2017年榆树一中高三竞赛试卷
英 语
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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)
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。
A
Orlando, the“Theme Par Capital of the world,”has enough to eep your family entertained for wees. Four Best gives you a description of what each of these pars has to offer. Aquatica Orlando
Aquatica Orlando brings the best of an aquarium(水族馆), oo, water par and amusement par together into one eperience. With 38 slides, 84, 000 acres of white sand beach, you can easily spend the entire day enjoying the Florida sun with your family. Don’t miss the Dolphin Plunge, a clear tube water slide that taes you through the dolphin habitat. LEGOLAND Florida
LEGOLAND Florida, the largest LEGOLAND par in the world, features 50 rides, shows and attractions spread out over the Lego-strewn 150-acres. If you’re traveling with younger ids, LEGOLAND maes a great choice since it’s designed for ids between the ages of 3 and 12. Besides, Buddy is our wal-around character mascot (吉祥物) of the par. He’s tall, yellow, friendly, and loves taing pictures with LEGOLAND Florida guests. Discovery Cove
With guest access restricted to 1,300 per day, Discovery Cove feels more lie a resort than a theme par. Without crowds to worry about, you’ll get to enjoy up-close animal meetings with dolphins, sting rays, tropical fish and eotic birds. It’s all-inclusive too, so you won’t have to worry about food, towels or equipment. Disney’s Animal ingdom
At the Animal ingdom, Disney changes the concept of a oological par to something completely new. Here you can tae a ride through the wilds of Africa, complete with real animals, raft down the Amaon or ride a runaway train through Mount Everest. The par is home to about 1,500 animals representing 250 species.
21.Which theme par will parents probably choose for their five-year-old child? A. Aquatica Orlando. B. LEGOLAND Florida.
C. Discovery Cove. D. Disney’s Animal ingdom. 22.What can people do in Disney’s Animal ingdom? A. Enjoy the Florida sun with their family. B. Tae pictures with Buddy. C. Watch tropical fish face to face. D. Watch real animals. 23.What can we now about the four theme pars?
A. Aquatica Orlando has various entertainment facilities. B. You must tae towels of your own at Discovery Cove. C. LEGOLAND Florida covers an area of 84,000 acres.
D. Disney’s Animal ingdom is based on traditional concept of oo.
B
Compassion (同情) is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into action．An eperience last weeend showed me this is true．I wor part-time in a supermaret across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man waled up to my register (收款机) with a bo of biscuits. He said he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He ased if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the net day．
I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered what ind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be lie if fortune had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this ind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unind saying this, but I valued my job．
Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoe up. If anything, he looed more pitiable．“Charge it to me,” was all he said．
What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy．Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thaned the second man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocet and paid for the biscuits myself．I reached into my pocet because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion. 24. The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits . A. promised to obey the store rules. B. forgot to tae his credit card with him.
C. hoped to have the food first and pay later. D. could not afford anything more epensive.
25. Which of the following best describes the old gentleman? A. ind and lucy B. Poor and lonely C. Friendly and helpful D. Hurt and disappointed 26. Why did the author refuse the old gentle man’s request first? A. He wanted to eep his present job. B. He felt no pity for the old gentleman.
C. He considered the old man dishonest.
D. He epected someone else to pay for the old man. 27. What lesson did the author learn from this eperience? A. Wealth is most important in older age. B. Helping others is easier said than done. C. Pity is better gained through practice.
D. Obeying the rules means more than compassion.
C
Wal through the Amaon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thic. But if you had been around 15, 000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests lie the Amaon might have reacted to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.
Rainforests lie the Amaon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. Currently the trees in the Amaon tae in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the U each year. But how will the Amaon react to future climate change? If it gets drier, will it still survive and continue to draw down CO2?
Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage
in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past. Unfortunately, getting into the Amaon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to loo at fossilied pollen, ept in lae mud. Going bac to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lae sediments (沉淀物) which requires specialied equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled (未取样). So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go bac to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amaon rainforest reacts to climate change. 28. What does the underlined phrase “mopping up” in the second paragraph mean? A. Giving up B. Taing in C. Wiping out D. Giving out 29. How will the Amaon rainforest react to future climate change? A. It’ll get drier and continue to remove CO2. B. It’ll remain steamy, warm, damp and thic. C. It’ll get warmer and then colder and drier. D. There is no eact answer up to present. 30. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. It’s hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the Amaon rainforest. B. It’s impossible to prove how climate changes in the Amaon rainforest. C. It’s important to drill deep down into lae sediments to collect information.
