天津市第一中学2016届高三上学期第三次月考英语试题

Gymnastics, swimming competitions, tennis and badminton tournaments, cricket and soccer matches and inter-class sports events can be organized in school. Sports enthusiasts can

participate in these events, while those not participating can be a part of the cheering team. Kids are sure to enjoy activities like cycling, running races, skating and other fun games.

Wondering how schooling is associated with leisure activities? Well, you are mistaken if you believe that schooling is only about class assignments and homework. School education is much more than that. In fact, it is about helping the students learn the important lessons of life. It aims at their overall development which includes development moral values and principles in them. Devoting their entire schedule to studies and examinations defeats the purpose of an effective school education. It is very important to include some leisure activities in the school’s weekly schedule.

Sports and leisure activities are about making fruitful use of time in a creative way. They are the best ways to find hidden talent, cultivate minds and encourage innovation. School years are the founding years of one’s life. They need to be filled with fun and excitement so that children have an ideal beginning to the “long journey” ahead.

46. What should school authorities do to make better education according to the author? A. Encourage students to do more sports instead of studies.

B. Ensure the students have enough time for personal development. C. Learn about the great benefits of developing students’ personality. D. Know which sports are beneficial to students’ personal development.

47. The author suggests more sports and leisure activities for students because they are ________.

A. beneficial to children physically and mentally B. beneficial to children’s future competitiveness

C. helpful for students to get on well with each other in sports D. capable of freeing students from tiring school examinations 48. What does the fourth paragraph mainly tell us? A. Leisure activities are necessary for schooling.

B. Examinations are meaningless to students’ studies. C. Current schooling limits students’ overall development.

D. Schooling merely focuses on class assignment and homework. 49. How can we cultivate students’ hidden talents? A. By setting more examinations and tests. B. By providing more spare time for them. C. By offering them more happiness at school. D. By encouraging them to participate in sports.

50. We learn from the text that the author puts stress on _________. A. school curriculum

B. children’s physical health C. sports and leisure activities D. children’s personal spirit D

Facebook Messenger wants you to know a little more about that person who messages you for the first time. Getting messages from someone you don’t know can be a pretty intimidating

experience. How did they find you? Why did they reach out?

To make new connections less jarring (不和谐的), Facebook Messenger is introducing a new feature that gives you bits of information about someone messaging you for the first time,

whether the person is one of your Facebook friends or not. The Messenger team is rolling it out to IOS and Android users in the U.S., UK, France and India over the next few weeks. “It is a way to give you more context (背景) about new conversations in Messenger,” a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable. When someone messages you for the first time,

Messenger chooses bits of information from their Facebook profile (简况), like what their job is, which town or city they live in, and who your common friends are (if you have any), then displays that info above their first message, alongside their profile name and photo.

The new feature is similar to one offered in Hello, the app Facebook quietly rolled out in April, which gives Android smartphone owners bits of information about the person on the other end of the line.

The feature shows information Facebook thinks will prove most useful, while respecting both users’ privacy settings. That’s key, especially if you and other person aren’t actually friends on Facebook --- in which case, only publicly available information on your profile is used. It’s a small feature in the big scheme of things for Messenger but one that makes sense. Facebook already sits on data from 1.44 billion active monthly users, so why not use some of their publicly available information to give a little context about new folks who message you? And of course, if the feature helps improve Messenger’s user engagement --- the more friends you message, the more time you spend on the service --- it’s a win-win. 51. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Some new features of Facebook Messenger. B. Best ways to make more friends

C. Facebook Messenger now gives context about the people contacting you first. D. Be careful of the person who messages you for the first time on Messenger. 52. What does the underlined word “intimidating” probably mean in Paragraph 1? A. Exciting. B. Frightening. C. Satisfying. D. Interesting. 53. What can Hello offer to the users?

A. Information of the person who messages you. B. Information of all Android smartphone owners. C. Information of the person who calls you. D. Information of the app Hello.

54. We can know from the passage that _________.

A. when someone messages you first, their profession will be above the message B. the new feature of Facebook Messenger will not reveal user’s private information C. the more time you spend messaging strange people, the more friends you can make

D. if you and other person aren’t actually friends on Facebook, you won’t receive his message 55. What’s the author’s attitude to the new feature of Messenger? A. Negative. B. Positive. C. Doubtful. D. Uncertain. 第II 卷（选择题，共35 分） 第四部分：写作

第一节：阅读表达（共5 小题；每小题2 分，满分10 分） 阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

Poisonous chemicals produced by oil spills and air pollution have a new enemy: Green plants. These pollutants often contain a class of chemicals known as PAHs. Such chemicals have been linked to many health problems. But researchers now have developed plants that can digest PAHs.

