Llandovery, Wales, UK Language and Music for Life(LMFL)—Founded in 1997, Language and Music for Life offers unique 2-week summer music and language courses. LMFL provides quality one-to-one training in a wide range of instruments & voice tuition to highly-motivated musicians of all ages. Study programs & classes include: 2 weeks with Musical Masterclasses: Composition, Violin, Piano, Recorder, Guitar, Classical Singing... Saint-Raphael, France France Langue & Culture (FLC)—Experience a fun, educational language holiday for all the family this summer! FLC is the most family-friendly language school providing French summer classes for teens & young children. Study programs & classes include: 1-4Week Sessions ? Children’s Summer Camps for ages 4-12 ? Courses for teenagers ages 13-17, with homestay accommodation by French host families. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Edu-Inter Summer Language School (EI)—EI offers summer French programs for children & teenagers (ages 10-17) and adults (16+). Quebec City is the only major city in Canada that offers a 100% French-speaking environment, making it the ideal location for learning and practicing French. Study programs & classes include: 2 weeks’ Summer French Programs: For Children & Teenagers (ages 10-17) ? French & Cooking ? French & Dance ? French & Horse Riding ? French & Music... Cambridge, England, UK Reach Cambridge-Academic Camps(RC)—RC offers UK & international high school students the opportunity to gain an invaluable academic experience through a summer course in one of the top educational facilities in the world. We provide unique and academic programs for students ages 14-18. Study programs & classes include: 2 & 3-week Summer Camps ? Chemistry & Medical Sciences ? Computer Science & Math ? Economics ? ESL ? History & Politics ? Law... 56. Why is Quebec the ideal location for learning and practicing French? A. It offers summer French programs. B. It is the only major city in Canada. C. It has a Summer French Language School. D. It has a 100% French-speaking environment.
57. If a boy is 18 and loves computer science, which summer camp suits him best? A. LMFL. B. FLC. C. EI. D. RC. 58. It can be learned from the passage that _____. A. RC helps kids improve their horse-riding skills
B. kids can enjoy one-to-one training at LMFL C. kids can stay at French host families at EI D. FLC was founded in 1997 in France
B
Dear child,
Take a seat. Daddy has something to share with you. I would like us to have a heart-to-heart—even though, over the years, you have slowly broken mine. Oh shut up; you so have! If you go out and ask any mother or father out there, I guarantee they’ll say the same thing: All children break their parents’ hearts. It’s just what children do. In fact, it’s what Daddy’s own mother continues to remind him still, to this very day, every time they speak on the phone.
In your baby years, you vomited(呕吐), pooped and peed all over me. In your teen years, you came home from parties and vomited red wine all over my already-dirty carpets. There was a time you experimented with drugs and all those things I hate. Where does the heartbreak end?
Still, I want you to know you are loved, because various parenting magazines insist that’s my responsibility: to make you feel special and valued and so on. And of course Daddy loves you! Don’t you see? And Daddy values you. Very much so. How could he not value you, when you, as a test-tube baby, cost so much to come into this world?
Now you’re old enough to hear the truth about parenting. And it’s this: all kids annoy their parents. Like you, I started off adorable. Then I went through my weird-body-shape-and-acne years, lost all my cuteness, developed an attitude and never once did I apologize to my parents for stealing the best years of their lives. When you become a parent yourself, here are some parenting skills you might want to try that have been passed down from countless generations of angry Asians before me. Passive aggression is always welcome. Regular scream “I WISH YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN” will help keep your own kid’s self-respect in check. But whatever happens, ensure you earn enough money in your adult life. Then give it to me, so I can go on expensive international tours. If you do this I promise I’ll stop complaining and leave you alone, because we both know that’s what we really want. Love you lots, Cutie-Pie.
Daddy
59. The letter is probably written to _____. A. a young adult B. a little baby C. a parent D. a grandparent
60. The letter discusses all the topics EXCEPT _____. A. babyhood B. teenage problems C. parenting D. death
61. According to the letter, the author _____. A. used to take drugs B. regrets getting married C. broke his parents’ heart s D. was born as a test-tube baby 62. Why does the author write the letter? A. To ask his child to earn more money.
B. To encourage his child to be independent. C. To communicate to his child love and hope. D. To stop his child from being a troublemaker.
C
The fight is on to get rid of air pollution in our cities. While the best solution in the long-term would be to ban fossil-fueled cars, that won’t help the millions who are dying in the meantime, and so some high-tech solutions are now on the cards.
In March 2016, 10 London pigeons became famous. These pigeons took to the sky from Primrose Hill in north London, wearing backpacks monitoring air pollution. Once in the air, the backpacks sent live air-quality updates to the smartphones of the Londoners below.
The pigeons and their backpacks were just the latest in a series of increasingly desperate attempts to monitor and control air pollution. London’s air pollution problem has been getting worse for years, and it often rises to more than three times the European Union’s legal limit.
Another promising approach can be found in Beijing, after China declared a “war against pollution” in 2014. A seven-metre-high “Smog Free Tower”, designed by a Dutch scientist, Daan Roosegaarde, opened in Beijing’s 751 D Park in September 2016.
