1、2018 届广东省汕头市金山中学高三上学期期中考试（10 月） 英语 本试卷共三部分，满分 135 分（1201.125） 。考试时间 120 分钟。注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必分别将答题卷上的姓名、考试号用黑色字迹的签字笔填写，用 2B 铅笔将考试号对应的信息点涂黑。2选择题每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答
2、题卡上将该项涂黑。 AThe editor of the new Cool Camping Britain guide chooses some of his favorite new finds in England, Wales and Scotland.Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner HebridesIs this Britains most beautiful campsite? From the grassy point looking seaward to the mountains, its not hard for campers to see ho
3、w the island inspired The Lord of the Rings authors fantasy landscapes. The campsite itself is as wild and wonderful as its setting.Open April - September, from 5 per tent per night.Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, SuffolkDeep in the wilds of north Suffolk, this seven-acre campsite has only been open f
4、or a few years, with two fields separated by a lake and surrounded by woodland. The position is perfect. Its a great place to do nothing but get into nature. You can put up your tent in the bottom field or the woodland beyond.Open Easter - October, from 10 per tent per night.Pleasant Streams Farm, n
5、ear St Austell, CornwallThis site, by a lake, is all about simple pleasures. Located in the former mining village, it has a summerhouse(凉亭) with books and games for a rainy day. There are many animals including pigs, hens, goats and ducks on the farm and a pub just a 10- minute stroll away. Theres v
6、ery little to do here, no bells and no whistles. Campfires are encouraged.Open Easter - September, from 10 per tent per night.Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of SciilyIts only campsite, Troytown, couldnt be in a more remote position. Isolation is its greatest advantage so bring plenty of books to
7、 read and dont expect a phone signal. But at least one of lifes necessities is available. Lying on the hillside overlooking the bay and near the island of the Gugh, it might just win the prize for best beer garden view in England.Open March - October, from 7. 50 per tent per night,21. Which of the f
8、ollowing is TRUE about Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides?A. It has been open for a few years. B. A beautiful lake surrounds it.C. It offers the longest service. D. The rent of a tent per night is the lowest.22. Which place can you choose if you like a simple farm life?A. Cleadale, Isle of Eigg,
9、 Inner Hebrides.B. Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, Suffolk.C. Pleasant Streams Farm, near St Austell, Cornwall.D. Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly.23. In Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, you cant _.A. contact others by phones B. view the bay from the hillsideC. get everyday ne
10、cessities D. relax yourself by readingBHere is an astonishing and significant fact: Mental work alone cant make us tire. It sounds absurd. But a years ago, scientists tried to find out how long the human brain could labor without reaching a stage of fatigue (疲劳). To the amazement of these scientists
11、, they discovered that blood passing through the brain, when it is active, shows no fatigue at all! If we took a drop of blood from a day laborer, we would find it full of fatigue toxins(毒素) and fatigue products. But if we took blood from the brain of an Albert Einstein, it would show no fatigue tox
12、ins at the end of the day. So far as the brain is concerned, it can work as well and swiftly at the end of eight or even twelve hours of effort as at the beginning. The brain is totally tireless. So what makes us tired?Some scientists declare that most of our fatigue comes from our mental and emotio
13、nal(情绪的) attitudes. One of Englands most outstanding scientists, J.A. Hadfield, says, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin. In fact, fatigue of purely physical origin is rare.” Dr. Brill, a famous American scientist, goes even further. He declares, “One hundred p
14、ercent of the fatigue of sitting worker in good health is due to emotional problems.”What kinds of emotions make sitting workers tired? Joy? Satisfaction? No! A feeling of being bored, anger, anxiety, tenseness, worry, a feeling of not being appreciated-those are the emotions that tire sitting worke
15、rs. Hard work by itself seldom causes fatigue. We get tired because our emotions produce nervousness in the body.24. What surprised the scientists a few years ago?A. Fatigue toxins could hardly be found in a laborers blood.B. Albert Einstein didnt feel worn after a days work.C. The brain could work
16、for many hours without fatigue.D. A mental workers blood was filled with fatigue toxins.25. According to the author, which of the following can make sitting workers tired?A. Challenging mental work. B. Unpleasant emotions.C. Endless tasks. D. Physical labor26. We can infer from the passage that in o
17、rder to stay energetic, sitting workers need to _A. have some good food. B. enjoy their workC. exercise regularly D. discover fatigue toxins27. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Too much mental work will make people tired.B. Mental work is of great importance to our health.C. It is hard work t
18、hat makes people feel tired easily.D. People get tired when working because of emotional problemCTimes are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and make it from one month to the next with a
19、 fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when were facing lean times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmothers recipes. She taught me to cook.When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mothe
20、rs parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go hunting with my grandfather on frozen mornings, I found myself more and more in the kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands.My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As
21、 the eldest daughter, she was expected to take on all of the housework while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef w
22、as a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she couldnt do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste.Now I understand that her food was sacred. I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when Im in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells
23、is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conquering starvationof not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day.From grandmother I learned to take real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say, “Do yo
24、u know what this would cost at the restaurant?” I never knew what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and years of practice, I can.28. According to the
25、 passage, the author cooks a lot at home because_.A. she wants to try out her grandmothers recipesB. she and her husband are quite particular about foodC. she enjoys cooking at homeD. she and her husband are embarrassed financially29. What does the underlined word “lean” mean in the first paragraph?
