2015年高三英语热身训练题
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一．单项填空
1. In 2014, many countries adjusted their visa application process by speeding it up, and reducing the documentation________. A. to require B. requiring C. to be required D. required 2. —I'd like to go camping with you this weekend, but I don't have a sleeping bag. —No problem. You can count on me to get ________ for you. A. those B. ones C. that D. one
3. A man may usually be known by the books he reads ________ by the company he keeps. A. rather than B. as well as C. or rather D. other than 4. —The guy standing at the bar is so handsome. Any idea who he is? —He is the guy I ________ you about. A. was telling B. had told C. would tell D. am telling 5. Don’t come and see me today—I’d rather you ________ tomorrow. A. come B. will come C. came D. would come
6. It was about half past midnight ________ he arrived, after visiting other places, but dozens of journalists were still waiting in the cold. A. that B. before C. until D. when
7. If through the negligence of a motor vehicle driver on the road you suffer bodily injury, you are entitled to claim _____. A. comparision B. compromise C. compensation D. communication 8. — I heard that Mr. Yang was born in a ________ academic family. —No wonder he has achieved a lot in this field. A. rigid B. splendid C. mature D. distinguished 9. —There are people in the world who ________ do not know how to boil water. —No way. A. literally B. technically C. seriously D. naturally 10. —Life is so hard these days!
—________! Things are not so bad as they seem. A. Drop it B. Cheer up C. Save it D. Go ahead 二．完形填空
I believe in the ingredients of love and their combined power.
We 11 Luke four years ago. The people from the orphanage dropped him off at our hotel room without even saying 12 . He was nearly six years old，only 28 pounds and his face was crisscrossed with scars. 13 , he was terrified. “What are his favorite things?” I yelled. “Noodles,” they replied as the elevator door shut.
Luke kicked and screamed. His cries were anguished, animal-like. He had 14 seen a mirror and tried to escape by running 15 one. I wound my arms around him so he could not hit or kick. After an hour and a half he 16 fell asleep, exhausted. I called room service. They delivered every 17 dish on the menu. Luke woke up, looked at me and started 18 again. I handed him chopsticks, and pointed at the food. He stopped crying and started to
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eat. He ate until I was sure he would be 19 . That night we went for a walk. Delighted at the moon, he pantomimed (打手势), “What is it？” I said, “The moon, it’s the moon.” He reached up and tried to 20 it. He cried again when I tried to give him a 21 until I started to play with the water. By the end of his bath the room was soaked and he was giggling. We read the book One Yellow Lion. He 22 looking at the colorful pictures and turning the 23 . By the end of the night he was saying, “one yellow lion.”
The next day we met orphanage officials to do paperwork. Luke was on my lap as they filed into the room. He looked at them and 24 my arms tightly around his waist.
He was a sad, shy boy for a long time 25 those first days. He cried easily. He hid food in his pillowcase and foraged (翻寻) in garbage cans. I wondered then if he would ever 26 the wounds of neglect that the orphanage had beaten into him.
It has been four years. Luke is a smart, funny, happy fourth-grader. He is 27 with charm and is a natural athlete. His teachers say he is well behaved and works very hard. Our neighbor says she has never seen a 28 kid.
When I think back，I am amazed at what 29 this abused，terrified little creature. It was not therapy, counselors or medications. It was love: just simple, plain, easy to give. It is comprised of compassion, care, 30 , and a leap of faith. I believe in the power of love to transform. 11. A. found B. adopted C. met D. saw 12. A. goodbye B. hello C. sorry D. please 13. A. Probably B. Absolutely C. Actually D. Apparently 14. A. never B. ever C. seldom D. often 15. A. against B. across C. through D. over 16. A. naturally B. finally C. possibly D. obviously 17. A. meat B. fruit C. vegetable D. noodle 18. A. kicking B. screaming C. sobbing D. escaping 19. A. full B. sick C. hungry D. healthy 20. A. touch B. take C. hold D. follow 21. A. book B. model C. toy D. bath 22. A. hated B. avoided C. loved D. preferred 23. A. pages B. cover C. sheets D. book 24. A. held B. caught C. wrapped D. put 25. A. until B. during C. before D. after 26. A. get over B. get rid of C. put away D. put up with 27. A. occupied B. landed C. ensured D. loaded 28. A. stronger B. happier C. weaker D. quieter 29. A. transformed B. improved C. encouraged D. affected 30. A. virtue B. courage C. security D. honesty 三．阅读理解
A
In this passage adapted from a novel, a Canadian woman recalls for her childhood during the 1960s. Originally from China, the family travelled to Irvine, Ontario, Canada, where the parents opened a restaurant, the Dragon Café.
