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高三英语上学期期末考试试题
广东省汕头市 2017 届高三英语上学期期末考试试题
本试卷共三部分，共 8 页，满分 135 分（120×1.125）。
考试时间 120 分钟。
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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
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The editor of the new Cool Camping Britain guide chooses some of his favorite new
finds in England, Wales and Scotland.
Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides
Is this Britain’s most beautiful campsite?
From the grassy point looking 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, Suffolk
Deep in the wilds of north Suffolk, this seven-acre campsite has only been open
for a few years, with two fields separated by a lake 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 lake, is all about simple pleasures. Located in the former mining
village, it has a summerhouse（凉亭） with books and games for a rainy day. There are
many animals including pigs, hens, goats and ducks on the farm and a pub just a 10-
minute stroll away. There’s very little to do here, no bells and no whistles.
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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 books to read and don’t expect a phone
signal. But at least one of life’s necessities is available. Lying on the hillside
overlooking the bay and near the island of the Gugh, it might just win the prize for
best beer garden view in England.
Open March - October, from ￡7. 50 per tent per night,
1. Which of the following is TRUE about Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides?
A. It has been open for a few years.B. A beautiful lake surrounds it.
C. It offers the longest service.D. The rent of a tent per night is the
lowest.
2. Which place can you choose if you like a simple farm life?
A. Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides.
B. Swattesfield, Thornham Magna, Suffolk.
C. Pleasant Streams Farm, near St Austell, Cornwall.
D. Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly.
3. In Troytown Campsite, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, you can’t ________.
A. contact others by phonesB. view the bay from the hillside
C. get everyday necessitiesD. relax yourself by reading
B
Perhaps Van Gogh（1853-1890）isn’t the most famous artist in the world, but his
personal story is probably the most well known. The paintings he created didn’t
become famous until after he died. Last year marked the 125th anniversary of his death.
An art exhibition was in Beijing till Dec. 6, in which more than 3,000 photos of the
artist’s masterpieces were shown. However, the paintings that made him famous after
his death did little for him when he was alive.
Van Gogh was born into a rich family in the Netherlands. He started his career
working for an art dealer. But then he tried other things like teaching in England. He
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also tried to become a priest, but failed the exams.
Finally, he found something else to believe in while he was living in a small
mining town in Belgium—art. He returned to his childhood love of painting and drawing.
Hewasanimportantandgreatartistinagenerationthatchallengedthe
Impressionist style. Post-Impressionists, like Van Gogh, wanted to show the world as
it felt to them, not always as it looked.
Van Gogh used different forms and colors to make his art more abstract. The way he
used colors was especially impressive. In Wheatfield with Crows （1890）, the colors are
very intense. Corn is yellow, grass is green, and crows are black. But the colors are
used in such a way that it looks better than a photograph.
Unfortunately, Van Gogh’s art wasn’t very popular while he was alive. He was
poor and was thought to have mental problems, which led him to cut off his ear and
eventually die by shooting himself. Arguably, it wasn’t the art that gave him mental
problems. What made him so sad may have been the difficulty of working as an artist in
a practical world.
4. What can we know about Van Gogh from the passage?
A. He was born into a rich family in the Netherlands 125 years ago.
B. He was a teacher, a priest and a miner before he became an artist.
C. He did not get much wealth or fame from his works before he died.
D. He decided to be an artist when he worked as an art dealer.
5. According to the passage, Van Gogh impressed people deeply by ________.
A. how he used colors in his paintings
B. how he became famous for his paintings
C. how he showed the world exactly as it looked
D. how he began to love art while living in Belgium
6. What might have caused Van Gogh’s mental problems?
A. The art of painting.B. The loss of one of his ears.
C. Pressure from his family.D. Not being accepted or recognized.
7. What can be the best title of this passage?
A. Wheatfield with CrowsB. An Artist’s Sad Story
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C. Childhood of Van GoghD. An Art Exhibition of Van Gogh
C
Times are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of
money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and
make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home,
more when we're facing lean times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much
money, I fall back on my grandmother's recipes. She taught me to cook.
When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas
vacations with my mother's parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rather than go
hunting with my grandfather on frozen mornings, I found myself more and more in the
kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making 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 expected to take on all of the housework while attending school.
Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way.
Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, mostly only using small amounts of
meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she
couldn't do with a chicken, 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 kitchen making 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 take real satisfaction in feeding people. My
grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say, “Do you know
what this would cost at the restaurant?
” I never knew what restaurant in particular
she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no
restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and
years of practice, I can.
8. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home because__________.
A. she wants to try out her grandmother’s recipes
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B. she and her husband are quite particular about food
C. she enjoys cooking at home
D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially
9. What does the underlined word “lean” mean in the first paragraph?
A. with a bad harvestB. with little money
C. with little enengyD. with little work
10. According to the passage, the author’s grandmother__________.
A. learnt to cook throughout the Great Depression
B. was careful in budgeting
C. preferred chicken to beef
D. was careful in cooking vegetables
11. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. Cook like My GrandmotherB. My Grandmother’s Sacred Food
C. My Grandmother’s RecipeD. Joy and Pleasure in Cooking
D
Imagine you’re at a party full of strangers. You’re nervous. Who are these
people?
How do you start a conversation?
Fortunately, you’ve got a thing that sends
out energy at tiny chips in everyone’s name tag. The chips send back name, job,
hobbies, and the time available for meeting-whatever. Making new friends becomes
simple.
This hasn’t quite happened in real life. But the world is already experiencing a
revolution using RFID technology.
An RFID tag with a tiny chip can be fixed in a product, under your pet’s skin,
even under your own skin. Passive RFID tags have no energy source-batteries because
they do not need it. The energy comes from the reader, a scanning device, that sends
out energy （for example, radio waves） that starts up the tag immediately.
Such a tag carries information specific to that object, and the data can be
updated. Already, RFID technology is used for recognizing each car or truck on the
road and it might appear in your passport. Doctors can put a tiny chip under the skin
that will help locate and obtain a patient’s medical records. At a nightclub in Paris
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or in New York the same chip gets you into the VIP section and pays for the bill with
the wave of an arm.
Take a step back:
10 or 12 years ago, you would have heard about the coming age of
computing. One example always seemed to surface:
Your refrigerator would know when you
needed to buy more milk. The concept was that computer chips could be put everywhere
and send information in a smart network that would make ordinary life simpler.
RFID tag
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