汕头市金山中学2016-2017年度高三第一学期摸底考试

英语

命题人：许志军、郑世炳

本试卷共三部分，满分135分（120×1.125）。考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1、答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写答题卡上的班级、姓名和试室号、学号，用2B铅笔将学号对应的数字涂黑。

2、选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。

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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

These are words that attempt to express the unique trip of a lifetime. Experience the Grand Canyon as eagles do soaring, turning, rising, descending. Don’t miss this experience. The following helps you book your helicopter tour.

Helicopter Aerial Tour

Explore the Grand Canyon from the eyes of the eagle. A wonderful 12-15-munite helicopter tour will soar through the canyon for an aerial experience of wonderful views. Our GCW aerial tour is not available anywhere else in the world! Ticket $120 per person plus 10% tax. Please call us at 1-888-868-9378 for seasonal rates, specials or to book by phone.

Helicopter -Pontoon Tour

Helicopter tour starts at Grand Canyon, West Rim. Take a 4000-foot descent to the Colorado River below. Helicopters descend 4000 feet from the canyon rim to the banks of the Colorado River where visitors can enjoy a 15-20-munite pontoon boat ride down the Colorado. Ticket: $150 per person plus 10% tax.

Champagne Helicopter Tour

Experience the beauty of the Grand Canyon: Soar above the Hoover Dam and the dead volcanoes. You go aboard a million-dollar helicopter with all forward facing seats allowing 180 degrees of views in air-conditioned comfort. You will see the Hoover Dam, the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon and more! You land to have a romantic champagne picnic lunch at the Grand Canyon.

Las Vegas Adventure Tour

Helicopter tour to Grand Canyon West include a wonderful Las Vegas Adventure Tour. Aerial sightseeing tours originating in Las Vegas, Nevada include breathtaking views of Lake Mead, the Mohave Desert, and the west rim of the Grand Canyon. Aerial tours including round trip as well as combination tours attract many visitors.

Visitors arriving at the Hualapai Nation’s Grand CanyonWestAirport may select one from activities above.

1.How much should be paid if a couple wants to take a 13-minute helicopter tour?

A. 132 dollars B. 264 dollars C. 300 dollars D. 120 dollars

2. If the helicopter lands on the banks of the Colorado River you will ___________.

A. visit the Hoover Dam B. have a romantic picnic lunch

C. enjoy a pontoon boat ride D. catch sight of Lake Mead

3. Which tour may be the most comfortable?

A. Helicopter Aerial Tour B. Las Vegas Adventure Tour

C. Champagne Helicopter Tour D. Helicopter –Pontoon Tour

B

At the Beijing Olympic Shelly-Ann swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold.

Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in Waterhouse, one of Jamaica’s toughest and poorest inner-city communities and also a really violent and overpopulated place. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maxime’s early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.

It didn't take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse. On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.

But Shelly-Ann’s victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the world’s toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days. “I have so much fire burning for my country,” Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a woman’s as well as a man’s world.

As Muhammad Ali puts it, “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth.

4. What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track?

A. Her success and lessons in her career. B. Her interest in Shelly-Ann’s quick profit.

C. Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty. D. Her early entrance into the sprinting world.

5. What can we infer from Shelly-Ann's statement underlined in Paragraph 4?

A. She was highly rewarded for her efforts. B. She was eager to do more for her country.

C. She became an athletic star in her country. D. She was the envy of the whole community.

6. By mentioning Muhammad Ali’s words, the author intends to tell us that __________.

A. players should be highly inspired by coaches

B. great athletes need to concentrate on patience

C. hard work is necessary in one’s achievements

D. motivation allows great athletes to be on the top

7. What is the best title for the passage?

A. The Making of a Great Athlete B. The Dream for Championship

C. The Key to High Performance D. The Power of Full Responsibility

C

One evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That’s when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.

Ceely’s near miss made the news because she blamed it on he GPS (导航仪). She had never driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS, but it made no mention of the crossing. “I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,” she told the BBC.

Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely’s story in his book When Machines Fail Us, points the finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.

The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the GPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say. It’s a problem that runs through the book.

The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology.

If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just as long.

8.What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident？

A. She was not familiar with the road.

B. It was dark and raining heavily then.

C. The railway workers failed to give the signal.

D. Her GPS device didn’t tell her about the crossing.

9. The phrase “near miss” (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by______.

A. close hit B. heavy loss C. narrow escape D. big mistake

10. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?

A. Modern technology is what we can’t live without.

B. Digital technology often falls short of our expectation.

C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.

D. GPS error is not the only cause for Ceely’s accident.

11. What is the real concern of the writer of this article?

A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.

B. The relationship between human and technology.

C. The shortcomings of digital devices we use.

D. The human unawareness of technical problems.

D

Failure is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has. There is nothing more tiring than not succeeding.

We experience this tiredness in two ways: as start-up fatigue(疲惫) and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult. And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.

Such start-up fatigue is very real, even if not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first.

Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors. Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical(按字母顺序), never letting myself leave out a tough idea. And I always started the day’s work with the difficult task of essay-writing. Experience proved that the rule works.

Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Though willing to get started, we cannot seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear so great that, however hard we work, we fail again and again