大连市普兰店区第二中学2017-2018学年上学期竞赛试卷
高三英语试卷
总分：150分 时间：100分钟
第一部分 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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Looing for a great summer read? id reporters from TimeFor ids have reviewed the season's hottest new boos. They have recommended a list of id-approved page-turners (令人爱不释手的书) to our readers. Whether you’re fond of mysterious, fantastic or realistic fictions, there’s always one that suits you.
Three Bird Summer By Sara St. Antoine Genre Realistic Fiction Number of pages 256 What’s the basic story line?
For his entire life, 12-year-old Adam has spent summers at his grandma’s cabin in Minnesota. But this year things are different. His parents have divorced. Apart from that, Adam’s cousins won’t be vacationing at the cabin with him. Also, Grandma seems to be acting differently. At first, she’s just a bit more forgetful than usual. But after spending more time with her, Adam realies Grandma is “slipping.”
There are new neighbors at the cabin this summer, including a girl at Adam’s age named Alice. At first, Adam isn’t interested in spending time with her. But as time goes by, their friendship flourishes(繁荣). Throughout this unusual summer, Adam searches for hidden treasure with his new friend and begins to uncover family secrets as well.
Are the characters believable?
The characters are believable because they don’t have cooie-cutter(千篇一律的) personalities. Adam is quiet and shy and finds girls difficult to understand. Alice is adventurous and unlie any girl he has ever met. Readers will liely see aspects of their personalities in the characters and recognie their friendship too.
Who would lie this boo?
Anyone who appreciates memories of family vacations or summertime in general will enjoy the vivid imagination that fills Three Bird Summer. Readers will fall into the story, almost as if they’re actually spending the summer eploring Three Bird Lae with Adam and Alice.
21. While spending his summer at his grandma’s cabin this year, Adam ________. A. became friends with his cousins B. developed a friendship with a little girl C. annoyed his grandma occasionally D. played with Alice in the fields nearby
22. The boo is liely to appeal to ids because _______.
A. it describes country life. B. it tals about school life. C. it related to their eperience. D. it is written in simple words. 23. The tet is written to __________. A. praise a writer for his great wor. B. discuss how to spend summer holidays. C. encourage readers to do more reading D. recommend a good boo to readers.
B
If you find yourself checing your phone first thing in the morning, if you find you’re tet-messaging while driving, checing your phone instead of woring on an important assignment—you are addicted. Don’t worry. The new NoPhone might be just the thing you need. It loos and feels eactly lie a smartphone, but it does nothing. It’s just a piece of plastic that you can carry around in your hand to fool yourself.
NoPhone is currently a prototype(手机模型) that will cost only $12 once it hits the maret. Its maers are trying to raise $30,000 in order to cover the production and mareting costs.
Dutch designer Ingmar Larsen, who helped create the NoPhone, said that he had the idea as a joe along with his friends Van Gould and Ben Langveld. To their great surprise, the idea received a lot of attention online and people from all over the world started placing requests for NoPhone of their own, so that’s when the three friends decided to raise money for mass production.
David H said, “ I used to sleep with my phone in my hand, but my night errors would cause me to throw it across the room in an unconscious panic. With the NoPhone, I can still enjoy the comfort of holding a phone in my sleep, without waing up to a shattered screen, thans, NoPhone.”
If you’re interested in NoPhone, but concerned about not being able to tae selfies anymore, don’t worry. The maers do have an update at no etra charge—the mirror sticer. That way, they say, you can enjoy “real-time” selfies with your friends when they’re standing right behind you. 一、From the third paragraph we can infer that_______. A．NoPhone is a device made of high technology.
B．the maers want to raise money to improve their technology. C．NoPhone has not been on the maret at present.
D．the users of NoPhone can stay away from the real world. 二、What made the designers surprised was that________.
A．many people thought of the idea as a joe at first B．people in Dutch began to mae NoPhone of their own C．people worldwide began to fund mass production D．people worldwide were interested in NoPhone on the net 三、According to David H, he often ______at night. 43.used his smartphone B. had nightmare
C. became unconscious D. looed for his smartphone 四、What does the underlined phrases “tae selfies” most probably mean?
A. tae a photo of oneself B. get in touch with someone C. tae the place of someone D. catch sight of someone
C
Have you ever found yourself in this situation：You hear a song you used to sing when you were a child-a bit of nostalgia（怀旧）or \from the past，\we say．But it is not a distant childhood memory．The words come bac to you as clearly as when you sang them all those years ago．
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh studied the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language．They found that remembering words in a song was the best way to remember even one of the most difficult languages．
Here is what they did. Researchers too 60 adults and randomly divided them into three groups of 20．Then they gave the groups three different types of \．Researchers
had one group simply spea the words．They had the second group spea the words to a rhythm，or beat．And they ased the third group to sing the words．
All three groups studied words from the Hungarian language for 15minutes．Then they too part in a series of language tests to see what they remembered．
Why Hungarian，you as ? Researchers said they chose Hungarian because not many people now the language．It does not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages，such as Italian or Spanish．After the tests were over，the singers came out on top．The people who learned these new Hungarian words by singing them showed a higher overall performance．They did the best in four out of five of the tests．They also performed two times better than those who simply learned the words by speaing them．
Dr．atie Overy says singing could lead to new ways to learn a foreign language．The brain lies to remember things when they are contained in a catchy 3，or memorable 4，tune 5．
Dr．Lude said the findings could help those who struggle to learn foreign languages．On the University of Edinburgh's website Dr．Lude writes，\study provides the first eperimental evidence that a listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning，and opens the door for future research in this area．\
28. The\ A. recall the past B. attract the readers
C. introduce the topic D. compare the childhood with the present
29. According to the passage which language doesn't share the same root with Germanic or Romance languages?
A. Hungarian B. Spanish C. Italian D. English 30. Based on the last two paragraphs，we can conclude that A. singing is the best way to learn a language．
B. the brain probably wors best when the foreign language learners sing the words． C. a listen-repeat method is very effective for any language learner． D. Dr．atie Overy and Dr．Lude disagree with each other． 31. In which situation can the finding of the research be applied?
A. A mother is going to teach her baby how to spea．
B. A child is going to have his first music lesson． C. A student is going to learn a new English song． D. An American is going to learn some Chinese．
D
Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that man and animals possess if they are used. If fire didn't hurt when it burned, children would play with it until their hands were burned away. Similarly, if pain eisted but fear didn't, a child could burn itself again and again because fear would not warn it to eep away from the fire that had burnt it before. A really fearless soldier--and some do eist--is not a good soldier because he is soon illed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which man and animals might soon die out.
In our first sentence we suggested that fear ought to be properly used. If, for eample, you never go out of your house because of the danger of being noced down and illed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead, to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to tae.
In many cases, you can tae quic and successful action to avoid the danger. For eample, you see a car coming straight towards you; fear warns you, you jump out of the way, and all is well.
In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For eample, you cannot prevent an airplane crashing into your house, and you may not want to go and live in a desert where there are no airplanes. In this case, fear has given you its warning, you have eamined it and decided on your course of action, so fear of the particular danger is no longer of any use to you, and you have to try to overcome it.
32. Children would play with fire until their hands are burnt away if ______.
A. they were not well educated at school B. they had never played with fire before
C. they were fearful of pain D. they had no sense of pain 33. People sometimes succeed in timely avoiding danger because ______.
A. they have gained eperience B. they jump out of the way in time
辽宁省大连市普兰店区第二中学2018届高三上学期竞赛（期中）考试 英语
