廣東省珠海市2012屆高三英語9月摸底考試題

1、廣東省珠海市2011 年 9 月高三摸底考試英語 試 題本試卷共三大題, 滿分 135 分?？荚囉脮r(shí)120 分鐘。注意事項(xiàng)：1答卷前 , 考生務(wù)必用黑色字跡的鋼筆或簽字筆將自己的姓名和考生號、試室號、座位填寫在答題卡上。用 2B 鉛筆將試卷類型填涂在答題卡相應(yīng)位置上。2選擇題每小題選出答案后, 用 2B 鉛筆把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目選項(xiàng)的答案信息點(diǎn)涂黑, 如需改動 ,用橡皮擦干凈后, 再選涂其他答案, 答案不能答在試卷上。3非選擇題必須用黑色字跡鋼筆或簽字筆作答, 答案必須寫在答題卡各題目指定區(qū)域內(nèi)相應(yīng)位置上；如需改動 , 先劃掉原來的答案 , 然后再寫上新的答案；不準(zhǔn)使用鉛筆和涂改液。不按以上要求

2、作答的答案無效。語言知識及應(yīng)用第一節(jié)完形填空（共 15 小題；每小題2 分, 滿分 30 分）閱讀下面短文 , 掌握其大意 , 然后從 115 各題所給的 A 、B、C 和 D 項(xiàng)中 , 選出最佳選項(xiàng) , 并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? For years people believed that it is impossiblefor a human beingto1 a mileinlessthanfour minutesuntilRogerBanister provedit2 in195

3、4 Within one year, 37 runners3 the belief barrier And the year after that, 300 other runners did thesame thingWhat happens ifyou put ananimalin a4 ? Any animal,big orsmall, willswimitswaythrough What happens when someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? You5 Ifan animal who has

4、not learned swimming could6 by swimming, why not you? Because you believe youwill drown while the animal does notThese 7 show the power of beliefs There is no other more8force in directing human behaviorthan belief Our beliefs have the power to9and to destroyIn a way it is our beliefs that determine

5、 how much wee to10 ourllbepotentialabl So pay attentionto some of your11 Do you believeyou are weak in mathematics? Do you believe that other peopledislike you ？ Do you believe life is full of12？Belief is not13 , however It s nothing but the generalization ofa past incidentAs a kid, if a dog bityou,

6、 you believedalldogs to be 14 To change certain behavior,identifythe beliefsassociated withit Change those beliefs and a new pattern is15created1A runB walkC swimD jog2A rightB wrongC fakeD true3A brokeB builtC facedD lowered4A cageB desertC forestD pond5A drownB swimC floatD sink6A struggleB escape

7、C drownD leave7A samplesB casesC situationsD periods8A terribleB reasonableC considerableD powerful9A damageB provideC createD withdraw10A discoverB realizeC showD perform11A problemsB beliefsC possibilitiesD subjects12A surprisesB choicesC problemsD possibilities113A beautifulB changeableC strongD

8、mysterious14A safeB rudeC mercilessD dangerous15A occasionallyB immediatelyC accidentallyD automatically第二節(jié)語法填空（共 10 小題；每小題1 5 分 , 滿分 15 分）閱讀下面短文, 按照句子結(jié)構(gòu)的語法性和上下文連貫的要求, 在空格處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~或使用括號中詞語的正確形式填空, 并將答案填寫在答題卡標(biāo)號為16-25 的相應(yīng)位置上。In 1914, Thomas Edison, at the age of 67, lost his factory,16was worth a few

9、million dollars, tofire It had very little insurance No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort _17（go） upin smoke and said,“ There is great value in disastersAllour mistakes are burnt up Thank God we can startanew” In spite of disasters, three weeks later, _18_ invented the phonograp

10、h What _19_ attitude!Below are more examples of the20 （ fail ） of successful people:Thomas Edison failed21 （ approximate） 10, 000 times while he22 （ work ） on the light bulb Henry Ford fired Lee Iacocca at the age of 54 Young Beethoven 23 （ tell ） that he had no talent for music, 24 he gave some of

11、the best music to the world Setbacks are inevitable in life A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us humility In grief you will find courage and faith _25_ （ overcome） the setback閱讀（共兩節(jié) , 滿分 50 分）第一節(jié) 閱讀理解 （共 20 小題；每小題 2 分 , 閱讀下列短文 , 從每題所給的 A 、B 、 C 和滿分 40 分）D 項(xiàng)中 , 選出最佳選項(xiàng), 并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。A

12、All Ric O Barry wants is to stop the dolphin-killing, so he is headed to this seaside Japanese town,Taiji The American activist, who is the star of a new award-winning documentary that portrays the dolphin-killing here, got an unwelcome reception when he showed up here this week for the start of the

