湖南省郴州市届高三第三次教学质量监测英语2.docx

1、湖南省郴州市届高三第三次教学质量监测英语2湖南省郴州市2014届高三第三次教学质量监测英语2 高考英语 2014-04-02 201440 CA recent survey of teachers found that an unhealthy passion with celebrity（名人）culture is having a negative impact on British students studies and it discovered that celebrity couple, the Beckhams, are the favorites among most stu

2、dents. Many students are ignoring building their own careers to seek a chance at fame instead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers （ATL） survey found.Almost two-thirds of teachers said sports stars were the type of celebrity many pupils wanted to follow while more than half of students wanted

3、to be pop stars.The survey said the celebrities that students aspired to mostly were David and Victoria Beckham who live in Los Angeles now. Soccer player Beckham is on the top of the survey while in second place, with almost a third of the surveys votes, was his 33-year-old pop star wife.Almost hal

4、f of the 300 teachers surveyed said pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing “unsuitably”.“We are not surprised about the influence of celebrity culture in schools it reflects the current media passion with celebrities and the effect o

5、f celebrity culture on society as a whole,” ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said in a statement.“Celebrities can have a positive effect on pupils. They can raise pupils aspirations and desires for the future. However, celebrity culture can spread the idea that celebrity status is the greatest ach

6、ievement and reinforce the belief that other career choices are not as valuable,” said one primary school teacher. “Too many of the pupils believe that school success is unnecessary, because they will be able to get fame and fortune quite easily through a reality TV show.”65According to the survey,

7、Victoria Beckham _.Ais a pop star most students admireBgoes in the second place of the celebrities admiredCwon two-thirds of the votesDlives in New York now66Why does the author mention that pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing “un

8、suitably”?AThe pupils think it interesting to pretend to be the celebrities.BThe behavior or the dress of celebrities can be followed as examples.CThe author wants to show the negative influence these celebrities had on the students.DThe author just wants to show being pop stars is very valuable to

9、the students.67What is NOT TRUE according to the story?ACelebrities cant have positive impact on the students.BBeckham and Victoria are husband and wife.CThe so-called celebrity culture does harm to the pupils ideas about achievement.DMany students believe that school success is unnecessary.68The be

10、st title of the story is _.ASports Star David Beckham BSurvey of Students about CelebritiesCHarmful Effect of Celebrities on StudentsDBetter to Be Pop Stars than Sports StarsDWhere is that noise coming from? Not sure? Try living with your eyes closed for a few years.Blind people are better at locati

11、ng sounds than people who can see, a new study says, without the benefits of vision the ears seem to work much better.Previous studies have shown that blind people are better than others at reaching out and touching the sources of sounds that are close by. Researchers from the University of Montreal

12、 wanted to see if blind people were also better at locating sounds that are far away.Twenty-three blind people participated in the study. All had been sightless for at least 20 years. Fourteen of them had lost their vision before age 11. The rest went blind after age 16. The experiment also included

13、 2014 people who could see but were wearing blind-folds.In one task, volunteers had to pick the direction of a sound coming from about 3 metres away. When the sound was in front of them or slightly off center in front, both groups performed equally well.When sounds came from the side or the back, ho

14、wever, the blind group performed much better than the blindfolded group. The participants who had been blind since childhood did slightly better than those who lost their sight later.Recognizing the locations of distant sounds can be a matter of life-or-death for blind people, say the researchers. C

15、rossing the street, for instance, is much harder when you cant see the cars coming.Still, the researchers were surprised by how well the blind participants did, especially those who went blind after age 16. In another experiment, the scientists also found that parts of the brain that normally deal w

16、ith visual information became active in locating sound in the people who were blind by age 11. These brain parts didnt show sound-location activity in the other group of blind people or in the sighted people. The scientists now want to learn more about the working of brains of “late-onset”blind peop

17、le.69The recent study shows blind people are better at telling _.Athe sources of loud sounds Bthe locations of distant soundsCthe direction of sharp sounds Dthe distance of a sound in front of them70Which would be a proper title for the passage?AA Research on Blind People BWhere Is That Noise Coming

18、 from?CHearing Better in the Dark DWhat if Living without Your Eyes?71Which of the following matches the passage?AWhether to be able to locate the sounds can be of vital importance for the blind.BAll the volunteers in the experiment are sightless.CAll the participants did equally well when picking s

19、ounds from whatever direction.DThe later people become blind, the better they can perform in telling the direction of sounds.72What do we know about that parts of brain dealing with visual information are active in locating sounds?AThis happens in almost all the testers.BThis only occurs in the peop

20、le who were blind after age 16.CIt remains nothing new to the scientists any more.DIt remains a mystery why it is so.第二节 简答题（共3 小题，每小题2 分，满分6 分）阅读下面短文，根据第73 至75 小题的具体求，简单回答问题。To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking The box has to be taken out of the paper bag in w

21、hich it arrived, the cellophane（玻璃纸）wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries（华贵）. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that

22、 is not done up in beautiful wrapping.The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping results in much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessar

23、y, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up rare energy and resources and messing up the environment.Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies（牛奶场）, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being

24、threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shop,

25、a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers（厂商）who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.It is obvious that more research is needed into the recovery and reuse of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be

26、used just once, and make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it wisely. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using rare resources for what is, after all, a relati

27、vely unimportant function.73Why is packaging important to manufacturers? （回答词数不超过8 个）_74What does the alternative tend to be to replace the use of dairies glass and paper containers? （回答词数不超过6 个）_75Whats the suggestion of some environmentalists? （回答词数不超过7 个）_第四部分 书面表达（共两节，满分35 分）第一节 填空（共2014 小题，每小题1

28、 分，满分2014 分）阅读短文，根据所读内容在文后7685 的空格里填上适当的单词或短语，并将答案转写到答题卡上。注意院每空不超过3 个单词。Why must we pay taxes? The answer is that the government needs money for many things, for example to pay its army, to build public facilities and to buy goods from abroad, and only the people of the country can supply the money.

29、One of the most important taxes is income tax which a person pays according to the amount of his income. Whether he is a merchant, a doctor, a lawyer, a shopkeeper, a miner, or anything else, he must pay tax if his income is more than a certain amount. This is called a “direct”tax, because it is pai

30、d in money direct to the government.Another tax is paid on goods such as watches, jewelry, tobacco, wine, etc. When they are brought into a country, such a tax is paid as part of the price of these goods if they are later sold in shops. We call it “indirect”tax, because it is paid indirectly through

31、 the shopkeeper.People usually complain about having to pay taxes, but they forget that the money is spent on things that they and their families need. We need policemen to catch thieves, and they must be paid what they earn; children need education and there must be schools and teachers; we want our streets to be kept clean, and the wages of men who do this kind of work have to be paid. Above all, the country must always be ready to defend itself against attacking enemies, and we cannot have an army without paying for it.