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贵阳一中2016届高三第七次月考 英语

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，第I卷第1页至第7页，第II卷第7页至第8页。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。满分120分，考试用时100分钟。

第I卷（选择题，共70分）

注意事项：

1.答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚。

2.每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后再选涂其他答案标号。在试题卷上作答无效。

第一部分：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，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。

A

Chinese food is not a foreign concept to the United States. But in the past, certain recipes have gotten lost in translation.

The latest example is the Chinese smashed cucumber trend that has recently popped up in New York City. Many of Manhattan’s restaurants now offer smashed cucumbers dressed with sauces such as sesame oil with garlic and yogurt.

This isn’t the first time that US chefs have embraced Chinese cooking techniques. Chefs in the US lean on flavors that American taste buds are attracted to, but by evolving the taste in this way, the original Chinese recipe is sometimes ignored.

General Tso’s Chicken(左宗棠鸡), chop suey(炒杂碎) and fortune cookies are among the most popular Chinese dishes in the US. However, “Chinese people don’t crack open fortune cookies after every meal... Most Chinese people don’t even know what chop suey actually is,” Shanghai-based journalist Jamie Fullerton told Business Insider.

“In the 19th century, what we call Chinese food in the US... was a lot of seafood, shark fins, bird’s nests, and a lot of shrimp,” Yong Chen, author of Chop Suey Nation: The Story of Chinese Food in America, told Yahoo Food. “But American diners rejected that.”

Chefs specializing in Chinese cuisine want Americans to try their food. So they changed the ingredients, the cuts of meat and the presentation to suit American palates.

This is a cultural compromise to make consumers happy. At the same time, they are turning the food into something less Chinese and more American.

1. How many ingredients are there in the smashed cucumbers according to the passage?

A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five

2. Which of the following is among the most popular Chinese dishes in the US now?

A. Seafood B. Bird’s nests C. Shark fins D. Fortune cookies

3. What did the chefs do in order to suit American palates?

A. They had to change the cooking method to suit American palates

B. They asked the American consumers’ advice constantly

C. They learned from the American chefs

D. They changed the ingredients, the cuts of meat and the presentation

B

Chinese students’ extremely neat handwritten compositions have aroused a heated debate among Interent users since photos of the compositions and a teacher’s picky remarks were published on Daily Mail Online.

“Can you believe this essay is handwritten?” Daily Mail Online asked

The?website reported on the compositions that looked like they had been machine printed and on the teacher's remarks at Hengshui?High School in North China's Hebei province, one of China's?top 100 high schools. The teacher wrote, “not one stroke (笔画)more, not one stroke less” about some compositions that weren’t neatly written.

The story immediately aroused a heated debate among British Internet users and got 652 comments after it was published on Wednesday. Some British readers were amazed by the neat handwriting and owed China's growing development to this strict teaching method. A reader named Jim said. “This is another example of why China is rising to the top”, and his comment gained 72 supports. But some readers thought the too-picky demand doesn’t make sense in helping students learn better English and suppresses students’ creativity.???

Chinese Internet users also expressed different opinions after English newspapers. A user of China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo posted the story along with its comments on Weibo on Thursday; since then, the post has received 1,479 comments. Sina Weibo user wenjinzetui said, “Beautiful handwriting proves an ability”, echoing an old Chinese saying that the style is the man. However, another Weibo user, honorificabilitus, said, “It's?meaningless to pursue that neat English handwriting, since learning language is for communicating, let alone English students don’t write that neatly.”

There are also many Weibo users showing worry about this too-harsh teaching method, as weibo user li-owl-stop said, “We should reflect the Chinese-style education, and it’s hard to imagine what would happen if all the schools in China adopted the teaching method at Hengshui High School.”

