甘肃省天水市一中2015届高三下学期二轮复习质量检查英语试题

天水市一中2015届第二轮复习质量检测考试英语命题董红玲审核赵良璧第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

What you getCineworld is the UK‟s Number 1 cinema chain. With cinemas across the UK showing a wide range of films, there‟s always something to thrill or delight film fans of all ages at Cineworld.1.This advertisement is mainly about_______.A. some unmissable films this winterB. a way of booking film ticketsC. the company of CineworldD. a certain Clubcard2. Which of the following is true?A. This advertisement is probably taken from a magazine.B. For every adult tickTet you will have to pay £ 4.50 in cash.C. You will receive two emails after you place your order using the basket.D. Cineworld encourages viewers to be involved in its management for experience.BThe government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world‟s food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0ºC. The seeds will be protected behind walls a meter thick and high-security door.The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0ºC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world‟s most reliable gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first proposed the idea in the 1980s. But security concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.3.The project is meant to ______.A．increase the world‟s food output in the futureB．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genesC．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disastersD．build an exhibition centre of the world‟s plant seeds4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone.B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago.C．Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the threat unclear war forever.D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.5.We can infer from the text that _______.A．People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.B．The storage center will greatly promote world agricultureC．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 30 years before.D．There haven‟t been any seed storage centers in the world be fore.6.What is probably the best title of the passage?A．The Best Place to Store Seeds B．Noah‟s Ark（诺亚方舟）of Plant Seeds in Plan C．Concerns of World Food Supply D．A New Way to Feed the WorldCHe has his own stereo. He has a great many toys. He even has cable TV as well. From what Patrick Lavery said . Tommy has it pretty good. "We've devoted our lives to taking care of these chimps which have no place to go, " says Lavery.Right now. Tommy lives with the Laverys' . But if some animalrights activists get their way. he will soon be living in a chimp shelter. And he will be considered a person.'Tommy has the right as well as self-determination that is enough for him to be a legal person ." said Steven Wise. a lawyer for a group called the Nonhuman Rights Project. He also said that Tommy should be removed from the Laverys' home. He argued that Tommy's rights were being violated(冒犯) because he lived in a cage all on his own. And he asked the court to make Tommy a person in order to free the chimp from his current living condition. The court is now deciding whether they are going to declare Tommy a person.At the hearing, some of the justices were skeptical-especially when Wise compared Tommy's situation to slavery. His argument was that slaves were once considered property instead of persons. just as Tommy is now. "I have to tell you, I keep having a difficult time with your using slavery as an analogy (比喻) for this situation." said Presiding Justice Karen Peters. "You might want to pursue another argument. "But Lavery said that he considers the concept of making Tommy a person absurd. Tommy works in the entertainment industry before retiring, so he is not used to being around other chimps. " We would place him in the shelter if we had the opportunity to." Lavery said. " But he has his special needs. He can't go just anywhere as other people say. More importantly. he has never been associated with other chimps. And he could get hurt if he went in the wrong atmosphere. "Wise disagrees. "Tommy does not want to be imprisoned for his life in a cage. He's an extraordinarily complex being. He can understand the past. He can look forward to the future. And he suffers in solitary confinement(单独监禁) as much as a human being. "7. The argument between Lavery and Wise isA. whether Tommy should he considered a person with rightsB. whether Tommy should be removed from the Lavervs' homeC. whether people should protect Tommy against being misusedD. whether people should take good care of those chimps in cages8. It is implied in the fourth paragraph that____A. Wise was not good at organizing his speechB. some justices were not interested in animals' rightsC. Tommy lived in such a had situation as slaves once didD. Wise's argument was too unreasonable to convince others9. Lavery hasn't placed Tommy in an animal shelter mainly becauseA. Tommy is in great need of special careB. Lavery hasn't found a proper shelter so farC. Lavery has been living in harmony with TommyD. Tommy may not get used to living with other chimps10. The purpose of Wise's words in the last paragraph is to____A. fight against Lavery's behaviorB. conclude his attitude towards TommyC. win more support for Tommy.D. praise Tommy for his wisdomDIs gun play good or bad for children? For many years I emphasized its harmlessness. When concerned parents expressed doubt about letting their children have toy