广东省揭阳市2019届高三上学期期末学业水平调研 英语

揭阳市2018-2019学年度高中三年级学业水平考试

英 语

本试卷分三部分。满分120分。考试时间120分钟。 注意事项：

1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔在答题卡上填写自己的准考证号、姓名、试室号和座位号。用2B型铅笔把答题卡上试室号、座位号对应的信息点涂黑。

2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B型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。

3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4．考生必须保持答题卡整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。

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

Booing a Theatre

These locations have theatres available for rental： *Fairview *Palmerston *Yor Woods Priority Booings

Each June, theatre booing requests for dates in the following calendar year (January to December) are accepted. For more information, call the Room Booing Unit at 416-397-5969. Regular Booings

For people who didn't mae a booing request in June, call the Room Booing Unit at 416-397-5969 to chec for remaining dates. Completing a Booing

Once the library receives a request, staff will chec the availability and place a tentative booing for you. You will then receive a contract that you must return with payment within 10 calendar days of the tentative booing and with a minimum of two months before the first booing to confirm the booing. Payment

Payment for the first booing and any booings in the current month is due when you return the signed contract. If you have booed for multiple months, payments for those months are due at the beginning of each month. Type of Organiation Theatre Rate Non-profit Groups Woods Commercial Fairview or Yor Woods Palmerston Fairview or Yor Woods Palmerston $418.00/day $209.00/day $163.00/hr $150.00/hr 21. What’s required if you want to mae priority booings? A. Calling the library first.

B. Booing in previous June.

D. Paying a visit to the Room Booing Unit. B.When you mae the booing.

C. Having a loo at the theatre beforehand. A. Ten days before the booing.

22. When should you mae payments if you boo a theatre in the current month?

C. When you return the contract. D. At the beginning of the month. 23.What’s the rate if a non-profit organiation rents a theatre at Palmerston? A. $418.00/day. B. $209.00/day. C. $163/hr. D. $150.00／hr.

B

In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition (学会) of each new sill—— the first spoen words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be firced to use a toilet too early. A young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he nows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.

Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness.

As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency (一致性）is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and ecuse it the net is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realie that “eample is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not practice what they say, their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to thin for themselves, and realie they have been to some etent fooled.

A sudden awareness of an obvious difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.

24. In the process of children’s learning new sills parents ________.

A. should encourage them to read before they now the meaning of the words they read B. should not epect too much of them

C. should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own D. should create as many learning opportunities as possible

25. The second paragraph mainly tells us that _________. A. parents should be strict with their children

B. parental controls reflect only the needs of the parents and the values of the community C. parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for the benefit of the children alone D. parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation 26. The word “precept” (Line3, Para.3) probably means “_______”. A. ideas B. punishment C. behavior D. instructions 27. In moral matters, parents should ________. A. observe the rules themselves

B. be aware of the mared difference between adults and children C. forbid things which have no foundation in morality D. consistently ensure the security of their children

C

Once, African lions were the ings of the jungle. But every day, they lose more and more of their home to humans. A new study done by Due University shows that humans have taen over much of the lions habitat.

Lions live on the African plains, which are called savannas. In the past 5 years, the number of people living on the Savannas African plains has grown rapidly. At the same time, the number of lions has dwindled quicly.

The research team at Due University used detailed pictures taen by satellite to carefully eamine the African landscape. They were able to see very small farms and towns that are taing over the once-open plains. Lions need wide-open spaces to hunt. As the number of people and towns has increased, the African plains have become less welcoming to lions. The number of lions has dropped from about 100, 000 in 1960 to 32,000 today. West Africa has seen the largest drop ——fewer than 500 lions remain there.

Researchers worry that the number of lions will decrease even more as the number of humans moving onto the savannas increases. People and lions living closely together have to compete for natural resources lie water and food. Towns and farms that tae over hunting grounds could force the lions out of those areas completely. Often, lions with no other sources of food will ill farm animals. Farmers will then ill the lions to protect their animals. African lions are also threatened by poachers, who hunt animals illegally. Many poachers hunt lions for sport or to tae their fur.

One of the authors of the Due University study is conservationist Stuart Pimm. Pimm believes the group’s research can be helpful in planning ways for people and lions to share the African plains. One solution is to build higher fences to eep lions away from farm animals. African countries can also epand and better protect their wildlife reserves so that lions have safe places to hunt.

28. The underlined word“dwindled”in Paragraph 2 can be best replaced by______________. A. grown B.changed C. doubled D. decreased 29. According to the study done by Due University,______________. A. there are 100, 000 lions on the African plains B. African lions are losing their habitat to humans C. more and more people are moving out of Africa D. the number of lions in West Africa has increased

30. The following are solutions mentioned in the passage to protect lions ECEPT________. A. epanding wildlife reserves

B. avoiding conflict between lions and farmers C. preventing people from hunting lions illegally D. stopping people from moving into the African plains 31. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A. Losing African lions C. The ings of the jungle

B. Moving out of Africa D. The problems of Africa

D

Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realied that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to eplore how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering wor of a teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.

When Bill Stooe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stooe noticed something strange among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.

Stooe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stooe believed the“hand tal”his students used looed richer. He wondered Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlie any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people considered their signing as “substandard”. Stooe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).

It is 37 years later. Stooe—now devoting his time to writing and editing boos and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and eplaining how he started a revolution. For decades, educators fought against his idea that signed languages are natural languages lie English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on