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1、高三英语试题高三英语试题考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分 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。AFour books that will inspire you to travel the worldTheres truly nothing like travel when it comes to gaining perspective and exposing yourself to other cultures. To get you in

2、the adventuring mood, we asked Amazon Senior Editor Chris Schlep to help us come up with a list of books that transport readers to another time and place. Below, see his list of four books that will inspire you to travel around the world.ITALY: Beautiful Ruins by Jess WalterThis book by the popular

3、author Jess Walters tells a love story that begins on the Italian Coast in the early 60s and eventually appears on the screen in Hollywood. As the settings shift from Italy to Edinburgh to Los Angeles, you will find yourself longing to go as well. Buy it on Amazon. Price: $28.90SEATTLE: Where Youd G

4、o, Bernadette? by Maria SampleMaria Samples first novel is not exactly a love story to Seattle, but if you read it, you just might want to come here to see if people are really as self-involved as the characters in her book. What really shines through is the strange storytelling and the laughs. Buy

5、it on Amazon. Price: $26.60.ENGLAND: Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelYou cant travel to Thomas Cromwells England without a time machine, but reading Hilary Mantels prize-winning novel is the next best thing. It will make you long to see the ancient buildings and green grass of the English countryside, muc

6、h of which is still there. Buy it on Amazon. Price: $ 25.10NANTUCKET: Heres to Us by Eli HildebrandEli Hildebrand has built a writing career out of writing about her hometown island of Nantucket. Her latest is Heres to Us, which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a great beach read. Buy it on Amazon. Pri

7、ce: $ 30.8021. Whose book has been made into a film according to the text?A. Hilary Mantels. B. Jess Walters. C. Maria Semples. D. Elin Hilderbrands.22. What is the feature of Where Youd Go, Bernadette?A. Its low price. B. Its characters. C. Its storyline and humor. D. Its content about love.23. Wha

8、t does the book Wolf Hall inspire you to do?A. Go to beach. B. Know about the foreign culture.C. Appreciate the English countryside. D. Experience the joy and sadness of the self-involved.BAt 23, my career got going. I was midway through a masters degree and had been hired as a part-time reporter fo

9、r a finance website. I got a great one-month review and my boss asked if I was interested in staying with the company after graduation.However, balancing graduate studies with work was challenging. To deal with it, I checked my real self at my office door. I came in to work, greeted my colleagues an

10、d listened more than I contributed in each morning meeting. The small team I worked with often seemed busy, so rather than giving ideas that might get turned down, I stayed back.After four months, my boss called me into his office. The meeting was going well until he told me that despite the great w

11、ork I had produced, the team had held a meeting and decided, “We dont think its the right fit.”I must have looked confused. “Youre ambitious, intelligent and will be very successful,” my boss said. “But you havent made enough of an effort to join the team. You lost the enthusiasm you showed in your

12、interview. That wont work long term, and if I could give you one piece of advice, it would be to let your guard down. Dont leave before you leave.”I couldnt believe that performing well at my job wasnt enough to keep it. But I knew my boss was right. They knew when they hired me that I had no experi

13、ence in finance reporting, yet they took a chance on me. In meetings I usually contributed last, after I had heard everyone elses suggestions. I did it to show that I was a listener, but also to hide my fears. They had liked the person who walked into the interview, and they didnt respect me when I

14、hid that person from them. I learned the hard way that this isnt the way to achieve your goals.24. The writer was offered a job at the company after graduation because .A. she had a masters degree in finance B. she impressed her boss in her first monthC. she had good experience in finance reporting

15、D. she had expressed great interest in the company25. What did the boss mean by saying “We dont think its the right fit”?A. The writer was not suitable for the job. B. The writer was not intelligent enough for the job.C. The writer didnt get along well with her colleagues. D. The work the writer has

16、 produced had been unsatisfactory.26. During her next four months at the company, the writer _.A. performed well enough to earn the teams respect B. felt it impossible to balance her graduate studies with workC. was a good listener and contributed a lot during meetingsD. was afraid to offer her idea

17、s because of her lack of confidence27. What message does the writer intend to convey in the article?A. Expertise and experience are greatly valued in the workplace.B. We should not shy away from sharing our ideas when we work in a team.C. Its unwise to show too much of themselves when they take part

18、 in teamwork.D. We should first learn to be a good listener in order to be a good communicator.CPhotos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!In 2005, the American artist Richard Princes photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1,248,000.Prince

19、 is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs” a loose term given to everything from thrown away prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a strangers family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believ

20、es “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.Like Schmid, t

21、he editors of several self-published art magazines also defend found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper (雨刷) an angry note intended for someone else: “Whys your car HERE at HER place?” The

22、 note became the starting point for Rothbards addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as poster discovered in our drawer.The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be consider

23、ed as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What was the cowboy in Princes Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? Its anyones guess. In addit

24、ion, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves

25、? Will they mean anything to anyone after weve gone?In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.28. The first paragraph of the passage is used to .A. remind readers of f

26、ound photographs B. advise reader to start a new kind of businessC. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa D. show readers the value of found photographs29. The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to .A. the readers B. the editorsC. the found photographs D. the self-published magazines30. B

27、y asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that .A. memory of the past is very important to people B. found photographs allow people to think freelyC. the back-story of found photographs is puzzling D. the real value of found photographs is questionable31. The au

28、thors attitude towards found photographs can be described as .A. critical B. doubtful C. optimistic D. indifferentDIt turns out that the famous saying “All roads lead to Rome” can help us in many different ways. It seems it can also describe medical treatment.A total of 21 scientists from different

29、countries, including Switzerland, Germany and China, successfully helped two monkeys both with one leg unable to move to walk again. And their idea is that there is more than one way to get to a destination; there is always a detour.To understand what they have done, you first need to know that the

30、reason we are able to move our legs is because our brains send out signals or orders to our legs, through the spinal cord (脊髓). But the two monkeys in the experiment had injuries to their spines, which meant that even though their legs were fine, they were useless because their communication with th

31、e brain had been cut off.Instead of trying to repair the monkeys spinal cords like doctors normally do, scientists thought differently they built a new pathway for the communication to go through.For the study, which was published in the journal Nature on Nov. 9, scientists put electrodes (电极) in th

32、e part of the monkeys brain that controls leg movement. The electrodes can send the signals from the monkeys brain to a computer, which “translates” the signals to orders that legs can “understand”. The orders are then sent to another set of electrodes in the spine, below the injured part. Its like scientists have built an invisible “bridge” to allow the monkeys brain and legs to “talk” to each other again.The technology was