河北省定州中学(高补班)2018届高三下学期第一次月考 英语

down include picing your own pearl at the Japan store at Epcot, which is all about the eperience and only $15.95 plus ta, or even getting special tradable collection pin that you can trade with Disney cast members or other guests.

When you go to Disney World on rainy days, you may catch a lot of showers. But you don’t have to. Go to a local Dollar Tree and buy disposable ponchos（一次性雨披）for $1. The ponchos at Disney are probably more durable（耐用的）, but they cost $9. For a family of five, the Disney ponchos would cost $45 versus spending $5 at the dollar store.

It costs $17 to par in Disney for a day. Lucily, most non-Disney resorts offer free shuttles（往的班车）to and from the par and all Disney resorts offer free transportation for guests as well. If you lie to be on your own schedule without worrying about when the shuttle comes, then paring is your only choice. But waiting for the shuttle and going by a schedule isn’t really difficult, either.

24．According to the author, if you want to eat at Disney World, you can ________. A. just tae pic-me-ups to save money B. get premade food at Disney World C. avoid food that stimulates your appetite D. prepare food before entering the par

25．What does the author thin of buying pearl at the Japan store at Epcot? A. It can be a terrible eperience.

B. It enables one to get pearl at a reasonable price. C. It’s a good way to find a tradable collection. D. It’s the best way to get Disney souvenirs.

26．If you buy four ponchos at a local Dollar tree instead of at Disney, you can save ________. A. $32 B. $36 C. $40 D. $45

27．The author thins it is advisable to ________. A. par in Disney World for a day

B. avoid going to Disney World on rainy days C. use more durable ponchos at Disney World

D. use transportation offered by the resorts

Nature has its own way of balancing itself out, but when we humans get involved, we tend to throw things out of control. Forests and oceans are natural carbon sins that absorb carbon dioide from the atmosphere, but since we’ve been pumping too much into the air, those sins can’t eep up. Scientists at the Ma Planc Institute in Germany, led by biologist Tobias Erb, have figured out a way to supercharge plants to mae them better at absorbing CO2, which could be a ey defense against climate change.

Erb and his team figured out a way to mae plants more efficient at absorbing carbon, so that they consumed more carbon in a shorter amount of time. “If you thin about plants, they are efficient CO2-fiing filters, but they are not fast, ”Erb said. “I thin there is a chance to improve eisting biology with synthetic(人造的) biology.”

Erb’s team identified 17 enymes(酶) from nine different organisms, re-engineering three of them, that had an enlarged carbon consumption. When those enymes wored together as a team, they wored better at not only plants’ natural enymes, but also themselves individually. Eisting enymes in plants consume about 5 to 10 molecules(摩尔) of CO2 per second. The team of enymes that Erb used consumed 80 molecules per second. So far, these enymes have only been tested in test tubes in the lab, but the net step is real world testing where the enymes would be introduced into plants to see if the same result occurs. If those tests show that plants really can be supercharged, we could have a new tool in the fight against climate change where not only do we protect the amaing carbon-absorbing forests we have, but we also add these super plants or an artificial leaf technology using the enymes into other mied fields. 28．Why can’t forests and oceans balance nature? A. Because oceans and forests are getting smaller. B. Because a large number of forests are cut down. C. Because we human beings give off too much CO2. D. Because there are too many creatures in the world.

29．Which is the ey defense against climate change according to Erb and his team? A. To increase the plants’ ability and efficiency to absorb CO2. B. To mae oceans and forests to absorb more CO2 quicly.

C. To reduce the human’s activities giving off too much CO2. D. To increase the number of plants in the world, 30．What can we get from the last paragraph? A. The enymes have proved useful in real world. B. The technology has wored against climate change. C. The enymes have not been used in the lab. D. The technology may have a bright future. 31．This passage is intended to . A. call on people to pay more attention to the balance of nature B. introduce a possible way to better plants’ ability of absorbing CO2 C. analye the cause and result of climate change related to plants D. eplore the possibility of using plants to fight against climate change

The First Hello

The man from the telephone department got off the bus, and made his way to the tea stall, wiping the sweat off his head, face, then slipping his handerchief under his shirt to wipe his nec and bac. It was a year ago that the phone line had been installed, si months later men from the public wors department had come to put up the phone booth—a neat bo-lie structure, with a glass window, and wooden ledges, yellow in colour. And days after that, a painter had taen an entire day to colour in broad, blac brushstroes, the words STD Booth, local and STD allowed.

No one could tell that the last word had been misspelled. Besides, he had taen the entire day. After he had a cup of tea, he left, waving cheerfully. And now months later, someone else was here again.

Everyone watched the man as he sat on the bench. No one said a word, and soon the sound of him slurping his tea filled the hot afternoon. A few leaves fell, heavy in the heat, and sometimes a car passed, on its way to the main city farther away.

When the man had finished, he tried to pay but the tea shop owner who sat behind his steaming ettle and the washed upturned cups, waved him away. “You are our guest here.”

So the man too his handerchief out again and wiped his face.

They crowded around him as he shut himself up in the phone booth. When the children pressed their nose against the glass, he shooed them away, as he too out a shiny blac soon changed to an ecited yell as they saw him dial a number, pressing a finger into the ringed dialer of the phone and letting it go all the way in a half-circle. A while later, they hear him say into the mouthpiece, “Hello.”

“Hello, ”the children around the booth too up the cry, the teashop owner broe into a smile and the men waiting for a bus smiled and said hello to each other. The sadhu(印度的僧人)who sat under the banyan tree nodded wisely. As the sound carried, more hellos were heard. The women winnowing grain giggled as they tried the word tentatively, the shepherds feeding their flocs called out to their sheep, laughing as they used the word. “It’s a big occasion, ”said the headman, in an awed(敬畏的) voice.

“It is.” agreed those around him. The telephone man emerged and handed over a small chit of paper to the headman. “This is the telephone number.”

The headman looed at it respectfully as if it were a mantra(符咒). The others around him read out the numbers slowly, digit-by-digit.

The telephone man was now too tired to notice the cheering around him. He new he had to wait long before the bus to tae him bac arrived. As he sipped his second cup of tea, he remembered something else. “Oh, you can’t start using the phone now. The minister will come net month and inaugurate it. ” No one said a word. No one was surprise. They had waited so long; a month more did not really matter. 32．In the story, fitting a woring telephone booth . A. was a process that had already taen 12 months B. was in the charge of the headman C. was finished more than a year ago D. was an artistic challenge for a local painter 33．A misspelled word on the booth . A. was a joe hared by the painter and the local people B. made the painter miss his tea brea C. went unnoticed by the local people D. ept everyone occupied for an entire day