甘肃省兰州化学工业公司总校第一中学2017届高三上学期第二次阶段考试英语试题

2016--2017学年高三第二阶段考试
英语
第一部分 阅读理解（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Last Thursday, Michael and Linda stood behind large food trucks distributing meals to 4,000 homeless people for their wedding reception on the border town of Kilis. The couple had decided that instead of hosting their friends and family for a traditional feast reception, they would feed the victims from an earthquake-stricken area.??? The idea came from the bridegroom's father, Ted, who volunteers for a Turkish relief organization. For the past few years, the organization has distributed daily meals to thousands of people who've suffered from natural disasters. He approached a representative of the organization and suggested that the family cover part of the costs of feeding them for the day.??? Then he told his son, who was surprised by the suggestion, but soon won over. When he told that to the bride, she was really shocked but finally accepted because in southeastern Turkey there is a real culture of sharing with people in need. They love to share their food, their table and everything they have. And afterwards she was quite amazed about it. So, they arrived at the distribution center on Thursday to spend the day serving food and taking photographs with their grateful recipients（接受者）．??? On Tuesday evening, the newly married couple were still pleased with their decision to quit a personal celebration for one with a greater good. "It's like sharing a dinner with your friends and family who have this kind of thing on a daily basis or sharing something with people who don't even have the most basic things," Michael said. "Hopefully, this will also give the start for other wedding dinners to be held here with our brothers and sisters in need."1. Why did so many people crowd in Kilis???? A. To attend Michael and Linda's wedding.?????B. To support the organization.??? C. To escape the damaging earthquake.???????????D. To help distribute free daily meals.2. How did the couple celebrate their wedding???? A. They treated their friends and relatives to a big dinner.??? B. They shared their happiness with the homeless in Kilis.??? C. They afforded the entire cost of the day for feeding victims.??? D. They took photos with the grateful victims.3. What does the underlined word "approached" in Paragraph 2 mean???? A. took in????? B. moved towards???????? C. came across??????? D. consulted with4. We can know from the text that __________________.????????????? .??? A. Kilis is a place which lies in southeastern Turkey??? B. Ted was a representative of the organization?????? ??? C. Linda adopted the suggestion immediately she heard it??? D. Michael doubted if more new couples would follow him
B
Mei Xiang, a female panda of 17 years old, gave birth to twins on August 22, 2015, bringing a happy end to an anxious wait that had begun in April. The birth of two pandas has increased the excitement at Washington's National Zoo, but keeping them both alive will be tricky.
Now that Mei Xiang has surprised the world with twin babies, zoo staff are working round the clock to help them through the first fragile weeks of life. Unable to crawl (爬) or see for about two months, the baby depends on the mother's warmth, milk and protection. Even so, misfortunes can happen. Mei's second baby, a female, was born in September 2012, but died a week later due to lung damage. Poorly developed lungs likely prevented it from getting enough oxygen.
In the wild, if a panda has twins, the nature of the mother is to choose the stronger of the two pandas and abandon one. But zoos have developed a way to get around that: They will take turns to put the twins between mom and the incubator (恒温箱) every few hours, which means that each baby will get enough time with its mother to be fed by her. If necessary, her milk will be supplemented (补充) with a mixture of infant formula (婴儿配方), dog food and water.
The tiny pandas are especially fragile in the face of the mother's 200－pound weight. In July 2006, a panda in China accidentally killed her newborn as it nursed. By watching the zoo's panda nests, zoo staff will keep a careful eye on the twins to make sure mom doesn't accidentally harm them.
5．How do the public feel about the birth of the pandas?
A．Anxious. B．Excited. C．Curious. D．Calm.
6．Why are baby pandas fragile in the first weeks?
A．They can't get enough time with their mother. B．Their mother may abandon them.
C．Their mother isn't willing to feed them. D．They aren't able to move or see.
7．The zoo staff took turns to put the twins between mom and the incubator to ________.
