2018年广州市高三英语词汇竞赛题

2017学年广州市高三英语词汇竞赛（2018 - 01）

English Vocabulary Competition for Senior 3

（完成时间：40-45分钟；满分：100分）

一、选择最佳答案(1x40=40)

1. The Chinese ________ for crisis consists of two words — Wei Ji, the former meaning danger

and the latter referring to opportunities.

A. expression

B. impression

C. explanation

D. information

2. Nowadays some protective parents want to ________ their kids from every kind of danger, real

or imagined.

A. spot

B. dismiss

C. shelter

D. distinguish

3. If I find someone who looks like the suspect, my ________ reaction will be to tell the police.

A. physical

B. immediate

C. sensitive

D. sudden

4. Fearing unemployment, almost one million people sat China's civil service examination in order to get ________ jobs.

A. proper

B. suitable

C. generous

D. secure

5. This telephone bill is ______ a mistake. It says I owe 3 million dollars.

A. accidentally

B. purposefully

C. obviously

D. formally

6. A good teacher should leave some time for the students to ________ the information they

receive in class.

A. introduce

B. receive

C. digest

D. accept

7. The photographer needs to charge up the digital camera every day as its battery ________

quickly.

A. shuts up

B. ends up

C. runs out

D. turns out

8. John worked hard at his lessons and gained ________ to a famous university.

A. permission

B. admission

C. agreement

D. freedom

9. The population of Africa is ________ so rapidly that experts fear there may be food shortages in

some regions.

A. expanding

B. stretching

C. extending

D. spreading

10. Helen devoted herself ________ to her research and became a top scientist in the field of

applied physics.

A. seriously

B. extremely

C. strictly

D. entirely

11. The US will stop ______ to green climate funds because they feel they are paying too much.

A. attaching

B. contributing

C. opposing

D. referring

12. When you ______ money from the bank, compares your signature with the one in its files to

see if it is authentic.

A. deposit

B. dismiss

C. remove

D. withdraw

13. Plans are underway for a new ______ at the airport.

A. carriage

B. harbour

C. strait

D. terminal

14. Unfortunately, by the time the ambulance arrived he was ______.

A. unbearable

B. uncomfortable

C. unconscious

D. unemployed

15. The proposal was ______ as too conservative by the committee.

A. declined

B. rejected

C. refused

D. resisted

16. Among her many ______ are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.

A. virtues

B. varieties

C. victories

D. victims

17. Cheney is everyone’s image of a(n) ______ policeman: six feet, 220 pounds and slow

thinking.

A. typical

B. initial

C. mature

D. merciful

18. The spread of ______ areas endangers wildlife.

A. disaster

B. suspension

C. urban

D. remote

19. A lot of the comments were apparently ______ and general.

A. specific

B. vague

C. constructive

D. fair

20. We know that taste in art is a(n) ______ matter.

A. impressive

B. objective

C. persuasive

D. subjective

21. The printed word is no ______ for personal discussion with a great thinker.

A. substitute

B. consideration

C. provision

D. allowance

22. The government is trying to do something to ______ better understanding between the two

countries.

A. raise

B. promote

C. heighten

D. increase

23. In children’s minds the Spring Festival is ______ with nice food and presents.

A. connected

B. joined

C. combined

D. associated

24. To ______ the success in the World Cup, the Chinese team have been practising very hard

over the past few months.

A. insure

B. assume

C. ensure

D. secure

25. The soldier was______ of running away when the enemy attacked.

A. scolded

B. charged

C. accused

D. punished

26. He’s watching TV? He’s ______ to be clearing his room!

A. known

B. supposed

C. regarded

D. considered

27. If you suspect that the illness might be serious you should not ______ going to the doctor.

A. put off

B. hold back

C. put aside

D. hold up

28. He seemed to have come to a roadblock in solving the problem, so he simply ______

whatever came into his head.

A. put aside

B. put away

C. put back

D. put down

29. The French pianist who had been praised very highly ______ to be a great disappointment.

A. turned up

B. turned in

C. turned out

D. turned down

30. People could hardly ______ their anger when they found millions of dollars of public funds

had been used to build luxurious houses for city officials.

