荥阳高中南校区高三英语第二次限时考试

命题人：张黎明  满分：120分     考试时间：2016-9-25

本套试题难度不大，客观题平均分在47-52分之间，最高分为70分。

阅读理解A篇难度非常小，正答率都在90%以上。正答率低于70%的错题主要集中在B篇的25、26、C篇的31、D篇的34、七选五的36、39、完形填空的43－45、47、51、55、60.

第二卷中62题几乎无人做对，其次为68、69题

短文改错做得非常差。除了before改为ago,try 改为tried, her 改为him三题做得较好外，其余很差。

翻译除了基本结构出错外，主要是拼写。另外是书写习惯不好，不注意标点书写，忘记在句末写句号。 

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，从每题所给四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。                                  

A

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are the typical writings of the Jazz Age, a term he created himself.

Born into an upper middle-class Irish Catholic family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, Francis Scott Key. He was also named after his deceased sister Louise Scott, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. He spent 1898–1901 in Syracuse and 1903–1908 in Buffalo, New York, where he attended Nardin Academy. When his father was fired from his company, the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy from 1908 to1911.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

He is widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered to be a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous classic novel, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published after his death. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that dealt with themes of youth.

His first literary work, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper when he was 12. When he was 16, he was forced to leave St. Paul Academy for neglecting his studies. He attended Newman School, a prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1911–1912, and entered Princeton University in 1913 as a member of the Class of 1917. There he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson (Class of 1916) and John Peale Bishop (Class of 1917), and wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club. He was also a member of the University Cottage Club, which still displays Fitzgerald’s desk and writing materials in its library. A poor student, Fitzgerald left Princeton to enlist (入伍) in the US Army during World War I; however, the war ended shortly after Fitzgerald’s enlistment.

Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic (酒鬼) since his college days, leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s. Fitzgerald suffered a mild attack of tuberculosis in 1919, and died of a heart attack in 1940.

21. What does the passage mainly talk about?

  A. The “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. B. How Fitzgerald got his name.

  C. The life and works of Fitzgerald.  D. Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age.

22. What led to Fitzgerald’s early death according to the passage?

A. His poverty.    B. His heavy drinking.       

C. The poor working conditions.      D. The pressures of work.

23. Which is the most famous work of Fitzgerald?

A. This Side of Paradise. B. The Beautiful and Damned.

C. Tender Is the Night.                   D. The Great Gatsby.

24. What’s the right order of the events related to Fitzgerald?

a. He attended Nardin Academy. b. He entered Princeton University.

c. He attended St. Paul Academy.   d. He joined the US Army during World War I.

A. a,c,b,d B. a,d,b,c C. b,d,a,c D. b,a,c,d

                                          

B

A company has just launched what it calls “the world’s first free standardized English test” recently. Anyone can take the test for free. The new exam is called the EFSET, which is short for Education First Standardized English Test. The company, Education First, is known by the letters EF.

It is estimated that there are two billion English language learners worldwide. Many of them are interested in attending an American college or university. To do so, foreign students need to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language — better known as TOEFL. However, many foreigners are not wealthy enough to take the TOEFL. In addition, test-takers often have to travel overnight to reach an official testing site. The World Bank says an average Cambodian worker earns only about $1,000 per year. Approximately the cost of taking the TOEFL is 17.5 percent of the average worker’s yearly wage.

It is not just individuals who find the test pricey. Some governments also find it prohibitive. What’s more, not everyone needs official results from the TOEFL or IELTS — the International English Language Testing System. In the future, it’s likely that the government may use the EFSET to test millions of employees and students.

Experts believe that the EFSET meets the highest value in language testing. It uses special computer software that makes the questions easier or harder, depending on one’s performance. The EFSET measures all the English learners’ levels while the IELTS and TOEFL only measure learners’ levels from moderate (中等的) to advanced. The EFSET is unique in the sense that it gives free online access to anyone interested in measuring their English level.

There is a 50-minute and a two-hour version of the test, which its developers are calling the EFSET Plus. Both versions test only reading and listening skills. It’s hopeful that speaking and writing skills will be tested in the future. The IELTS and the TOEFL still use humans to rate the speaking and writing sections. It’s a huge deal for students who are in areas where they can’t get to the TOEFL or the IELTS. However, it is too early to know whether the EFSET results are acceptable for colleges and universities in America.

 25. Why do many foreign students take the TOEFL?

A. To learn English well.                 B. To be admitted to key universities.　　

C. To receive further education in America.   D. To find good jobs and earn much money.

 26. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A. Only wealthy people can take the TOEFL.                          

