河北省定州中学2018届高三下学期开学考试英语试题Word版含答案

that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other can the students fill in each other’s information gaps.

25．When one notices a gap in his or her knowledge, the curious person_______. A. desires to fill it B. tends to give it up

C. may be unwilling to admit it D. will ignore it and move forward

26．Which of the following is Daniel Willingham’s opinion? A. Answers are more important than questions. B. Teachers know how to stimulate students’ curiosity. C. Interesting questions can help stimulate students’ curiosity. D. Teachers should allow students to ask more questions in class. 27．What do we know about curiosity in Paragraph 4? A. It is of importance. B. It needs more knowledge. C. It is excited when we learn more. D. It increases with growing knowledge. 28．What may be the best title for the text? A. The Importance of Curiosity B. How to Stimulate Curiosity C. Curiosity and Language Learning D. How to Teach Foreign Languages

Despite the general rule for quiet demanded by libraries, they’ve been the subject of some fairly significant noise_______Children’s Laureate(儿童桂冠作家), Chris Riddell, along with eight former Children’s Laureates, has written an open letter to Justine Greening, the British Secretary of State for Education, demanding an investigation into school library service closures(关闭).

Why should parents or pupils be concerned whether or not school libraries close? Are they surely just mausoleums(陵墓) to the paper-bound past? Or are they rooms that are of little use to today’s Internet-connected student population, who have access to a world of books and information through their

digital devices?

Quite simply, school libraries, as well as their librarians, are critical to our children’s future.

Research has proved this to be the case. The level of development of a school library is a highly accurate predictor of academic success, which means that parents should perhaps go so far as to compare the libraries of the schools they are considering, rather than look at league tables, when seeking the right schools for their children. Chris Riddell and his fellow former Laureates are absolutely right to emphasize the importance of librarians in introducing children to life-changing books and turning them into lifelong readers. Reading is a skill that needs to be developed.

Librarians play the crucial role of introducing pupils to different genres or authors, as well as encouraging children of varying abilities to read—from the reluctant readers to those with higher than average reading ages.

However, if libraries were to have a \description\cultivating a love of reading and promoting literacy(误写能力) is just one of their essential roles. The other role is, to be at the very centre of learning, a resource, for students to use in acquiring knowledge. Ultimately, as students get older they need to become increasingly experienced readers for information, as well as, hopefully, for pleasure. They need to be able to find out and access, through reading and understanding, the answers to their questions themselves.

Independent learning skills are very much in demand by pupils and parents, as well as universities and employers, because real education is about so much more than just academic success or grades on a piece of paper. As Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, pointed out, \truth is that we can't teach all that we would like them to know.\teaching children how to learn for themselves.

Talking of libraries, we would always focus on the collection of books and the dissemination(传播) of knowledge to aid learning. Therefore surely, it makes sense that if libraries are given the right status and adequate resources, they will play a vital role in the development of these much-needed independent learning skills. This has never been more important than in today's information age, when everything we need to know is only a few clicks away.

Libraries and librarians should be central in helping pupils understand how to access data or knowledge for their studies or interests—regardless of whether this is from a book an online resource or a journal. It is equally important that libraries guide students on how to \to

them—a vitally important skill given that the Internet contains a large amount of mistakes and misinformation. But, of course, libraries can only offer this support and guidance if they are properly valued and resourced, which means that we need as many voices as possible to be \importance of libraries in the education of our children.

Chris Riddell is encouraging children to ask their teachers where their school library is. Perhaps parents also need to be asking their current and prospective schools about the same question. Let’s make the \—it needs to be uncomfortably deafening(震耳欲聋的). 29．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean? A. Schools have realized the importance of libraries. B. More rules should be established for libraries. C. Libraries are not quiet any more. D. Libraries have been a hot topic.

30．According to the passage, it has been confirmed that ______. A. libraries are almost useless to today’s Internet-connected students B. libraries can reflect the academic success of schools

C. parents have begun to prioritize libraries when selecting schools for their children D. librarians are crucially important to students’ future development 31．The author thinks that libraries should play a role in______. A. turning students into lifelong readers B. introducing students to different genres C. developing students’ ability to read and write D. encouraging children of different abilities to read

32．Why should independent learning be emphasized according to the passage? A. It helps students achieve high grades in their exams.

B. Universities and parents don’t pay much attention to it at present. C. Students can’t acquire enough knowledge through being taught by others. D. Real education is about learning independently rather than about academic success. 33．In the last but one paragraph, the author thinks that ______. A. libraries may be a source of false information

B. students’ ability to obtain information is vitally important

C. libraries should teach students how to seek the available information D. students should learn to distinguish between true and false information

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When I was out of the church, I saw four children selling the paintings. I _______and stood quietly next to them without saying a word and for the next 10 minutes watched them sell their paintings to the_______customers.

My eyes_______the attention of one of the boys. I made a _______for him to come towards me. I was surprised that this little kid gave me a broad _______with a missing tooth and immediately_______to me. When I asked him very lightly whether he_______who I was, he answered quickly with his eyes much _______, “Mr. Ford!”, which_______me a lot.

I asked him how he knew me, and he replied that he was one of the children whose mother was________by the Ford Foundation and that now his mother looked after them pretty________. I felt good but at the same time a bit________seeing him sell paintings. I asked him why he did so________his mother was taking good care of all the four.

He told me, \________. His mother is sick and his father has a low________and his family can’t even________medicine.\and gave a hundred-dollar ________to the boy. However, he________and said, \will always________you, but please give this money to some other person who needs it more than I do. I can ________money myself.\

34．A. moved B. passed C. went D. hurried

35．A. laughing B. shopping C. arguing D. bargaining 36．A. caught B. paid C. fixed D. focused 37．A. signal B. sign C. mark D. opinion 38．A. expression B. face C. message D. smile 39．A. held on B. went up C. came up D. looked up 40．A. suspected B. knew C. agreed D. thought 41．A. brighter B. braver C. wider D. warmer 42．A. disappointed B. pleased C. puzzled D. satisfied