2017届高三英语前黄中学溧阳中学英语12月联考英语试卷

2017届高三第一学期前中溧阳联考

第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节单项选择（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）

21. —It’s reported that a plane carrying a Brazilian professional soccer team crashed in Colombia,

on Nov. 29th , killing all but five on ______ board.

—That’s really horrific! What was supposed to be _____ celebration ended in tragedy.

A. 不填; a

B. 不填; 不填

C. the; a

D.不填; the

22. The man’s innocence was disbelieved until evidence came to light ______ he was trapped by

a group who committed the murder.

A. that

B. which

C. when

D. where

23. ______the local authorities paid more attention to the safety of the coal mines, more than 50 lives ______ in the recent two colliery explosions in northeast China.

A. Should; would not be claimed

B. Had; would not have been claimed

C. Should; would not be cost

D. Had; would not have been cost

24. You can’t expect John and Jane will have different opinions. When one of them makes any proposal, the other will readily __________.

A. compromise

B. approve

C. conflict

D. advocate

25. I took a picture and later rushed home to make sure I _______ that enormous, life-defining moment.

A. have caught

B. caught

C. had caught

D. was catching

26. —Have you heard of Gong Xingfang, who is experienced in taking care of mothers and newborns in Shanghai?

—Yes. It is reported that she can earn 14,000 yuan a month now and whoever wants to hire her has to make an ______ half a year in advance.

A. assessment

B. accommodation

C. appointment

D. occupation

27. —Hang in there! Your parents will soon ________ what you are doing.

—By no means. They are prehistoric creatures.

A. catch on to

B. make up with

C. cause damage to

D. have prejudice against

28. —When did Christina find her purse missing?

—It was not until she arrived at the shopping mall ____she got ready to buy her mother a gift.

A. before

B. that

C. where

D. why

29. —Two of the boys were caught playing computer games in the Internet café. Mr. Chen

criticized them severely in front of the whole class.

—They deserved it. And Mr. Chen was just ________.

A. killing the fatted calf

B. putting the cart before the horse

C. teaching a fish to swim

D. beating the dog before the lion

30. When someone has Aids, the person loses the ability to fight other illnesses. Eventually, so

weak ________ that ________ very ill from usually mild sicknesses.

A. does the body’s immune system become, does the person often become

B. does the body’s immune system become, the person often becomes

C. the body’s immune system becomes, the person often becomes

D. the body’s immune system becomes, does the person often become

31. The admission requirements for Nanjing University where you can _______ your education

to make sure of your bright future are about the same as _______ for many other universities in China.

A. take advantage of, that

B. get the best out of, those

C. make the most of, ones

D. make the best use of, the one

32. What can guarantee the stability of the Chinese economy are the two factors: the increase of

investment abroad and the response of the consumer market, __________ have worked well so far.

A. either of which

B. all of whom

C. both of which

D. each of whom

33. Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a measure of a person’s weight_________ height. A person with

a BMI of twenty-five to twenty-nine is considered overweight.

A. in view of

B. in relation to

C. in terms of

D. in response to

34. ________from the Song Dynasty, the Confucian Temple of Nanjing has now developed into a

famous scenic spot, __________ sightseeing, shopping and tasty foods.

A. Having dated; featured

B. Dating; featuring

C. Dating; having featured

D. Dated; featuring

35. —Tony! You can’t imagine how excited I am to attend the Chinese wedding cerebration.

— Me, too. But I have to remind you that it will be ________, so do dress red.

A. confidential

B. conservative

C. controversial

D. conventional

第二节完型填空（共20题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给个体的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

I remember the exact moment I learned the principle of preparing for luck.

I was on the wrestling team. Now, if there’s one thing I can tell you about any sport, it is tha t wrestling is probably the one that has the least 36 .There are only two people out on the mat, so if you fail, you cannot blame it 37 your teammates or your coach. And guess what? There is no 38 because we do the whole thing indoors, so you ca n’t say, “It was raining.” or “It was snowing.” It makes39 to say wrestling is the sport with the least luck.

On our team were two world champions, 40 one had been world champion five times. We also had five people who were national champions. One of them was a guy 41 the name of John. John had never been 42 in my high school wrestling competition that I could remember, 43 he was a national champion. There was nobody locally who could touch him.

One day, we 44 a match with our biggest opponent. John went out on the mat, and about a minute and 30 seconds into the match he tried to make a particular 45 . He rolled over, and his opponent 46 him halfway through his roll. He was pinned 47 !

The match was over.

I remember on the bus on the way home, one of our teammates tried to 48 John by

saying, “Oh, he just got lucky.” And John said, “That’s so stupid. Th e opportunity presented itself, 49 he exploited it.”