A．get baby pandas familiar with their mother
B．prevent mother panda from abandoning the weaker one
C．prevent baby pandas from lung damage
D．get mother panda to rest easy
8．What can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Newborn Pandas Bring Happiness to USA
B．Newborn Pandas Are Killed in Zoo
C．Newborn Pandas Face Risks to Survival
D．Newborn Pandas Depend on The Mother's Care
C
In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students’ test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored(超过……分数) American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Warsaw is that the latter has no football team, or, for that matter, teams of any kind.
That American high schools lavish more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. This is not a matter of how any given student who plays sports does in school, but of the culture and its priorities. This December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment(PISA) results are announced, it’s safe to predict that American high-school students will once again display their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.
Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D.C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader—a mother with three children in the school—was asked about the school’s flaws(暇疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really?” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean?”
One of the ironies(讽刺) of the situation is that sports reveal what is possible. American kids’ performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It’s too bad that their test scores show the same thing.
9. Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because _______.
A. there are striking differences between the 2 countries
B. Polish kids are better at learning
C. sports are not supported at schools in Gettysburg
D. he intends to improve his scores
10. According to Paragraph 2, we know that _______.
A. too much importance is placed on sports in America
B. little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools
C. American high schools complain about sports time
D. PISA plays a very important role in America
11. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _______.
A. American students’ academic performance worries their parents a lot
B. high expectations push up American students’ academic performance
C. low expectations result in American students’ poor PISA performance
D. lacking practice contributes to American students’ average performance
12. The purpose of this article is to _______.
A. draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition
B. call on American schools to learn from the Polish model
C. compare Polish schools with those in America
D. explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions
D
We regularly hear how important consumer spending is for the economy. The story goes like this：the　more consumers spend，the more money circulates in the economy, which contributes to healthy job growth and profits. Keynes, a British economist went as far as to say that individuals saving their money may actually be hurting the economy. Sounds troubling, doesn’t it?
Fear not. You aren’t actually hurting anyone else by saving money. Strong economic growth only comes from one place：savings. Not consumption. In fact，economic activity should not be mistaken for economic growth. For example，somebody takes their money, walks into a store, and purchases goods. The store increases its revenue.
But what happens to all of those goods and services that people have chosen not to consume by saving their money? Simple：Other people are allowed to consume them. Think of it this way：When you lend out your savings, you are actually saying，“Here, I am not going to consume right now, so why don’t you?” Banks simply play the middleman：they collect lots of people’s savings and then lend out lots of funds.
It takes an unbelievable amount of goods and services to construct a building. It takes food, shelter, and entertainment for all of the workers, as well. Without savings，it is quite impossible to finance such a construction. The coordination(协调)between savings and consumption is a necessary basis for sound economic growth. This coordination is also why consumer lending (say , to borrow a big sum of money to buy a car) is not productive，in a strict sense. It doesn’t increase the net (净的) amount of wealth of an economy. Those savings could have been used to construct, say, factory equipment.
None of this means consumption and spending are “bad” things. They simply do not make us wealthier. After all, the final goal of production and savings is to consume. But to say that consumption is the engine of economic growth is to put the cart before the horse. Or, to rephrase: the consumption of wealth can never make you wealthier. Happier, perhaps. Wealthier, no.
13. What is the author’s attitude towards Keynes’ theory?
A. Approving. B. Reserved(矜持的).
C. Uncertain. D. Critical.
14. According to the author, which chart could show the effect of savings on economy?
15.What would be the best title for this passage?
A. The Saving Behavior of the Economy
B. Consumption：a Key Concept in Economy
C. Consumer Spending and Economic Growth
D. The Truth about Savings and Consumption
?第二部分 英语知识运用 （共三节，满分 55）
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。
Things have been kind of tough lately for Shannon Baker and her little family. They have each other’s parents and young daughter and for that they are 16 . But she and her husband are both currently 17 . And their car is in great need of 18 . And then there is the matter of their second child, who is 19 soon. So things are a little tense for the Baker family these days.
