2019-2020年高三上学期英语周练试题（2） 含答案.doc

上海中学高三英语周练1 Listening（第一部分 听力）略. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the blanks, use one world that best fits each blank. 2019-2020年高三上学期英语周练试题（2） 含答案Exercise makes you work up an appetite, right? Not according to new research, which shows that a brisk 45-minute workout in the morning actually decreases a persons desire for food. Say what?Scientists at Brigham Young University put 35 women through a vigorous morning walk on a treadmill, then measured their brain wave activity as they viewed images of food. The experiment _25_ (repeat) two days later, this time without the workout. The result: On workout days, the subjects neural activity was _26_ (responsive) to food than non-workout days, but they are about the same amount. The results were consistent for obese and normal weight subjects, _27_ (suggest) that the mon assumption _28_ exercise makes you hungry doesnt hold. While this is one of the first studies _29_ (measure) neural activities after exercise, scientists still need to determine how long the diminished interest in food _30_ last post-exercise. If you want to try the experiment on _31_, make sure your workout is pretty vigorous. Previous research has found that intense aerobic exercise, like jogging, may suppress (压抑) your appetite for up to three hours _32_ reducing levels of hunger hormones produced in your tummy. So the next time hunger pangs makes it hard for you to stick with your diet, try boosting the intensity of your workouts. (B)I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car _33_ (break) down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I found myself _34_ (surround) by the villagers who were arguing as to _35_ should have the have the honor of receiving me _36_ a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me _37_ (settle) into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to a small town some 20 kilometres away _38_ there was a garage. I had noticed three hens running free in my hostesss courtyard and that night one of _39_ ended up in a dish on my table. Villagers brought me goats cheese and bone. We drank together and talked merrily till far into the night. When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman _40_ the trouble I had caused there. Section BDirections: plete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. rewardB. ignoreC. uniqueD. plete E. persevering AB. solutionAC. rideAD. recovery AE. brushBC. challengingBD. deadline What is your dream? What is the goal that you have set for yourself and are working to achieve? Realizing your dreams is not an easy _41_. Last fall I decided to write a new book for my publisher. Writing a book is a _42_ goal, which got off to a terrific start last October. The writing is flowing well. Then I got sick. In fact, I got ill that I needed surgery and the _43_ was long and exhausting. I did not work from the first week of November until the second week of January. By then I was nervous about meeting the April _44_ for submitting the new manuscript to my publisher. Worried, I asked my author friends for some help, and they gave me this key piece of advice, “Lets start writing!” they all said. So I did. It was not an immediate _45_ to my depression, but after a few weeks of _46_, I got back to normal. Several people in my circle of supporters helped me make some good connections and I got the book _47_, and to the publisher on time. It was an exciting goal for me to reach, so I took my family to Hawaii as my _48_. Sometimes you _49_ your own dreams because of self-doubt, fear, or external plications. You can think of many different excuses to _50_ those dreams aside, but, if you go after your dreams, your world will bee more exciting and you will begin to live a more passionate and meaningful life. So, now, take a minute to write down three goals you want to acplish this year. . Reading prehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phase marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fit the context. In business, there is a speed difference: Its the difference between how important a firms leaders say speed is to there petitive strategy (策略) and how fast the pany actually moves. The difference is important _51_ industry and pany size. panies fearful of losing their petitive advantage spend much time and money looking for ways to pick up the _52_. In our study of 343 businesses, the panies that chose to go, go, go to try to gain an edge ended with lower sales and operating ines than those that _53_ at key moments to make sure they were on the right _54_, Whats more, the firms that slowed down to _55_ improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating ines over a three-years period. How did they _56_ the laws of business, taking more time than petitors yet performing better? They thought _57_ about what slower and faster mean. Firms sometimes _58_ to understand the difference between operation speed (moving quickly) and strategic speed (reducing the time it takes to deliver value). Simply increasing the speed of production, for example, may be one way to try to reduce the speed difference. But that often leads to reduced value over time, in the form of lower-quality products and services. In our study, high performing panies with strategic speed always made changes when it is _59_. They became more _60_ to idea and discussion. They encouraged new ways of thinking. And they allowed time to look and learn. _61_, performance suffered at firms that moved fast all the time, paid too much attention to improving _62_, stuck to tested methods, didnt develop team spirit among their employees, and had little time thinking about _63_. Strategic speed _64_ as a kind of leadership. Teams that _65_ take time to get things right are more successful in meeting their business goals. That kind of strategy must e from the top. 51. A. according toB. regardless ofC. due toD. instead