A. hold back

B. draw back

C. hold over

D. hold up

同义词选择从A、B、C、D中选出可替换句中画线部分的最佳选项。

31. All the time, the captain tried to preserve our good spirits by telling stories and talking

hopefully about what we would do when we got back to England.

A. protect

B. refresh

C. keep

D. content

32. They said that the painters were careless and their paintings were ridiculous.

A. rigid

B. absurd

C. fantastic

D. boring

33. He denied taking money, but we were skeptical .

A. significant B sure C. remarkable D. doubtful

34. You can judge a man by just a few remarks.

A. words

B. sound

C. raw

D. meetings

35. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days.

A. fragrant

B. ornate

C. abnormal

D. fragile

36. The quality and number of a city's public roads offer an excellent means of gauging its

prosperity.

A. protecting

B. enriching

C. tracing

D. judging

37. In the United States there are numerous federal, state and local programs aimed at combating air pollution.

A. fighting

B. limiting

C. prohibiting

D. avoiding

38. Ten names were deleted from the list of those invited to attend the conference.

A. suggested for

B. absorbed from

C. removed from

D. included in

39. A dog's sense of smell is keener than that of a human being.

A. more interesting

B. more acute

C. more appropriate

D. more useful

40. The flowers on the table were a manifestation of the child's love for his mother.

A. demonstration

B. (an) explanation

C. combination

D. satisfaction

二.阅读理解(3X10= 30)

(A)

The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge. But is there a point where it reaches capacity?

The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated（复杂）than that. Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

Previous behavioral studies have shown that learning new information can lead to forgetting. But in a new study, researchers demonstrated for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain.

In daily life, forgetting actually has clear advantages. Imagine, for instance, that you lost your bank card. The new card you receive will come with a new personal identification number (PIN). Each time you remember the new PIN, you gradually forget the old one. This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories. Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier. This type of memory (where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.

When we acquire new information, the brain automatically tries to incorporate（合并）it within existing information by forming associations. And when we retrieve（检索）information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.

The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information. But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life. While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability burdensome.

In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval. Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism to ensure our brain doesn't become too full.

41. What have past behavioral studies found about our brain?

A. Its capacity actually knows no limits.

B. It grows sophisticated with practice.

C. It keeps our most precious memories until life's end.

D. New information learned pushes old information out.

42. What is the benefit of forgetting?

A. It frees us from painful memories.

B. It helps slow down our aging process.

C. It facilitates our access to relevant information.

D. It prevents old information from forming associations.

43. What is the emphasis of current studies of memory?

A. When people tend to forget.

B. What contributes to forgetting.

C. How new technology hinders memory capacity.

D. Why learning and forgetting are complementary.

44. What do people find about their rare ability to remember every detail of their life?

A. It adds to the burden of their memory.

B. It makes their life much easier.

C. It contributes to their success in life.

D. It constitutes a rare object of envy.

45. What does the passage say about forgetting?

A. It can enlarge our brain capacity.

B. It helps get rid of negative memories.

C. It is a way of organizing our memories.

D. It should not cause any alarm in any way.

(B)

That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart — the one we believed would marry her — had deserted her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the nerve to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man —a young man then — going in and out with a market basket.

"Just as if a man — any man — could keep a kitchen properly, "the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.

A neighbor, a woman, complained to the mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old.

"But what will you have me do about it, madam?" he said.

"Why, send her word to stop it," the woman said. "Isn't there a law? "

"I'm sure that won't be necessary," Judge Stevens said. "It's probably just a snake or a rat that

servant of hers killed in the yard. I'll speak to him about it."

The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in timid deprecation. "We really must do something about it, Judge. I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something." That night the Board of Aldermen met —three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation.

"It's simple enough," he said. "Send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she doesn’t..."

"Dammit, sir," Judge Stevens said, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"

So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.

That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a picture, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.

46. What did the Negro man possibly do in the family?

A. He was an adopted son.

B. He worked as a servant.

C. He kept the family alive.

D. He helped kill the snakes and rats.

47. What did the ladies mean by saying the underlined sentence in paragraph 2?

A. Men were good at cleaning kitchen in a proper way.

B. The Negro man seemed to keep the kitchen properly.

C. Men were not able to manage the kitchen well.

D. Men were very likely to make a kitchen smelly.