4. What can be inferred from the last sentence in the third paragraph?

A. The students’ handwriting was too bad.

B. The teacher’s teaching method was very strict

C. The teacher was too-picky

D. The compositions were not printed by machine

5. As for the Chinese students’ extremely neat handwriting, the British Internet users ____________.

A. were amazed by it

B. thought it suppressed student’s creativity

C. expressed different views about it

D. thought it meaningless

6. What Sina Weibo user wenjinzetui said tells us that ____________.

A. a person whose handwriting is beautiful must be an able man

B. a person whose handwriting is meat must be beautiful

C. the saying that the style is the man is out of date today

D. one’s handwriting can reflect his or her certain ability in a way

7. According to the weibo user li-owl-stop, what is the Chinese-style education?

A. The education for all the Chinese people

B. The education stimulating students’ creativity

C. The education using severe teaching method

D. The education like British education

C

The debt crisis in Greece has gained the world’s attention. However, some activists say many other countries are

building up dangerous levels of debt. They say private investors are lending money to those countries without enough rules or legal safeguards.

European officials avoided one financial crisis recently. Greece reached a deal with other European countries to meet its short-term loan obligations last week. The Greek government is expected to begin negotiations on a three-year-plan, valued at over $ 90 billion, to deal with its international debt.

Debt activists say there is the possibility of a debt crisis in other areas, especially in the developing world. Tim Jones is with a British group called the Jubilee Debt Campaign. It studies debt owed by countries around the world. This month, the group released a report called, “The new debt trap: How the response to the last global crisis has laid the ground for the next.”

Greece reached an agreement with Europe on its debt. But debt campaigners say many developing countries are falling into a debt trap. Mr. Jones says an increase in lending to poor countries has become a problem. “There’s a huge boom in lending happening, especially in some of the most impoverished countries in the world at the moment. So we’re worried that unless action is taken, they could end up in new debt crises again.”

Mozambique is among the countries the report describes as facing a possible debt crisis. “Its economy has been booming massively. It’s had huge amounts of lending to the country, but actually poverty is increasing at the same time, and inequality is increasing. So the loans are not necessarily helping in taking the problems of the country.”

The Jubilee Debt Campaign says the total amount owed by debtor countries rose 30 percent, from 2011 to 2014, to $13.8 trillion. It predicts that amount will grow to $ 14.7 trillion this year.

The group says 22 countries are currently in a debt crisis. Many more face a high risk of financial problems in their publie or private sectors.

8. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

A. Greece reached a deal with other European countries

B. As debt grows, so do the risks

C. Greece is facing the heavy debt

D. Greece is not the only nation facing debt crisis.

9. A debt crisis is likely to happen in ____________.

A. the developing countries

B. the developed countries

C. Greece

D. Europe

10. The following are characteristics of Mozambique EXCEPT ________.

A. increasing inequality

B. having huge loans

C. facing a possible debt crisis

D. highly developed

11. What’s the author’s attitude towards loans?

A. Optimistic B. Critical C. Indifferent D. Objective

D

Children’s love of reading risks being “swept away” by new technology in the home. Sir Tom Stoppard, a playwright, who wrote Jumpers, The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, says reading must not give way to technology and books are being left behind as an increasing amount of young people’s time is spent focusing on “the moving image”. He insisted that English and the humanities(人文学科) were vitally important to a child’s education and should not be sidelined by the sciences.

In Wales, the Prince’s Teaching Institute was set up to help staff rediscover their love of traditional subjects such as English, history and geography. Sir Tom said, “I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there’s more competition for one’s attention nowadays. The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them” and he said that children lived in a world of technology where the “moving image” took precedence(优先权) over “the printed page”. He didn’t want the printed page to get swept away by that. Susan Hill, who wrote The Woman in Black and I’m The King of the Castle, said recently that the Internet had negatively affected reading and writing skills, with many children now displaying an “ignorance of any sort of ability to look beyond Google”.

English and the humanities have been affected by a drive to place science-based subjects first, and people have been more and more worried about the humanities being neglected, and at the level of higher education that is a cause of enormous concern. Children have access to better subjects