高三英语上学期综合试题1.docx

1、高三英语上学期综合试题1山东省荣成市2017届高三英语上学期综合试题1I卷第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分 40 分)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涂黑。A Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your li

2、fe with your eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the worlds 42 million blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries possess most of this knowledge, while developing cou

3、ntries do not. ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the worlds only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught

4、the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation among countries. ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors

5、and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs in China so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center

6、and to provide eye care services to Shanxi Province.ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness. For just US$38,you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training p

7、rogramme for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again.Your money can open their eyes to the world.Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.21.ORRIS aims to help the blind by _.A.teaching medical students B.training doct

8、ors and nursesC.running flying hospitals globally D. setting up non-profit organization22.What does the author try to do in the last paragraph?A.Appeal for donations B.Make an advertisementC. Promote training programs D.Show sympathy for the blind23.What can be the best title for the passage?A.ORRIS

9、 in China B.Fighting BlindnessC.ORRIS Flying Hospital D.Sight-seeing TechniquesBPerhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if youre unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desiresnot that you cannot satis

10、fy your tastes but that you dont have enough tastes.Real riches consist of welldeveloped and hearty capacities(能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They_live_in_too_big_a_house_with_too_many_rooms,_yet_their_house_of_life_is_a_hut.

11、Your house of life ought to be a mansion(豪宅), a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you o

12、nly understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when youre hungry.Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go

13、towards making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.Music like Mozarts and Bachs shouldnt be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when youve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have

14、increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.Whatever rooms

15、 you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.24The author intends to tell us that_Atrue happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair meansBbig houses are peoples most valued possessionsCbig houses can in a sense bring richness of lifeDtrue happiness comes from sp

16、iritual riches25The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that_Ahowever materially rich, they never seem to be satisfiedBhowever materially rich, they remain spiritually poorCthough their house is big, they prefer a simple lifeDthough their house is big, it seems to be a cage2

17、6It can be learned from the passage that _Amore money brings more happinessBart is needed to make your house beautifulCliterature can enrich your spiritual lifeDsports contribute mainly to your physical fitness27What would be the best title for the passage?AHouse of life BSecret of wealthCRest and r

18、efreshment DInterest and enthusiasmC(QQuestion；AAnswer)Situation Q：If someone sits right next to me in an empty movie theatre，is it rude to move?A：Maybe，but nobody will fault you for it.Chances are that the close sitter doesnt realize he disturbs you，so he may miss your annoyance.You undoubtedly are

19、nt the first person hes met who needs enough room.Forgive his bad judgement，move quietly and enjoy the show.Situation Q：If I use the bathroom at a store，do I need to buy something?A：Consider frequency and urgency.Is this a onetime thing or an emergency？If so，you dont have to buy anything，but it woul

20、d be kind if you did.However，if you regularly use the bathroom at this place，then you are a customer，and you should act like one.Situation Q：If someone is talking loudly on the bus，is there a nice way to ask him to keep it down?A：No.Try other means：1)Stare at him until he gets aware of it and quiets

21、 down.2)Lift your finger in a silence motion(动作) and smile.3)Put on earphones and ignore him.Situation Q：If I remember my friends birthday a day late，should I apologize or just wish her a happy birthday like nothing happened?A：This is the reason why the word belated was invented.“Happy belated birth

22、day！” is short for“Well，I know I forgot，but then I remembered.Forgive me and happy birthday.”Situation Q：Can I lie about seeing a text because I was too busy or lazy to respond(回复) to it?A：Dont lie.Receiving a text does not mean you need to respond to it.Why waste a perfectly good lie when the truth

23、 will serve？“Yes，”you can say if ever asked，“I saw it.” No explanation is needed as to why you dont respond.28You will get annoyed in a theatre when _.Aa person is too activeBa person is too rude to youCa person talks too loudlyDa person sits too close to you29How will you quiet someone down in a pu

24、blic place?ABy making fun of him continuously.BBy looking purposefully at him.CBy talking to him directly.DBy pointing angrily at him.30The underlined word “belated” in Situation probably means _.Apredicted BreturnedCcancelled Ddelayed31What is the passage mainly about?AModern ways to mind your mann

25、ers.BDifferent ways to change others manners.CProper manners to offer help to others.DGood manners to talk to people.DMillions of families around the world have been given a helping hand out of poverty by micro-credits. These very small loans, usually less than US$200, have enabled the very poorest

26、people to set up or expand businesses and become self-sufficient.The micro-credit movement started with Professor Muhammad Yunus, who founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, used his own money to set up a bank to benefit the poorest people in Bang

27、ladeshfamilies living on less than US$1 a day. There are now hundreds of organizations around the world following his blueprint to help people escape from poverty.So how does the system work? Local microfinance institutions (MFIs) make contact with families and offer loans, usually to women, to enab

28、le them to start or expand a business. These are very poor people who would not normally be able to get credit, but as no collateral (抵押品) is required they can get micro-credits. They pay back the loan on a weekly basis, over six months to a year.A crucial aspect to the success of the micro-credit s

29、ystem is that receivers get local support. The MFIs educate local communities about ways to improve their lives, and offer practical support as well as collecting weekly loans payments. They encourage people to help each other, so that the whole community can pull itself out of poverty. MFIs may als

30、o help with literacy and health problems.Micro-credits are mainly given to women. Experience has shown that women are more motivated to improve their childrens lives and will spend the money they make on better nutrition and schooling for their children. This may be the first chance theyve had to co

31、ntribute financially to the family, and their status in the home and the local community is raised.The micro-credit system is not charity. The payments are fixed-term loans and interest is charged. The costs of making such small loans, collecting them and giving personal support are high. This is re

32、flected in the interest rates, which range from 15 to 35 percent. Despite this, the repayment rate is very high, between 95 and 98 percent, showing that micro-credit clients really value this opportunity to leave poverty behind.32. Micro-credits are offered to the poorest people around the world in order to _. A. make profits out of the poor B. support poor people out of poverty C. est