

16.A.worried B.felt C.brought D.spoke

17.A.courage B.appreciation C.success D.family

18.A.important B.difficult C.different D.impossible

19.A.value B.secret C.type D.change

cated B.respected C.trusted D.hired

二、阅读理解

In the past, going to a piano teacher was the most popular way to learn how to play the piano. You could get one-to-one teaching and have the opportunity to learn as much as the teacher knew. If you didn’t have private lessons, you could still learn the piano, but you would have to teach yourself. This was easy for some, but very difficult for most. However, with technology as it is today, there is at last another way that you can take piano lessons. You can take an online course.

An online course is much cheaper than a private lesson. If a private lesson costs 30 or 40 dollars per week, just think about how quickly that adds up. You can take a whole online course in piano for just a fraction (小部分) of the money that you would spend on weeks of private lessons. Also, private lessons are usually only one hour per week. So you would have to wait for your next lesson to continue your learning. However, online piano courses are quite different.

With an online piano course, you can work at your own pace. You can also take as many lessons per week as you want, or go back and listen to your last lesson if you have forgotten anything. Most adults who want to learn how to play the piano enjoy being able to go back and listen to the lessons again.

Of course, if you need someone to sit beside you and offer you immediate feedback(反馈)as you are playing, you might not get that from an online piano course. However, the lessons online can be viewed at any time, or as often as you’d like, which means that you can get your own type of feedback from an online piano course.

21.This passage mainly tells us .

A.the disadvantages of the traditional ways of learning to play the piano

B.the differences between traditional piano courses and online courses

C.why people prefer online piano courses to traditional piano courses

D.the advantages of learning to play the piano through an online course

22.What’s the purpose of mentioning the old ways of learning the piano in the first paragraph?