When Shannon and her daughter were walking through a store 20 lot recently, Shannon picked up an envelop from the ground that 21 $4,000 in cash. There were a____22_____of different interpretations that could be considered. Was this a kind of good 23 ? Could it be an attempt by the universe to balance everything? Could it be simply a gift from God? Shannon didn’t know. The only thing she knew was that the cash in that envelope 24 to someone else. Oh, and one other thing she knew her young daughter was 25 . “My kid was standing right there 26 I found it, ” Shannon told WLS-TV in Chicago. “So basically I wanted to teach my daughter how to be 27 . And for me that was enough.”
Never mind the bills that were 28 , or the car that needed to be fixed, or the baby that would come soon. And forget that when she 29 the money over to the police she was told that there was actually nothing illegal if she 30 it.
The police were able to return the money to the person who 31 it: an old woman. And one can imagine the 32 and relief she felt when the police handed the lost envelop back to her. “She came to my house and she was almost in tears, 33 me,” Shannon said. “She gave me a hug and an envelope with a small _34___ in it. But the amount, large or small, wasn’t 35 . What was important was the opportunity to teach my daughter honesty.”
16. A. restricted B. upset C. sensitive D. grateful
17. A. unemployed B. appreciated C. disappointed D. removed
18. A. repair B. protection C. cash D. sale
19. A. sick B. desperate C. due D. dull
20. A. gathering B. parking C. cleaning D. begging
21. A. involved B. contained C. charged D. paid
22. A. number B. deal C. handful D. flood
23. A. expense B. prize C. hope D. luck
24. A. pointed B. reacted C. belonged D. responded
25. A. urging B. watching C. laughing D. affecting
26. A. before B. though C. because D. when
27. A. honest B. loyal C. ripe D.humorous 28. A. piling up B. giving away C. showing off D. passing by
29. A. watched B. turned C. got D. collected
30. A. kept B. made C. checked D. promoted
31. A. sent B. disliked C. lost D. generated
32. A. respect B. repentance C. tension D. joy
33. A. comforting B. congratulating C. offending D. thanking
34. A. amount B. present C. envelope D. option
35. A. sufficient B. ethical C. important D. decent
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。
Everyone has had to deal with a friend who says, "Can I borrow some money? I promise I'll pay you back."____36_______，but here are some steps that will help you get back the money you've lent and keep your friendship complete.
??? ●Decide if you want to lend the money. It doesn't mean that you have to say yes when your friend is asking for a loan. Think carefully about whether this is something you feel comfortable doing. You may want to consider: How is your friend with money??? ___37________ ? Why does your friend need the money?
??? ●?__38_______You might settle for a verbal（口头的）agreement since it's with someone you're close to, but putting the loan in writing will enable both of you to treat it as a business arrangement. The agreement should spell out the terms, including any interest and the punishment for late payments.
??? ●State your repayment terms clearly. Decide how much and how often payments are to be made, and then keep to that schedule.??? ____39______ .It's better to figure out what you will do if your friend can't make a payment ahead of time than trying to work it out when it happens.
??? ●Follow up in a businesslike way. Make a note in your calendar to remind your friend a few days ahead of the due date. Wait to see if your friend pays on the due date without the reminder.? If not, tell him or her when you might expect payment, and let him or her explain the delay.???___40________set a new date for the payment.