It is a huge, outdoor air purifier. Airborne particles（颗粒）are sucked into the tower where they receive a positive charge. The particles are then caught by a negatively charged dust-removal plate and clean air is blown out of the other end. “Changing smog particles does not take much current.” Roosegaarde said.
As for what to do with the collected PM waste, he has currently set up a business making jewellery out of the waste. Prince Charles owns a set of “smog free” cufflinks(袖扣). If collected on at a big scale, Roosegaarde believes it could even be used as a building material. Mexico City has an alternative solution. Looking to Nature to maximize the surface area of a building, Allison Dring, a Berlin-based architect, managed to catch light and wind from all sides. She is now making a building material by burning agricultural crop by-products in the absence of oxygen. “It means that you are actually taking carbon(碳) out of the sky, transforming it into a material, and then using it to build,” says Dring.
The fight against outdoor air pollution is really just starting. Even if none of the ideas take off, at least Prince Charles’ cufflinks, the special building surface and pigeons wearing back-packs will have brought the issue more to the public’s attention.
63. The 10 pigeons in London were used to _____.
A. monitor air pollution B. warn Londoners
C. update weather forecast D. promote backpacks 64. What can we learn about the Smog Free Tower? A. Its power consumption is high. B. PM waste from it can be reused.
C. It is built of agricultural by-products. D. It can attract light and wind from all sides.
65. What’s the best title for the passage? A. When can humans get rid of smog?
B. Why is technology used to fight smog?
C. How are the world’s cities fighting smog? D. What makes smog a worldwide problem?
66. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
I I A. B.
P2 P3 P2 P3 P1 P1
Sp1 Sp2 Sp1 Sp2
C C
I I C. D.
P2P1P2 P2 P1
Sp1Sp2 Sp1 Sp2 CC I: Introduction P: Point Sp: Sub-point (次要点) C: Conclusion
D
In June 2014, Huffington Post and Mail Online reported that three-year-old Victoria Wilcher, who had suffered facial scarring, had been kicked out of a KFC because she was frightening customers. Later, KFC announced that no evidence had been found to support the story. This phenomenon is largely a product of the increasing pressure in newsrooms that care more about traffic figures.
Brooke Binkowski, an editor, says that, during her career, she has seen a shift towards less editorial oversight in newsrooms. “Clickbait is king, so newsrooms will uncritically print something unreal. Not all newsrooms are like this, but a lot of them are.”
Asked what the driving factor was, a journalist said, “You’ve an editor breathing down your neck and you have to meet your targets. And there are some young journalists on the market who are inexperienced and who will not do those checks. So much news that is reported online happens online. There is no need to get out and knock on someone’s door. You just sit at your desk and do it.”
Another journalist says, “There is definitely pressure to churn out (粗制滥造) stories in order to get clicks, because they equal money. At my former employer in particular, the pressure was on due to the limited resources. That made the
environment quite horrible to work in.” In a February 2015 report for Digital Journalism, Craig Silverman wrote, “Today the bar for what is worth giving attention to seems to be much lower. Within minutes or hours, a badly sourced report can be changed into a story that is repeated by dozens of news websites, resulting in tens of thousands of shares. Once a certain critical mass is reached, repetition has a powerful effect on belief. The rumor(传闻) becomes true for readers simply by virtue of its ubiquity.”
And, despite the direction that some newsrooms seem to be heading in, a critical eye is becoming more, not less important, according to the New York Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan. “Reporters and editors have to be more careful than ever before. It’s extremely important to question and to use every verification(验证) method available before publication.” Yet those working in newsrooms talk of doubtful stories being tolerated because, in the words of some senior editors, “a click is a click, regardless of the advantage of a story”. And, “if the story does turn out to be false, it’s simply a chance for another bite at the cherry.” Verification and fact-checking are regularly falling victim to the pressure to bring in the numbers, and if the only result of being caught out is another chance to bring in the clicks, that looks unlikely to change.
67. According to Brooke Binkowski, newsrooms produce false news because _____. A. clicks matter a lot B. resources are limited C. budgets are inadequate D. journalists lack experience
68. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 probably mean? A. Lies can’t sell without an atom of truth. B. Rumors are like a flame blown by the wind. C. You can hear rumors, but you can’t know them.
D. A lie, repeated often enough, will end up as truth.
69. What’s Margaret Sullivan’s attitude towards false news online?
A. Negative. B. Supportive. C. Sceptical. D. Neutral.
70. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Consequences of false stories. B. Causes of online false news.
C. Incompetence of journalists. D. A craze to get clicks. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
Stop Negative Talk
“I’m so fat,” one of your friends says. The girl next to her joins in, “Well, I hate my hair today.” Without thinking, you respond: “No, you are not fat! I am fat. And my hair is flat and boring.” 71
It is easy for people to engage in self-critical conversations, and once it starts there is often pressure for you to join in. 72 Maybe it is because “just talking” feels harmless. But before you know it, those opinions flow out of your
2017年北京市西城区高三英语一模试题与答案
