精选高三英语上学期周练试题1230高补班.docx

1、精选高三英语上学期周练试题1230高补班河北定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高四英语周练试题（13）一、单项选择题 Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool child. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.The two-year study co

2、mpared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.Shayne Piasta, an assistant professor of

3、teaching and learning at Ohio State University, was an author of the study. She says most preschool teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read story-books in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the pri

4、nted text. “If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.” But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.More than 300 children aged four and five were observed in c

5、lassrooms. They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program called Project STAR Sit Together and Read. The project is based in Ohio State. It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to preschoo

6、l children in their classrooms.There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger. They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk a

7、bout the organization of the print- for instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.1What do we know about the ways preschool children are usually taught?A. Preference is given to the shape of the letters and the organization of the print.B. More attention is paid to the picture

8、, with words and letters being ignored.C. The focus of the teaching is on bringing them up to be good readers.D. Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.2Shayne Piasta suggested that preschool teachers should _.A. read storybooks regularly in class.B. learn to manage their class wellC.

9、 often discuss the printed words and lettersD. search for a better method of reading3The children who joined in Project STAR were _.A. very poor in their readingB. mostly cleverer than othersC. especially good at language skillsD. worried about reading problems4Which of the following is TRUE about t

10、he study on language skills of preschool children?A. Many teachers want to change their way of teaching preschool children.B. Attention of the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.C. Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.D. Project STAR

11、aims to research into the results of reading books to preschool children in the classroom.5The last paragraph mainly tells us _.A. why we should discuss the meaning of the print B. the shape of the letter is the focus of teachingC. how we can teach children about printD. English words are usually wr

12、itten from left to right “Selfie” may have been named Oxford Dictionarys word of 2013. In effect，so widely known has the selfie become that in the past 12 months，its frequency in the English language has increased by 17000 percent， said Oxford dictionaries. However，its popularity has just earned it

13、another honour-being voted the most annoying and overused term of the past 12 months. But Id like to offer that maybe it isnt so bad.According to the Oxford online dictionary, selfie is a photo that one takes of oneself， often from a smart phone， and send them to a social media website. Women and me

14、n alike decorate their Facebook and Twitter accounts with these pictures， sometimes with exaggerated facial expressions，such as large smiles or puckered lips（噘嘴）.Lets think about it. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time they do， and they only end up posting one or two of those. They pick the one

15、 that they feel makes them look the best. Isnt that beautiful？ In that one picture，somebody has given himself or herself confidence. Self-image is vital. In todays society，we are so crazy about being perfect. But perhaps， with that one selfie，we feel as if we fit that need. We feel handsome，beautifu

16、l，confident，smart，happy，and content. For that moment，everything bad or terrible that has ever happened to us seemed to have been erased，for that smile or that pucker is what gives us the determination to love ourselves.A spoken-word poem I saw lately set me thinking：If I ask you what you love，the an

17、swers will most likely roll of your tongue. You love to read. You love to write. You love birds，musicyour mom，your brother，your sister，your daughter，your best friend，your dog. How long do you think you could go on and on before you said，“I love myself.”？The poem hit me like a ton of bricks. Ive stru

18、ggled with confidence all of my life. And I still do. And in no way am I saying that taking a selfie is a gateway to that confidence. However，the selfie does deserve some credit for allowing individuals to express themselves. Just as Pamela Rutledge put it，“There are many more photographs available

19、now of real people than models.”6According to the writer, we live in a society where _.A. selfie leads to successB. a good image decides ones statusC. ones poor performance can be erasedD. being perfect is highly valued7The spoken-word poem mentioned in the 4th paragraph implies _.A. our pleasure to

20、 enjoy beautyB. our need to love people around usC. our tendency to ignore ourselvesD. our real love to share with others8What does the underlined word “credit” in the last paragraph mean?A. praise B. grade C. trust D. fame9In the writers opinion, selfie _.A. brings about peoples sense of confidence

21、B. is merely popular among teenagersC. tells the true meaning of lifeD. is an annoying phenomenon on the Internet Good health is the most valuable thing in the world. When youve got it, you never think about it. When you havent got it, you think about it all the time. Our biggest enemies are not ter

22、rible diseases and so on. We are our own biggest enemies because we sometimes destroy our own good health. Some of us eat too much, drink too much and smoke too much. And though our reason tells us we should control ourselves, we find it difficult. The fact is that most human beings need stimulation

23、 (刺激). Who doesnt enjoy a drink after a busy day? Only a smoker knows the pleasure of a cigarette with a cup of coffee.The danger is when these innocent pleasures run our lives and so destroy our health. When you find yourself eating between meals or eating too much rich food, when you can only keep

24、 yourself going by taking frequent (频繁的) drinks or by smoking one cigarette after another, then its time to stop and think what you might be doing to yourself. The funny thing is that when we dont control ourselves, simple pleasures are no longer simple pleasures.All right, I know what youre thinkin

25、g. Youre probably saying, “Its easy to say, but I cant help myself. I need that extra bit of food, that extra drink, that extra cigarette. Life has so many pleasures that I cant do without them.” But Im saying you can help yourself. Not only that, you must help yourself. Because if you dont help you

26、rself, no one else can. So be your own best friend.10The underlined word “innocent”(in Paragraph 2) means _.A. not having done something wrongB. exciting or cheeringC. not having much experience D. not expected to cause harm11This passage is mainly about _.A. terrible diseases and so onB. enjoying p

27、leasures after a busy dayC. the difficulty of controlling ourselvesD. the danger of too much drinking, smoking and eating12“I cant help myself” means _.A. I cant do it myselfB. I must ask someone to helpC. I cant control myselfD. Do help me, please WHEN you buy cooking oil in the supermarket, you ma

28、y notice that some brands are labeled as “GM (genetically modified)-free”. So, what is genetic modification? Are GM foods safe?These questions have been put back into the spotlight recently. On Nov 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US announced that it had approved the AquAdvantage s

29、almon (三文鱼) to go on the market, making it the first genetically modified animal to be approved as food anywhere in the world.GM foods are plants or animals that have been given a gene from another plant or animal to make them stronger in some way. The AquAdvantage salmon contains a gene from anothe

30、r type of salmon that makes it grow faster.Although the FDA has said “food from the fish is safe to eat”, some believe that scientists cant completely understand the potential health risks of GM foods, simply because theyre so new. Others worry that the fish could escape into the wild and cause ecol

31、ogical (生态的) problems.GM crops have experienced the same controversy, even though GM technology cuts down on the use of pesticides (杀虫剂) on crops and increases yields.While GM animals are new, GM crops have already appeared on our plates. A total of 28 countries in the world including the US, Brazil

32、 and India planted 181.5 million hectares (1.815 million km2) of GM crops in 2014, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications. In China, we grow GM cotton and papaya (木瓜) and import GM soybeans, corn, rape (油菜), cotton and beets (甜菜) from abroad.Due to safety worries, many countries have regulations for producing and selling GM food.In European Union coun