of52. A. profitB. productC. speedD. method53. A. pausedB. developedC. perseveredD. engaged54. A. situationB. trackC. occasionD. duty55. A. look onB. keep upC. hold backD. speed up56. A. learnB. discoverC. disobeyD. prefer57. A. strangelyB. abstractlyC. entirelyD. differently58. A. fail B. attemptC. pretendD. desire59. A. convenientB. necessaryC. emergentD. incredible60. A. alertB. restlessC. openD. specific61. A. In shortB. By contrast C. Above allD. All in all62. A. welfareB. technologyC. efficiencyD. condition63. A. qualitiesB. standardsC. petitorsD. changes64. A. serves asB. stands forC. refers toD. deals with65. A. temporarilyB. extensivelyC. naturallyD. regularlySection BDirection: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A)Frederic Mishkin, whos been a professor at Columbia Business School for almost 30 years, is good at solving problems and expressing ideas. Whether hes standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation, his hands are always waving and pointing. When he was in graduate school, one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professors office. It turns out, however, that Mishkins professor had it exactly wrong. Gesture doesnt prevent but promotes clear thought and speech. Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we talk form a kind of second language, adding information thats absent from our words. Its learnings secret code: Gesture reveals what we know. It reveals what we dont know. Whats more, the agreement (or lack of agreement) between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readiness to learn. Many of the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. We change our minds by moving our hands, writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work. Particularly significant are what she calls mismatches between oral expression and physical gestures. A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one, for example, but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate, which is correct. Such differences indicate that were moving from one level of understanding to another. The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem were working on; we cant yet absorb these concepts into language, but we can capture them in movement. Goldin-Meadows more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to learn, but that it actually helps to bring learning about. It does so in two ways. First, it elicits (引出) helpful behavior from others around us. Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to childrens speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction. Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn, and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problem-solving techniques. The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning, bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts. A xx study by Susan Wagner Cook, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, reported that third-graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra (代数) were nearly three times more likely to remember what theyd learned than classmates who did not gesture. 66. According to Paragraph 1, Frederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands because _. A. he could litter express his ideas that wayB. he always pointed his finger at his professorC. his professor did not like his gesturingD. his gestures prevented his professor from thinking67. How is gesturing important in acquiring knowledge? A. It draws tasteful responses from others and increases learning speed. B. It promotes second language learning and quickens thinking. C. It provides significant clues for solving academic problems. D. It reduces students reliance on teachers instruction. 68. What can be inferred from the passage about gesture-speech mismatches? A. They can stimulate our creativity. B. Instructors should make full use of them. C. Teachers can hardly explain new concepts without them. D. They serve as a stepping stone to solving real life problems. 69. What could be the best title of the passage?A. Hand Motions, a Second Language B. Gesturing: Signal of UnderstandingC. New Uses of Gesturing D. The Secret Code of Learning(B)The coast of the State of Maine is one of the most irregular in the world. A straight line running from the southernmost coastal city to the northernmost coastal city would measure about 225 miles. If you followed the coastline between these points, you would travel more than ten times as far. This irregularity is the result of what is called a drowned coastline. The term es from the glacial (冰川的) activity of the Ice Age. At that time, the whole area that is now Maine was part of a mountain range that towered above the sea. As the glacier descended, however, it applied enormous force on those mountains, and they sank into the sea. As the mountains sank, ocean water charged over the lowest parts of the remaining land. And the highest parts of the former mountain range, nearest the shore, remained as islands. Marine fossils found here are 225 feet above sea level indicating the level of the shoreline prior to the glacier. The 2,500-mile-long rocky and jagged coastline of Maine keeps watch over nearly 2,000 islands. Many of these islands are tiny and uninhabited, but many are home to blooming munities. Mt. Desert Island is one of the largest, most beautiful of the Maine coast islands left behind by the glacier. Measuring 16 miles by 12 miles, Mt. Desert was very nearly formed as two distinct islands. It is split almost in half by Somes Sound, a very deep and very narrow stretch of water seven miles long. For years, Mt. Desert Island, particularly its major settlement, Bar Harbor, has afforded summer homes for the wealthy. Recently, though, Bar Harbor has bee a new arts munity as well. But the best part of the island is the unspoiled forest land known as Acadia National Park. Since the island sits on the border between two different geographical zones, the park supports the plants and animals of both zones. It also lies in a major bird migration lane and is a resting spot for many birds. The establishment of Acadia National park in 1916 means that this natural monument will be preserved and that it will be available to all people, not just the wealthy. Visitors to Acadia may receive nature instruction from the park naturalists as well as enjoy camping, hiking, cycling, and boating. Or they may choose to spend time at the museum learning about the Stone Age inhabitants of the island. 