天津市第一中学2019届高三上学期第一次月考英语试题Word版含答案学习资料

C. To make yourself become better.

D. To persuade yourself to admit your mistakes.

65. Which would be the best title for this passage?

A. Is criticism really necessary?

B. What can you learn from criticism?

C. What's the best way to voice criticism? D. How to criticize and reply to criticism?

D

Sometimes we may find that every week there are a lot of new stories about how climate change is affecting the planet, or new plans to battle its effects like the one announced by President Barack Obama the other day. But the concept itself isn't new at all --- in fact, scientists have been exploring questions about climate change for almost 200 year.

The idea of “greenhouse gases” goes back to 1824, when Joseph Fourier wondered what was regulating the earth's temperature. Fourier concluded that the atmosphere must be responsible for containing the heat absorbed from the sun and described it as a box with a glass lid: As light shines through the glass, the inside gets warmer as the lid traps the heat. As Fourier's ideas spread, it came to be called “the greenhouse effect”.

Scientists continued to study the greenhouse effect. Until a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius came along, scientists understood how global warming actually works. After years of work, Arrhenius determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere did in fact have a direct effect on global temperatures.

Arrhenius found that CO2, and other gases trap radiation, which warms the atmosphere. Arrhenius was the first to suspect that burning coal could contribute to the greenhouse effect. But Arrhenius welcomed the warming effect on the planet. At a lecture later that year, Arrhenius noted that creatures of a warmer earth “might live under a milder sky and in less barren surroundings”. While Arrhenius' findings won him the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry, scientists kept debating whether the greenhouse effect was increasing until 1950, when researchers finally began to find strong data supporting it. By the end of the 1950s, American scientists had been sounding the alarm on the long-term consequences of climate change. Climate change research has come a long way since Fourier first described the greenhouse effect – still, maybe Arrhenius should have been

more careful of what he wished for.

66. What can we know from Paragraph 1?

A. Climate change has caused terrible disasters.

B. The topic of climate change has been talked a lot.

C. Scientists should work harder to research climate change.

D. The whole world should cooperate to protect the environment.

67. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The atmosphere. B. The idea. C. The earth.

D. The earth's temperature.

68. What's the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. Serious consequences of climate change.

B. The history of studying the greenhouse effect.

C. Significant research findings about climate change. D. Scientists' doubts about the cause of global warming. 69. What did Arr henius think of the greenhouse effect?

A. It was beneficial for creatures on the earth. B. It was totally responsible for climate change

C. It brought more troubles than benefits to human beings. D. It worked as a punishment for human harmful activities. 70. What's the author's attitude towards Arr henius' expectation? A. Cautious. C. Positive.

B. Defensive. D. Negative.

第四部分 写作

第 II 卷（非选择题，共 35 分）

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

For much of my childhood, my mother filled in the evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted ( 编织 ) hats for babies, and at other times, she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn't surprised when one evening my mother announced she had undertaken a new project.

“I am going to telephone seniors,” said my mother. “Every night? But you don't even know these people.” “It doesn't matter,” she said. “What's important is that I listen.” I was sixteen years old and couldn't understand why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers. She had friends and my two older sisters to call if she felt lonely. “They will talk your ear off. Some people didn't even stop to catch breath.” I said.

My attitude didn't decrease my mother's enthusiasm for the project. That evening, she settled on the sofa and dialed. For a while, I listened as she asked the woman on the other line about her day and what she had eaten for dinner. When she finished the call, I said, “Why do you care whether she had cookies or rice pudding for dessert?” My mother grasped one of my hands and gave it a slight squeeze. “I'm the only person she talked to today.”

It took me more than thirty years to fully understand the significance of that statement. Now, as my mother is nearing eighty, I find myself thinking about those nightly calls she used to make. I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I'm the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just listen as she recounts a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole foods from the refrigerator. I realize that my mother's calls were lifelines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.

71. Why wasn’t the writer surprised about her mother's decision to undertake a new project? (no more than 9 words)

72 . What's the mother's purpose of calling the seniors and listening? (no more than 8 words)

73 . What does the underlined sentence “They will talk your ear off.” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? (no more than 10 words)

74. What was the author’s attitude towards her mother’s new project thirty years later