惠州市惠东高级中学届高三上学期期中考试英语Word格式文档下载.docx

1、Rain beat against the window, matching my mood. I should have known that my new job at the hospital was too good to be true. Throughout the day, rumors （传言） warned that the newest employee from each department would be laid off. I was the newest one in the training department. My boss appeared. “You

2、 probably know were cutting back,” he said. “Administration wants us to offer outplacement classes to help those employees find other jobs, showing them how to act in an interview, for example.” “Fine,” I answered unwillingly, not knowing what else to say.I decided to go home early that day. In the

3、hall, I met the lady who brought us cookies every Friday. She was a little woman with gray hair. Only her head and the top of her green apron were visible over the cart （小车） loaded with cleaning supplies. At least she had a job! At the final meeting, laid-off workers formed a line at the door. A col

4、league whispered, “I cant believe our Cookie Lady is being laid off. Well miss her as much as well miss her cookies.” When the colleague spoke to her in Spanish, I knew my classes would be useless for her and I realized how much better off was than this poor woman.I decided to do something for her.

5、I wrote to a newspaper expressing how I felt about the unselfishness of the Cookie Lady who needed a job. A few days later, my article appeared in the newspaper and the Cookie Lady was allowed to stay in her position. On the same day, I received a letter, which seemed so unlikely that I read it twic

6、e. “An editor of a local magazine likes your piece and wants you to call her next time youre looking for work ”21. How did the author feel on that rainy day?A. Nervous. B. Excited. C. Awkward. D. Proud.22. What was the author asked to do?A. Take care of patients. B. Leave earlier that day.C. Resign

7、from the hospital. D. Help the laid-off workers.23. How did the author help the Cookie Lady?A. He offered her a high-paid job. B. He gave her advice on job hunting.C. He made her story known to others. D. He taught her how to pass an interview.24. What does the story tell us?A. Good deeds have their

8、 rewards.B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.C. Little people can make a big difference.D. Love brings more joy to people than work does.BAt your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.Among English speakers, chances are that it will be a second or two

9、 at most. But while this pattern may be universal, our awareness of silence differs dramatically across cultures.What one culture considers a confusing or awkward pause may be seen by others as a valuable moment of reflection and sign of respect for what the last speaker has said. Research in Dutch

10、and also in English found that when a silence in conversation stretches to four seconds, people start to feel uneasy. In contrast, a separate study of business meetings found that Japanese people are happy with silences of 8.2 seconds nearly twice as long as in Americans meetings. In Japan, it is re

11、cognized that the best communication is when you dont speak at all. Its already a failure to understand each other by speaking because youre repairing that failure by using words. In the US, it may originate from the history of colonial （殖民地） America as a crossroads of many different races. When you

12、 have a complex of difference, its hard to establish common understanding unless you talk and theres understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engaged to establish a common life. This applies also to some extent to London. In contrast, when theres more homogeneity, perhaps its easi

13、er for some kinds of silence to appear. For example, among your closest friends and family its easier to sit in silence than with people youre less well acquainted with.25. Which of the following people might have the longest silence in conversation? A. The Dutch. B. Americans. C. The English. D. Th

14、e Japanese.26. What might the Japanese agree with in a conversation? A. Speaking more gives the upper hand. B. Speak out what you have in your mind. C. Great minds think alike without words. D. The shorter talking silence, the better.27. What can we learn from the text? A. A four second silence in c

15、onversation is universal. B. Its hard for Americans to reach a common agreement. C. English speakers are more talkative than Japanese speakers. D. The closer we and our family are, the easier the silence appears.28. What does the underlined word “homogeneity” in the last paragraph mean? A. Similarit

16、y. B. Contradiction. C. Diversity. D. Misunderstanding.C Next month, Im traveling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingala one of the local languages to have a conversation. I wasnt sure how I was going to manage this until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabular

17、y Im going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the app Im using. It feels just like a game.“People often stop learning things because they feel theyre not making progress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “Were trying to create a form of

18、learning experience that is fun and is something youd want to do instead of watching TV.”Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” which you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you practice the words, you “water your plants”. When the app believes that you have really remembered

19、a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on （登录），the app sends you emails that remind you to “water your plants”.The app uses two principles about learning. The first is that people remember things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates

20、words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized motele, the Lingala word for “engine”, using a mem I created I imagined an old engine in a motel （汽车旅馆） room.The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them againla

21、ter, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because its the kind of app you only use for five or ten minutes a day.Ive learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this wont make me a fluent speaker, but I hope Ill be able to do more than just smile when I meet pe

22、ople in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my Vocabulary!29. What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise?A. Create memorable experiences.B. Make progress with hard work.C. Master languages through games.D. Combine study with entertainment.30. What do the underlined words “water your plants”

23、 in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Learning new words.B. Being a Memrise user.C. Logging on to the app.D. Taking care of your garden.31. How does Memrise work?A. By linking different mems together.B. By putting knowledge into practice.C. By offering human translation services.D. By applying an associative

24、memory approach.32. What is the authors attitude towards Memrise?A. Positive. B. Doubtful. C. Uncaring. D. Disapproving.DShopping for and choosing clothes is challenging enough. But imagine if you were unable to use your arms to do anything, or used a wheelchair.The conditions are reality for four p

25、eople who became the “customers” of 15 students at Parsons School of Design at the New School this year. The students spent their spring term creating clothing to fit their customers unique requirements as part of a class run by Open Style Lab, a nonprofit organization whose aim is to design functio

26、nal and fashionable clothing for people with disabilities.“Disability overlaps （关联、一致） with aging and universal design,” said Grace Jun, the director of the program. “We need to see it as part of our life cycle. Its something that we need to not only see from a human rights standpoint but also for i

27、ts economic value.”“Im always looking at me being the problem and the clothing as being OK,” said Kieran Kern, who gets around in a wheelchair. When Ms. Kern approached Open Style Lab, she was looking for a coat that would be easy to put on with the limitations of a weaker body. Her team came up wit

28、h a design with a circular rod （杆） that runs through the collar and allows Ms. Kern to swing the coat across her back with one hand.“The idea of having a coat that sees the parts that make me as just parts and not as a problem that I need to solve was really liberating in an identity sense,” Ms. Ker

29、n said. “Because generally, when you have a different body, you dont really see yourself.”“I think the challenges the students faced throughout the course had a lot to do with the exchange of ideas,” Ms. Jun said. “They were able to understand that no two people with a disability are alike. Being ab

30、le to design uniquely means you have to have a collaborative （合作） process. Were designing with each other, not for.”33. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Aging. B. Disability. C. Design. D. The program.34. What did the students find challenging according to Ms. Jun?A. Cre

31、ativity in fashion design. B. Interpersonal communication.C. Making clothing part of a wearer.D. Meeting the needs of the disabled.35. What would be the best title for the text?A. Open Style Lab B. A new fashion industryC. Disability is no longer a problem D. Designs that do more than meet the eye第二

32、节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。Spreading smiles at BirchwoodWhen Ava McCarver was in kindergarten, her class visited a nursing home （疗养院）. Ava learned that many of the residents （住户） there receive few visitors. 36 “I asked my mom if I could visit them,” she says. Soon, Ava and her mom bec