高三英语第二次月考试题

it still going on. Of course, the dalang must remain alert throughout the show. One dalang remarked,”I have no real sense of time until it’s all over.”

9. The text would be of most interest to readers looking for information about _______. A. forms of entertainment in other cultures C. how to make their own puppets

B. how to create their own puppet show D. everyday life in Indonesia

10. How is an Indonesian puppet show different from most other puppet shows? A. A dalang may take a rest during a show. B. People can leave in the middle of a show. C. It is an activity enjoyed by people of all ages.

D. The audience can choose to sit on either side of the screen. 11. What can we learn from the fourth paragraph? A. The “good” puppets move in a funny way.

B. The dalang attempts to personalize the puppet show for the audience. C. The audience determines the puppets’ voice and way of moving. D. A dalang offers solutions to local problems before the show.

D

Don’t you just love ice skating every winter? I am sure that since winter is approaching, your skates are set to come out, just waiting to be used. Impress your friends with your new trick on how to ice-skate backwards with the help of these tips.

Stand Straight

The first thing you need to do is, stand straight. If you feel that you are falling backwards, just put your chin up and slightly bend your knees.

Confidence is What you need

The most important step while learning how to skate backwards, is having enough confidence in what you are doing. How can you achieve this? By practice. Just practice rolling backwards down a gentle slope everyday or just by pushing off from a wall or something of that sort. But before you do that, make sure that the place where you are practicing is free from any kind of debris(碎片) because otherwise, you could land up in the hospital due to some accident. While going backwards, just get used to the feeling of moving backwards. One of the important ice skating tips and techniques is that if you feel you are losing

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your balance, then scissor(做剪式运动) your skates. Keep practicing this till you are confident about it.

Maintain Speed

Confident now? Great! Now the next step is to maintain your speed. While rolling in a straight line with one skate, with the other try sculling(划桨), that is , keep pushing yourself backwards with an outwards stroke(滑动). Make sure that you put most of your weight on the skate which is moving straight and not the one with which you are sculling. Now , try the same thing using the other foot. Again keep doing this till you are confident enough.

Increase Your Speed Now

Once you are confident that you can scull with either foot, the next thing that you have to do is increase your speed. Try some of your own tricks now. Scull with either foot or with both at the same time.

Scull And Be Aware

While you keep one foot straight, keep sculling with the other. You can do that with both feet at the same time. Concentrate on what you are doing but don’t get so absorbed, that you don’t see where you are going. If you are not watching your back, you might bang(碰撞) against something or someone.

12. Which is the right order of ice-skating backwards? a. Increasing your speed.

b. Being able to scull with one foot. d. Trying some different tricks.

D. cbda

c. Being about to stand straight. A.cadb

B. cbad

C. acbd

13. In the last paragraph the author mainly wants to express _______. A. Keeping cautious is as important as skating B. One must be brave to learn to ice-skate backwards C. It’s difficult to concentrate when ice-skating backwards

D. It’s a common thing to hit someone when one is ice-skating backwards 14. In order to keep balance when skating backwards you should _______. A. use both your feet to scull

B. skate forward first and then backward C. skate in the way that scissors move

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D. put most of your weight on the skate with which you are sculling 15. The text is mainly to _______

A. compare different ways of ice-skating backwards B. offer some advice on ice-skating backwards C. introduce the culture of ice-skating backwards D. explain advantages of ice-skating backwards

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。选项中的两项为多途选项。（注：选E 涂AB ； 选F涂AC； 选G涂AD）

“Smart”Idioms

Today we take a look at the word “smart”. If someone says you are smart, what do they mean? Is it a good thing or something bad? 16 This is because the word smart has many meanings.

? That smarts!

For example, someone could say you look smart or are dressed smartly. That means they like what you are wearing and your physical appearance. To use a slang expression, they could say, “You look really cool!” But if something smarts, it can be unkind or hurtful, either physically or mentally. If you accidentally trip over a chair and fall down, you might shout, “Ow! That smarts!” Or if a friend says something that hurts your feelings, you can say you are smarting from the hurtful comments. 17

? Smarting

If you are standing too close to a campfire, you could say your eyes are smarting from the smoke of the fire. Here the word “smarting” means a sharp pain. 18 If someone is smart as whip, they are able to think very quickly.

? Street smart and book smart

19 Some people are considered street smart. They may not have a strong education. But they are good at dealing with people and problems in the real world. Other people might be book smart. This means they have spent many years in school. But they may not be so smart when dealing with people or real-world problems.

? Don’t get smart with me!

And then there is the definition of smart that means to talk or behave disrespectfully.

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If you say something disrespectful to your parents, they might say, “Don’t get smart with me!” Here, “smart” means to show a lack of respect by saying something unkind. In fact, a child who has a smart mouth makes rude comments, not smart ones. This definition of smart can also be used as a verb. 20 A. Do they really mean you are smart?

B. People have different attitude toward being smart

C. However, different people have different ways of being smart. D. In fact, maybe that person is no longer you friend. E. The answer is not as easy as you might think.

F. But the most common meaning of smart is to be intelligent.

G. If you smart off to the wrong people, they could hit you in the face. 第二部分: 完形填空 (共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I have to keep my hand from shaking, thought Mark as he 21 the baseball card. He stared at the early twentieth-century image and then 22 turned the card over.

“That’s one of my 23 ,” said the elderly man. “My dad got that in a pack of gum when he was a boy.”

“How ... how much?” asked Mark. He cleared his 24 .

“Fifty dollars,” the man said. Then he bit his lip. Maybe it was too much to ask, 25 from a boy.

Mark felt his head swimming. The baseball card was in 26 condition. It showed the open, friendly face of Honus Wagner, one of the first players 27 into the baseball Hall of Fame.

Mark knew the old man did not realize what a 28 he had. Mark looked at the man’s 29 and the frayed (磨损的)collar of his shirt. “I’ve never seen him at one of these swap meets(二手货集市)before,” thought Mark. “I 30 he is here because he needs some money, not because he knows a lot about baseball 31 .” Mark closed his eyes for a moment. “What do I do?” he asked himself. “If I made this 32 , it would be the biggest thing that ever happened to me. But I would have to remember that I 33 this man for

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