13、 annual hunt His movie, The Cove （海豚灣） , directed by National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, was released in the United States a month ago but has not yet to come out in Japan Scenes in the film, some of which were shot secretly, show fishermen banging on metal poles stuck in the water to c

14、reate a wall of sound that scares the dolphins which have supersensitive sonar（聲納系統(tǒng)） and sends them fleeing into a cove There, the fishermen sometimes picka few tobe sold foraquariumshows, foras much as$150,000They kill the others, spearing（刺）the animals repeatedly until the water turns red The meat

15、 from one dolphin is worth about 50,000 yen, and is sold at supermarkets across Japan Greenpeace and other groups have tried to stop the hunt for years Activists hope The Cove will bringthe issue to more people internationally and eventually in JapanAlready, the Australian town of Broome dropped its

16、 28-year sister-city relationship with Taijilastmonth, partly because of the movie “ Some regionshaveatraditionofeatingdolphinmeat, ”saidfisheriesofficialToshinoriUoya “ Dolphin-killingmay be negative for our international image, but it is not something orders canstop ”The town government in Taiji w

17、hichhas made whales and dolphins its trademarkrefused tocomment about The Cove, or the growing international criticism against dolphin-killingMany in Taiji take the dolphin hunt for granted as part of everyday lifeThey are defensive about TheCove, seeing themselves as powerless victims of overseas p

18、ressure to end a simple and honest way ofmaking a living 26Ric O Barry made The Cove because he wanted to2A stop the dolphin-killingB win an international awardC support Green peace s effortsD make Taiji well-known in the world27Viewers can learn from The CoveA the advanced techniques to catch dolph

19、insB the cruel and bloody dolphin-killingC the beautiful Japanese seaside town TaijiD the sale of dolphin meat around the world28 What is the response to The Cove on the Japanese side？A Taiji broke up with its western sister-city BroomeB Japanese officials decided to ban dolphin-killing C The town g

20、overnment in Taiji kept silent on criticismD Most Japanese people were against eating dolphin meat29 What does the underlined word“ defensive” probably mean?A Feeling guilty for killing dolphinsB Protecting themselves against criticism C Attacking those against dolphin-killingD Making the determinat

21、ion to change 30 What can we infer from the passage?A Many people in Japan have seen The Cove in the cinemaB The Cove has not influenced Japan s international imageC Taiji s dolphin-killing industry has been seriously damaged D The Cove has brought international attention to dolphin-killingBNearly a

22、ll of today s Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace their ancestryto just six women whose descendants（后裔） immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests The finding does not mean that only these six women gave rise to migrants who crossed into NorthAmerica from Asi

23、a in the earliest population of the continent Rather, it suggests that only six left aparticular DNA legacy that persists to today in about 95% of Native Americans, said study co-author Ugo Perego in Utah“ The women did not necessarily arrive together, nor even all live at the same time,Results” he

24、sindicate the women arrived sometime between 18,000 and 21,000 years ago The work was published this week by the journal PLoS One Perego is from the Sorenson MolecularGenealogy Foundation in Salt Lake City and the Universityof Pavia in Italy The work confirms theprevious indications of just six mate

25、rnal（母系的） lineages, as well as a date of around 20,000 years agowhen the first people in North America arrived after crossing a land bridge from Asia, Perego saidThe researchers studied mitochondrial（線粒體）DNA,whichis passed only from mother todaughter They created a “ family tree ”that traces the dif

26、ferent DNAlineages found in today NativesAmericans By noting mutations（突變） in each branch and applying a formula for how often suchmutations arise, they calculated how old each branch was That indicated when each branch arose in asingle woman The six “ founding mothers ”obviouslydid not live in Asia

27、 because the DNAsignatures they leftbehind are not found there, Perego saidSo they probably lived in Beringia, the now-submerged land bridge that stretched to North America, he said 31 What is the passage mainly about?3A A study indicates that women arrived in America around 20,000 years agoB A stud

28、y indicates six women gave rise to migrants of AmericaC A DNA study tells about people who crossed into North America from AsiaD A study indicates Native Americans can trace their ancestry to just six women32 Which of the following is TRUE about the research?A It shows that DNA is passed from parent

29、s to daughters B It concludes that the six women arrived individually but lived at the same timeC It is a joint one conducted by Salt Lake City and an Italian universityD It shows that only six women in 95% of present Native Americans have got a particular DNAlegacy33 Which of the following has the

30、closest mea ning to the underlined word“ lineages”?A ClassesB Varieties C FamiliesD Findings 34 What didn t Ugo Perego and his team do?A They used a“ family tree” to analyze the findingsB They focused on life styles of the original womenC They clarified genetic changes in the family tree D They stud

31、ied how long each branch had developed 35 What can we infer from the finding?A The six mothers probably lived on the present islands in North AmericaB Most Native Americans have got the DNA legacy passed from the six womenC Beringian DNA was found in the women who originally immigrated to North Amer

