2016-2017学年深圳市高级中学高三年级第一次考试试卷

英语科试题

命题人：郑维群 审题人：王静

注意事项：

1.?本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

2.?答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。

3.?全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。

4.?考试结束后，只交答题卡。

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第Ⅰ卷

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。

A

The chance of a snowy holiday season in most American cities is practically impossible this year, so any festive atmosphere to be enjoyed will have to be the imaginary sort. Luckily, there are books for that.

The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Any reader of fairy tales knows Andersen’s responsible for the snowy scenes in "The Snow Queen", the story of children Kai and Gerda, who must face the goddess-like woman who controls all snowflakes after Kai is kidnapped.

Family Life by Akhil Sharma

It's a beautiful yet tragic novel about an Indian family immigrating to America, only to face entirely new hardships. Sharma's novel isn't entirely set in the wintertime, but his poetic descriptions of winter weather as lovely yet isolating make it a great choice for a December read.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Go ahead and give up movie adaptation that has been produced recently and read or re-read the classic itself. You know the story: a scientist driven by his ambition discovers a method for creating life, and spends two years cobbling together a living creature, who later feels anger about him.

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

Dillard's first book is, as its title suggests, about her change from being a self-centered child to being an adult more concerned with the world around her than with her own personal concerns. Her parents are key figures in the story. One famous scene takes place during what the author calls “a big snow”, in 1950.

1. Who wrote a novel about “The Snow Queen"?

A. Annie Dillard. B. Donna Tartt. C. Akhil Sharma. D. Hans Christian Andersen.

2 What do we know about Frankenstein?

A. It has been adapted to a movie. B. It’s about the secret history.

C. It’s about an Indian family D. It’s a fairy tale.

3. From An American Childhood, we know the main characters are __________.

A. self-centered children. B. adults. C. scientists. D. Dillard's parents.

B

The summer of 2001 saw Australians win the Cycling Tour de France, beat the world at cricket and rugby, and have a player in the final of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament for the eighteenth time.

Many countries would be amazed at that kind of success. For Australia, it was just a typical sporting summer. At the 2000 Olympics, Australia came fourth in the medals table. That does not sound so great, yet Australia has a population of only 19 million. There are more Olympic medal winners per head of population in Australia than in any other country.

What is it that makes Australians a sporting people? This is a question that many people participating in sports have asked themselves over the years.

Some of the answers are simple. Sport needs space. Australians have 7.4 million square kilometers of space to play sports in. Many other countries are either too crowded or too small to encourage everybody to take part. Besides that, Australia is a warm, dry country. This encourages people to go outdoors to enjoy themselves. Furthermore, since 85 per cent of Australians live near the sea, they learn water sports early; and since sharks swim off the coasts of Australia, they also learn to swim very fast.

Other reasons go deep into the history, culture and economy of the country. When the British first found Australia they decided that it would be a great place to send criminals to. Life for the first Australians was very tough, so they had to be independent and develop a will to win just to survive. Yet they also had to be able to trust each other and be willing to help each other out. In other countries, coaches train people in mental toughness and team building. In Australia, these qualities are part of the general social environment.

From the cultural perspective, being far away from Europe also meant that Australians were far away from the centres of Western arts and cultures. As a result, sport itself has become a way of cultural expression and part of the Australian nationality. An English football fan wants to see the national team do well, but really cares more about his local club. For an Australian, representing the nation is the most important of all. Everything else is just good practice. Being good at sports is part of what it means to be an Australian.

4. What can we learn from paragraph 2?

A. Australia has the most medal winners in the world.

B. The achievement made in 2001 is abnormal for Australia.

C. Australia has a smaller population than any other country.

D. The performance of Australia in sports is great in relation to its population.

5. According to paragraph 4, the following factors make Australians a sporting people EXCEPT _____.

A. climate B. playground C. season D. geography

6. Supposing you are an English football fan, you are most delighted that ______.

A. you will watch a live football match B. the club you support wins the match

C. you will see a football star in the flesh D. the national team defeats its competitor

7. In the following paragraph, the author is probably to _____.

A. explain the reason in economy B. introduce the sports stars in clubs

C. foresee the future of sports in Australia D. describe the love for one’s motherland

C

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.

I see people trapped in a pathological (病态的) relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for proclaiming the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” But it’s time to discover that it does not work for technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today’s overused technology.

8. The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A. adaption B. attraction C. attempt D. advantage

9. From the passage, technology companies aim to ________.

A. deal with cultural diseases B. provide the latest information

C. improve people’s quality of life D. attract people to buy their products

10. It can be inferred from this passage that people ________.

A. consider too much technology wonderful

B. have realized the harm of high-tech devices

C. can regain freedom without high-tech devices

D. may enjoy life better without overused technology

11. What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?

A. Neutral. B. Skeptical. C. Disapproving. D. Sympathetic.

D

Antarctica’s Lake Vostok has long been a mystery to scientists. Sealed(密封) off from the outside world for millions of years, Vostok is buried beneath 13 000 feet of ice. The huge underground lake is the size of Lake Ontario and is located in one of Antarctica’s coldest regions. Scientists want to know：What lives below the ice?

They might find out soon. After more than 10 years, a team of Russian scientists have finally been able to drill through the ice into Vostok’s ancient waters. Vostok lies below one of the coldest zones on Earth, and the ice here is denser than ice elsewhere on the planet. Drilling can take place each year only during Antarctica’s warmest weather. This is when the ice is easier to drill, and the temperatures are not as severe for scientists living in the Vostok Research Station, which is above the lake. Numerous past attempts to reach the lake, including one last year, failed because the scientists did not finish drilling before the weather became too cold.

Scientists estimate that Vostok has been closed off from the outside world for approximately 30 million years. Signs of tiny organisms called microbes (微生物)were discovered years ago in the ice above the lake. Some researchers think similar life-forms could be thriving (兴盛的，繁荣的) below the ice shielding Vostok's waters.

Ancient forms of life that could remain in these waters might reveal new information about how organisms can survive in extreme environments, and about how life used to exist on Earth millions of years ago.“For me, the discovery of this lake is comparable with the first flight into space，” says expedition director Valery Lukin.“By technologic