2015级2017-2018学年度第一学期第一学段考试试题
英语
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。
第Ⅰ卷
注意事项：
1.答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2.选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号框涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Chester City Library offers a range of Library Special Needs Services to people who don’t have access to our library service in the usual way. As long as you live in Chester City, we’ll provide a wide range of library services and resources including
● Large printed and ordinary printed boos ● Taling boos on tape and CD ● DVDs and music CDs ● Magaines
● Reference and information requests Home delivery service
Let us now what you lie to read and we will choose the resources for you. Our staff will deliver the resources to your home for free. We also provide a service where we can choose the resources for you or someone instead of you choose the things from the library. You can also choose the resources you need personally.
Taling boos and captioned videos
The library can provide taling boos for people who are unable to use printed boos because of eye diseases. You don’t have to miss out on reading any more when you can borrow taling boos from the library. If you have limited hearing which prevents you from enjoying movies, we can provide captioned videos for
you at no charge.
Languages besides English
We can provide boos in a range of languages besides English. If possible, we will request these items from the State Library of NSW, Australia. How to join?
Contact the Library Special Needs Coordinator to register or discuss if you are eligible（合适的）for any of the services we provide-Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9am-5pm on 4297 2522 for more information.
1．Library Special Needs Services are meant for_____.
A. those who are fond of reading
B. people living in Chester City with an illness or disability C. only those who have waling disabilities D. those who can’t get medical help in Chester City 2．What can we learn from the passage?
A. Few entertaining resources are offered here.
B. People with limited hearing have to pay for captioned videos. C. Boos with different languages are available. D. People have to choose what they need by themselves. 3．To get home delivery service, you must_______.
A. only choose printed boos.
B. have others choose the resources for you. C. pay the library ahead of time. D. register ahead of time.
B
Christmas was near a season that we too seriously in our house. But a wee or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $20. This was the 1970s, and $20 was quite a bit of money.
But I saw it differently. My father trusted me to have the smart to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level, my father was giving me a shopping spree (狂欢) every year. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and maing me feel lie a grown-up. He didn’t buy me Sherloc Holmes, but he gave me the means to wal into the boostore and choose it for myself, so it felt lie a gift from him.
My mother had a gift for giving me what I needed, usually right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I failed at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my previous job but had no
new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I put on a good show,telling her I had started my own company.
My mother new that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn’t until after she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thic with cash. She new how desperately I needed it. She new that had she just shown up with groceries, or offered to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much worse. The cold, hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the distance with which she gave the gift felt lie she was giving me space to fi my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to tae my own decisions, and the other was giving me a second chance when those decisions had cost me dearly.
4．What can we learn about the author from the first two paragraphs?
A. His family once celebrated Christmas happily. B. His father gave the author chances to mae decisions. C. His best memories about Christmas were in the 1970s. D. He used to choose boos as his father’s gift on Christmas.. 5．What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. money offered by his father. C. Christmas being important.
B. father generous with money. D. the means of spending money.
6．When he was 25 years old,the author_____.
A. planned to open his company B. became interested in shows C. gave his mother a gift
D. was out of wor
7．Which word can best describe the author’s mother?
A. sensitive. C. considerate.
C
The popular smartphone application Instagram (照片分享) has changed the way we loo at photography,even our world. The photo-worthy moments we share serve as an important function in cultivating the photographic artistic eye.
Instagram has got people to start noticing the art in their everyday life. It has also allowed us to share the artful moments in our lives with others. Clearly, maing people focus on beautiful moments in their lives and how to share them is a positive taeaway from Instagram.
Not only has Instagram changed the way we loo at things around us, but it has also changed the way people view professional photography. Instagram has turned everyone with a smartphone into an artist. Opening up art to the general community is a groundbreaing (创新的) aspect of this application. Maing
B. optimistic.
D. determined.
artistic attempts accessible for everyone to discover their artistic talents and eplore creatively is something that has made people find the beauty in the everyday. However, this accessibility has also created questioning around art and respect deserved by professional photography.
The art in a professional photograph versus an Instagram can sometimes be hard to notice at a quic glance. But photographs taen by true professional photographers hold something that Instagram’s can’t match in terms of photographic quality, or advanced compositional nowledge.
This is not to say Instagram is a lesser art. Aesthetic qualities of art are a personal matter and how good an artwor is depends on personal preferences. Good is a very arbitrary term in the art world. For eample, I may find one photo more pleasing than another, but not everyone has to agree with me.
The point I am trying to mae is that professional photography should not be lost, but instead approached with a new, enhanced level of respect and admiration─despite how accessible, common and fun Instagram now maes the taing and sharing of photos. 8．What does the writer mainly tell us in the passage?
A. The increasing popularity of Instagram. B. The advantages and disadvantages of Instagram. C. The changes that Instagram brings us.
D. The differences between Instagram and professional photography. 9．Why do people begin to doubt the art of professional photography?
A. Because common people can tae perfect photos easily. B. Because they show no respect for professional photographers. C. Because the artistic level of professional photography is reducing. D. Because Instagram has changed the way people loo at the world. 10．What does the writer thin of professional photography?
A. useful. C. helpless.
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。选项中有两项是多余选项。 Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm cloc. In fact, the ey to easy morning wae-up lies in resting your body cloc 16 Here is how to mae one.
● 17 In order to mae a change, you need to decide why it’s important. Do you want to get up in time to have breafast with your family, get in some eercise, or just be better prepared for your day? Once you are clear about your reason, tell your family or roommates about the change you want to mae.
●Rethin mornings. Now that you now why you want to wae up, consider re-arranging your morning
B. valueless. D. absurd.
activities. If you want time to have breafast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags. 18 That’s a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maer with a timer.
●eep your sleep/wae schedule on weeends. If you’re tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful. But compensating (弥补) on the weeends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following wee, a recent study found. 19
●eep a record and evaluate it weely. eep trac of your efforts and write down how you feel. After you’ve tried a new method for a wee, tae a loo at your record. 20 If not, tae another loo at other methods you could try.
A. Get a sleep specialist. B. Find the right motivation. C. A better plan for sleep can help. D. And consider setting a second alarm. E. If the steps you tae are woring, eep it up.
F. Stic to your set bedtime and wae-up time, no matter the day it is. G. Reconsider the 15 minutes you spend in line at the café to get coffee.
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（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四个选项 (A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The day before Christmas I pulled into a store paring lot and counted my money again. It wasn’t much. I 21 being poor, not having enough to 22 my small children a few simple toys. As I was 23 I noticed the Salvation Army(救世军) bell ringer at the 24 . I felt bad again because I didn’t feel I could 25 anything to give him. I started waling towards the entrance 26 two cars entered empty paring spaces in front of me. The first was a 27 , new Cadillac which became the 28 of me the moment I saw it. “How 29 ,” I thought, “would it be to have enough money to buy a car lie that!” The second car, 30 , was an ancient car more shabby than the one I was driving.
A man got out of the Cadillac and hurried into the store 31 past the bell ringer without a second 32 . Out of the old car came a young mother with three small children following 33 behind her. Her clothes looed as 34 as her car, yet she stopped at the entrance and 35 a bill. In that second a(n) 36 touched me, my envy and dislie 37 me, and all the love and joy filled me. I fished a bill out of my own purse, 38 it in the Salvation Army ettle, and wished the 39 a “Merry Christmas!”
甘肃省天水市第一中学2018届高三第一学期第一学段考试 英语