B. The cost of taking the TOEFL is very high.

C. There are many official testing sites for the TOEFL around the world.                             

D. Few of the students in Cambodia can afford to take the TOEFL.

 27. What can we learn about the EFSET?

A. It is similar to the TOEFL and the IELTS.      

B. Everybody with different English levels can take it for free.      

C. It tests the skills of reading, listening, writing and speaking.

D. American universities accept the EFSET results for admission.

 28. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. How to get ready for the EFSET   

B. Different ways to test English learners in the world

C. The new software developed by Education First

D. The free EFSET— an online test for English learners     

                                                                         

C

   This is the holiday season in the United States. People are buying gifts and carrying them home, usually in plastic shopping bags. They are only a small amount of the huge number of disposable plastic bags that are used all year long to contain groceries and other items.

   Janet Larsen, director of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., says too many plastic bags end up as litter, polluting waterways. “They get caught in bushes and trees. In storm water systems, they end up blocking pipes.”

   In an effort to keep plastic bags out of the environment, California recently became the first state to ban businesses from giving new plastic bags to customers. Some other states and cities charge a small amount of money for every bag to encourage people to bring their own bags when shopping.

   Mark Daniels is senior vice president for environmental policy at Hilex Poly, one of the country’s largest plastic bag manufacturers and recyclers. He says people should be able to get new plastic bags without paying. Mr. Daniels says it is a good environmental choice. “Every single scientific litter study that has been done always shows that plastic retail(零售) bags are a small amount of one percent.”

   Some environmentalists claim that plastic bags are blocking landfills. However, Mark Daniels points to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency that is not always true.

   “All plastic bags, not just retail bags, are 4/10ths of one percent the waste stream.

   Five years ago, Washington D.C. placed a 5-cent fee on every plastic bag given out by businesses in the city. The money is being used to clean up the local Anacostia watershed. And the effort is making a difference. Brian Van Wye heads storm water program implementation at the city’s Department of the Environment. He says once people started to pay for plastic bags, they used less of them. Fewer bags ended up in the waterways.

29. Who is against paying for plastic bags?

  A. Janet Larsen.                B. Mark Daniels.

  C. Brian Van Wye.                   D. Bill Ford.

30. What is the best title for the passage?

  A. Pay for Plastic Bags

  B. Keep Plastic Bags out of the Environment

  C. Plastic Bags Should Be Banned

  D. Plastic Bags: To Ban or Not to Ban?

31. It can be learned from the last paragraph that ______.

  A. it is stupid to place a 5-cent fee on every plastic bag

  B. placing a 5-cent fee on every plastic bag is beneficial

  C. more bags ended up in the waterway

  D. efforts made no difference

D

   If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.

   It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4, 000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write. However, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past by hearing about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and these have been done by generations because most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call ‘remembered history’. Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful．

32. Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?

  A．“Remembered history”, compared with written history, is less reliable.

  B．Written records of the past play the most important role in learning of history.

  C．A written account of our daily activities helps us to be able to answer many questions.

D．Where there are no written records, there is no history.

33．We know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because ________.

  A. the people there did not know how to write

  B . the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record

  C. the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire

  D. nothing was worth writing down at that time

34．“Remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when _______.

  A. it is written down     B. no written account is available

  C. it proves to be true      D. people are interested in it

35 .The passage suggests that more could have been learned about our past if the ancient people had ______.

  A. kept a written record of every past event

  B. not burnt their written records in wars

  C. told exact stories of the most important happenings

  D. made more songs and dances

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。

Do you want to improve your quality of life? Here is some advice.  

1. Make it a point of doing something brave every day.   36   This might mean talking to someone that you generally wouldn’t talk to or starting a project that you feel afraid of. There is no need to plan it in advance.

2. Learn something new. Pick a topic, especially something you know nothing about and learn something from it.   37   It helps to keep it if you have time to make a note of what you have learned.

3. Debate something. If you think you know about something, nothing will prove it like arguing it with someone who’s smarter than you.   38   This is easier said than done, but it can provide you with some of the best mental stimulation.

4. Spend time with a child.   39   If you don’t, I bet you have friends who would be happy to let you borrow theirs for a few minutes. It doesn’t matter what age they are—children see the world entirely differently. Look at it from their eyes. Be their hero. Appreciate what they appreciate. Enjoy the simple things again. You’ll love it and they’ll love you for it.

5. Recognize what makes you happy.   40   Everyone is working towards something, but what makes you happy now? Think of it and try to incorporate (并入) more of what made you happy yesterday into today.[来源:学科网]

A. If you have one, consider yourself lucky.

B. Talking with little children keeps you young.

C. Spend some time each day alone with your thoughts.

D. A good source of inspiration for this can be the newspaper.

E. Find a friend you can debate with who has different ideas.

F. Step out of your comfort zone, and leave the routine for a second.

G. Reflect on the parts of your day that bring you real happiness.

第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完型填空（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，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The  41  is that countries around the world have growing mountains of  42  because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we  43  a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to  44  an object than to spend time and money to repair it.  45  modern manufacturing (制造业) and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and  46 .