We used to have this big sign in our wrestling room that the coach had 50 there. “Luck is what happens when opportunity51 preparation.”

John’s opponent was prepared to exploit this opportunity. The probability of52 John was not strong, and he knew it. But he paid attention to the 53 opportunity to present itself, and he defeated and pinned a five-time national champion.

In other words, the real 54 is Be Prepared. It’s not just finding the opportunity; you have to be prepared to 55 it.

36. A. luck B. risk C. difficulty D. opportunity

37. A.in B. for C. on D. at

38. A. stress B. injury C. weather D. standard

39. A. difference B. sense C. progress D. way

40. A. of whose B. of whom C. of them D. of which

41. A. on B. for C. in D. by

42. A. hurt B. chosen C. trained D. defeated

43. A. although B. because C. unless D. until

44. A. went for B. waited for C. fought for D. played for

45. A. sign B. step C. task D. move

46. A. fixed B. threw C. caught D. carried

47. A. accidentally B. fortunately C. unfairly D. instantly

48. A. calm B. comfort C. convince D. forgive

49. A. so B. or C. and D. but

50. A. set B. put C. left D. used

51. A. meets B. suits C. gets D. fits

52. A. striking B. beating C. knocking D. controlling

53. A. equal B. exact C. rest D. right

54. A. message B. passage C. decision D. suggestion

55. A. receive B. follow C. seize D. save

第三部分阅读理解（共15题，每小题2分，共30分）

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour

Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour consists of three tour routes: City Tour (red route). Temple Tour (green route) and Pudong Tour (blue route). In addition, Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour also designs night routes to provide a platform for tourists to enjoy the night scenes of this vital city. Every bus is equipped with a guide system which is available in 8 languages: Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish and Russian.

Tour Description

1. Tourists can buy coupons(套票) of tickets for Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour at agencies of Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour.

2. Agencies of Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour will provide tourists with coupons and Big Bus brochures.

3.Tourists can exchange tickets from Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour staff in uniform at stops below:

a. Shanghai Sightseeing Bus ticket with fixed time

b. Free tickets for scenic spots according to the different choices of tourists

Tel: 021-********

Website: www. https://www.wendangku.net/doc/9a14638127.html,

56. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Tourists hoping to visit Pudong should choose the Red Route.

B. Coupons of tickets are available to tourists free of charge.

C. Tourists can exchange tickets at Shanghai Art Museum at 17:00.

D. The 24-hour package ticket can give tourists access to the Bund sightseeing tunnel.

57. To go sightseeing with Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour, a tourist can _________.

A. exchange tickets around the clock

B. enjoy the night scenes of the city

C. get on or off at any time

D. always expect timely arrival of the bus

58. Where will you most probably find the information?

A. In a bus schedule.

B. In a book review.

C. In a curriculum booklet.

D. In a tourist guidebook.

B

While other countries debate whether to fix wind turbines offshore or in distant areas, Denmark is building them right in its capital. Three windmills were recently introduced in a Copenhagen neighborhood, and the city plans to add another 97.

“We’ve made a very ambitious commitment to make Copenhagen CO2-neutral by 2025,” Frank Jensen, the mayor, says. “But going green isn’t only a good thing. It’s a must.” The city’s carbon-neutral plan, passed two years ago, will make C openhagen the world’s first zero-carbon capital.

With wind power making up 33% of Denmark’s energy supply, the country already features plenty of wind turbines. Indeed, among the first sights greeting airborne visitors during the landing at Copenhagen’s Ka strup airport is a chain of sea-based wind towers. By 2020, the windswept country plans to get 50% of its energy from wind power.

Now turbines are moving into the city and these ones will cost less than half the price of those sea-based. Having the energy production closer makes it cheaper, and land-based turbines are the cheapest possible source of energy available today. Fixing them also makes the locals more aware of their energy consumption.

Though considerably less attractive than it was in ancient times, the windmill is enjoying popularity in the 21st century. “Windmills are a symbol of the new and clean Copenhagen,” says resident Susanne Sayers. Meanwhile, fellow Copenhagen citizen Maria Andersen worries about the noise, explaining that she wouldn’t w ant a wind turbine in her neighborhood. While Copenhagen citizens approve of the windmills, they’re less willing to live close to one. The answer, the city has decided, is to sell turbine shares.

Each share represents 1,000 kw hours/year, with the profit tax-free. With a typical Copenhagen household consuming 3,500 kw hours/year, a family buying four shares effectively owns its own renewable energy supply. To date, 500 residents have bought 2,500 shares. Involving the local population was a smart move. “The re are a lot of things you can do close to people if it’s not too big and if there’s a model where locals feel involved and get to share in the profit. Knowing that you, or your neighbors, own a technology creates a very different atmosphere than if a mult inational owned it,” says Vad Mathiesen.