guns, because they didn‟t want to encourage them in the slightest degree to become criminals, I would explain how little connection there was. In the course of growing up, children have a natural tendency to bring their aggressiveness more and more under control if their parents encourage this. One- to two-year-olds, when they are angry with another child, may bite the child‟s arm without hesitation. But by 3 or 4 they have already learned that aggression is not right. However, they may pretend to shoot their mother or father, but s miling to assure them that the gun and the aggressive behaviour aren‟t to be taken seriously.In the 6- to 12-year-old period, children will play an earnest game of war, but it has lots of rules. There may be arguments, but real fights are relatively rare. At this age children don‟t shoot at their mother or father, even in fun. It‟s not that the parents have turned stricter; the children‟s own conscience has. In adolescence aggressive feelings become much stronger, but well brought-up children can turn them into athletics and other competition or into kidding their friends.In other words, I‟d explain that playing at war is a natural step in the disciplining of the aggression of young children; that a cautious parent doesn‟t really need to worry about produc ing a criminal.But nowadays I‟d give parents much more encouragement to guide their child away from violence. A number of incidents have convinced me of the importance of this.One of the first things that made me change my mind, several years ago, was an observation that an experienced nursery school teacher told me about. Her children were hitting each other much more than previously, without reason. When she talked to them, they would protest, “But that‟s what the Three Stooges do.” (This was a children‟s TV program full of violence which immediately became very popular.)What further shocked me into reconsidering my view was the assassination(暗杀）of the former President, and the fact that some school children cheered about this. (I didn‟t so much blame t he children as I blamed the kind of parents who will say about a President they dislike, “I‟d shoot him if I got the chance!”）These incidents made me think of other evidences that Americans often tolerate lawlessness and violence. We were hard on the Indians and the later waves of immigrants. At times we denied justice to groups with different religions or political views. And now a great percentage of our adult as well as our child population has been endlessly fascinated with dramas of Western violence a nd with cruel crime stories, in movies and on television. This doesn‟t necessarily mean that we Americans on the average have more aggressiveness inside us than the people of other nations. I think rather that the aggressiveness we have is less controlled, from childhood on.To me it seems very clear that in order to have a more stable and civilized national life we must bring up the next generation of Americans with a greater respect for law and for other people‟s rights than in the past. There are many ways in which we could and should teach these attitudes. One simple opportunity we could seize in the first half of childhood is to show our disapproval oflawlessness and violence in television programs and in children‟s gun play.I also believe that the survival of the world now depends on a much greater awareness of the need to avoid war and to actively seek peaceful agreements. There are enough nuclear arms to completely destroy all civilization. This terrifying situation demands a much greater stability and self-control on the part of national leaders and citizens than they have ever shown in the past. We owe it to our children to prepare them deliberately for this awesome responsibility.11. The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refers to______.A. controlling their aggressivenessB. playing with toy gunsC. aggressive behaviourD. the course of growing up12. Based on the author‟s view about the relationship between children‟s aggressiveness and their age, which of the following is true?A. A 2-year old boy knows that it is not correct to behave aggressively.B. The older children become, the less aggressive they will be.C. 6- to 12-year-olds enjoy war games but develop them into argument and serious fights.D. Adolescents‟ aggressiveness is of ten displayed in the form of competition.13. What conclusion does the author intend to draw from the story told by the nursery school teacher?A. Watching violence can lower a child‟s standard of behaviour.B. Violent TV programs should be banned in nursery schools.C. Children are generally lawless or violent nowadays.D. It is acceptable to let children have toy guns.14. What does Paragraph 7 mainly talk about?A. Examples showing that Americans are more aggressive than other nations.B. Evidences proving that America has a long history of lawlessness and violence.C. The idea that children are less able to put their aggressiveness under control.D. More reasons why the author changed his view on the main issue of the article.15. What is a must if people intend to enjoy stability and civilized national life?A. To show disapproval of gun play in television programs.B. To make people aware that there are already enough nuclear arms.C. To elect national leaders with greater stability and self-control.D. To bring up children who show more respect for the law and others‟ rights.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。