建平中学高三1031号周考卷.docx

1、建平中学高三1031号周考卷2017年建平中学高三10.31周考练习II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blan

2、ks, use one word that best fits each blank.Should Children Ban Their Parents from Social Media?It might be taken for granted - but no previous generation of children will have had the experience of having their entire childhoods intensively and publicly documented in this way. But the very first peo

3、ple to have had some of their childhood pictures _21_ (post) online are not always happy about their formative years being preserved in digital world. Parents may not realize it, but by posting photos and videos of their children online, they are creating an identity for their children _22_ might no

4、t be welcomed. Lucy is a good example. She said she had asked her dad to de-tag her from “stuff that doesnt necessarily represent _23_ I am now. Thats not something Id want to remember every time I log on to Facebook It isnt the best memories, which is the way youd like to reveal _24_ on social medi

5、a.”Stories about online privacy are often about children and teenagers being warned of the dangers of publishing too much personal information online. But in this case its their parents who are in the spotlight. For some parents, _25_ (safe) option is avoiding social media altogether.Kasia Kurowska

6、from Newcastle is expecting her first child in June and has agreed with her partner Lee to impose a blanket ban _26_ her children are old enough to make their own decisions about social media. But she has two big concerns about her plan. Firstly, it will be difficult _27_ (impose). “When their aunti

7、e comes round and takes a picture, were going to have to be like paparazzi police, saying, please dont put these on Facebook. And secondly, the child might dislike _28_ (not own) an online presence, especially if all of their friends do. But I _29_ (keep) a digital record of them. It just wont have

8、been shared on a platform _30_ the masses.”Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. criticize B. desperately C. establishD. featureE. focusF. gratitudeG. heartfelt H. humanityI.

9、influenceJ. presentK. touchLetters Brought Back to LifeLetters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages. But a TV show, Letters Alive, is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back into the _31_.Letters Alive took its idea from a UK program with a simila

10、r name, Letters Live. Both shows _32_ famous actors and actresses, but there is no gossip, no eye-catching visual eects. Instead, its just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.But these are not just any letters. They vary greatly in time and subjects. There is, for example, a p

11、assionate letter that famous painter Huang Yongyu wrote to playwright Cao Yu 30 years ago to _33_ his lack of creativity. There is also a(n) _34_ note from Spring and Autumn Period written by two ordinary young soldiers to their elder brother to report their lives in the war zone.Compared to publish

12、ed texts, letters also come with a personal _35_.One example from Letters Live was a note of _36_ from the mother of a dying child to JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. It read: “Mrs Rowling, cancer threatened to take everything from my daughter, and your books turned out to be the castle

13、 we so _37_ needed to hide in.”According to Guan Zhengwen, the director of Letters Alive, it is this kind of _38_ behind every letter that strikes a harmony with the audience. “Its a thing of the past that entertainment shows _39_ themselves only with pretty faces,” Guan told Sohu News. “Entertainme

14、nt industry is starting to switch to a(n) _40_ on wisdom and intelligence.”III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Being Bigger

15、isnt Necessarily Considered BetterThe firm, which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age: that of smaller start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announcedHPs decision to separate its computer and printer businessfrom its corporate hardware and services operations, the company had grow

16、n into a clumsy _41_. Its fortunes started to _42_ with a series of expensive and much criticized purchases. By 2012 it had lost its position as the worlds leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo. The dramatic _43_ was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing, respondi

17、ng to shareholder demands for more aggresive_44_. “I would go from laser jet printing to our big enterprise services contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations. These two things are not like each other. So the ability to focus and engage with customer

18、s on a(n) _45_ set of objectives and business outcomes. I can already see the difference.” Ms Whitmann, who now heads the new spin-off, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) selling servers and services, says the change has already _46_ her performance. “One big change is it _47_ each of the divisions to

19、 pursue the strategy that is right for them. _48_ , there is no way printer and PC companyHP Incs decision last year to buy Samsungs printing business for $1bnwould have happened when it was part of the larger firm. So its that ability to drive your own program, not _49_ by other businesses that don

20、t have the same characteristics.” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that shes _50_ HPE further, spinning off both its business services division and its software business into separate companies last year.Her assumption that bigger doesnt always mean better seems _51_. After all, a

21、larger company should find it easier to dominate the market it operates in. But the rapid rise of much smaller start-ups, competing and often overtaking these established powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that _52_ equals success is being challenged. _53_ in 2014, eBay carved PayPal, the

22、electronic payments arm it bought in 2001, off from the main online sale business.Box, a cloud storage company, is another case in point. Founder Aaron Levie says “Whether Uber, Airbnb, those same lessons _54_, which is if you can build something thats cheaper, faster and more scalable and delivers

23、a far better customer experience than what the traditional sellers were able to do, then you can be extremely _55_.”41. A. appearance B. construction C. giant D. possession42. A. decline B. increase C. stay D. vary43. A. adventure B. combination C. development D. split44. A. behavior B. growth C. ma

24、rkets D. policies45. A. ambitious B. complex C. narrow D. overall46. A. delivered B. improved C. measured D. standardized47. A. allows B. employs C. reminds D. threatens48. A. All in all B. For example C. On the contrary D. Whats more49. A. held back B. kept on C. looked over D. taken down50. A. dis

25、solved B. expanded C. operated D. shrunk51. A. fundamental B. reasonable C. surprising D. widespread 52. A. diligence B. discipline C. profit D. size53. A. Comparatively B. Generally C. Similarly D. Unexpectedly54. A. apply B. fail C. hide D. increase55. A. friendly B. miserable C. motivated D. trou

26、blesomeSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)B

27、orn in 1823 in Wales, Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of modest means, but he had a passion for nature and he chose to follow it. He started out collecting insects as a hobby, but eventually his longing for adventure led him to explore the world.Luckily for Wallace, Victorian Britain was discovering

28、 an interest in weird and wonderful insects, so the demand from museums and private collections for these beasts was growing. Wallace was able to make a living doing what he loved: collecting beetles and other insects.But his first trip of exploring the world ended in disaster. Wallace proceeded to

29、the Amazon in South America. Its giant forests promised a wealth of new species, sure to put him on the scientific map. The trip took 6 weeks and involved every mode of transport in existence at the time. After four years Wallace set off for home, but his boat caught fire in the middle of the Atlant

30、ic. Everyone survived, but Wallace had to watch in despair as his samples went up in flames including live animals he was bringing home that were trying to jump free of the flames. But he did not let it stop him.In 1854, Wallace set off on another adventure, this time to the Malay Archipelago. Walla

31、ce found himself humbled by the new and exciting things he saw. He later recalled: “As I lie listening to these interesting sounds, I think how many besides myself have longed to see with their own eyes the many wonderful and beautiful things which I am daily encountering.”In 1858, Wallace wrote wha

32、t became known as the “Ternate essay”: a piece of writing that was to change our understanding of life forever. In his essay, Wallace argued that a species would only turn into another species if it was struggling for existence. Henry W. Bates was one of many scientists delighted by the idea of evolution by natur