26、A. with a bad harvest B. with little moneyC. with little energy D. with little work30. According to the passage, the authors grandmother_.A. learnt to cook throughout the Great Depression B. was careful in budgetingC. preferred chicken to beef D. was careful in cooking vegetables31. Which of the fol
27、lowing can be the best title of the passage?A. Cook like My Grandmother B. My Grandmothers Sacred FoodC. My Grandmothers Recipe D. Joy and Pleasure in CookingDA child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents
28、to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is th
29、at they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children bei
30、ng dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that t
31、hey are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do no
32、t know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the rea
33、l world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.32. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _ .A . repeated without any change B. treated as a jokeC. made some changes by the parent D. set in the present33. The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to y
34、oung children is that it _.A. makes them less fearful B. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of C. develops their power of memory D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs34. The authors mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _.A. fairy stories are still being ma
35、de up B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy talesC. people try to modernize old fairy stories D. there is more concern for childrens fears nowadays35. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _.A. they are full of imagination B. they just make up the stories
36、 which are far from the truthC. they are not interesting D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach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。Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross gained worldwide honor for her dedication to easing human suffering and earn
37、ed the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield.” Barton was born into a liberal freethinking family in 1821. Her elder brothers and sisters happily tutored her in math and reading, so when she entered school at three years old, she could read and spell three-syllable words. 36 Concerned about Bartons dif
38、ficulty in making friends, her parents sent her to a boarding school, hoping it would make her more comfortable with her peers. 37 Barton lost her appetite and cried constantly. After only one term, she had to be brought home. Then, Barton stayed out of school to nurse her older brother through a se
39、rious injury and also volunteered to care for poor families during a smallpox (天花）outbreak. In 1861, the Civil War broke out. The sight of wounded soldiers touched Barton deeply. She began to collect and distribute food, bandages, medicines, and other supplies for the Union army. 38 There, with litt
40、le concern for her own safety, she cooked meals, assisted surgeons, and comforted wounded soldiers. Eventually，because of working too hard，Barton collapsed ill with typhoid fever. 39 It was there that she learned of an organization based in Switzerland 一 called the International Red Cross, whose wor
41、k mirrored her own. Shortly after Barton arrived back home in 1873，her sister died. 40 When recuperating(休养) at a health facility in New York， she began planning for the establishment of an American wing of the International Red Cross. Although at first the government resisted, her efforts finally p
42、aid off. The American Red Cross was officially organized on May 21, 1881. Her influence lives on today in the work of the organization she founded.A. Barton fell into a deep depression. B. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect. C. Many people felt sorry for the loss of her sister and her own hea
43、lth. D. Barton risked her life to transport wagonloads of supplies to the front lines. E. When she recovered, her doctors prescribed a long, restful trip to Europe.F. Barton spent the following several months learning basics about Swiss Cross.G. She easily kept up with the older children academicall
44、y but did not fit in socially.第二部分: 语言知识运用（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。“Mama, when I grow up, Im going to be one of those!”I said this after seeing the Capital Dancing Company perform when I was three. It was the first t
45、ime that my 41 took on a vivid form and acted as something important to start my training. As I grew older and was 42 to more, my interests in the world of dance 43 varied but that little girls dream of someday becoming a 44 in the company never left me. In the summer of 2005 when I was 18, I receiv
46、ed the phone call which made that dream a 45 ; I became a member of the company 46 back to 1925.As I look back on that day now, it surely 47 any sense of reality. I believe I stayed in a state of pleasant disbelief 48 I was halfway through rehearsals (排练) on my first day. I never actually 49 to get
47、the job. After being offered the position, I was completely 50 . I remember shaking with excitement.Though I was absolutely thrilled with the change, it did not come without its fair share of 51 . Through the strict rehearsal period of dancing six days a week, I found it vital to 52 up the material
48、fast with every last bit of concentration. It is that extreme 53 to detail (细节 ) and stress on practice that set us 54 . To then follow those high-energy rehearsals 55 a busy show schedule of up to five performances a day, I discovered a new 56 of the words “hard work.” What I thought were my physical 57 were pushed much further than I thought 58 . I learned to make each performance better than the last.Today, when I look at the unbelievable company that