A. There is no way
?B. Once you've heard the explanation
?C. Discuss what happens if a payment is missed
?D. How much does your friend want
?E. Whether you decide to lend the money is up to you
?F. You could lose your money and relationship
?G. Put everything in writing
36___________37_________38__________39____________40__________
第三节．语篇填空（共10小题；每题1.5分，共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。
My wife is addicted to shopping on the Internet. 41 seems that she can’t controlherself well, just clicking constantly with the mouse. Let me tell what happened last night. It was the fourth time she 42 (shop) online for hours. I had already reminded her 43 (think) twice before buying anything, but my wife ignored what I said and replied confidently, “With the New Year 44 (approach), preparation is necessary. Besides, I haven’t bought things on the Internet for a whole week.” Hearing her words, I was really 45 (speech). In most cases, the things she bought aren’t good value for money. Maybe she just enjoys 46 process of buying online. Nowadays, 47 the development of technology, online shopping is becoming more and more convenient. Those 48 stay at home can buy whatever they want. In the meanwhile, it causes a series of 49 (problem). One of them is more spending, because people are 50 (easy) attracted by the discount. So how to keep a good state of mind in front of temptation(诱惑） is an important lesson many people need to learn.
41___________42__________43_________44_____________45________________
46___________47__________48_________49_____________50________________
第三部分 写作 （共两节 满分 35）
第一节: 短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2.只允许修改10处，多改（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Tom,
I’m sorry to hear that you are having problems with your exams. You are not lonely. Many students have the same problems like you do.
You told me that you were so anxious to sleep well the night before an exam. Actually, it is very natural. To avoid too nervous, you’d better not take your grades serious. If you had a proper attitude to the scores, you will sleep well and feel energetic.
You said you couldn’t get into your normal state in an exam, that eventually resulted in your poor performance. I suggest you will work hard at your lessons daily instead of sitting up before an exam. You must have confidence in you. When you feel confident, you can do as well as expected.
Wish you a greater progress in your study.
第二节：书面表达(满分25分)
学校将为高三学生举办一场英语沙龙。假如你是学生会主席李华，请根据以下提示 准备一份英语发言稿，呼吁高三学生调节好学习和生活，保持良好的心态。
内容要点：1．描述周围同学现状：熬夜多，运动少，学习效率不高。
2．提出至少两条建议。注意：1．词数100左右。 2．可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
高三英语答案
Ⅰ、阅读(每题2分，共30分)
1~4 C B D A 5~8 B D B C 9~12 D A C A
13~15 D B D
Ⅱ、完形填空（每小题1.5分，共30分）
16-20 D A A C B 21-25 B A D C B
26-30 D A A B A 31-35 C D D A C
Ⅲ、 七选五 （每题2分，共10分）
36-40 E D G C B
Ⅳ、 语篇填空（每题1.5分，共15分）
41.It 42. had shopped 43. to think 44. approaching 45. speechless
46. the 47. with 48. who 49. problems 50. easily
Ⅴ、短文改错（共10处，10分）
Dear Tom,
I’m sorry to hear that you are having problems with your exams. You are not lonely.
alone
Many students have the same problems like you do.
as
You told me that you were so anxious to sleep well the night before an exam. Actually, too
is very natural. To avoid ∧too nervous, you’d better not take your grades serious. If you
being/feeling seriously
had a proper attitude to the scores, you will sleep well and feel energetic.
have
You said you couldn’t get into your normal state in an exam, that eventually
which (或在that前加上and)
resulted in your poor performance. I suggest you will work hard at your lessons daily
should (或去掉will)
instead of sitting up before an exam. You must have confidence in you. When you feel
yourself
confident, you can do as well as expected.

Wish you a greater progress in your study.
去掉a
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Ⅵ、写作（25分）One Possible Version
Good morning, everyone！It’s my honor to be here to make a short speech.
Recently I have found that some of our classmates can’t study effectively. Some can’t help falling asleep in class, because they often study too late into the night. Others seldom have sports, which surely does harm to their health.
As we know, enough sleep is of great importance for us senior 3 students. We can concentrate our mind in class with sufficient sleep, so we should try to make wise use of our time, striking a balance between work and leisure. Besides, doing proper exercise every day can benefit us a lot, keeping fit, reducing stress and so on. Let’s spare some time to do all kinds of sports. And only in this way can we keep a good mood and study well.
That’s all. Thank you for listening!