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As a young girl I never really thought about my parents’ lives in Irvine, how small their world must have seemed, never extending beyond the Dragon Café. Every day my parents did the same jobs in the restaurant. I watched the same customers come for meals, for morning coffee, for afternoon soft drinks and French fries. For my parents one day was like the next. They settled into an uneasy and distant relationship with each other. Their love, their tenderness, they gave to me. But my life was changing. I became taller and bigger, my second teeth grew in white and straight. At school I began to learn about my adopted country. I spoke English like a native, without a trace of an accent. I played, though, and dreamed in the language of our Irvine neighbors. A few years later and I would no longer remember a time when I didn't speak their words and read their books. But my father and Uncle Yat still spoke the same halting English. My mother spoke only a few words. I began to translate conversations they had with the customers, switching between English and Chinese. Whenever I stepped outside the restaurant it seemed I was entering a world unknown to my family: school, church, friends' houses, the town beyond Main Street, I found it hard to imagine a year without winter any more, a home other than Irvine.
For my mother, though, home would always be China. In Irvine she lived among strangers, unable to speak their language. Whenever she talked about happy times, they were during her childhood in that distant land. A wistful smile would soften her face as she told me about sleeping and playing with her sister in the attic above her parents' bedroom. She once showed me a piece of jade-green silk cloth that was frayed and worn around the edge. In the center was a white lotus floating in varying shades of blue water, the embroidery(刺绣) so fine that when I held it at arm's length the petals looked real. I had been helping her store away my summer clothes in the brown leather suitcase from Hong Kong when I noticed a piece of shiny material spread it on her lap. “My mother embroidered this herself. I was going to have it made into a cushion, but then my life changed and over here there seems to be no place for lovely things. It's all I have that reminds me of her,” she said. “Maybe, Sun-Jen, one day you will do something with it.” I admired the cloth some more, then she carefully folded it and stored it back in her suitcase.
There was little left from her old life. She said it was so long ago that sometimes it felt as if it had never happened. But she described her life with such clarity and vividness that I knew all those memories lived on inside her. There was so little in this new country that gave her pleasure. The good things she found were related in some way to China: an aria from a Chinese opera, a letter from a relative back home or from Aunt Hai-Lan in Toronto, written in Chinese, a familiar-looking script that I couldn't read and that had nothing to do with my life in Canada. There were times when I felt guilty about my own happiness in Irvine. We had come to Canada because of me, but I was the only one who had found a home.
31. In the opening paragraph, the narrator emphasizes primarily________ about her parents?
A. the dependability B. the diligence C. their routine lives D. their evolving relationship 32. The primary purpose of the second paragraph is to ________.
A. provide insight into the motivations of the narrator's parents and uncle B. emphasize the great transformation the narrator undergoes C. describe the complex interrelationships in the narrator's family D. reveal the narrator’s preference for a cold climate over a warm one
33. According to the narrator, her mother experienced feelings of ________ in Canada.
A. isolation B. confusion C. stability D. security
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34. In paragraph 4 the mother's memories of China are portrayed as ________. A. distant yet enduring B. occasional and vague C. lively but confused D. joyous and hopeful
35. The items mentioned in paragraph 4 had meaning for the mother because they ________. A. introduced her to a world rich in culture B. helped connect the narrator and her mother C. supplied her with familiar associations
D. provided relief from her boring work routine
36. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s development? A. She grows apart from the cultural tradition of her parents.
B. She overcomes the guilt she felt about her new found happiness.
C. She begins to view the inhabitants of Irvine from her mother’s perspective. D. She communicates less and less with her parents.
B
Edgar Allan Poe was and is an abnormal figure among the major American writers of his period. It seems to have been true of Poe that no one could look at him without seeing more than they would wish.
Poe published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, his only novel. Its importance is suggested by the fact that his major work comes after it. The Narrative’s shortcomings are sometimes considered to be the fact that it was written for money, as it surely was, and as almost everything else Poe wrote was also. This is not exceptional among writers anywhere, though in the case of Poe it is often treated as if his having done so were disgraceful. Be that as it may, the Narrative makes its way to a peak as strange and powerful as anything to be found in his greatest tales.
The word that reoccurs most importantly in Poe’s fictions is horror. His stories are often shaped to bring the narrator and the reader to a place where the use of the word is reasonable, where the word and the experience it arouses are explored or by implication defined. Perhaps it is because Poe’s tales test the limits of mental health and good manners that he is both popular and criticized.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has the grand scale of the nineteenth-century voyage of discovery, and a different and larger scale in the suggestions that appear as the voyage goes on. The Narrative is frequently compared with Moby-Dick, published thirteen years later, after Poe’s death. Poe uses whiteness as a highly ambiguous symbol, by no means to be interpreted as purity or holiness or by association with any other positive value. There is blackness, too, in The Narrative, specifically associated with the populations that live in the regions nearest the South Pole. The native people in Tasmania, the island south of Australia, were said by explorers and settlers to be black, and were in any case, with the word “black,” swept into the large category of those related to displacement, exploitation, and worse.
Something very like the occupation of Kentucky by white settlers lies behind the events that bring Pym to the far-sighted conclusion of his narrative. In the early years of the nineteenth century the British began what made the native people of Tasmania die out, who had tried to resist white invasion of their island. Such occupations were, of course, a major business of Europeans, or whites, almost everywhere in the world at the time Poe wrote. They were boasted of as progress.
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