河南省扶沟县高级中学2015届高三英语下学期模拟考试试题(5)

河南省扶沟县高级中学2015届高三英语下学期模拟考试试题（5）

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。 第Ⅰ卷 选择题 第一部分 听力(共两节。满分30分)略 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A

When I first entered college, I was afraid that I was not “up to it”. I was afraid of being away from my family for the first time. Here I would have to make friends with strange people and perhaps also compete with them for grades in courses I would take. Were they smarter than I was? Could I keep up with them? Would they accept me?

I soon learned that my life was now up to me. I had to set a study program if I were to succeed in my courses. I had to regulate the time I spent in my study and socializing. I had to decide when to go to bed, what to eat, and with whom to be friendly. I had to answer these questions for myself.

At first, life was rough. I made mistakes in how I used my time. I also made mistakes in how I chose my first friends in college. Shortly, however, I had my life under control. I managed to get myself to class on time, do my homework and hand them in, and pass my first exams with satisfying grades. In addition, I developed a circle of friends with whom I felt comfortable and could share my fears. I set up my own routine, one that really met my needs.

As a result, I began to look upon myself from a different perspective (视角). I began to see myself as a person responsible for myself and responsible for my friends and family. It felt good to make decisions and see them turn out to be wise ones. I guess this is what people call “growing up”.

What did life have in store for me? At that stage in my life, I was really uncertain

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where I would go and what I would do with the years ahead of me. But I knew I would be able to handle what was ahead because I had successfully overcome the major problem in my life: I had made the change from a person dependent on his family to a person who was responsible for himself.

21.The author was anxious about his college life at first because ______. A. he hated to get on with strangers B. he lacked some specialist knowledge C. he was at a loss in the new surroundings

D. he was afraid of making mistakes in front of others

22.We can learn from the author’s early experience at college that ______. A. he got used to the new life without much trouble B. he lost the ability to handle things independently

C. he came to realize he should be in charge of his own business D. he was a failure in many aspects except in school performance 23.The author’s college life finally brought him a sense that ______. A. he became a person caring for others B. he was smarter than his fellow students C. he brought confidence back in making decisions D. he could deal with his personal matters independently 24.Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Memories of My Time in College B. College: A Turning Point in My Life C. My Colorful College Life D. College Life Brings Me Pressure B

Cooking Kills Four Million People a Year

Polluted airborne particles（大气悬浮颗粒）kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization.

That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico.But those factories—or even the jammed roadways of modern cities—are not the biggest killer.Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO.

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What's causing the air inside people's homes to be so poisonous that it kills around 11, 000 people a day? Stoves.“Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.”says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 million and 4 million people in 2013.

Not all stoves cause this kind of harm.The ones Smith's talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas.The smoke from those fires produces harmful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes.Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers acceptable.

Breathing this air day in day out eventually causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the 4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease.And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.

Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fire—usually women and young children.In fact, the WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease. 25.According to Kirk Smith's research, ______.

A.factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadays B.burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerous C.household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmful D.some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should 26.What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen? A.Solid fuels.

B.Coal stoves.

C.Poor gas. D.Cooking smoke.

27.The underlined word “ventilation” in Paragraph 4 probably means “______”. A.airing B.cooking C.burning D.cooling 28.The author intends to tell people ______. A.how to avoid polluted air in their homes

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B.to stop cooking in the household kitchen

C.to guard against household pollution from cooking D.how to prevent childhood lung diseases in household C

It is a popular myth that great geniuses—the Einsteins, Picassos and Mozarts of this world — spring up out of nowhere as if touched by the finger of God. Einstein’s father was an electrical engineer who fascinated his son with practical displays of physics. Picasso’s father was an art teacher who had young Pablo painting bowls of fruit at the age of eight.Mozart’s father was a musician employed at a noble’s court who was teaching his son to sing and play almost before he could walk. In every case, when you look into the backgrounds of great people, there is this pattern of very early stimulation by a parent or teacher figure. One study has identified two kinds of parent style—the supportive and the stimulating. It followed four groups of children: one with supportive parents, one with stimulating parents, one whose parents combined both qualities and a final group who offered neither.

Children whose parents were simply supportive were happier than average but were not particularly attentive when studying or working on something. The children who performed best were those whose parents were both supportive and stimulating.These children showed a reasonable level of happiness and were very alert during periods of study.Children whose parents were stimulating without being supportive were candidates for exhaustion.These children did work long hours, but their alertness and happiness during study time was far below that of children in more balanced family environments.

Another crucial factor is the need for parents to have proper conversations with their children.Through having the chance to talk with adults, children pick up not only language skills but also adult habits and styles of thought.One reason why persons like Picasso and Einstein had a head start in life was that they had parents who demonstrated how to think about subjects like art or physics at a very early age.

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