D. It’s necessary to have specialied equipment and machinery to study the past climate.
31. What is the best title for this passage?
A. Studies of the Rainforests B. Climates of the Amaon C. Secrets of the Ice Age D. Changes of the Rainforests
D
Food piced up just a few seconds after being dropped is less liely to contain bacteria than if it is left for longer periods of time, according to the findings of research carried out at Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences. The findings suggest there may be some scientific basis of the \only had contact with the floor for five seconds or less. Although people have long followed the “5-second rule”, until now it was unclear whether it actually helped.
The study, undertaen by final year Biology students and led by Anthony Hilton, Professor of Microbiology at Aston University, monitored the transfer of the common bacteria from a variety of indoor floor types as carpet, cement floor to toast, pasta, biscuit and a sticy sweet when contact was made from 3 to 30 seconds. The results showed that time is a significant factor in the transfer of bacteria from a floor surface to a piece of food, and the type of flooring the food has been dropped on has an effect, with bacteria least liely to transfer from carpeted surfaces and most liely to transfer from cement flooring surfaces to moist foods maing contact for more than 5 seconds. Professor Hilton said, \the floor still carries an infection ris as it very much depends on which bacteria are present on the floor at the time.\
The Aston team also carried out a survey of the number of people who employ the “five-second rule”. The survey showed that 87% of the people surveyed said they would eat food dropped on the floor, or already have done so. 55% of those that would, or have eaten food dropped on the floor are women. 81% of the women who would eat food from the floor would follow the “5-second rule”. Professor Hilton added, “Our study showed that a surprisingly large majority of people are happy to consume dropped food, with women the most liely to do so. But they are also more liely to follow the “5-second rule”, which our research has shown to be more than an old wives’ tale.” 32. Which ind of food is not used in the study? A. Toast bread B. Italian noodles C. Chips D. Sticy candy 33. How did Professor Hilton feel after analying how many people chose to eat dropped food?
A. Puled B. Upset C. Satisfied D. Astonished 34. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? A. Most men would follow the “5-second” rule.
B. People who would eat food dropped on the floor are in the minority. C. Bacteria are easier to transfer from cement floors than carpeted surfaces.
D. Food dropped on the cement floor is less liely to be polluted than that on the carpet. 35. What can be learned from the passage?
A. The food which is dropped on the floor can be eaten safely.
B. The research may provide some scientific evidence to the “5-second rule”. C. The bacteria have no negative effect on the safety of food. D. People surveyed in the research are willing to accept the idea.
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
When living out our daily lives, we’re often filled with too many choices from different things around us, telling us how we can improve ourselves. 36 Too much choice is never ideal
We’re often told that having more would lead to happiness when in actual face, the opposite occurs. The ey to avoiding this would be to remove everything that’s currently distracting you.
Get rid of distractions
Looing bac, the time in which I was the most confused and frustrated was when I had an abundance of choices. 37 Rather than stopping and reviewing my current circumstances, I new that I had to remove these distractions.
38
After you gain clarity about your current issues, it is now necessary to write milestones for yourself. Having a higher purpose will drive us to improve ourselves better. Loo to create larger goals for yourself firmly as it will help guide you in the direction you’ve always wanted. Appreciate what you currently have
39 It’s human nature to overloo the things we currently have and to feel dissatisfied with them due to having obtained them. Find appreciation in the things you have and in the life you currently lead. Be willing to fail
It is often said that if you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived. And this is something I definitely agree with. Don’t let fear stop you and learn to challenge yourself. 40 A. Achieve your aim and goals B. Create goals and milestones
C. People are often faced with too many choices.
D. It is an opportunity to grow and to become the person you’ve always wanted to be. E. The ey to growing and becoming a better person is to now what you want clearly.
F. People often lose sight of the things around them, causing them to be worried from time to time.
G. Life and routine suddenly became distractions and I found myself coping carelessly every day.
第二部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分) 第一节(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白
吉林省榆树一中2018届高三上学期竞赛 英语
