河南省周口中英文学校届高三上学期期中考试英语试.docx

1、河南省周口中英文学校届高三上学期期中考试英语试周口中英文学校2017-2018学年上期高三期中考试英 语 试 题第二部分：阅读理解（每小题分，满分40分） AThe Sahara Festival is a three-day African celebration of the very recent past, which takes place every year either in November or December. It is part military display and part competition. The military display comes fir

2、st. It is very popular with tourists and local people and especially with government leaders. During the opening ceremonies, the government leaders first make speeches. They welcome everybody to the display and hope that everyone will enjoy themselves. Then there is a display of soldiers who march v

3、ery smartly in front of the place where the government leaders sit. Then horsemen from several different countries show off their beautiful clothes and their good riding skills. One after another they come and dancers from all over the Sahara take their turns to show off their wonderful traditional

4、clothes and dances. They are accompanied by men playing drums and beating strong rhythms for the dancers. The highlight of the opening ceremony are the races which take place in the evening. It is the grand finale of the day. Men ride their horses very fast. Some ride with their legs in the air, oth

5、ers ride in pairs on different horses. It is so fast and so wonderful!21. The Sahara Festival is a festival which . A. has a very long history in North AfricaB. is not celebrated on the same dates each yearC. is attended mainly by the people in the SaharaD. is celebrated only by travellers from diff

6、erent countries22. Before the races begin, take part in the activities during the opening ceremonies.A. horsemen, dancers, horses and soldiersB. horsemen, horses, government leaders and dancersC. government leaders, horsemen, dancers and soldiersD. musicians, soldiers, government leaders and soldier

7、s23. The underlined word “finale” in the third paragraph most probably means the of the opening day. A. first part B. middle C. last part D. whole24. This passage mainly tells readers . A. what happens on the opening day of the Sahara FestivalB. how people celebrate during the three-day Sahara Festi

8、valC. what takes place at the closing ceremonies of the Sahara FestivalD. how animals race on the first and the last days of the Sahara FestivalBAs the pace（步速） of life continues to increase , we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through lift, being on the g

9、o from morning till night, it is hard to slow down. But relaxation is completely necessary for a healthy mind and body.Stress is an natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. In fact , it is not the bad thing it is often supposed to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to prov

10、ide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.The amount of stress a person can withstand(忍受) depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such characters are obviously pri

11、me material for managerial responsibilities. Others lose heart at the first signs of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in whatever form, we react both chemically and physically. In fact we make choice between fight or flight and in more primitive days the choice made the difference betwe

12、en life or death. The crises（危机）we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes endangered. Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and h

13、eart disease have established（确定的）links with stress. Since we cannot remove stress from our lives (it would be unwise to do so even if we could), we need to find ways to deal with it.25. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage?A. We can find some ways to avoid stressB. St

14、ress is always harmful to peoples health. C. It is easy to change the habit of keeping oneself busy with work.D. Different people can withstand different amounts of stress26. In the last sentence of the passage, “do so” refers to . A. “expose ourselves to stress” B. “find ways to deal with stress” C

15、. “remove stress from our lives” D. “establish links between diseases and stress”27. According to the author, the right attitude toward stress is . A. to avoid it B. to try to deal with it C. to regard it as a vital motivation D. to find some relaxationCIn the kitchen of my mothers houses there has

16、always been a wooden stand（木架）with a small notepad（记事本）and a hole for a pencil.Im looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look

17、 the same as they always did. Surely it cant be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.“Im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these year.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a shee

18、t of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Cant you afford a pen?”My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly well. Ive always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days.”Immediately I can pic

19、ture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have tak

20、en the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”This storywhich happened before I was bornreminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician.

21、 I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have tra

22、veled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible（看不到的）exhibits at every meal.29Why has the authors mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?ATo leave messages. BTo write down a flash of inspiration CTo note down maths problems. DTo list

23、 her everyday tasks.30. What is the authors original opinion about the wooden stand?A. It has great value for the family.B. It should be passed on to the next generation.C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood.D . It needs to be replaced by a better one 31. The author feels embarrassed for . A

24、. not making good use of time as her mother did.B. giving her mother a lot of trouble.C. blaming her mother wronglyD. not making any breakthrough in her field.32. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A . The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.B. The family members like traveling.C. Th

25、e author had little time to play when young.D. The mother is successful in her career.DEvery hour spent in watching TV, DVDs and videos as an adult reduces life expectancy by almost 22 minutes, a study suggests. And viewing TV for an average of six hours a day can cut short your life by five years.T

26、he research claims that a sedentary(久坐的) lifestyle is as bad for health as smoking and obesity, because of the dangers caused by inactivity and the greater opportunities it offers for unhealthy eating.The academics conducting the study set out to calculate the overall risk to life expectancy from wa

27、tching television. Their research involved more than 11,000 people over the age of 25.Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, they concluded. TV viewing time may be associated with a loss of life, which is similar to other major chronic disease risk factors such as physical inactivity and

28、 obesity.The researchers, from the University of Queensland, used information from the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study, together with population and death rate data. But they said: Although we used Australian data, the effects in other industrialized and developing countries are lik

29、ely to be similar, considering the large amounts of time spent watching TV and similarities in disease patterns. In the United Kingdom, the average amount of time spent watching TV is four hours a day, compared with five hours in the United States. Earlier this year, a separate study suggested the r

30、isk of developing type 2 diabetes(糖尿病) and heart disease, or dying early, rises by as much as 20 percent after just two hours a day in front of the box.Englands Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, said: Physical activity offers huge benefits and these studies back what we already know that a sedent

31、ary lifestyle carries additional risks. We hope these studies will help more people realize that there are many ways to get exercise.32. We can learn from the passage that_ A. whether you watch TV or not has nothing to do with how long you will live B. if an adult watches TV for six hours every day,

32、 he will die five years earlier C. physical inactivity and obesity wont shorten your life D. a sedentary lifestyle offers huge benefits.33. The word it in the second paragraph refers to A. a sedentary lifestyle B. eating C. smoking D. obesity34. What do we know from the last three paragraphs?A. People in the United Kingdom watch TV longer than those in the United States.B. That a sedentary lifestyle carries additional risks isnt supported by ot