高三3月调研考试(英语试卷)20200328

富源学校高三年级3月调研考试英语2020.03.28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。

A21.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the studio’s services?A.Someone on the staff can help customers look good.B.There is no need to make an appointment to take photos.C.Photographs will be delivered within three business days.D.Frames come in three different colors and sizes.22.How much can non-club members save when they use the Fantastic Package Plan instead of buying thesame products individually?A. $20.B. $30.C. $40.D. $50.23.We can learn from the text that ______.A.club members need to pay a $40 membership fee every yearB.as many as five pictures can be included in a Multi-image sheetC.customers can receive a 20th anniversary discount until December 31D.you must have a Fantastic Club membership to receive a free giftBGwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding about black culture in America.Her poems described conditions among the poor, racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women. But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She was an expert at the language of poetry. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience.In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago. The South Side of Chicago is where many back people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was A Street in Bronzeville that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skill and her powerful descriptions of the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection.In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She won the prize for her second book of poems called Annie Allen. Annie Allen is a collection of poetry about the life of a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and being poor. Ms. Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called Maud Martha, Maud Martha received little notice when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult life of many women are popular among female writers today.In some of her poems, Gwendolyn Brooks described how what people see in life is affected by who they are. One example is this poem, Corners on the Curing Sky.By the end of the 1960s, Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry expanded from the everyday experiences of people in Bronzeville. She wrote about a wider world and dealt with important political issues.24. What does the text mainly talk about?A. The life of Gwendolyn Brooks.B. The understanding about black culture.C. The poems of Gwendolyn Brooks.D. The struggles of black women.25. What can we learn about Gwendolyn Brooks from the second paragraph?A. She mainly wrote about the struggles of black women.B. Her poems were mainly about the African experienceC. Her writing skills were a little worse than her ability.D. She was good at using the language of poetry26. How does the author mainly develop the passage?A. By providing examples.B. By using statistics.C. By comparing opinions.D. By describing her experiences.27. What would the author most probably talk about in the next part?A. The difficulties Gwendolyn Brooks would meet.B. The racial inequality the black had to face.C. The awards Gwendolyn Brooks gained.D. The poems related to political issues.CIn its early history，Chicago had floods frequently，especially in the spring，making the streets so muddy that people，horses，and carts got stuck.An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street.Asked if he needs help，he replies,“No，thanks.I've got a good horse under me.”The city planners decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system，but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt.This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago.Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily.But what about large，heavy structures like the Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully.To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (螺旋千斤顶) beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman's signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time，thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly，the Tremont Hotel stayed open during the entire operation，and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening.Some people like to say that every problem has a solution.But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.28.The author mentions the joke to show ________.A．horses were fairly useful in ChicagoB．Chicago was very dangerous in the springC．Chicago's streets were extremely muddyD．the Chicago people were particularly humorous29．The underlined word “hoist” in Paragraph 4 means “________”．A．change B．lift C．repair D．decorate30．What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?A．It went on smoothly as intended.B．It interrupted the business of the hotel.C．It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.D．It separated the building from its foundation.31．The passage is mainly about early Chicago's ________.A．popular life styles and their influencesB．environmental disasters and their causesC．engineering problems and their solutionsD．successful businessmen and their achievementsDNot all awards are as noble as the Nobel Prize，which is world-famous for giving prizes to people who made progress in literature, science, economics and —perhaps most importantly —peace.Even though most countries have a system for recognizing，honoring and rewarding people who have done something good in their countries，and there are now hundreds of awards and awards ceremonies for all kinds of things.The Oscars are probably the most famous award for the film industry to tell itself how good it is. It’s not only films—now there are also Grammies，Brits and the MTV awards for music. The Turner Prize is an award for a British artist—each year it causes contestation by giving lots of money to artists who do things like displaying their beds，putting animals in glass cases or —this year— building a garden shed. People have different voices about the huge prize for it!Awards don’t only exist for the arts. There are now awards for Sports Personality of the Year，for European Footballer of the year and World Footballer of the Year. This seems very strange — sometimes awards can be good to give recognition to people who deserve it，or to help people who don’t make a lot of money carry on their work without worrying about finances，but professional soccer players these days certainly aren’t short of cash!Why have all these awards and ceremonies appeared recently？Shakespeare never won a prize，nor did Leonardo da Vinci or Adam Smith or Charles Dickens.Most awards ceremonies are now sponsored by big organizations or companies.This means that it is not only the person that wins the award who benefits —but also the sponsors. The MTV awards，for example，are great for publicizing not only music，but also MTV itself !On the surface，it seems to be a “win­win” situation，with everyone being happy，but let me ask you a question — how far do you think that publicity and marketing are winning here，and how much real recognition of achievement is taking place?32．Which of the following awards will the author recognize as noble?A．The Nobel Prize. B．The Turner Prize.C．The Oscars. D．World Footballer of the Year.33．Which of the following statements would the writer agree with?A．Only great people like Shakespeare should be awarded.B．Not all awards and prizes go to people who deserve it.C．Awards should be given to people who have financial difficulties.D．Organizations and companies should stay away from awards ceremonies.34．What does the underlined word “contestation” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A．Prizes. B．Losses. C．Responses. D．Arguments.35．The writer believes the awards should be given to .A．publicize the winners B．honor the real achievementsC．improve marketing D．reward people with special talents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，选项中有两项为多余选项。