高三英语上学期期中试题25

辽宁省实验中学分校2017届高三英语上学期期中试题本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分,考试时间120分钟，满分150分。

第I卷第一部分：听力 (略)第二部分：阅读理解（共两节）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AI am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约)mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends. And they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.I learned to love the journey, not the destination, I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face, Learn to be happy, and think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.21. The best title of this passage probably is _____________.A. Love your friendsB. Live a real lifeC. Don’t waste timeD. Be a good mother and wife22. How did the author form her view of life?A. Through social experience.B. By learning from her friends.C. Through an unfortunate experience.D. From her children and husband.23. By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifthparagraph, the author really means that people tend to ___________. .A. make a living rather than live a real lifeB. work rather than enjoy lifeC. waste a lot in lifeD. forget the most important lessonsin lifeBThousands of people began pouring into Pennsylvania from other states. They wanted to buy lottery tickets (彩票). The tickets cost only $ 0.9 each. But that small spending could bring them a reward of $ 90 million .That was the second largest lottery jackpot (积累奖金) in history .More than 87 million tickets were bought for the Pennsylvania lottery drawing. Those who bought tickets had to choose seven numbers from 1 to 80．The chance of winning was onein 9.6 million, but that little chance certainly didn’t affect ticket sales. In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were sold at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second .Experts say many people buy lottery tickets because they just want to have a piece of the action. Others say the lottery is a stock market for poor people. It allows them to dream abou t wealth they’ll probably never have.But many people believe lotteries are no better than legalized (合法化的) gambling （赌博） . Some critics note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets. There are also many addicts who take the game seriously. They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets. Some clubs have been formed to help them kick the habit.Politicians like lotteries because they provide money that would otherwise have to comefrom new taxes. The profits from lotteries are usually used to pay for education or programsfor senior citizens. But critics say this arrangement just allows states to legalize vice (恶习), under the name of social progress. No matter whether you regard state lotteries right or not, you cannot refuse to ac cept their extreme popularity with many Americans.24. They main idea of the passage is that __________.A. lotteries are of great benefit to everyone who buys themB. playing a lottery is just like investing in the stock marketC. many people buy lottery tickets , but lotteries cause disagreementD. lotteries ar e nothing but legalized vice25. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Politicians like lotteries because they don’t have to pay extra taxes.B. The popularity of lotteries in America actually is social progress.C. Some critics don’t like lotteries because many poor people waste money on them.D. People love the lottery because it is a stock market.26. In just one hour in the last few days, the Pennsylvania lottery sold tickets totaling_______.A. $ 1.62 millionB. $ 1.82 millionC. $ 9.6 millionD. $ 87 million27. People who are addicted to playing lotteries should __________.A. join a support groupB. kick the habitC. win the lotteryD. save every centCThere are some very good things about open education. This way of teaching allows the students to grow as people, and to develop their own interests in many subjects. Open education allows students to be responsible for their own education, as they are responsible for what they do in life. Some students do badly in traditional classrooms. The open classroom may allow them to enjoy learning. Some students will be happier in an open education school. They will not have to worry about grades or rules. For students who worry about these things a lot, it is a good idea to be in an open classroom.But many students will not do well in an open classroom. For some students, there are too few rules. These students will do little in school. They will not make good use of open education. Because open education is so different from traditional education, these students may have a problem of getting used to making so many choices. For many students it is important to have some rules in the classroom. They worry about the rules even when there are no rules. Even a few rules will help this kind of students. The last point about open education is that some traditional teachers do not like it. Many teachers do not believe in open education. Teachers who want to have an open classroom may have many problems at their school.You now know what open education is．Some of its good points and bad points have been explained. You may have your own opinion about open education. The writer thinks that open education is a good idea, but only in theory. In actual fact, it may not work very well in a real class or school. The writer believes that most students, but of course not all students want some structure in their classes. They want and need to have rules. In some cases, they must be made to study some subjects. Many students are pleased to find subjects they have to study interesting. They would not study those subjects if they did not have to.28. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the reason why some studentslike open education?A. The open classroom may allow them to enjoy learning．B. Open education allows students to be responsible for their own future.C. Open education allows the students to develop their own interests.D. Open education has fewer rules.29. From the passage we can learn that_______.A. the writer believes that all students don’t want some structure in their classesB. the writer believes that all students want some structure in their classesC. nearly all teachers like open educationD. only the students that worry about rules or grades a lot like to be in an open classroom30. Some students will do little in an open classroom because _______.A. there are too few rulesB. they hate activitiesC. open education is similar to traditional educationD. they worry about the rules31. Which is NOT mentioned according to the passage given?A. some advantages about open education.B. some disadvantages about open education.C. some students’ feelings in an open education school.D. the writer’s opinion about open education is the same as all the students’.D32. The main aim of Environment Awareness Week is to _______.A. educate the public on protecting the environmentB. discuss global warming and other environmental problemsC. explain ways for producing freshwater to save the enviro nmentD. learn about renewable energy sources that protect the environment33. The organizer of the event is _______.A. Global Gaia NetworkB. Clean Energy AgencyC. Green Earth FoundationD. International Environment Fund34. If you are interested in ren ewable energy sources, you should go to _______.A. Hall 1B. Hall 2C. Hall 3D. Hall 435. The "3 Rs" stand for _______.A. Read, Realize and RememberB. Reduce, Reuse and RecycleC. Green Earth FoundationD. Global Gaia Network第二节根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。