2017学年第一学期南洋模范中学高三年级完整版

2017学年第一学期南洋模范中学高三年级期中试卷

II. Grammar and V ocabulary

Section A （10%）

Over the last few hours, hundreds of delegates from all over the world have been arriving for the J12 meeting of leading industrialized nations ,which this year is taking place in the quiet Canadian mountain resort of Kanalgirie.

The Canadian President (21)____________(deliver)the operating address (22)__________the conference opens tomorrow morning. The Canadian police, who have been preparing for the event (23)____________late last year,are taking huge safety measures to avoid the violence which (24)_________(mark) last year’s summit in Berlin. They have thrown 18km security line around the area,and last night they were not allowing (25)____________to pass through—including journalists who actually have full access to the delegates. From tomorrow, police will also be blocking all mobile phone signals---to prevent bombs (26)_____________(set)off by remote control ,a police spokesmen said last night.

“The politicians here seem to be isolating (27)_________from the free press,”said one journalist .”There’s no doubt that governments are becoming more and more security conscious and less and less concerned(28)____________personal freedom. It’s getting harder and harder for us to gain access to the people who,(29)________the next few days, will be making decisions which will affect all our lives…and that’s something (30)___________should concern us all.

bestselling novel as it is to the science that supports the book.It’s hard to find any other science-fiction film that has stuck so___31_______to the practical challenges of living and surviving in space since Ron Howard’s Apollo 13.

The film manages to create a cinematic experience, and a(an)____32________plot based on the idea that man can survive on Mars as long as he’s done the math.

It sounds dry, but Ridley Scott pulls it off with magnificence.

During a month-long mission on Mars ,the five-man crew of Ares 3___33_____a storm they didn’t plan for ,and the team is called home. The craft’s commander in chief Mellisa Lewis orders a(n)___34______withdrawal. In the process, Mark Watney ,one of the five crew members gets injured by a flying communication antenna（天线）.Lost in the storm his fellow crewmen leave him behind for dead.

NASA chief Teddy Sanders announces Mark Watney’s deat h to the media. His fellow crewmen and guilt-ridden commander ____35______for his loss; the only problem is that Watney is very much alive. But the question is :for how long?

Based on the food and water the crew left behind ,Watney __36______he has supplies for 31 days. Due to the storm, he has no way to make contact with NASA ground control.

But the movie, which is a celebration of human____37________,makes this just