广东省汕头市金山中学2018届高三上学期期中考试 英语

汕头市金山中学2018届高三上学期期中考试（10月）

英 语 试 题

本试卷共三部分，满分135分（120×1.125）。考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答卷前，考生务必分别将答题卷上的姓名、考试号用黑色字迹的签字笔填写，用2B铅笔将考试号对应的信息点涂黑。

2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 第一部分 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

The editor of the new Cool Camping Britain guide chooses some of his favorite new finds in England, Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides

Is this Britain’s most beautiful campsite? From the grassy point looing seaward to the mountains, it’s not hard for campers to see how the island inspired The Lord of the Rings author’s fantasy landscapes. The campsite itself is as wild and wonderful as its setting. Open April - September, from ￡5 per tent per night. Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, Suffol

Deep in the wilds of north Suffol, this seven-acre campsite has only been open for a few years, with two fields separated by a lae and surrounded by woodland. The position is perfect. It’s a great place to do nothing but get into nature. You can put up your tent in the bottom field or the woodland beyond.

Open Easter - October, from ￡10 per tent per night. Pleasant Streams Farm, near St Austell, Cornwall

This site, by a lae, is all about simple pleasures. Located in the former mining village, it has a summerhouse(凉亭) with boos and games for a rainy day. There are many animals including pigs, hens, goats and ducs on the farm and a pub just a 10- minute stroll away. There’s very little to do here, no bells and no whistles. Campfires are encouraged.

Open Easter - September, from ￡10 per tent per night. Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Sciily

Its only campsite, Troytown, couldn’t be in a more remote position. Isolation is its greatest advantage — so bring plenty of boos to read and don’t epect a phone signal. But at least one of life’s necessities is available. Lying on the hillside overlooing the bay and near the island of the Gugh, it might just win the prie for best beer garden view in England.

Open March - October, from ￡7. 50 per tent per night, Wales and Scotland.

21. Which of the following is TRUE about Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides? A. It has been open for a few years. C. It offers the longest service. A. Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides. B. Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, Suffol.

C. Pleasant Streams Farm, near St Austell, Cornwall. D. Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly.

23. In Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, you can’t ________.

A. contact others by phones B. view the bay from the hillside

D. rela yourself by reading B

Here is an astonishing and significant fact Mental wor alone can’t mae us tire. It sounds absurd. But a years ago, scientists tried to find out how long the human brain could labor without reaching a stage of fatigue (疲劳). To the amaement of these scientists, they discovered that blood passing through the brain, when it is active, shows no fatigue at all! If we too a drop of blood from a day laborer, we would find it full of fatigue toins(毒素) and fatigue products. But if we too blood from the brain of an Albert Einstein, it would show no fatigue toins at the end of the day.

So far as the brain is concerned, it can wor as well and swiftly at the end of eight or even twelve hours of effort as at the beginning. The brain is totally tireless. So what maes us tired?

Some scientists declare that most of our fatigue comes from our mental and emotional(情绪的) attitudes. One of England’s most outstanding scientists, J.A. Hadfield, says, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin. In fact, fatigue of purely physical origin is rare.” Dr. Brill, a famous American scientist, goes even further. He declares, “One hundred percent of the fatigue of sitting worer in good health is due to emotional problems.”

What inds of emotions mae sitting worers tired? Joy? Satisfaction? No! A feeling of being bored, anger, aniety, tenseness, worry, a feeling of not being appreciated---those are the emotions that tire sitting worers. Hard wor by itself seldom causes fatigue. We get tired because our emotions produce nervousness in the body.

24. What surprised the scientists a few years ago?

A. Fatigue toins could hardly be found in a laborer’s blood. B. Albert Einstein didn’t feel worn after a day’s wor. C. The brain could wor for many hours without fatigue. D. A mental worer’s blood was filled with fatigue toins.

25. According to the author, which of the following can mae sitting worers tired? A. Challenging mental wor. B. Unpleasant emotions. C. Endless tass. D. Physical labor

26. We can infer from the passage that in order to stay energetic, sitting worers need to _____ A. have some good food. B. enjoy their wor

C. eercise regularly D. discover fatigue toins 27. What is the main idea of the passage? C. get everyday necessities

B. A beautiful lae surrounds it.

D. The rent of a tent per night is the lowest.

22. Which place can you choose if you lie a simple farm life?

A. B. C. D. Too much mental wor will mae people tired. Mental wor is of great importance to our health. It is hard wor that maes people feel tired easily.

People get tired when woring because of emotional problem

C

Times are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us maes a lot of money, but years of eperience have taught us how to wal between the raindrops and mae it from one month to the net with a fair amount of grace. I coo a lot at home, more when we're facing lean times. When I now that I have to eep us fed on not much money, I fall bac on my grandmother's recipes. She taught me to coo.

When I was a id, my twin brother and I spent long summer wees and Christmas vacations with my mother's parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go hunting with my grandfather on froen mornings, I found myself more and more in the itchen with my grandmother, watching her maing a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands.

My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As the eldest daughter, she was epected to tae on all of the housewor while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to mae a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooed a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luury, but there was nothing she couldn't do with a chicen, every part of it. Nothing went to waste.

Now I understand that her food was sacred. I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when I'm in my itchen maing country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of conquering starvation—of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day.

From grandmother I learned to tae real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say, “Do you now what this would cost at the restaurant?” I never new what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I new that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can coo lie a grandmother. But now, thans to her guidance and years of practice, I can.

28. According to the passage, the author coos a lot at home because__________. A. she wants to try out her grandmother’s recipes B. she and her husband are quite particular about food C. she enjoys cooing at home

D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially

29. What does the underlined word “lean” mean in the first paragraph? A. with a bad harvest C. with little energy

B. with little money D. with little wor

30. According to the passage, the author’s grandmother__________.

A. learnt to coo throughout the Great Depression B. was careful in budgeting C. preferred chicen to beef

A. Coo lie My Grandmother

D. was careful in cooing vegetables B. My Grandmother’s Sacred Food

31. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

C. My Grandmother’s Recipe D

D. Joy and Pleasure in Cooing

A child who has once been pleased with a tale lies, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal tets. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a boo, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed tet, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or maing him sad thining. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled eperiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I thin, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not eist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not now how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New Yor to Philadelphia on a stic or covering a telephone with isses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

32. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .

A . repeated without any change

B. treated as a joe D. set in the present

C. made some changes by the parent

33. The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.

A. maes them less fearful B. maes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of C. develops their power of memory D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs 34. The author’s mention of stics and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.

A. fairy stories are still being made up B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales C. people try to modernie old fairy stories D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays 35. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A. they are full of imagination B. they just mae up the stories which are far from the truth C. they are not interesting

D. they mae teachers of history difficult to teach

第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross gained worldwide honor for her dedication to easing human suffering and earned the nicname “Angel of the Battlefield.”

Barton was born into a liberal freethining family in 1821. Her elder brothers and sisters happily tutored her in math and reading, so when she entered school at three years old, she could read and spell three-syllable words. 36

Concerned about Barton's difficulty in maing friends, her parents sent her to a boarding school, hoping it would mae her more comfortable with her peers. 37 Barton lost her appetite and cried constantly.