Going green? Yes. Accepted by the population? Yes. Going with centuries-old city architecture? Hardly.

Certainly, the three turbines don’t exactly blight the 18th-century city centre, as they are in a neighborhood 3 km away. According to the mayor’s office, none of the remaining 97 turbines will rise in architecturally sensitive areas. But Sascha Haselmayer, CEO of city creation group Citymart, warns, “With Denmark being a world-leading producer of windmills, there is a risk that the answer to every energy question is windmills.”

“We’ve destroyed mountains and lakes in order to support our lifestyle,” notes Irena Bauman, an architect and professor at Sheffield University. “Wind turbines are a sign that we’re learning to live with nature. I hope we’ll have them all over the world,” she says. “They may be unpleasant to some, but better-looking ones will come. It’s just that we don’t have time to wait for them!”59. How has the city of Copenhagen persuaded its people to accept the windmills around their homes?

A. By promising them that all their income is free of tax.

B. By designing less noisy windmills to ease their worries.

C. By convincing them that land-based turbines are much cheaper.

D. By offering them the chance to get the profit the windmills bring.

60. Sascha Haselmayer’s attitude to building windmills can best be described as ______.

A. disapproving

B. unconcerned

C. cautious

D. enthusiastic

61. Which of the following words would Irena Bauman most probably agree with?

A. “It’s not what wind turbines look like but how we live that really matters at present.”

B. “We should sell more wind turbines to other countries to make us one of the richest.”

C. “We should devote more time to developing the wind turbines that go with the city.”

D. “It benefits us more to fit wind turbines in cities than in mountain areas or by lakes.”

C

“YOUNG people ought not to be idle.It is very bad for them,” said Margaret Thatcher in 1984. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them in the state of neglect.

Yet more young people are idle than ever. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (经合组织)figures suggest that 26m 15-to 24-year-olds in developed

countries are not in employment. The International Labour Organization reports that 75m young people globally are looking for a job. World Bank surveys suggest that 262m young people are economically inactive. Depending on how you measure them, the number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America (311 m)．(m=million) Two factors play a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced demand for labour, and it is easier to put off hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is the fastest in countries with dysfunctional labour markets, such as India and Egypt.

One possible way to settle this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier said than done in a world suffering from debt, and is anyway only a partial answer. The countries where the problem is worst (such as Spain and Egypt) suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This underlines the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and improving education.

Youth unemployment is often at its worst in countries with rigid labour markets. High taxes on hiring，strict rules about firing，high minimum wages: all these help force young people to the street corner. South Africa has some of the highest unemployment south of the Sahara, in part because it has powerful trade unions and rigid rules about hiring and firing. Many countries with high youth unemployment rate have high minimum wages and heavy taxes on labour. India has around 200 laws on work and pay.

Deregulating (解除管制) labour markets is thus central to settling youth unemployment. But it will not be enough on its own. Britain has a flexible labour market and high youth unemployment. In countries with better records, governments tend to take a more active role in finding jobs for those who are struggling. Germany, which has the second lowest level of youth unemployment in the rich world, pays a proportion of the wages of the long-term unemployed for the first two years. The Nordic countries provide young people with “personalised plans” to get them into employment or training.

Across the OECD，people who left school at the earliest opportunity are twice as likely to be unemployed as university graduates. But it is unwise to conclude that governments should simply continue with the established policy of increasing the number of people who graduate from university. In both Britain and the United States many people with expensive liberal-arts degrees are finding it impossible to get decent jobs. In North Africa university graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed as non-graduates.

What matters is not just number of years of education people get，but its content. This means expanding the study of science and technology and closing the gap between the world of education and the world of work —for example by upgrading vocational education and by establishing closer relations between companies and schools. Germany's long-established system of vocational schooling and apprenticeships(学徒制) does just that. Other countries are following suit: Singapore has boosted technical colleges, and Britain is expanding apprenticeships and trying to improve technical education.

The problem of youth unemployment has been getting worse for several years. But there are at last some reasons for hope. Governments are trying to address the mismatch between education and the labour market. Companies are beginning to take more responsibility for investing in the young. The world has a real chance of introducing an education－and－training revolution worthy of the scale of the problem.

