广东省中山一中、仲元中学等七校2019届高三第一次联考英语试卷（含答案）

2019届高三第一次联考英语试卷

考试用时：120分钟 满分：120分

命题学校：普宁二中 命题人： 审题人：

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

It’s almost camp season!

Summer is wonderful. Summer at one of the following awesome camps? Even more wonderful. Tahosa High Adventure Base Location: Ward, Colorado

People puzzle: Tahosa’s ropes courses are some of the nation’s best. Use your hands, feet and brains to take up high-flying challenges and overcome your fears. Fly fishing at 9,000 feet? Yes. Fishing licenses or experience needed? No, sir!

Choose your adventure: Go all-inclusive, where the staff prepares meals and runs the program, or take control and plan your perfect week. The choice is yours. Camp Raymond Location: Parks, Arizona

Don’t look down: When looking up at the stars, light pollution is your enemy. But Camp Raymond’s location and elevation (海拔) of 6,700 feet offer perfect conditions for seeing otherwise invisible stars. That’s cool: Don’t forget your camera and a jacket. During the day, you could spot bears and deer. At night, temperatures can fall sharply. Hot cocoa at summer camp? Cool. Pamlico Sea Base

Location: Blounts Creek, North Carolina.

Go coastal: Explore the Carolina coast by boat. You choose the route, and Pamlico provides the equipment. Keep an eye out for wild horses, lighthouses and boatloads of fish.

Set sail: Even if you don’t know the difference between starboard and star-lord, Pamlico’s sailing journey will make you a first-rate sailor in no time. You’ll even practice finding your way using the stars. Base Camp Location: St. Paul, Minnesota

Big upgrade: What happens when you change a 1907 cavalry drill hall (骑兵训练场) into an adventure destination in the heart of the city? You get Base Camp for overnight lock-ins, weekend retreats (隐居处) and summer camp.

Inside out: Most of Base Camp is indoors, meaning the activities like climbing walls can be undertaken on winter’s coldest days.

1. What do we know about Tahosa High Adventure Base?

A. It requires fishing licenses B. It offers lessons on flying a plane

C. It’s a camp that is intended for brave kids D. It is a camp where you can set your own pace 2. What can be learned in Pamlico Sea Base? A. How to tell starboard from star-lord C. How to use the stars for directions

B How to choose camping equipment D. How to make a boat on your own

3 In which camp can kids climb walls inside on winter days? A. Base Camp

B. Camp Raymond

D. Tahosa High Adventure Base.

B

“You’ll be blind by the time you’re twenty-five,” a doctor at Children’s Hospital predicted. “Your blood sugars are much too high.” It consumed me. No matter where I was or what I was doing, it was overhead like a dark cloud, waiting for just the right opportunity to break open and destroy my world. I liked painting. Losing myself in painting filled me with peace. Painting provided me with the only place where I could escape from those threatening words.

When I was twenty-one, my right eye went blind. Precisely three months after my twenty-fifth birthday, I had a massive hemorrhage (大出血) in my left eye because of an accident. For the next twenty years, vision came and went. I went through many eye operations in an attempt to keep my

C. Pamlico Sea Base

vision. But after one final operation, I lost the battle and all remaining vision. And I buried all dreams of painting.

Desperate, I enrolled in (注册) a sixteen-week program for the blind and visually impaired (损伤的). I learned personal adjustment and the use of a computer with adaptive software. A whole new world opened up to me through this program.

“Jaws and Window-Eyes are leading software for the blind,” my instructor told me. “You can use the Internet, e-mail and Microsoft with all its tools and features.” It’s amazing! Hope went up for the first time in years. “By learning how to use hot keys to control the mouse, you can use Microsoft Access, Excel and Powerpoint,” my instructor added.

For the next several years, I learned that when one door closes, another door opens. There are plenty of choices available for the blind and visually impaired through the gift of technology. Not only do I have a speaking computer, but I have a speaking watch, alarm clock and calculator. 4. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. The right opportunity.

B. Losing my sight in the future. D. The children’s hospital.

C. Consuming too much sugar

5. What happened when the author was 25 years old? A. He gave up painting.

B. He went blind completely D. He picked up a new hobby

C. He injured one of his eyes.

6. What brought a turning point to the author? A. A special course.

B. A meaningful event D. An important interview.

C. An inspiring speech.

7. What does the author intend to tell us? A. No pain, no gain.

B. Every man has his price.

D. Be optimistic in the face of life’s difficulties. C

These days, I walk down the steps leading toward the south end of the All England Club in Wimbledon, and still look for the Crow’s Nest, a small green observation tower with an outer ladder that I used to climb on for a wide view of the grounds, but which has since been knocked down.

C. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The Crow’s Nest was a particularly useful point, because it allowed a tennis writer to keep track of the action on as many as 10 outside courts at a time. At days end, reporters from different nations would share notes on what they had observed all over the grounds.

Twenty-seven years later, the press room has touch screens that allow us to watch live videos from any court, and even go back to watch key moments in key matches long after they have finished. You could cover Wimbledon without leaving your seat. But that is a bit like spending all your time ordering room service and looking up fun facts on Wikipedia.

More than at any other tennis tournament, there is also an appetite for stories that deal with the setting, the history and the traditions.

If they change the price of the fish tacos (鱼肉卷饼) at the United States Open, it’s not a story. If they change the price of the strawberries and cream, the signature treat at Wimbledon. It’s time to email your editor using capital letters.

The new retractable (可伸缩的) roof was put in place in 2009. Until then, you always had to have a rainy-day story in your notebook because there were no guarantees any matches would be played. Now tennis is a sure thing on Centre Court, which has made tennis reporters a bit less creative. But at least it guarantees us daily access to the most atmospheric place in the sport.

So much has changed, but Centre Court remains true to its original spirit: more a theater than a stadium. Catching that feeling is part of covering Wimbledon, too. 8. What did the author do on the Crow’s Nest in the past? A. He made friends with reporters.

B. He reported on tennis matches.

D. He exchanged experiences with tennis players.

C. He appreciated the beautiful scenery.

9. What does the author think of the new way of covering Wimbledon? A. It lacks fun.

B. It is expensive D. It is not quick enough

C. It is not convenient.

10. Why does the author mention strawberries and cream? A. To compare popular foods.

B. To introduce the typical treat at Wimbledon. C. To describe people’s craze for traditional dishes.