Cleaning up a poisoned site tends to be quite costly. It often involves digging up the dirt or treating it with expensive chemicals. The United States spends billions of dollars every year on such cleanup efforts. Cleaning up those places with plants, however, could cost only about one tenth as much, which is a top quality of green plants. Bacteria can digest pollutants and leave harmless substances behind. Engineers have even begun using some kinds of bacteria to help clean up oil spills in seawater. However, monitoring the progress of these microbes（微生物） can be difficult, so is finding out how much pollution remains behind.

Quan-Hong Yao is an agricultural scientist in China. He and his team developed plants that could do the same thing those microbes do. They used special techniques to change the plants to produce chemicals to break down a type of PAH.

Genes influence how a living thing looks and behaves. Scientists changed genes of some plants through genetic engineering. Yao’s group added four genes to rice plants and to a small flowering plant. The transferred genes came from a PAH-eating soil microbe. And their

experiment worked.Once the plants adopted the microbe’s genes, they began producing the chemicals produced by bacteria, which broke down PAH. After 30 days, the plants removed up to half of the harmful chemicals in contaminated soil. The researchers reported their results on October 9 2014 in

Environmental Science & Technology.

“This is a big deal,” Christopher Reddy adds. He's an environmental chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts, who once worked on the new study. “Success in the lab doesn't prove the plants will work as well in the real world.”

“There is still a long way to go before these gene-changed plants can be used outdoors,” Yao agrees. As a next step, he’ll be testing his plants in real-world situations.

56. What is the main advantage of green plants in dealing with pollution? (no more than 10 words)

57. What is the problem with the method of using bacteria to clean the oil spills? (no more than 15 words)

58. How exactly did Yao and his team make the new finding? (no more than 8 words)

59. What does the underlined word “contaminated” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? (no more than 2 words)

60. Do you think the new plants will have a good future in real-world situations and why? (no more than 25 words)

第二节：书面表达（满分25 分）

61. 假如你是天津某中学学生会主席李津，受邀请你校近期将在英国Franks 中学举办“中国 周”活动，请你给该校学生会主席Chris 写一封信介绍该活动。 ◇活动的内容（如中国戏剧、中国剪纸、中国功夫等） ◇活动形式（展览；讲座；体验参与等） ◇个人期望 注意：

1) 词数不少于100

2) 可适当加入细节，以使内容充实，行文连贯 3) 开头，结尾已给出，不计入总词数

参考词汇：戏剧 opera 剪纸 paper cutting 功夫 Kungfu Dear Chris,

Thank you for your invitation to host the Week of China in your school.

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________此处禁止答题_________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Looking forward to seeing you soon. Yours

参考答案 试卷 A

1. B 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. B11. A12. A13. B14. C15. A

试卷B

1. B 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. C 9. C 10. A11. C12. B13. A14. C15. A

单项选择

1—5 CACDB 6—10 ADBCD 11—15 BACBB

完形填空

16—20 BCDBA 21—25 ACDBC 26—30 ADCBA 31—35 DCBAD

阅读理解

36—40 DCDBA 41—45 CCDAC 46—50 BAADC 51—55 CBCBB 阅读表达

56. What is the main advantage of green plants in dealing with pollution? (no more than 10 words)

They can clear up pollutants at a low cost.（2 分）

It could cost only about one-tenth as much. （1 分）

57. What is the problem with the method of using bacteria to clean the oil spills? (no more than 15 words)

It is difficult to monitor the progress and find out the remaining pollution. （2 分） Monitoring the progress of these microbes can be difficult. （1 分） It is difficult to monitor the progress of these microbes. （1 分）

58. How exactly did Yao and his team make the new finding? (no more than 8 words) By changing the genes of the plants.（2 分）

By using special techniques to change the plants.（1 分）

59. What does the underlined word “contaminated” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? (no more than 2 words)

Polluted/ Poisoned（2 分）

Polluting/ Pollute （1 分） Poisonous（0 分）

60. Do you think the new plants will have a good future in real-world situations and why? (no more than 25 words)

Open. （结合文章内容，合理即可2 分） 书面表达 Dear Chris,

Thank you for your invitation to host the Week of China in your school. In order to

make the activity a success, we have planned to perform a wide variety of activities with Chinese characteristics. One of them is Chinese opera, which is one of the most influential operas in China.

Another activity is an exhibition of paper cutting, almost all of which are for health, prosperity or decorative purposes. Of course, Chinese Kungfu, I think, will attract the most attention. I am sure students will have a lot of fun once they get involved in learning it. There are also some lectures on different aspects, introducing Chinese culture.

We hope the Week of China can not only offer foreign students a chance to have a better understanding of China and Chinese culture but also promote our friendship. Looking forward to seeing you soon. Yours Li Jin