70. The large number of small islands along the coast of Maine is the result of _. A. the drowning of the Maine coastline B. glaciers forcing mountains into the seaC. the irregularity of the Maine coastlineD. ocean waters flooding the mountain range71. From the passage, we learn that _. A. the coastline of Maine is ten times longer after the Ice AgeB. there are more than 2500 islands along the Maine coastline C. Mt. Desert Island has been broken apart by a 7-mile-long water stretchD. an arts munity gave way to the summer homes on Mt. Desert Island 72. What CANNOT be inferred about the Acadia Nation Park?A. It weles all the people, rich or poor. B. It has much appeal for bird-watching lovers. C. It offers visitors both entertainment and education. D. It is a border between the two geographical zones. 73. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A. The past and the present of Maine B. The formation of Maine coastline C. Efforts for preserving national parksD. Tourist attractions on Mt. Desert Island(C)Many critics worry about violence on television, most out of fear that it stimulates viewers to violent or aggressive acts. Our research, however, indicates that the consequences of experiencing TVs symbolic world of violence may be much more far-reaching. We have found that people who watch a lot of TV see the real world as more dangerous and frightening than those who watch very little. Heavy viewers are less trustful of their fellow citizens, and more fearful of the real world. Since most TV “action-adventure” dramas occur in urban settings, the fear they inspire may contribute to the current flee of the middle class from our cities. The fear may also bring increasing demands for police protection, and election of law-and-order politicians. While none of us is pletely dependent upon television for our view of the world, neither have many of us had the opportunity to observe the reality of police stations, courtrooms, corporate board rooms, or hospital operating rooms. Although critics plain about the fixed characters and plots of TV dramas, many viewers look on them as representative of the real world. Anyone who questions that statement should read the 250,000 letters, most containing requests for medical advice, sent by viewers to “Marcus Welby, M. D. ” a popular TV drama series about a doctor during the first five years of his practice on TV. Violence on television leads viewers to regard the real world as more dangerous than it really is, which must also influence the way people behave. When asked, “Can most people be trusted?” the heavy viewers were 35 percent more likely to choose “Cant be too careful. ”Victims, like criminals, must learn their proper roles, and televised violence may perform the teaching function all too well. Instead of worrying only about whether television violence causes individual displays of aggression in the real world, we should also be concerned about social reality. Passive acceptance of violence may result from far greater social concern than occasional displays of individual aggression. We have found that violence on prime-time (黄金时段) network TV cultivates overstated (夸大的) assumption about the threat of danger in the real world. Fear is a universal emotion, and easy to exploit. The overstated sense of risk and insecurity may lead to increasing demands for protection, and to increasing pressure for the use of force by established authority. Instead of threatening the social order, television may have bee our chief instrument of social control. 74. Which of the following is NOT among the consequences of watching TV too much?A. Distrusting people around. B. Moving into rural areas. C. Turning to the police for protection. D. Holding more elections. 75. According to the passage, why did “Marcus Welby, M. D. ” receive so many letters?A. Because viewers believed the doctor did exist in the real life. B. Because certain TV programmers remended him to viewers. C. Because he was an experienced doctor and saved many lives. D. Because the TV appealed to people to pay attention to health. 76. According to the author, _ is mainly to blame for peoples fear of the real world. A. network TVB. social realityC. televised violenceD. individual display of violence77. We can infer from the passage that _. A. people tend to be aggressive or violent after watching TV too muchB. people learn to protect themselves from dangers after watching TV. C. the occasional displays of individual aggression may threaten the social orderD. watching TV may cause the misuse of authority and disturb the social order(D)Human remains of ancient settlements will be reburied and lost to science under a law that threatens research into the history of humans in Britain, a group of leading archaeologists says. In a letter addressed to the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, 40 archaeologists write of their “deep and widespread concern” about the issue. It centers on the law introduced by the Ministry of Justice in xx which requires all human remains unearthed in England and Wales to be reburied within two years, regardless of their age. The decision means scientists have too little time to study bones and other human remains of national and cultural significance. “Your current requirement that all archaeologically unearthed human remains should be reburied, whether after a standard period of two years or further special extension, is contrary to basic principles of archaeological and scientific research and of museum practice,” they write. The law applies to