62. In Paragraph 2, the author highlighted the high youth unemployment rate by _____.

A. citing quotations and showing figures

B. showing figures and making a comparison

C. giving examples and showing figures

D. making a comparison and giving examples

63. According to the passage, which of the following statements may the author approve of?

A. Firms fire more older workers than young people in the economic slowdown.

B. As long as the economy grows youth unemployment will soon be settled.

C. Powerful trade unions and high minimum wages make for low unemployment.

D. A flexible labour market is not enough to raise youth employment.

64. In Paragraph 6, the author mentioned the German government's effort in order to show ____.

A. deregulating labour markets is the key to settling youth unemployment

B. a flexible labour market can not guarantee low unemployment

C. governments need to get involved in lowering youth unemployment

D. high minimum wages account for high youth unemployment

65. The passage mainly talks about _____.

A. factors contributing to low youth unemployment

B. possible ways to settle global youth unemployment

C. the need for labour market revolution

D. the relations between education and employment

D

I began reading words when I was eight months old. By the time I was two, I had read Charlotte’s Web. My parents thought it was odd, but because I didn’t have any siblings for them to compare me with, they didn’t reali ze just how odd.

At pre-school in Northport, New York, I quickly overtook everyone. At seven, I was going into high school for my classes but still doing all my social activities with kids my age. But when I was nine, the public school administration said that I had to go to high school full-time with 16-year-olds. I didn’t want to, because some kids there were always teasing me -it was pretty horrible when they called me a know-it-all and tried to grab my homework.

My parents tried to find me another school but, in the end, because I was so advanced, the only place that was on the same level as me was State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The admissions people said that if I thought I could manage I could have a place, as long as my mother accompanied me to classes.

So, aged 10, I started an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics. I was frightened on my first day, but I was also excited that I was going to attend my first real physics class. Most of

the teachers were nice but one or two didn’t like me. One professor said that just because I did as well as the other, male, students, it didn’t mean I was as good as them. But the students were supportive and my parents always made sure that I had a group of friends of my own age; they didn’t want me to be a social misfit.

I graduated summa cum laude（with the highest honor）when I was 14 —the youngest student ever to do so in the US.

I was a perfectionist; I don’t think I would have settled for less than that. I went on to Drexel University and, at 17, I was awarded a Master’s and continued to study for a Ph.D.

But that was when I grew disillusioned with the science world. I saw bad conduct and realiz ed that some professors weren’t motivated by a love of science. I fell out with the ad viser who was supervising my Ph.D. I charged Drexel University in a civil lawsuit and the case has now gone into private, binding arbitration.

I believe my adviser applied for grants and patents using my ideas, and took credit for them. He denies this and has accused me of stealing his work. Even though the university has cleared me of plagiarism it has still refused to award me my Ph.D.

At the time I was fully expecting to receive my Ph.D., I applied for a post teaching advanced technology fusion at Konkuk university in Seoul. When I was appointed, I was just under 19, so I made it into Guinness World Records.

In South Korea, I was treated as a minor celebrity. People stared at me wherever I went on campus, and I was asked to give inspirational talks to teenagers. But I didn’t renew my contract: I’d had a great year, but I wanted to come home.

I still don’t have my PhD and I am angry and disappointed about that. I worked so hard all my life and my research ended up going nowhere.

There’s always hope, but the experience at Drexel has derailed me. If a university gave me a place to complete my studies, I would take it. But I am someone who is suing her former university, so a lot of colleges are afraid to touch me.

For now, I’m enrolled in law school and training to be a lawyer. I want to combine legal and science knowledge so that I can protect people’s research rights.

It’s strange being back at school: I’m 21 years old and for the first time in my life, I’m the same age as the other students.

66. The underlined word “siblings” in the first paragraph probably means ______.

A. children

B. friends

C. classmates

D. brothers or sisters

67. When the author attended State University of New York, ______.

A. all the professors liked her

B. she still kept in touch with her friends of her age

C. her mother expected her to make friends with her classmates

D. the students there didn’t think she was as good as them

68. The underlined sentence “But that was when I was disillusioned with the science world”

suggests that the author ______.

A. felt disappointed with what some scientists do

B. grew old enough to be a scientist

C. was treated as a real scientist

D. became motivated by a love of science

69. What probably made it difficult for her to be admitted by another university other than

Drexel?

A. Her GPA.

B. Her performances at Konkuk university in Seoul.

C. Her relationship with Drexel University.

D. She was accused of plagiarism by her supervisor.

70. How does the writer feel when she was writing this passage?

A. proud and frustrated

B. excited and angry

C. calm and satisfied

D. excited and disappointed

2017届高三第一学期前中溧阳联考英语试卷答案

听力

1-5 BACBC 6-10 BACAC 11-15 CBABA 16-20 CCBAB

单选：

21-25 AABBC 26-30 CACDB 31-35 BCBBD

完型

36-40 ACCBB 41-45 DDBAD 46-50 CDBCB 51-55 ABDAC

阅读理解：

56-58 DBD 59-61 DCA 62-65 BDCB 66-70DBACA