Another cause is our  47  of disposable (一次性的) products. As  48  people, we are always looking for  49  to save time and make our lives easier. Companies  50  thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Our appetite for new products also  51  to the problem. We are  52  buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that  53  is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we  54  useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the  55  of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To  56  the amount of rubbish and to protect the  57 , more governments are requiring people to recycle materials.  58 , this is not enough to solve our problem.[来源:Z&xx&k.Com]

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions  59  throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about  60 . Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

41. A. problem    B. reason C. project D. key

42. A. gifts B. debt     C. rubbish D. products

43. A. face B. become C. observe D. change

44. A. hide B. control C. withdraw D. replace 

45. A. As to B. Thanks to C. Except for D. Regardless of

46. A. safe B. cheap C. funny     D. powerful

47. A. division B. lack C. prevention D. love

48. A. busy       B. kind C. brave D. sensitive

49. A. jobs B. places C. ways D. friends

50. A. produce   B. receive C. donate     D. preserve

51. A. adapts B. contributes C. responds D. returns

52. A. tired of B. worried about C. addicted to     D. ashamed for

53. A. larger  B. stronger C. higher D. newer

54. A. pick up B. pay for C. throw away D. hold onto

55. A. advantages B. consequences C. functions D. purposes

56. A. show B. record C. measure D. decrease

57. A. environment B. technology     C. consumers D. brands

58. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Meanwhile

59. A. by B. in favor of C. after D. instead of

60. A. spending B. collecting C. repairing D. advertising

              

第II卷（共50分）

第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once a farmer lost his watch in his barn, in which lots of grain was kept. The watch,    61    was a gift from his father, was very important to him and he was determined to find it.

After searching the barn for a long time, however, he gave up and asked for help from a group of children who were playing nearby. He promised to give a great reward to  62     found the watch.

   63   (hear) this, the children hurried inside the barn immediately.   64    searched everywhere but still could not find the watch buried in the grain. The farmer was about to give up  65   a little boy went up to him and asked to be given    66   second chance.

The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks honest.”

So the farmer sent the little boy back into the barn. After a while the little boy came out   67   the watch in his hand! The farmer,   68    (surprise) but happy, asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.

The boy replied, “I did nothing but    69    (sit) quietly and listen for the sound of the watch.”[来源:学科网ZXXK]

This shows us that sometimes a peaceful mind can think    70    (well) than an excited one.

荥阳高中南校区高三英语限时考试答题卷

61.________62.________63.________64.________65._______

66.________67.________68.________69.________70._______

第三部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该漏字符号下写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（ \ ）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该横线下写上修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Questioning can lead to search for an answer. If we are in the habit of raising doubts as to if what we are told is true, we can find the correct answer and learn more.

Two years before, our teacher, Mr. Li offered us an answer to a difficult math problem in class. Because the answer seemed a little strange, nobody but I doubted it. Thought that his solution might be wrong, I carefully analyzed the problem and try to work it out in a different way. Half an hour later, I managed to find the correct answer. When I showed my answer to her, the teacher praised me for my dependent thinking.

From this experience I have been learnt that questioning can serve as a bridge helps us to seek the truth.

第二节　翻译句子（共12小题；第3题3分，其余每题2分，满分25分）

1. 这座桥过了几个月才建成。

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2. 随着时间的流逝,人们慢慢熟悉了他。

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3. 你作文中的拼写错误太多了,以至于我读不明白你在写什么。

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4. 国与国之间争取奥运会举办权的竞争,就跟争夺奥运奖牌一样激烈。

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5. 他越想这事越失望。

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6. 我能够提高自己的交流能力以及自信心。

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7. 如果你不去开会，我也不去。

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8. 最后，我们应该经常参加体育运动和课外活动。

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9. 这种车的基本设计与早些时候的型号的设计很相似。

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10.度过那个晚上之后，我们变得自信了，觉得其他一切都不成问题。

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11. 毫无疑问，他的计划听起来很好，但我怀疑它是否实用。

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12. 他本该早点来这个地方。

座号

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高三英语第二次限时考试参考答案

阅读理解 2016-9-25

21-24 CBDA 25-28CBBD  29-31 BDB  32-35 DABA 36-40FDEAG

完形填空

41-60 ACBDB  BDACA  BCDCB  DACDA

语法填空

61.which 62.whoever 63.Hearing 64.They 65 when 66 a 67 with 68 surprised 69 sit 70 better

短文改错

  Questioning can lead to search for an answer. If we are in the habitof raising doubts                   searching

as to if what we are told is true, we can find the correct answer and learn more.

 whether

Two years before, our teacher, Mr. Li offered us an answer to a difficult math problem in      ago

class. Because the answer seemed a little strange, nobody but I doubted it. Thought Although/Though                 Thinking

that his solution might be wrong, I carefully analyzed the problem and try to work it out in a                                      tried

different way. Half an hour later, I managed to find the correct answer. When I showed my answer to her, the teacher praised me for my dependent thinking.

     him                         independent

From this experience I have be\en learnt that questioning can serve as a bridge ∧ helps us to seek the truth.

that/which