南阳一中 2016 年秋高三第一次月考英语

命题人：杨立东、刘璐、郭平 审核人：高三英语备课组

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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，共 30 分）

请阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项, 并

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OUR PROMISE

Making your stay a complete success is our goal. Just let our manager on duty of front-desk staff know if any part of your stay isn’t satisfactory. We promise to make it right or you won’t pay for that part of your stay.

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In addition to decreasing water and energy waste, you can help us reduce the amount of waste water that must be recycled within our community.

Please hang the towels up if you wish to join in the program—if not, simply leave them on the floor.

We appreciate your help!

PLEASE CHANGE THE SHEETS TODAY

The Project Planet Program is in an effort of this hotel to protect the environment by saving water and decreasing waste water. If you are staying with us more than one night, as part of the Project Planet Program, we will wash your sheets every three days.

If you would prefer not to join in this program, simply hang this card on the outside of your door and sheets will be changed right away. As always sheets are automatically changed after every guest checks out .

We appreciate your help!

21．We can find this passage in a ________ in a hotel.

A．cafébar

B．front-desk

C．fitness centerD．guest room



22．If you forget your comb, you can





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A．buy one in the hotel shop







B．replace one with a tooth brush







C．phone the front-desk to get one





D．go in person and get one at the front desk





23．Leaving the towels on the floor means that

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A．you want to join in the program







B．you want the room-maid to hang it up





C．you need them collected and washed





D．you want to use them more than once







24．What is the Project Planes Program trying to do?

A．Make your bed sheets cleaner. B．Work for a better environment.

C．Help guests check out faster. D．Persuade guests to stay longer.

B

“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right", says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people．She firmly believes that there is and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is．In Mollie’s opinion, it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing．"If you aren't telling a story, you’re a very dead writer indeed．" she says．With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer．"I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,’ she says, "This love goes back to early childhood．I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said‘Nonsense, Mollie; dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer．"

This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical （自传体的） and gives a picture both of

Mollie’s ambition and her struggle towards its achievement．Thoughts of her childhood inevitably（不可避免地）brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup（金凤花）meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses．"I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood．I’ll never go back, "she said．"Never．When I set one of my books in Scotland” she said,“I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work． And that’s important because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us．”

25．What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book? A．It should not aim at a narrow audience．

B．It should be attractive to young readers．C．It should be based on original ideas．

D．It should not include too much conversation．

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26．In Mollie Hunter’ s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

A．Being poor in life experience．B．Being short of writing skills．C．The weakness of description．D．The absence of a story．

27．What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child? A．She expected to become a writer．

B．She didn’t enjoy writing stories．C．She didn’t have any particular life aims．D．She didn’t respect her teacher’ views．

28．What’s the writer’s purpose in this text?

A．To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s book．

B．To introduce Mollie Hunter’s works to a wider audience．C．To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers．D．To describe Mollie Hunter’s most successful books．

C

There are many people who could be Olympic Champions. I’d estimate (估计) five million people could have beaten me in the pole-vault(撑杆跳高) on the years when I won it, at least five million. Men were stronger, bigger, and faster than I could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the efforts to vault their legs off the ground to try to get over the bar.

Greatness is all around us. It’s easy to be great because great people will help you. What was fantastic about all the conventions(大会) I went to was that the greatest in the business would come and share their ideas, their methods and their techniques with everyone else. I have seen the greatest salesmen showing young salesmen exactly how they did it. They didn’t hold back. I have also found it true in the world of sports.

I’ll never forget the time I was trying to break Dutch Warmer Dam’s record. I was about a foot below his record, so I called him on the phone. I said, “Dutch, can you help me? I seem to have leveled off. I can’t get any higher.”

He said, “Sure, Bob, come on up to visit me and I’ll give you all I got.” I spent three days with the master, the greatest pole-vaulter in the world. For three days, Dutch gave me everything he’d seen. There were things that I was doing wrong and he corrected them. To make a long story short, I went up eight inches. That great guy gave me the best that he had.

Great people will share. Great people will tell you their secrets. Look for them, call them on the phone or buy their books. Go where they are, get around them and talk to them. It is easy to be great when you get around great people.

29．What would be the best title for the passage? A．Benefit from the Greatness around Us B．Many Men Are Better than Me

C．Share Your Greatness with People around You D．My Hearty Thanks to Warmer Dam

30．The author of this passage must be __________________. A．a world record holder in pole vault

B．a Dutch pole-vaulter C．an Olympic Champion D．a student of Warmer Dam’s

31．The underlined phrase “leveled off” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______________.

A．go down in level B．stayed in a certain level C．gone up in level D．progressed on

32．Why does the author think well of the conventions he attended? A．Because many great people also attended them. B．Because they were supported by many great businessmen. C．Because he learned to share his greatness with others. D．Because great people were willing to share.

D

Meeting people from another culture can be difficult. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship.

Different cultures emphasize (强调) the importance of relationship building to a greater or less degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in "small talk", usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many European countries -- like the UK or France -- people find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office.

Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand. I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively discussion; instead there was an uncomfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and smiled. After getting to know their ways better, I realized that they thought I was talking too much. In my own culture, we express meaning mainly through words, but people there sometimes feel too many words are unnecessary.

Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar values; however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture starts discussions and makes decisions more quickly.

People from different parts of the world have different values, and sometimes these values are quite against each other. However, if we can understand them better, a multicultural

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environment will offer a wonderful chance for us to learn from each other.

33．In some countries, eating together at restaurants may make it easier for people to _______.

get to know each other

share the same culture

keep each other company

develop closer relations

34． The author mentions his experience in Thailand to show that _________.

the English prefer to make long speeches

even talk and silence can be culturally different

too many words are of no use

people from Thaila