32、icaD The research was not accepted by the previous scientists because of its contradiction CEveryone knows about straight-A students We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge（報(bào)復(fù)） of the Nerds They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their

33、noses always stuck in a book They are not good at social communication and look clumsywhile doing sports How, then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres?Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont Senior High School She also sings in the choral group,serves on the student council and is a

34、member of the mathematics society For two years she has maintained A s in every subject Melendres, a freshman at the University of New Mexico, was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair,and meanwhile worked as a

35、 reporter on a local television station Being a speech giver at the graduationceremony, he achieved straight A s in his regular classes, plus bonus points for A-levelcoursesHow do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren t the only answer“ Top gradesdon alwayst go to the brightest

36、 students, ”declares Herbert Walberg, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies on super-achieving students “ Knowing how to make the most of your innate （天生的） abilities counts for more Much more ”In fact, Walberg says, students with high IQ s

37、ometimes don dot as well as classmates with lowerIQ For them, learning comes too easily and they never find out how to get downHard work isnthetwhole story, either “ It s not how long you sit there with the books open,one of the many-A students we interviewed “ It s what you do while you”reIndeed,si

38、tting some of thesestudents actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmatesThe kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn s in two co”436The underlined word“ nerds ” can probably beA dull bookworms lacking

39、 sports and social skillsB successful top students popular with their peersC students with certain learning difficultiesD born leaders crazy about social activities37 What can we conclude from the first paragraph?A Most TV programs and films are about straight-A students B People have unfavorable im

40、pression on straight-A students C Everyone knows about straight-A students from TV or filmsD Straight-A students are well admired by people in the society 38 Some students become super-achievers mainly becauseA they are born cleverer than othersB they work longer hours at studyC they make full use o

41、f their abilitiesD they know the shortcut to success39 What will be talked about after the last paragraph?A The interviews with more students B The role IQ plays in learning wellC The techniques to be better learnersD The achievements top students make40 What can we infer from the passage?A IQ is mo

42、re important than hard work in study B The brightest students can never get low gradesC Top students certainly achieve all-around developments D Students with average IQ can become super-achieversDBackin the fifteenthcentury, in a tinyvillagenear Nuremberg, liveda familywitheighteenchildren In spite

43、 ofthe hopeless condition,two of the children,AlbrechtDurer and Albert,had adream They both wanted to pursue their talent for artAfter many long discussions, the two boys finallyworked out an agreement They would toss a coin The loser would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, suppo

44、rt his brother who attended the academy Then, when that brother who won the tosscompleted his studies, in four years, he would support the other brother at the academy Tossing a coin, Albrecht Durer won and went off to Nuremberg Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years,

45、 supported his brother, whose work at the academy was almost animmediate sensation（轟動）By the time he graduated, he had earned considerable fees for his outstanding works When the young artist returned to his village, the Durer family held a festive dinner to celebrate lbrecht s triumphant（勝利的） homec

46、oming Albrecht drank a toast to his beloved brother for the years ofsacrifice that had enabled him to complete his dream “ And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your turn Now you can go to Nuremberg to look for your dream, and I will take care of you ”Tears streaming down his pale face

47、, Albert sobbed,noIt“isNoto late for me Look lookat what four years in the mines have done to my hands ！The bones in every finger have been broken at least once, and lately I have been suffering from arthritis （關(guān)節(jié)炎） so badly in my right hand that I cannot even hold a glass to return your toast, much

48、 less draw delicate lines with a pen or a brush ”To show thanks to Albert for all that he had sacrificed, Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother injureds hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward He called his powerful5drawingsimply“ Hands ”but, the entireworldalmost immedi

49、atelyopened their hearts to his greatmasterpiece and renamed it“ The PrayingHandsThenext time” you see a copy of that touching creation,let it be your reminder no one ever makes any success alone！41 Why did the two brothers work out the agreement ？A They were so curious as to make a joke B Their fam

50、ily couldn t afford the academyC One of the brothers was supposed to go into mines D They wanted to support the other sisters and brothers 42The underlined word“ whose ”in2 Pararefers toA the Durer f amily sB C AlbertsD Albrechts43 Which of the following statements is NOT true about Albrecht Durer？A

51、 He began to earn his living after graduation B He did perfectly well at the academy C He wanted his brother to go to the academy D He created great masterpieces44 Which of the following is the correct order of the story？a Albrecht went to Nuremberg b Albert supported his brother c The Durer family

52、held a festive dinner d Albrecht drew his brother s injured handse The brothers tossed a coinA b, a, c, d, eB a, e, c, d, bC e, a, c, b, dD e, a, b, c, d45 What can we learn from the story ？A One can achieve success simply on his own B Any success requires the help of others C It s other people who contribute to one s successD Nobody could succeed without good guidance 第二節(jié)信息匹配（共 5 小題；每小題2 分,